It's been a long time...

I've lurked around my blog for a while wondering just how different my life has become now and if I am even the same person who used to keep the earlier blog:) He he! Sometimes it feels like reading someone else's blog. Stuff I wrote about earlier is not very relatable or relevant to my present at times and I wonder whether to term it as a natural progression (or regression) of life or a passing phase....But that's life right, concatenation of it all.

 This makes for some reminiscing nevertheless.The bandwidth of time I have to write is currently very narrow, and I've never been the best of time managers. All free time is taken up with cooking or being with kids or ironing or some doing or the other. Sometimes I don't take the time to wonder at the squirrels at play on the tree outside my window. Not to say that all activity is productive, sometimes it is just to and fro, and back again, and hurried checking of tasks to get them done for the day. Introspection over the days passed does not happen. That state of mind when you do nothing, keeping thoughts away....I am constantly fielding something or the other.

That's how it is. In the midst of this all, Big G turned 8 and we had a nice homely birthday party for her. I say this because increasingly the trend I see is to have it at an outside venue, leaving food to caterers and make a big bash of it. But we opted for interaction with her friends and few parents who stayed back and it helped us know them better. The kids enjoyed the food too and it was a full house for a few hours. Lil G not to be left out in the whole merry-making would greet everyone of Big G's friends as "Do you know who I am, I am Big G's lil sister." This line has kept us in splits for days after that!

I know people are curious about other people's lives but it is amazing at the open ended questions you get asked by mere acquaintances. You can't treat someone as a book to read. And so I leave such interactions with a ?? mark in my mind. This year I have not been too proud of myself on some counts and equally admiring myself on some others. Such a play of contrast right? That is why I am ok with ambiguity in stuff - decisions, feelings, not knowing, retrogades. That said, I would not be too appreciative of lack of values, integrity in living one's life.

December is the last month of the year and I will wait till the end to label my 2014. I am an optimist, and a sucker for happy endings. If nothing, fodder for another post, since I am acutely aware that I am not writing much in this one. But I can just tick - updated blog, for today! Sigh! See you soon.

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  1. Uma7 December 2014 at 04:28

    belated wishes to Big G..Lil G seems so adorable..I hope we meet next year soon :-)
    Vibha, I can totally get you when you talk about social interactions being puzzling. It's so difficult to find that connect and esp. as you grow older!

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    1. Chatty Wren8 December 2014 at 18:32

      Thanks Uma for your wishes! Lil G is that, a charmer! We, as in the kids are already busy planning the next birthday party which is more than a few months away:) True that, or maybe some of us are not very well versed in Rules of the game, and thus tend to find social interactions overwhelming at times.

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    2. Chatty Wren8 December 2014 at 18:34

      Meeting up with blogger friends can be one of my new year resolutions :)

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  2. Renu8 December 2014 at 15:28

    good to see you back:)

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  3. Roshni13 December 2014 at 00:09

    Sometimes it's great to just watch squirrels playing in the trees!
    Belated wishes to Big G! :)

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    1. Chatty Wren17 December 2014 at 16:03

      Thanks Roshni! Agree, need to take some time off to do nothing. Sometimes those times are more productive.

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  4. Seema18 December 2014 at 13:12

    Hey Chatty Wren,

    We’re soon nearing the end of this year and stepping onto 2015. A lot happened across the blogosphere this year; I was amused to catch up on so many new events when I opened my Reader after a long hibernation. The beginning of this year and the last saw a bunch of us bloggers participating in a month long marathon. It was fun, crazy, exciting, hectic and absolutely insane. I thought we must continue with the tradition in the upcoming year as well. Would you like to join the madness this time too? Please drop me an email if you are interested at kamathseema1@gmail.com

    Thanks,
    Seema

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