Passover prep - Day 1755 (Year 5, Day 286)

Zephyrhills, FL

As always, not a lot of anything exciting happening here in our lives.  Same old, same old.  Mitch continues to have a number of phone interviews, so the seeds are starting to sprout.  Unfortunately, there is such a large screening process that it can take several months before they make a final decision.  First is the application process, where the recruiter or HR dept. gets hundreds (or thousands) of resumes which they need to weed thru.  They narrow it down to the top 10-20, then to the top 5.  Then they send those 5 to the next level hiring manager to weed it down even further, to perhaps the best 2 candidates, before sending it on to the person who he would actually be working for.  And since everyone has a busy schedule, it could take a week or 2 between getting an appointment for an interview.  So while he's in the running for at least 3 jobs right now, it's still anyone's guess what the final result will be.  We're still in a state of limbo.

Anyway, Passover starts tomorrow and we're getting the "house" ready, as always.  It takes an entire day, but it used to take 2-3 days in the sticks & bricks house, so can't complain.  I think the most time consuming part is covering all the counters with foil and plastic.  Here's Mitch doing that:



In addition, all the appliances need to be scrubbed down and koshered (either by boiling or heating), everyday dishes put away and Passover items (dishes, pots, pans, utensils, etc) taken out, and non kosher for Passover food locked away.  Once everything is all cleaned and koshered, we can't have any "regular" food and this must all be finished by tonight.  So the plan is when we're done, we will go out for dinner; first time in a long time.  Not sure where yet, though.

As for the seder, we will attend a community seder at our shul (Chabad at Wiregrass in Wesley Chapel, 18 miles away).  We were invited to the Rabbi's home for the 2nd seder, but being that it's almost 40 miles round trip, and we'll be going Friday night, Saturday and Sunday for services, we didn't want to do it again on Saturday night.  I'll make a nice meal in advance and maybe we'll do our own seder together.