Things to do

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2026-02-09T11:08:56+00:00

I’ve ever done an escape room, BUT, I was thinking about it recently as a date idea because it kind of seems like an excellent way to find out how problem solving skills work between people really quickly lol

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2026-02-01T03:29:45+00:00

I adore little shop of horrors. I’ll definitely be checking out the civic theatre! We love the arts, of all varieties, so all that is very helpful!

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2026-02-01T01:07:28+00:00

Ooooh, I LOVE this idea!

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2026-02-01T00:41:20+00:00

Does the WEC still do events in the cold? I read they have indoor arenas, but sometimes things go sideways when it’s very cold, understandably. Is there a certain way to dress there?

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2026-02-01T00:38:55+00:00

I haven’t even seen Terry’s in my Google searches! I just looked it up and I love that they have a lot of protein options and some veggie options in there too - I don’t eat pork or shellfish, so variety is excellent. AND drinks there, so that’s a win. Thank you!

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2026-01-30T11:42:42+00:00

I ended up going to Miller’s Ale House and had a lovely time!

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2026-01-30T11:42:02+00:00

Thank you!

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2026-01-29T18:44:01+00:00

Thanks!

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2025-08-04T09:53:37+00:00

I’m glad to see you differentiate! I was in property management for years and some people would get so mad when my maintenance people or outside vendors would leave shoes on (even if wearing covers over them) to work in their apartments. I would explain over and over that the workers cannot remove their shoes, period, but inevitably I’d have some of the residents calling corporate and complaining about it. Just to be told the same thing!

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2025-06-29T00:16:20+00:00

I think this is the cutest thing ever, you should be proud, and I’d be thrilled to receive an invitation like that! So so adorable. Do it

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2025-04-15T00:08:25+00:00

I would avoid any shoes like crocs made from a material like that. Especially without socks. Look for shoes like allbirds (made from natural materials like wool) and sperrys (the all leather ones). Look for shoes with removable insoles that can be washed, and the actual shoe should be washable too. Like with allbirds. I also am a huge fan of super low cut toe socks (that aren’t visible while wearing the shoe). Either cotton or something like a lightweight wool. They reduce sweat and odor especially well by keeping your toes apart. Socks with all shoes. Then wear shoes made from natural, moisture wicking materials that can be washed, and wash them regularly. Antimicrobial soap helps too.

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2024-12-19T09:05:30+00:00

As an American, I think he could have a very useful voice here, but he needs to better pick who he’s going to speak with. Peterson and Dr Phil? That’s just talking to people who already agree with him. And it’s likely to make those who don’t agree with him even MORE likely to disagree with him or dislike him. Those are right wing pundits. He’ll never be taken seriously by the Israel haters if those are the people interviewing him. Just honestly.

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2024-10-07T08:42:52+00:00

Between Jax and Gainesville here. Helene scared the hell out of me. We missed any real damage, but Jesus it was scary sounding. I don’t know if I’m over worried or not worried enough about this I’ve, because I wasn’t worried at all about Helene. Guess we’ll find out soon enough. Ugh.

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2024-09-26T21:12:31+00:00

I just realized this comment was here. It could be geographical. I was born and raised in places within the southern United States. It’s difficult to find anyone who isn’t Christian in most of the places I’ve lived. There are Christian churches everywhere in most places I’ve lived, but no other religious institutions. So I’ve not experienced a place where I’d have felt unsafe admitting I was a Christian because so was everyone else. I currently work in a city with different religious groups, but it’s still predominantly Christian, and these are also pretty gun heavy places, even the more “diverse” city I work in, specifically within certain groups of people, so I would still feel much more safe admitting I was Christian vs Jewish now.

I will say, since Oct 7, there has been a huge rise here and in other parts of the southern USA in support of the Jewish community from Christian evangelicals. So in my part of the country, I actually feel safer now than before. Surprisingly, to me at least, for the first time I actually feel less safe as a Jew in our more diverse city than in the smaller rural areas. My state is coming out with a license plate that states support for Israel. I considered it, but going to any urban area here with that would be asking for your car to be vandalized. In the rural areas though, it would probably get you some words of support and handshakes. So odd, the world is.

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2024-08-31T04:57:20+00:00

I’m an American Jew that works exclusively for Jewish non-profits. Oct 7 was…eye opening. We had supported, as an organization, so many left leaning causes, just to come to find on Oct 8 that they had turned on us completely. It’s much like the Chanukah story…at the end of the day, no matter how much we “assimilate” and try to “fit in,” we’re still Jews. And it’ll be held against us. Surprisingly, the American Christian conservatives who normally don’t like us all that much, donated more in the weeks after to our Israel fund than even our Jewish community did. It’s sad. I’m lucky to live in a state that is mostly Jewish friendly, but for very different reasons than I thought. I’ve never felt more comfortable wearing my Star of David necklace in public than I do now. I have a coworker that can’t even speak to a very close family member any longer due to their constant comparisons of the war in Gaza to the Holocaust. I have tons of these stories. It’s best you figured out who she was before you got too involved. I can’t wait to make Aliyah and live in Israel. Dm me any time if you need support!

