Day 209 (less stoopit fans)

About a week ago, I tried to buy BSM's iron supplement from the pharmacy near my house. The lady verty kindly offered to sell it to me, but told me it would be about half the price if I went to a Clalit pharmacy. (Clalit is my insurance company.) So today I went into Yerushalayim and bought the iron supplement from a Clalit pharmacy at about half price.

Since I parked in a grocery store's parking lot, I stopped in to see if they had anything we could use. They didn't, at least not at prices I liked. It's funny: every time I go into a new grocery store, I have mixed emotions. I'm disappointed that I won't be getting good bargains there, but I also feel satisfaction bordering on a strange pride that my grocery store has such good prices.

I don't feel this way about the hardware store in the shopping center closest to the Yishuv, though, so while in Yerushalayim, I went to various hardware stores and bought stuff for the house. Extension cords, some hooks, plastic bins, etc etc. I also bought curtains for the living room, though when I say "curtains," I mean "300 centimeter-long tablecloths." I folded over and sewed one end of each tablecloth throughout the day, and hung them tonight. Privacy at last!

In baby news, BSM cut another tooth yesterday or today. That's 5 teeth on the left and 2 on the right. I predict more teething in the near future... In other baby news, when I came to pick up the tiniest of Spidermen this afternoon, he looked at me, then walked away toward something more interesting than his mother. I really am happy that he loves daycare. Very, very happy. You see, he gives me lots of snuggles and wants me when he's sad, so I don't feel insecure :-)

Getting to the title of today's post, our handyman-neighbor stopped by today, and fixed our fan. It seems (so obviously once he diagnosed the problem) that I pulled the neutral wire loose while installing the fan. The incomplete circuit meant the fan wouldn't work. Ta-dum! He patched up the neutral wires and clicked in the fan, and magic! The fan went round and round! YAY!

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Tablecloth curtains. Not too bad. We'll have to tie them up when BSM is awake, but we mostly need them after dark, anyway.