Long time...
It's been a very long time since my last blog, yet so much has happened. Things were a blur, though. I guess it's time to play catch up so this blog can be an actual representation of my life as they are right now, as I want it to be.
I got the job at Yediot Aharonot. I started working on the 31st of August. But before that, something else has happened. I asked David to order the remaining 3 books of the Twilight series off Amazon for me - New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. I got them all on Wednesday, the 27th of August. I finished New Moon on Thursday the 28th sometimes in the late afternoon. I wanted to wait off till Friday the 29th to start on Eclipse but I cheated and started at 10 minutes to midnight on the 28th. New Moon did not have enough Edward in it, it was mostly just Jacob and that irritated me. I was a junkie needing his fix and my fix was Edward Cullen. Eclipse did a better job at calming me down but leaving me craving for more. I finished that on Saturday the 30th. By Saturday night, I started on Breaking Dawn, which I finished Wednesday, September 3rd. I really read through them wicked fast. I intend on reading them all again. I've already read the first book, Twilight, two and a half times (twice the full book, and then I read the leaked copy of Midnight Sun, the story from Edward's point of view, which only leads up to chapter 12, 2 days before the glorious meadow scene). Unfortunately it might be a while before I get to finish Midnight Sun, so I'm going to read the other 3 books again to sooth me till then, and watch the movie just for the kicks of it.
I wasn't sure about the movie till I saw the field trip scene. Which, granted, was not in the book but finally showed Robert and Kristin channeling Edward and Bella as they should be. Especially Robert as Edward.
As for the books themselves, it's been a rollercoaster of emotions. I absolutely hated New Moon. Edward had left early on in the book and I became depressed at the prospect of much Jacob to be put up with. I spent every moment powering through that book, the more I read, the more I told myself Edward would be coming back soon. When he did come back, he delivered. Being his usual charming, amazing, lovely self. Deepening my love for him. Favorite scene in that book were probably in Bella's bedroom, after they returned from Italy, and on their way to the Cullen house when Bella decided to put her immortality to a vote. Much to Edward's dismay (and Emmet's annoyance, Edward tore their new 60" TV in two. It was especially imported from Korea because it's not yet available in the States. Poor Emmet!).
Eclipse was better. Edward was back in full force and Jacob was forced to the sidelines. Though Jacob's brutal and pathetic excuses to get Bella, it didn't work. Granted, she figured out she DOES love him like that but she chose Edward because he is her true soulmate. It didn't help Jacob when he tried to force himself onto Bella by kissing her against her will. I really hoped Edward would tear him to shreds for this. Unfortunately he didn't. There were many favorite Edward and Bella scenes, but my favorite non-Edward and Bella scene was Seth and Edward beating the hell outta Victoria and Riley. GO TEAM! GO SETH! GO EDWARD, YOU SEXY VAMPIRE YOU! Ahem.
Breaking Dawn was a bliss. The wedding scene was amazingly lovely, and made me tear up quite a lot. It also calmed me down about the whole "Team Jacob" business. Bye, bye, Team Jacob. Haha. The honeymoon was even better. Big up for Isle Esme and the feather. Oooh Edward, you sexy vampire-stud, you! *ruffles his bronze hair* I suffered through a lot of Jacob's book in Breaking Dawn, but ended up warming up to him due to his constant bickering with Rosalie and all the blonde jokes he fired at her. I actually laughed out loud. I had forgotten all my fondness, though, when the creep imprinted on Bella's BABY. Eww. And while we're on the subject, I was really angry with Bella's choice to keep this baby even though it was evident she was going to die from carry and giving birth to this kid, but I was glad she kept her. Renesmee proved to be quite worth the effort. She got her charm from her daddy, you couldn't help but fall in love with the little munchkin. The end of the book was beautiful. I loved the fact Bella was finally a vampire, and a good one at that, and that the battle against the Volturi was beaten with the mind and not arm-force. My favorite part was probably the last scene in which Bella manages to lift her mind-shield and allow Edward to hear her thoughts. Aww. And not to mention the vampire sex! Oooer.
