Montessori Madness!

One of my fav Montessori vdos out there! A small summary of what I hope to achieve every single day!!

Month Long Travels!

Phew! Its been a full month since we left for vacation! 5 cities & 3 different temperatures! Countless new experiences and new places seen! It has been amazing - sort of hard to even chronicle but I will attempt to as much as I can! :)

Dubai - oh the pleasure of being in a country closer to Asia! Even tho Dubai is so different culture wise from Indo or India...its probably similar in terms of lifestyle to what I grew up with. The convenience of drivers & the stark difference between the working class n service class. It really reminded me of home and made me realize how different US is. Traveling to one of these places & seeing it anew through my US-tinted glasses def made an impact. The city is modern beauty - with its gorgeous high rise buildings & city-like malls! Squashed amidst this modernity is also old Dubai with its gold souks, spice souks & local streets which are not so sophisticated & where the men just stare that much longer at a girl in shorts! lol. somethings will never change in some parts of the world i guess? *shrug*

The awesome part of Dubai was the extreme relaxation me & Bumblebee got to do! We would step out during the day, see a few things, come back exhausted n pass out for a few hours only to wake up starving, close to midnight n try to scrounge some dinner place! it was amazing! Ohhh and i looooove hotels in the Asian part of the world! Somehow any hotel I've been to in the US, isn't able to match the opulence & sheer comfort in that part of the world! Such bliss! :)

India - India was a mixed bag of emotions. The sister-in-laws wedding was sooo much fun! Just catching up with the whole family & getting to see a wedding from this side of the family. The days were long & the nights even longer with conversations stretching late into the night...only to wake up the next morning for more! It was really a wonderful time to be in India. The mixed bag was with dad's health complications. Even tho everything went off wonderfully well, there is now this fear planted (locked deep inside a chest in my heart coz i don't think I could survive & function everyday without) in my heart and just this slap-in-your-face realization that the parents are growing old. Missed V a lot. Wish he would have been there. Having Bumblebee was a godsend - i don't think i would have the courage to deal with everything otherwise!

But there were precious moments spent with my parents n with my in-laws which i will always treasure! And the best gift, having the sis in law a few house away in this part of the world! All which ended the trip on a happy note! :)

New York - was a trip of friends!! Meeting K after forever was sooooo good! I cannot believe its been 2 years since we met! Time really does fly when you are super involved in your own lives!! This time Bumblebee n her husband also bonded which was nice for us to both see! :) I am looking forward to such trips being planned for the rest of our lives with 1 n then 2 kinds in tow! ;) lol! *touchwood* And i also got to meet V! I met him at our wedding last & that really does not count! He is still the same boy i remember from col altho he professes to have grown up! i do miss him n it was amazing to hang out with him!

Of course the weather in NY was the warmest when I was there - I have like the worst luck when it comes to seeing snow!! :( There were teeny tiny flurries one of the evenings when we were at Rockefeller center & I was just left thinking how awesome it would be if it actually snowed!! Ohh and we finally did the walk to Central Park! I finally saw all the awesome places in the park where they keep shooting films! It was very pretty but I bet is even prettier in the summer/ fall! It was overall a really fun trip!! :)

Phew - it was an amazing trip! Leaving you with a pic of how I felt throughout the month!! :D

Only in Seattle!

A homeless person on the sidewalk at a traffic signal holds up a board saying,

"Why lie? Need $10 for weed!"

LOL!

Duplicate Me!!

I need a duplicate me, with a little more brain. And all the answers. Because the original me is a little lost. And has no answers and is so so confused. There are so many sides to this. And I don't know who is right and who isn't. And I especially don't know if I'm being 'influenced' by one or another to make the moves and the decisions that I have made so far. Everything is a question right now. And I need answers. Who do I ask? The ones I can, they each have their own axe to grind so to say. And no one on the outside could even begin to understand and sort through the myriad of emotions that I'm feeling on a daily basis. 

So I need me. A duplicate me. A duplicate me with some answers. Any ideas on where I can go find myself?

*updated* why am I still asking questions n unsure of so many things in life?!? Isn't life supposed to get easier at some point!!!!

Girlfriends!

