Dear Moishe Philly,
I missed you this month. December took me to DC, NYC and back again, and unfortunately I did not get much quality time with my fellow Moishenicks. But the holiday season was great when I was here. We had a delicious gourmet holiday dinner, and wrote cards for our Vets at the VA over a glowing fire and chocolate fondue. Our holiday cocktails were delicious (please e-mail me if you would like the recipes) and cheer was a-plenty, as always, at our Heymish Shabbat.
I'm excited about 2009 and keeping my new years' resolutions which I still need to make. Although I did just join the gym!
January has a lot of fun in store - Heymish, book club, and the SIXERS!!! I hope you can stand the anticipation until next month's blog ;)
Shelbtastic
Monday, January 5, 2009
Happy New Year!
Happy new year all! December was a fun month here at MH Hoboken, especially our ski trip that we had with MH Great Neck in the Poconos. We had lots of deer in our front yard along with some wild turkey and there were even bear tracks in the snow on the side of our house, but thank goodness no bears bothered us while we were there. It was nice to go away for a few days and bond with members of the community. I never did make it to the mountain to go ski, but I did go on an exciting trip to Walmart, learned some new card games, and watched . It was definitely a great time had by all! Two days after the ski trip we hosted a New Years Party and then the next day had a large Shabbat dinner, so it's been a tiring but fun past few weeks!
In other news the Giants are playing the Eagles next week in the playoffs and I'm very nervous about this game, we better beat the eagles! I have faith in the giants and Eli Manning, who also happens to live in Hoboken only a few blocks away from us!
Most Glorious New Calender Years Joyfulness from Gregor?
Happy Gregorian!
As we all have celebrated the recent coming of the sun around the Earth a miraculously 365 and 1/4 time the gears in my head have spun and I think. Though is not a Judaism event many houses of moish did this occasionally observe and I wonder about assimilationism. Over more, I am pondering the differentification between assimilation and occulteration. What make we different? Are the people Jews have same cultural rights in AmeriC-C-C-a? Serious now, point one that has delineated us in house of moish hoboken is recent adventure in tumbling down mountain with silly long flat shoes.
Traveling to white powder covered bumpy land natives know as Pinoccios. We sanged songs of Jewy time long past and litted small pillers of rememberance fires, we mixed broken ices and knew each other, we welcomed the Shabath Queen and feasted on resting day. Jew we all were as one but it could not have been so much togetherness without the Kristian Ameri-States. We traveled on their messiahday in the vacationing they call "winter" but is the ex-mess and evergreen vacation. So in honouring of suns two thousand and nineth rotation around the Earth I think we are acculterated and that is okay.
Nothing is wrong with living in larger non-Jewy world. Houses of Moishe get that. Living in worlds two is what Jewsies have done and what we do this year. Committed not only to resolutions of the gregorian year but also as Jews. Here is to 2009!
As we all have celebrated the recent coming of the sun around the Earth a miraculously 365 and 1/4 time the gears in my head have spun and I think. Though is not a Judaism event many houses of moish did this occasionally observe and I wonder about assimilationism. Over more, I am pondering the differentification between assimilation and occulteration. What make we different? Are the people Jews have same cultural rights in AmeriC-C-C-a? Serious now, point one that has delineated us in house of moish hoboken is recent adventure in tumbling down mountain with silly long flat shoes.
Traveling to white powder covered bumpy land natives know as Pinoccios. We sanged songs of Jewy time long past and litted small pillers of rememberance fires, we mixed broken ices and knew each other, we welcomed the Shabath Queen and feasted on resting day. Jew we all were as one but it could not have been so much togetherness without the Kristian Ameri-States. We traveled on their messiahday in the vacationing they call "winter" but is the ex-mess and evergreen vacation. So in honouring of suns two thousand and nineth rotation around the Earth I think we are acculterated and that is okay.
Nothing is wrong with living in larger non-Jewy world. Houses of Moishe get that. Living in worlds two is what Jewsies have done and what we do this year. Committed not only to resolutions of the gregorian year but also as Jews. Here is to 2009!
Snow, wherefore art thou?
Happy new year to one and all, big and small! I know one thing I'm thankful for - Moishe House!
So, I just came back from a two week trip to Ecuador with my parents. The Galapagos are a lovely place - I hope you all get a chance to visit, so that you too can become obsessed with sea lions - they're SOOO adorable! Also, new year's eve in Ecuador is like none other - a huge street fair with bands and food and cross dressing men! People also burn huge dolls to represent leaving behind the old year - craziness!!
