Esther & Adiel’s Blog

I told Adiel that the site looked a little blah… Like most blogs have a little bit of energy or decoration (perturbedmom.blogspot.com comes to mind) and adiel.com is just pretty simple. So he laughs and says this is what happens when you let the woman in. She wants to rearrange the couches and hang up art on the walls and spruce the place up. . What do all of the milliions of readers think?

I haven’t given a haircut for the longest time. But tonight I got some emergency phone call from the parents of a friend we know who is getting married tomorrow night. I told them that it would be SMARTER to spend the extra fifteen minutes going to a real barber tomorrow morning, than to take the risk of me giving Peretz a bald spot. Peretz didn’t buy it. He called me himself and told me to come over and just trim up the loose ends from his last 3 week old haircut. I went over, gave the buzz and worked around the payos and wrapped up shop. It was good to spend a last few minutes alone with someone who is going in for his big day tomorrow. We made up that my wife and I would drop off a few cans of Red Bull in the yichud room as a post chuppah energizer. It worked for us at our wedding.

On the way home, I got a phone call from my graphic designer who said that she has the prints of my new business card sitting on her desk. I went over – and boy do they look nice. Hopefully, it’ll help generate some new business for us.

First of all, thanks all for the comments. Hidden between lots of very x-rated ones, yours have been seen and will get posted as soon as the boss comes home (I don’t get certain privelaiges).

OK, even though it’s already 11:00, and I have to leave in like 1/2 hour, I am sitting here in bed, blogging. The plan for today is to meet friends in Brooklyn for lunch. This is a good frieind of mine, Chayala M. who I don’t get to see often, as she lives far away and has no room for Shabbos guests yet. When she heard that I was lonely, she decided that her family would go into Brooklyn to visit his grandparents and we’d meet too. Adiel wasn’t crazy about coming along just to ‘hang out’, but with my awesome persuading powers, I convinced Adiel to go with me (Honey, they saw me single for so many years, now that I am finally married, I can’t show up husbandless!). We also decided to just go for lunch so it wouldn’t turn in to a full day thing. I am very excited. I think we’ll do Essex on Coney.

I can’t stay too long cuz later on, I see my SEIT kid. Don’t ask how it comes about that I do him on Sunday; I somehow agreed to do it 8 hours a week – this is in addition to a full time job!! So I work with him on Sunday as well. It is an extremely difficult job as he is a 4 1/2 year old severly autistic kid, but I’ll write about him some more later.

OK, gotta get dressed, the friends are practically in Lakewood!

Hi all. This is my first real post on adiel.com. Yay. Thank you Adiel for including me in this blog and for those sweet comments about me. Adiel.com has lots of history and emotions attatched to it and it’s an honor to be part of it. As this blog is as unannonymous as they come, I won’t be able to write EVERYTHING that I want, but I hope to contribute a decent amount of stuff.

So let’s see. This past Shabbos was nice. Friday night, we ate by the aufruf of the S.’s, an amazing family that kind of adopted Adiel. Their son-in-law, Shabsie, is Adiel’s second best friend and I’ve gotten very friendly with their wife, Rochie (in picture) as well as a few others. I’ve eaten with their families for quite some time and am happy about that I am finally feeling very comfortable with them. In the beginning, I used to feel a little out of place because we aren’t really family, but they are so sweet and friendly and I think they like having us around to. I also saw a very close family friend, Rivky F, who is married to the chosson’s future bro-in-law. It was so wonderful to see her and her children, I haven’t seen her the lonngest time but we shmoozed and caught up a bunch. She is classic Lower East Side even though her family has moved out of the LES many years ago.

 Today I woke up and felt sick . My cold, sore throat and runny nose really bothered me and I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to take Sudafed so I didn’t. Plus my stomach was hurting. I still managed to make it to the kiddush (but not the davening) where we only spent about 15 minutes or so. We were extremely fortunate that we had only planned on eating a little meal with the two of us, something that rarely happens (usually we go out to eat or have guests). When I found out we were eating out Friday night, I was a little disappointed because I had heard it was cold. But now, I saw how Hashem really runs the world as I really was in no shape to hang out and socialize.

Once we got home, Adiel really took care of me. I changed into my robe and snood while he set the table with EVERYTHING disposable (including pretty purple ones that were left over from one of our shelva brachos). He also made a salad. The meal took about 45 minutes, including a dvar torah and some singing. Adiel sang an interesting dror yikra that didn’t seem to end  Besides for the salad, there was only challah, and the cholent + contents (homemade kugel and a new recipe of homemade kishka). It was a cozy and intimate and enjoyable even though I wasn’t feeling my greatest.

 The rest of the day I spent resting on the couch and reading. Hamodia, Mishpacha, Good Housekeeping in the bathroom, and Yoel S’s account of his report in Africa which was awesome. I was supposed to visit someone, but really wasn;’t up to it. Besides for not feeling that great, the kishka was starting to give me indigestion. I had some tea with honey but the teasense made it not that hot. After Shabbos, Adiel and I cleaned for a little bit and then he went out to his office. I took a looooong hot bath with classical music (from beethoven.com) playing in the background and after that I felt a bunch better. And now, here I am, blogging.

Soon Adiel is going to come home with pizza (I asked for onion pizza – yum) and we are going to watch Elizabethtown. I am thinking of putting up some hot milk so we can have some hot cocoa with some new whipped cream that I bought on Thursday. Maybe being sick isn’t that awful after all…

OK, that’s it. Let me know what you think – if anyone is reading that is…..

This is the first post on a blog that was moved to a new server. We’ve lost the posts from the other server since i ddint bother transfering the MySQL database. oh well.

 Will be more than happy to write this blog along with my wonderful and lifelong partner/soulmate/everything, Esther.

Welcome Everyone!