The folks of lazy town......

Lazy - that's our theme for the day! We have abandoned any notions of schedules or tasks for the day. Reading, writing, what scrapbook, haven't seen it over the weekend! Nick Junior and Cbbc are playing nanny alternately. I don't feel like doing anything, though chores are plenty, everywhere I cast my eye. Don't feel like cooking either. Not that I have too many options to work with - all rice is over (the white rice a while ago and the brown recently). Making roti dough is too much work, for the moment ;-) A shrivelled cabbage and a green capsicum. My suggestions that we munch carrots for lunch has no takers o.O. I offered to make vermicelli upma, again vetoed. So making roasted potatoes with cheese and some leftover bread pudding to go along with. I'd better not speak to my mother today!!

A big task is organizing my cupboard, not merely settling it. And help has been volunteered only I am not taking it :-) Still finding the perfect window of opportunity and muharata to begin  Can't understand why this sudden ennui which seems to have settled in. If you don't chip away work will not get done and no progress makes you more depressed. Such a distressing cycle!

In other news, Big G has got her bicycle and we spent Sunday evening getting her used to it. Her dad coaching her while lil G was content with me pushing her three-wheeler. I must say that I was very impressed by lil G's behaviour. She who happy for her big sister and did not throw a fuss at the shop despite seeing some other attractive cycles. She has a three-wheeler at home. I finally got a school bag for her and she was content with that. Big G got back home and saw the bag and threw a small tantrum for some trinket hanging from the zipper. Such a difference in personalities ...Sigh!

My friend P is planning a Europe tour which includes a stopover at Brussels and I am too thrilled for words. We met each other in college and she  even played a part in my meeting my husband. She is a self-made person and I admire her immensely. She is my 3:00 am friend and I can say the same for her, at least last I knew :-) Oh and here is an article on why it is hard to make friends after 30.  I agree with the situational friends logic now, though it took me a while to get comfortable with it.  What do you people think?

The weather is Ok and we will go out for some more bi and tri-cycling. All to-dos have been conveniently pushed to the 2nd half of the day which will make me run out of breath by evening. But I do my work only when I am racing against time. So signing out now to finally take over from the nanny :-)



Comments

  1. Aparna17 July 2012 at 17:48

    Ah...chores will always be there, but this summer will never come back. Glad that you are being lazy!! :)
    I read the article - very interesting - and true. Don't think I can ever make "situational" friends though.

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    1. Chatty Wren17 July 2012 at 21:28

      Ha ha, being lazy once in a while is fine, but it can get addictive :-)
      Actually, Aparna, I wasn't like that earlier, even now I wouldn't make friends thinking the friendship is transient or situational. But I see that's how others see it - filling a gap and in my current situation, even that is good enough, someone to connect with.

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  2. Unknown17 July 2012 at 21:43

    Hi, thank you for visiting me! Oh, there will be days when we just don't feel like doing anything, and my take is that we should just go with it! Sooner or later, we will get tired of the inertia and get back to work, so it's best not to fight it too hard!!

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    1. Chatty Wren17 July 2012 at 23:13

      Hi there Mom of A & a, and welcome to my blog! Agree, even inertia is tiring after a while, change is the only constant :-)

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  3. Uma19 July 2012 at 18:42

    hey Vibha,
    late here this time :-) That article is quite interesting and I found myself nodding at many many places...looks like it does hold true for me,..esp. the part about the bar being higher after 30 for friendships and emotional priorities taking precedence. Although I've made many 'friends' in the recent years, I haven't really gone out of the way to be in touch with them as I have or would have done with my BFFs. Also, I've come to notice that although I do know a lot of people around I prefer limiting them to being just a little more than acquaintances..not the kinds who you are at your place every other day or you at theirs..makes me uncomfortable somehow..I need my space more nowadays :-)
    Maybe that's due to the fact that in your own country you are anyway predisposed to meeting a lot of people and having daily mundane interactions as opposed to a foreign place where you don't have the luxury of connecting but not quite connecting...if you get what I mean..:-)
    and, oh btw, about the post...chill, lady..we are entitled to being lazy every once a while :-)

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  4. Chatty Wren19 July 2012 at 20:50

    Hey Uma, no worries, I understand from your last post you are keeping busy:) I get what you say! At this phase of life, with kids and other priorities, one's time and space is precious and one would want to open ourselves to a selected few who 'qualify'. I would rather be alone than have uncomfortable silences which I am wracking my brains to fill, awkward that! Though I don't approach any new friendship as a situational one, I am getting resigned to the fact that it will be that way with some people and moreover, it's a 2-way street.

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    1. Uma23 July 2012 at 17:57

      oh..missed ur reply..maybe I didn't click on the follow-up link :-)

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  5. Anonymous31 July 2012 at 07:01

    Hey, i too am in Lazy-land, and i can completely relate to what you ae feeling..
    Wow, your friend is coming to your place, hope you enjoy a lot :)
    I somewhat agree the article. Though i talk to all friends from school, college and all my jobs, i am most comfortable with school, college and 1st job friends, there seems to be some truth to this..

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    1. Chatty Wren31 July 2012 at 13:57

      I am totally coming around to agree with the article:)

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