Pessach cleaning

This is for Lea:

So pessach is just arond the corner. I don't know what everyone's personal scheduel is, but I know that mine is very busy. My last week of school is next week and i'm only showing up for two days of that week. As well, I have quizes schedualed for everyday of that week, i'm missing a few, and all my assignments are either due this week or next week. As a result, I have been getting less sleep and having very LITTLE time to clean.

Two weeks ago I cleaned my room as an atempt to get a 'head start.' I actually enjoyed the process becuase I was able to think about things while I was cleaning. Instead of going from one assignment to the next, or studying for one subject and then continuing to the next, I actually had the time, a whole hour, to stop and think about my life and what has been occuring over the previous months.

It was then that i realized how much I enjoyed cleaning. Not becuase I was able to get on my hands and knees and sweep, wash, and organize my room. But because I was able to think, for that short hour, about things. Unfortunately I have not been able to clean since then. Besides for the table I clear and wash at work, I have not cleaned anything else in my house, thank you family for doing it.

I now find myself WANTING to be able to clean and have the time to do so. Strangely enough, this have never happened to be before.

With this feeling came an insight. Maybe the reason we are told to clean before pessach is inorder for us to take the time to STOP our daily busy ruitens and think. A lot of physical energy goes into cleaning but your brain isn't under any strain. During this time we are given the oppertunity to think about our life and how we might want to change some things that happening. Maybe we want to be come more productive or less agressive, or maybe we want to appreciate people more? There are a lot of things we all need to work on, but we can only work on one thing at a time. Are we making progress in our growth as human being?

I could really go on about this forever, talking to myself as i type. I hope you get the message and start to appreciate this time that HaShem has given us to STOP AND THINK>

I wish you all a chag kasher v'samayach. Be well!

Good luck cleaning ;-)

Having fun spending money

So i have a phone that takes pictures, and i just realized how i can upload them, then i found out that it costs 50 cents a picture, how crazzy. But the deed is done so i thought i'd show you what i look like now, after 8 months of not seeing me. Here i was erev shabbat having fun!
Honestly though, i like this one the best, i even made it my facebook!
Trust in HaShem, only. Yup yup, cause even when you have a ton of hw to do and cleaning He'll help you get it all done before pessach!

Be well everyone, hope you enjoyed!

Almost Done

WoW, i just gave me inclass presentation today. It wasn't perfect but i think it went pretty weel! Now that i have that done i feel just a LITTLE better. Since i'm on the 'road to success', i hope, i decided to include this comic:
So that's it for now. I'm on my way to accomplish as much as i can in the next 3 hours. Wish me luck! I'm so excited to pessach cuase then i'll me reports and essays will be handed in!

Good luck everyone!
(I should probably start citing these pictures...)

NEED SLEEP

I am very tired. So I decided to post these pictures of animals who are also, seemingly, very tire. I hope you enjoy and go and get some sleep. Be well!





This is my favorite, probably cause I like cats a lot.

HEHEHEHE

Me on purim!

I AM NOT MARRIED! THIS IS A PICTURE OF ME ON PURIM. I DRESSED UP LIKE A MARRIED LADY.

I am with my co-worker Veronica.

optical illusion 2

Optical Illusions

I decided to internalize something that i've been learning in psyc. Below i've explains some of the reasons you preciev them the way you do. The main point of my expination is to remind us that we NEVER know the full story of any situation, even ones that envolve us. Just like we've learned recignition cues to understand what certain objects are we've created 'made up' situations where if we SEE someone doing something we automatically know that it's becuase of A.) B.) and C.) But we really have no IDEA why they're doing what they're doing.
So, since pessach is coming up in about three weeks i thought i'd remind us that we never know the full details of a situation and that we should pay more attention to OURSELVES and less to others. It's a zeman teffila and teshuvah! Remove the chametz that's clogging your pores.

In psyc we were learning about preception and the certain 'clues' we learn in order to distinguish what objects are. For example, since we live in a very linear world we've learned that when two lines are running parellel to eachother they appear to be going close together as they get farther away

Another thing we learn is called 'figure gournd.' When looking at something when we either expect something or need to used bottom up identification, we decide that one thing is 'forward' while the other is 'background.' This way we're able to see more then one thing, though only one at a time. If you look at the first picture you can either decide the the black is background, in which you see a face, or that the white is background, where you see a man smoking. But you can't see them both at the same time.

Back 2 Reality: Happy Birthday to Me!

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Happy Birthday to Me!

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Since there's no WAY i'm gonna be able to call everyone and give them a bracha i decided to put one on my blog. It is my hebrew B Day today and i'm offically ending my 20th year of life ( ie: I't my 20th birthday.)
I want to wish everyone a few things.

1. Clarity to know what HaShem wants from you in every situation
2. Complete understanding that He's listening to your teffillout and answering you.
3. Siata D'shmia to know what you need and see that you're being given
4. Patience towards all those you have trouble being patient with
5. Understanding that everyone is 'just like you' in the sence that you never really know what they're going through and why they act in certain ways. This should help you to judge them favorably.
6. Lastely, knowledge that i really wanted to call you but my B day is an erev shabbat and i have a LOT do clean and bake before it arrives. I miss you and hope you have a GREAT shabbat!
   

Please have patience

Hello everyone.

I am entering the last month of school for this semester. Therefore, I will be very busy for the next month since I have a lot of projects, reports, and essays due. Please forgive me but I won't be able to post so regularly.

I'll try to post once a week and see how that goes. Even more so, pessach is coming and I need to shop and clean.

Thank you for your patience. Please stay and comment though,I love comments. Thanks for you support and I empathise with everyone who is in school and knows what I'm talking about.

Be well.

Purim is just around the weekend!

I hope everyone is excited for Purim and is able to use the potential of the day properly when it comes. I won't be able to call all of you on purim, but please know that i would love to. These are some dolls dressed up in costumes just to get you in the 'mood.'

This is a frog,

i tried very hard to make sure they were all as tzanuah as possible!This is a sweet little bee!
here is a cat.
And this girl doesn't feeel like matching so she dressed up in all the colours she could find.
have a great shabbat and pruim!

P.S i don't want anyone to think that i incorrage girls our age to dress up on purim to the extent shown in these pictures. Please don't take it that way ;-)

Remember

Remember last year when we would all go to nishmat on Thursday night. It's a ziman teffilah that we would all look forward to . And then on the shelosh regalim we trekked all the way to the kotel for bircat cohanim! The energy in the air could make anyone cry. To see so many yidim congregating during the chagim to say teffila to HK'BH!
Well today is taanit Ester. A ziman for teffila and teshuva. B"H we're fasting and trying to wake ourselves up and remind ourselves Who is the focus in our lives. We're very fortunate to be where we are and accomplishing what we are. HK'BH has given us a lot and yet we NEED to do teshuva. How was yearn and cry for mashiach, geula, and yeshua. We can be zoche all of these things if was readjust our focus or straiten out once again.

It's hard to know if we're on the right path or making the right decisions. It's important that we're in contact with daas Torah when making important decisions in our lives. Let's try to reconnect to some of those people, mentors, that we thought we'd never let go of.

It's never too late to give a call to a forgotten almuna. It's never too late to call up an old teacher or mentor and just ask for chizuck.

We're doing great and I'm very proud of what what we've accomplished and achieved since we've left Israel. We can continue to bring kedusha into chutz la'aretz by being the best Jew we can in the situation we're given.

Kol hakavod to everyone! Tizku la mitzvout! I hope that EVERYONE has meaningful fast and that, by the end of adar, we are zochei to see mashiach with the coming for nissan.

Kol tov.