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[25 Dec 2009|01:36am] |
I feel like this post could potentially combust upon itself, and while a post like this seems more typical of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) onionsoupmix I'm curious to hear other's feedback.
Mike and I, in the past few years have participated in the Oorah auction and donated to Oorah. We also give to my Rabbi and their Chabad house from college.
This coming year, we are in a different financial position, but this post isn't about our financial postion. But it is making me more cautious as to where our money goes.
I recently read an article, I forget where, basically saying that 'Kars 4 Kids' is being investigated along with Rabbi's around the country as possibly being involved/linked to a POnzi, money laundering scheme.
Essentially the 'awareness' of the possible ponzi scheme, stems from the big bust conducted over the summer, attached to Dwek's actions.
As far as I know 'Kars 4 kids' and Oorah are affiliated, I intend on having Mike ask the Rabbi if i can ever get to my question. I know Oorah does good things, and we see that the money is being put towards good and programs.
My questions:
-COuld you in good conscience donate to an organization possibly linked to 'illegal activity?'
-If we donate to Oorah could we possibly find our lists on a ponzi scheme/money laundering list. Albeit our donation would be under $300. Or am I just being a conspiracy theorist
On the other hand, I wouldn't not wnat to donate for fear that others may avoid their support eiher based upon what their Rabbi says or just because they question the work and integrity.
Obviously we will still ask the Rabbi, I'm just curious to see your insght
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| Baby gifts |
[25 Dec 2009|01:20am] |
So the couple who hosted tonites Sheva Brochos got us a baby gift:
SHe said to me, 'I really channeled you guys in this gift'
I can't find all the items on bru.
BUt they got us this hoodie that I wish came in my size lol
a short sleeve red onesie with I think black stars and white peace signs...it's cute
and a pair of neutral grey sweat pants.
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[25 Dec 2009|01:14am] |
I want to say thank you for everyone's support and insight regarding co-sleeping. It makes me realize its not a parenting fail to co-sleep.
I"m also now looking at the co-sleeper positioner pillows, I looked in Target Wednesday nite but really wasn't happy with the selection, so I'll hit babies r'us in the next few days.
Sheva Brochos was nice. It was nice to show off the baby. ANd there was yummy food from a dairy place. It was really amusing, we were short one guy for a minyan. SO the chassan texted his best friend to stop over. His best friend Adiv, who I met a few years back is a NYPD officer. So we wound up have two NYPD officers come by Sheva Brochos, only in NY. It was funny the policewoman was also Jewish, I guess that's the only people willing to work xmas eve.
It's funny my husband and I haven't seen Adiv since before he became a cop a few years back. MY husband is very good friends with Adiv's older brother who was his classmate. That brother made aliyah and served in the IDF, G-d bless him , I couldn't do that.
How nice is that in the middle of a patrol they stopped by to make a minyan and to see a friend? ANd further more how many people can say they had NYPD show up at a Sheva Brochos?
I do have to say one of the other woman, who I've known a good 5+ years, when the police officers came in, said 'oh good the strippers are here' you had to be there and know the cast of characters.
but omg it was a good place to be tonite
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[24 Dec 2009|08:00pm] |
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| Oh Ry'leh, oh Ry'leh, your madness comes right to me! |
[25 Dec 2009|09:17am] |
Merry Christmas, wordjunkies! And happy whatever else you celebrate if you celebrate something else. Happy Giftmas for those that celebrate the gifts and booze, and happy Festivus for those with 1990 goggles on who still think Seinfeld was funny. :D
For those of us not fighting this silly War on Christmas, I hope you all have a fantastic day with family and friends, or at least a nice day by yourself avoiding the whole thing.
I have no word for you today, but something a little extra special - a Christmas poem, written by yours truely!
T'was the night before Christmas
and all around Earth
no creature was stirring
for what it was worth.
With sugar-hyped children
asleep in their beds
and visions of Santy Claus
Bouncing 'round little heads
From under the world
there came a great howl
as ancient old evil
arose for a prowl
The dread lord of madness
Cthulhu, his name
prowled 'round the Earth
To chew spicy brain
To rend and to tear
And devour souls, all
the dread lord Cthulhu
was having a ball.
