new brolly

i woke up late, went to the bank branch near my apartment, and talked to them for ages before returning home to pick up my id and then going back again to instruct them to move my account. i know it's too early to get excited, but i may never have to return to that shit-hole of a branch in yad eliyahu again!

i bussed to herzeliya, had breakfast and then took my mum shopping. i don't like shopping. at least she found what she wanted (eventually), and we could go outside for lunch and a beer.

we manoeuvred through pituach to avoid traffic, which took longer than ploughing through the traffic itself would have, paused at our cousins' and then went off to ra'anana, to spend some time with my grandmother's cousin.

it's nice that she's been here half a year and is still enthusiastic. she's moved up all her belongings, and it's a bit of a madhouse with all the items that used to fill a huge house squeezed into a small apartment. the most amusing thing is walking into the bathroom and finding... a bath. one of those enormous ones with legs and everything.

we had coffee and a snack (apple pie, in my case) at a coffee-shop nearby, and our waitress was a girl i was friendly with until about five years ago when she went into the army. it was nice catching up.

we took a bit of a walk, and when we said goodbye she gave me
A BEACH UMBRELLA!
all that whinging and whining bitterly has paid off!

we went back to herzeliya planning on visiting her parents. who weren't in. i watched an interesting yugoslavian movie (made in 1982), sat with everyone telling really amusing stories, then went to wait for the bus. it took a while, and i bounced up and down to my goa collection - especially jumping up and down to saiko pod - tron.

i've just done some stitching, run the washing machine empty (it's been a tad smelly the last few days), and am about to shower off the day's stickiness and sleep.