Happy New Year all. The Jewish New Year starts tonight at Sun down for those who didn’t know. This year will be 5766. Bye bye 5765.

Well they came today and put on the countertops so I have new pictures to share.

Old kitchen:

New Kitchen, with countertops:

The kitchen is now about 95% done there are still a few small things they need to finish, but overall it is now a working and functioning kitchen!

Yesterday we were at Target, our Target has a Starbucks and they have been advertising their pumpkin spice latte. So I decided to get one. You know since I like pumpkins and spices and all that. What I failed to notice was it included coffee. Ewwwwww, gross ick. So I spent 4 dollars on one sip of a Pumpkin Spice Latte, well I got Dan to take a sip too. Fortunately I was able to get rid of the taste of coffee with some nice rum and apple cider, now that is a good drink.

April, June and November all the rest have 31 except for old grandma who rides a bicycle.

How Dan learned the 30 days has September poem from his mother. I kind of enjoy it, it is quirky and offbeat even if Febuary got lost somewhere.

Turned in my Econ homework today go me. I think I did okay there was one question I wasn’t sure of but the other three were fairly easy so it should be okay.

Spent a lot of the day resting, i hate migraines, I think it is a sinus/alergy migraine, I should probably see the doctor to get something for my allergies because they are pretty bad this fall, sigh I hate pollen.

Most of the sewing patterns arrived today which is nice, we still need to set up the whole sewing machine so it can be used though. We also bought some cloth and other essentials like pins and such last night.

Donuts have a ton of calories, I grabbed some krispy cremes at Target and they are 200 calories each, ouch.

Studied for Econ some, it is going to be mostly multiple choice so hopefully it won’t be too bad.

Tutoring again tomorrow, think it will be 4 hours of tutoring again which is nice though long, then I’ll study for math since I have a test in that class on Friday.

Hubby is sort of looking at a new perl, mysql job which is great it would be a nice raise and all for him. Hopefully he gets it. Only downside to that is I won’t get the job working for him as his monkey and answering the insane emails he gets. Well I might not have gotten that job anyways. He’ll likely wait till after he hears something positive or negative before bring up me being his monkey though too bad it would be a nice additional income.

Not much else going on head feels a bit better hopefully it will stay better for the rest of the fall.

Still half heartedly searching for a synagogue in the area. I really want a reformed synagogue with its own building and there doesn’t seem to be anything that meets that need. There are a couple of reformed synagogues, but they look a little too reformed for me. Maybe I’ll check out the Conservative Synagogue, growing two of three (maybe all three) of the synagogues we went to were right on the edge of Reformed and Conservative, so I don’t think I would have a big problem with the slightly more Conservative temples. I should check some out though. Yes Rosh Hashana being next week is what made me think of that.

That’s about all for tonight. Can’t think of anything else really.

Twits suck and Jeri and Decoy are huge twits.

(Random outburst I know, ignore if you don’t have a clue what i’m talking about)

Okay so since I found this list in the book I am reading for History, The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. I will now list all the books in the Jewish Bible since I tend to get asked the question, what books are in the Jewish Bible it is just the first five books right?, a lot.

Torah:
Gensis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy

The Prophets:

The Former Prophets:
Joshua
Judges
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings

The Latter Prophets:
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habbakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi

The Writings:

Poetry:
Psalms
Proverbs
Job

The Five Scrolls:
Song of Solomon
Ruth
Lamentations
Ecclesiates
Esther

Prophecy:
Daniel

History:
I Chronicles
II Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah

Here are the ones we ordered:

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The couple that I still want to get eventually:

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We also ordered a Salwar Kameez pattern set, but I don’t have a picture of it.

This may sound extremely dumb!! But I had this dream were rita could actually be stopped. I have very limited knowledge about hurricanes, but I?ve been reading a little and I understand my dream could be possible. If hurricanes are formed by the exchange between hot and cool air, then cooling or warming the air around should help slowing it down, right? In my dream a few hundred missiles were launched and formed a huge explosion warming the air near the top eye part of the hurricane which actually slowed down an eventually stopped it. Is this totally crazy? I know how this sounds and also that this would be very unlikely to work, I was just wondering if there is at least a tiny sense in this, could it work for a tornado perhaps??

And people wonder why I worry about the state of education in the US…

We went to the Renfest on Saturday and picked up a couple new items there. I got some really comfortable black leather shoes. They are really nice and I love them.

We also bought a dragon seal and some wax, for all those letters I write… Okay it is just cool and I lost my last seal so I wanted a new one.

We also picked up 3 petwer dragons. Well really 4. We got a tiny one on a small blue stone, a medium sized on that is the knight piece in a chess set and a big one with two dragons fighting. They are all really pretty and we like them a lot.

We also picked up a smoke/purple colored vase with sea dragons etched into it. It is really pretty as well and will go well with the rest of the dragon collection.

Today we went out, I wanted to look at something at Joann’s and we stopped by the sewing machine area. Which was having a sale. A very nice sale… We picked up Dan’s new toy there.

It is very pretty and nice and has a ton of features. Plus it was almost 30% off. We also picked up some patterns so he can start making outfits. Though we didn’t pick out any fabric. We figure he can practice some and make us Renaissance outfits for next year. Honestly if he makes me a nice outfit and cape we’ll have paid for the sewing machine with just those two pieces. Yes period outfits are dang expensive. Anyways, the new toy isn’t set up yet, since we need to clear out the basement some to set it up, which involves finishing up the kitchen. Hopefully this week (knock on wood).

We also made lots of soup yesterday and today and have 4 different soups in the new freezer now along with enough icecream to feed an army. You can tell where our priorities lie, yes in icecream and soup…