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Mar. 3rd, 2007 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_ytWe had our seder last night. My grandma and grandpa were here, as was a friend of my dad's from the synagogue. It was a pretty good seder, although I still hate the Reconstructionist haggadahs we have. Maybe it's just because I grew up with different ones, but I tend to think that the ones we have now, which have to explain the crap out of all the symbolism and such, are cheesy.
The real fun started after the seder. We had just finished a few minutes ago and we were cleaning up when the power went out on our whole block. As I write this now, at 11 PM, the power is still out. I'm just on my laptop, which has a nearly full battery.
Anyway, Dad got out all our emergency flashlights and kerosene lamps and whatnot. Benjamin decided that this power outage was an act of God, who had been pleased with our seder and decided He liked Benjamin enough to keep him from having to do his homework. I enthusiastically agreed that this was so. We decided to play a board game, but when we were searching for a particular one upstairs and later in the basement, Benjamin didn't want to go upstairs alone, or into the basement at all. He said it creeped him out in the dark. I called him a number of names, including 'wuss' and 'pussy,' because it seemed like the correct thing to do under the circumstances.
We eventually found and played Life!, by the light of an electric lantern and a handheld flashlight. I won.
Fortunately I can use my cellphone as an alarm clock so I get up on time tomorrow. I hope I don't forget to pack anything. And that the power goes back on, so our wireless router will go back on, and I can check my e-mail before I go. Yes, I'm pathetic.
The real fun started after the seder. We had just finished a few minutes ago and we were cleaning up when the power went out on our whole block. As I write this now, at 11 PM, the power is still out. I'm just on my laptop, which has a nearly full battery.
Anyway, Dad got out all our emergency flashlights and kerosene lamps and whatnot. Benjamin decided that this power outage was an act of God, who had been pleased with our seder and decided He liked Benjamin enough to keep him from having to do his homework. I enthusiastically agreed that this was so. We decided to play a board game, but when we were searching for a particular one upstairs and later in the basement, Benjamin didn't want to go upstairs alone, or into the basement at all. He said it creeped him out in the dark. I called him a number of names, including 'wuss' and 'pussy,' because it seemed like the correct thing to do under the circumstances.
We eventually found and played Life!, by the light of an electric lantern and a handheld flashlight. I won.
Fortunately I can use my cellphone as an alarm clock so I get up on time tomorrow. I hope I don't forget to pack anything. And that the power goes back on, so our wireless router will go back on, and I can check my e-mail before I go. Yes, I'm pathetic.