Saturday was one of the rare girls night outings I went out for. I had class the whole day and bumblebee had a bachelor party to attend in the evening. After dilly-dallying, finally made plans with some of my friends from class! On my drive to the restaurant, I was sooo excited! After such a long time, to be out with a bunch of girls talking about random nonsense over drinks - I've missed this! And even tho I missed bumblebee quite a bit, it was nice to have the space to be with just my friends! 

As we talked about random nonsense that only 5 drunk girls can talk! And we laughed and laughed. I was high more on the company than the drinks that we all inhaled! :P

I miss my girlfriends. I miss talking about random nonsense. I miss bitching about our respective others, whether they r husbands or boyfriends! I miss the sex jokes which can only be so much fun in a group of girls! And the TMI that at least one of us (if not more) will indulge in! Lol! 

*clink* here's to girlfriends! :)

Welcome Back Sunshine :)

Its been forever!! And I can't believe how much has changed. Its so hard to even start to pen down all that has changed in my life since I last wrote here!

I got married. And moved to a new country. And left my job. And my friends. And my life. And my family. And my comfort zone. Just about everything. To move in with a person I barely knew, a person I liked on the surface but I had no idea what he was all about. No idea what it would be life to live day in day out with this person. My head spins every time I think about the extent to which I turned my life around. It was a 360 degree, mind turning, mind spinning change for sure. But before it starts sounding all depressing, its a good change. A great change. The kind of change you constantly talk about for years to come! And wasn't our entire courtship period like that? The other night, we spent a few hours going over every detail of our 6 month long courtship with a friend (asked him multiple times if he wasn't bored and surprisingly he wasn't!) It was pure destiny that brought us together, that brought me here to this land 5 years back, I never thought I would be in. A life that surprisingly took on the face of every faceless dream I'd had in the past.

But enough about that. Its been done. I have now moved on to my third career! (im taking bets as to how many i'll get to before i finally settle down! :P) We bot a place recently and I now have a new car - I am properly and definitely rooted in this new life. And now that we have a new dining table that I absolutely love sitting and working on, Im hoping that will spark more blogging! I've been wanting to get back since so long but always struggled with how to start and where to start with all that's happened. And i think for now i've decided to start with just where I am right now. And then go from there! I miss writing and I miss sending my nonsensical thoughts out there in the world! So there world, I'm back! :)

So I know I defined being rooted in this life earlier as the materialistic house, car and job keeping me here but more than anything else, its this man keeping me here. Bumblebee. Oh where do I even start writing about him. He is wonderful and annoying and loving and hurtful and passionate and sometimes too logical all rolled up into one perfectly flawed human being. But thats what makes this work, I think. Even this close to perfection as he gets, I have my bouts of extreme insecurity about our life together and my role in his world - imagine if he was perfect?! I would be a basket case! So yes his faults are what make him reachable in my head. I know thats a little messed up but hey, i got issues man! :P it surprises me sometimes, the insecurity coz i wonder where is it coming from. From the close to problem-free life i led? From the loving parents? From the wonderful friends? God knows, maybe some people are just born with an extra dose of it. Cross fingers i don't pass them on to my kids.

So yes, I'm here. I'm back. With all my nonsense from everyday life! And some funny happenings from my class! Yes I am now a pre-school teacher! I teach kids from 2.5 - 6 yrs old and ohmigod they do say the cutest things ever! So yes they may make an appearance here soon too!

Ciao! See you around World! (soon hopefully!)

Pre-Wedding Jitters!!

A week from today I will be at the eve of my wedding. My wedding. Wow. It seems so unreal. I think of Bumblebee & there is no doubt in my mind that he is the person I want to tie myself to for the rest of my life. I think of everything else & my step falters. Leaving home, being part of a new home, new rules, new expectations, a new country & def a new life. All this is scary. Part of me is excited & wants to stop worrying & over thinking! Part of me is terrified that I'm not thinking enough. That I should know how to be, how to act, what to say by now.

There should be classes on this. How to leave your own house & enter another's & make that your own. Really, I'm sure lessons on this would have helped me far more than stupid history & geography!

*sigh* God, give me strength. And hold my hand please? I need you right now...