Category: home management

  • Hice chores. Heavens above! How smashing!

    I am like Joan Rivers, I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again!! But I love a clean house. Know something I did not find the elves anywhere. To organize myself one thing I did was dividing my housework and putting…

  • festivals ahead.– ready reckoner

    With Navarathri and Diwali round the corner how many of you are getting palpitations? I am so this time I have pulled out an ancient cut out I had from the Savvy magazine. Diwali  is basically a family time for togetherness and not an emotional and physical roller coaster happening. There are somethings one can do, Finish…

  • To Soak or not?

    Soak no more, No sweetie I did not think of an umbrella, for I love soaking myself in the rain.  Nor did I think of the shower. Of course a will-o-wisp of warm water with lavender fragrance did flash, but I love soaking my feet too. Know something; to the Egyptians a pair of legs…

  • On Roommates

    I would say living with someone noisy is tough. But have you noticed messy house is not a home, it is an irritant, it is a visual onslaught. This onslaught vibrates creating a movement, from the optic nerve to the auditory, the tympanic membrane seem to perceive a cacophony this unheard noise is called Paranada…

  • Home Is…

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  • Striking Mt.Washmore down.

    its impossible to tackle Mt.Washmore laundry One thing that I cannot seem to scratch off the to-do list, actually it has to be two. One is tackling mount Washmore, my mother-in-law calls it “aravi samdura” which means an ocean of laundry as a pun on the “Arabi samudra” the Indian name for the Arabian sea.…