I woke up at an unspeakable hour this morning... looking at the time I'm updating it is still unspeakable.

I went with my uncle (to be known as Uncle D), Granny and Daddy to the air port to see him off, I'm staying in the Rainbow Nation for a few more days and staying with my other uncle (Uncle P) and his family, both are Daddies little brothers (is it still all right to call 50+ year old men "little"?)

In any event, yesterday being the last day of Daddy's holiday I got kind of weepy and annoying, I hope I didn't make things more difficult for him seeing as today is my birthday (yes, yes, many happy returns) I didn't want him to feel guilty.
Uncle P is taking out for a drive today to places called Kalks Bay (very pretty beach place), maybe Cape Point (where the two oceans meet) and it being the first clear day since I've arrived (remember I spoke of the mist and not being able to see a hundred meters ahead? It stayed that way from Friday until yesterday afternoon) I'll most likely be going up Table Mountain, which is my clearest memory of SA from when I was nine years old.

Will try and update again before I get home, but I make no promises.

morin for the WIN!!!

Two tests down, five to go.
Yes, I'm groaning in despair, but all will be well, I have plenty of time to study for them all in fact. The two exams I had this week went really well (at least I'm feeling confidant) and I'm having a really fun time just vegging on the campus grounds after the exams with my peeps.

But I have something to look forward to, not only the end of exams, but also the fact that I'm going to South Africa for the first time since I was nine years old.
GD that's a long time, I mean I've seen my extended family since, but certainly not as much as in the first decade of life.
My Granny is turning 90 (tfu-tfu-tfu and spins around three times while knocking on wood) and Daddy (her son) and Mummy thought it would be a good idea for me to represent the Israeli contingent of her very far flung family.
Not only would it be excellent to see Granny (who I haven't seen in two years), it will be really great to get back in touch with my cousins with whom I'm not so close, seeing as the last time I saw them was at least five years ago if not more.

It's more than a month away and I'll not be in Israel for my B-Day (I'm only a few days after Granny), but I'll be sure to mention it at the time, if I have access to Internet, which shouldn't be a problem... maybe I'll take Frida with me.

Another good thing about being away on the specific dates is that I'll be missing weeks between Independance Day and the Nakba Commemoration Day, which are sure to be, um, quite charged.
60 years may not seem like a long time compared with countries with triple digits, but you know, thing are intense...

Anyway, that's what I had to say - more tests, going over-seas, intense national atmosphere and hopefully by the time I come back and am 23 things will be back to "normal", though I doubt it.

It looks like I'm getting a week's worth of birthday madness.

I got a Devil of a comic book, which was IMO, way better than a Fairy Tale of a comic book.

The pendant I've been wanting since September.

And tonight I'm having a get together.

Much fun and and satisfaction :)

In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

I bet you're asking yourselves, other than spend too much time on the Internet, what have I been up to?

Or not.

In any event you're going to find out.

Monday was my birthday and I woke up to a huge balloon bouquet my mother arranged for me.
Daddy came home early so we all went to the three of us (Mummy, Daddy and child - me) went to a movie, Next, very enjoyable, plot holes which really couldn't be filled with any power of the imagination... a tad surreal.
We then went to "Black" a very fancy and pretentious burger restaurant, they had the best veggie burger I've ever had.
Oh, and I met up with tamara_russo :).

Then came home, Robbie was there, and had chocolate cake (I blew out the candle first).
Tuesday Mummy and I wen bra shopping (three new ones baby) and then continued to do nothing.

Wednesday - spent too much time on the Internet (see above).

Today - Mummy and I went out for lunch and am meeting with Tami and Netalie for supper at "Edison" this evening.

Good times.

In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

morin for giving me a great birthday present!!!

To any of you wondering who this is... it's melody_kitty... only now I'm eumelia - which is "melody" in Greek.

About a week ago I talked about changing my user name and as you can see. I did.

I'm very pleased with it :D

In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

I'm 22 years of age.


In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

I'm considering getting my username changed to something a little more appropriate to how I feel about myself today and not the first thing that popped into my head when I created this LJ over two and a half years ago (that seems like a long time).

I was thinking of something that incorporates my name, or at least a certain personality trait.

*shrug" We'll see, it's just that eumelia seems, sorta, I dunno... childish? No not childish... just... not really, "me".

