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And then there were two 2008-05-07 11:03:00 Just as I was getting dressed, BigGeek got out of bed in the morning scratching his head and uttered these words. “I think the orange platy fish is dead.” He hadn’t even been downstairs to the fish tank. Why did he think the fish was dead? Maybe BigGeek was turning yogic. “How do you know it is dead? You haven’t even been downstairs to look at the fish tank yet.” I mumbled carefully applying my
$53,585 2008-05-09 10:18:00 That’s what salary.com puts me in for my Mommy job. For all the trouble I take, I expected 6 figures, but no. Oh well. At least Chip and BigGeek think I am priceless.
We don’t have anything special planned this mother’s day. I already got my PS3 and Rockband as a mother’ day + upcoming birthday gift all rolled into one. My in laws are visiting and they arrived yesterday. When I told my
Friday May 13, 2005 2008-05-13 11:37:00 5:30 p.m.
DotThoughts is very exhausted. And huge. And tired of people asking her if she is having twins. She comes home from work, vowing to go back for half a day on Monday, shut down everything and tell her bossman she is going to work from home or not work atall until the baby arrives. The baby, a son who has yet no name, is due to arrive on May 21.
6:00 p.m.
DotThoughts’ mother makes her Read more:Friday
Saturday May 14, 2005 2008-05-14 09:02:00 (What happened on Friday May 13, 2005)
3:30 a.m.
DotThoughts wakes up. She feels a slight tightness in her belly. She can’t fall back asleep. After about 10 minutes, it comes again. A slight squeeze of belly muscles. Has it started? It’s 3:45 a.m. She decides to wait and watch before waking up everybody. She notes the time. 8 minutes later, again. Slightly stronger. She counts. Seven minutes t Read more:Saturday
The Graduate, the penny and other stories 2008-05-19 09:54:00 The Good: BigGeek graduated.
He is officially an MBA now. A hundred years ago, we would be scrambling to go to the sign-maker to get a new name plate for our front door. Now with an MBA added to it. Cap, gown, hood, diploma. The works. Looked handsome indeed. Traditional pictures holding diploma with proud parents and proud (and relieved) wife.
The Bad: It rained on his graduation parade.
Read more:Graduate
No title 2008-05-22 12:40:00 First, apologies. For not writing about this before. Thank you, Mummyjaan, K3 and I Love Lucy . I am honored. To have people reading your blog is gratifying, but to be thought of nice is uplifting indeed.
This is what they have to say about me. Mummyjaan thinks I am one of the “Lovely and kind people in blog-world”. Mummyjaan, I think is one of the most level headed people I have met. Very
The Working Woman's Pregnancy Book 2008-05-23 13:55:00 This is one realistic book. That was my first impression upon reading it. Written by Dr.Marjorie Greenfield, The Working Woman’s Pregnancy
Book, combines the development of your pregnancy with compelling advice and emotional support. But most importantly, it acknowledges the realities of a pregnant working woman. When to tell you boss you are pregnant, how to handle a change in workplace
Just another post 2008-05-28 10:40:00 No blogging this week. Except for this post :) Got back from a hectic but super nice long weekend + one day trip to San Francisco. Was supposed to meet/call DDMom and could not which sucked, but now i have a reason to go back and visit. Will resume blogging on Monday. Check out for these posts (with pictures) next week.
The San Francisco Trip - Chip touched a shark here!
A Tale Of Two Cakes:
Four Days in San Francisco - Part I 2008-06-06 10:37:00 On a cool spring morning, just as the sun broke out in the eastern sky, five people and four bags piled themselves in to a large taxi and hurried away to catch a plane. To San Francisco
. Chip, his parents and his grandparents. A red backpack, one large bag – the kind you would take for a 2 week trip to India (don’t ask, it was filled with diapers I had no intention of putting on Chip’s butt) Read more:Four Days
, San Francisco
Four Days in San Francisco - Part II 2008-06-10 09:05:00 Day three found us driving towards the Monterey-Carmel area. To the south of the city. We drove through Silicon Valley looking for the Mystery Spot, but the tickets were all sold out. Just before we reached Monterey we stopped at Moss’s Landing to see the sea lions. Young ones climbing on top of their elders, the elders basking in the sun on a cold day. Some fighting, pushing. It was a riot. It Read more:Francisco
, Four Days
, San Francisco
I Bake, You Vote 2008-06-13 11:28:00 Which one do you like the best? #1 or #2/3?
These are the cakes we had for Chip's Birhday Party a few weeks ago.
#1 is bakery made is is allergen free. Cost: $85 This was for his pre-school party.
