Cindy, you clearly need to drop everything and move to New York. Your daughter's best interest demands it.

Well, clearly, it's her old stomping grounds, but I am so very Boston. I would love to take some nice vacations to NYC, and really get to know the city, but I'm far more likely to move to Maine, or somewhere in the Canadian maritimes than New York.

Maidengurl, I'm glad to hear that your mom is doing well. I picture her with the boa around her neck, rather than around the lamp, and the nurses jealous of her flair.

Happy Birthday, Cashmere!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASH AND MATT!!

So. Guess whose rehearsal dinner outfits are at the drycleaners? And guess whose drycleaners are CLOSED for Yom Kippur?

Fuck fuck fuck.

We're down an editor and print designer for Yom Kippur.

Sadly (and this is how goy I am), I had no idea why they were taking today off until one of them said they would "fast and pray that this is the last round of editing on this document."

Did I mention how big it is now? 450 pages. If it weren't for PDF, I don't know how I'd be doing this.

And the dictionary say "goy" is offensive. Is it "cracker" offensive, or N-word offensive?

I'm sorry, I grew up in a part of the country where Jews were a curiosity and had a population size roughly equivalent to the local Armenian and Lebanese communities. Which were larger than you'd expect for a city in the Mid-South.

So Aimee's post had me thinking, "People, this is what a Shabbat goy is for," but, not really intending to post that, I went off and googled it instead. Which is when I ran across this justification for warming oneself (on a Sabbath) at a fire kindled by a Gentile:

The reason seems to me this as we say, elsewhere [Talmud, Sabbath] that we reckon circumcision as an illness and can therefore do things otherwise forbidden on a Sabbath for a circumcised child] so every one is considered ill from the effects of cold: though they may not be really ill, yet they suffer from it

and it struck me, this is totally math. I mean, yeah, law in general is pretty mathy, but this! Finding an isomorphism between being cold and circumcision! Masterful.

[Momentary spouse rant]

Joe is, on most counts a FAB husband and terrific father. But I STG. If once we ever went out of town with him remembering to do the few things that are designated "his", I'd keel over and die from shock.

Haircut and drycleaning. That was it for this. Haircut and drycleaning.

t shakes in mild frustration

Is it completely goofy to just go buy the exact same skirt and return it when we get back???

Happy Birthday, Cashmere!

I can do a spouse rant too.

After folding up and putting away six baskets of laundry, I get "Oh, I see you put away the laundry for once." Okay, I do put away laundry, maybe not as much as she does, but I do. Also, when she does something I normally do I never say "Oh, I see you went to the grocery store for once, or you gave the kids a bath for once, or you took out the garbage for once."

Then there was the mowing incident where she is say I "stuck her with the kids" for a few hours on a Saturday afternoon. I was mowing our overgrown lawn and fixing the lawnmower after a blade got bent. I was not just living it up. Treating chores like hobbies is something that really gets to me.