Late night secret

So, in a previous post I mentioned the thing I do at night for fun. It is playing the Sims. I haven't played for a few weeks because sometimes my computer goes really s l o w. I really like the game. It's weird because while you sit there feeding your Sims nutritious food, sending them to the bathroom and to take a bath, you are starving, need to pee and need a shower. I used to be really into Age of Empires, the killing part was not the cool part to me but the building up the civilazation. Sims is like that but on a really detailed level.
Yeah, ok, I'm a loser.
In other news, I'm sick, a yukky head cold, because of which I slept all shabbos.

Its Elul again.
I read somewhere that in the week before rosh hashana we can atone for the whole year, on yom rishon, for all the yom rishons, on yom sheni for all the yom shenis. That's a cool thought.

Gut voch.

How do you like your peaches at a voch nacht?

I like hard peaches and nectarines, and plums for that matter. I like to cut them with a knife and eat them piece by piece(not the plums). My husband calls these unripe.

I don't really understand how a voch nacht in segments of the chassidishe world has become more important than the bris. As I understand it (hey, I could be wrong) a bris is a mitzva dearaysa and therefore the meal is a seudas mitzva. On the night before the bris there is a minhag for the father of the baby to learn all night in the house. How exactly did it go from that to being mekubal that women don't even go to the bris and only to the vach nacht. And that there has to be an elaborate (catered) meal at the v.n.? I understand (I think) basically how it happened. Father learning- chavrusa- food- other people stop by- women come with husbands- more food- big meal. But how did it become more important than the bris- a mitzva deoraysa?
Some things just leave me scratching my head.

You know you've been away from your blog for too long when

you forget your username or password. Or at least that's how I know.
My computer is being a very bad boy! Very bad. Or maybe its something with my connection. Either way it's kept from doing a bunch of internet stuff for over a week.
Tish b'av was about as miserable as I thought it would be.
Its been pretty quiet around my actual house since seminary girls and yeshiva boys have gone home for the summer. But noisier on the streets because its vacation/ bein hazmanim. I could talk about specific stuff in my town, but that would blow my "cover". How anonymous do I really think I am anyway? anyone who knows me knows its me....

I had some other stuff I wanted to write, about burial in Israel, some books I read some Mishpacha articles, some relatives and some people I know. But it will all have to wait. My secret late night obsession has not been tended to yet, and I really should be sleeping....
Maybe tomorrow I'll talk about my secret late night activity.

Uh, and how could the spell checker for blogger not include the word "blog"??