ליל שני של חנוכה

So friday was typical.... guess what i did... i BAKED! Friday night i didnt go to shul but i had a shalom zachor for one of the ethiopean familys in our neighborhood. so it was at our house and we had tons of ppl in the house. like the whole neighborhood stopped in at some point. there are 6 kids in the family, older ones and 3, now four little ones. there is a second grader who is the biggest tzaddik in the world, he reads tehillim when hes waiting for the bus, he goes to every davening (as in 3) a day. hes always has his tzitzis hanging out. then there is a younger one, in gan, and hes just CUTE!!!! then there is a little girl, that is her... now words needed. then there is the new baby.
after the bris they had a seudat mitzvah, HOLY BAGEL donated alot of bagels and two vegetable platters. they are major tzedaka ppl! then i baked.... and baked.... and baked! i made really yummy 'better then drakes coffee cake' cupcakes. and chocolate snowballs,... then we lite candles.
then the cool part of the day is when i went to yehuda schwartz and he taught me how to make fondant frlowers!!!! its soooooo coool they ar soooo gorgeous!. ill post them at somepoint.
oh on thursday night my grandparents and parents when to watch fri at his basketball game. this is a pict of him.
today i had a waste of a day, i started school late and i had parsha which was the same speech as last year, and it wasnt a parsha speech it was on chanuka. i then had navi which is again a waste of time. then we had art which pretty much was a waste of time cuz we could do what we did there, at home. like she told us that we are doing something kashor to chanuka, so rivka asked her if mw are cutting out black paper and putting selofan in it to hang on the wall.... the teacher told us to picture a 'kad'- jug (for u know who). and to picture a person in it.then to draw what we imaggined. interesting but funny. then i continued on my nachman hat. i left the school bulding and i saw the weisblatts, they picked up adina and rachel from school and they we on their was to eilat. pretty funky. i hope they will be home by thursday so avi can take the car and we can go to efrat... yes sammy i'm going with him!!! it was good cuz my father was leaving jr-m as we ended school so he was able to drive us home, istn it nice to get home an hour earlier. well i got home and made my self lunch cuz all i ate was a sufganiyah that they gave out in school and now it wasnt good, i felt it till about an hour ago in my stomach, sammy we have got to make hem somwtime. so i made myself food and watched an episode of gilmor girls on malky's computer. i watched episode 5:02... I've never watched any before... no clue whats going one, wtvr! so yah my great aunt's daughter and her kids just came to pick my great uncle up and to take him for a few days. its so annoying when you have to meet someone and you have nothing to do with them and know that u will never have anything to do with them and you have to put on this fake smile and say hi.... well i just had to. ok so my pop and bro will be home soon from synagouge and we will have to light the hanuka candles and dance around out hanuka bush... stam.... so ill end now... havea great chanuka and eat latkas (not 10 like i had last night, as my grandfather says the mircle isnt that there was enought oil for the menorah for 8 days its that there was enought oil in the food to last in your stomach for 8 days)

אד חג שמח לכולם ואני אנסה לכתוב מתישהו בקרוב, לילה טוב

Life is gr-8!!!!

i got into BEIT YELED- tchum rishon!!!!!!!

thursday... nothing special!

gosh, i havent written a real thing in a while! when should i start from? well welcome back sammy and lori! its so great your back, i hadent seen you in like a whole 5 days! i cant beleive it, how did i survive?
well now that your back everything is back to normal, the annoying ppl are annoying, the funny ppl are funny and the ok are OK!
guess what?!? motzash is etana and zev's engagement party! Im so happy! Im so sad! like i dont know what to be! like its gr8 that she is engaged but its so sad that we wont be able to hang like just us! like not more spontanious sleep over and no more private conversations. like i am pretty used to it because ever since she started going out with him but still its scary to know tha it is really official.
sammy you better not be like that...
well yesterday was tamar's bday and i made a reallly nice cake and when i download it onto the computer ill post it. also the chanuka boutique in rashit was yesterday and i made a big basket of cookies to donate to go for an raffle prize! it was so cool, i put out my business card and album and ppl looked at it and also tons of ppl put their raffle ticket in for it! so much fun!
today i had a tanach test which i think and hope went really well, and we had torah but instead we had shiur chinuch and we talked about the yearbook then talked about not getting into and getting into sheirut leumi. ppl dont nderstand that 100 shek for a yearbook which will last a lifetime is NOT alot even for ppl who dont have so much money!
uch i dont want to get upset so i wont talk about it.
then we had art. we had a chanuka party and we brought food. it was so yummy and fun! my teacher was telling us that she got engaged chanuka of 12th grade! AHHHHH!!!! imagine like me getting engaged next week, its soooooo scary! like gosh weird! And pregnant summer of 12th, like as everyone says i can see my self with kids... but not a husband!!!!!
well i gtg bake up a storm- is there a phrase like that?
have a great night!

