N and i started the night out with pasta and wine. the food was decent and... well... unless it's crappy wine, i always enjoy it. heh. after a couple of hours of sitting at the restaurant, i decided that i was getting cold in the AC and that it was time to head to our next destination. that's right, the bloom. i honestly don't know how much i drank... i remember getting there to find an amusing band on stage (they were funny) and not knowing if we should go in or sit outside with our drinks until the band was done. we ended up going inside anyway cuz there was an available table. my alcohol consumption for the evening consisted mostly of more wine. it would have been all wine, had N not offered to get me a couple of chasers. so it was wine and vodka instead. i remember having almost an entire glass accidentally poured in my lap (partly my fault, for the way i had leaned over to give andy a kiss) and generally just being really drunk. no surprise there.
later, we made our way to his apartment, where we both crashed due to way too much alcohol. but not before i pointed out that he currently lives right next door to an apartment i lived in just about nine years ago. i had lived there with uzi and another friend of ours. how odd.
anyway, the following morning i somehow made my way home. i consumed the best hang over food i know (a huge hamburger) and then fell back into bed. i think i slept most of yesterday. there was an hour or so when i went to have sushi with daniel but instead of going out later in the evening, i just kept on being lazy and slept some more.
today has been seriously exciting. or not. i've been doing nothing all day again today. it must be noted, however, that after four and a half years of school, having the option of doing nothing is still quite refreshing =D other than that, N and i might get together later tonight as well. we shall see.
tomorrow i work about three and a half hours before yom kipur. i am rather looking forward to a nice short day at work =)
i started my morning early. first, by going to the post office to make photo copies of papers i knew i'd need copies of, and then to the israeli version of the social security office. i had to hand in about a zillion papers to reclaim my status as a resident. i was expecting it to take forever. however, i was pleasantly surprised when i looked at the time upon my exit and saw it was only 9:05am. i was actually expecting to get into work a bit late because of this but i was, instead, early. heh.
in other news, i decided that i find my current living situation to be more and more of a pain in my ass. i love the boys, but living with someone you dated after you are no longer dating them, is not a fun idea. so as soon as i get my first (partial) paycheck, i will start looking into availabilities. i am told that tel-aviv is difficult now in the apartment finding department, but i guess that remains to be seen.
other than that, my plans for the evening are a bit unclear. i was going to have dinner with daniel, but i might have the opportunity to hang out with someone that i have recently decided that i would like to get to know better. i don't know if that'll work out, though. either way - the later part of the evening will undoubtedly include quite a bit of drinking and possibly some clubbing. who knows...
* i woke up after another long night sleep (eleven hours)!
* i was asked if i am a soldier (which would make me 18-19 years old). lol.
* the weather is really nice =)
* i realized that only in israel will you be assumed to be an ultra-orthodox if you wear a long skirt and are not wearing a tank top or something revealing as well.
i was originally going to avoid any and all kinds of family activity, as i usually do on holidays. however, when i spoke to orit yesterday (at 8:30am, i might add) - she convinced me rather quickly that i had to come for a holiday dinner at her parents' house. since i haven't seen the girl in just about a year and since i like her parents (and also since they are not orthodox, so there was pretty much a guarantee of no traditional crap at meal-time), i decided that it would be a nice idea =)
she got here (she was on her way home from ashdod) at about noon, and we headed to her parents' house together to spend the afternoon there. as we were hanging out, i decided that my hair was in need of some serious therapy. it's gotten way too long (down to my ass) and out of control (i have yet to find a local product to use in order to tame it). basically it was just annoying the crap outta me. so i asked her mom for a pair of scissors (she's a professional hair stylist) and chopped about 4cm off of my hair. i believe i got quite a bit more than just the 'dead tips' but i had to do something to make my hair easier to maintain. then orit's mom gave me some product i was skeptical of. but it turned out to do a nice job, and she actually gave it to me, claiming she never uses it. heh.
once we were done with holiday festivities, orit and i headed back into tel-aviv for some friday night activities. first we stopped over at sherman's house (cute little apartment right by the market) to hang out a bit, and then we continued to the bloom for some drinkage. dude, let me tell you... the bloom on new years eve, was HILARIOUS. there were so many 'arsim' (my apologies to my american readers... the best way to translate this is possibly a cross between guido and ghetto =P) and they did not leave us alone for a single minute. they just kept on coming over, trying all the stupid pick-up lines and tactless/annoying approaches in the book. it's a good thing i'm a bitch... it scared them off and made both orit and i laugh pretty fucking hard. as we were sitting there, the bartender also made sure to give us plenty of free booze (they're good like that), so by the time we left, we were pretty much done.
came home and crashed. up by about noon. did nothing all day. well, except for some cleaning and laundry. slept for about six hours. am now up at 3am with no plans to do anything. lol.
tomorrow is another day off. no plans yet. we shall see =)
as i actually expected, i was flaked out on last night. when i woke up at about 12:30am, after a much needed nap, i made some phone calls to see who was doing what. i was either going to join dikla for the alternative or shani for a round of barhopping. however, when i actually got out of bed to get dressed etc, i realized i was actually still really tired. so i decided that spending the night with my pillows was a better choice.
