A Nothing Day!

Good Morning all.

I have been wanting a sounding board past few weeks and I thought I will share my life with nobody and here I am coz I know no one reads my blog.

What's new about today? Nothing
What's different from anyother day? Apart from Kanu and lousy traffic, nothing else!

But when i got up in the morning, I felt it is a good day and it has been a good day even with lousy traffic.
Is it probably because I got to spend some time with my handsome young son in the morning which I never get to do
or
Is it because i washed my hair and I felt fresh from head to toe
or
Is it because I did eye makeup after a month break? I am sure it is the first reason or am I?

Yippeee! MY OCI card is ready to be shipped.

Today morning brought a smile to my face and I wanted to share the happiness with every one! Hope you all have a happy day just like me..................

Happy Maatu pongal every one!

Feast...

On new year's day, I made carrot halwa, chappathi and chole for lunch. The post is not going to be about that. It is going to be about the day after new year's. It is about January 2nd, the Saturday. I got up in the morning..yeah i did..actually i had to...coz i have to say thirupaavai. The morning seemed like any other morning and I just did not feel like cooking the routiene things and so i made vegetable pulao, raita and stuffed capsicum (Or stuffed pepper..however you want to call it..frankly I prefer capsicum coz it sounds good)..

Vegetable Pulao
Well I do not follow a fixed recipe..I use whatever my hand finds in the fridge and whatever i find in my kitchen shelf and it always turn out good. The tip for you would be not to hide in my fridge on pulao day. In any case, I will give the recipe of jan 2nd vegetable pulao that I made.

Ingredients -
Carrot - 1
Beans - few
Potato - 1
Capsicum - 1
Ginger - small qty
Cinnamon - 2 sticks
Cloves - 3
Jeera -  1 spoon
Green chillies - 2
Red chilly - 1 spoon
Turmeric - 1/2 spoon
Rice - 3/4 Cup
Ghee - 1 spoon

Method

1) Chop the vegetables into small pieces.
2) In the pressure cooker, add  a spoon of ghee and then add green chillies, jeera, cinnamon, cloves
3) Add the Vegetables, rice and water and after 3 whistles you are done.

Now the tricky part was to convince my husband that I have made stuffed capsicum before and I am an ace at that. Once that part was done, I started the preparation of making stuffed capsicum for the very first time. I selected four red capsicums and two orange capsicums.

OOPS I started writing this two years back (01/02/2011) and now i dont remember what I did!!

Year that went by...

2009... What an year...I started last year with my fiance over the phone and started this year with my husband.

It has been a miraculous year with lots of ups and little downs and how was it? Spectacular! I am not going to write about my downs as I do not wish to remember it...

Before marriage, I got to spend three weeks at Chennai home with my family and had the pleasure of meeting all my near and dear ones, and then i got married and my husband fulfilled my long desired dream to go to Salzburg. Then I came to Chicago and got married in Cityhall. One heart in Chicago and one heart in Austin found four homes together - 1 in Austin, 1 in Austin airport, 1 in Chicago and 1 in Chicago airport. Then had fun with my brother's family and parents in Wilmingon beach and then in Smoky mountains. Then had an amazing time with my parents on july 4th weekend when they had come over to Austin. My better half (did i really say that? I must be over my head!!) and I explored different restaurants and had an excellent meal in Charlotte's Copper restaurant. I quit my job before my mmmm 18th bday :P and became an house wife. Then went to India and had a great time spending two weeks with in-laws. The whole year was F-U-N!!

