Snippets

I'm at work now but it's deathly quiet here today. Almost everyone else is out of the office at the monthly team meeting. I'm just lowly admin support so I don't have to go. I look forward to these days - to the quiet. I have to come to work to rest! I had a pile of work to get done but I've done most of it. The one thing that's left - transcribing from an audio file a half hour teleconference - is REALLY annoying. I did about half of it and can't be bothered to finish it today. Lucky it's not urgent.

We woke up to wet streets and raindrop diamonds on all the trees. It's supposed to be wet-ish through Friday then warm up. It's rather late in the year to be raining actually...
I bought some really nice ripe avocados last trip to the supermarket. Mashed them up last night into guacamole. Yummy on rice cakes!

Cousin C and I are still going back and forth with emails and keep finding similarities. We're both vegetarian, we both have a rabbit and we're both addicted to thrift store shopping! Talking to her is like talking to MYSELF!

Yesterday E fell asleep in gan about 15 minutes before DH arrived to pick him up and that's all the nap he got yesterday so bedtime for him last night was a breeze. We have WWIII getting him in bed most nights. He's like the energizer bunny. Even last night with only a 15 minute nap the whole day he was bouncy and cheerful until I dumped him in bed at 9 pm. Most kids get crazy if they're overly tired.

There's a meat restaurant across from the mall here that we've been meaning to try so we went out last night with the kids. DHis always happy for an opportunity to have some meat and even though I don't eat it I had fries and pita and hummous and a whole smorgasbord of salads. It's not a fancy place or haute cuisine by any stretch but it's large and spacious and clean and the chairs were comfortable and best of all the meal for the 4 of us only came to 67 shekels (~$18)! Would definitely go there again. We are desperately trying to get our finances under control and our budget balanced so we rarely eat out. Maybe 2-3 times a year for a proper sit-down meal. That's not including the odd time we order pizza in or go out for a cup of coffee Friday morning or whatever.

DH is up to his eyeballs with work at the moment - thank G-d! He has a 110 page report to translate by.....tomorrow I think. And with E at home in the afternoons it's just impossible. E is soooo cute but OMG is he a heck of a lot of work! A little terrorist. (And it's a shock to the system because Y was SOOO easy. Still is.) Yesterday E climbed up one of the big tall bookcases somehow and got down a large bottle of bubble solution that was in Y's room and spilled it all over the floor! <scream> Oh well. That's one way to get the floors clean. At times when DH is NOT busy, there's no reason E needs to be in gan past 1:15 but we're going to talk to his caretaker and see if we can leave E there later on an "as needed" basis so DH will have that option when he's under pressure with work.

Going to Mom's on Sunday evening for her husband's birthday. We're taking pizza from the cheap place here.