e given me by now?"  (Alert readers will recognize this as a culinarily obsessed variation on Calvin's famous query:  "Why isn't [the world] ever unfair in my favor?"*)</p>

<p>Now I am older, and wiser, and while I still think it a bit ridiculous that finding the love of my life is to be rewarded with blenders (standard and hand), I concede that the crystal was fun to pick out and the sheet sets will come in extremely handy.  So will the Talmud.  Oh, yes, we <i>did</i> -- we selected an online Judaica stor