Forum Fun, or, Why Imamother is a Terrible and Amusing Forum

I joined a forum for Jewish mothers called Imamother.  It has been an eye opening experience to say the least. Some posters are wonderful, educated, intelligent women.  The vast majority are sheltered, un- and under-educated, superstitious, and just plain mean. In between arguing over shells and kugel recipes (because those are important topics that must be discussed daily), they delight in bitching about the evil Modern Orthodox who are just so not frum enough and do not call their rabbis for every question from which baseball team to cheer for to what to do about drain catchers, complain about their kids' schools being closed for Martin Luther King Jr day (heads up dummies, it is a federal holiday), and bashing anyone who dares disagree with their rav.  The Frummer Than HaShem games occur daily.

Recently a particularly smart poster was given a a week in the corner because she refused to toe the line in some fights with some charedi posters. See, she's Dati Leumi and quite educated because DL actually do educate women as opposed to raising them on a strict diet of "Let's Pretend It's 1700". The owner decided to create a new section so that everyone could explain and discuss their sect.  It's supposed to be a respectful forum.  The first few threads were ok, but then it came time for the main event.  2 regularly nasty posters who are also forum mods started a thread about Modern Orthodox and tzniut.  It was not meant to be respectful at all.  And it turned ugly before it was locked down.


And here I thought Babycenter was bad. 

Ancient Aliens Are Eating My Brain

Nick set the dvr to record virtually every episode of Ancient Aliens.  And tonight he decided to watch them all.  All of them.  Every last one.  They all say the same thing.  Everything is from aliens.  I could have watched one episode and told you what they would say in the next, but no.  We had to watch them all.  He's passed out now on the couch and I have a migraine.  I'm pretty certain there's an alien jammed in there just munching away.

My sister and her boyfriend are coming up in a week to stay for 9 days!  They'll be here for Sophia's 2nd birthday and my sister already has a full menu planned.  Nick and I are thrilled because it means we can have a real date night.  Family coming to visit and all we hear is "free babysitter". We are awesome.

Working

I got a job, yo.

With Nick being in school at BCIT, money is tighter than usual.  So after some nosing around on the web, I started looking into work at home jobs.  Two names kept coming up.  Leapforce and Lionbridge.  Both are search engine evaluation companies.  They are pretty much the same company, but Leapforce hires people in more places than the US. So I applied to Leapforce and after taking and passing their 2 exams, I am not an agent tasked with evaluating URL landing pages. 

So far, Sophia is impressed.  Mommy having to give her attention to something else means she has enough time to get into the dog's food and water before I notice. That's happened twice today and it's only 9:20am.

Anyway, time to get back to work.

Sh*t Frum Girls Say

I'm still laughing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G91DXhhAx0k&feature=player_embedded

The Weather

Long considered a polite topic of conversation, let's discuss the weather.

Or more how I hate living somewhere that actually has "weather".  Lately it's either pouring or if it is sunny the temperature is somewhere around -32873980275832658943659 degrees.  Celsius or Fahrenheit, doesn't matter.  It's too damn cold for my liking. People around here like to point out how there are seasons here.  Oh?  It appears there are 2.  Summer and Pissing Rain/Freezing Cold. Isn't weather lovely?

I miss L.A. and its lack of seasons.  Well, people think there are no seasons there but they are wrong.  There was fire season, Live Team Coverage Rain Event Season (this is only about 9 days scattered from October through March), and June Gloom (fog until noonish). 

How can something so miserable have ever been considered a polite topic to discuss in mixed company?

Anyway.  I joined a program called Partners in Torah.  It's free and awesome.  And partly awesome because it's free. You get an hour a week, on the phone, with someone far more learned than yourself to discuss whatever issues you like be they prayer, weekly Torah portion, holidays, Jewish philosophy, family and parenting, etc.  My partner is an incredible Chassidishe woman (Vizhnitz) from Montreal.  She has 7 children and is 2 years younger than me.  She has already made me feel very inspired and humble.  She's calling again tomorrow and I am very much looking forward to this. I have everything ready.  About 20 questions I thought of during the week and my siddur.

And that's about all for now.

A bunch of things really

The situation in Beit Shemesh is more or less still churning and is stretching out all over.  You can find out more from any news affiliate because it's all over the damn place now. That's still on my mind.

Nick finally started at BCIT today.  That's a little more on my mind because we suddenly will be running even tighter money-wise but at the end of it all, he'll be making more.  Have a trade skill and all that jazz. And as much as I love him, I really need him to not feel the need to wake me to give me a kiss goodbye at 5:30am every day.  Today was nice, but no repeats necessary. A simple text when he arrives on campus will do.

I am waiting somewhat impatiently for my sheitel to come in the mail.  A dear friend down in L.A. bought one a couple of years ago and decided it bothered her too much.  It was $3000 but she thought if it fit me, I might as well be gifted it.  So I'm going to try it.  If I like I want to have it turned into a band fall.  I'm still a tichel girl at heart though.  But in the event I have to go somewhere and look dressy, that will come in handy.