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So. It turns out that today is the first time I've used my stove since, um. Last Friday. I realized this because it felt odd to turn on the burner directly - just a turn and Hey! fire! As opposed to taking the flame from a burning candle and transfering that carefully to the stove, and turning the handle carefully, as one does on holidays. Which was the last time I used the stove.
I had the oven on Shabbat, but that's just putting already cooked food in. We went out on Sunday night - we saw Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Was fun.
(Also, though, on the way home, two friends from our old neighborhood who preceded us to the new one got on the bus. And one of them was amazingly self-righteous. Because she no longer has a television and her older boys (midteens) all had "video monitors" but those monitors kept breaking down and she was grateful for that, and she'd *never* let them read comic books. And. Parents have a right to decide what their kids watch and so on, but honestly, these are good kids, and this no tv thing is only a few years old and. Well. Ouch. They should only know what I write for a hobby.)
Anyway, we had leftovers on Monday, with the fresh stuff cooked in the microwave, and we were out Tuesday for the folk thing, and I met![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cara_chapel on Wednesday, so yeah. My first time cooking a whole meal since yom tov.
Wow.
I had the oven on Shabbat, but that's just putting already cooked food in. We went out on Sunday night - we saw Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Was fun.
(Also, though, on the way home, two friends from our old neighborhood who preceded us to the new one got on the bus. And one of them was amazingly self-righteous. Because she no longer has a television and her older boys (midteens) all had "video monitors" but those monitors kept breaking down and she was grateful for that, and she'd *never* let them read comic books. And. Parents have a right to decide what their kids watch and so on, but honestly, these are good kids, and this no tv thing is only a few years old and. Well. Ouch. They should only know what I write for a hobby.)
Anyway, we had leftovers on Monday, with the fresh stuff cooked in the microwave, and we were out Tuesday for the folk thing, and I met
cara_chapel on Wednesday, so yeah. My first time cooking a whole meal since yom tov.Wow.
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But, the no TV thing is old news in my circles, even here in L.A. Not that everyone does it, but that some do and it's an issue. I had none from when I first got married in 1991 until a few years ago when I got into anime. The school in our old neighborhood had two classes for each grade, one for homes with TV and one for homes without.
(The no-TV one was called the "Yiddish track" and some Yiddish was used but that wasn't really it and everyone said that publicly. My friend told me she didn't care about Yiddish but she didn't want her kids playing with kids who watched television.)
On the one hand this stuff is part of why I'm leaving Orthodoxy. On the other hand watching anime and meeting other people who do eventually led me to realize outside world is not a big, bad place or a morass of immorality and led me to ask uncomfortable questions and THAT'S why I'm leaving Orthodoxy. So, they're right.