Quick as a lick
He nommed, and was gone!
Back into deep space
Where evil did spawn.
So beware you, this Christmas
Of dreaming to bargain, for
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu
R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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| Kennedy is Gone But Not Forgotten |
[24 Dec 2009|04:09pm] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PoliticalWire/~3/RvAh0aDtdMc/kennedy_is_gone_but_not_forgotten.html http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/12/24/kennedy_is_gone_but_not_forgotten.html Though he died in August, Sen. Ted Kennedy remained the Democrats' spiritual floor leader for today's Senate health care reform vote, Dana Millbank observes.
"More than anything, it was his memory, and his final exhortation, that allowed the Senate Democrats to overcome considerable differences between moderates and liberals in drafting a compromise. President Obama, in his address to Congress in September, read from a letter Kennedy had written as he neared death, saying he was 'confident in these closing days that while I will not be there when it happens, you will be the president who at long last signs into law the health-care reform that is the great unfinished business of our society.'"
"One after the other, Senate colleagues invoked his name in a manner more often associated with his slain brothers."
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| Note to self..... |
[24 Dec 2009|10:16am] |
watching In Excelsis Deo without a box of tissues, a mere two weeks after losing my dad who was a Navy veteran, not the best idea.
But a good cry later and I'm ready to finish getting stuff done for Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas everyone!!!
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| An Ugly Victory |
[24 Dec 2009|08:16am] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PoliticalWire/~3/VaGdj3_11qU/an_ugly_victory.html http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/12/24/an_ugly_victory.html Ezra Klein: "Passing legislation, it turns out, is a long and ugly process. God, is it ugly. The compromises, both with powerful special interests and decisive senators. The trimming of ambitions and the budget gimmicks and the worship of Congressional Budget Office scores. By the end, you're passing a compromise of a deal of a negotiation of a concession... It's not pretty, and it doesn't necessarily feel like winning is supposed to feel..."
"It's been a long time since the legislative system did anything this big, and people have forgotten how awful the victories are. But these are the victories, and if they feel bad to many, they will do good for more. As that comes clearer and clearer, this bill will come to feel more and more like the historic advance it actually is."
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[23 Dec 2009|08:00pm] |
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| Christmas Adam! |
[23 Dec 2009|07:28pm] |
My cousin's little girl wrote the Christmas card. I love little kid scribble. And I love this year's photo too. I love this yearly photos--I'm almost tempted to do that for me and Paul in the coming years (now if I only had the extra hands to get into that bodice again...).
Apparently, my great aunt had a friend who has a niece (congratulations, you made it this far into a game of 6 Degrees of Separation, read on) who lives in the Clifton Park area. And she thinks it'd be great if we got into contact. o_O I have a hard enough time getting in touch with people I already know. Connecting with random strangers that are only tenuously connected...yeah. Okay.
Is it Christmas Eve tomorrow already? Seriously, where did this year go? I'll hopefully put forth an end of the year/decade spew-post by next Thursday. We'll see. I haven't had the urge to post lately. I'm kinda in a lurch. It's cold, I have a cold, and I'm tired all the time. I personally blame the early dark and the aforementioned cold weather.
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| Questioning my judgement/feeling stupid/ poor judgement |
[23 Dec 2009|06:29pm] |
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I know this is going to sound like a new mommy, slightly burnt, slightly overtired post, but that's ok.
If you have any suggestions/insight I welcome that.
Since we brought Nikki home, she has hated sleeping in her co-sleeper. HATED IT. and it's in our bedroom next to my bed, to the point where I would reach in and put my hand on her to soothe her, but that does nothing. I can't sleep with her screaming.
A few days in to our being home, we apparently fell asleep during a night feeding. ie with her in bed with me, on my chest, or my holding her on the side of me. And she was out.
I never thought I'd be a proponent of co-sleeping. Mike and I both felt quite strongly prior to her being born that co-sleeping was not safe, he was quite fearful of being in a deep sleep and rolling over on to her.
