Hooray for some things and I learned a lesson today

So - as trilcat so friendly-like stated - hooray for registering at a religous local gan! Seriously, the gan director literally made my shabbat. My friend and I (who also was in the same situation I was, and registered her son the same time that I registered Eden) were almost jumping for joy when we left.
The gan is called Gan Brosh. Its just up the street. Its a little frusterating (thats me, always seeing the bad side first) because we were told by just about EVERYONE that no, there is no religious gan in the area. Or, wait, oh there is the shas gan but you dont want that (?!)
Never mind whether I do or not, but the "shas gan" was kind of always a myth - never really knew if it did exist, if it would exist next year, or where or who it was. turns out it is gan brosh, which I think we will be very happy with. Rumor also had it was a chabad gan, which would have taken some serious self analysis on my part. But its not so I dont have to do any self analysis right now.
Point to ponder - it seems that all the private ganim only advertise AFTER registration for the regular ganim has opened. So until you settle for less at the Iriyah, you dont have the relief of knowing theres a backup. Always a great system, ours is.
The other hooray - and facebook friends can relate here - is I paid my Kvish 6 bill!! Kvish 6 is Israel's only toll road, which I take every day home from work in order to make it to..... you said it, gan on time. Well also because I'm tired enough as it is at the end of the day and the view is something else.
So we now have a membership and the tolls are neatly directly withdrawn from our bank account. Really easy. Actually they advertise about being really easy to deal with. Which is true if you have a membership. If you dont its impossible to pay their bills. You can't pay them online, you can only pay it over the phone during office hours (after staying on hold for a very long time during YOUR office hours), or at the postal banks, or get this - some supermarkets. Whatever. And we had a leftover bill from before we joined up and it has taken months for us to get off our butts and pay it. But hooray! I did it! And she even cancelled our late fee because we are members. Gosh they are easy.
And last of course, the lesson I learned today. (I only blog about every 3 weeks or so, so when I do, my posts are really long. You don't have to read it all now - if you read it at all. Actually, if you read it at all, I'd rather you post a comment and say hello so that I know you are out there than read this whole thing. But see, you'd have to have read up to this point to know that. Next time.)
So I learned that I cant get too big too fast, and I have to keep the big picture in mind. The big picture meaning that slow and steady is better than fast and burnt out. And that I have to keep my priorities in mind always - first family, then today's tasks, and only then things that can be done tomorrow - esspecially if the things that can get done tomorrow will only piss me off. And also, I shouldn't get pissed off. Its just not worth it. Slow, steady, cool and crisp.
Details exist, but I'm not sure that they are postable.

In which I complain about ganim again

Somewhere in one of my first posts, I mentioned how much I don't get along with school systems. This has been true about every school system I myself have ever been apart of, and it is looking more and more true for the school systems I am a part of as a parent.
We are trying to get our kid into gan next year. Now one of the nice things about Israel is that - religious education is all over the place, relatively cheap, and in the right areas, in agreement with my ideas about religion and observance.
A couple days ago, we received the booklet listing the ganim in the area that we can register our child for. And lo and behold, there are no religious ganim in walking distance! Except one, which is part of a semi-private school system, which would be great for her, if we could get in.
So we are trying to get in. We went to the intro evening tonight, and it was interesting. The fact that we have to apply, and may not get accepted (ie, may quite easily be REJECTED), makes me want to run far away, fast. But we went, and it looks good.
But then they mention that it doesn't matter where you live. They have 6 ganim all over the city, and we may not get into the one in our neighborhood! Imagine that, if we actually got in (!!!) but not to the one in walking distance?
Its a little frustrating. We only have one car, so being able to walk our child to gan is a real boon. I suppose we could find someone to carpool with, or Ben could take a cab, or the bus with Eden. I really feel this need to get into this gan - Ben, of course is less worried about it. If we don't - do we limit ourselves to what we can walk to, or do we limit ourselves to religious gans?
Grrr.