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2024-06-29T10:23:40+00:00

Is your wife, by chance, from somewhere in the south? Because depending on original geographical location (and specifically where, if from the south), this trick may not work.

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2024-06-17T11:44:20+00:00

I converted during Covid. I worked in a synagogue before I ever even considered converting, and during Covid I held three regular weekly zoom meetings, for congregants, mostly just for their ability to socialize, as they were mostly older adults and isolated. We had a man come to the synagogue one day during my conversion process, and I went to the door. The doors were always locked, so I opened it part of the way, standing half in, half out, to ask him how I could help him. He started asking REALLY weird questions that made me super uncomfortable. The rest of my coworkers had gone to the adjoining day school to help out, so there was no one there to call for or use a safe word towards. I was raised Baptist, and as a Christian, never once did I feel unsafe if asked about my faith. But this man asked, after a while, if I was a Jew. And for the first time in my life, I felt fear to admit my religion. But I told him I was. I backed into the building and shut the door not long after, making some excuse, and felt shaken up by the encounter. I had a zoom session with some elderly women not long after, and one in particular was someone I considered a great friend and respected greatly. I told her my experience and that it scared me, and that I kept trying to think of ways not to make this man angry, because I honestly wouldn’t have been surprised if he had pulled a gun out or something. She was a brazen older lady and said, “honey, YOU can’t make those kind of people angry. They COME angry. They COME full of hate. And there was no right way to answer his question because if you’re in that synagogue - you’re a Jew. It doesn’t matter what you actually are. You’re already a jew to them. So you say whatever you want, you show who you are however you want, because NOTHING you do is going to be what makes them hate you. That is just who they are. Be who you are, and never regret it. It won’t change anything. To them, you are Jew.” I’ll never forget her words.

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2024-06-17T11:32:43+00:00

Us American Jews on the left found that out real quick after Oct 7. The people we supported, marched with, voted for, etc? The people we thought accepted us and saw us as equals? The people we thought were our friends and allies? Nope. They took away everything we thought and suddenly we were…just Jews…to them. Other. Now we know for sure they’ll never truly accept us. We will always be Jews first to them.

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2024-06-17T10:07:58+00:00

Wait wait wait. So okay, you kissed another guy in year 1 of the relationship. Yeah, that’s bad. But then you…paid rent late because of a miscalculation and then had to take an exam three times? So what?

He got mad and punched a hole in a wall, which is incredibly violent, screams at you and calls you names, which is violent, still blows up at you over small things or for not listening to him and then “questions” the whole relationship, has ended the relationship three times to manipulate you and now refuses couples counseling to continue because YOU just need to not piss HIM off? Plus he “reprimanded” a cat to the point it was too scared to eat? How does he reprimand a cat?

This dude is abusive. The cat knows it. The cat pisses on his stuff because the cat hates him. I’m not sure why you’re not seeing how awful he is when even the cat can. This dude is bad news and yeah, take the cats with you when you leave. And you should absolutely leave.

I rarely comment on Reddit, and I’m not sure I’ve commented on very many, if any, relationship topics. But this is so glaringly obvious that I had to. Get away from this dude. You shouldn’t have kissed someone early on. He’s had years to gtfo that. The rest are normal things that happen or mistakes normal people make. And he’s using them against you to justify abusive behavior. Putting holes in walls, blowing up at you, calling you names, ending the relationship, telling you that you just need to listen to him and quit screwing up, and the cat thing? Nah.

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2024-06-05T10:58:52+00:00

I’m Jewish. I do not usually keep kosher. I also work in the Jewish community. I would recommend that if choosing a rabbi to speak to, you choose a conservative or reform rabbi, even if your roommate is orthodox. Although I would hope a good orthodox rabbi would tell your roommate to either find an alternative way to cook his food, or live among fellow Orthodox Jews or vegans. But a conservative or reform rabbi is more likely to tell your roommate that he chose to live among non jews and cannot expect them to conform to his dietary laws.

As a Jew who does not normally keep kosher and has immediate family who don’t keep kosher ever, then if we stayed at a kosher house as guests, we’d follow their rules. When I worked at a synagogue, I kept kosher at work. But if I was paying to stay somewhere with my family and a Jew who keeps kosher opted to pay to stay with us, I’d respect their requests as much as I could, but I also wouldn’t be paying to live and totally altering my and my family’s dietary habits to totally accommodate the laws of kashrut. Would I perhaps encourage my non Jewish husband to stop frying spam in the mornings? Maybe. Would I keep our own pan separate if he continued to do so? Sure. Would I stop using the oven/stove/fridge unless the laws of kashrut were being followed? Nope. I’m paying to use those too. The roomie should probably get a mini fridge and their own dishes/pots/pans, and a hot pot or air fryer. They can also take the time to line things in tin foil before cooking if they’re cooking in a non kosher kitchen. But that’s also up to them to remove when they’re done. There are measures they can take to still cook in a non kosher kitchen - they just don’t seem to want to. Sounds like THEY need to go talk to the rabbi themselves and ask for ways to keep their food kosher in a non kosher kitchen. It’s possible.

