This post is a little late, mainly because I just got all my furniture back together. As I posted in a previous blog, my neighbors have a "No Entry" sign on their door, saying their apartment is unfit for human occupancy. A week later we all received a notice to move all of our furniture a foot away from the wall and strip our bedsheets. They were going to spray the place for bedbugs, which they tried to say was something that they normally do twice a year. I have never been in a place that had a problem with bedbugs. I can almost guarantee it's the neighbors. So I sent out an SOS to facebook for anyone, anyone at all, that could help me move furniture. I have a lot of furniture! I only received one response for help from none other than my mom.
She came over that night and helped me pull my couch out, and then pull all of my dvds out of the china cabinet so that could be more easily moved. Then I had to unplug the tv and everything else and move that towards the couch. When we were done it looked as if I had just moved in, minus the boxes. My bedroom got the same treatment, although I'm lucky it's hardwood floors because I was able to just slide the bookcase across the floor without emptying the shelves. My computer was pretty much unusable though, hence the late posts. I had to beg for help moving everything back, too, because I got no response back the second time around other than people wondering why I was moving furniture. In my mind if a friend says, "I need help," you help first, ask questions later.
The loneliness still gets to me sometimes, everybody is going into hibernation mode, which I'm sure is no short trip. I've actually been watching a lot of movies. Ever since I started juicing I've been getting sick every once in awhile. The other day I ended up in urgent care with symptoms of the stomach flu. I doubt the juices are entirely to blame, but it is a little inconvenient.
Since I always tell everyone my job is always good for a story (I work with dementia patients), I will tell one. Today I was doing a mini celebration/discussion group on Thanksgivakkuh. Basically, Thanksgiving and Hanukkah land on the same day, which hasn't happened ever and will probably never happen again, or at least another 79,000 years. In the past when I have done a Hanukkah celebration I had a lot of people not wanting to come, claiming that they weren't Jewish so they didn't want to partake in that group, even if it was just a discussion. This year was significantly different. Nobody expressed not wanting to partake for lack of religion, and most were eager to hear about this "jubilee year" festival.
It's amazing how, because they fall on the same day, these holidays can bring people together. It also got me to thinking how someone Jewish must feel when they are forced to watch yet another Christmas movie, or hear a lecture in school about the holiday season. I've always believed in the belief that all religions are different, not the widely accepted belief that all religions are wrong, except mine. There's a lot of talk about religious tolerance these days, how people shove religion down other's throats, which I have never tried to do. If asked about what I believe I will tell you, I'm not going to be afraid of offending anyone, because it's my beliefs, not theirs. It seems like so many people are ashamed to say that they are Christian, for fear of retribution from a society that perceives us as "bible thumpers." Back to my previous statement about Jewish holidays, I think that people should be more tolerant of different festivals going on around them. This is why, even I have just one person of a certain faith, I strive to celebrate or honor all the holidays that are represented. It's the least I can do since I will be singing Christmas carols for the next four weeks for them.
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