Annual High Holler Days Rant I

Hello Everyone:

Yours truly is having a very quiet weekend.  I love it.  No annoying relatives.  The only downside is that I wish I had a date.  I miss going out on weekend dates and staying up late.  I did have a lot of fun Thursday evening seeing Hard Day's Night with guy #1 (bf).  He just knows how to Please, Please Me.  Sorry, couldn't help the Beatle reference.  Anyway, my Saturday nights are usually filled with doing the dishes and cleaning up the kitchen.  Big fun.  My Sundays?  I generally do nothing.  Unless I'm really bored, which is the case right now, I generally avoid family functions.  I know that sounds terrible but family functions tend to be claustrophobic.  Speaking of family functions, mom asked me about the Jewish New Year, where Inwas planning to go for services.  I have no real interest in going to services because they all tend to be boring and repetitive.  Seriously, You can go to almost any synagogue and you will hear the same message about love, redemption, return, asking G-d to show mercy,met cetera, ad infinitum.  This gets followed up by some over wrought, too long meal in the afternoon and evening.  This year, the Jewish New Year begins on a Wednesday evening and goes into the Sabbath which means that it'll be a four-day blur of meals.  Ugh.  I know it sounds like I make too big a deal of the meals but really that's my only impression of the High Holidays, a succession of meals.  Going to services seems like a sideshow.  Honestly.  The services themselves are kind of a joke because the synagogues use this once a year uptick in attendance to shake everyone down for membership.  If want to join a synagogue, I will.  If I want to just go to services, I want to be able to do without being shaken down for a few hundred dollars.  I get that this the big moment for synagogues to add to their coffers but come on.  Some of just want to go sit through some sort of meaningful service and hopefully be inspired.  I told mom I haven't decided what I want to.  I think she's under the impression that I'm going to just sit at home.  I don't think she's that naive.