Like a Good Book

So last night was a war zone. First thing's first: My mom had no idea I was driving to Haifa until about 14:00 yesterday (two hours before I left). I hadn't told her because if she would have known, I wouldn't have gotten the car... Even after I told her she tried to make me change my plans and go by train. I disagreed. In the end I got the car and drove to Haifa... Well, it's thursday afternoon, and every single israeli car is on the road, 90% of those on Ayalon. So I got stuck for 45 minutes where it should have taken me 20, so what? I had good music and good company to expect. After picking up Avihu we drove to Ra'anana to pick Adi up. On the way we got through one "Queen" CD, and a hell lot of making fools of ourselves... We yelled and made loud noises whenever something nice happened. This continued after we picked Adi up, and also after picking Nurit up. Me: "Hadera!" Everyone: "Yulululululululu!!!" and that's an understatement...

With all the traffic we got to Haifa at about 19:00 (I left Holon at 16:00), and then we went to pick Hagar up from the train station. When we got into Haifa ("Yulululululu!!!") everyone started to play "Holocaust ABC", which is one of the sickest games ever... We found our way to Asaf and Sofi's place (thanks to contradicting instructions, some intuition and one magnificent U turn), and immediately began eating. I, for one, was starving, having driven all the way from The center with that lot, but we all ate eventually. The night was peppered with all kinds of happenings, including a pillow fight, a kick in my chin (from Avihu; but I forgave him - I was trying to tickle him) and some chestnuts. It was a lot of fun, but as I foresaw - a war zone. Hagar, Avihu and I spent the night and woke up almost unanimously so that we where able to say goodbye to Hagar and Sofi before they left (Hagar to go home, Sofi had a test). Me and Avihu lingered for a bit more, and then left as well, saying goodbye to a very sleepy-disoriented-english mumbling Asaf, and got in the car. I lost my way. We started driving around Haifa trying to find where to go,,, It was lucky I had a map in my car for otherwise I don't know what we would have done. In the end we found our way into road 2 ("Yulululululu!!") and I kicked down the car into life (without all the Haifa hills). I was home in less than two hours, and that's after driving Avihu to his door step in Hod Hasharon... So I drove on 140 Kph, so what?...

After coming home my mom goes: "why don't you and dad go to the store to get the new modem so you would have internet?" So we went, and we got it, and we came home and my dad starts plugging it in when we get that we don't have enough power sockets... So my dad gets angry, and he gets angrier when he can't find the antenna for the Router (modem with broadcasting ability), and then, when we hooked up the old modem he got angry at me for not taking the bag with the new modem to my room at the exact second he wanted me to... Bloody annoying.

After that things eased up as my dad went to play Soccer (he just got back early - it was raining), And I watched the last two episodes ot "The 4400" I taped. So now I have a nice Friday evening at home (unless I find someone to go to "The lion, the witch and the wardrobe" with), and again, chestnuts. After a very busy week, I have some peace at last... Unless Iran decides to launch a rocket on us, and even then, it would be over quickly. I wouldn't have to do a thing.

Now I am going to make myself some hot chocolate, eat chestnuts and watch the rain. I do love the winter... Cheers, Tami.