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Dressing in finery

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Role reversal is wierd … in a nice heart warming way

DIL has decided that I badly need to dress up like a grown up and be lady like

She has also offered to take me shopping, not for herself, but FOR ME

Shocking!  She is willing to forgo her shopping for me!!!  I am amazed that she would sacrifice so much time for me – and even make the effort.

I am also thankful

Well!  I am quite bad at shopping for clothes

I was the bane of my mother’s existence.  She was the most elegantly turned out lady, wonder how she gave birth to the tomboy I was.

And now I have the most put together Fashionista in the form of my DIL.  DIL is girly girly

Before any shaadi in the house, she rounds me up with a “What are you wearing?” question.  Mind you this is a month before the event.  She of course has already decided her clothes, jewellery, accessories and even the clothes her hubby Kid#1 will wear.

Then she gets on Kid#2 and my case ……..

On my birthday she decided I would wear a saree.

I wore one

Since I tied it myself, it worked loose after 3 drinks and I ditched it for a housecoat.

She rolled her eyes, spoke gently “Mom aise kab tak chalega?”

Heck it worked for me for 50 years.

Now I have to get my act together and stop being such a brat

My Momma would have loved her

My Birthday Week

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This has been the most eventful birthday I ever had!  Dammit I had to wait until I hit FIFTY to have so much fun.  Like it is said “The game ain’t done until you are dead and gone!”  I will have really make special efforts to top this one.  May be.  Knowing me, may be it will happen by itself.

Fun is one of those auto-combustion things.  You just stir stuff together or put them in close vicinity to each other …. BOOM! It happens.  Good food+alcohol+siblings=weekend of pure unadulterated happiness.

I have a cousin who lives in England – arrey vohi, apna vilayat!  He’s 26th Feb born.  We were together in February after the time when I was 15 and he was 17.  Since he was going back on 23rd, I called him and a few cousins over for a weekend together.  We simply had a blast!  Will post pictures separately, but it really was a pity that we had only Saturday and Sunday together.  You know Kid#1 and his wife had a party on their wedding anniversary, and they treated me like senior citizen!  It was like,” okay Mom eat your dinner by eleven and go to sleep.  Its late” Dammit people, I am not a doddering senile!  I can hold my booze, am toilet trained and mentally solvent.  I really will not embarass you!  Ah the arrogance of youth!  It was good to show ‘em that us old people also know how to party!  So what if I am minus a few parts, my budday sibling is bald now, the elder ones snore in between drinks, gags and conversation.  When it comes to it, we know how to enjoy.

Monday had me sleepwalking through work!  Just as I was recovering, it was Wednesday.

Woke up on budday morning with a call from an old pal. “Abbey, why weren’t you born yesterday?”

Me : Kyun?

He : Then you would have been the Ambani Matriarch

Me : Looking at the time : 7 a.m.  Who the fuck says matriarch at 7 a.m I ask ya????? Kaise?

and snuggling into my quilt

He : Abbey she has two sons so do you, and she was born on 24th Feb

Me : Thanks for the budday wishes …….

He : Oh I forgot!  Happy Birthday

Me : Growl! Go away!  I’ll ring you back when I am fully awake!

He : Snigger Snigger

Why are all my friends insane?  Or is it something to do with me ?

At office, a lot of people wished me.  I even got flowers.  Its nice to be pampered heh!  But of course there are bitchy people.  Sometimes men are more bitchy than women

A creep came to wish me

Creep : Happy Birthday Madam, kitney saalon ke ho gayi ho?  Smirk Smirk

Me : Seventy …. and  to ensure that he heard it right I added Sattar!  Pher puchenga teh Assi!!!

For Gods sake!

I am old enough to eat, smoke, drive and drink!  What do you know, I can vote too!

Happy 50th to me   :D

The random tag game

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I have been tagged by Tikuli and Sue to do this at Facebook, and lazy bum that I am I figure it would make a good blog post and will show up on FB any way.  Here goes ………..

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you.

1. I hate dieting.  I am a foodie and I swear pizzas and chocolate haunt me in my waking and sleeping moments taunting me and teasing me when I diet

