Busy Vacation
25 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in Personal Tags: busy, Personal, vacation
I have been so busy during the past 2 weeks that I haven’t read lot of books and am busy with travelling most of the time. I did meet a friend of mine while visiting Hyderabad but most of the days was spent looking after Baby A since hubby was working there. Then we left Hyderabad to Budduwada which is about 4 hrs drive and I began to see how tough it will since she was in the car seat most of the time. She was unhappy about travelling in the car seat and we had a tough time looking after her.
We stayed there for about 4 days and had some good food 
. Then we left to Thirupathi which is about 9 hrs drive 
which doesn’t includes the break we took. By the time we reached there we were all tired and it felt like a jet lag 
. I hated the travel but we absolutely have to visit the temple so that we can do the mottai (mundan) for Baby A. We reached the room in Thirupathi about 10.30 pm and we had to get up about 5.30 am so that we can do her mottai. I didn’t go since i wanted to get ready before they come back. Apparently she didn’t cry at all.
Then we had to stand in the queue for 2 hrs which is apparently not bad and then we had to visit all the surrounding temples and I was cranky enough to snap at everyone. The road from Thirupathi to Chennai was so bad that half way through I have back aches . By the time we reached home it was 9.30 pm and all I wanted to do was have a shower and sleep. The next 3 days was busy with relatives visiting the baby.
On January 23rd, we celebrated Baby A’s star b’day traditionally and it is called Ayushomam where you do yaga for the long life of the baby. It was done in a grand manner. She had the cutest pattu pavadai in blue and green. We also pierced her ears and she looks so cute in mottai and the ear-ring. Two of my friends came for the function and most of them didn’t attend. I guess since it was on monday, they had work.
The past 2 days have been a little bit relaxed one and I am getting tired just from the heat since all I want to do is sleep . We still have to get some stuffs for our trip back. On the personal care side, my facial skin looks better here in Chennai where as my feet is a mess. Its dry and rough. I need a pedicure soon . I am hoping that I will have time to post in the blog. I don’t know what I will blog about but I guess I will find some thing 
.
P.S. I am getting fat just by eating 3 proper meals and some snack in-between .
Update..
30 Oct 2011 4 Comments
in Personal Tags: baby, Personal
Hello Readers,
I know that its been more than a week since I posted anything. Its mainly due to lack of time and energy. As you all know, motherhood is a full time job and I am very busy with Baby A . She has started to get clingy which is difficult.
On the other hand, I am just not inspired or even motivated to update my blog. That does not mean that I have stopped getting makeup 
but I am just wondering if anybody is still interested in my makeup/skincare reviews. I am so tired these days and with autumn here, its raining and dark most of the time which is seriously depressing . One of these days maybe I will be back to blogging full time and I am so envious of serious bloggers out there.
Our kitties are doing good and since Baby A has started crawling, they know when to move off . She has started pulling the hair of the kitties, so they don’t sit next to her at all . She is growing up so fast and only after she sleeps that I have time to pet my kitties or even relax.
But do tell me if you are interested in looking at my reviews or do you like the motherhood article the most.
Hello Readers
17 Aug 2011 2 Comments
in Personal Tags: break, Personal
If you are wondering what happened to me for the past month or so, then here it is. I have been very busy with Baby A since my parents have left . Since we moved houses, it has been very busy with getting the house livable and then my parents left home at the end of July. It was really tough since I was alone with Baby A and I never realized that it would be tough managing alone but it is . For the first 3 days, I felt like crying since she got very clingy as well and it was hard not to have a “ME” time. But as the week progressed, I guess I got used to it.
These days I am very busy with Baby A, so I don’t have time to sit and work my brain to write my blog . Whenever I have a free/quiet time, I usually relax, read book or browse net. I don’t want to think about anything else. And hubby was really busy with his work leaving me very busy in the evenings as well. Thank God, he is done with that now and I am sorta feeling relaxed in the evenings. I wonder if I still want to write my blog, sometimes I do but when I get a free time all I want to do is relax and not stress my brain .
Summer has been pretty good this year so we went out most of the weekend. Just last weekend, we went to Vancouver and I loved the break. Though I didn’t buy anything from there, it was a fantastic break. Hubby has been taking lot of pictures in our DSLR so that we could hang them in our home. I love how the DSLR changed our way of taking pictures. Our pictures almost look professional . Its still warm most of the afternoons and Baby A has been cranky since she gets bored if we get stuck at home. So I try to take her out at least once every 2 days.
