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Unreal- but its real. Israel!

This looks like a hill side in Eurpoe, like Germany or Switzerland hey? But its in the Middle East, its in Israel. Cray cray.
I was lucky enough to get on a birthright trip to Israel, and the last two weeks of my life have included gallivanting around the Holy Land. The trip itself is nutty. We grabbed a plane super early in the morning and then after 10 hours of flying with very little sleep we arrived at 7AM in Israel. The only thing I wanted to do was take a nap, but that wasn't on the agenda. In fact we didn't get to lie down until almost 10pm. By that time I was awake for over 24 hours and feeling like crying. Like a little baby. Oh no! What had I gotten myself into!?

Really, it was a phenomenal trip, and I encourage anyone who can go on it to do so.
This is the city of Zefat, or Sefad, or Tsfat. They paint the doors, walls and windows blue to represent a piece of heaven which will keep the devil (?) and evil spirits away because it looks like heaven. It was a really beautiful "city", (I use this term loosely because New York is a city, Zefat is a village) the most picture-esque perhaps.
CATS! There are cats every where in Israel. Its at least three times as many as in Brooklyn. Kinda like Italy. I loved it! I loved it so much I kept petting them. And then one did not want to be pet. And it scratched me. And then I got a tetanus shot. Totes baller.

This guy was playing a mean guitar, and I asked him to keep playing because I thought it sounded very nice. It turned out he had just gotten engaged that day! He was playing for joy (presumably). As our group gathered and then traveled past the former-American guitar player he shouted at us "Don't worry! Not everyone who goes on birthright ends up looking like me!"
See that sign between Phil and I? Photo inspiration.

I'm having problems trying to organize my thoughts about this trip. It was two weeks of a total blur! Amazing, fantastic, and hopefully I can share more at a later post in a more comprehensive manner. My brains are still melting. I blame it on jetlag.

Birthday Extravganza!

Aren't my friends insanely attractive?

Yes it was that time again. That time where I get a whole year older and high five the world about it. This birthday was really fantastic. I felt loved and surrounded by really fabulous people who care about me and are always happy to be where they are. They embody the spirit of "I make my own party!" In short, I am incredibly lucky to have such a group, a troupe, a gaggle of fantastic friends.

Plus Phillip made a baller mix of old 50's and 60's rock and roll. Doesn't get much better!
And then my pal Josh brought a coat he made-and let me wear it for the party-it was an uncompareable experience. I was elated. Can't you tell?
Anton, who is giving me a panther hug, rides a motorcycle and declared that I would be more than safe hanging on to the back of his cycle in this coat. I would just bounce off the road a few times should I fell off. All I needed was a matching helmet.

And I killed everyone who said I was Lady Gaga.

Our apt was aptly spooky- Halloween decorations ahoy. I live for this holiday.

This is my darling roommate the next morning. She ran into my room (how do you know its my room? All the shoes on the shelves.) and put the coat on. Cannon looks just as happy to be awake as Laura does. This is what hung over people do.

Domino

This is the sassy cat who resides in my office. We call her goo-face. She's a detective. We chill together.
He she is, Detective Goo-Face, on the case about the mouse, investigating.

I'm totally not a crazy cat lady.
All the time.

Its a party for the planet

Its Earth Month, and last Saturday Sura and I hosted an Earth themed party (although we recycle after and use re-usable cups at every party, duh). Our loverly-Jordan- freaked out on our invite and insisted it be STRICTLY earth themed. From Jordan:
WHY ISN'T THE THEME EARTH MONTH?!?!
LIKE WEAR EARTHY THINGS?!?
LIKE FLOWERS ASND MOSS AND DIRT?!?!
AND MUD?!?
AND NOTHING?!
AND GLOBES?!?!

WHY NOT EARTH THEMED???
LIKE THE ELEMENTS??
LIKE FIRE AND WATER
AND EARTH????
WHY NOT EARTH????


So we done went and did it.I was a flower child, Katie was a Native American-because they are one with the earth. BONUS! It was a recycled costume!
Babs was Paper or Plastic and Jordan was Solar Panels!
And here is Kyle, fuxing with our Roomba.






Tara (and Jen- not pictured) came- these are girls I went to 6th grade with. That I haven't seen in a zillion years, but we've recently rekindled our love. Its soooo fab. I love my return to Brooklyn, and my roots.
And Mersault, well he's just a party animal.

WANT

That is the coolest carpet ever. I want it bigger and in my living room. I also can't afford it. If you can go here.... and buy it for me........
Speaking of living rooms me and my roommate just got a roomba, off the craigslist. Its my favorite new thing. I just press the BIG green "clean" button when I'm leaving for the office, and I come back and there is no cat litter on the floor. Or dust, or hair, or anything. It's the best new toy I've ever had. And so fun to watch the cats freak out about it. Maybe soon one of them will ballsy enough to ride it.