Since then Nikki has been in bed with me every nite. I am almost always very aware of where she is, occasionally Mike has woken up and found her in a funny position, one time she wiggled off of my chest and was laying next to me with her feet by my shoulder, and her head by my tush. SHe was not happy when I changed her position. Since then I have been conciously not falling as deep into a sleep, or at least if I'm that tired I give her to Mike or I am actually holding her whether on my chest or to the side.
She could be out cold in my arms for hours, while I'm in the computer and the moment I put her down she screams bloody murder. Once I placed her on stomach, while standing there and she didn't wake up. I realize tha'ts not a viable solution either.
I love holding her and I don't mind her being in bed with me, but simultaneously I would like her to get used to sleeping by herself, even if it's in our room.
Occasionally I can put her down in the co-sleeper on her side and she'll briefly remain sleeping. The longest stretch she's gone by herself in the co-sleeper was about 25 min.
I had justified to myself that I was doing 'the right thing for my child' until over SHabbos I read an article in Parents magazine that put me in a complete panic. I realize the article was written as a 'scare tactic' but I don't want to cause harm to Nikki. And I like the publication and I normally find the articles non-inflammatory. But I can't help but feel foolish on one hand, cvs I'm not waiting for harm to come to Nikki.
When she's in bed with me she'll sleep for like 3 hour stretches, and can sleep nurse if necessary. Please I can't emotionally handle negative judgement, as I'm already a bit vulnerable as a new Mom. And am even hesitant to ask the pediatrician as I know the current method isn't considered 'safe'
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[23 Dec 2009|06:14pm] |
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We're going out tomorow nite!!! hehe with the baby, but we have plans with other adults.
A classmate of ours from college got married on sunday, so we're going to Sheva Brochos, at another friend's home/apartment.
The couple who just got married, I don't know the kallah, but I have known the chassan since he's first Shabbos on campus, I know I'm a dork. That year I lived with the 'religious girls' and they aparently launched themselves on frum guys like seagulls on food. Yes it was that bad.
At one point early on we actually moved him out of his dorm, because he had a bad situation with an Anti-Semitic roommate. I think he learned to iron a shirt from one of my suitemates, sure as hell wasn't me.
We have friends in common, but he's also been a little nasty and curt, so he's not a warm mushy guy you can think warm thoughts about. lol I get along well with him. He actually went to the same yeshiva as my husband, but he was a freshman when my husband was a senior. So he recalls Mike's antics but didn't know him well.
After college Mike got friendlier with him, ie by get togethers at another friends' house, and they went rafting together last summer.
We weren't invited to the wedding, shrug, I wouldn't have schlepped out to LI in the snow anyone with an infant. Apparently Mike did at some point ask why he/we weren't invited the answer was 'well you didn't invite me to your wedding' our wedding was 4.5 years ago, who cares lol.
And then Mike was like why didn't we invite him to our Sheva Brochos, uhh because we only had Sheva Brochos in ALbany, and those became like marathon Sheva Brochos, lol. We didn't have family/friends interested/willing/offering near by. And intially my mom was going to host one on her birthday, but we ended up just going out to eat with my mom and my grandparents. In hindisght it would have been nice, but you can't change it now.
So the Sheva Brochos are being hosted by the couple who Mike goes to games with, and they're expecting in April. So I'm excited, because I get to get dressed and leave the house, but also because we know the friends who are hosting, and I'll get to see/show off the baby to friends of ours from college. We almost never see our friends from college, they all live in Queens in apartments, and I get a tad jealous that they are all so emeshed in eachothers lives due to proximity.
As of now our game plan is to meet up at Mike's office in Sheepshead Bay, and go in one car to Queens, and then I'll drive back from his office after. I don't want to get lost in Queen's, and cvs I don't want to drive all over with the baby.
Now I have to track down tights/ panty hose. I already know what I'm wearing and what Nikki's wearing. We're going to wear the outfits we wore to the family Hannukah party, and I got the matching hat to truly torture her. hehe I couldn't resist it was $2.50. And I figure I'll wear my new sheitel, and get really dressed/dolled up.
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