An evening to remember

Was going through my routine life.....the usual...office n home. Dragging myself through each day, with the hope that this is my last week at work. Then am off for a 5 months leave. But this week seemed the longest.....everyday getting to work and back seemed such a tedious affair.

Yesterday was one such normal weekday. Back from home by 7pm....sat munching something to kill my hunger till dinner time and watching TV. My hubby said he would try to get back home early tonite.....but some meeting came up and he would be back only by midnight. I was so looking forward to meeting him for dinner tonight, but duty beckons! So was left to myself to spend the entire evening......all alone.....with my baby performing his somersaults as often as he desired (its amazing how much this tiny bundle of energy moves!).

My friend called up asking him out for dinner with her and her husband.......I was already sulking about being alone, so dinner with them seemed a real nice offer. But felt a teeny weeny bit guilty about going alone without my hubby, when he was slogging it out at work. That guilt didn't linger too long in my mind, and I was back into high spirits as I got ready for the dinner........if only I knew that the dinner invite was just the tip of the iceberg of the evening to come....

My evening was turning out unexpectedly interesting....so the weather felt like contributing her share as well..........rain poured like crazy.....roads clogged with water....traffic jams....but I loved it! It just added so much romance to the evening! A little excitement to my otherwise routine boring day i thought.

We were on our way to the restaurant........and suddenly i find ourselves parked in front of my hubby's office! A slight addition to plans I am told.....my hubby would be coming to dinner with us! I was thrilled beyond words!! I felt this was the best thing to happen! The evening kept getting better.................

More traffic jams on our way..........and thanks to the lashing rain............i had no idea where we were headed! And again, to my total surprise, we are in driving to another friend's house. I was decided that we call them to dinner as well................"great idea" I thought. We went in......greeted their parents....fell in love with their daughter all over again....I am beginning to enjoy my evening after all!

We began to relax and dry ourselves.......playing with Aadya. And then another surprise....to my already full of surprises evening..........a cake arrives................."Welcome to your baby shower".........I was shocked.............this was the last things I was expecting...........I was totally taken by surprise........they had so smartly managed fooling me into this!!!

It was a wonderful feeling......and I enjoyed every moment of it! It made me 'feel pregnant' again....feel pampered....feel special....for me and my baby. It was a gesture I would never be able to forget....it meant so much to me....it just brought back all the excitement of being pregnant.

The otherwise routine boring day turned out to be one of the most exciting and memorable day in my life............a big THANK YOU to the director of the whole evening - Gai3....and all her partners in crime - Shwetha, Vijay, Rajendra, Ramakrishna, Ramji (my sweetheart) and Deli9 (for making the tastiest cheese cake ever!)

Have finally entered my final trimester of my pregnancy! It has begun to feel that i have been pregnant forever!! The bump has begun to make its presence felt........mainly by giving me sleepless nights with the fear that I may trample my baby with my weight if I am not careful with my sleeping posture. Trust me, sleep is one thing that we have to give up once u decide to have kids.....and this big sacrifice (I am a big big fan of sleep.....zzzzzzzz......even spending a couple of hours struggling to sleep is a huge sacrifice for me) starts from before the baby is even born!
Having slept only a few hours at night......coming in to work the next morning is another herculean task. You are still sleepy when you switch on your system in the morning........and the drowsiness keeps getting worse through the day. Your body refuses to co-operate with you......you are left feeling totally fatigued. Somehow I manage to drag myself through the day and slump on my bed the moment I reach home late evening.
But the day doesn't end there........my dear baby has to be fed as well.......something which you can never ever ignore. And being alone with your husband, and no other help at home suddenly seems so difficult to manage. How you wish your mom was there to pamper you and feed you on time....take care of all the nitty gritties of home care. But kya karen, I like to picture myself like this independent woman who can manage everything on her own. So at least to feed this false ego of mine, I carry on.....managing things on my own. After all, there are so many nuclear families around, and all women seem to be managing just fine.
And I know, I can do this too. So drag myself out of bed again.........make some dinner.......feed myself and my baby......and finally get back to bed......spend a few hours trying to sleep in the right posture.....and finally drown myself into deeepppp sleeepppppp.........zzzzzzzzzzzz

Boredom

Boredom is a reactive state of emotion that interprets the condition of one's environment as wearingly dull due to repetitive, non-existent or tedious stimuli. Boredom stems from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, or do (physically or intellectually) when not in the mood of "doing anything."

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. And so am I!!!

Choices!!

Why does life have to get so complicated sometimes!!! I felt life was going so smoothly....till now...when I am forced to make some decisions. I hate having to take decisions...........i prefer going with the flow. I just hate to choose between two choices.........how easy it would be to have someone else do it for me.........or rather have no choices at all!