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What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it? I am afraid of snakes and heights. I write about it a lot! But I do see a lot of people posting things saying many things are unhealthy or giving medical advices and creating fear online. Then…
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What do you complain about the most? My constant complaint has been of the critters in my garden! So last year tried planting marigolds to keep them away. So this is part two of the formal conplaint I lodged a couple of years ago. Did they leave my garden? I don’t think so. I had…
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What are your favorite sports to watch and play? The Patriots are off to Super Bowl. Steelers have changed their head coach. News channels enlightened me with this news. Other than that I am not into sports nowadays. Cricket is a huge part of Indians. My husband would be watching highlights of games but I…
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What would you do if you won the lottery? I am not a gambler. We spent a week in Vegas and we just walked around the casinos. Maybe I don’t have that genetic marker for gambling 🤷♀️! That said there are days I love the bingo game I play with my young man at his…
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What books do you want to read? The past few days has been I am stumbling onto Tamil poetry. My mother tongue is Tamil தமிழ். Sunday it was Kambar’s Ramayanam and it was Arungirinathar’s Mayil Virutham. Yesterday was Thiruvalluvar’s Thirukural. It is so true a saying what we have learnt is the size of our…
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The storm is over and we ended up with a foot of snow. We did survive through it but we still have to clear the snow from our driveway! My young man did great yesterday. It’s been a while since he saw so much snow. Yes memories of Boston flooded. In fact we had two…
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Woke up to fresh snow cover! Finally the snow storm is here. As we picked up water and milk yesterday I remembered a storm last May when we lost power overnight. I had to burn candles which irritated my husband. Yes, I just had scented candles and multiple scented candles are not pleasant. But they…
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Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting. I find this prompt to be lucky. I checked what I wrote last year and I am happy to declare or announce I did visit that attraction. We visited the Allegheny Portage Railroad historic site last summer. The closest…
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List five things you do for fun. Nothing has changed since I write for the prompt last year. Yes, blogging is a thing I do for fun. Our mall now has a cotton candy machine. This I wanted to blog about. I am not a sweet tooth person but maybe one day will try and…
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If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be? I don’t have a pet. When I was growing up we had cats. One little one was very smart. My grandma used to let him out. But he would come and meow near the window she was sitting to let him in…
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Loved this meme I saw today morning! Groundhog day is in two weeks! Poor guy he is always woken up. And he has no clue why that happens. Our family is big into weather. I have a dad, husband and son who are hooked on weather reports. So I know a lot about weather happening…
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It is a very cold morning. Kids are having a two hour delay and some schools went remote instruction. I remember when my kids were in school when my younger one enjoyed these days. My older one got confused with the delay start. As a parent I enjoyed it since I had an extra hour…
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What makes a good leader? This weekend I stumbled onto Lewis and Clark’s westward journey documentary. America had purchased the Western lands from France. President Jefferson made an intelligent 29 year old Lewis Merriweather to lead an expedition to the newly purchased lands. Along with his co captain 34 year old Clark, Lewis made it…
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If you could un-invent something, what would it be? A forty minute drive to the temple yesterday evening turned out to be an hour and forty minute ordeal. Two accidents on the parkway just a few miles apart and timing so close left was us in a snail traffic. The first was a three car…
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Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved? We started putting things away and the weekend seems to be cleaning weekend. Don’t want to jinx it but my husband listened to me yesterday and he and my special one put away the Christmas tree. We also started catching up on our laundry.…
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Where can you reduce clutter in your life? Okay literally I am going to declutter this weekend. Just keep some garbage bags handy and without having second thoughts going to roam around the house picking up things. I can have two or three bags categorized as recycling/trash and charity and move myself around the house.…
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It’s been two weeks since we came back from a trip amd half of January is done. The weather moved from luke warm to frigid overnight as I saw a fresh blanket of snow outside my bathroom window. Unlike so many places we are not going to get anything much. Did it look depressing or…
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In what ways do you communicate online? How about my blog? Few days back WordPress informed me I had completed six years. From autism awareness to a Mom’s every day life and to things I see around I have been posting something or another. I do check messages on other social media platforms but my…
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A well visit demanded a fasting blood draw for my special young man. It was of course, a 12-hour fast blood draw. I was up all night trying to see my young man does not sneak up any midnight snack. Then his sensory needs made him fight the nurses. Once the needle was inserted, he…
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It is almost 6 am and I see this prompt. I am in no mood for a snack but a hot breakfast. Our recent Christmas vacation we stumbled onto this Indian Vegetarian cuisine. It opened up early and offered an authentic South Indian breakfast of idli, vada, pongal, poori, dosa and filter coffeee. We were…
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