It hurts to walk. Last night, I didn’t make it walking back all the way home. I made it up to 90th and Broadway before I had to give in and try to snag a cab. The cab took me to 123rd Street and charged me $10. Then another cab charged me $10 more dollars to get me across town. I paid $20 to get a stomachache and a great deal of motion sickness. I still think the MTA union workers did the right thing but I wish schools had been cancelled. We only had about 20-25 students on any given day. Most of the kids actually made a showing today after their three day vacation.

The new boots are much more comfortable to walk in than my snow boots. The real way to test shoewear is to walk more than 60 blocks in them! Meanwhile, I did end up returning some of the earrings. I wanted to check out a movie yesterday, jonesing to see The Family Stone, Cheaper By the Dozen 2 (I have a weakness for family films), Fun with Dick and Jane, Rumor Has It, Brokeback Mountain, Yours Mine and Ours and maybe even King Kong again! Luckily I have off from the December 24th to January 2nd. Hooray, I love being a teacher, hooray!!!! If anyone’s interesting in joining me to see any of these movies, let me know via blog or email. I have discount tickets for Monday through Thursday.

Staying at Devora’s this Shabbos and forcing myself to go to shul despite my inability to walk in a straight line and being utterly exhausted. I know I should be finishing To Be a Jewish Woman and reading up on Chanukah but I foresee that I will be sleeping more often than not in-between meals. Hopefully, I’ll be sleeping much better than I did last night. I went to bed around 10pm because even though I was exhausted,I couldn’t sleep and then I had the worst dreams about my littlest sister (now 10) dying. As you can imagine, I didn’t wake up in the jolliest mood. In my mom’s spanish voodoo religion, dreams always mean something, I will surmise that both my body and mind are exhausted.

My little sisters have agreed to join me at the shul’s Chanukah event next week so that should be interesting! This will be the first time that my Wiccan sisters set foot in a shul. Meanwhile, my aunt who used to have plenty of anti-Semitic things to say emailed me a Chanukah card. Wow.