Vancouver, BC
I don’t know if I am going to write reviews from now on but I will try my best but I am thinking of posting about food and books mostly. The books keep me sane . I will also talk about motherhood and how I am adjusting.
Thank you for your patience and Thank you for waiting during my break
Busy Month..
30 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
in Personal Tags: busy, Personal
Hello Readers,
I know I haven’t been posting much articles this month and I do have a reason for that . Motherhood is seriously tiring and since most of you have experienced this, I don’t have to explain . Baby A has some good days and some bad ones, so by the end of the day I am tired and all I want to do is relax. I found that writing an blog requires using your brain and by the end of the day, it just stops working .
This month has been super busy since we are moving houses. It started with looking for houses and then packing of course, which I hate since it feels like I just unpacked all of them. Thinking about it, Its just 11 months since we moved to this country . This week is packing of course since we are moving on Saturday. I seriously hope that we have boxes to fit all of our stuffs. Mid-June, my brother visited us for about 5 days so I was busy going around. Lets not forget the San Juan Island trip as well.
In between all these, we had to shop for some stuffs for the new house . I would have loved the shopping if only I didn’t feel tired . I usually enter the shop with lot of enthusiasm but within an hour, I get tired and all I want to do is lie down. Baby A is growing out of her clothes too quickly and some of the clothes are used just once. If we wash them, it shrinks and it doesn’t fit her. And we found that she has lot of summer clothes, which is not so good since we will need some thick clothes when its raining.
Moving on, we would have the internet in the new house by Saturday, Thank God. And the July 4th weekend would be our getting the house ready weekend. We have place all the stuffs in their places and hopefully they all will be arranged by the weekend. And I was also busy studying for the Driving Knowledge test this week and I passed (yayyy). It has been a tiring month and I can’t believe that my mom will be leaving in a month and I will all alone with Baby A . Hopefully I should be able to manage.
I am hoping that I will be able to post more articles in my blog next month and I also have been wanting to move my blog to a website but its getting difficult with the baby .
Thanks for reading my blog. Since you all are the reason I blog .
Busy Week..
21 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
Hello Readers,
I know that I haven’t blogged for a week and I know that many of you are wondering what happened to me. I was just busy till now . It is getting difficult with the baby since she is not sleeping during the day and she gets cranky so we had to console her all the time which is an energy drainer . I am sleep deprived since I am feeding her at 1 am and for a 10 hrs sleeper like me, 7-8 hrs is doing nothing .
Moving on, my brother visited me last week and we were so busy till today . We went to Leavenworth and Lake Chelan during the weekend and I will post the travel story soon. It was just gorgeous out there. Then we also went for a boat ride in Lake Washington and I totally loved the floating homes . And today we went out to some shops along with my parents and brother.
On Monday, I got some vaccinations done, about 4 of them . 2 of them was seriously painful and the nurse did say that I will be sore but I was ok till last night when it started to get very sore that I couldn’t move my arms up. And today morning, once I got up, I was really tired and when we were in the shops, I got so tired and I had no energy left by the time we reached home. Also I had fever and all I wanted to do was sleep but lets not forget the cranky baby and Thank god, my mom is here to look after her while I sleep . I don’t know what I am going to do after she leaves.
I am still tired and my arms still hurt. I am hoping that I will get some inspirations to blog this week.
Cooking Mood..
27 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
in Personal Tags: Food, Personal
There are some days when I feel like cooking food and today seems to be one of those days. I had a fantastic buffet lunch today which gave me ideas on what to try when I invite guests . I am making lists of stuffs right now to buy it before I invite them over. I found wonderful recipes for these over the net and I also have the traditional south Indian cook book which my mom gave me .
My to-do list for cooking are :
- Venn Pongal with lots of ghee, of course
- Kathirikai Gotsu
- Rava Idli
- Peanut chutney
- Pumpkin Subzi (Buttenut Squash)
- Pongal with broken wheat instead of rice
- Broken wheat upma
- Curd Rice with carrot and cucumber
- Maybe Kajar ka halwa with condensed milk
- Spinach dhal
- Spinach subzi with just onion and tomato
If I ever do these in the next month or so, I will definitely take a photo and post the recipe (if its good ). Seriously though, I was craving for some good south Indian tiffins and I didn’t even realise it after we went to the buffet . I have become so lazy that I don’t feel like cooking these days. Maybe that because I was sick for the past week or maybe it the cold weather which is affecting me. I just wish someone will cook for me and I could just sit and eat hot food .