But enough about me. December was an event-ful(l) month at MH Silver Spring. There were movies galore [Rocky Horror, Breakfast Club, and Milk (x2)], which made studying for finals oh so difficult. Thankfully I get to apply for jobs before my grades come out! Our house also became home base for knitting blankets for the homeless, an initiative of two of our community members. While my own contribution was quite limited (I managed approximately one row of stitches - I knew I should've taken Home-Ec in high school instead of Shop), it was really wonderful to see old and new MH members come together and get excited about helping the homeless during the holiday season. Plans are in the work to continue and expand our efforts, so stop by if you're in the area...
B'vracha,
Aaron
So, I just came back from a two week trip to Ecuador with my parents. The Galapagos are a lovely place - I hope you all get a chance to visit, so that you too can become obsessed with sea lions - they're SOOO adorable! Also, new year's eve in Ecuador is like none other - a huge street fair with bands and food and cross dressing men! People also burn huge dolls to represent leaving behind the old year - craziness!!
But enough about me. December was an event-ful(l) month at MH Silver Spring. There were movies galore [Rocky Horror, Breakfast Club, and Milk (x2)], which made studying for finals oh so difficult. Thankfully I get to apply for jobs before my grades come out! Our house also became home base for knitting blankets for the homeless, an initiative of two of our community members. While my own contribution was quite limited (I managed approximately one row of stitches - I knew I should've taken Home-Ec in high school instead of Shop), it was really wonderful to see old and new MH members come together and get excited about helping the homeless during the holiday season. Plans are in the work to continue and expand our efforts, so stop by if you're in the area...
B'vracha,
Aaron
hey moishehouse friends
I hope you are well,
I found that the joke of Michael was not really funny, so here s a better one:
A depressed man
There's a man sitting at a bar just looking at his drink. He stays like that for half an hour. Then, a big trouble-making truck driver steps next to him, takes the drink from the guy, and just drinks it all down.
The poor man starts crying. The truck driver says, "Come on man, I was just joking. Here, I'll buy you another drink. I just can't stand seeing a man crying."
"No, it's not that. This day is the worst of my life. First, I fall asleep, and I'm late to my office. My boss, in an outrage, fires me. When I leave the building to my car, I found out it was stolen. The police say they can do nothing. I get a cab to return home and when I leave it, I remember I left my wallet and credit cards there. The cab driver just drives away. I go home and when I get there, I find my wife sleeping with the gardener. I leave home and come to this bar. And when I was thinking about putting an end to my life, you show up and drink my poison."
Love to all
D. Mor
I hope you are well,
I found that the joke of Michael was not really funny, so here s a better one:
A depressed man
There's a man sitting at a bar just looking at his drink. He stays like that for half an hour. Then, a big trouble-making truck driver steps next to him, takes the drink from the guy, and just drinks it all down.
The poor man starts crying. The truck driver says, "Come on man, I was just joking. Here, I'll buy you another drink. I just can't stand seeing a man crying."
"No, it's not that. This day is the worst of my life. First, I fall asleep, and I'm late to my office. My boss, in an outrage, fires me. When I leave the building to my car, I found out it was stolen. The police say they can do nothing. I get a cab to return home and when I leave it, I remember I left my wallet and credit cards there. The cab driver just drives away. I go home and when I get there, I find my wife sleeping with the gardener. I leave home and come to this bar. And when I was thinking about putting an end to my life, you show up and drink my poison."
Love to all
D. Mor
hello to everybody
here s a little joke to start the year
New Years Resolutions for Pets
here s a little joke to start the year
New Years Resolutions for Pets
- Have a torrid one-night stand with a street mutt.
- Try to understand that the cat is from Venus and I am from Mars.
- I will no longer be beholden to the sound of the can opener.
- Circulate petition that Leg Humping be a juried competition in major dog shows.
- Call PETA and tell them what that surgical mask-wearing freak does to us when no one is around.
- Take time from busy schedule to stop and smell the behinds.
- Hamster: Don't let them figure out I'm just a rat on 'roids, or they'll flush my ass.
- Always scoot before licking.
- Grow opposable thumb; break into pantry; decide for MYSELF how much food is *too* much.
- Get out of the castle more, maybe swim counter-clockwise this year.
- January 1st: Kill the sock! Must kill the sock! January 2nd - December 31: Re-live victory over the sock. AND the Number 1 New Year's Resolutions Made by Pets...
- I will NOT chase the damned stick unless I see it LEAVE HIS HAND.
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