All in all, I loved the Twilight series. In order of favorites, the books are as follows: 1. Twilight. 2. Breaking Dawn. 3. Eclipse. 4. New Moon. I enjoyed reading about the beautiful and pure love of those involved - Bella and Edward, Alice and Jasper (oh, how I love Alice!), Emmet and Rosalie (Emmet is THE DUDE!) and Carlisle and Esme. I enjoyed their happiness, I was hurting when they were.
The series has left my mind a blur and my emotions unstable. It didn't help that I started working and I was depressed. This was my escape and I invested every ounce of emotional strength into those books. I don't regret it. It's gonna be a while before I let go of Edward and co. I always get that when I get really emotionally attached to a book, I carry the characters with me for a while before my mind can go back to its normal imagination functions. For a while that Edward and co. are going to dominate my thoughts. I don't mind. I had a good ride, and I'm not ready for it to end yet.
Somewhere there, I went to the theme park with my sister and cousins. I didn't enjoy myself. I was surrounded with religious nutcases, the heat and humidity were awful and my sister and cousins were lost in their own age-related interaction and left me waiting outside many of the rides for them to be done with the stuff I didn't want to go on, but wouldn't compromise and go with me on the ones I wanted to go on. I found that rather hurtful. I also ate a rather awful burger there, that was not worth its cost, and drank too much cola and ate too much popcorn. Urgh. My previous theme park experience was a lot better...
Still enjoying "The Glass Passenger". I really hope I can afford to buy this album come September 30th. I still love "Hammer And Strings (A Lullaby)" madly, still love "Swim" and "American Love" and "Spinning" and "Crashin'" a lot. Still utterly in love with "Miss California" (bonus) and "The Resolution" (can't wait for the music video, it's gonna be directed by Stephenie Meyer, author of Twilight). Still enjoying "Drop Out - The So Unknown" and "Suicide Blonde" and still hurting with Andrew when I listen to "Caves".
Also been listening to McFly's superb new single, "Lies", a lot. Have been enjoying the music video as well. It's 6 minutes of futuristic weirdness with Dougie rocking the guyliner and Tom, Harry and Danny going all kung fu awesome.
The first week of work went by... strangely. We had a course to learn everything we needed to know about the paper and how to sell it. We had a cheery blonde guide called Ifat. She was both annoying and helpful all at the same time. The people with me in the course were quite the rainbow of characters. There was Sigi, that no one could ignore. A 46 year old mother of three with too much self confidence and bubbliness than is humanly allowed to have. There was Natalie, a horribly stupid brute. Ori, another moron (yet harmless) and a few others. I tried to tune them all out but every so often I had to interact with them. And I suffered through every second of it. I resulted to working on "auto pilot", allowing myself to be everything I'm not. Everything they wanted me to be. It was emotionally draining but it worked. I didn't have to hear them, I didn't have to deal with them anymore. It was all done for me by a force not quite a part of me, yet in complete control of me.
I managed to survive the course. 3 were fired (1 on the first day, and 2 more on the 3rd day) and 1 quit. 8 of us finished the course. Next week I'm doing mostly night shifts, and I have every intention of doing 15 night shifts this month so I can get the 750 shekels bonus to the salary that this action is rewarded with. In my 4 night shifts (starting at 15:30 and ending at 21:45) and my one morning shift (8:30 till 14:45) I'm going to be paired to someone else who will guide me through the week as I attempt to make my first steps selling subscriptions. After that I'm on my own. And I'm determined to sell, and sell a lot. I've never been more determined about anything my entire life. This would, obviously, mean a lot more auto pilot in action. But I don't mind. Whatever it takes.
Well, talking about work sure has sucked the fun out of blogging. I was going to mention some other stuff, like the test we had at the course and the visit we had to Yediot's factory to see where and how the paper is printed. But I don't feel like writing about that now. Maybe some other time. Probably not....