P.S. I will travelling from Dec 3 for a week so look out for my travel journal just like I always do .
Snow in Seattle..
24 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
in Personal Tags: dry, fizzy, hair, Personal, rants, seattle, sick, snow
There has been changes weather wise in Seattle. Apparently this week was the coldest of this year and all I could think was WHY NOW??? I hate cold weather. I hate it when the cold wind hits my face because I know that ultimately I will end up being sick . Any way, last Sunday we had a little bit of snow fall but it melted away when it touched the ground. And Saturday, we visited a friend of ours and it was so cold outside and we already knew that this week was going to be bad.
View of the balcony and the road
Anyway, I didn’t want to get out on Sunday as I was scared of getting sick. On Sunday night, it snowed very heavily leading to a layer of snow all over the ground. But I had an appointment on Monday which I couldn’t miss leading to me going out in the snow . We got stuck in the traffic for about an hour as usually it just take 10 min to come home. As soon as I returned home, I knew that I was going to get sick. I had the beginning of ear ache, body ache and head ache. I knew that within a day I would get a nose block followed by severe sinusitis.
My face is hurting with the swelling due to the sinus and I can’t breathe which leads to me not sleeping . I am just plain miserable. This weekend is a Thanksgiving weekend so hubby has 4 days of holiday and we had plans for staying in a lodge and enjoying a night together. But unfortunately because of my sickness, we cancelled our plans . It sucks big time as I was looking forward to this break.
I hate being stuck in the house. There is going to be fantastic sales on all the shops on Friday and here I am, stuck in the house being sick. I really hope I get better by Friday or at the most Saturday. I can’t stay home for the next 4 days as it will drive me crazy .
I forgot to tell you that my blackie has also started sneezing along with me . Poor guy, he is sneezing and sleeping all the time. I just hope it doesn’t get bad like me . Aren’t we a pair? Momma’s boy is sick just like his momma . I am just taking lot of hot drinks, Sudafed, saline nose drops and of course during night, vicks nose drops. The worst thing is these medicines only work for an hour or two and then my nose starts blocking again leading to me waking up tired and cranky.
Ok, rambling and rants over . Hopefully I should get better by next week. I think it’s that time of the year where I need a hair cut as a change and to perk me up . I think I need to feel good after this sickness is over. I am thinking of going real short, probably like a shoulder length bob as my hair takes forever to dry after my hair bath. But the downside is that my hair is dry and fizzy, so I might end up looking this and thats a risk I should be willing to take unless I use hair straightener every time I have a hair bath.
Anyhoos, I will try to post articles at least twice a week from now on .
This Month..
22 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
in Personal Tags: Food, makeup, Personal
I know I have not been blogging this month and I am sorry about that. I am still getting used to this country and I haven’t any inspiration for blogging . I somehow have lost interest in the makeup this whole month. So maybe that’s why I haven’t been blogging.
In this month, I have been using only the concealer and lipstick and my Revlon concealer is almost over. I haven’t been in a mood to do my makeup before I go out. Have I lost the interest? Maybe I have just lost inspiration and by the end of this month, my blog would be celebrating its 2nd Anniversary . I am still amazed that I have been doing this for such a long time.
I did get some stuffs and I still have to take photos of them. I also have been using lip balms a lot along with hand creams. I realised that this weather is making my skin so dry that I have to keep using hand and feet creams everyday. And of course, lip balm every night and morning .
The weather is exactly like Dublin that you can see both rain and sun on the same week . My parents are over here and I am enjoying my mom’s cooking and maybe that’s why I am lazy . I am also watching lot of Food channel and HGTV these days. I am still checking all my favourite blogs everyday but I just don’t feel like blogging myself.
We went to a blueberry farm yesterday to pick blueberries right off the plant and we picked about 5 lbs . I know that’s a lot of fruit and I am thinking maybe blueberry muffin or even blueberries on my cereal . Other than that What can I say? . Since I will be here for a long time, i am not buying any makeup right now. But I am tempted a lot .
