IHOP Girl: Late Music Monday, and Vacation News!

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Late Music Monday, and Vacation News!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8

Hope you liked the clip - it made me chuckle!! I know that its late, but yesterday I had classes at work allllllll day. I got home around 10:30pm, and went to bed.

As for vacation - I have my dates off work for the vacation!! We're going to go to England, Scotland, and Ireland hopefully the second week of April for 10 whole days! It should be a blast!! I'm going with three other girls from work who I hang out with. My only concern, hehe one of the girls is going to get us a cheap ticket, because her dad works for the airline. However, the catch is that those tickets would be standby seats...which means that we wouldn't have confirmed seats. Now I think I'd be a little more okay with that if it was just me or even just two of us going. I just think it might be a little unlikely that all four of us will get on all the flights together. Hmm, maybe that is part of the adventure and I should roll with it. Maybe we'll just go two and two hoping for the best. I'll let you know!! It's going to be a crazy trip!

I'll have to update you after my first watercolor class today!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...: Yah!!!! I know you are so excited!! And you'll come home to the excitement of getting your puppy...

As far as the travel - maybe it is worth checking into rates to buy a ticket now??? I've heard the fares are low due to the economy. At the least,the 4 of you should discuss what you'll do if 3 get on and one doesn't...or any combo - 1 gets on and 3 don't. Do the successful flyers then just wait at the destination airport till you get there? You can't stay awake 24/7, so how long will you wait standby before buying a hotel room to sleep in? I know, I'm the mom, but going into it with good communication and uniform expectations will help you enjoy whichever option you choose.
It's a great adventure, and I'm glad you are getting to go!!!
much love,
wot
p.s. it has become sfl's recent tactic to inaccurately quote me. He greatly enjoys mischieviously inciting a reaction to something unrelated to the blog, and then posting all/part/mixed up parts...he is a rascal!!! May the audience recognize the tactic for what it is, have fun with it, but by no means attach anything to the real WOT. As Elizabeth puts it in P&P: "He will teach you not to believe a word I say! It is most ungenerous is it not? and impolitic too, for it provokes me to retaliate...my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me." Poor SFL...; 11:37 AM
shrunken_frontal_lobe said...: V E R N

VERN!!!!!

he!; 3:59 PM
shrunken_frontal_lobe said...: regarding WOT's comments.

First, there is no "real WOT".

WOT is fictitious.

Thal is fictitious.

DOT is fictitious.

SPOT is fictitious.

SFL is fictitious.

we are all fictitious.

i really enjoy using the word fictitious.

i am not being facetious in saying that i love to use the word factitious.

Second,

i am not afraid of WOT. i know she claims to say things which are not her own...

he!; 4:07 PM
Jess said...: WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.......I wanna go too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not fair! LOL! Well, enjoy your trip and take LOTS of pictures for me to drool over....*sobs pitifully* Oh well, maybe someday... :); 2:26 PM
Clair Bannerman (alias) said...: Haha,

WOT - I love that you and I think so much alike...its scary...

SFL - No VERN.

SFL - Hahaha, you make my brain hurt. I guess thats what I get for being Fictitious!

Jess - Aww, girl you know I will! Thats assuming the whole thing even works out ;-); 4:35 PM

Movie Night In...I love a good movie!

Mega Mind
Taking Chance (Will make you cry like a baby)
Charlotte Grey (A bit of a different take on Nazi Germany)
Series - Merlin (I LOVE BBC)
Robin Hood (Okay, a love Russell Crowe, you'll have to understand that about me...)
Kingdom of Heaven (Chuck full of acting power with an epic tale)
Miss Potter (Such a great film! Story of the creator of Peter Rabbit)
How to Train your Dragon (Possibly my favorite animated movie ever...I'm like a little kid, I watch it over and over)
Buck (Sundance winner, Biography of Horse Trainer, heart touching)
Lost in Austin (Modern day spin on Pride and Prej.)

Life as a nurse...

Great words by Reb Jeff: Vayishlach: Facing Death

"Rachel died. She was buried on the road to Ephrat — now called Bethlehem. Jacob set up a pillar above her grave. It is the pillar at Rachel’s grave to this day."–Genesis 35:19-20

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidui http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_(Judaism), and preparing the notifications to the community, feel like little fragments of the sacred. I have been entrusted with the care and tending of the most powerful, complex and difficult emotions that a person can experience in life. I have been made, in some small part, a guardian of the memory of a departed soul — a life that touches upon many other lives.After dropping off my older daughter at her high school this morning, I made a stop at Treasure Coast Hospice http://www.tchospice.org/, a remarkable organization that sets a very high standard for the loving and respectful care of the dying. There, I visited a lovely man whom I have seen a few times in his hospice room. I sat by his bedside and listened to him (in full possession of his faculties) as he told me about his worries about his family, the support of his wife after he is gone, and the future of his children and grandchildren. I was deeply moved by the way he put any concern for himself — even while facing death — in a distant backseat to his concerns for his family. When my own time comes, I can only hope to have his awareness of the way that one life can touch so many others.Also at hospice, I visited a woman I have known for the past two years — a dear soul who is a former Jewish religious school director. I sat with her, too, singing psalms to her as I listened to her heavy and labored breathing. I have no medical training, but I have come to know the sound of a person who is close to death. The body begins to fight for each breath as it slowly looses it grasp on life. As I held her hand and sang, I realized that being a rabbi is no protection against becoming one of the people caught in the web of connection. I, too, am changed by the loss of a life that has touched mine.Later in the day, I met with a couple from our congregation. She had just learned that her brother died yesterday in a car crash. Coming to terms with the loss is made more difficult for her by the fact that she and her brother had not seen each other or spoken in five years. Sometimes, people think it is easier to mourn the death of someone who has moved out of your life. In my experience, though, it's harder. Grief is magnified by wounded love and regret. I have no magic words to say to ease the pain of mourning. All I can do is listen, become a vessel in which people place their stories, and offer compassion.Actually, there is one more thing I can do. I can have faith that "all I can do" is all that I need to do. It is enough.In this week's Torah portion (Vayishlach) Jacob watched Rachel, the love of his life, die in childbirth. He was overcome by grief. Jacob had worked for his cruel uncle Laban for fourteen years to earn the right to marry Rachel. Now she was gone. Because she died while they were traveling, Jacob had to bury her by the side of the road. He built a pillar of stones on the spot to mark the place as sacred.This is what we all do, in one way or another, when death enters our lives. We grieve and our hearts break. We wish that we could continue to walk along the path of life with our loved ones forever, but the dead cannot fully join us. We have to leave something behind in order to resume our own journey. So, what do we do? We mark the moment as sacred. We erect monuments — both in cemeteries and in our hearts. The stones we place on top of stones remind us that a life may end, but its sanctity is forever.The Torah says that the monument Jacob built for his beloved continues to stand until this day. A life that touches the lives of others never ceases to send living reverberations throughout the web that binds us all.