I got the job at Yediot Aharonot. I started working on the 31st of August. But before that, something else has happened. I asked David to order the remaining 3 books of the Twilight series off Amazon for me - New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. I got them all on Wednesday, the 27th of August. I finished New Moon on Thursday the 28th sometimes in the late afternoon. I wanted to wait off till Friday the 29th to start on Eclipse but I cheated and started at 10 minutes to midnight on the 28th. New Moon did not have enough Edward in it, it was mostly just Jacob and that irritated me. I was a junkie needing his fix and my fix was Edward Cullen. Eclipse did a better job at calming me down but leaving me craving for more. I finished that on Saturday the 30th. By Saturday night, I started on Breaking Dawn, which I finished Wednesday, September 3rd. I really read through them wicked fast. I intend on reading them all again. I've already read the first book, Twilight, two and a half times (twice the full book, and then I read the leaked copy of Midnight Sun, the story from Edward's point of view, which only leads up to chapter 12, 2 days before the glorious meadow scene). Unfortunately it might be a while before I get to finish Midnight Sun, so I'm going to read the other 3 books again to sooth me till then, and watch the movie just for the kicks of it.
I wasn't sure about the movie till I saw the field trip scene. Which, granted, was not in the book but finally showed Robert and Kristin channeling Edward and Bella as they should be. Especially Robert as Edward.
As for the books themselves, it's been a rollercoaster of emotions. I absolutely hated New Moon. Edward had left early on in the book and I became depressed at the prospect of much Jacob to be put up with. I spent every moment powering through that book, the more I read, the more I told myself Edward would be coming back soon. When he did come back, he delivered. Being his usual charming, amazing, lovely self. Deepening my love for him. Favorite scene in that book were probably in Bella's bedroom, after they returned from Italy, and on their way to the Cullen house when Bella decided to put her immortality to a vote. Much to Edward's dismay (and Emmet's annoyance, Edward tore their new 60" TV in two. It was especially imported from Korea because it's not yet available in the States. Poor Emmet!).
Eclipse was better. Edward was back in full force and Jacob was forced to the sidelines. Though Jacob's brutal and pathetic excuses to get Bella, it didn't work. Granted, she figured out she DOES love him like that but she chose Edward because he is her true soulmate. It didn't help Jacob when he tried to force himself onto Bella by kissing her against her will. I really hoped Edward would tear him to shreds for this. Unfortunately he didn't. There were many favorite Edward and Bella scenes, but my favorite non-Edward and Bella scene was Seth and Edward beating the hell outta Victoria and Riley. GO TEAM! GO SETH! GO EDWARD, YOU SEXY VAMPIRE YOU! Ahem.
Breaking Dawn was a bliss. The wedding scene was amazingly lovely, and made me tear up quite a lot. It also calmed me down about the whole "Team Jacob" business. Bye, bye, Team Jacob. Haha. The honeymoon was even better. Big up for Isle Esme and the feather. Oooh Edward, you sexy vampire-stud, you! *ruffles his bronze hair* I suffered through a lot of Jacob's book in Breaking Dawn, but ended up warming up to him due to his constant bickering with Rosalie and all the blonde jokes he fired at her. I actually laughed out loud. I had forgotten all my fondness, though, when the creep imprinted on Bella's BABY. Eww. And while we're on the subject, I was really angry with Bella's choice to keep this baby even though it was evident she was going to die from carry and giving birth to this kid, but I was glad she kept her. Renesmee proved to be quite worth the effort. She got her charm from her daddy, you couldn't help but fall in love with the little munchkin. The end of the book was beautiful. I loved the fact Bella was finally a vampire, and a good one at that, and that the battle against the Volturi was beaten with the mind and not arm-force. My favorite part was probably the last scene in which Bella manages to lift her mind-shield and allow Edward to hear her thoughts. Aww. And not to mention the vampire sex! Oooer.
