Almost Shabbat

 it is 2:00 p.m. in the holy city of safed. it feels like rain. yesterday, i enjoyed being out of the house for a few hours.  it was a lovely, sunny and cool afternoon.  i bussed over to canaan and stopped off at the bank for my balance, and went into the health food store but left without buying anything. i think i was distracted. i went over to the supermarket to check out if the frozen blueberries had arrived. i bought 4 packages. you never know when they will be out. i use them for my sugarless,,non gluten banana muffins and my sugarless, non dairy banana blueberry chocolate ice cream.

outside the supermarket; i saw an old friend who lives downtown. we lost contact during covid.  i haven't gone to town in the last month. i tend to stay close to my home. i do walk out of the neighborhood but i haven't gone down to town by myself. we caught up on the past three years and we laughed like school girls. only in israel during a war, can you let your hair down. i made a simple shabbat meal. i am back to  i already ate some. i poured a container of whole wheat penne pasta into the pot of sauce.  i ate a huge amount of pasta, gearing up for a long walk.  i never made it out for my walk. because it looks like rain. i am also very tired today.  the stress really gets to you and forget about the cortisol levels.

i went to a phone shop to buy a new charger.  i was getting desperate when the phone wouldn't charge more than 25%. supposedly, i bought a fast one.  well, it took over 24 hours to get up to 100%  with the new charger.  i thought about going back to the store today but i ran out of time.  stores close early now that shabbat starts at 4:00 p.m.  i will have to wait until sunday to go back to the store. i didn't take the reeipt with me. i hope he remembers me. 

i baked 7 sugarless, non dairy, non gluten, blueberry corn muffins in the tiny toaster oven. the rubber lining on the oven door of my regular oven, broke off.  i filled individual muffin tins to fit in thetiny  toaster oven.  i must have muffins on shabbat morning. i grated raw beets, apples and carrots for a salad. i still need to prepare some fish. i will probably pop a salmon fillet intothe tiny toaster oven.  i want to make a bit of tahina sauce.  and i need to mop the kitchen floor.  just a regular friday afternoon in a war zone.  we have been very quiet here so i have nothing to complain about.  it's just a little like living in the twilight zine at times.  wishing everyone a good shabbat, a quiet shabbat, a shabbat shalom!