now, of course, i'm wide awake ar 8:30am and i have no idea what to do for the rest of the day. i suppose i should do the rest of my laundry and clean up around here a bit. it'll be a while before anyone is conscious to make plan for afternoon frolicking.
oh, i just wanted to mention that i love my new job. while i am not fully settled in just yet, i work for and with some seriously cool people. yay!
last night i finally made it to the bloom. i actually almost just went to sleep again, but then decided that i really have to get out. i love that place and i just needed not to be a couch potato for yet another night. also, i managed to get shay to come out and meet me. and since i haven't seen him in over a month, i figured there was no way i was going to stay home. he's definitely one of the nicer people i know =)
anyway, i met up with him there. we had drinks and good coversation. hung out with nik, too. i poked fun at the cute bartender for feeling and/or acting weird around me since he is no longer 'interested' in me. mostly, i do that cuz it amuses me. i don't even think he cares. hehe. i managed to drink quite a bit and was reluctant to leave when lior decided it was time to go. i stayed with nik to finish my beer and then off i went. i marched home and proceeded to pass out.
after five hours of sleep, i managed to drag my ass out of bed and get it to work. the office appears to be mostly empty. i guess some people have already left for the holiday. later, i have plans to hang out with mister cutie-pants (that's the bartender, just to be clear) and then head over to the alternative. not before i survive the entire day, that is.
i want to update. but i'm not in the mood to write a story.
in short -
i've been getting settled into my new job. it's pretty cool. i've been going out a little less cuz i have to be up at a decent hour. speaking of which, i think tonight is a good night to go out. i miss the bloom =D other than that, i'm still dealing with the red-tape crap that i started doing almost a month ago. heh.
today was nothing but blah-ness. after having a decent time last night - both at the bloom and at the alternative, i woke up today at around 1pm to the sound of my cell phone ringing. i had asked chen to call me cuz we were going to meet up at the center with avrum for lunch etc. getting up wasn't difficult. and seeing those two is always nice. after eating our lunch, we headed over to the record shop i (we all, actually) used to work at to say hi to the poor souls who still work there (8762874698273 years later). having said my hellos (and then my good byes), i headed back home where i proceeded to get really annoyed with daniel. no details, but it makes me wanna bang my head against a wall. then, liad came by and we went downstairs to have dinner at the local italian resaurant. their food is good. once we decided that we didn't want to sit there anymore, we came back upstairs to watch a movie with lior. it kicked ass =D
now liad has gone home and lior headed out to some club. i had no desire to run around or drink, so here i am. likely going to pass out in a short while.
yea, i know... really exciting. woo.
Posted by
Dina on 09.16.06 @ 01:58 AM EEST :: [link]
Friday, September 15th
*shakes head*
music: my fan blowing... mood: sheesh!
some people are just so fucking dense. it's like even if you hit them over the head with a blunt object, they won't notice a thing.
music: nothing mood: way too hungry for this time of morning
my apologies for being absent in the last few days. i've been busy with various thing and basically having a life =P
let's see...
i recently started a new job at an internet company. the place is pretty sweet and all of the people seem really nice. i am, once again, running an office and assisting the CEO. it seems to be what i do best. during the first few days i received what i like to call 'theoretical training.' this means that at first they really didn't have what to do with me so i was taught in theory what it was that i have to do. it was cool, but i ended up waiting around a while without much to do. as of a couple of days ago, i received all that i need to begin actually working and have been settling in since. i'm trying to get to know all of the people (their names, where they sit and what department they belong to etc) and get familiar with and used to the daily tasks i have to do. everyone has been super helpful and i have to admit that i am rather enjoying myself =)
as far as 'having a life' goes - i've had a rather interesting week, too. no patience for detail. i'll just say that i was hanging out with a rather sweet boy until things got a little unclear. as of last night, i have no clue what to think. it's all good, though... if nothing else, he'll end up being a good friend (though i rather hope it still has the potential for more). also, last night the bloom bar celebrated its third birthday, so i headed over there to have a couple of drinks and a good time. i was given all kings of glowing-blinky things, a t-shirt and a bandana (that i gave away), i hung out with some of my favorite people and i managed to get just drunk enough. hehe. tonight will be another night at the bloom followed by the alternative.
thursday night was a lot of fun. started the night out at the bloom with shani and liad. we stopped by there for a few drinks and to visit a certain someone at work. i was originally going to leave there at about 12:30-1am, but didn't really want to. reluctantly, i got up and left at about 1:30am and cabbed it to the alternative's opening night.
the line outside wasn't too bad. either way, this is one event i don't have to wait in line for. found lior and went right in. inside was pretty amazing. the club is huge and i was a bit overwhelmed at first, as i believe most of the crowd was. once i figured out my way around, it wasn't too bad. hehe. as it was an opening night, there were things i noticed that needed improvement - but overall it was pretty impressive and i'm looking forward to going there again this week.
