Boom, Baby!

Hellooooooo there.

I've been inside all day. We only left the apartment to go to Fresh n Easy. I really love the beginning of football season. By the middle, though, yuk. And then the playoffs come around and I'm excited again. But right now I'm really enjoying holing up on the couch for a solid 3 games.

Especially when its been such a busy few weeks!

Luckily my job hasn't been keeping me late... actually, my boss is kicking me out right on time. He doesn't want to pay me overtime. But I LIKE overtime... but getting home at a good time is nice too :)

This Saturday was Rosh Hashanah, which is the Jewish New Year. We celebrated by going to services at the local Chabad (Jewish Community Center) and coming home for a nice meal. Services, though... they were interesting!

I've only gone to services with D a few times, including last Rosh Hashanah. Last year we went with his cousins to their synagogue, and it was a pretty laid back time. This year was, umm, a little more serious. We walked in to the hotel that was hosting and struck up a convo with the Rabbi who told us a little more about his way of doing things. He told us it was a nice mix of old and new traditions - a shorter service, in Hebrew, with a traditional seating arrangement.

Which means on opposite sides of the room.

.......AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH..........

So to summarize what was to be going on: Non Jew in Rosh Hashanah services. Non Hebrew speaking person in a 90% Hebrew situation. No idea whats going on, what to do, or when to turn the page. And on the opposite side of the room from the only person she knows.

At that point in time I started having a mini breakdown. What was I going to do? But we picked up our prayer books, walked in, sat down and when the service began it wasn't so bad. We were quite close to each other and I'm pretty sure there was no pointing and laughing at me, so I must not have stood out too much. Whew.

The service was actually really cool. All of the Hebrew was more sung than spoken, and for such a punctuated language it was beautiful. It was really neat to sit in that room and think that this was the same way Jews have been celebrating this holiday for thousands of years - the same words, the same prayers, the same songs. I love learning about D's culture and religion, its so different than what I grew up on and such an important part of who he is. Its a neat experience for me to get to tag along and experience that too :)

Here's to another week - make it a good one!