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Friday 4/08/06
It's amazing how much happens is such a short amount of time.

On Friday my sister Leigh and my nephews Amos and Shaul returned from their long stay in Cambridge, England (my brother in law Ariel is still there to tie up loose ends and will be joining the family later this week) and they've come back permanently. Leigh, now a Ph.D, has a post-doc position at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva. They still need to make all sorts of arrangements, but they should be moving some time next week. At the moment Leigh and the kiddies are staying at home with us, making it a bit of a full house, but it's fantastic to have them back, and if it weren't for the fucking war and my reserve duty I'd actually be able to spend some time with Amos (who's five ) and Shaul (who will be two in October).

I had a shift on Friday, making me utterly drained of energy, but I decided I would go out since I can't be cooped up 24/7, even though I am four days every week. I can't believe it's been going on for a month now. ( More Friday )

Satruday 5/08/06
Free day.
Woke up lateish, found out we were going to spend the mid morning at our cousins place because they have a pool. It was my first day of real summer, since it was the first time I wore my brand new swimming costume and looked great. The one good/bad thing about the war is that I'm shedding a hella of alot of weight, I'm a bit worried about that because I'm eating normally, if fact I eat so much junk at my station I have no idea how I've managed to lose so much weight, but I looked better in the costume now than when I bought it a month ago.
I swam and played with Amosi, but Shaul clung to Leigh since he was a bit scared of the water, also I don't think they're used to the heat the Israeli Sun is able to produce.
It was a fun morning.

Later that afternoon I met up with Shimrit and Shira, since I am not able to meet with them as much as I like.
We had coffee and cake, Shira gave me a belated birthday gift; a great "Nine West" purse! And after we said our goodbyes I spent a little time with Shimrit.
( Psycho-babble )

Nothing really interesting Sunday, except that Sharon (one of the guys that sits with me and hagar_972, he noticed I looked tired (and felt like crap from my crying the night before) and did his best to cheer me up. He also mentioned that he read my lj and was surprised at how good my English was (I'm a total bilingual) and how political I am. He was also dissapointed he wasn''t mentinoed. Well now he is.

Other than that Sunday was the same as any other crappy, no good, war mongering day. Yaron is very good conversation, he's obviously used to people agreeing with him and I do believe meeting someone with concrete ideals and a realistic veiw on the issues threw him a little.

Monday and Today after this.

Monday and Today

Yesterday was utter crap from the get go.
The only good thing was that I kept hagar_972 company on her Birthday, that was of the good.
And that's where it ended.

My day started with a bud ride, it was already bad since it's the bus I take in the morning to my base. On this bus I lost my cellphone. My cellphone is my entire life! Well not really since I have most of my phone numbers written in my little handy phone book, but it certainly put a damper on the rest of the day.
So the minute I entered the base I was on the phone with the Bus company's information center, I got all the relevant numbers and passed them onto Mummy who was just dying to say "I told you so" to me since for the two and a half years that I've had this phone she told me I'd lose it one day if I kept carrying it in my pocket (where it has lived quite snugly) and it did fall out of my pocket. What makes this whole thing even worse is that on Saturday i misplaced my phone in Robbie's car, making him turn around and come back home so I could have it.

My family rocks when it comes to carrying out my "whims". I know it's not really whims, but my family is great at helping out and getting me out of jams.
So Daddy canceled my outgoing calls and Mummy found out the phone had been found by a (get this) a policeman and he took it to the Central Tel-Aviv District Police Station, which is where I went today. It was a whole lot less traumatic than I thought it was. It was just a really long walk from the the New Central Bus Station to the Police Station on Salame St, Yaffo (I know, I know...).

Yesterday was pretty miserable, since it was one bad thing after another. We didn't handle the goings on very well and now Omer (my ex-Co and of my commanders) wants to change the way we do things at the table, even though we've been doing fine for the past month, one really bad day doesn't negate the month of really fine work my station has been doing. Add to that, that I had to stay and actually talk directly to the slimy SOB, making Hagar and I miss the last bus and the train and then finding out that the train after that was twenty fucking minutes late!
So a bad day.

Today was okay and I'm meeting with Varda, a friend I've only met up with once since my return from the US.