Count your blessings

Last week was not particularly a good one. Something I was planning on doing for a while didn't materialize. Well, I was disappointed but I got back on my feet fairly quickly and I'm back to my rocking self. Obviously, having good friends around you always helps, doesn't it? And that brings us to the case in point, namely, Abs.

He, single-handedly, pulled me out of the doldrums by trying (really hard) to cheer me up till very late in the night. He stuck around till he was sure that I'm really really sleepy and don't have any more energy to sulk :). The fact that he lives nowhere close to me just made his task a lot tougher but then if it ain't tough, it's not worth writing about!

Then early morning, the doorbell rang and at the door was this:



Now, aren't they right when they say, if you can't be there, do the next best thing - send flowers. Well, I don't think anybody has said that, but I wish someone would :).



When I asked abs why he sent me flowers now, he said "expect the unexpected". The statement is flawed and I really want to ask him how to expect the unexpected. Because if I expect something, it won't remain unexpected. But Whatever!

The whole thing reminded me once again how I am so blessed with the most amazing friends who bless me with these lovely gestures. Ups and downs are a part of life - we just need to count our blessings!

Waiting and uncertainity

Waiting comes in many flavors, but can be broadly classified into 'good' and 'torturous'.

Good waiting is the waiting when I'm waiting for something pleasant to happen and it's almost certain. For eg., a friend coming to town, me going home, me going on a trip, and so on. You get the drift. This wait is spent entirely in excitement and planning.


Flowers on my new creeper :)

Uncertainty on the other hand can be a killer. And that is when we have the torturous wait. The outcome is uncertain and probably big things are at stake. You cannot plan because you don't know what's going to happen. You cannot get excited again because the outcome may not be something to be excited about. Like when you wait for your results on an exam that didn't go very well or a job interview and so on.

waiting is something I don't mind. I love the 'good' wait because it holds a promise. Otherwise also I would rate myself very highly in the patience department. I don't get flustered in traffic jams or while waiting for my doctor or in the queue at the airport or when people jump in front of me at trial rooms or to get out of an airplane.

Uncertainty, on the other hand, I cannot handle. It just gets the better of me. I'm a sucker for knowing. Not knowing makes me, I don't know, cocooned? It makes me retract into a shell. I don't want to discuss all the possibilities and permutations and combinations that are doing rounds in my head with other people .It can get quite boring and repetitive, you know. And I can't seem to think of anything else to converse about. I just can't focus on any other thing. So, cocooned it is.

To move away from downers like uncertainty and brighter (literally) topics, there was one another thing I did last weekend.



These go on my kitchen counter. They are hidden behind the fruits.



The belvedere bottle is not mine. I mean now it is. But it was given to me empty by a friend who knows about my love affair with plants in pretty bottles. Like the dark one you see on the right - a bottle of porto tawny from Portugal.

A weekend of learning and a farewell

It was a busy busy weekend like several past weekends. All of my weekends for a couple of months now have been roller coaster rides except the one after I came back from goa-mumbai from my new year vacation. That weekend I decided to veg-in inside the house and be 'non-happening'. Ha.

Though many of these weekends were dedicated to friends, I have also spent considerable number of weekends cleaning my house in preparation for having these friends over.

But, this weekend was different. I cleaned though I'm not expecting friends anytime soon! (I think I need help!) And that too, I cleaned my windows - grills and panes and all that! (I definitely need help!)

My sister's husband is leaving banaglore for good after being here for 1 year. When my sister used to visit him, she had assorted a few plants for my pots. I never cared to pick them up and she always forgot to bring them along. Now that her husband was leaving and I had to meet him to bid him farewell from this city, I picked up my plants from his place. And THAT was the good part of my weekend.

I was soo excited that I couldn't wait for sunday morning to get some new pots. (It was late saturday when I got the plants) Early sunday morning I drove to my nursery guy, got some new pots and planted my newly acquired flora in them. I was so pleased to see my new babies all set.

In between all this, I went to the school that I go to on saturday only to find it closed. What a waste!

And in between all this also, including friday late night, I learnt a new thing - How to create collages in picasa. And how I can put them up on my header. I was so excited that I was up on friday night waaay past my bedtime just experimenting with collages.

Well, to sum up my entire weekend, I present to you a collage of my new potted plants :P. And, ofcourse, there's the header!