Everything I was supposed to write 2 Mondays ago and more…

So this is probably going to be really long, like the contract Dick Roman and Crowley (from supernatural) signed. So Number one. Sharona and Rachel you guys are no aunts!!! You're not going to be as obsessed with your niece at first like I am now. I wasn’t so obsessed with nephew at first either. In fact his head was weird shaped and his face looked like an old man which I didn’t find cute, but I wasn’t about to tell my sister that. She would have beheaded me… probably. And on top of that I thought newborns are more fragile than they actually are so I was afraid I was going to break him accidentally if I held him. Which is an important part of bonding. In fact the first pictures I have of holding him are of him lying on my legs, and someone had to put him there because I was too scared to even pick him up. Anyways I kinda had to convince myself he was cute. Which only took a week or two because I saw him basically every day. His "old man face" became old soul which he no longer has no and I kinda miss. And a month later his head was normally shaped. So don’t worry you'll become obsessed

P.S don’t tell a soul that I said this… please

                                                         

Number two speaking of babies MY SISTER IS PREGNANT!!!! And so is my cousin which I found out this week. They are due like a week apart from each other. In June.  I went with her on Monday to her ultra sound because she didn’t want to go alone. While we were there the doctor discovered there might be a problem with the pregnancy and had to schedule an appointment with my sisters usual doctor 2 days later in beitar (20 minute drive from efrat) where she did an ultra sound with her doctor.  Cause her doctor wouldn’t be in efrat until the week after. Turns out everything is fine. I saw the baby both times. And we saw the baby move for the first time. I helped my sister with translating at ultrasound which made me feel kinda good.

Number 3 so as you all should know I'm switching sherut jobs. I'm not exactly sure to what yet. My rakezet Raaya had me schedule a meeting with a bat ami social worker to help me figure out what I want to do, but I missed it because I was sick and partially because I had a sister day the same day I went with my sister to the ultra sound and ran into Shayna at the mall and she told me that the social worker wont really be able to help me.

If you're confused about what happened and when when her is a timeline:

Sunday 6^th – met with my rakezet and scheduled a meeting with social worker

Monday 7^th – went to first ultrasound with sister and the mall, ran into Shayna

Wednesday 9^th – we to second ultrasound with sister at her doctors

Chanukah

Tuesday 15^th – meeting with social worker but was sick

Oh and my sister lived with us for a week because she was moving. Now she lives in her new place.

So when I wan into Shayna she told me about someone (who I know and am friendly with) who is doing sherut leumi at a place that trains dogs for the blind and that they had an opening 2 weeks ago and that if I'm interested I should contact her. So I Facebooked her a few days ago because she's still in America for vacation. She said that they are still looking and she'll be back tomorrow (Thursday) and I should call her then for more information.

So I think that’s everything, at least for now. Talk about an emotional roller-coaster over the past few weeks. Miss you all and love ya. Chanukah wasn’t the same without us getting together. :*

My fingers are frozen

So this morning i got soaked from all the rain which i don't mind aside from the fact that my hood is stupid and i was really scared it would fall off and the rain would ruin my makeup making me look like a crying panda bear.
Anyway it's the last day of Chanuka which is sad but at least i don't have to worry about one of the cats lighting themselves on fire. This year was pretty nice even though i didn't see any of you (Rei you don't count). I think it was just the fact that i had a lot of latkas and donuts that kept my spirits up...that and the fact i'm all caught up on Supernatural and I'm in love with the devil. The night i had to got to the dentist as you all know my parents thought i was too late and i had to light all by myself. Kichi was with me though which didn't bring much comfort considering how she was a bit too interested in the flames and if i didn't dump her on my mom the stupid cat probably would have burned her whiskers off...again.
Oogie also liked the chanukia but luckily the one we put in the window where he couldn't burn himself.
My family all took Sunday off as our Chanuka vacation day but my mom got sick and my dad wanted to go to the zoo (while it was raining) and then Rachel and i just got up really late so we ended up doing nothing. Rachel and i went shopping in the afternoon though so we did do something.
You know i think every single Chanuka my mom has gotten Rei and i pajamas. We're now working and adults but this year she got us the same silly but super comfy pjs. I got a fuzzy shirt with a cat on it and fluffy socks which one can never have too many of. Rachel got me these bright yellow/green fuzzy boot slipers and i feel like Sully from Monsters inc in them. Oogie has fallen asleep on my feet several times everytime i wore them. At first i thought maybe he thought it was another cat that just happened to be yellow but then he sat on them and squished my feet. So unless he's trying to suffocate and fart on this new yellow cat i would like to think he just likes the fuzziness and knows my feet aren't another cat. Speaking of Oogie this past month he has been stealing my pillow. He always stole my pillow but he's getting more aggressive, he sleeps on my face so i can't breathe and have to move aside then as quick as a ninja he takes over my pillow. He also likes clawing at my head till i move. I understand why my pillow is awesome and comfy but it's MINE!
It's finally getting colder! I love it but my addiction to ice coffee is killing my fingers. I had an ice coffee last thursday and i lost feeling in them but it was so good. I must battle the coffee addiction but every time i enter Coffiz i forget every other item on their menu and just get ice coffee.
                     This is the cat butt coaster i made for my mom she loved it.

