Roll It

it is 4:00 P.M. in the holy city of safed.  i am finally back to my blogging after a long hiatus.  i stopped blogging in october of 2021. i purchased a smart phone and got it activated at the onset of covid.  i was able to see my grandkids via video chats and got onto facebook.  i got reaquainted with friends from the past.  i got totally addicted.  i didn't voice my opinions about the vacinnes because i was afraid of the censorship.  a little while ago; i was reading comments regarding yesterday's reign of rockets and missiles in the southern part of the country.  a few of the arab comments called for the second coming of hitler and the total destruction of israel.  i told one to go to hell and i wished for another to be blotted off the face of the earth.  interestingly, i got a warning about my language.

i have been thinking about blogging for a while.  i was honestly, too busy before pesach.  i have been jounaling about my pesach spring cleaning rituals for years.  my computor was on its way out and somehow, windows 10 got erased.  i made a mad dash to buy a new one.  this year i became devoted to having house repairs done , getting new light fixtures and door handles and tweeking the pictures and judaica.  i even bought a few house plants. i have already pretty much, downsized the objects in my home.  i gave away most of my books to a jewish english book store and a couple of book shelves, too.

i realized like most of my friends, that it was time to take care of myself and my needs.  it was time to spend my money on me.  i started buying more organic products and orthopedic shoes for myself.  i had no guilt whatsoever, in spending money on a new computor.  well, maybe, just a bit.  i haven't gone near, said, computor since i got it.  i am too comfortable with my smart phone and my eyes are getting destroyed, nightly; by watching hours of videos on the phone.  i am quite pleased to admit that the larger monitor is a sheer pleasure.

the whats app is my link to my grandchildren.  i do not travel very often and they live in another part of the country.  yesterday, my grandson asked if i could buy him a few fruit rollups.  i didn't think anything strange about his request.  i used to buy them for his father.  back in the day; it was considered a 'healthy' treat.  i told him that i would buy him some the next day.  i will use any excuse or errend to get me out of the house and out for a walk.  i went to one store that sold nuts and sweets and dried fruits.  each roll up was 15 shekels. that's 4 dollars for one fruit roll up.  i saw a large box of 72 roll ups.  i asked if it was for sale.  she wanted 1080 shekels.  that is 296 dollars for a box of fruit roll ups.

i thought i must have misunderstood.  i walked over to another store that sells party goods and toys and chocolates.  they were selling 3 rollups for 10.90 shekels.  that is about 3 dollars a roll up.  i ended up buying a box of 72 roll ups for 260 shekels.   yes, i spent 72 dollars on that box.  i met a neighbor on the bus ride home and told her about my quest to buy fruit roll ups.  she told me about the afternoon shelling in the south and told me about tik tok's play on fruit roll ups.  apparently, they put them in ice cream for crunch.  i suddenly realized that i was holding onto gold.  i also realized that it was not safe to mail a package of this gold to my grandson.  i needed nothing short of a brink's secrity truck.

my grandson was delighted when i sent him a pix of the box of the roll ups.  he told me it was trending.  i told him that we would sell the roll ups to recover my 'seed' money.  yes folks, i was excited.  i was on fire.  this afternoon i got a text from my granddaughter asking if they sold fruit roll ups in safed.  it is very hot today.  we are in the middle of a heat wave.  i have had a pain in the back of my head all morning long.  i do not want to spend another 72 dollars buying more roll ups.  i gathered from my grandson that his sister was not interested in selling them.  she has a nail polishing business on the side.  she is 11.  i am planning on going back to the store to see if they have any roll ups left.  iam willing to spend another 30 dollars at the most.  are we haivng fun yet?