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How do you relax? Today morning was another early start to the day. We had to be at a 5k race for a charity event. Call us 5k junkies. Where there is a race, we will be present. Indian restaurants sponsored free food after this event so, double joy. Here is a link if you…
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Happy Onam to all my friends and family. A harvest festival from Kerala. For me the next couple of weeks mark the beginning of my Navaratri celebrations . I created an invite and slowly started sending them one by one. I have a whole lot of agendas planned in it to keep my young man…
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Are you holding a grudge? About? We all hold grudges for one thing or another. We are humans and not saints remember? We may have hard feelings over things. Yes, I too have had instances in my life like that. But over the years I have learnt it is not going to help me in…
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Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home. I have traveled multiple times between India and the US. So what story should I tell you all? I was having the thoughts when I placed my breakfast for my special young man. It was a mixed vegetable soup. I used the pepper grinder…
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What does your ideal home look like? I live in one 😃! It took me a weekend to find this home that can suit my autistic son when he was 13 years old. I didn’t care about garden or the interior but just a space he could be himself and move around free. East or…
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We were at Watkins Glen State Park yesterday. First time in the finger lakes region of New York. The drive along Lake Seneca was beautiful as we drove to the park. It was so crowded that we were asked to park at south entrance. I watched numerous videos for the gorge hike but no one…
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We had to be near Lake Erie for Labor day weekend. Original plans to spend time at one of the beaches. Then I drew up something different which was not approved by my husband but day one of the weekend couldn’t have been better. So here are snapshots of what we saw and did. The…
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Interview someone — a friend, another blogger, your mother, the mailman — and write a post based on their responses. I call my mom everyday. Yup, I interview about her health and give her pep talk. I want her to keep moving. A long work week came to an end and every task was checked…
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How are you feeling right now? Yes! Last day of a slooow looong week! But a ton of activities scheduled today. Lot of things to check off and lot of work at home. When there are a ton of things to be checked off, your brain really doesn’t work much and it just think about…
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What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life? I wrote Monday morning that I had a looong work week ahead. Yup, two major appointments done and yet it is just Thursday morning. I really want this week to be over and it looks like it is taking forever. The one constant…
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What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it? Just received an amazon order, dryer lint filter. My dryer has not been working properly. On personal investigation I found the lint filter was broken and clothes were getting tied up to it. For seventeen dollars I ended up not…
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Another festival we in the US are celebrating before people in India. Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated in India tomorrow or should I say on Wednesday whereas we here doing it today, Tuesday. It is a holiday in India and no it is not a holiday in this part of the world. The temples do the…
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Next weekend is the final long weekend of the summer. The temperature dropped to the fifties last night and started showing it is time to enjoy the last bits of summer. Yet, the week is filled with appointments for my young man and everything would bring back memories of his disability and the issues that…
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What’s your favorite recipe? For today’s prompt I am going to re-blog a post I did couple of years ago. I never buy sambhar powder and I make that from scratch and I always feel proud about it 😊! A big satisfaction that I am making something healthy. I wanted to copy and paste the…
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Tell us about the last thing you got excited about. Today went to the Indian store for grocery shopping. I picked up a snack. It was an hour drive back home and I asked my husband to make his coffee. He makes it with Nescafe instant coffee powder, to it I add a strong dose…
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How would you design the city of the future? I would say with no traffic jams 😊! I have no clue as how to design THE city of the future. Maybe more public transportation and less pollution. Okay, I leave the rest to the experts. If you have been following my blog the past few…
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Where did your name come from? I think this prompt came in a different form. I talk about my paternal grandmother a lot and I am her namesake. And of course was named after her grandmother. So yes, the name has passed generations. And yes , my grandma’s grandma was named after the holy river…
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What motivates you? I have heard of a Japanese cleaning method. Keep the stuff close to your heart and if it doesn’t resonate you can discard. Finally a major closet/shelf space is being decluttered in my house. So what was the motivation? My husband has been complaining that one key is missing and we definitely…
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I was a very brave girl today. So here is what happened. It was a super busy day and I really was excited to walk alone in the park today. Yes, it was dark but we had a lot of crowd because of the hot weather. At 9 pm we had brisk runners and walkers.…
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What are your top ten favorite movies? I am not into movies nowadays. Maybe it takes too much of my time. Two weeks back saw Freaky Friday along with my young man at his program. Looks like Freakier Friday is in theaters. Love comedy genre but feeling lazy to go and watch it in the…
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