Hello From Rei's Dorm

Hey guys!
I am writing to you from Rei's dorm, still in PJ's at 9:31 am, she left for work an hour ago. I had a pretty good nights sleep and we had cheerios and chocolate milk for breakfast. Last night we, mainly Rei made Latkas (is that how you spell it?), it tasted like scrambled eggs and fried potatoes, tasted really good.
We watched Hotel Transylvania 2 last night....I love it!! Dennis is so cute!!
We plan on checking out the comic book sore when she gets back, so until then I'm surfing Pinterest.

On Facebook there is a page called; BUY, SELL, SWAP and someone is selling these really cool Trek bikes for 1,400 nis.
 








I personally like the boys one better.
Any way that's all for now, talk to you guys later!
 Taz

Wednesday December 9, 9:50

Tears and Chocolate

...Not as bad as it sounds, just frustrated, I suppose.
Last night I was sitting at the table staring at the Hanukkah candles, eating chocolate poker chips, when I realized that my whole family wasn't together.

I felt like crying.

The only reason last year was okay was because my dad was there, I could forget that my family was breaking up. That has always been a fear of mine; people abandoning me. When my uncle left in the middle of the night I cried myself to sleep, the next morning I pretended that i was fine, that I didn't care. I kinda hate him.

But I digress, my point is that this Hanukkah sucks, the fist night at least and I wish every one was all in one place to celebrate it.(My mom, aunt and grandmother wouldn't let me take pictures of everyone with the candles...you guys know how much I love taking photos!!) 



I got to my dads house today and he made my day; he got me a squeal worthy stuffed fox! And a Hershie bar. She/hes' called Slick.
Anyway, I really hope we can all meet up for Hanukkah.

I found a cute tutorial on how to turn one sock into a teddy bear...My first one looks like a purple alien from outer space...hahaha

I've been stressing out about the exams I have to redo trying to decide whether I really care if I pass them or not. I asked my uncles' wife whether you will receive a Teudat Bagrute if you failed any subjects or do you have to pass them all, she said it depends on what subjects you failed. She didn't receive hers because she failed History....and something else.
So I decided to take Ezrachute, because I never took it,J History, Math and חינוך ומשפחה.

...And I just saw a video of a baby goat standing up for the fist time wagging its tail like a happy puppy!! *Squeal*

By the way last year my grandmother wanted to take me to this place outside of Jerusalem that was a hotel but you could camp outside and stargaze, they had a telescope too. I really want us all to go...Anyone interested maybe when Juliet has another vacation...yes?

Oh, me and my dad plan on getting bikes this month maybe the next! Well my dad is getting an electric bike and I'm getting a normal one...I hope. Anyway so Roni if you ever want we could go and ride, anyone else is welcome to too. My aunt is a meanie, she has been trying to get me to ride her bike for a year now but its too tall, but the minute I decide to get one for me she decides that its too expensive, it will get stolen, I have nowhere to put it. If all she is going to do is throw negativity at me then she should keep her trap shut!

I have been watching Big Bang Theory from the beginning since two weeks ago and at the moment I'm on season 3 episode 21, can't stop laughing!
I need to buy stuffing tomorrow for the sock bears I'm making...