Monday... Funday!

this is the clip art on my business card (i couldnt upload the business card cuz its a document not a jpg. ill try later... cute?
i baked like crazy yesterday and i went to Ceminar Yerusalayim Ha Chadash's play it was amazing except for the fact that i left there at 11:20 and it was the beginning of the finale.
congrads sheva!

SUM UP OF THE WEEK! (EVEN THOUGH ITS ONLY WEDNESDAY)

gosh i havent written anything real in a while. well it has been very hectic. with my great uncle and aunt coming ant now my grandparents, me being kicked out of my room and tons of tests. b"h my tests went really well. the ezrachut test i got an 83 and my toshba test i got a 94 (sry sam). we had a machshevet test today and it went well acually. usually the teacher doesnt like it when i say that i dont understand st. but t day he was nice, he allowed me to do part of a different question instead of the thing i didnt understand.
on mon. we had art (like the painting class) and i painted a really pretty pict. im going to try to post it. its so funny cuz that day i was saying how none of my things come out nicley and that painting came out gorgeous. its like if i want it to come out good it will. like if i like what im painting but if i dont like the assignment... it wont be good at all.
i made a cake for my friends rakezet's sheva brachot and she was supposed to pick it up on monday night between 7 and 730. i was babysitting and my mother called me to tell me that they didnt pick up the cake. so i called my friend and asked herwhy she hadent come yet and she said cuz she was in the hospital cuz she got into a car accident. it so sacry, i was in one in the summer and it was totally not anything but in israel car accidents are so commen its so sad. B"H she was if, she was just shocked a little so thats why they brought her to the hospital. so someone else went to pick up the cake.
what else has happened? well yesterday i was so tired during school that i just went home. i left early and went home. its so not me... like this yr i'm more cool about ditching but still i dont do that... but i was pooped so i went home and slept for and hour and half. i woke up in the middlcuz my arm was freezing... it was hanging of my bed. i was so dead that i had to use my other hand to move my arm. CRAZY!
tomorrow im going to the schwartzs and yehuda is teaching me cake stuff! im soooo excited... its so funny hes been calling me like tons of times like making sure im coming and making sure ill have my fondant that i need. its so nice.
well i am so tired and gillian still hasnt come back (not like she said she will yet but thats besides the point) and i want to go downstairs to read my book. so have a good night everyone (the whole three ppl who read my blog) and ill miss u tons sammy! Ahhhh a whole 4 days w/o u in school.... how will i survive? have fun in dougies and bagels and pizza and shopping oh and also the wedding (but thats not one of the important things)....
BYE
~me~

thank yo lori...

yes etana's engagement party is NEXT motzei shabbat on dec. 24... not this one.
ill post more tomorrow, i gtg to sleep cuz i have to wake up at 6 to go to school for an efes!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so excited my pop came back... so i can go thru his suitcase!

guess what i got... hold on tight, its a long list...
gold baking and party cups
red metallic baking and party cups
silver baking and party cups
alphabet/number cut outs
heart fondant cut outs
flower fondant cut outs
leaf fondant cut outs
star fondant cut outs
deluxe tip saver case
fondant ribbon cutter/ embosser set
big hebrew alphabet cookie cutters
small hebrew alphabet cookie cutters
cake leveler
flower cookie cutters
heart cookie cutters
chanuka cookie cutters
food writer edible cookie markers
petite heart pan
decorating chips
white bags
lots of chocolate and nosh....
and last but not least....
KOSHER CAMPBELLS SOUP! (KOSHER!!!!!)
its so much fun! i love the stuff from shmutz laaretz... not the place itself!
have a gr8 night i gtg make a cake!

