Meeting Fisch Cousins

Scott and I spent SHavuos in Allentown, PA which is about 1 hour away from Philly. We stayed at his cousins. The community was nice, nothing too interesting to share about it... But it was exciting meeting the Notis family, whom are Fisch relatives. Scott has known this family for years and years, so it was really cool to meet them as relatives. They are a main family in Allentown. The entire community refers to the grandparents as Grandma Cookie and Papa Mike which are Abba, Uncle NAts, Dodas, and Uncle Yossi's 2nd cousins. Then my 3rd cousins, are the kids who have kids my age.
Grandma Cookie asked about Uncle Yossi who visited there several years ago. She is probably in her 70's and is very with-it. I enjoyed talking to her about her billions of cookbooks lining her living room. They also had a blown up, framed picture of the Fisch Family Picture that's on the reunion book.
  They are not going to the reunion this summer, they said none of their close Zweibel relatives are going, but they did go to the 100th reunion.
Hope everyone else is doing great!

Too Much Cheesecake

Actually, I could never have enough cheesecake.  But I did eat my share this Shavuos.  Diet starts after I finish the leftovers. LOL.

Happy Birthday Naomi!

Naomi, happy birthday! How's it going? You should post on the blog more often. We never hear from you. We are looking forward to seeing you in Chicago soon!

Happy birthday

Happy Birthday to Naomi and to Yossie.

Happy Shavuos everyone. Enjoy your cheesecakes

cool and connected

air conditioner for my living room was installed this evening. I thought it had a timer  it does but only to go off not on. But it quickly cools the room so in the hot summer it will work.
Time Warner just finished my triple play so my phone is now internet based.

triple play???

I ordered Time Wrner Triple Play so I could save money.  I will in the long run. The tech came tonight to add the phone nd wirless internet but thre was a mix up and they were going to give me a new phone number. So a tech will come out next week again to have the # transferred.  Meanwhile there was a special which they said I wasn't eligible for but I  managed to get that special tonight due to their error. I now have HBO and other movie channels free for 3 months and will get a visa gift card too.  The computer is still running slow but I am due for a new one so  will get a laptop. Any suggetions? Ialso asked for a new remote.

My Birthday

My birthday was pretty much uneventful. I went with Carol, my downstairs neighbor to Garden World to pick up vegetable and herb plants. We grow them in pots on her deck. We bought 2 types of tomatoes, eggplant, kirbys, pepper and herbs. We planted them in organic soil. Now we water them and wait for the plants to yield veggies.    In the evening I went with girl friend (who has the same birthday) to Red Mango, a yogurt shop, The owner treated us.
Thank you to all who called me.
Yesterday I went out with Marilyn to Dairy Cafe for dinner. I used my groupon coupon.
Today I will go to Haagen Daaz for free ice cream  They are giving free ice cream cones between 4and 8 PM
I also won 3rd place on HAS Afikomen contest  $25 Amazon coupon
I still have to go to Cold Stone for a buy 1 get one free birthday   and Dunkin donuts and baskin Robbins for my freebies too.  Fattening month!!!!

Happy Birthday Doda

Happy Birthday Fran (& Willie Mays). Hope you have a great birthday.

I'm Alive!!!!!

Hey Beautiful Family,

Hope everyone is doing well!!! I've realized the time has now come for me to post another blog. I need to apologize for being so bad at keeping in touch with everyone and I apologize for my future failures of keeping in touch as well. So first of all, I have once again reached that point of life where I'm feeling pretty confused about  what's gonna be in the near future and I'm constantly having thoughts rolling around in my head of what I should do. This past Monday I started a Safrut Stam course in the yeshiva, it's something I've been telling myself that I've wanted to do for about the past year so I finally got off my feet and put together a little group in the Yeshiva and finally got the course started. So far it's been a bit boring and it's not a cheap course but If not now, when. So as of now I do plan on continuing this course until around Tisha B'av and hopefully by then I will be an expert scribe who has written one Megilla. It was a bit difficult for me to decide to start this course because it basically means that I won't be able to get a Summer job. Well I could, but it would have to be doing things like cleaning and stuff. Also, I hoping to start an SAT course in June. I've been trying to study for SATs on my own over the past few months but I havn't been well disciplined and I find it difficult to understand the material so I decided I should look into a course. (I'm hoping to get a 1400 on my SATs so I can be accepted to Tel Aviv University to start studying Physical Therapy. I actually spend this shabbos by a family where the mother is a Physical Therapist and she was telling me a bit about it and how she really loves it.) This is a very expensive course, but once I get out of the army I can use what is called my Pikadon, basically some sort of account that I will receive from them that can be used for studies, to pay for this course. Right now, I have to pay for the course on my own but retroactively I will get my money back, b/c I am still officially a soldier until January 2014. Speaking of which that brings me to my next problem. I have pretty much decided that I don't want to stay in Gush next year so I'm looking for something to do. I have been highly considering going back to serve as an active duty soldier to my old unit, and then I will be done in 8 months. And truth is, it's much less than 8 months, since I can request one month of Ulpan, one month of traveling abroad to visit family, and the last month is spent at home learning how to adapt back into society. The question is, do I really want to go back into the army???? HAPPY BIRTHDAY DODA!!!!

hope everyone enjoyed hearing one piece of the puzzle from my life,
all the best,
with tons of love,
Love,
Meir