Anyway, my dad is making me leave the computer so goodnight y'all,
Hope you are all doing well

Taz

Finals and snores and- WHERE'S MY PUDDING???

'Sup guys, Juliet here. I have about 5 things that I should be doing now, so I thought that that was a perfect time to write to you guys.

I have a psychology final tomorrow, but I can't seem to concentrate. My roommate is still asleep right now, even though it's almost 4pm. She's snoring really loudly, as usual, and the lights are off and the blinds shut, blocking out all evidence of daylight. So it seems like it is midnight right now, even though its only the afternoon. My only source of light is my lamp, so the room has the atmosphere of a dark cave right now.

Only 2 weeks left until its over! As you may know, I'm going to Houston for 2 weeks before going to Israel to see you guys and play video games and stuff my face with pudding (can you BELIEVE that this place has NO PUDDING?? The whole reason I went to college was to eat 24/7!). Can't wait to see you guys, you have no idea how much I'm looking forward to winter break :)

I can also relate to the work stress a little. My boss always has me running around doing 20 things at once, and on top of that, I'm a very clumsy person. So whenever I go to restock merchandise, I always end up dropping half of the stuff in my hands, making a huge crash, causing my boss to call tiredly "Are you okay, Juliet?" (by now, she's used to regular sounds of mayhem coming from my direction) and I call back "I'm fine, don't worry!" Apparently dropping heavy crates onto stone floors makes a louder sound than you might expect.

I'm looking for more books to read, any suggestions? All the books that I have read recently have been disappointing. Where is the character development?? And let me just say this now, in case any of you ever consider writing stories with romance in it, NEVER have more than 2 guys liking one girl at the same time. Even two is pushing it, but 3 or more is just ridiculous. I have permanent bruises on my head from repeatedly hitting it against the wall in frustration (jk, but seriously, it needs to stop).

What else? Hmm... finals are coming up, as you guys probably already know, so most people here are stressing out, only getting about 5 hours or less of sleep every night, myself included. It's funny, because everyone here is like me, only more bubbly and/or annoying, if that makes sense. Imagine a place with about 600 Juliets, all stressing over grades, all upset if they get lower than a 97. So often I hear people ask each other "Are you going to the party tonight?" and the other will respond "Nah, man, I have to study for the quiz next week", and the first guy will reply "Yeah, me too."

The reason I said that a lot of people here are the annoying version of me is because when I get a good/bad grade, I generally keep it to myself. But the girls here squeal in high pitched voices "OMG, I got a 94. A 94!!! Professor _____ is SOOOO unfair, possibly the worst professor ever." That being said, 94s are hard to come by here, since the classes are really hard, and most people walk away with final grades of Bs or sometimes Cs, but almost never all As. Everyone here is a nerd, who got straight As in high school as well as being international chess champion and raising money for the homeless, and many of these people even fail classes here, not because they didn't put in the effort, but just because the professors here love to challenge us and make it hard to earn As.

Anyway, I should probably go now, since I have a paper due and a final to study for. Also, I think my roommate is finally waking up... just kidding, she just rolled over and started making chainsaw noises again.

 See you guys soon!

~Juliet :)

Life...

