Tired In Safed

it is 8:15 p.m. in the holy city of safed.  i just got back home from work.  i left for work pretty late today.  i was in a taxi several feet from the yeshiva when i got an s.o.s call from the manager.  he sounded a bit alarmed that i wasn't there already.  i didn't even shower this morning.  i was that tired.  i was still on the phone at 1:00 p.m. with my friend and didn't feel like moving.  i quickly threw on my jeans skirt over my pajamas and called a cab.  i was at work at 1:30 p.m.

i had defrosted some leftover pea soup from last week, the night before.  i added water but i think i thinned it out too much.  i quickly made a bunch of little tuna patties and cooked up three bags of thin spaghetti.  i made an Asian dressing for the pasta.  i added a vinaigrette dressing to the leftover cut veggies from breakfast and threw in a can of mushrooms and a can of chickpeas for good measure.  i put out a tub of chumus and went back into the kitchen.  i leave Friday's breakfast for the guys as well as a cold pasta salad for their lunch and i make the Shabbat lunch, too.

i took two pots and boiled 60 eggs.  i left 30 eggs for their Friday lunch with a container of cut veggies and i made an egg salad for Shabbat day with the remaining 30 eggs.  i then made the meat stew that sits on the eclectic platter all Friday night.  i threw in about 20 small potatoes and about two giant sweet potatoes, a bag of barley and 3 cans of chick peas.  it cooked up pretty fast and i started on the eggplant salad.  i threw the eggplants into the oven as soon as i arrived at work.  i had to cut up 4 packages of herring into little tiny pieces and add hot peppers and onions.  that took quite awhile.

i didn't check on them and i didn't prick them first and suddenly i heard a large boom and the oven door blew open.  there was exploded eggplant all over the oven.  i took the ones that hadn't exploded and mashed them and added mayonnaise and garlic.  i then cleaned the oven and the oven racks.  i think i might just burn the yeshiva down one day.  anyway, i then opened two enormous cans of tuna and added a lot of mayonnaise.  i still had to make supper for tonight.  i cut up a lot of sweet potatoes into chunks and roasted them.  i threw the remainder of the breakfast oatmeal into two kilos of chopped turkey, added tons of spices and five eggs and made a pretty large meatloaf.

while it baked i cooked up 5 bags of macaroni to make two different pasta salads.  i added mayonnaise and curry powder to one with chopped veggies and i made an Italian dressing for the second.  there was macaroni all over the place.  i sliced up tomatoes and onions and added seasoning for their supper.  i made a cooked beet salad yesterday.  i did the washing up which took about 45 minutes and i washed the floor.  i put the beef stew into the fridge and i cabbed it home.  i didn't go to the market.  i was too tired.  i didn't have dinner.  i grabbed a tuna patty from lunch and a tomato and called it a night.

i will go to the supermarket in the morning.  i need a few things for Shabbat.  my friend is coming over again.  neither one of us wants to be alone.  it is supposed to rain again.  we had a pretty terrific storm before i came home; lighting and thunder, the whole package.  how do those weather people know that much before hand so that they can predict the exact nature of the storm.?  i will take the dogs out for their nightly outing and get back into my robe.  i have been sleeping on a mattress in the t.v. room under the wall heater.  i haven't felt like sleeping in the master bedroom.  i will have  my new tea when i return.  Shabbat shalom!