Passover
Now Playing: "Die Another Day (Dirty Vegas Main Mix)" by Madonna on "Die Another Day"
Topic: Personal
Bridget, Leigh and I drove down Saturday morning and arrived home around 1:30 or so. Then we went for a hike around the lake. I had originally forgotten where the lake was but then my dad reminded that it was at the Tennis Club and that was where the infamous duck episode happened. It had definitely been a while since I had been to the Tennis Club. The outside hadn't changed much expect for privitizing the lake so there was now a wall/gate around it. We spent a little over an hour walking around. It was beautiful. We also saw lots of wildlife. Quite a few ducks, swans, geese, coots, and turtles. We also saw some goslings (baby geese), and ducklings. At one point we saw the mommy duck and her 7 ducklings in the water and they were swimming in a line. It was SO cute.
Anyway, we then went back to the house and helped set the table and some stuff. Then we got ready. Since it was still early, we decided to play a game. We played ThinkBlot which none of had played before. It was definitely an interesting game. Probably more fun with more people. By the time we finished, it was time for people to arrive so we went downstairs. We were in the living room having some matzah with either bree or mock chop liver. Then Jessica (for reference sake, my friend Jessica will be known as Jessica whereas my sister Jessica will be known as Jess) arrived and we really got to socalize. It was the first time I've seen Jessica all quarter. More people arrived, we did introductions yadda yadda, time for the Sedar as usual.
The main changed thing about this year's Sedar was the fact that my brother was at the head of the dining room table, my sister and all of her friends were at the rest of the table, me and my friends on the big black table and then my parents at the card table (aka "the kids' table"). Dad led a very good Sedar as usual although I think we did skip a page because we forgot to dip the parsley in the salt water and we missed a glass of wine somewhere. *shrug* My dad was making fun of my sister for when she was allowed to drink the wine so she in turn pointed out that at our first sip of wine, it said the second cup.
As usual, the meal itself was absolutely fabulous. Mom made her usuals of matzo ball soup, Costco chicken (much more tender than past Costco chickens I've had at home), salmon, potatoe koogle, cucumber salad and Rema brought some green beans. I had some chicken, salmon and potatoe koogle. Oh, I also had the kafelta fish (you know, I don't think I'll
ever be able to spell that correctly). All extremely delicious! Then we did the white elephant with mostly Target Days items which I helped buy so I had some idea of what was there yet somehow I picked the magnetic notepad. Ah well. During the white elephant, we also had dessert. Again my mom her absolutely fabulous usuals of the fudge, the brownie and the egg white cookies. I had a lot of desserts ?;-9
Then we had our search for the afi-comin (that too I will probably never be able to spell). The 3 year tradition of a SLO person finding it was broken by newcome Kathy finding it. Jason, one of Jess' friends, was pretend bummed because he is Jewish and apparently has never been the one to find it. My dad tried to help him out by trying to give him a 5 minute head start but the rest of us objected and afterwards he said "Jason: 0 for 35. Kathy: 1 for 1." Then people started to slowly leave and we started to clean up. Jessica hung around for a bit but left 10ish because she did have a good half hour drive back. My mom suggested that Bridget, Leigh and I watch a movie so after sorting through all the DVDs, we decided on
The Emperor's Club since neither of them had seen it.
Not more than 5 minutes into the movie, I started to get an acid reflux attack. Since I was very stupid and left the Maalox in my backpack in SLO and we didn't have any antacids in the house, my dad went out to the market for some. While he was gone, I threw up half of dinner. Mom and I concluded that the extremely big meal in combination of the fatty foods served is what caused it. Dad came home with the antacid which I had a couple swigs of and then eventually rejoined Bridget and Leigh in watching the movie. Since they've discussed it already, no harm in me talking about it. While waiting for my dad, my mom had glanced in on them or something and came out asking me if Bridget and Leigh were a couple. I hadn't been in yet and told her no, or at least they hadn't told me and I would think that one of them would have told me and asked her why she thought that. She said they looked "very couple-y." I took a peek for myself and yes, they were snuggly but I told my mom that they were just friends but she didn't believe me. Anyway, by the time I got to sit down and watch the movie, it was at least half way through. By the end, I felt better but still had some pain.
So then we went upstairs to go to bed. I hadn't been lying down more than 15 minutes when I ran to the bathroom and threw up the other half of dinner. And even after that I still had chest pains. Actually, I had chest pains all night. I was so tired, I really wanted to lie down and sleep but everytime I did, it hurt. I was in and out of sleep, tossing and turning and occasionally sitting up from about 1 to 4:30. At 4:30, Bridget woke up too because she was hot. We chatted for a bit but then I went to the bathroom and then went downstairs to get some water. While down there, I decided I needed to sleep sitting up in order to sleep with the least amount of pain. So I got my blankets, went into the bonus room, kicked the foot rest up on the smaller couch and went to sleep around 5. I woke again around 7 due to the sun light, but I awoke with no pain. It was nice so I went back to my room. Bridget woke up shortly after I got back and started getting ready and stuff while I slept more.
My mom came in at 10:15 saying she forgot to wake me. Normally it wouldn't have been too much of an issue, but she needed us out of the house by noon since she and Dad were driving to Vegas to do house things. Bridget and Leigh were already wide awake, dressed and doing homework and reading respectively. So I quickly got ready and then we had breakfast. Since I was feeling fine, I thought a normal breakfast would be fine. So I started driving and fortunately, we had to stop at Bridget's house because her parents had some stuff for Gianna that needed to come back with us. I wasn't feeling that great and thought I might throw up again so I asked Bridget to drive just in case. I did feel better by the time we stopped for gas in Santa Barbara but I let her continue to drive all the way back to my place actually. We did have a quick visit at South House when we dropped off Leigh and then Bridget visited at my place since she had a meeting in SLO at 4 (it was 3 at the time).
So up until about 10:30 or so, Passover was great and a lot of fun. Although getting sick I can definitely sick. I'm going to miss our big Passover celebrations. But who knows, maybe Jess, Justin and I can drag some people to Henderson with us next year ;-).
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