at around 4:30am, liad and i joined chen in a cab back to the bloom cuz we'd had quite enough of the DJ (one of the suggestions included not allowing this particular one to DJ for too long again) and i had promised that i'd come back. well, not promised - but mentioned i might. and i was in the mood =P liad ended up leaving at around 6am, since the buses were already running. i sat there till way after closing, playing some game on my phone, waiting for *someone* to finish working. then we walked back home and proceeded to pass out.
i think we slept till 4pm, when he had to get up and leave. at home, i sat and watched one of the star wars movies with lior, but we were both falling asleep so i crashed for a few hours again. later that night (around 2am), shani and i headed back to the bloom. again, in search of good company, good music, alcohol and umm the same 'someone.' =D i had told lior that 'i'll be seeing him later,' but he swore up and down that he would likely not be joining me at the bloom that night. a few hours later, he walked in and sat down with us. lol. i believe we stayed till around 6am, when we all walked home.
by 1pm i was unable to continue sleeping. so i got up, took a shower and got dressed. i was supposed to meet ze boy for lunch. i headed in his direction at around 3pm, picked him up and we walked over to our intended sushi place. the food there is really good. both satisfied with lunch, we got up and took a walk towards the beach. we did not set a foot on the sand (the beach is packed on saturdays in tel aviv). instead, we walked along the boardwalk for a while before heading back. once we got home, we passed out again. lol.
i headed home at 9ish and watched a movie with daniel. it was really long, so by the time we were done - i was ready to go to sleep.
for some odd reason, i was up at 7:30 this morning. i don't really have to get going until about 11, but i guess i should take care of one errand before heading into my first day at work =D
lior has a love afair with the imperial march. when he's not watching one of the six star wars movies or playing a star wars game he recently got, he actually plays the march at full volume while he's working.
lol.
yes, it's a good thing i love star wars as much as i do =P
after my tuesday night partying and a relatively busy day yesterday, i decided that last night i was not going to go out. i was going to sit at home and catch up on some family guy (been trying to watch it all, and thanks to lior i can actually do that). however, as i sat down to watch, it was none other than lior who informed me that i was not, in fact, going to be spending a quiet night at home. instead, he dragged me back to the bloom (well not so much dragged, really) where i sat and hung out with some of my newer friends. heh. i did no drinking, since my body really doesn't need to consume even more alcohol in the span of less than 24 hours. even so, we managed to stay all the way through about 2:30am.
today i woke up relatively early and have no real plans except doing some work for lior later and then attending the alternative's reopening party. but not before i stop by the bloom yet again, to say hi to someone i think i am becoming fond of =D there will most likely be little to no drinking tonight, either. body needs rest.
for the first part of the evening i was making phone calls for lior. the event is reopening in a new venue and we've been calling everyone and their mom to tell them about it etc. then, liad came to hang out. she just got here from the states three days ago and wanted to go out. we were going to head out after i was done with the phone calls, but we wanted lior to come so we waited a little. unfortunately, that didn't work out so we headed out on our own. the original plan was to head right to the bloom bar but because we had already been drinking, i was more hungry than in the mood to drink even more. however, we found nothing of interest on the way, so bloom it was. it was a relatively quiet night at the bar, and liad and i sat down by the bar to order both food and more alcohol.
long story short, we spent a good four hours there... meeting new people, listening to good music, and eating gummy bears that they (for some reason) serve with the drinks. unfortunately, i also managed to really hurt my hand. i did something weird to it at the door and it's still killing me. oh well. by the time we decided to leave, we were both so wasted but managed to walk home anyway.
we did manage to wake up about six hours later and go to the center to look for a non-black button down shirt for me and have some food that killed my hang over. but now she is gone and i believe it's time for a nap.
today i spent the better part of my waking hours in my parents' company. i took the train up to kfar saba and met them there. we then headed over to one of the local malls and walked around, talked and had some food. i love my parents, but i have to admit that driving with them is not the best experience. it is funny, though. i have never seen two people create so much stress over directions and locations. lol.
while i am fully enjoying my complete lack of responsibility and the option of laying around and doing nothing, i have come to realize that i would like to do something more. no, i'm not looking for a job quite yet. i am first taking care of a whole bunch of bureaucracy crap, which is needed to reestablish myself here as a resident. it's taking a while. plus, i have a friend helping me translate my resume correctly so i can actually post it in the proper places.
anyway, since i do have all this free time, i have started feeling antsy to get out and be active. it's not like i don't already walk everywhere, but i was thinking more along the lines of hiking. israel is such a beautiful country with so many things to see - i really have to find the proper hiking companion and just go. technically, i'm the one with the means to do this... even though i was unable to do the driving thing in the states, i've had my drivers license here since i was 17 (about 14 years) so people have actually been looking to me to rent a car in order to go on these trips. unfortunately, though, i have yet to find someone serious enough to do this with me.
at least i get to go to a water park in a couple of weeks. that should be fun =D
Posted by
Dina on 09.01.06 @ 10:29 AM EEST :: [link]