Update on my progress

Well it looks like the apartment will be delayed a few more days. The strike is over, as I already mentioned (I think) but I've been sick, as I know I've mentioned, and wasn't really up to accomplishing all that needed to be accomplished in order to get everything taken care of today. The apartment is mine, I'm 99.99% sure...she told me she's been telling people who call about it that it is already promised to someone. And waiting until Sunday/Monday will actually be the better thing to do because it means that there will (hopefully, assuming a few things work out as hoped) be a lot less hassle and trouble involved for me and my landlady.



Here's an interesting little factoid, I'm not sure if I've mentioned it yet or not. In the pharmacies here - in all fairness, I think I've only been in a few different types of the same chain pharmacy store, but still - all the medicine (Advil, itch medicine, even zit cream!) is behind the counter at the pharmacy. It's not like in the old familiar Wal-Mart, where you can go pick out whatever you want. So I was going to get some sinus medicine today, but wimped out due to the long line, and the inevitable hassle it would have been. I made a doctor's appointment, but the earliest one available was on Sunday evening...so I'm just going to attempt to hold out until then. I'm sure I'll be fine, just not as comfortable as I could be. It's amazing how many times a day I realize how spoiled and what a truly comfortable life I am used to living. Anyway, tomorrow the whole country shuts down around noon for Yom Kippur and is ceased until Saturday night, so when I go out tonight I have to remember to pick up a few vital necessities. Word has it, it's actually illegal to open a shop/restaurant/cafe in the country on Yom Kippur.



Two very exciting things did happen today though. First of all, in the pharmacy, I found Kleenex tissues with menthol. I could only find those in the area of Florida/Alabama where I lived once...it was such a wonderful moment! Also, when walking back to Mary's house, I happened to glance in the window of this little store, and they had a few boxes of Cheez-its for sale in the window! I paid about $11 for two boxes of Cheez-its that would have cost less than $5 in the states. (It was 50 shekels for both boxes.) But little things like that...even though they don't taste good to me at all right now/anymore, just the familiarity is comforting. Even if I get overwhelmingly sick of them (which is possible but not probable) the dogs LOVE them...so they won't go to waste, that's for sure. I suppose that's about all for now. I love you all!