Oh, and tamara_russo's birthday was the bomb! So much wonderful food, excellent people and one smokin' birthday girl!

In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

Happy Birthday Tami!

Going to tamara_russo's birthday party this evening, there will be people I like, and food I will devour (since it is the lovely birthday girl who is doing the cooking) and there will be much driving done by me.
Which I'm okay with, I just tend to get lost... Hope none of the people I'm taking are changing their minds right about now.
What I'm actually dreading is the parking.
I don't enjoy doing it and there generally isn't much room for it in Holon, especially in a one way street... which is what the majority of cities in Israel are composed of.

In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

Went to Be'er Sheva today and went for a nature walk with Mummy, Robbie, Leigh, Ariel, His Parents, his brother and sister-in-law, and the two little ones.

We went to the hills on the out-skirts of Be'er Sheva where a reservation of Iris' and other protected flowers and plants protected by the Keren Kayemet (Jewish National Fund).
It was absolutely beautiful.

It's also the day before Leigh's birthday and we had a little mini-celebration at our very pretty, tulip filled picnic area. She got many presents I'll be borrowing soon.

Was supposed to meet tamara_russo but it didn't work out, *sigh* there's always next week.

Oh, and I registered for Uni for October... hope I get everything I want.

Okay, so I'm a bit woozy from the blood donation I gave today. Not the best compared to the other times since the EMT's of the blood bank stationed themselves in a wind tunnel, so I got quite chilly laying there while my nice, warm, liquidly life juice flowed out of me, making me even colder and making me feel, as I've said, woozy.
My stats are great by the way, my BP was 120/80 (healthy as can be) and my Hemoglobin was 14.1 (which is a personal high, odd how this is all happening after turning vegetarian).

Had a little snack though I quickly became famished and went out with my brother for falafel and shawarma respectively.

While I was at the mall I went into the excellent mystical shop, where the shop-girl, who recognizes me and said she loved my hair, asked me when my birthday was and when was I finally going to be getting ( this. )

*sigh* So long to wait... and yes, that was a very not subtle Birthday request :)

Went to the Irish Festival in Tel Aviv today as the venue to Shira's birthday party, it was very nice, we were a bunch of people sitting in the Cinemateque listening to the Reels and the Jigs and there were people drinking Murphy's all around. Personally, if I'm drinking stout, I prefer Guiness, but since I'm not much of a beer drinker and it being Festival time they were charging expensively so I stuck with the coffee.

After we had a little laugh we went out for lunch at a restaurants near by, unfortunately I didn't notice how slippery the marble floor was on the outside of the Cinemateque and as I went down the stairs small stairs of the entrance to the Cinema I had a real slapstick moment of falling on my ass abd then bouncing down the rest of stairs while I sat there in shock while my umbrella was still in my hand over my head.

I'm giggling as I write this... it was really funny :)

So while I could see that my friends were both worries and trying really hard not to laugh at the expense of my pain, I got up and my with a sore ass and back managed to start walking towards the restaurants and I promptly start giggling at the fact that I fell on my ass in the rain.

I'm really surprised that I laughed, because a few years ago I would have been really upset at falling and being laughed at, now it was like, hey it's just a case of something sad happening to me that would have been funny if it wasn't me, so why not laugh about the fact that I did something ridiculous.

We then went to have some Japanese food and we sat there for about four hours, GD so much talking and food.
And I'm probably meeting some of them later this evening.

All in all a very nice day, not to mention that all my from the old Desktop is now comfortably of Frida thanks to Robbie :)

I can't believe Libby is a year old already!
It's absolutely amazing!

And I'm not going to see her until Pesach, maybe.

Boy what a year it's been, one of the more interesting years of my life, which isn't saying much since I'm a sheltered 21 year old :)

One things for sure, it was one of the best, because I got to take care of Libby for a large part of it.

There are ups and downs to working in a DVD rental store.
An up is that I've got "Frida" in the background which is one of the best movies made in the past decade!
A down is that I'm working at the moment.
I like my weekends and this weekend has been quite nice... except for the working part.

Last night nurint had a small birthday party at the Herzeliya Pituach "Max Brenner", oh the lovely chocolate, so excellent.
As is common in a mixed crowed of people, subject matter jumped to many an inappropriate place, so amusing.
I love my many friends, it's constantly amazing how "little loner Mel" has so many friends and that I really, really enjoy spending time with them and going to their birthday parties, actually having quality time with people who share interests, who think I'm important and that I think them important to me in return.