motzash

you know when your tired but you dont want to go to sleep cuz u dont want tomorrow to come? Well, thats what i am now... it sounds funny but im dreading tomorrow cuz i have 4-5(if u consider torah) free hours. like doesnt everyone want free periods... well not me. im sick of them. i wish i could be home... baking instead. its so exciting... i am really working... its such a weird thing the I am in 12th gr. and have opened a business already. You can look at some of the things ive done at www.gingycookies.blogspot.com like the name? (help from etana...) so what have i done latley?
thursday i went to the gym... took the 417 there straight from jr-m. u would think that it would be a short bus ride, you thought wrong, we got out of school at 415, i accually left a few mins early to catch the 415...21. and i got to the gym at 610. its crazy. i could have walked faster. stam. well i went to the gym, i dont like going but a girls got to do what a girls got to do... i went home and showered, eat supper, and watched charlie and the chocolate factory... stupid movie.
on friday i woke up at like 545 to use the loo and of course i couldnt fall back asleep so i decided to make something for yael who was having a major math test later that day. so i put up my famous boreka that she loves. and i wrote a really nice poem (i didnt write it but...) and i gave her a cup with coffee and hot cocoa mix o have a hot drink and i gave her a persimin (yes i know it eats away at ur digestive system... but its yummy) and i gave her the sticky eyeball thing. it was really cool. i wish i had myself as a friend.
this is the poem that i gave her...

When the weather suits you not,
Try smiling.
When your coffee isn’t hot,
Try smiling.
When your neighbors don’t do right,
Or your relatives all fight,
Sure ‘tis hard, but then you might
Try smiling.
Doesn’t change the thing, of course--
Just smiling.
But cannot make them worse--
Just smiling.
And it seems to help your case,
Brightens up a gloomy place,
Then, it sort o’ rests your face--
Just smiling.

i really like it! well yah then i baked alot... cup cakes, cake for tamars bday which i found out is not this sunday (tomorrow) but in like 2 weeks... and i iced etana's cookies... they are soooooo gorgeous! and we started making the cocolate molds for fri's BM. its sooo cute... they are going to be 'confetti' on the tables (they are little tefillin shaped chocolates).
i got ready for shabbos and after we betched licht i went to yael. we walked to shul, but i went to the wolffs to play with the kids instead. they are so cute. i love them. tehilla,5, was telling me the story of 'akeydat yitzchak' she was telling me it as if i never learnt it before.it was so cute. she just talked for no joke 15 mins straight.
we ate at the goldfards and it was really nice. i went to the park and noone was out yet so i went to yael. sara was here already and yaels friend stefanie from america. we went out and sat on the side of the street and talked. we then moved to the park.on the way we passessome of yaels friends (from america) and talked to them. they we two guys. i mean i try really really hard to be dan li caf zechut but this was past me, maybe someone can help me. this guy was telling us that he was talking to his israeli madrich in yeshiva and he was telling him that he (this guy) doesnt have to go to the army in israel cuz he is 'privliged'- hes american so there fore his job is to support the economy. so he said that he doesnt have to fgo to the army cuz he supports the economy... im sorry but this is the reason i have something against america!!!!
well after getting fed up with americans (10 mins) later, i went home to sleep.
this morn i stayed home and davened at home and then we went to the knappels for lunch. it was really fun. they are so normal! i left lunch early in order to go volunteer. for anyone who doesnt know i volunteer at a safe house (a shelter for women who are running away from their abussive husbands). so i c=go and play with a certain girl on shabbosim. well anyway i got there and they told me that there is a new family and that one of the old families sre going back home. its really hard for me... like im going to missthe kids. i dont know if i should be happy or sad. happy cuz they are going to a normal life but sad cuz i wont see them again! i dont know what to think. well i went home at like 315. and slep ttill shabbos was over. after shabbos was over i watched harry potter with sammy again. its good and bad. like the special effedts were really good but they left out so many important things!
well i guess im tired and tomorrow is going to come anyway... so shavua tov likolam!

shabbat shalom hey... shabbat shalom hey...

u have no patience to write before shabbos which is in 15 mins so ill write on motzash. SHABBAT SHALOM EVERYONE!!!!

guess what i failed my lashon test!

