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…..