Shabbat

Noah Meal

adlight did all the baking and conceptualizing of the ark, though we helped her decorate. currentlee did all the baking of the challot. I washed dishes, handed people things (which sometimes required me standing on the counter, which I actually enjoy) and ate frosting. I was on a sugar high by the time we were done. (After all, there was a bowl of yellow frosting and a bowl of green frosting and they needed to be licked. You can't waste good frosting...)

So dinner was fun. We sang shir hama'alot to "Rise and Shine" (I thought of it, suggested it jokingly, and didn't expect us to actually do it...)

And then I went to sleep. Prawn Salad (see pictures 2 and 3) was in my room, so I had the door open so she could leave. But she ended up sleeping on my bed.

I woke up at 8 this morning to get to SCM, since I was leading Hallel. I ended up arriving at the end of psukei d'zimrah. But even when I showed up we lacked a minyan. Luckily, Hallel does not require one. And I did a good job. Yay Hallel!

Then there was a kiddush. Afterwards, MZ and I headed to Tremont Street for their kiddush, which was this huge thing in memory of their late Rabbi, who was this amazing man who was really welcoming. Originally he did all of the high holiday stuff (like all the davening and leining and organizing) so the shul gave him a surprise kiddush to honor him. And then it became an annual thing. And since it's parsha Noach we sang "Rise and Shine" [again for me]. And there were 2 verses that were extra (at least in that I never learned them growing up.) One was about the dove going out to find the olive branch and another was the animals leaving in threes (as in they had an offspring. But many animals give birth to more than one baby at a time. So it wasn't so accurate...)

In the afternoon a bunch of us hung out at gedalia's house. elfsdh and I got into a discussion about egalitarianism and the ridiculous situations that could come up. Of course, he had answers for most of my ridiculous questions, so I couldn't out-egal him.

And then after a game of scrabble and lots of schmoozing and some eating of challah, we all went home. There were only a couple of hours of Shabbat left at that point. So I read. And then Shabbat ended. And then we did havdallah. And now I'm upstairs typing this and eating a turtle-cupcake. It is joining 2 other turtles, so it won't be lonely.

I was once a treehouse, I lived in a cake...

( llama llama yarn! )

Sorry. Had to do that. Couldn't resist making a post with that title.