Ur ok today... i forgive u!
have a gr8 shabbos everyone!

worst day in my life....

first of all we had migama see i left the house at 8:15 and go to school late... at 10:10!!! then i come for a pop quiz. see everyone thinks art is so easy... some how i fail even with my 10 points. so i pretty much flunk the bochan. then we have torah. i went to 'visit' sammy. it was a good hour... it was funny... after now i think i want to burn it up but wtvr... st to look back on an laugh!. then we have chinuch. i am a sky window... thanx for the complement sammy. then ot starts to get worse and worse the day... no kishut kita... no erev kita... no asifat horim... then machsevet... just a stupid class. then history... even more stupid except for the fact that i passed the test! 63!!!! then i run to get the 21... huffing n puffing... i havent been at the gym long enough... stam so im really excited cuz im going to be able to get the 420 at 14:55... like a stop before tachana mercazit. the bus stops... chefetz chasud! so i run to the trempiada... b"h make the bus... go home and realize that i forgot my lashon stuff for my test in school. gr8!!!! so i bake and i say tehillim (with the tehillim group in my house) and then go online to the annoying voldemort! i guess i forgive you and we can be best friends ;) but dont do it again... it really hurt... in certain subjects im sensitive... so all in all im exgausted cuz i went to sleep really late last night... voldemort ;) and yah so have a gr8 night everyone!

Its official!

guess what... im getting married on jan 23! but im only getting a stainless steel ring! and hes getting custom made black pants to go with his black hat and kipa sruga! cool mix!

I've finally descovered my talents!

the test wasnt so bad after all... dina and i wrote like the same answers (studyed together). but we sit on the opposite sides of the room so its ok... we didnt cheat! i would never do that.
i had an interesting day... had a stupid hartzaa (i wont descrid it cuz sammy did) and then another stupid hartzaa... im not going to midrasha!!!! after 12th grade thats it... no more... sherut leumi. maybe shana bet, shana shniyah, shiur bet... wtvr you want to call it or ill just get married. its as simple as that.
for all u interested i am multi talented, i can bake and flirt... arent i lucky! to think that i can flirt... im so lucky, u know not that many ppl have that talent... i'd better use it well. (i guess i have been... he who must not be named...)
well have a gr8 night everyone!

i woke up before the sun did!

Craziest day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! had a toshba test at 8 in the morn and then no classes till 2:45, do u understand what a waste of time that is? then we had two more classes... kill me now! i went to the gym straight from school and then straight to babysitting. i am there now... non stop... i gtg study ezrachut! i dont even know where to start. maybe ill post something else later....

Hanachat Tefillin on a broken hand!

So i ended up going to sleep at like 11:45 not bad if you have no school then next day or if you dont have to wake up a 6 to shower and do your hair cuz ur leaving at 7 to jr-m for your bro's hanachat tefillin. so we left at 7 and picked up my GREAT aunt and uncle from bayit vegan then off to the wailing wall. while my pop was parking the car my grandparents called from shmutz laaretz. they were watching online the kotel, so they were able to see us. they recognized us from my colorful skirt. finally after 2 yrs of waiting i fit into my gap skirt. but after 2 yrs you grow so i wore another skirt under it... very israeli i know. so we prayed to the lord up above and fri as my father said 'layed the falakteries' for the first time. very exciting, escpesially cuz his finger was broken. after that we get to givat shaul to eat cuz 'between the arches' was full (guess where that resturant is...) get got home at 1. i went to the shul to help renana for the bat mitzvah at 1:30 till 3:45. it was really fun. shabbos was ok, i slept, worked, read, studied. it most prob wasnt as fun as your sammy but its ok... i've had shabbosim (and hope to have shabbosim) like that. well i just finished watching harry potter 4 and it was ok... yael was so scared but its ok... for a person who read the book it is ok sept for the fact that they changed it, whats new. well im just waiting for my potatoes to dehydrate and ill have a yumy snack for shcool tomorrow... well have a shavua tov and dont forget... its weird to be normal and normal to be weird!

Thursday night... past my bed time

this is sooooo weird! im not sure what to say but sammy i hope you have an amazing shabbos... like the last one... minus 2 certain ppl whos names wont be mentioned ;). well my back is killing and it is prob from the gym and from the mall and the stupid (xcuse my french) train. i have so much i have to bake and i have to go to sleep cuz it is fri's hanachat tefillim tomorrow and were leaving to jr-m at 7! that even before i leave for my 'efes' ok i gtg even though im still talking to someone but wtvr! have a gr8 night and shabbos!