Posts Tagged ‘home’
Victim Mentality
Posted by Phoenixritu June 5, 2009, under Uncategorized | 25 Comments
Indian Home Maker posted a blog post on a conversation she heard at a beauty parlour. The ladies were talking about a man beating up his pregnant wife while the wife’s brother stood out in the balcony. It really disturbed me. No not because the man was behaving like a beast and a coward, and the [...]
Crisis in the Phoenix House done in numbers
Posted by Phoenixritu April 24, 2009, under Uncategorized | 14 Comments
One Uno Ek Me … The lady of the house, currently the cook, maid, dog-sitter, freelance writer, blogger, office worker Two, Dos, Do Sons, one vacationing in land far away, another giving is first year mech engg exam, and spending most of his spare time trying to hide work from me, and trying to [...]
My saga as chief cook, dishwasher, cleaning lady, working woman etc
Posted by Phoenixritu April 23, 2009, under Uncategorized | 10 Comments
Monday dawned bright … and in my view, insanely early I stumbled into the kitchen, quickly chopped and threw some veggies, rice, masalas etc into a pan for a casserole and set some ready to eat chicken tikkas to thaw for Kid #2 Was gearing up for dusting and leaving for office when maid’s husband [...]
IFB – Washing Machine from Hell
Posted by Phoenixritu October 10, 2008, under Uncategorized | 12 Comments
How did you spend Dussehra? I got up and did the laundry …….. manually. Yes it means that I woke up at seven and was washing clothes till 12 noon. My laundry list consisted of 5 double bed sheets, 2 double bed covers, 7 towels apart from small itsy bitsy stuff. About 3 weeks ago [...]
Ditches
Posted by Phoenixritu August 25, 2008, under Uncategorized | 7 Comments
I have a history with ditches … the bad kind. When I was a kid, one of our neighbours grew a whole lot of baingan in her kitchen garden, and then distributed to harvest to all the families unlucky enough to live near her house (rather generously I might add!) It did not go down [...]
Welcome to my world
Posted by Phoenixritu July 25, 2008, under Uncategorized | 8 Comments
As a family, we have a full house. Moi, yours truly, the Lady of the House (also nicknamed Tantrum by her ungrateful spawn), the elder boy nicknamed Changez Khan by his younger sibling whom he bullies constantly , and who in turn has nicknamed the younger one Dustbin (since he is always hungry and can [...]
Mortgages and Mid Life Crisis
Posted by Phoenixritu July 17, 2008, under Uncategorized | 6 Comments
Something has totally happened to me. I distinctly remember a few years ago that I would recoil at the mere mention of buying and owning a home for myself. I thought that once you owned one of these things, you really could not have a life. Every thing you earned went into repairs, renovations, furniture, [...]
Victim Mentality
Indian Home Maker posted a blog post on a conversation she heard at a beauty parlour. The ladies were talking about a man beating up his pregnant wife while the wife’s brother stood out in the balcony. It really disturbed me. No not because the man was behaving like a beast and a coward, and the [...]
Crisis in the Phoenix House done in numbers
One Uno Ek Me … The lady of the house, currently the cook, maid, dog-sitter, freelance writer, blogger, office worker Two, Dos, Do Sons, one vacationing in land far away, another giving is first year mech engg exam, and spending most of his spare time trying to hide work from me, and trying to [...]
My saga as chief cook, dishwasher, cleaning lady, working woman etc
Monday dawned bright … and in my view, insanely early I stumbled into the kitchen, quickly chopped and threw some veggies, rice, masalas etc into a pan for a casserole and set some ready to eat chicken tikkas to thaw for Kid #2 Was gearing up for dusting and leaving for office when maid’s husband [...]
IFB – Washing Machine from Hell
How did you spend Dussehra? I got up and did the laundry …….. manually. Yes it means that I woke up at seven and was washing clothes till 12 noon. My laundry list consisted of 5 double bed sheets, 2 double bed covers, 7 towels apart from small itsy bitsy stuff. About 3 weeks ago [...]
Ditches
I have a history with ditches … the bad kind. When I was a kid, one of our neighbours grew a whole lot of baingan in her kitchen garden, and then distributed to harvest to all the families unlucky enough to live near her house (rather generously I might add!) It did not go down [...]
Welcome to my world
As a family, we have a full house. Moi, yours truly, the Lady of the House (also nicknamed Tantrum by her ungrateful spawn), the elder boy nicknamed Changez Khan by his younger sibling whom he bullies constantly , and who in turn has nicknamed the younger one Dustbin (since he is always hungry and can [...]
Mortgages and Mid Life Crisis
Something has totally happened to me. I distinctly remember a few years ago that I would recoil at the mere mention of buying and owning a home for myself. I thought that once you owned one of these things, you really could not have a life. Every thing you earned went into repairs, renovations, furniture, [...]