Getting things done

A few ways to get things done

• Do it yourself
• Request someone's help
• Did I say do it yourself?
• Ask the husband

Outcome: NIL

Lesson learnt: Forbid the husband from doing it.

Rollercoaster

So my mom and dad left for India and now am back home.Except for some crying in the airport, I was ok till I discovered that my life is rocked!


I had to enter the kitchen.5 months of bliss ended.

Instructions to TH

Dear Th

So I am with my folks for a couple of days and not at home.No,this is not a post to say about you being missed.This time around, I am more worried about the home front.I just thought I will leave you with a few instructions so that "our home" will not loose its sanity.Now, I know you can manage , but thats only to a certain extent and that will not be my way too.It will be unfair if I leave you clueless on what is to be done, where things are to be kept.Shall we get to the list?

1.I have tucked in the bed neatly.Once you are off the bed in the morning, fold the blankets and spread the comforter the exact way I do.

2.When you shave or trim your mosutache, donot leave the bathroom dirty. Thats the most horrible thing you coul do. Bother to clean up all the hair mess.And I will find out when I come there. Duh!

3.When you are done taking bath,Do NOT leave the wet towel on the bed. You know I hate that.Leave the wet towel in the towel hanger inside the bathroom.

4.After you have your breakfast,put the dishes in the sink.And remember to put the waste in the trash and THEN drop the dishes in the sink.Do not forget this, else be ready to face my wrath.

5.When you are about to leave for office, look around the house to see if you have turned off all the lights, the stove, the shower.Lock the door properly.

6.After you park the car, switch off the lights,remove the GPS and put it inside.I am sure you will remember my furious face that day when you had left the lights on.

7. When in doubt, call me. I always have the time to give you instructions.

The list will be endless,but I shall stop here.Good luck honey.

Lots a love,
ur wife

You think you are smart

when you hunt , hunt and hunt for a good deal on a particular thing for the home and actually manage to get it, ONLY to realise later that there was a much cheaper deal for the very same thing that you had got. Hmmpphhh!!!

Dishwasher

SHE: Hey I was ringing the door bell for 5 minutes, what were you doing?

HE: I was washing all the vessels

SHE: How sweet of you to do it.

HE: Wait, everytime you wash the vessels, there is some dirt in it. So, this time, I wanted to show you how to wash the vessels properly.

SHE: &^^%$$##@???

From scratch

From 9 months in a place to a totally new place
From leaving behind a vibrant bunch of friends to forming a new set of friends
From the comfort set up of home to slowly setting up another one
From everything in order to starting from scratch....

We are packing our bags and moving coast to coast!As if life isn't spiced up already, we wanted to add a little more to it.Things are being sorted out and tracked, goods being packed, lease cancelled, flight tickets purchased, temporary accomodation arranged...but goodbyes alone will not be said.

Diwali Time

Sweets, savouries, crackers, new dresses, socialising, making merry...its that time of the year again.DIWALI!!!And a diwali celebrated far away from the very happening place for the festival- Chennai. What's diwali without new dress or noise bursting the crackers anyway?How has diwali celebration changed over the years and how could it be over a few years from now? ( with some due imagination)

5 years ago---
Get up as early as 4 in the morning, take bath, wish relatives who get together for diwali,wear the new dress ( read ready to show off to friends and others),rush out of home to start bursting crackers.There used to be "healthy fights" amongst friends as to who started bursting crackers first. After a while, eat all the savouries ( bhakshanams) made at home and watch tv till the next session of bursting crackers.Visit temple.

Now---
Get up around 7 or 8 in the morning, take bath, wear a new dress if interested.Call up parents and all relatives wishing them a happy diwali.Eat some self made savouries. Crackers?- no mood for them. Watch tv , sleep. Visit temple.


5 years from now---
May be folks would do a video conferencing on the diwali day and we could virtually celebrate diwali, burst crackers,eat all the savouries.

Anyways, diwali at my home is being celebrated with some home made sweets and savouries, new dress, a visit to the temple.Happy diwali and have a safe one.

To our nine months

Love, life, lust, laughter, fights ....thats what these nine months of married life has constituted.Truly priceless.One of my friend told me " you guys argue a lot". I met TH 6 years ago.From blindly listening to him to screaming a shut up if he happens to talk while watching tv, we have come a long way.

Many times, seeing our married friends, I tell TH" oh they look so perfect together". They are so much in sync with each other, if one starts a sentence, the other completes the sentence.If one looks at the other,the other nods in perfect understanding.

But we are two different people.He loves watching movies, while I just wriggle through any movie.He is easy going, while I am rigid.There are more like these,but inspite of these differences, we live in the same room. And, I still feel at home.He is my home.

Here's to our 9 months of married life. However cliched it may sound, I can't put it any better. I love you.

2 in 1

SHE: Hey, I have invited "M & his wife" home for lunch on Sunday.

HE: Why did you choose a Sunday? Sunday mornings are meant for cleaning and evenings are meant for relaxing

SHE: Ya precisely, you vaccuum the house, clear the trash, clean the bathroom only on Sunday mornings.I call someone for lunch and the house is also clean.Orey kallula rendu maanga

HE: %^^$$##@@@??!!!

The Best Part of

returning home after a good 50 days is

- vaccummed and a neatly maintained home by TH
- lunch cooked by TH and kept in a casserole ready to be eaten

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