Jewish Musings, Friday 8/4

[lee058]

What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.


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Frieda
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy




And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to, but you are also welcome to chime in. Don’t be shy!

[lee058]

Good morning everybody! Hope you are all well and SAFE! I also hope you've enjoyed this week; I've had a lot of fun with it.

Today's topic: How do you feel about how things are arranged where you live? Do you have any special ideas to share? Do you keep things pretty much the same way all the time, or do you rotate your possessions (e.g., with the seasons, or maybe just for a change every once in awhile)?

For me, the most important idea is that I need plenty of room to walk around because of my using a walker. I am careful to have wide aisles everywhere, with nothing underfoot that could be dangerous.

Furniture and tsochtkes are pretty much kept in the same places all year round. I've been thinking about rotating some wall hangings just for a change, but haven't gotten around to it for years, so I may not bother.

I like the way things are arranged in my house. I do wish we had fewer stairs, but on the other hand, if we didn't have stairs, I would probably lose my ability to climb them. So, it's probably just as well that we have them. I would like to have the laundry room on the main floor, as well as another bathroom, but neither of those could happen. There's just not enough room.

I also like the way our tsochkes, wall hangings, and other decorations are spread out around the house. It gives me great pleasure to see beautiful things in every room.

Thanks for joining in this week!! It's been fun. Have a peaceful day, Lee

[louise]

I have some areas that I really enjoy the arrangement of but I have way too much clutter arund - an ongoing problem I would like to finally conquer. I bring out certain things for Hanukkah abd Passover, etc but for the mpst part do not change things seasonally.

[peachymom1]

Thank you for an enjoyable week, Lee!

We don't move things around unless there's something new to display, like graduation or wedding photos. I'm not terribly artistically inclined, so I tend to keep things where they are.

Today is my WI day, and I'm down 0.8 pound. Yay! Everyone stay hydrated and cool this weekend. Shabbat shalom!

[hollygail]

In general, I don't decorate for any of the holidays, so things pretty much stay where I put them. DH arranged family photos on walls along with my input about some artwork, but after the second "flood" (okay, it wasn't quite a flood, but close to), a lot of things we had to remove from the walls are still waiting to get back there (two different times, different pipes in the walls leaked badly enough that too much downstairs got ruined; not the furniture but all the flooring).

When we were looking to buy in this area, I wanted all the rooms to be on one floor. I sent DH with the agent (a friends whose sons I had taught in Sunday School before their respective bnei mitzvah) to look at all the places she'd found. I told him to eliminate all the places he didn't like enough to live in and have me go with him and her only to the places he would consider. That brought it down to two places (both were on two levels; so much for my preference of one level). The first one had been remodeled inside (great sunny colors in the kitchen!) but it was located facing a major street (lots of traffic; you couldn't turn left out of the driveway because of the median, and if you were coming home from just south of the house, you had to pass the house and make a U-turn to pull into the driveway) so I wasn't interested. Then we saw this one, and although I wanted something larger (three bedrooms or two plus den; this is a two-bedroom), it was in our price range and "good enough." It wasn't what I wanted but my options were limited to this or wait for something better to come along (never a good idea when your job is too far from your previous living situation). So here we are, almost 20 15 years later...

Thanks for an interesting week, lee058, Lee.

Have a great weekend, everyone. Gut Shabbes / Shabbat shalom!

[happysavta]

Last night, DH and I went to see a JCompany musical theater production of "We Will Rock You". Among the actors and singers was my daughter-in-law and the twins, age 10. One of the twins was dressed like Willy Nelson with a red bandana around his forehead. His role was to play a broom as though it was an electric guitar and to dance as though he was a rocker. It was so funny!

My middle son brought his wife and 2 kids to see the play and during the intermission, the kids sang camp songs for me that they learned at Jewish sleepaway camp this summer. This one is chanted loudly, no melody. "Shalom!
Que pasa?
Shabbat is
in the casa!"