We never got used to Egypt.

Click here before sending an ask 30s longtime BT Chabadnik and mother of 2

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Gotta love that thing when you’re reading a book and it’s really good and then all of a sudden WHAM the author drops a cute lil crumb of antisemitism and moves on like it didn’t just completely upend the entire book despite being barely plot-relevant

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Why is your profile pic something so incredibly holy? it's disrespctful to use it for a blog.

Why are you using your time to anonymously harass internet strangers about their profile pics instead of learning Torah, since you’re so worried about kedusha? 🤔

[princessglitterbuttt]

It’s so funny to me how girls get married and then just automatically become blondes

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

I actually barely ever see this, especially because blond sheitels have a reputation for being harder to find good quality. People don’t usually go out of their way to not look like themselves when they first start covering their hair in my experience.

But also I feel VERY called out 😂 and I will have you know that it was an accident! I bought it at a sale and genuinely did not realize how blond it was until after I bought it. I thought it was light brown and then everyone kept telling me it was blond and eventually I had to admit it is, in fact, blond.

But also in my defense, neither of my brown sheitels nor any of the brown ones that were at that sale are in fact my natural hair color either, I’ve never really found one that’s the right shade of brown, and I was actually approximately this shade of blond as a child.

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

I think you should only be allowed to be anxious or stressed about one topic at a time. All other topics need to chill out and wait their turn.

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Omg!!!! Fangirling

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

how do you decide when you're ready for another child? how hard was the jump from 1 kid to 2?

For me it’s vibes honestly. After having a baby I am very much ABSOLUTELY NOT EVER AGAIN and then at some point it becomes maybe someday but definitely not now and then one day it’s yes, and nothing meaningful changes over the course of that except time and my feelings. Meaning it’s not like “oh well now the previous baby has reached X milestone” or “now we’ve reached the right income threshold” or anything else like that that you can analyze rationally. If you are asking this because you’re wondering if you’re ready for another kid, my feeling is that if you’re wondering, it’s probably worth giving it a bit more time unless you have some kind of constraint (eg you know you definitely want another kid at some point, just not when, and you’re getting old enough that fertility will become a significant concern if you wait too long). Or if there’s a specific rational thing that’s holding you back (and it’s not just an excuse for your non-rational feelings - your feelings would be ready if this factor were addressed) then figure out how you can address that.

For me 0 to 1 was harder than 1 to 2 because it requires a massive and difficult identity shift to go from being just you to being someone’s mother. 1 to 2 has logistical changes but it’s not an entire new way of being. Also I had a much harder time getting to mikvah after my 1st than after my 2nd, which was emotionally difficult. I went to a lot of effort after my 2nd to make it more likely to get there sooner and it paid off.

[jewish-hot-takes]

Regular matzo (non-shumra) tastes better than gluten-free matzo

Jumblr: @tzipporahs-well

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[jewishgay4il]

Shmura matza does not taste any different than regular matza lol. Its not like they treat it differently, it just means someone watched it

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

A lot of times when people say "shmura" what they really mean is "handmade shmura" and when they say regular/non-shmura they mean machine matzah. Even though there's such thing as machine shmura matzah, or at least there used to be (I bought it once like 15 years ago), not sure if they still produce it because honestly I don't think there's a huge audience that both cares about it being shmura and does not care about it being machine.

But also which gluten-free matzah are we talking about? Handmade or machine? "Matzah" that isn't actually halachically matzah or gluten free oat matzah? OP wasn't exactly super specific with anything here.

[jewish-rock]

the saddest part about jumblr is that we cannot play jewish geography with each other without doxxing ourselves :(

[jewish-rock]

like statistically im probably 1 or 2 degrees away from a few of yall. alas, i will never know it.

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

#very sure some of us know each other in real life#but cannot reveal#because ummm#hey are you so and so on Tumblr#is not a normal thing to say#Lowkey if I realised anyone on tumblr was someone I knew#I'd have to block them forever

I can think of 3 people from jumblr who I ran into in the wild without trying. And I did confirm it was them but only online, afterwards. Not in person in the moment lol.

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

One of my son’s favorite babbling sounds recently sounds basically like “Yedidyah” or “Didyah” and now I need to find him a friend named Yedidyah so he can call him by his name 😂

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

It took almost 6 years but he finally met someone named Yedidyah…and ironically he’s now struggling to pronounce it. 😂

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Someone I know who runs a nonprofit that I’ve donated to in small amounts for many years solicited me for a larger (by our standards) donation in spring 2024, as we were finishing up almost 6 years of single-income-and-grad-school-tuition living and as I was being laid off from my previous job. I told her to ask me again next year because we were likely to be in a better situation by then. We were in a better situation by then. She did not ask. I did not give (more than what I already give).

And now about a year after that she is coming to me with a bigger proposal again……….right during this housing situation crisis that is likely to make our finances significantly tighter. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I cannot commit to anything right now.

Anyway, if you are a fundraiser, this is your sign to make the ask if the donor indicated willingness to give on a certain timeline, and not wait til later.

[sioltach]

I looove when food is in a bowl. Frequently plates are being brought out and I'm thinking this could've been a bowl meal but nobody gets it

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Pretty sure my kids wrote this post. Except they don’t just think it. They say it out loud.

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

This latest round of strep is absolutely crushing me. I’ve been on antibiotics since late morning Sunday, and my throat is fine now and I haven’t had a fever recently, but the fatigue and brain fog are unreal and don’t feel like they’re progressing.

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Look, baby milestones are exciting and all. But I’m not sure anything can quite compete with my son starting to be able to read and write.

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

If you are a Chabadnik, aren't you not allowed to use social media?

Hmm...

I'm

not

so

very

convinced

of that.

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Do Jews hate Christians?

As the Official Spokesperson for World Jewry™️, I, WNGUTE, do solemnly proclaim that the answer to this question is……..

Oh wait I’m not. Shoot. Guess you’ll have to go ask the real spokesperson. Who definitely exists. Definitely.

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Really living on the edge today (eating fleishigs in the middle of the day)

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[rebel-hunk-enjoyer]

The worst-sounding piece of advice I've ever been given that does actually work is to frame your health concerns as coming from someone close to you, whom you do not believe. Tell your doctor that you've been having pain and your mom/friend/partner thinks it might be an ovarian cyst, but you don't think so because the pain is much more intense and it has to be something else. This gives your doctor an unseen third party to fight instead of you. They can't just tell this third party, who isn't present, that you pulled a muscle, they now need to prove to this third party that it is not an ovarian cyst.

At which point they will find an ovarian cyst, but they now get whatever fucked up satisfaction they derive out of proving you wrong, because you didn't believe it could a cyst at all, but guess what? They did find a cyst! It's such a good thing you didn't listen to your intuition and came to them to verify your lay diagnosis from that third party! Bonus? Doctor doesn't have to feel like they look stupid in front of a patient, which is really what all this is about. Not your health, why would you think your medical diagnosis is about your health? It's obviously about a doctor's potential ego.

And apparently this works. Apparently you just need to be able to always play 4D chess with your medical professionals in order to find an avenue of advocating for yourself and getting you medical needs met. Isn't that great?

I hate it here, actually.

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Hey guys. Speaking as someone who has actually quite a substantial amount of medical trauma? You know that there are doctors who aren’t Like This, right? You know you can choose to stop seeing the ones who ARE Like This? And go to someone who will take you seriously instead?