About me and my husband, it has been one heck of a ride.....
- Salzburg for our honey moon
- He coming to Chicago on a monday night to welcome me to United States and staying there for a week to find a comfortable place for me to stay in,
- Spending birthdays together (I got a watch and a big box of m&ms saying "Happy Birthday Awesome Priya")
- 2 months of up and down trips
- 6 to 7 trips to Oklahoma casino ( one way 4 hours)
- Disney world Orlando
- Orlando universal studio
- Watching casablanca in a old fashioned movie theater sharing a popcorn
- Enjoying parks, boat rides on the lake
- Getting all the wanted and unwanted stuff from the mall
- Driving all over the city to watch christmas lights
- Watching various movies ranging from animation to science fiction
- Getting lot of gifts from my husband by claiming that in the first year of marriage, every month is a "monthessary" ...lets see what I got -some roses, some dinners in various different places...the best one being Melting Pot, getting a CHI hair straightener,  getting some dresses, getting hypnotic senses perfume, one breakfast in bed, swaroski crystal earrings...


Well really it has been a good year!! After all my husband got me 4 perfumes last year only :P

I hope this year would be as great as last year was...hoping to that...I wish you all Happy new year and may your perfume count increase too :)

What is this post about....

For past few days, I have been pondering on what to write and I encountered what one would only call a blogger's block!!! Today I lost my marbles...what!! nah..sorry... block ... coz I just had an epiphany.

Today, I had the privilege to talk to my very good friend by the name Sindhu who finally picked up the phone to call me after a forgotten decade!! Wait a minute...it was I who forgot to call for almost an year...Gee...Sindhu.. am so sorry. In any case, she mentioned that she checked my blog to find some update but there was none and somehow that made me remember my other friend Rachita who always told me that I have to write romance novels. It might not come as a surprise to you that I am a big romantic at heart!!

Then suddenly it occured to me...hey why not write a short story! Well, my sister is doing it or I can atleast copy some of her articles and post it as mine :P. So if you want to stop checking my blog from now on, you have my blessings (which are nothing but disguised curses).

Now comes the very interesting part of today's post. What should I name my character? The first name that came to mind is "Priya" obviously coz its such a beautiful, lovely, awesome, excellent name and it is so divine to utter. Hold the phone...do you think i am saying all this coz its my name..??? How shallow of you....ofcourse you are right and yeah you are shallow :P

Why dont you suggest some names, some roles, some story lines and some stories as well...I can always pretend that its mine !!

Nevil Shute

My favorite author. Few months back, I was on a Nevil shute reading spree and I managed to read

1) So disdained
2) The chequer board
3) Town like Alice

The ones that I have read before are

4) On the beach
5) Trustee from toolroom

Each and every book of his paints a picture of a simple life comparable to R.K. Narayan's stories. The feeling that I feel during and after reading of a Nevil Shute book is 'content'. After I finished reading the book, I looked at the backyard from the hall window and for the first time I noticed the beauty of the surroundings. Absolute peace and simply divine!
If you have not read his book, do give it a try! Start with my favorite - Trustee from toolroom.

P.C: I have just read 5 books of his. Gifts are welcome!

Back in the game...

Back after an year of recluse!! What do you think would be the reason for my recluse? Can anyone guess? Yes!! Something terrible happened to me! Well, it happens to every one at some point of time...guessed it? Yes..oh yes..its marriage!!!

Just Kidding or am I???!!!???

Atypical day

People who were on my messenger list know that I was very much idle from morning. I came and sat at my desk and I found something irritating my skin under the left knee; and I figured out that the torn edges of jeans pant do not suit my skin after all. I rushed to the bathroom to access the damage where I met one of my ex-teammates Neatha and she admired the fashionable cut in my jeans. I was not in a mood to parade in that and so I thought I will not budge from my seat but my roommates called me for lunch and I did not want to disappoint the birthday girl and so off I went in the torn jeans!

To top that, after lunch, I was playing with the board pin and it fell on the ground and I did not want to get up from my seat to get the pin. So I tried to pick it up from where I was and off I hugged the floor with all the intensity of a lover that my left thigh will remember it well for at least a week!!!

To top even this, I got to know that my manager is playing games with me when I am in the least playful mood!!!!!!

I wanted to make channa dal vada, kheer, gobi Manchurian with gravy and roti for dinner as its my roommate’s birthday but the reminiscence of the earlier hug prevented me from doing anything fancy and so ended up making magi!!

I would say it has been an awesome day!!