Kebaaaaab

I want a kebaaaaab when Carlie comes to Florida. Or maybe for a change I'll take him for a kebaaaaab. Maybe I'll make him one at home. OK.

I'm busy these days

What was in Access Hollywood? There was Paris again, I don't know what she was doing. And Britney, Britney Spears. I don't know.

Well, I'm busy these days, I have things. I have telephone calls and I'm running around. I don't have time for Paris.

Stevie Wonder

We had Stevie Wonder in Montreal. The audience was full and this and that. Everybody likes him here, I'm not so familiar with his songs, but I think he's good. They tell me he's good.

Roxy might come visit me in Florida

Well I'm going to Florida, it's almost arranged. I got an apartment there for a few weeks. I think Roxy is arranging to come and them from there for a few days to go to Los Angeles. All her cousins will be there. I want her to come when Carlie or Stacy is there, she'll have more fun. I didn't speak to Roxy but I heard from Vera that she's planning to come and then go to Los Angeles.

I walked at Lisa's wedding

Lisa just put up the pictures from her wedding on bookface. I was so proud to walk at Lisa's wedding, I didn't have in mind to walk, so I said I want to walk with Josh and Justin, this is a nice way to walk. And the lady told us how to walk like this, with flowers, so here is a picture from it. From bookface.

Lilo is still in rehab?

What about Lilo, Lohan, she's still in the hostipal, in rehab? I don't know, such a nice good actress it seems, they drink, the poor things, they're addicted. Her and Paris. they don't know what to do with themselves. You know why? The money. It's bad for them. Big shots.

George Clooney had an accident on his motorcycle

Look at George Clooney,he had an accident on his motorcycle. He was riding his motorcycle with his girlfriend, with his companion, and a car hit him. And he was in the hospital, and some of the workers they snooped in his charter, his chart. So
the hospital arrested all of the workers, there were 90 of them or something and they didn't pay them. And George Clooney, he said he didn't like that, that they punished them, even though they snooped, they should still pay them.

But he's out now and he started a movie, it seems. The girls are after him, he is older and he still can get a nice girl. But Carlie shouldn't go that long.

Roxy called me this morning

This morning, early in the morning, who called me? Roxy. She's on her way to work. "Oh hi Gramma, how are you?" She's going to Chicago this weekend to Lisa. Darya is going to be there too. She works hard, Roxy. She works and she studies. And there is a long weekend, here it's Thanksgiving, in the US it's Columbus Day.

Poor Britney Spears

She's lost, chaibi. They took her children, they didn't give her custody. They gave it to Kevin Federlee, her ex-husband. Is she crazy? I don't know. It's very hard to be without your children, they should let her have them sometimes. She started very young and she got popular very fast. It's no good. Now she's lost. Between her directors and the people that advise her.

Simchat Torah party

They have a big party tonight at the Sha'ar for Simhat Torah but I'm not going, I don't like the hosa. For purim they do a big thing also. But this is life.

At the Spanish they dance and they get drunk, the rabbi, the cantor, and all the religious ones. They start with food, food, they pass around a lot of food. And they drink until they don't know what they are doing. And in Hampstead they go from Baily to Adath Torah. On the street they dance and they sing. And back in Baghdad? On the street. Yes. And they say it's a mitzvah. How do you like that?

A song in the sukkah

The Iraqi people they sing a song in the sukkah, it goes "sukkah weh lulav..." like that. We used to hear it in Baghdad. Before the Sukkoth, they would sell the palms and the rest of the things on the street. They used to sell them like Christmas trees.

This new rabbi at the Spanish, he's from New York, it's the first year for him. When they were singing this song, he was looking around and laughing, he didn't know where they were reading from. He asked Abitan and Yacoob and Anwar, they brought small books between them that are special for the sukka, i don't know. After every verse they sing, "sukkah weh lulav."

I asked the rabbi, "how do you like it here?" He said "it's different but I love it."

In Baghdad they had the decorations and the drapes in the sukkah that were are all white and embroidered. Because it's summertime there and everything is white.

I'm going to ask Yacoob for one of the books, because I don't know the whole song.