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Daily life is a good thing, honest. Sukkot is awesome and all, but it’s also very good to be back at home in your own bed, back to your own routine.

Almost, anyhow. I have to get a job, like, NOW, and I have to get my car insured and down here somehow, and I need to re-enroll in classes and get SCHOLARSHIPS and such… my gosh, it’s so much that I’m going to start crying just thinking about it. Breathe, Mel, you can get through it. I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t get kidnapped and taken to Texas a few days ago.

Also, Jynn and Jess and I were throwing around the idea of a dance website… I can set it up as a subdomain and totally have at it. I don’t know if they meant it seriously or not, but I had been thinking about it for a while and then when they said it, it was like “cool! let’s do it!” So I’ll start working on design this week and tell them to start sending me what they have.

There’s so, so much that’s going on that I can’t even say. Don’t you hate that?

Sukkot is drawing to a close…

We’re technically “leaving” tomorrow afternoon sometime and going back home, but tonight and last night were spent at home because of how cold it got. We’re on, like, the side of the lake that gets all of the wind, we have lots of trees and therefore get no sun, and it went down to thirty degrees last night and will again tonight! And so we are just driving in during the day for today and tomorrow. So, I’m back from Sukkot, technically. Or not.

I just got off the phone with Lisa (oh, and Joel and Heather…) and the plan is that we’re going to try and meet up sometime tomorrow. Hopefully! But if not, oh well. And then this morning I got to talk to Becky, Lisa, Elizabeth Ladish, and Ben… and when I called Ann earlier this week, the entire green group of kids said hi to me. By the time Sukkot fully winds down, I will have said hello to the entire camp!

Over the weekend, Caity and her mom and her betrothed, Isaac, came up and camped with us. That was fun. It was so much more relaxing and laid back than last year, and plus I got to meet Isaac too. The funny thing is, mostly what we did was snooze in the van. Yet it was fun. Isn’t that crazy? I will say two things. Those two (Caity and Isaac) “fight like an old married couple but act like they’re five.” (So Isaac remembers that quote). The other? If I ever find someone half as cool as Isaac, I’ll die happy.

And I’m glad that I’m sure Caity actually likes me this year. Love you, girl!

I had a total and complete attitude adjustment… and it’s been happening for years and I didn’t even notice it until… well, in the middle of the Murphy van communal naptime, when I dozed off to sleep (before dreaming about a gigantic ice cube I swallowed, or something drug-induced to that effect). I won’t say it, because it’s kind of personal, but it’s a bad feeling I’ve been struggling since… well, the days of the stuff book… and I didn’t this weekend, and so it clicked. Hooray for me!

More tomorrow. I’m beat.

ps: I also found out that in the southern hemisphere, when you flush a toilet, the water spins the other direction.

Sukkot has been WONDERFUL so far. Yeah, there’s been a few moments when the foot in Chandler has been hurting a little, but the people here totally understand. It’s funny because the Chandler sukkot barely knows we exist, and we pray for them almost every night.

Just stopped home today to do some laundry, feed the cats, and do some pre-shabbat groceries.

Two nights ago we stayed out talking until five thirty in the morning, just a couple of us, and then I didn’t actually get to sleep until six… and then I was up at eight with the kids! Tegan was up with us, too. And then last night, we were in the Dupler’s trailer. It was movie night for the entire camp last night, but we weren’t interested in the adults’ movie, and so we went and we watched A Series of Unfortunate Events and then Robots. Halfway through Robots, some of the parents stopped by to pick up the little guys (little Mary and Emily and such), and we looked over at Tegan and saw her konked out on the couch-bed. You know what we did to her, after the little kids left? We took multi-colored Sharpies and drew all over her legs!! And so she’s walking around today out at Post Oak with Sharpie doodles all over her legs!

I must say, my heart is really heavy right now, though, but at least this time it’s not for me. It’s for a situation that seemingly ended before I came along down here, and it looks like there’s hope for it now. I can not say any more, I already said too much, but I’ve been praying constantly this week for the people involved. Which is good, because then I’m not worrying about myself, which I tend to do WAY too often.

Well, I need to get laundry finished up so I can get back out there. I’m doing okay, so thanks to the few who were actually praying, most definitely.