Things I Learned This Year
This is from a combination of living in Israel and being married to my husband:
Hair-cuts, wig setting, and make-up (although I most probably won’t be doing it professionally- feel I need way more experience for that- at least I can do it for myself.)
Stick Shift Driving- due to my husband who likes to brag that his 1984 Subaru drives better than most automatic cars and takes curves and off road driving way better.
Using a Mac- My husband’s family are all super loyal Mac users. In my husband’s words: “I belong the the religion of Macism where Steve Jobs is God and Bill Gates is the devil.” He seriously hates Bill Gates and even started a site Kill IE which is a reference to internet explorer being the most outdated web browser which apparently makes his job much harder as someone who builds web sites. Good news is I have my own iBook as a result.
Hebrew- I can actually even read articles now thanks to Ulpan. I’ll have to admit that because my mother’s Israeli I had a head start, but still I definitely wasn’t doing that before.
The Beatles and Bob Marly- once you get married you gotta also learn to like your spouse’s music. Since I was listening mainly to top 40 pop and R&B (because what else plays on the radio in the US) at least now I feel like a cultured person, albeit slightly outdated.
Aihud Banai, Shiri Maimon, Adiran, OrphanLand (mix of heavy metal and middle eastern Jewish- actually quite interesting.) and a whole slew of other Israeli singers also joined the list.
Cooking- I hate admitting this but my husband’s a way better cook than me and makes dinner all the time. I’m also thankful to his mother for that. I used to send pictures to my mother of all the food he made and wounded up hearing for a whole bunch of random people about what an amazing cook my husband was. Good news is I’m learning from him and I do take credit for a lot of the Israeli salads which he knows how to make from me- ironic because he grew up in an American household in Israel and I grew up in an Israeli householod in America.