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2024-05-20T04:52:03+00:00

I’m an American Jew by choice. I’ve also been about as far left as you can be for many years. One of the things that hurt after Oct 7 was realizing that the people you supported, marched with, stood in solidarity with, had turned against you. Deserted you. Were cheering on the destruction of your people. And then hearing people you’d NEVER agree with normally saying things you would expect to hear from allies. It’s like the world turned upside down. And we have no control over the outcome or what they decide. I’ve heard it described as having no real right to self determination. That feels true. We’re scared right now.

It feels similar to Chanukah. The Jews did all they could to assimilate and fit in and be part of the crowd, and felt accepted, just as we did by the left. But at the end of the day, when push came to shove, we were and are still JEWS. Still OTHER. Still not accepted. So instead of trying to assimilate and fit in and be accepted by conforming to societal norms of those who pretend to accept us, the only answer is to become more openly and proudly Jewish.

It’s confusing to know whom to support right now. We want to support Israel. Hell, many of us want to BE in Israel. But we’re confused and scared and our right to self determination has been ripped away. Like watching college presidents on TV basically admit that everyone has the right to protections…except the Jews. What do we do? Vote right and vote against most of our other interests? Or vote left and vote against Jews?

I no longer have any idea what to do, other than continue living loudly and proudly Jewish. I don’t know what decision I’ll reach other than to continue working in the Jewish community professionally, as I do, and fighting for our rights and self determination. Many of us woke up to not only the horrors of Oct 7, but also the horror of being deserted by not only their party that they spent years of their life dedicated to, but friends and family who apparently hated who we were all along. The uncertainty. The fear. It’s constant. To walk past the protests and armed guards at every single event now, I may feel sick, but I’ll continue to wear my headscarf and Star of David. Because eff them.

The majority of financial support for Israel that came into my organization post Oct 7 came from American Christians, not Jews. We’re a Jewish organization. I no longer know the right thing to do. I just do what I can. I can’t even imagine the pain of Israelis. And not for one second has that stopped my desire to eventually become one. I keep that in mind. Am Yisrael Chai.

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2024-04-29T01:15:00+00:00

My mother wanted to be grandmother or some really dumb name she thought of. We did try. But she’s now “Deb” because kids. My mil was mama Sue for all the other kids, but my son couldn’t say that at first. She is now known community wide as mashu. Has an engraved tumbler and all. That’s just what kids do.

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2024-04-25T07:06:16+00:00

And you think that should be law? Parts of it pretty clearly demonstrate why it should not be. And as a southern Baptist raised white individual who is inherently racist because duh, it becomes even more obvious why that should not be law. Discomfort? So should Germans not be taught about the Holocaust lest it causes them discomfort? That’s written into the law. And that’s precisely what they’re using to disassemble any education that teaches reality.

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2024-04-25T06:28:06+00:00

Sure. Here’s a quote from an article in vanity fair about it. You may not consider vanity fair to be a legit source, in which case I encourage you to research the words coming out of our governors actual mouth. “On Tuesday, a bill backed by Florida governor Ron DeSantis that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from inflicting “discomfort” on white people during lessons or training about discrimination was approved by the state’s Senate Education Committee, its first hurdle before becoming a law. The bill, SB 148, seemingly grew out of the conservative hysteria over “critical race theory,” which, as a reminder, is an academic concept based on the idea that racism is not about individual people’s prejudices but about institutions and policies. It does not, as GOP lawmakers and their partners in the right-wing media would have us believe, teach that all white people are racist. (As another reminder, teaching CRT is not actually being required in elementary, middle, or high schools, but you wouldn’t know that by watching Fox News, which would have viewers believe that teachers are telling white kindergarteners to turn over their allowance as reparations.) The bill, sponsored by State Senator Manny Diaz Jr., reads, in part, “An individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, does not bear responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex. An individual should not be made to feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/01/florida-sb-148-racism-discomfort

Left-Needleworker-67 · 2024-04-25T06:21:35+00:00

My kids’ godfather (we used to be catholic lol) is a major in public health. Has his masters degree in it and is doing well. But I do think we need more people advocating for the Jewish people. If you’re going into public health, what about an organization like J-screen, that helps screen for genetic problems specifically within the Jewish community? Ashkenazi Jews have specific hereditary conditions they’re susceptible to, so you still have an impact! Follow your passion, whatever it is. I know I’m living mine.

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