Sorry, too late.

So I've finally decided to re-watch Gilmore Girls from the beginning. I always watch something when I'm cleaning my room, because it's boring. So apparently the GG pilot is just... wow. So incredibly different from the rest of the series, it's scary. All of the characters have changed so much, and it was a bit weird. There are a lot of character traits that have been written out of the show... And it was only the pilot so the set was completely different. But I can say that Alexis Bledel was really gorgeous 7 years ago...
Oh, and I'm home because I missed the bus to Ariel yesterday. I can't pretend I'm bummed about that. Apparently Hashem thought I'd be better off at home, so he had me look at the wrong schedule. Anyway, I was happy to be here, and now I'm leaving with an awesome recipe for an easy and great minestrone soup I can make in my apartment...
Why am I blogging at 12:26 AM on a school night? I'm not tired. I hate when that happens. Maybe even decaf isn't the best thing at 11:30 PM.

Luke: Rory, put down that coffee. You do not want to grow up to be like your mom.
Rory: Sorry, too late.

Ack. I really do love that show...

Heyyy!

So what happened in my life this week? Actually, it doesn't feel like I have a lot of news, but this week has been really tiring, not to mention kinda emotionally draining. Because I'm at the point in the year when I'm just sick of everything. Not to mention I failed a driving test this week and I'm going to be in Ariel for Shabbat.
But it'll all be OK. My parents and Noam came to visit me today and take me home. That was fun. That's about it. Now I'm going to read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban with Natani.

It's late, and I'm blogging.

When's the last time I made two posts in one day? Probably sometime around July 21st, I'd guess.
Just three more tiny things...

• Mira was just in my room, talking about random things like we tend to do too late at night. I played the "la la la" background music from Gilmore Girls (which anyone familiar with GG should recognize) and she got all "I hate you!" because she's already done with the show. I haven't seen the last season yet, because we don't have the DVD yet, but I know how she feels. I miss Friends.
• Where's Waldo? is such a stupid book. I really have to say that, because I came home to find it at my house, from the library. Even though there is so much more to search for than I thought, and even though I've found the guy on every page I've opened it up to (which I've never been able to do before), seriously, it's pathetic.
• The Cars soundtrack is making me want to do a big US road trip again. I really want to do that. Somehow, the middle of nowhere, America speaks to me more than Europe. Go figure. This is why I love Cars.

That's all. Good night!

Weekly Update, a.k.a. I really really love music!

• Chanukah is coming! Well, it's Kislev anyway. In my family we have a tradition that as soon as Kislev starts, we play this CD. Like all the time. It's the Miami Boys Choir Chanukah CD, and it is guaranteed to make you smile and think to yourself, "Chanukah is coming! Yay!!!!" Or at least that's what it does for me. Of course now, since I don't live at home, I have the songs on my iPod, and I was just sitting on the bus on my way home today and suddenly Maoz Tzur made me realize that I would actually be singing that soon! So now we're all happy.
• Speaking of music, the other reason I'm in a good mood is because I just got 3 CD's I ordered online. Each one of them is an awesome CD for a different reason, and seeing the 3 of them together automatically put me in a good mood. So... the first one is the Cars soundtrack. I love that movie to pieces, and the songs on it are just really good. And fun.
• The next is a Gilmore Girls soundtrack. I bought it for 3 reasons: 1. It has the version of "Where You Lead" that Carole King did especially for the show, which I personally like a lot better than her original one. 2. I love the background music on that show, and it's all on the soundtrack. 3. There's a song called "My Little Corner of the World" which is played during one of my very favorite scenes ever on Gilmore Girls, the last scene of the first season, and is a really adorable song, not to mention is very big on the "Stars Hollow vibe". I love Stars Hollow with all of my heart and soul. And when you open the CD, just on the liner, the Stars Hollow vibe is there, just screaming out at you. The pictures are little details of Stars-Hollowness, and there are two essays from the wonderful creators of GG, Amy and Dan Palladino, about music. As if we didn't know they could write.
• The other CD I bought is Renee Olstead's self-titled CD. I heard of her only because she has a song on the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack, but she's actually really good. Most of her music is her twist on classics, but what's cool about her is that this CD- her first- was released when she was fifteen. The other thing I liked was that at the end of the acknowlegements on the CD she wrote "BTW: Thnx for being one of the few people who reads liner notes." I thought that was cute, but I really had no idea nobody does that... I always do.

Everything else I wanted to blog about seems way too mundane after this long music talk. But wow, that was fun. I haven't blogged like this in awhile. Blogging about randomness is the best way to blog, I must say.

So the other things were: Hopefully my ingrown toenail has been fixed for real, and I'm so happy I'm out of the school system before all these problems. My sisters are barely ever in school, a lot of the kids are worried about there Bagruyot, and now all the education positions in Sherut Leumi are frozen as well. One of the girls with me in Ariel left a couple of weeks ago, and now she's stuck and can't get a job in education. The position she left open can't be filled either. Wow. We need a new education minister.

Anyway, I'm home on Shabbat, and we have a lot of people- my cousins, my grandmother, and my friend. That's about it...

Shabbat Shalom! Have a good week!

Guess what?

I'm officially reinstating my weekly updates. 1, because I can't blog from Ariel, and 2, because maybe it'll make me blog more. That would be nice...

• So I was home for this Shabbat after 3 Shabbatot I wasn't home. Two weeks ago I was in Ariel, and the other two weeks I was with my cousins in Neve Daniel. I was going to be in Ariel this week, because it was Shabbat Irgun in Bnei Akiva and I figured I should be there to help out, but I absolutely couldn't be away for another Shabbat. And it was so great to be home...
• Have I mentioned I'm now taking driving lessons in Ariel? After being a "Lamed"- a driving student- in Yerushalayim, Ariel is so much fun. It's so easy, and everything is so close to everything else! I'm not sick of it yet (wow.) so I'm having a great time!
• I'm afraid of chicks. I'm not joking. I went with my little first graders to this place in Kfar Saba that teaches about various kinds of birds and various aspects of their lives, and at the end the adults were asked to give each kid a chick to pet. I tried to pick one up, and I couldn't. It totally grossed me out. Chicks are not fun to hold. And then our school caretaker who came with us picked up on that, and put a little chick on my lap. Twice. I absolutely couldn't deal, so I shrieked until he took it off. I'm sure it was very funny. I'm scarred.

So, that's about it, I think. I'm really loving school, but I'm so tired! Back to school tomorrow...