bits July 31, 2009
Posted by preetischronicle in Little V, life's like that, random thoughts.1 comment so far
Little V took 2 little steps yesterday! This is @ 13.5 months. He’s also effortlessly cruising with his hold on walker (its not the sit down walker), maneuvering it quite well and even using just one hand to move it along. So the baby is almost walking. Sometimes, I sit back and wonder which was the best phase of my baby and every month seems to be really the best one!
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I had some very tough days lately with Little V’s day care arrangement getting upset, the old couple became grandparents and left to be with their daughter in the UK. However, I have learned that every problem actually has an opportunity somewhere. We saw some day care facilities and nothing really pleased us. What could match up to the lovely home Little V was going to. I was lucky to be allowed to work early morning hours and I work from 7am to 3pm and Little V’s dad work until late evenings. This has worked out really well between us. Both of us are getting to spend a lot of time with Little V. Infact he has atleast one of us for most part of the day. I take him out everyday on his bicycle and he’s made several friends around our block. The only downside of this is the impact this has on my sleep. I have been sleeping very little. Since Little V and his dad dont need to wake up early, the house goes very late to sleep and I am the one who wakes up early and then has the entire day lined up either at home or office. I finish my housework when little V takes his afternoon nap, and in a way get to spend more time as a couple too! In my earlier set up I would spend all my available time with Little V and do my housework when his dad would be back.
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Little V is speaking many words now and even attempted speaking calculator calling it ‘cal..tor’. If I sing rhymes, he imitates the sound and the tune if he can’t say the words. And he’s developed a fancy for cars, and loves to point out to every single car on the road and say ‘cah’. He can identify cars in cartoons, books, movies, any tv show with ease. He also loves pointing out to buses on the road and speaks up ‘bah’ on seeing one. Truck is not all too familiar with him though he’s quick to say ‘guck’ when he sees one. ‘Bah’ is being used for bus, balloons, blocks, baarish, ball and its now upto us to point out the right one when he says ‘bah’!
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August is a month of many birthdays. We’ve been invited to several kiddie birthday parties and I am all too excited to take my baby at each one of them since he enjoys birthdays now. Looks like the festive season will be here very soon. Yeah! life will be busy and thats how we like it! 
my watches… May 4, 2009
Posted by preetischronicle in random thoughts, this is me.2 comments
have all stopped together at 4:10. Three of them. Pretty uncanny for me. I am not much of a watch fan (yeah! ask my husband), however over the years I have sort of amassed a collection. At the last count, I have about 9 of them. My first watch was a titan, and I was a school going kiddo at that time, the steel strap and the fancy dial was all too fascinating for me. And I wore that watch for quite a long time, well into my college years. As I started to work, I bought myself another fancy watch which became my favorite for about 2 years. I would wear it all of my waking hours and sleeping hours too. During my first job, the employer gifted all its employees a watch on diwali and that one became my hot favorite then. It was silly of me to have worn it even when not at work and to have felt proud to be associated with the big name that they were. As we dated and my then boyfriend(and now hubby) gifted me some watches and my collection just grew like that. So some were bought and others were gifted. In the past 2 weeks, I have had an unusual experience with my watches. I have lost one of these 9. And today morning I noticed, three of them had stopped with the time 4:10 on them. Is there some supernatural message or sign in all this that I cannot gather! like my time of death or something! quite creepy no!
Also, a few days ago, I almost lost another one of my watches. I wore it to a market, did my shopping and on the way back realised that the watch was missing from my wrist. Me and Little V then went back all the way to search for it, but it wasn’t there in any of the shops. Somehow, that day I found it lying right next to where the car was parked. No one picked it up from there. I was happy to have found it. Andd, now that I am doing this post, I recollect there is an old watch lying somewhere at home, which I haven’t worn in a year and I am wondering if its stopped at 4:10 too. Its the first thing I’ll check when I get back home today.
may be apun ka time kuch kharab chal raha hai !
work from home March 20, 2009
Posted by preetischronicle in at work, life's like that, random thoughts, this is me.4 comments
I choose to work from home today. It happens to be one of the perks of my new role. Besides the money, it’s the only other attractive thing. Oh yes! I also have a very inspiring lady for a boss. The ms. I-can-do-all-look good-have kids-manage them well sort of an efficient corporate honcho! Little V found out something unusual in the day today, so he is particularly clingy and crying easily for the smallest thing and demanding 100% attention. We have both been sitting in the living room since morning on the carpet, me hastily checking my emails on my pc and little V safely seated on 2 thick blankets (he sometimes falls backwards) with toys scattered all around us. The day went well, I got enough work done. I got to play with Little V for some extra time and fed him all his meals myself. Sneaked in some time to make a new dish for him. Spoke with two friends over the phone. Had fewer cups of tea and gulped lesser food than I do when I am stressed out at work.
So this thought came to my mind (i usually dilly dally on how comfortable this working mommy bit is, so don’t be surprised to hear from me totally tangent views at some other time). Aren’t working mums, living in a nuclear family, the most efficient bunch of people around? They never indulge in rotten office gossip. They do not want to spend extra time in office just to show off hard work. They don’t lick their boss’s feet. They are quick to respond to emails and answer phone calls at the first. Not only do they manage the office work, they are also running a household and managing baby meals, not being able to afford any showdowns in the week. They have their washing, cupboard cleaning, friends visits and weekends neatly planned out. They are ambitious but not running after that extra promotion, that additional raise, they won’t bend their standards to get there. But alas! they are also the most stressed out of the lot sometimes…me thinks.
Some random thoughts October 7, 2008
Posted by preetischronicle in random thoughts.1 comment so far
Whatever happened to MTV, they have been up with these cheap facsimiles of some movies – bechare zameen par, cheque de etc. They are trying so hard to be funny! BZP was good though. I read somewhere that zoom tv is eating up MTVs TRPs, that explains the host of new shows on MTV. I was watching this show – I think its called ’style check’. The next show has Gimmish Gachamiya as guest…whatever makes them associate him with style totally baffles me!!
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I have been working out of home (don’t know how much of that will last though) and well today was bit of a hectic day, now I am done with it. It was a unique experience – little V in my lap, some rattles around me and a laptop in front of me! Have never worked like this before. Guess that’s what mommyhood is about
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My phone connection with Dodofone has been giving me lots of itchy time. I can’t receive or make any calls from it. I think someone plucked out the nearest tower from my place. My phone is now only another toy to little V, I make him hear my various ringtones on it. I only receive missed call alert sms and obviously loads of dodofone messages egging me to download bhakti bhajans to bikini babes, about how I can make chat friends on mobiles and not feel lonely!! Well, they have already isolated me with their ‘happy to help’ services.
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is that if one of my cheques is returned stamped
“insufficient funds”, I won’t know whether
that refers to mine or the bank’s!
