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March 2007
Don't assume.
Saturday, 31 March 2007 10:49 P GMT-06
When I'm standing in front of the sugars and flours and extracts, I should never assume that I have something specific in my cabinets. Tonight I reached for the brown sugar at the store and thought, "No Leah, you made chocolate chip co
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Profile hiding.
Saturday, 31 March 2007 7:50 P GMT-06
We didn't go to the zoo today. Good thing too, because during our late lunch/early dinner it poured and I was grateful that he'd stood ground with going the art gallery route. After a nice late lunch/early dinner, we had a nice st
Supermarket 2.0
Friday, 30 March 2007 11:20 A GMT-06
Hat tip to Esther K. You gotta be a Geek 2.0 to really appreciate this, but I think if you know about tagging, RSS, Myspace, and Amazon, you'll enjoy it. Added bonus? It was filmed in Israel.
Awesomeness
Thursday, 29 March 2007 2:53 P GMT-06
Just wanted to show you all a bit of mid-day awesomeness. I got a sneak preview yesterday and think it is fantastic. The Chicago Marquee Generator. Like the Church Sign Generator, only perhaps more awesome. In my humble opinio
Zorro's Bar Mitzva
Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:12 P GMT-06
Such a small town, Chicago is. I, of course, got to the theater early, so I went to Border's for a while. I had plans (ahem, a date) at the Gene Siskel Film Center to see Zorro's Bar Mitzvah. As I stepped out of Border's I ran
Why I love Blog-City.
Wednesday, 28 March 2007 1:54 P GMT-06
While a lot of people started blogging on Blogger and then move to Movable Type or another platform, I have been with Blog-City for over three years. Why do I stay? Because they have never taken more than 24 hours to resolve a problem and
Drat.
Tuesday, 27 March 2007 5:06 P GMT-06
Apparently the spring time weather that we woke up to in Chicago this morning has been replaced by winter weather. Drat. I'm wearing capri pants and no jacket. I am meeting lawyer friends at a pub tonight and thought, "I
Now that is f*cked up.
Monday, 26 March 2007 8:37 P GMT-06
A blogger, Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users , recieved death threats on her blog . Beyond the normal troll and cyber-bully behavior that all internet users are sadly accustomed to, this woman was threatened. She has canceled publ
Number One Sugar Daddy in all Chicagoland.
Monday, 26 March 2007 4:12 P GMT-06
Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha. Snort. Hee hee. Someone was searching for a sugar daddy in Chicago and they got me. Sorry ladies, I'm not a sugar daddy and I don't know where to find one.
Two Artists
Sunday, 25 March 2007 4:59 P GMT-06
I would be remiss if I didn't give a couple shout-outs to the artists from last night. The primary exhibit at Packer Schopf Gallery was Toni Hafkenscheid's Not To Scale. I got up close, I stood across the room, I read the artist&
Winning at the JCUA Fundraiser.
Sunday, 25 March 2007 10:47 A GMT-06
I missed the JCUA Chocolate for a Change event last year and heard it was fantastic. So when a good friend was able to get me in on a discounted ticket, I put on my party dress (Yes, the one from my party.) and headed to the West Loop.We got t
Blogger self-love
Saturday, 24 March 2007 3:36 P GMT-06
No, get your head out of the gutter. I'm not talking about self-love, I'm talking about mutual blogger admiration and "Gosh, aren't we awesome. Us, bloggers, us." Thanks to Esther from Jewlicious (among
30 cool things I did before 30.
Friday, 23 March 2007 1:02 P GMT-06
Became a Jew.Learned to Salsa in Iowa.Learned to Tango in Argentina.Got a tattoo in San Francisco and another in Durango.Got my tongue pierced in Iowa, took it out in Durango.Got my belly button pierced in Durango, took it out in Chicago.Turned 26 in
Chicagoist and Gapersblock
Friday, 23 March 2007 8:08 A GMT-06
Wow, what a week for my blog. First my old tale of going to a CTA meeting was linked to by Chicagoist (which had been linked to by Gapersblock when it first happened) and now I broke the news that Gourmand closed and Gapersblock picked that up.
Well, this is it. My 20s end in mere hours.
Thursday, 22 March 2007 8:39 P GMT-06
It is all coming to an end. My 20s that is. Tomorrow it my 30th birthday. I've got nothing pithy to say about it other than it is a lot younger than I thought it would be. Right?I had a nice end of 20s dinner with the sist
If you are grumpy and you know it, go outside.
Thursday, 22 March 2007 1:04 P GMT-06
I don't know what happened, but I woke up on the wrong side of my bed this morning. Not really. It's only a full bed and I sleep alone, so both sides belong to me. But my mood, people, my mood was rotten. I haven't
Yeah, over there. In the sidebar.
Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:55 P GMT-06
What's that? Oh, just a little (huge) audio file with my torah chanting and my d'var (sermon.) I can't listen to it, to me my voice sounds so strange. But maybe you weren't at my bat mitzvah and you wonder how many t
Psalms Chapter 30
Wednesday, 21 March 2007 1:03 P GMT-06
I was just reading on Velveteen Rabbi that there is a tradition that you should read the Psalm of the year you are turning. So... as I gear up for my 30th birthday, here is Psalms 30.א מִזְמוֹר: שִׁיר-חֲנֻכַּת הַבַּיִת לְדָוִד.
It's gone, but I'm here.
Tuesday, 20 March 2007 8:47 P GMT-06
It felt a bit like April Fool's Day. The cafe where I was supposed to have a date was not there. Gone. The windows were covered in brown paper and the cafe was simply gone. Erm. This could be bad. Very bad.&nbs
My Bat Mitzvah (in 500 words... or 5000)
Monday, 19 March 2007 8:33 P GMT-06
Thursday night, like I said, I met with Rabbi Zedek to review my torah portion one last time. There was one phrase that was giving me trouble. It was "avodat hakodesh" whichi I was pronouncing "avodat hakadosh."
The d'var I didn't give.
Monday, 19 March 2007 9:56 A GMT-06
Here is the sermon that I wrote and didn't give. Well, I gave parts of it, but not all of it. There were more jokes and more grammar mistakes.One of the challenges that our tradition presents to us is d’var acher. As Rabbi
tidbits.
Monday, 19 March 2007 9:32 A GMT-06
Okay, okay. Here are some tidbits from other bloggers who attended the services or the party.Dondi the hostess.My mom.DadTalk.Phil has a couple photos in his flickr account. Diane was also too pooped to write.I also have some photos, but d
I'm alive.
Sunday, 18 March 2007 7:45 P GMT-06
Yes. I survived my bat mitzvah. In fact, I can fairly say that I had an amazing time. I done good and have the audio to prove it. I also have the complete and total exhaustion to prove it. I'll blog it tomorrow night
Because I promised Leticia
Friday, 16 March 2007 9:23 A GMT-06
I promised a friend and colleague that I would re-link to a post I wrote for my conversion ceremony. It's a pretty good what to expect at a synagogue for non-Jews . I really appreciate how open my non-Jewish friends and fa
I owe you a post, don't I?
Thursday, 15 March 2007 8:45 P GMT-06
I'm finally nearing that zen place pre-bat mitzvah. Three times over the last two days I have burst into tears. Over very little in particular. An email request that was redundant. Not feeling good about my d'var.
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