When did I turn into such a foodie?

Had the best Vegetarian Quesadillas ever for lunch, topped with Guacamole, Salsa and Sour cream yummm! Either this cafeteria at W serves very good food, or my standards have fallen. I am sure its the former, the food critique in me is very much alive.

H1N1/Swine flu

Last week the first Swine flu /H1N1 case was lodged at work. We got this email about a colleague (whose details will not be revealed) who caught the flu and is expected to fully recover. Hand santizers, wipes etc have been increased everywhere. As if my addiction to Purell wasn't enough its now become an obsession. I hate touching surfaces and especially door knobs and restroom doors. Pouring that Purell all over my palms every couple of hours. I think they should reveal who it is my colleagues spent time wondering who was missing work. And my department happens to be in a seperate room so that was some solace, maybe? Media here is definitely supressing it here. I still see regular reports in NZ and Indian newspapers online, that its getting pretty bad and scary!

Food!

These days I am obsessed with Mexican food. I have always loved it, but for some reason never tried Chipotle all this while. DH took me there last weekend and I had had the Vegetarian bowl and I loved it. I love beans. I love avacados. I just love the freshness it has. I don't know how authentic Mexican it is (pretty sure its very Americanized) - but I love it! At work at the cafeteria the day its Mexican I make sure I don't carry lunch.

As a side note I am totally in love with Zucchini as well. It started in NZ on the form of courgettes and the sauted/ roasted/ grilled zucchini has found a special place in my stomach ever since.

this & that

Was a busy weekend. Attended a kid's first birthday party in the apartments. Attended a Shashtipoorti in CT. And Shravan Maasam has started. Time for Poojas and festivals, its going to be very busy month ahead for me :) Its also the busy birthday period. Most people I know have their birthdays in July and August - including me (plus our anniversary! phew!). Need to hold on to those purse strings real tight!

Its been a week...

Its been a week since folks left for India. I was extremely lonely for the first half of the week. Time just flew and Friday night went to meet friends at NH. Had the tastiest home made pizza made right from scratch even the base and all - Thanks to our friend HN :)

Then our favorite people who we love hanging out with visited us Friday night from their trip to Maine on their way back home to NJ. They stayed over the weekend and I truly felt lucky to have them over especially cos it was the first weekend without my parents.

Weather was perfect. Made a quick trip to Revere beach and caught a glimpse of a small scale sand castle competition sculptures made.

Back to work!

Palak/Spinach rice

Recently a distant relative of mine had invited us for dinner and served Palak rice in the main course. I made it last night for the first time for taking it for lunch today at work. And it tastes really good and it was very quick and easy to make.

Story of my life!

Antsy and majorly sleep deprived!

Lady luck! are you listening?

My parents left for India yesterday. Saturday was a busy day did some last minute shopping, visit to the temple, and we managed to squeeze in to go to downtown and see a couple of sailing boats, as it was the Sailing event 2009 at Boston harbor – it was great weather and crowd.

Sunday was pretty much breakfast/lunch and then airport. It really sunk in after getting home and I was very depressed entire Sunday evening. Did some chores to keep myself occupied but didn’t help. What is that bugs me? The unconditional love parents have for you with no expectations, fact that no other relationship can replace this…And then the guilt, totally took out every bit of frustration on my mom and upset her on many occasions (my mom being my mom is even more sensitive than I am! Sigh!) Every time I do this, miss them and then when they are around totally take them for granted. This has to stop now I am a grown woman, ready to have my own kid/s! Somewhere I also have this fear all this will come back to bite me later…
Ok, just spoke to my parents and they have reached home safely! Apparently they had to wait in a line and the airport authority checked everyone's body temperature and gave flyers on the Swine fly health care as to how /whom, the passengers are suppose to contact if they develop fever and flu like symptoms in the next 10 days. Very impressive arrangement from what I hear.

On another very sad note my BFF’s mother expired after having suffered from Cancer. So the weekend started of on a sad note. I just spoke to her/SJ last week inquiring about her mom’s health etc. I am just so upset listening to one bad news after another. This seriously has to stop. I thought I said in my earlier post after a couple of bad news in a row I was expecting good news to be knocking on my front door. But looks like she is held up!

DH and I had a discussion about something yesterday. I had to confess this feeling thats becoming stronger inside me. I knew we were on the same page with it. But now having expressed it so strongly to one another, it has only become stronger.

Thinking cap on!

I am checking to ensure my priorities are what they should really be.....should I really be?

Thats' always a challenge isnt it? For some, things may exactly work out the way you wanted and they can claim they had their priorities correct to begin with. While others may have to constantly re-visit them as things are working unfavorably.

You can be a confident person because you have either not experienced the lows (read: life is a bed of roses, even if the lows are buried way in the past you will conveniently forget them) or because you have really experienced the lows (read: you are constantly seeing highs and the lows)

Time is just flying!

Almost time for parents to leave for India. Not quite the right time for them to extend their stay as my Ajja / Ajji are not well on and off!

It's almost a month since I joined to work at W - Phew! Really?

Glad to have finally spoken to my pal SJ - been soooo long. Actually I was hibernating last 3 months at home - blame the parents ;)

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Some things will always remain a mystery in life...right?

Will break through the barrier the next time round - GL - MKS :)

Hmmm...

It's so hard not to browse and stay away from the internet - 07/02!