ganga1996
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The leaves are falling but not much color around! The weather soon turns cold, so decided to spend morning outdoors! My photo library is full of these wildflowers! I am obsessed with them! No one to tend but growing on it’s own with vibrant colors! Yes, these beauties were blooming all summer! Just a few…
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30 days has September, April, June and November, all the rest have thirty-one, except February, which has twenty-eight days, when leap year comes once in four years, February has one day more. This rhyme was taught to me by my grandfather when I was little to remember the number of days in the month. I…
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Which relationship has taught you the most about yourself? Being a mother has taught me more than anything else! I am blessed to have two boys who are both adults. One has a lot of special needs and another a very typical one! It would have been wonderful if I had a girl, but this…
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Just two weeks until the start of Navaratri! Two of my rooms are almost empty and cleared for my dolls! My son has made dolls this year and excited to showcase the same! We also have some crafts that are interesting! Thanks to my son’s program coordinator, I have a bag full of gifts made.…
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What are some life hacks that you practice? Every store now has a customer card! Let it be a coffee shop or a grocery store! In the beginning it was fun! We added points and we thought we were achieving some target! Yesterday, two people were talking about gas (fuel) discounts! You have a particular…
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Do you believe in karma? Yes and I believe in Karma! That is what my religion teaches! I am not going to quote big things in life but just quote somethings that are a bit funny and makes us think why it happens! Weekly once, we go to the mall for dinner! Not for me,…
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How do you write what people actually want to read? I pen down what I feel is interesting or what needs to be said! It is my journal open to public and if people are curious they just click on my link and read it! With the internet everyone is an author, a chef, a…
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What’s the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done? Nothing is spontaneous in my household! With a rigid OCD son me and my husband have evolved so much we plan everything! We have unwritten schedules in our house and we live by it, let it be Saturday morning Eintein Bagels or the biking on the exercise…
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What’s a place you visited that felt like home? When we visited Washington DC more than 25 years ago, we stayed at a hotel in Virginia. My husband immediately said, the weather is perfect and the place looks beautiful. I would love to live here. For me, nothing has felt like that. I am a…
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What’s one thing you wish you had started doing earlier in life? Enjoy the nature and present more. We always think about the future and worry. We think about the past and feel bad. We never live in the present. It is a rainy Sunday for us. The temperatures are falling down with a chilly…
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If you could pick any fictional animal to be your lifelong companion (like a Pokémon or fantasy pet), what would it be? I saw the prompt early in the morning and my first answer to the prompt was Snowy, Tintin’s dog! So true and loving to his master, I never thought him as a dog…
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I need to give myself a star, atleast a silver star! Yes, twenty five Thursdays in a row I published my son’s cooking video on his facebook page! Now I have started deep diving into cooking watching Youtubers make snacks, breakfast and dinner specials! Trying to mix all types of cuisines to give the tongue…
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Have you ever liked a villain more than the hero? Who and why? https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/17/tech/how-will-ai-exterminate-humanity-cec I just finished reading this article my brother just forwarded me! Looks like a movie situation! The article did made me remember a Tamil movie Endiran by Super star Rajinikanth! He is a robotic scientist who builds a robot which looks…
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I had cleared up my morning for a particular task! But I didn’t do that! I just walked around enjoying the free time! Maybe I didn’t want to do that activity. Now I have to squeeze the same tomorrow morning in between other things! Youtube is full of classes! I switched on something and enjoyed…
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What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you? No one likes getting advice. In fact when we ask someone for advice, it is more likely we have already made up our minds and just going to that person to get an affirmation for the same 😃🤷♀️! I advise my husband a lot…
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The past few days have been good with regard to sleep! I am waking up fresh. I am trying to do a postmortem on why my sleep is good and I literally have no answer. We start analyzing when something good or bad happens. Why not let it go and move on! Me and my…
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What’s the longest trip you’ve ever taken? Lot of round trips to India but I would say our road trip to Dallas was long! We were on the road for two days and it really ripped our band aid for traveling. We had not been on an airplane for a long time and we thought…
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What’s your best tip for budget travel? The prompt has reached the right person! We have been traveling the past five years and I can say with confidence I didn’t overspend on any of my travels! Catching the 5.40 early morning flight, packing snacks from home, traveling with an instant pot, browsing multiple travel videos…
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Everyone remembers what they were doing on September 11th when the planes hit the World Trade Center. Just in May of that year we had been on top of … This day memory
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How does your mindset affect your financial success? Minimalist lifestyle sure is going to give financial success! That said, I really have no pointers for investments or what mindset would bring success in a stock market or a real estate market! But I did make some mirchi bajji today! No one in my family is…