My little cuddle bear

Just a tad of global warming

I really wish I could relax with my feet up, hot cup of tea in one hand, some rich tea biscuits in another and “Friends” running back-to-back on the big tele. That’s the big part, “wish”, “kaash” and the like of yearning words. Instead, I am balancing on the couch with lappy, craning my already sore back to type, straining my eyes to see in this dark, and Adhi snoring on my lap. Not a very “wish” type of evening I say. Although the little body snuggling close to me gets a few kisses every few seconds and some loving squeezes, I need a break.

Summer was fun, no doubt. I made the most of it by hardly being at home. But this winter is not fair, it sucks big time. It’s dark when you have your breakfast and dark when you have your evening tea. Its dark, dull, cold and sad all the time. And this is just the beginning. Sigh, I wish my India trip would soon materialize.

These days I realize, I am worried a tad too much about global warming thingy. Everytime I watch tele, use the washing machine, shower or anything that evolves me leaving an ugly CO2 footprint, I am worried. I worry what might happen to the future generation, what might happen to the planet and most importantly, what will happen to my Adhi. Yeah, I think Adhi is the root cause of all my worries these days. I can worry about her eating little, sleeping too much, pulling things and even not pooing on time. But since I have nothing much better to do, I am happy that I am “worrier” at mind. How cool is that?!

So, we had one of Adhi’s little friend for lunch yesterday, a very cute little fella. He was a real sweet chap, just 10 months old and very calm compared to Adhi’s hyper self. Adhi was all over him trying to pull his hair and giving some real sloppy wet kisses and he was enjoying all the attention and was trying to kiss her back. His mom and I were really enjoying the baby acts but we got a little worried if this would happen after 20 years? I better not think of this now, I have enough of global warming worry to do right now.

I have been going to the library more often now, with the story time, nursery rhyme time and book time. Its fun and I get to read lot of books. I wonder why these things don’t happen in India. There is so much importance given to learning and love for reading from such a young age. I see the little kids go to school here, and they hardly carry 2 books as all learning is done through games, fun, music and more fun. I remember, I used to carry half the donkey’s weight in my school bag and come back with the constitution size homework. I don’t this US also has this kind of activities for children and babies and adults. We even have family activities on weekends for parents to get involved in all the fun.

I want to write so much more, but its meal time for Adhi and soon she will be screaming the roof off if I don’t feed her. That reminds me, I read somewhere that if you exercise, you leave big big big CO2 footprint. See, this gives us all a valid excuse to be lazy!

Pointless mumbling of empty me

I am writing this post because I have nothing else to do. I am absolutely bored and tired of not doing anything from past 20 mins. My mind is as empty as the plots of many hindi movies. The ones which are made just because some guy sitting on the big chair had some black money, wanted to make white, had a girlfriend free to act and everything else was grey? Ditto, I am in such a state right now so I thought why not write something totally pointless.

I don’t mean that anything I have written all these years had a point anyway, but this is like the whopper of pointless me. I am done with cooking, done with cleaning, Adhi is sleeping, no one seems to scrap me on orkut, no one is online (some people hid with invisible status too), and I am bored checking random sites and reading news. I can watch TV, but since I have pledged towards reduced carbon footprint, I see TV only if there are more than 2 people watching it. And also, nothing sensible comes in these angrezi channels anyway. None of the saas are evil, infact most of the serials have no saas; bahus don’t dress up in kilos of sona or make-up, well, bahus don’t “dress up” in the first instance and no one dies or has a rebirth. Hence, its not much fun. There are sitcoms from US but I must have watched each one like a zillion times that I can narrate most of dialogues.

I have been reading a lot of parenting books lately and applying for all the competitions. I haven’t won any so far, I think they are playing racism card. That’s one way of telling ‘I wasn’t good macha’ in a very diplomatic way. The best part of being in this country is, we get lot of free magazines sent to us just like that. I like to see the pictures, colours, people and the words. Not that I really read any of them, just flipping through the pages is fun.

Since I was mega bored, I tried to see all the old blog I used to read. Amazing, many of them have been idle for ages. I guess each one is busy with their life. Most of the people there were my classmates. So I know for sure they are busy with their life. Since we no longer mail each other, we make a point to call or chat or sometimes juts ‘think’ of them. Yeah, that’s how life has changed. Then we all had time and money to go out, meet, watch movies, have dinners and just do nothing. Now, we are spread across different continents, settled, many of us have a baby, and yes, many of us are married too and not much of money. I guess most of the money goes in mortgage or baby nappies. Maybe when we are old, and lucky enough not to be dead, we might have the reunions again.

