I got almost everything ready for the big event starting tomorrow night!
Today i’ll be rolling up the 8x small joints of Kosher Kush to place in the , and I just need to get a candle to put in the middle to light them over the course of Dec18-26th.
Fun Story about getting the Menorah:
My best friend of 31+ years and his wife have JUST had their second child. Their first is named Archer, after Captain Archer of the Starship Enterprise NX-01 and now their second is named Trip, after Commander Charles Tucker III (aka: “Trip”), the Chief Engineer of the same ship but most importantly the best friend of Captain Archer.
All this playful nerdiness aside… I have been given the honour, privilege and duty of being Trip’s Godfather.
I’m Pagan and they are Jewish, but that doesn’t matter when it comes to love and family and never has.
So when I declined their invite to Trip’s bris stating: “I do not support child mutilation on behalf of a guilt-trip from the dead.”, they understood and respected it and additionally DID have up at the event a photo i took of myself imitating Marlon Brando as the Godfather so I can be represented at this event as Trip’s Godfather".
I’m 100% against circumcision IF NOT A WILLING CHOICE BY THE PARTICIPANT but there is also the “naming” part of the ceremony which I wanted to be a part of… hence the photo The event was masked as well as there are a lot of Covid and respiratory illness cases going around again so I took the photo WITH A MASK ON and they laughed so hard when I gave it to them I know it was appreciated.
That’s the backstory… and here’s the punchline about the Menorah.
Last night I got a message saying “I found my spare 's! Can you come by tonight to both drop off the folding table I loaned you + grab the Menorah as we are out all day tomorrow.” I agree fully, throw on some pants and then head on over. They live 1km away so it’s legit less than 5 minutes unless there’s construction blocking the way.
As I pull up to the turn into their crescent street there’s a delivery truck making the same turn right in front of me so I follow it but OF COURSE it’s also going into the lane way I need to use to access my buddies garage door…
…and it’s a tight shit-show in there so I resolve to park on the street and walk the table over instead of playing bumper cars. I pull around, park and get the table in the air and walk over only to find the driveway is being BLOCKED by the same delivery van .
I walk around awkwardly and then call my bestie mentioning the truck and hilarity of this all so he can come down and let me in.
As the garage door starts to open I hear a panicked woman’s voice behind me: "OH THANK GOD! YOU ARE OPENING THAT GARAGE DOOR! I’ve been trying to get a hold of that household in order to figure out HOW I’m getting this 75lb delivery to them and they are not answering their phone!"
I was SPEECHLESS.
This woman had 100% reason to be distressed… just looking at her SHE WAS ABOUT 75lbs!? so moving the box was not possible without damage to her or the items in it!
“What is the package?” I asked, “I’ll let them know and come back to help get it inside. They have a 2 week old and a 1 year old… please don’t be too offended about them not answering their phone as they may not even know what day it is right now!”.
She laughed so hard she was teary when she settled down to answer:
“It’s a…”
(she paused to look inside the truck at the large box)
“…CRIB!!”
I laughed equally and harder, then got to it and ran in to let them know and then addressed the situation while each stood there stunned both holding a child in their arms while I moved around.
I feel blessed by all this and see it as a great sign of things to come for the following reasons:
- Choosing to jump up at the message and go right-away to do the initial pickup/drop-off meant I was there at the exact perfect time to help
- My friend and his wife were expecting the crib to arrive on MONDAY, not FRIDAY so this was a total surprise to them and caught them COMPLETELY OFF GUARD.
- This was the first time I got to actually see my God child in person due to everything on my plate and theirs… and of course it’s cosmically timed with also going over to collect a for a seed-preservation run & ends up as a double-mitzvah with me lugging Trip’s new bed from a truck into the garage alone… with their proud papa and I carrying the 75lbs up 5 flights of stairs to the top floor of their townhouse.