almost ready for 5764

[cellio]

I'm almost ready for Rosh Hashana (which starts tomorrow night). Saturday lunch is cooked and in the fridge; tomorrow night's dinner is mostly prepped, except for the stuff that has to be done at the last minute. It turns out I'm not having guests Friday, so that turned out to be easier -- specifically, I didn't make a honey cake, because it'll just be the two of us and we don't eat a lot of dessert (especially rich desserts). I have other dessert for Saturday.

We were supposed to play D&D tonight, but the game got cancelled in favor of a whoever-shows-up "smackdown" (session without consequences). I was going to go anyway (I enjoy those), but the combination of Dani not wanting to go and Rosh Hashana prep led me to reconsider. Pity about that, though.

L'shana tova to all my friends.

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[goljerp]

Must... not... give into... jealousy...

Ah, well, I just got an invite for Sunday lunch, so I probably have one less dish to cook. And I'm going to be ready, just as soon as get off-line, go shopping, start cooking, do my laundry and clean. Easy!

I guess it's good that I'm not going into work today... although I guess that if I were, I'd have done more stuff in advance. I hope.

Happy 5764!

[cellio]

And I'm going to be ready, just as soon as get off-line, go shopping, start cooking, do my laundry and clean. Easy!

:-) Some optimization is possible, of course. Salad comes in bags, gefilte fish comes in ready-to-boil logs, challah and dessert come from the bakery... around here, you can buy entire meals pre-cooked; Kosher Mart has a hot-foods section.

Happy 5764 to you too!

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

No worries about missing the game; I was really under the weather. So sorry.

[cellio]

No need to apologize; you can't control being sick. I hope you had fun with the smackdown -- looking forward to hearing about it. (Did we die horribly? Multiple times?)

[rectangularcat]

Would it be proper to say Bonne annee to you as well? (I am assuming that's what the Hebrew was saying!)

[cellio]

My French is worse than your Hebrew, but from what I can tell we're saying the same thing. Thanks!

"Shana" means "year"; "tov" (masculine) or "tova" (feminine) means "good". (Adjectives usually follow nouns in Hebrew.) "Rosh Hashana" is literally "head of the year". The "l'", often omitted, is just a prefix that sort of says "for you", as opposed to just leaving this poor noun phrase out there dangling on its own. I think.

[anisodragnfly.livejournal.com]

adjectives usually follow nouns in French as well, although there are some that never follow and there are others that mean different things if placed before or after the noun. (usually one placement gives a literal connotation, the other a figurative one: "un grande homme" means "a large man" and "un homme grande" means "a great man", except i can't remember which is which right now, so those might be reversed.) sorry for letting my language geek out for a rampage.

as one who has some familiarity with both languages, y'all are saying the same thing.

[cellio]

Thanks.

sorry for letting my language geek out for a rampage.

That's not a rampage. After all, I've done much worse and my language geek never rampages. :-)

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

A sweet new year to you and belated happy birthday!

[cellio]

Thank you!

[goljerp]

Salad did come from a bag, gefilte fish was from a glass jar (and was no salt and no MSG, ugh), and a guest was bringing Challah and dessert. I could've bought pre-cooked food, but that would have meant spending a lot more than I wanted.

Still, I did the shopping, cooking, and laundry. Even some of the cleaning!

Now all I need to do is to finish cleaning up and also to invite myself to the break fast a couple at my minyan does after Yom Kippur every year... :-)

gefilte fish

[cellio]

I was introduced to the frozen gefilte fish a couple years ago, and there's no going back. It's much better than the stuff in the jars. Give it a try sometime.