So these past couple of weeks have been UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I can't remember much of it but let me start of with my visit to the dentist. I made Debbie (friend i made in Midrasha) call the dentist for me because I'm such a mature person i can't even make my own dentist apointment. It goes well i manage to make the appointment which i thought was going to be to discuss my much needed jaw surgery. They gave me to a dentist which I'm pretty sure just finished her training and was working along with another detcist who also looked like just graduated. I'm not complaining they looked like they knew what they were doing but they didn't understand why i was there. They told me i had a cavity which sucks but i don't care i want to know about my jaw surgery. Oh i forgot to mention once i entered their office i completely forgot Hebrew and just stood their like an idiot trying to remember how to say anything so they spoke to me in broken english. Well one spoke while the other just stood on the side looking pretty. In the end i managed to understand something about needing a panorami x-ray thing and it costed like 100 shek which i didn't have at the time so i just scheduled it for the next week along with fixing my cavity. I left and ended up meeting my dad on the bus who was still bugging me about my date and he said the guy still want to see me and i ignored his told him all about the storm trooper blanket i was making. Fast forward a couple of boring days which i forgot about to my next dentist appointment. I got there and slid my card in the weird machine which gave me a number which i didn't even need in the end. I had to ask several people where the x-ray room was and this one lady completely ignored me as if i didn't exist. Finally some nice person helped me find the room and i waited and waited for my number to be called only to see some girl enter the room and tell the x-ray lady she needed to be x-rayed. After she went i did the same thing and the lady was like ok just pay first so i had to go to the clerky people. I waited ackwardly without a number untill this lady saw me just standing there and helped me then set up an another apointment for my cavity to be taken care of so i have to go AGAIN to the stupid dentist. Anyway i got the x-ray done and then left not really sure if i was suposed to leave or not but i wasn't sure what else to do. So now i'm just confused about what happened there and i don't think they're going to help me with my jaw thing and i have to find another place to call for it.
Aside from the dentist as you all know Rachel and i are now Aunties!!!! This is super exciting only since we have like no experience with babies we weren't allowed to hold her which sucks. I know Arielle you are expecting me to become obsessed with the baby but right now i just think she's cute but I'm not about to stare at her picture for hours like you did. Sue me but i'm not that big of a baby person.
Anyway I'm at work avoiding doing my job because it involves calling people and the last couple of calls i took didn't end so well. First lady asked for our address in hebrew and we have a P.O. box and I keep on forgetting how to say it in hebrew.
My phone just buzzed and Lord Voldemort just screamed the killing curse at me which made me jump.
Back to whatever i was saying-right so she yelled at me that it was תיבת דואר. I forgot how to say it again and just a couple of minutes ago i got another call in hebrew asking for our address and i sounded like a complete idiot. I couold talk to the guy perfectoly in hebrew but when it came to remembering what the hell P.O box was in hebrew i struggled then told him to call back in two hours when someone who knew hebrew would be in the office. UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH seriously, i learned my lesson and wrote it down on the piece of paper with our address so i won't sound as stupid next time but now i hate the phone. The other call i had to make the lady who had a really strong american accent refused to speak to me in english. I spoke to her in english while she responded in an annoying New York accent in hebrew and i could barely understand her. I don't know why but i find myself forgetting how to talk in general whenever i go on the phone. I say um too much and most of the time i just transfer them over to someone else because i have no idea what they are saying. I'm the worst at taking messages as well. Why do people talk so fast over the phone like can you please speak slower and enunciate. I don't get their names down and i can't ask them more then 3 times to repeat themselves so i often just tell my boss 'Something Jack called, he's the father of some kid and he wants...something.'. I'm not even joking that was probably the best message i managed to take. Lesson learned for the future I am incapable of becoming a secretary. Luckily i never wanted to be one to begin with.
So last night i went to a comedy evening and it was so cold! I got there early and i wanted to get an ice coffee but Coffiz wasn't open which was lucky since 10 minutes later i couldn't feel my fingers it was so cold out. I had to wait outside for people to come to the comedy show and take their tickets which was boring. The show wasn't that funny, for me anyway i guess i just have a different sence of humor. There were 3 people my age, a handful of people probably in their 30s and the rest were over 60. The old lady that volunteers at my work brought her husband and he was falling asleep and i didn't blame him. One of the comedians told him off for falling asleep so he stuck out his tongue at him, needless to say i like him. I got home later then i thought because someone passed out in the middle of the show and they had to call hatzalah. I expected my mom to be freaking out but she didn't even remember i left, love you too mom. This morning i woke up to Oogie brushing my hair with his claws which i'm glad he did because i was having the wierdest dream. I was protecting this really fuzzy pregnant sheep (which turned out to be my pillow) and this fluffy snake (oogie) was helping me by guarding my back even though the hunter was in front of me. Then the secretary of my work helped me figure out the Bat Ami website and she set up a jaw surgery appointment for me on it with a really sketchy looking guy. Oogie then woke me up as the creepy dentist started approaching me.
I drank two cups of coffee in the morning while my dad was running around barking that he was late and that we needed potatoes for tonight which woke up my mom. She wasn't too happy about being woken up and commanded to buy potatoes so i had to spend the rest of my morning cheering her up by telling her how much people think hufflepuffs love potatoes...I should get back to work now.