The last quarter

Maybe I should write a whole book called "The last quarter", instead of a post, is what I am thinking right now as I type at the ungodly hour of 3:00AM.

The good news is that the little one, myself and the MIL are all doing fine and getting ready for the festival season, and the fact that I wake up with a sweat at 2:30 and realize I cannot go back to sleep is actually a good sign. The body has won the battle against any remnant bug, or so I hope. It is a strange coincidence that every time I am up and unable to sleep it means one of two things..

1. The bug is eliminated completelty. This happens a day or two after I start feeling good.
2. I get a phone call with some alarming news about someone I love. It is almost like that person who had something nasty happen to them was trying to reach me..

This time, it is definitely #1.

Do you ever wonder how suddenly life shifts to 6th gear on October 1st?

This for various reasons.

You got Navarathri and the associated Durga or Saraswati Pooja usually coinciding with Id, then Diwali coinciding with Halloween, then thanksgiving and Christmas/ Hanukkah, and anything else that I have left out in the list of festivities..

Almost every weekend there is a birthday party to attend in Oct/Nov! This could be the valentine baby syndrome, if you get my drift..

It is the end of the fiscal year for the worklife and that means a lot more work.

It is also the flu season and no year goes by without two rounds of runny noses, frequent flier miles to the nearest restroom, midnight carpet cleaning sprees, distrubed sleep. . .

The combination of all this makes the last few months in the year just whiz by!

Happy Navarathri.. Id Mubarak.. Can't wait to get some sundal and sweets from those celebrating...

With that thought, let me get back to catching some sleep, because tomorrow is going to be:

Lights, camera, Sundal!

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The times, they are a changing!

Within 24 hours of posting the massage video, the little one is on a violent throwing up spree! This after a great play session, earlier in the day, with her elder sister and cousins.

She has probably caught some stomach bug and there is a good chance it will go around the house faster than a bag of potato chips. Only time will tell!

So, what is with the title?

Under normal circumstances, the video would have been correlated to the sickness and I would have got orders to shut the blog down.

This time however, there was no such comment from the wife and MIL. It was a refreshing change, to see the throwing up being attributed to the little micro-organisms.

To celebrate this change in the household, here is another video of the little one...

Time to hit the Airborne, Walborne, Riteborne or whatever brandname fizzy tablet, the local drug store dishes out to boost my body with 30,000% the daily dose of anti-cold-flu vitamins, including but not limited to A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H...Z, A1-A256, B1-B26, .. and all the other essential herbal, mineral, vital, nutritional supplements to prepare for the upcoming (or already arrived) flu season!

Here is a stock tip from Dr. Narayanohe. Buy companies that make synthetic vitamin C. You might have a healthy benefit!

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When life gives you a remote control

Have a massage!

The little one is almost two and she is learning fast.

Already tells me "Daddy, sit properly", "I finished my mammu" and points to a truck with a barrel and says "concrete truck". The best part of the deal is that she picks up different words from daycare, daddy, mommy, grandma and mostly her akka and gives us pleasant surprises by using these words in some unique situations.

She has also figured out how to give herself a massage!

I bought this Relaxor thing way back in 1998 and sent it by mail to India. It was stuck in customs and they wanted my parents to pay the equivalent of 150 dollars to claim it. Considering that I had bought it for $99 and paid another 9 bucks to ship it, I requested that they return it to sender. That thing came back damaged on the return shipment and has been lying around in the garage till now! I found it, duck taped it and now it is working for the little ones.

My attempts to teach energy conservation obviously failed. Will have to keep trying...

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