Trust

Saw this on facebook, and thought it would be a good self-reminder if i posted it here.

Me (in a tizzy) : God, can I ask you something?

GOD: Sure.

Me: Promise you won't get mad?

GOD: I promise.

Me (frustrated): Why did you let so much stuff happen to me today?

GOD: What do you mean?

Me: Well I woke up late,

GOD: Yes

Me: My car took forever to start,

GOD: Okay....

Me (growling): At lunch, they made my sandwich wrong and I had to wait

GOD: Hmmmm..

Me: On the way home, my phone went dead, just as I picked up a call

GOD: All right

Me (loudly): And to top it all off, when I got home, I just wanted to soak my feet in my foot massager and relax, but it wouldn't work. Nothing went right today! Why did you do that?

GOD: Well let me see..... the death angel was at your bed this morning and I had to send one of the other angels to battle him for your life. I let you sleep through that.

Me (humbled): Oh...

GOD: I didn't let your car start because there was a drunk driver on your route that might have hit you if you were on the road

Me (ashamed): ............

GOD: The first person who made your sandwich today was sick and I didn't want you to catch what they have, I knew you couldn't afford to miss work

Me (embarrassed): Oh.....

GOD: Your phone went dead because the person that was calling was going to give a false witness about what you said on that call, I didn't even let you talk to them so you would be covered

Me (softly): I see God

GOD: Oh and that foot massager, it had a short that was going to throw out all of the power in your house tonight. I didn't think you wanted to be in the dark.

Me: I'm sorry God.

GOD: Don't be sorry, just learn to trust me.........in all things, the good and the bad

Me: I WILL trust you God

GOD: And don't doubt that my plan for your day is always better than your plan

Me: I won't God. And let me just tell you God, thank you for everything today.

GOD: You're welcome child. It was just another day being your God and I love looking after my children

Siri - Not So Much 'As Seen on TV'

If you've seen any iPhone 4s commercial you've seen how amazing Siri is. Supposedly.
Aside from having a hard time with hebrew/yiddish names, there are some basic things that don't work as fluidly as shown on TV....

here's a recent conversation, not involving any foreign languages. My brother in law was on his way to a hockey game and texted me to look up an address on my phone. I happened to be driving, so i asked Siri for some help....

Siri: How can i help you?
Me: What's the address for Nassau Coliseum?
Siri: I'm sorry, I can't find Nassau Coliseum.

okay, let's try this in a round about way.....

Siri: How can i help you?
Me: Where do the New York Islanders play?
Siri: Ok

*iPod starts to play*

BDE

So last night i had a dream, and i thought a man standing in front of me was my grandfather.
He turned around, and while he looked a lot like my grandfather, i realized it wasn't him and figured it was his brother, so in my head (in the dream)
I was like "oh, it's Uncle Y." and Uncle Y. smiled at me.

Over Chanukah a cousin told me that Uncle Y. was sick, and not doing so well. I hadn't heard anything since then (family tends to leave me out of general updates, but especially sad news). I wasn't close with Uncle Y. or anything, and hadn't seen him in a really long time.


Uncle Y. was definitely a random and unexpected person to turn up in my dreams. I know the subconcious is a strange thing, but he wasn't on my mind for any reason, and like i said, i hadn't heard any updates on his condition since Chanukah.

I just found out that Uncle Y. passed away today.

Slightly spooked....

Baruch Dayan HaEmes...

tumblr-weeds

remember in the early days of websites, people would add flying gifs and other objects to their pages? you could give the visitor's mouse a trail of stars, or letters that spelled out a word or phrase if it sat long enough. snowflakes would rain from the top of the page...

apparently when society decided all those effects were just plain annoying, the effects didn't go to die.... they went to tumblr.

i must be too old to "get" tumblr, but once in a while i'll be sent a link to a page from there. trying to figure out who tumbled what, and what's a re-tumbl, (or the correct tumblr-terminology) gives me a headache. but when i click into a page with those wonderful Y2K effects, that's when i X-out in frustration, with a migraine.

Fotoshop

Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

Chocolate Chip, Please.

A weight-loss commercial just came on the radio:

"attention all women with a muffin top"

i immediately started paying attention.
not because of weight loss, but because i heard the word muffin.

Congratulations to Me!

It took way too long to finally send in the transcripts and cash, but now I'm now FINALLY the Rbtzn with a B.A.!!

Seeing as m2 is on the road, buying g-d knows what sort of animal parts, I'm sitting here in pajamas celebrating with a slurpee and episodes of Disney shows on Netflix.... Can i get some sympathy/well wishes?!

Congratulations to me!