18 Apr 2016 27 Comments
in Challenges, Poems Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Haiku Challenge, Ronovan's Weekly Haiku Challenge, Sun & Moon
Monday evening, and it’s time to tax my brain with Lovely Ron’s haiku prompt.
You’d think it was an easy prompt, the words Sun & Moon, but today, maybe it’s because my brain is overtired, I struggled… but came up with this.
Image from Google.
Her face, radient
Like the moon when reflecting
The sun’s golden raysRitu 2016
17 Apr 2016 27 Comments
in Spidey's Serene Sundays Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Calm, Quotes, Serene, Spiderman, Spidey, Spidey's Serene Sunday
“Family is the most important thing in the world.” – Princess Diana
A fitting one for me today, thanks Spidey!
The last 2 months have been a fun, crazy, exciting, yet tiring time, as my in-laws have been out of the country.
It’s been like being our own little family of 4, with no other commitments to anyone else. Usually, we go to them every day, eat with them at least 5 times a week, and they help me with my children, picking them up from school as I stay later, to do my planning.
But for two months, it has been different. No rushing to other places, being able to get home straight from work, eating what we please, running plans past anyone…
Though it has been tough too. I pay through the teeth for extra after-school care for the kids, I can’t spend as long as I need at school, instead rushing home to make sure they are fed.
My mother-in-law is an angel though. She cooked kid friendly curries, and froze them in portion pots so I could at least make kids food quickly after school!
But tonight they are back!
Much as I love my total independence, I miss them far too much for them to be gone any longer! It’s not just for selfish reasons. Yes, our routine will get back to normal, and I will get lots of help, but also I will get my second mother back, so there is someone there to talk to, ask advice of, and the kids get their grandparents back too!
Family is so important, your own, as well as your in-laws, after all, they are the ones that made your ‘other half’! I know, without our families behind us, we would be nothing.
Happy Sunday Peeps!
16 Apr 2016 105 Comments
in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Big Boobs, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, No Clothes
Seriously! I have nothing that fits in my Indian clothes collection!
Not in my overcrowded cupboard….
Or even in my under-bed storage!
I have many outfits, collected over the years, in varying sizes as, like most women, my weight has fluctuated over the years. But today, icing on the cake time!
My bust is too big!
Honestly, every top I put on, I felt like I couldn’t breathe, as this expanse of bosom was squished down into too tight fabric!
Yes, so I know I put on a little weigh, but such an increase in the boobage department!?!
I finally found one outfit to wear today, to our Nagar Kirtan parade, celebrating Vaisakhi (a post about last years is here) but it was rather thin, so even with a cardigan, and shawl, I was freezing!
I know many women would be happy to see the increase, but it’s not always convenient, and I love my old clothes too much!
( And no, no photos of the evidence, I was way too embarrassed!)
Anyone know of any reduction exercises? “I must, I must decrease my bust!”
And a little haiku to highlight my issues!
Outfits spilling out
From my bottomless closet
Still, nothing to wear!Ritu 2016
16 Apr 2016 26 Comments
in Challenges, Poems Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Pins
I thought I should have another go at TJ’s fun Household Haiku Challenge this week! Check it out here.
And here is my photo….
Rainbow coloured pins
Standing tall in a circle
Ritu 2016Ready for dutyRitu 2016
Alas, what can I say… my pins have been in brand new packaging for the last 5 years! They are one of those items I bought when we moved into our new house, thinking they would come in handy one day… But I am not a dressmaker or seamstress in any way, so the packaging was broken open, especially for this challenge! Maybe I’ll use them now!
And just for humour’s sake, a little 3/5/3 haiku too!
Forgetting
And then sitting down
Ouch! Sharp pins!Ritu 2016
16 Apr 2016 30 Comments
in Challenges, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda Hill, no, SoSC
For Linda’s prompt, click here.
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “no.” Try to think of a specific number, as “no.” is often used as an abbreviation for “number,” and write about it. Or, use it as a word. Have fun!
Lucky No…
My lucky number
No. 7
Or is it No. 3?
Possibly 8, 20, 29…
The list goes on…
Dates that are important to me become my lucky numbers.
No. 13 – now, isn’t that meant to be unlucky? Even that I find luck in, as our festival of Vaisakhi falls on 13th April!
In fact I need to get ready now, we have a huge procession and fair today to celebrate! The whole if our town comes out, no mater what colour or creed, to celebrate with us!
Really, if I sat down and thought about it, I could probably find ‘luck’ in almost every number!
What is your Lucky No.?
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