Hopefully I should be back by the end of this month .
Adjusting to USA..
09 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
in Personal Tags: Personal, seattle
Hello Readers,
How do I adjust to this new city? Its been almost a month since I reached here and almost a week since we moved into this new area. I keep wondering how do I make new friends? This city is filled with Indian population. I see more Indians than Dublin and It feels weird :) . I keep wondering how can I just knock on my neighbors door and just introduce myself. I am way too shy for that .
I do feel lonely now that I have finally settled in one place. It feels weird not visiting my friends over the weekend. I do know that I have to make new friends and I am not ready for that. It is difficult to find friends who actually gel with you. But surprisingly the weather for the past 3 days is similar to Dublin, cold and wet . There is a library just 5 min walk from our house and lot of restaurants are nearby as well. I really need to go out and find some friends.
Other than that, it’s not a bad place to live . People are friendly and I would definitely say that food is not cheaper than Dublin. My parents are coming over next weekend so at least I won’t be lonely till the end of September but I do have to find friends within that time. I think I have forgotten how to make friends . It would have been nice to know at least someone in this city but alas I don’t know anybody.
My cats are adjusting to this new place as well. They have been waking us up early in the morning. My blackie sleep throughout the day and keep waking us up in the night . They want their food by 4.30 am and we are getting really pissed about that. The worst thing is we don’t have a door in the living room to lock them up so that becomes a problem. Once they get adjusted to this new place, we are thinking of locking them up in the garage during the night as it’s the only way we could get a full night sleep.
I am so sorry readers if I am posting lot of ramblings in my blog rather than reviews but this blog is actually about what I want to write. Till next time .
I never hated shopping so much :(
01 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
in Personal Tags: Personal, rants
Hello Readers,
If you read my last post, you know that We signed a lease to move in the rented house on Friday. On Friday, we went to sign the lease and they took us to a walk-through in the town house. Everything seemed ok and I could mentally furnish my house about what stuffs I want to buy and where to put it, etc, etc. So the shopping for filling the house started yesterday in IKEA. Let me tell you that after 6 hrs in that shop, I have never hated shopping as much in my life . I thought it was the most tiring experience in our life.
I don’t remember feeling like this when we furnished our house in Dublin. It was quite easy actually, all we did was order in Argos and they will deliver it to our house . But in IKEA, you have to take all the stuffs from the warehouse, pay the bill and then deliver it to the delivery guys . Hubby took about 6 trolleys of stuffs from the warehouse which took him about 2 hrs. After all this, we then had to go through the small items like kitchen stuffs, lights, pillows, bedsheets, etc, etc. I was so tired and I wasn’t in a mood. So I just took whatever stuffs which caught my eye.
I never realised that I have to buy so much stuffs. Even from the cutleries to storage bottles, it kept coming on and on. I just couldn’t take it any more. Choosing lights became a huge thing, We were looking for a floor lamp and also we had to choose sturdy stuffs because I don’t want them falling all the time with the cats running around the house all the time . Hubby wanted to get a red one so we got the biggest red one they had , followed by small round balls like table lamps for the bedrooms.
Next came the pillows, They had about 30 varieties of pillow which I had to test it all. The pillows in the corp housing has been giving me neck aches so I wanted a sturdy one. By the time we got this, I just had enough. I was sick if IKEA and just wanted to go home and lie down. I so wanted to check out the plants section and I was interested in getting the bamboo sticks but had to keep reminding myself that my cats won’t let it live .
There is an artificial plant in the corp housing which they love to chew on . So seriously can’t get any plants in the house. And today we are going to COSTO to get all the food stuffs, tv, etc, etc . I kept thinking, Did I ever spend this much in Dublin for our house as well?
I can’t believe that crystal cat litter is expensive over here . The cat foods are ok though and they are getting fat . Maybe they are trying to keep up from the trauma they had, when they came over here . Bommu has the begging to the T, with cute little face, big eyes and if I refuse to see him, then he will come and touch me with his paw and mew till he knows that I understand what he wants . Bujju sleeps throughout the day and bommu sleeps thougthout the day which makes them bored when the other one is sleeping .
We will finally movie into the house probably on Tuesday and I know that its going to take atleast a month or so to settle . I keep thinking that I will post an article but just wasn’t in a mood to write anything. Hopefully by next week, I can keep up with the blog.
