The Pax Is Up (long live the Pax)
I got the units both finished, with drawers and clothes racks, at aroundd 3:30. I put as much clothing as I could in Gerry's, and started on mine, but just became so tired around 5:00 that I had to stop. Downstairs for a little TV (Cider House Rules was on - what a lovely movie!) and I took my tired old body off to bed early.
Little by little it's seeming more like home, but today I realized as I was filling up my monthly pill holder that I have no idea where my drugs are! YIKES! I've been living off of my montly pre-sorted supply, just sort of figuring the big bottles of drugs would be where they've always been. Guess not. We'll have some major unpacking today, I guess...
Max was up early with me, we took Atticus out for a walk, picked up muffins at Caribou and some kitchen stuff at CVS, did a little window shopping, then home for Meet The Press.
As I was walking around the neighborhood it stuck me that this area has - at least to me, in my vast 2 weeks of experience - a feeling not unlike Brooklyn Heights. I loved Brooklyn - living there was wonderful, and if we could have afforded it, we would have remained. But we were sort of priced out of it, and then - ironically - priced out of NJ, too. Hmmmm.
This week we'll begin looking into congregations. The two front runners seem to be Mount Zion (nearby, kids could WALK to Hebrew School) and Shir Tikvah (farther away in Minneapolis, but it seems very much like our old beloved Brooklyn congregation) Today - Purim - there's a Megillah reading at both temples and Purimspiels. We may visit both - or just the one nearby. It will feel good to be settled into a Jewish community again.
Little by little it's seeming more like home, but today I realized as I was filling up my monthly pill holder that I have no idea where my drugs are! YIKES! I've been living off of my montly pre-sorted supply, just sort of figuring the big bottles of drugs would be where they've always been. Guess not. We'll have some major unpacking today, I guess...
Max was up early with me, we took Atticus out for a walk, picked up muffins at Caribou and some kitchen stuff at CVS, did a little window shopping, then home for Meet The Press.
As I was walking around the neighborhood it stuck me that this area has - at least to me, in my vast 2 weeks of experience - a feeling not unlike Brooklyn Heights. I loved Brooklyn - living there was wonderful, and if we could have afforded it, we would have remained. But we were sort of priced out of it, and then - ironically - priced out of NJ, too. Hmmmm.
This week we'll begin looking into congregations. The two front runners seem to be Mount Zion (nearby, kids could WALK to Hebrew School) and Shir Tikvah (farther away in Minneapolis, but it seems very much like our old beloved Brooklyn congregation) Today - Purim - there's a Megillah reading at both temples and Purimspiels. We may visit both - or just the one nearby. It will feel good to be settled into a Jewish community again.
4 Comments:
There's a very relaxed texture to this post. It sounds good. Long may it last.
Gillian
Happy Purim! And happy settling in.
I'm late saying it, but I'm so very sorry about Butkis. We've had many cats come and go, and the going part is always hard.
(Apologies if this is a duplicate comment -- I couldn't tell if the original went in or not.)
Welcome to the Cities! My colleague and his family belong to Temple Israel, and are pretty active and very happy there. Maybe another place to look into?
Sounds like a wonderful city. Funny, I keep saying our new nabe reminds me of the Village in the 60's. I never could afford to live there, so it's nice to have something similar.
How long do you think it will take you to fully unpack? We just got our stuff on Saturday and it seems like it's going to take a month to get it all done!
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