This year I had the privelege of hosting my first seder at my In-Laws. Even though I had reviewed what was to be done , I had to wing it when it came to singing. But overall, we all had a good time.
I should also say that it’s the first time that i slept in one location outside my own apartment for 5 days in a row. 3 days shabbos/yom tov and 2 days of chol hamoed. fun.
we went to the South Street Seaport where ALL of us (Esther, me, Shaina, bubby, Sara-Rochel & family, Moishe and Aaron - who flew in from Israel) all went on a 75 minute water ferry tour of ‘Jewish NY’. The tour guide shared a lot of stories and information about jewish life in the lower east side and buildings which could be seen from the boat. We also got some great pics of the statue of liberty.
we came back home 3rd night of chol hamoed and got to rest before going out for some more activites the next 2 days. for the last days, we were by esthers aunt and uncle in brooklyn and ate one meal by the langsners. woo hoo.
Now we’re back home (which was cleaned for Pesach) and still havent done any shopping - so we’ve been eating what we could find in the cupboard. Hopefully, we’ll go shopping later.
In honor of Shaina, pink and girlie.
We have an adorable video to upload but its not working just yet. Hang in there and you won’t be disappointed.
In other news, we are cleaning for Pesach and Adiel took on a new hobby - painting! He bought some Benjiman Moore paint and transformed the baby’s bedroom. Pics are more details to come.
Hope everyone is doing well and that we’ll get to see some of you over Pesach.
I’ve been busy with stuff so I haven’t been posting. But I will keep y’all updated soon.
This past Tuesday, Adiel and I did something I haven’t done for about 15 years - we played Monoploy together. Adiel ordered a bunch of new games for the two of us and this was the first one we played. It was a lot of fun and a different activity than the usual. We each ended up owning only one ‘Monopoly’ of colors, me the yellow and he the blue. And I had all the Railroads and he had all of the Utilities. Even though he had the blues and I landed on Boardwalk with a house once, I still won because I put THREE houses on Marvin Gardens, and he landed there three times!! But Adiel was a good sport and played until his last property was mortgaged and his last dollar was spent. I felt bad making my own husband go bankrupt but it was fun game to play.
The game is a classic, around almost 75 years. It hasn’t changed all that much either, although they did introduce the ’speed die’ which we opted not to play with. However, there were some things that I remembered doing as a kid which were different now, reading the rules. But almost everyone I spoke to remembers playing like me, so I don’t know if Monopoly used to have different rules, or if someone very popular made up some additional rules and they just spread like wildfire.
The rules were:
1) Snake eyes. Remember, if you got two ones, you get one of each bill?
2) Landing on Go. You get $500 instead of $200. This would’ve helped Adiel a lot, he landed on Go like 5 times.
And the best one of all; 3) Free Parking, you get all of the money that had built up from the ‘bank’ plus the extra $500. The Monopoly people must have even known about this because they clearly stated ‘when landing on free parking, you get no money, you just get to stay there for free’ (as opposed to paying rent when landing on properties of others).
Anyway, let me know if you remember anything different about playing Monopoly when you were a kid.
This week: The Trump Game! You’re all invited 
I was listening to a Dave Ramsey clip recently and he said a big thing about the school system and teachers: Teachers don’t get paid appropriately for what they do. If you think about it, he’s right. Teachers breathe life and spirit into children and set them up on the path for the future more than parents do. And they can easily apply their skills in the workplace and get paid more than double what they’re making in the school system.
So give your teacher (or kids teacher) proper respect (unless you can see that they don’t know what they’re doing).
I had some time this week to get out since my Internet was down for like 3 days. So I took my trusty Canon ZR70 miniDV camcorder out to a park here (which i JUST discovered) that overlooks JFK airport. The quality of the footage is poor - especially for anyone who has been spoiled by the amazing quality offered by our DVD: Everyday Kosher Cooking (www.everydaykoshercooking.com) .
What you’ll be seeing in this clip is some airplane take-offs (in the distance) and then the 2nd half of the clip shows the planes as they head back in at sunset. I’ve increased the velocity of the frame rate by 300% so you can get the time lapse effect. The video is 8 minutes and 15 seconds with some smooth relaxing music.
Enjoy and lemme know what you think (its ~27MB):
(right-click and “save as…”) http://www.adiel.com/hacked/timelapse-jfk.wmv
I found some old pics on the 8MB SD card that comes with my camera when you buy it. The main SD card we use with this camera (1GB) was left at home. Check out these super cool pics i took when i wuz still single living in the barf green room in lawrence.
After all the craziness of movie-making, year-starting and Yomim Tovim, things are slowly starting to get back to normal. We’re having some gals over Friday night, and hopefully eating by teh it’s been a while since we’ve actually hosted guests (besides for Mommy and Moshe for R”H), and it’ll be nice to have a nice, ordinary Shabbos.
Adiel’s been doing a lot of finalizing on the editing of the DVD –it’s annoying how all these little details become so time-consuming and cumbersome. Hopefully we’ll have some good stuff to share with you all soon. We are starting to look into marketing. It’s blah that everything is soooo expensive. Anyone want to sponsor an ad for us? :).
Today Adiel was supposed to meet with the editor in East Meadow but it was POURING rain, and for those of you who aren’t in the 5-Towns, Far Rockaway area - the streets get flooded here! Hard to drive down. So about halfway through bumper-to-bumper traffic, he turned around and came home. Yay :). And we had a nice chilled out night in our cozy, warm apartment with some fresh Shabbos chicken soup (and some leftover other stuff) for dinner.
Have a good Shabbos! We want to start having guests over or going away in the coming months for shabbos, so anyone that wants us or wants to come to us, let us know.