#2/3 are different views of the same cake. This was made by me for the party we had with family and friends. Cost: less than $15
Bake Easy – Secrets To Making Mouthwatering Cakes 2008-06-16 12:01:00 If you have felt inspired to try baking on your own, even if you are novice, let me share a little secret with you. Baking is not difficult. Now repeat that after me. It is so easy even a caveman could do it. So I thought I should do a post and share some baking tips with you that I have learned from baking pros to some (very inedible) experiments from my own kitchen. Nothing comes close to the Read more:Secrets
, Cakes
Icing On The Cake - Secrets To Decorating A Cake 2008-06-17 10:58:00 We eat with our eyes – that how the common saying goes. Once you have baked a cake at home and if it is a special occasion like you child’s birthday or even your birthday, it would be fun to decorate it.
Decorating
need not always be elaborate. If you double the recipe in the last post and bake it in a Bundt Pan and dust it lightly with cocoa or confectioner’s sugar, topping with fresh berr Read more:Icing
, Secrets
The 55 tag 2008-06-19 14:26:00 Preethi tagged me to complete the story in 55 words exactly.
What happened so far.
"She wondered if she could ever count each of the twinkling stars in the night sky. The clock in the tower struck 9. She had to get back to reading her text book, ignoring the weird grumbling noises her stomach was making. The flickering orange street light looked like it would go put any minute." [galadriel]
Here come the gadgets - Things you need and don't need to bake 2008-06-18 10:54:00 So. On to Part Troix. The gadgets
. I own every baking gadget under the sun (well, almost every), so I am going to divvy it up in three parts. Must have, Nice to have and Indulgences.
Must Have
One good pan
Please don’t buy cheap pans. They will not conduct heat properly and will warp in just a couple of uses. The right pan must be made of professional grade aluminum and should have straight
Raising Chip 2008-07-03 14:34:00 A while ago, I had written a post about the spirited child Chip is. I refuse to call him difficult and while it is vexing to get my point across to him at times, I admire his resolve and determination. He also tends to get frustrated easily and can fly into what I call nuclear tantrums. Change is hard on him. He is a slow adapter. Traditional child rearing advice is lost on him. Never works. He Read more:Raising
Cross Talk 2008-07-02 10:11:00 I want to walk holding the hand of an ice-cream.
But it will melt.
No I will hold its hand and eat it.
I want to fly
You just did too. When we went to San Francisco. Remember?
Not in an airplane. I want to fly like a bird with my wings.
{Your father is not allowed to hang-glide and neither will you be}
I want a diamond
When you get a wife
Turning Aie's hand over and looking at her diamond
Are Read more:Cross
More Than it Hurts You 2008-06-26 12:33:00 I just finished reading this book. Let me say this before anything else. The book reads like a script. Every detail carefully visualized. The characters all given 3-d lives, beyond the current storyline. I think it will make a great movie.
When I started reading More than It Hurts You, I thought it would be like an episode of House. A medical thriller. It is that on a certain level, for it
Night Owl or Morning Lark 2008-06-25 12:15:00 I am a confirmed night owl. I like to go to bed late-ish and wake up late-ish. I have struggled with it all my life. You know the proverbs they drill in your head in school – early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise. I guess that does not apply to me. I am no man. And even if I were a man, I would probably live by this credo – early to bed, early to rise means you had Read more:Night
, Morning
Favorite Literary Characters 2008-06-24 11:58:00 From Mystic. Thanks girl, I raelly went bonkers doing this tag. and whittling down to 10 was so hard.
D’Artganan
From Alexander Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. Swashbuckling hero. The angry young man. Full of good old fashioned adventure and chivalry, he was one of the first characters that made a lasting impression on me. I read the Three Musketeers (abridged) when I was in third standard and Read more:Favorite
, Literary
, Characters
This day, last year 2008-07-16 09:02:00 One year ago, on this day precisely, I started to blog. 161 posts and more than 49000 visitors later here I am. Still utterly fascinated by writing and blogging as I was a year ago. Not jaded or tired. Not of writing. Because here, on this blog, in these words, I live and relive. I live once in reality and once when I write about it and many, many times when I go back and read it.
What started Read more:last year
Fruits of my labor... 2008-07-12 17:25:00 and leaves and pods and shoots and tubers!!!!
A few pictures from my kitchen garden this summer!
**Fixed the comments section**
Strawberries (unripe) and Cilantro sprouts
Methi and Spring Onions
Lettuce and Potato (flowers)
Cucumbers and Ichiban Eggplant
Tender Green bean on the bush and Bell Pepper flowers
Radishes and Green Beans
Cucumber, Chives, Lettuce, Potatoes and Read more:Fruits
, labor
A Summer Affair 2008-07-09 12:04:00 Balmy Saturday morning. Post brunch. You are sitting out on the deck, a tall glass of chilled home made iced tea sweating in your hand. The flowers are in bloom, the birds nipping at the seed. Butterflies flitter about. You let out a contended sigh and pick the book you are reading. And if you aren’t reading A SummerAffair
by Erin Hilderbrand, you should. Even if mile-high gas prices have put a
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