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Happy Birthday Tami!

Going to tamara_russo's birthday party this evening, there will be people I like, and food I will devour (since it is the lovely birthday girl who is doing the cooking) and there will be much driving done by me.
Which I'm okay with, I just tend to get lost... Hope none of the people I'm taking are changing their minds right about now.
What I'm actually dreading is the parking.
I don't enjoy doing it and there generally isn't much room for it in Holon, especially in a one way street... which is what the majority of cities in Israel are composed of.

In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

וכמו כן, צריך לעצור את רצח העם בדרפור.

Okay, so I'm a bit woozy from the blood donation I gave today. Not the best compared to the other times since the EMT's of the blood bank stationed themselves in a wind tunnel, so I got quite chilly laying there while my nice, warm, liquidly life juice flowed out of me, making me even colder and making me feel, as I've said, woozy.
My stats are great by the way, my BP was 120/80 (healthy as can be) and my Hemoglobin was 14.1 (which is a personal high, odd how this is all happening after turning vegetarian).

Had a little snack though I quickly became famished and went out with my brother for falafel and shawarma respectively.

While I was at the mall I went into the excellent mystical shop, where the shop-girl, who recognizes me and said she loved my hair, asked me when my birthday was and when was I finally going to be getting ( this. )

*sigh* So long to wait... and yes, that was a very not subtle Birthday request :)

I can't believe Libby is a year old already!
It's absolutely amazing!

And I'm not going to see her until Pesach, maybe.

Boy what a year it's been, one of the more interesting years of my life, which isn't saying much since I'm a sheltered 21 year old :)

One things for sure, it was one of the best, because I got to take care of Libby for a large part of it.

hagar_972's birthday party was great, there was a barbecue, there was a sea, there were lots of friends and it was late at night.
Not much can go wrong in situations like that.
There was a hell of a lot of catching up to do, since I hadn't seen most of them people in almost nine months.
There were Asaf, Sofi, morin, tamara_russo, Adi, Roi, schniff and fenchurch42 were lovely as usual, May and I talked for a really long time and it would seem that we decided to traverse the British Isles together!
It's still in the theory only, but I'm going to call Mummy's travel agent tomorrow and see if there's anyway of getting stuff done.
Despite the fact that I got the job at the DVD-club and may have an offer elsewhere... I mean fuck it, this is the time I should be living the moment - I have the money to travel and a job I can always find after the Holidays... but how many times will I be able to spend time with a person I like traveling England, Scotland and Ireland?

So, tomorrow I have to get to Bituach Leumi, to cash in my Miluim check, talk to the travel agent and spend much time with Jade and the Babies since they're going back to the Uncle Sam's tomorrow evening.

I don't know when I'll see Jade, Shvo or Libby again but it will probably be a very long time.
Since I left (early July) and when they came to here (just two weeks ago) not a very long time passed and Libby remembered me, it was uncanny how much she remembered me, but then again it had only been six weeks and I was a major person in her life for the majority of her life and now she'll forget me... gonna have to Skype it.

Edit: nurint was at the party!!! Let it be known throughout the land, nurint is a very good friend and WAS at the beach party!!!
And there was no skinny dipping.

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.

I just received a most perfect present from my sister in England via Amazon.
Not one.
Not two.
But three books!

#1 A Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood (feminist perspective distopia).
#2 A Room of Ones Own by Virginia Woolf (it's amazing how far women have come, yet how much further we must go)
And last but certainly not least:
#3 The Quotable Slayer (no explanation necessary)

What fabulous gifts!

Quote: "To read is makes our speaking English good"

Today I turned 21.
Jade and the brother-in-law and the babied took me to a very pretty town called "New Hope" and yes there were Star Wars jokes abound.
This town was a great success for Shvo (who is obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine), because - you guessed it - there was an aged engine and coach which Shvo, Rami and I went on for a ride while Jade and Libby waited for us.
It was absolutely gorgeous as will be shown is future pictures, I had a great time just being in a place I'd never been before, but it was especially fun, since it was a bonding experience with Shvo.

After the train ride, the whole familia went to walk around the town which has lots of antique, specialty and vintage stores, so it was just the best walking around place. My favourite was an Art Deco shop called Cockamamie, I loved it.

I'd love to go back there later on during my visit.

Rami made a cake, chocolate mousse cake, I couldn't eat more than one piece it's so rich.
They put a candle on the cake for me and Shvo sang me "Happy Birthday" in English and in Hebrew.
I cried like the big cry baby I am.

In an hour it will no longer be my birthday... it was a good day.

It's only nine o'clock here, therefore still the 13th, but in Israel, my home where I was born it is already the 14th and I am 21 years old.

Thank you my friends (you know who you are!) for this most marvelous gift (which I asked for), I had no idea you would go to such lengths for such a seemingly wasteful gift.
I am honoured to have friends as good as you.

Thank you!
Celebrate in my stead!
And I'll see you soon!

תודה רבה לכם גאנג, אתם גדולים וענקיים, עכשיו אני לא יודעת מי החליט את זה, אבל גם קיבלתי שנה נוספת אנונימית, מי שלא תהיה/תהיי, תודה.

Here's for two years of paid accountancy!!!

Happy Birthday to me :)

Expect a post at midnight ;)