I am generally worried these days. It ranges from global warming to old age to death to pollution to energy crisis to Adhi. I know, since I am jobless and nothing runs in my empty mind, worrying is the old decent thing I can do. Infact, if anyone wanted to employ a “worrier” in their dept, I would top the list. Anyway, I am planning to include this thing in my new year’s resolution. My last year’s resolution said I wont buy any news watches or glasses for a whole year. And I have been good with that except for a mega expensive diamond stud watch RK fella gifted me to tick off all the ungiven gifts of last 2 years and next 2 years.

Since I am talking pointlessly, I think I am wasting energy here. Right. I need to reduce my carbon footprint and so does everyone else. So I think I will just sit back empty minded and get back to my worrying business.

A lazy naptime

Ever had this feeling?

You are in deep sleep; you feel someone is knocking your head, pulling your hair, scratching your face, licking your nose and trying to climb all over you?

That explains how I wake up every morning from my deepest slumber and how my dear Adhi lovingly wakes me up. I love to see her little smiling face the first thing in the morning, but I would have loved my stars better if she dint wake up at 5 every morning. I think she takes “early to bed, early to rise” phrase much seriously than I think.

She just completed 6 months and already has me running behind her all the time. I wonder how it will be when she’s 16. At 6 months when most of the little babies in her baby-group are just rolling over and trying to crawl, my little puppet is crawling all over the place, sitting all by herself and standing! Yes, standing.
Yeah, that should make any mommy proud of the little tot but when the mommy concerned has to glue herself to the toddler at all waking times; it gets a little too tiring.

She loves to pull random things and watch them fall. I am not sure how it entertains her, but she surely has peels of laughter afterwards. And don’t I just love watching her laugh like that. So I end up keeping all the things back just to let her pull them again. Only my lappy wasn’t very happy with her trying to pull him down, tug at his cord and real wet licks all over him. Well, what she wants; she gets!

Right now she is sleeping all peaceful and waiting for her to wake up. It’s fun to see her crawl excitedly when she sees something new. She is just learning to explore her little world and seeing the world from her eyes is much more colorful. Everything looks so big and amazing and yes, everything has to be tasted; be it chair or carpet or leaf or toy.

Her meal times are the most difficult ones. The pureed food flies all over the place before landing in her mouth. After thirty minutes of struggling, I manage to feed her a few spoonfuls and end up with a bunch of laundry. I do that 3 times a day, so soon I can be a proper Dhobi!

My life is all about little Adhi now. Its surprising at times, how such a little baby can change our lives forever. RK fella and I get mega jealous of each other when she showers her attention on either. We want all of that sloppy kisses, those tiny little hugs and that the little feet climbing over us. Man! she does get into kissing mood and then she wont stop until we start tickling her.

Sigh, here she wakes up.

Even I am R E(a) D

WOW!!! REALLY WOW!!!

This is what I said to myself, loud, real loud.

I just saw the last comment on an old post, clicked on the link of the blogger and there was my name! Nope, I don’t lie when I am licking the chocolate cookie; really, there is my name!

http://swathyk.blogspot.com/

(I guess, I need to ask this blogger to send me a fee for the cheap publicity I am doing, but really, I am not sure how many people do visit here these days, so I will let it go)

There was a time, long long ago, when the earth was young and so was I, when this dear bloggy of mine was updated every single day. Every bit of my insane antics was recorded here and every not-so-decent thought was mentioned. Those were my golden days of stupidity when I was simply ‘me’. Then, many jobless people like me, who dint have anything better in the office or life used to visit each other’s blogs, post real encouraging comments and feel good that there were not-so-normal people like us too. I used to get some real nice comments from real generous friends and some ‘grrr-you-idiot’ emails from a few cousins. Yeah, they thought genetically I was from a different species altogether.

It was ‘then’ not ‘now’. Then it was posts everyday, something funny everyday. Now its simply me, a almost domesticated, meow meow kinda me. Remember? I had to give up all my normality, taporigiri to marry the RK fella? I had to renounce my ‘Harleydada’ title to take up ‘mom’ thingy. The point is, (yeah, I deviate a lot) I don’t update my blog often now. I sometimes totally forget about it until I see I have a lappy too! But with Adhi around, I have forgotten ‘me’ too. Its all about her now. So, I don’t update my blog, don’t read others and never post comments.

Anyway, when this is the ‘now’ thingy, someone actually reads me, comments too, and then even adds me on her list. I am totally gob smacked. Thanks a lot, my day is made and I will eat one more for cookie for your sake. I am trying to cut down on calories you see.

But for now, I am totally WOW!!!