Amazing.

hagar_972's birthday party was great, there was a barbecue, there was a sea, there were lots of friends and it was late at night.
Not much can go wrong in situations like that.
There was a hell of a lot of catching up to do, since I hadn't seen most of them people in almost nine months.
There were Asaf, Sofi, morin, tamara_russo, Adi, Roi, schniff and fenchurch42 were lovely as usual, May and I talked for a really long time and it would seem that we decided to traverse the British Isles together!
It's still in the theory only, but I'm going to call Mummy's travel agent tomorrow and see if there's anyway of getting stuff done.
Despite the fact that I got the job at the DVD-club and may have an offer elsewhere... I mean fuck it, this is the time I should be living the moment - I have the money to travel and a job I can always find after the Holidays... but how many times will I be able to spend time with a person I like traveling England, Scotland and Ireland?

So, tomorrow I have to get to Bituach Leumi, to cash in my Miluim check, talk to the travel agent and spend much time with Jade and the Babies since they're going back to the Uncle Sam's tomorrow evening.

I don't know when I'll see Jade, Shvo or Libby again but it will probably be a very long time.
Since I left (early July) and when they came to here (just two weeks ago) not a very long time passed and Libby remembered me, it was uncanny how much she remembered me, but then again it had only been six weeks and I was a major person in her life for the majority of her life and now she'll forget me... gonna have to Skype it.

Edit: nurint was at the party!!! Let it be known throughout the land, nurint is a very good friend and WAS at the beach party!!!
And there was no skinny dipping.

What a busy week and day!
Granny and Peter are back in SA, Leigh and her family are set up in Beer-Sheva (they're now waiting for all their stuff, that's being shipped here).
The job at the DVD-club is mine, had a great half shift today, Friday is always busier than any other day.
hagar_972 and I were invited by the squadrons that we dealt with during the war to an After War Party, unfortunately they failed to let us know that it was a pool party, I was a bit disappointed, but Hagar didn't mind that much.
It was a bit of a struggle to find the place since the place is between Abu-Ghosh and Jerusalem... pretty much nowhere and the company in the car (Hagar's mother) was less than stellar, but we arrived without major injury and had a pretty good time.
At around six Navot (that would be daemonfall) picked us up and we're now at his house, they're cuddling like crazy and I'm updating my blog... how unfair is my life!

More after the OTHER party we're going to this evening, which is our friends and dual celebration of Hagar's Birthday and end of war for everyone in this little group that participated.
So, definitely more in the future!

Yesterday was utter crap from the get go.
The only good thing was that I kept hagar_972 company on her Birthday, that was of the good.
And that's where it ended.

My day started with a bud ride, it was already bad since it's the bus I take in the morning to my base. On this bus I lost my cellphone. My cellphone is my entire life! Well not really since I have most of my phone numbers written in my little handy phone book, but it certainly put a damper on the rest of the day.
So the minute I entered the base I was on the phone with the Bus company's information center, I got all the relevant numbers and passed them onto Mummy who was just dying to say "I told you so" to me since for the two and a half years that I've had this phone she told me I'd lose it one day if I kept carrying it in my pocket (where it has lived quite snugly) and it did fall out of my pocket. What makes this whole thing even worse is that on Saturday i misplaced my phone in Robbie's car, making him turn around and come back home so I could have it.

My family rocks when it comes to carrying out my "whims". I know it's not really whims, but my family is great at helping out and getting me out of jams.
So Daddy canceled my outgoing calls and Mummy found out the phone had been found by a (get this) a policeman and he took it to the Central Tel-Aviv District Police Station, which is where I went today. It was a whole lot less traumatic than I thought it was. It was just a really long walk from the the New Central Bus Station to the Police Station on Salame St, Yaffo (I know, I know...).

Yesterday was pretty miserable, since it was one bad thing after another. We didn't handle the goings on very well and now Omer (my ex-Co and of my commanders) wants to change the way we do things at the table, even though we've been doing fine for the past month, one really bad day doesn't negate the month of really fine work my station has been doing. Add to that, that I had to stay and actually talk directly to the slimy SOB, making Hagar and I miss the last bus and the train and then finding out that the train after that was twenty fucking minutes late!
So a bad day.

Today was okay and I'm meeting with Varda, a friend I've only met up with once since my return from the US.