Where is My Shanti?

Maya always wakes me up in the morning by asking me what's the time, and then where's her daddy. But before that, at about 5.00 in the morning my son's alarm clock goes off, then the busses start their day, then the cars and finally the workers from the building site across the road...

I grew up in a small town in Romania, and on our street there hardly was any traffic, at all. Then, when I moved to Cluj, in the beginning I stayed in all kinds of crazy places, blocks of flats with crazy people that kept shouting at night, drinking to much and beating their wives, or having parties. When I finally bought an apartment, I thought it was in a pretty normal area, where normal people leave...How wrong I was! Above me, I had a couple that trew huge parties almost every week-end, and on my floor two apartments with party lovers. Once we had to call the police because they were making such a racket we thought the building was going to collapse...O.K, then I came here in Israel, and in the beginning we lived in an apartment in a small building and of course, above us was living a guy thet kept shuffling his furniture at night, making a terrible noise. Near him, we had a drug dealer and sometimes junkies came to beg him for a fix, shouting his name...He went to gail at some point. Now, we live in a decent neighborhood, nice neighbors (well, with the occeasional party, what do you want?) BUT, our bedroom is facing the busy and NOISY road, I cannot open the windows because of the traffic, and we have a building site where the workers start shouting at 7.00 o'clock in the morning...

I really need some peace and quiet here!

And we cannot move again. That's it. I want my shanti. I cannot bear this noise anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!

About books, what else?

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It is very late in this part of the world and I am dead tired, besides being a cleaning lady today I had an appointment at the dentist. I also took care of my e-mail, I had started a hunting mission, to find some books I wanted, so I posted a message on an Israeli message board and I received a few answers. I was looking for the book "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova and I also wanted to buy Anne Rice's books ( I left my copies back in Romania, and they are in Romanian). Speaking of Romania, I found a good picture of Cluj, the city where I lived during the the time I studied at the University and where I worked afterwards, as a journalist. One of the cities very close to my heart.
I don't think I'll post much tomorrow or on Saturday. It is the week-end here, so my hubby isn't working and on Friday we usually do chores and on Saturday we try to do something together as a family. We thought a trip to Ayalon Park in Tel Aviv would be nice.

And speaking of vampires (again !) here's a link to a nice article on the latest vampire frenzy:

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Well, I think that's enough for today. I am going to crawl to my bed. Night-night whoever you are...