2. I love watching music chanels on TV, and those music shows – both American and Indian idol, Sa Re Ga Ma

3. I love Abhay Deol’s movies.  He is the only kaam ka Deol

4. I like to write … always.

5. I love flowers, you can bribe me with them

6. You can bribe me with good food and alcohol too

7. I hate seeing kids being bullied – I get so mad that I could do something violent against the perps.

8. I cant see animals being mistreated either

9. I am deeply suspicious of medicines.  I prefer to self medicate on herbs and stuff.

10. I am totally happy in my own company.  I love me

11. I like wearing simple comfy clothes, decking up is painful

12. I am always short of sleep – can’t get enough

13. I sleep diagonally on my bed – dont ask me why, I just do

14. I am so happy I am nearly 50, I go around blaming every lapse on my old age

15. I use age as an excuse to forget anything I dont want to do

16. I dont wear make up – not even lipstick.  Not even when I was young.  I really have to be bullied into wearing some.

17. I stock up tissues.  I need a box in every corner of my room …. home

18. I drive like a woman, slow, erratic and talking on my cellphone

19. I am looking for subjects to write on, every minute of my life

20. I love bold colours, all the chatak ones, the bolder the better

21. I want to stop coloring my hair, but my sons refuse to let me

22. I have no notion of money management or sensible future planning

23. Life to me is an adventure – cant live carefully

24. I dont know how to tie a saree

25. If any one takes away my laptop and internet and I will commit murder

Phew!!!
I tag everyone to do this, its fun

Yet Another Tag

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This one is from Chandni

Well…pretty basic questions, most I guess have been answered by me at some point or the other on the blog…but here goes! The idea is to do an image search for every answer and choose any image from the first page…

1. The age you will be on your next birthday

Mentally

Chronologically – Sigh :(

 

A place I would like to visit  : The Alps

My favorite place : Bed – yeah I am a lazy bum

Favorite food : Anything tasty – hmmmmm : Yeah tandoori chicken with butter naan, green chutney and onion rings yummy!

Favorite drink : Whisky : scotch of course

Favorite pet : dogs

Favorite colour combination : very indian and earthy

Favorite piece of clothing : LOL Crazy hats

All time favorite song : If I were a Rich Man from the movie Fiddler on the Roof

watch?v=RBHZFYpQ6nc

Favorite TV Show : Yes Minister

Town in which I live

Screen name

First job

 

My dream job : Ahhh such bliss

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Bad habit : I forget – specially things I dont wanna do

My worst fear : Being a burden on my family ………. sorry no pics for this one

 

The one thing you’d like to do before you die: Write a book

The first thing you will buy if you get $1,000,000 – a mountain ranch

 

I tag the following

1. Afaque

2. Tikuli

3. Rajat

4. Shail

5. Advitiya

Would love to see this picture tag done by you

On your fours, get set, go!!!!

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I have been tagged by Apar to do this.  From the four vedas to the Fab Four, four cardinal directions to the four suits of playing cards, four Greek classical elements to four evangelists, four seems to be a very significant number.  Its the only number that has the same number of letters as the number itself …..

This was something I had not noticed!

More information on the Wiki page

4 places I go to over and over again

1. NASA

2. The peak of K2

3. Vin Diesel’s gym 

4. HQ of witches worldwide

Just kidding ………… my own life is so boring …. sigh!

 

4 places I go to over and over again

1. Home

2. Office

3. The local Mall

4. Worldwide Web

4 people who mail me regularly

Wish it was Mr. Bachchan, Mr. SRK, Madhuri Dixit, Penelope Cruise

1. Jaspie …. ;)

2. Ravin

3. Diana

4. Jayshri

4 of my favorite places to eat

1. My own home

2. Woodland

3. Salad Bar at Nirulas

4. More than Paranthas

4 places I’d rather be now

1. In a PVR watching Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

2. On the beach

3. On a space ship on an interstellar journey

4. On a hill station where its snowing

4 favorite TV shows

1. You can dance

2. Who’s Line is it Anyway

3. Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister

4. Great Indian Laughter Challenge

4 Movies I could Watch again and again

Here I am unashamedly a Bollywood mush type

1. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

2. Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gam

3. Pushpak

4. A Wednesday

I would like to tag these people

1. Manpreet

2. IHM

3. Chandni

4. Ravin

My O.C.Ds

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IHM has tagged me to list five addictions and quirks …. WTF only five?!  Oh well, thank you very much I’ll prune the list.

  • I can get lost in conversation – you know start speaking and then shut up, leaving the other person hanging mid-sentence, and then look blankly and ask “Where was I?”.  Drives people insane :D
  • I have to sleep diagonally on my bed.  Sigh!  Dont even ask, I dont know the reason myself.  Cant sleep on a strange bed or be comfortable in a strange room.  I need my own pillow and my own blanket.
  • Green chillis and tea – Yeah, my favorite tonics.  I am probably one of the few people who buys half kg green chillis for the week – and consumes them!  The doctors are asking me to cut down on both – the &^%$*  spoil sports :(
  • Am addicted to music channels on TV, need to have them on while I cook.  No music, no food!
  • I L.O.V.E. watching WWE, and ECW! Oh and I cheer enthusiastically when RAW or Hell in the Cage and such like tournaments are held.  The more blood and gore, the happier I get.  Such a big adrenalin rush!
  • If in a wedding or restaurant I amuse myself by guessing the planetary configurations of each and every person over there just by the way they walk or facial features.  If that gets boring, I script stories around them.

I pass this tag to Tikuli, Manpreet , Freya, Advitiya, and Ravin (someone’s got to get him blogging again!)