All in all, I loved the Twilight series. In order of favorites, the books are as follows: 1. Twilight. 2. Breaking Dawn. 3. Eclipse. 4. New Moon. I enjoyed reading about the beautiful and pure love of those involved - Bella and Edward, Alice and Jasper (oh, how I love Alice!), Emmet and Rosalie (Emmet is THE DUDE!) and Carlisle and Esme. I enjoyed their happiness, I was hurting when they were.
The series has left my mind a blur and my emotions unstable. It didn't help that I started working and I was depressed. This was my escape and I invested every ounce of emotional strength into those books. I don't regret it. It's gonna be a while before I let go of Edward and co. I always get that when I get really emotionally attached to a book, I carry the characters with me for a while before my mind can go back to its normal imagination functions. For a while that Edward and co. are going to dominate my thoughts. I don't mind. I had a good ride, and I'm not ready for it to end yet.
Somewhere there, I went to the theme park with my sister and cousins. I didn't enjoy myself. I was surrounded with religious nutcases, the heat and humidity were awful and my sister and cousins were lost in their own age-related interaction and left me waiting outside many of the rides for them to be done with the stuff I didn't want to go on, but wouldn't compromise and go with me on the ones I wanted to go on. I found that rather hurtful. I also ate a rather awful burger there, that was not worth its cost, and drank too much cola and ate too much popcorn. Urgh. My previous theme park experience was a lot better...
Still enjoying "The Glass Passenger". I really hope I can afford to buy this album come September 30th. I still love "Hammer And Strings (A Lullaby)" madly, still love "Swim" and "American Love" and "Spinning" and "Crashin'" a lot. Still utterly in love with "Miss California" (bonus) and "The Resolution" (can't wait for the music video, it's gonna be directed by Stephenie Meyer, author of Twilight). Still enjoying "Drop Out - The So Unknown" and "Suicide Blonde" and still hurting with Andrew when I listen to "Caves".
Also been listening to McFly's superb new single, "Lies", a lot. Have been enjoying the music video as well. It's 6 minutes of futuristic weirdness with Dougie rocking the guyliner and Tom, Harry and Danny going all kung fu awesome.
The first week of work went by... strangely. We had a course to learn everything we needed to know about the paper and how to sell it. We had a cheery blonde guide called Ifat. She was both annoying and helpful all at the same time. The people with me in the course were quite the rainbow of characters. There was Sigi, that no one could ignore. A 46 year old mother of three with too much self confidence and bubbliness than is humanly allowed to have. There was Natalie, a horribly stupid brute. Ori, another moron (yet harmless) and a few others. I tried to tune them all out but every so often I had to interact with them. And I suffered through every second of it. I resulted to working on "auto pilot", allowing myself to be everything I'm not. Everything they wanted me to be. It was emotionally draining but it worked. I didn't have to hear them, I didn't have to deal with them anymore. It was all done for me by a force not quite a part of me, yet in complete control of me.
I managed to survive the course. 3 were fired (1 on the first day, and 2 more on the 3rd day) and 1 quit. 8 of us finished the course. Next week I'm doing mostly night shifts, and I have every intention of doing 15 night shifts this month so I can get the 750 shekels bonus to the salary that this action is rewarded with. In my 4 night shifts (starting at 15:30 and ending at 21:45) and my one morning shift (8:30 till 14:45) I'm going to be paired to someone else who will guide me through the week as I attempt to make my first steps selling subscriptions. After that I'm on my own. And I'm determined to sell, and sell a lot. I've never been more determined about anything my entire life. This would, obviously, mean a lot more auto pilot in action. But I don't mind. Whatever it takes.
Well, talking about work sure has sucked the fun out of blogging. I was going to mention some other stuff, like the test we had at the course and the visit we had to Yediot's factory to see where and how the paper is printed. But I don't feel like writing about that now. Maybe some other time. Probably not....
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