the mondays

israeli politics are troubling (it's hard to ignore what's going on in spite of my best intentions to the contrary) and i woke up to a post about the awful societal failure they're calling 50 shades of black, which i watched for half an hour before realizing that i do not want to start my day with this (too late, i guess).

friday was functional - we got a lot done, including buying my and mr smear new shoes - but the weekend was by and large cozy and indoors while the winter weather did its thing. it was a tim burton weekend, we watched the nightmare before christmas, edward scissorhands and corpse bride.

i also published a video for advice, which i've been wanting to do for the longest time.

mr smear's been sick since the weekend, it started with a sniff and progressed into a horrible cough. i stayed home yesterday while gd went to ulpan, and for the most part we were good.

i spent a good chunk of yesterday morning reading through job listings and making contacts. i'm grateful to not be doing this under pressure.

i had a meeting with my boss yesterday, and it feels like all the words left unspoken were heard loud and clear.