Hello and welcome to my wonderful new blog spot! I am sure your time here will be well spent and full of many belly-wrenching laughs. First of all, if you know me at all, you understand what I mean by "mazel tov", and if you do not understand it, please let me enlighten you. My sophomore year at Utah State University (aka the best university ever, aka the school the kicks BYU's trash in basketball, go Aggie's!) I lived with five wonderful girls, one of which began the school year by being in a production of "Fiddler On The Roof". She would often practice songs in the apartment and we all found ourselves singing along. Well, to make this short story even longer, one of those songs went a little bit like this, "A blessing on your head, Mazel tov Mazel tov..." So, the clever girls that we were, we began to say "mavel tov instead of congratulations (as this is the meaning of the Yiddish word). And I must say that we got some awesome reactions and contorted expressions when people heard what we said, as they obviously had no idea what we were saying, but we quite enjoyed it. We actually even named our fish mazel tov, but called him Mazie for short. Since this time I have grown quite fond of the word and use it every chance I get.
You should try it sometime! It is quite exhilarating!
