tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48238866433545257742024-03-13T08:26:19.235-07:00Yours, Mine and OursAverage Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-50985017577122383202011-10-06T22:10:00.000-07:002011-10-06T23:22:14.050-07:00Stay hungry. Stay foolish.No icon's passing affected me so much. May be it is living in the valley where these giants stroll like everyone else -- it almost makes it feel like a personal loss. Dressed in jeans and a black turtleneck most of the time. With just the right amount of arrogance and authority to snub bullshitters. A very humble past. Syrian biological dad. Catholic biological mom. Given up for adoption. Grew upAverage Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-237419093656031022011-04-06T12:50:00.000-07:002011-04-07T11:49:51.944-07:00Too many babies!Too many babies in the house. And I'm not even talking about the Scout and the Minor*. I'm talking about me! I want to throw a tantrum right now about the lack of sleep, about not being able to give my 200% at work, about doing a half-a$$ed job at housekeeping, about not being able to eat when I want to and sleep when I want to, about not being able to exercise and a million other mundane things Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-20969347371851224722010-11-02T10:02:00.000-07:002010-11-02T12:56:44.460-07:00Excuse me, kya re?Mein do bachhon ki maa re!Yes, baby Vic is here. Born: 20102010 (ddmmyyyy)The nurses were more excited about the date than us. They literally pushed me to *push* before the start of the next day.Scout's reaction: "Hi baby! How are you?"Vic's status: Eat. Sleep. Poop. Pee.My status: What more could a second-time mom ask for? May be a killer figure. Ha? Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-53343073610515078772010-09-29T21:29:00.000-07:002010-09-29T21:56:04.800-07:0010 point updateThanks to everyone who pinged about my whereabouts to make me get off my butt and post.About 4 weeks to go to the D-day. Things are fine! Nothing much to write home about except work has ^peaked^ since I'm taking off soon.Baby names are being short-listed. That's the minimum amount of prep we need to do before he arrives I guess. Should tell you much about the general lack of preparation here.We Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-13445564726237948962010-08-28T19:46:00.000-07:002010-08-28T19:53:02.092-07:00How not to compliment a pregger...Wow! You are big!Wow! You look ready to pop!You have some face weight, but don't worry, it will go away after the delivery!You are having two boys!? Have fun! Lucky you! Your husband does so much around the house.Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-3983432829145564542010-08-05T14:38:00.000-07:002010-08-05T16:43:17.051-07:00Fill in the blank.By the 3rd week of Oct, the "About me" section on the blog will read:"Wife to GIJoe. Mom to Scout and _____. These are our stories."And it ain't going to be a Girl Scout I'm afraid.Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-40552439333117410492010-07-23T16:23:00.000-07:002010-07-23T16:24:19.122-07:00Attix .. fall down.This is how the Scout reads Asterix. He points to Asterix and says "thiss Attix" and then he points to an unfortunate Roman legionary, that can be found in almost any page fallen down with a bump on his head, and says "uncle fall down", opens the next page and the same thing repeats "Attix".. "uncle fall down".. "Attix".. "uncle fall down" till he flips through the pages and closes the Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-37317367287021201002010-07-12T22:23:00.000-07:002010-07-12T23:27:44.646-07:00Against gender stereotypesStarry tagged me on this one. I hope I'm not repeating stuff that has already been said in the blogosphere considering that this tag has spread like wild fire, while I have been sitting around fanning myself. Anyway here are some stereotypes (none of which are ground-breaking) that I don't conform to:"Good wives wake up earlier than their husbands, wash hair and do Tulasi pooja before starting Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-66508027031631993772010-07-12T22:17:00.000-07:002010-07-12T22:23:30.368-07:00Vacations, aunts, cities and such..Went away for a week to the other side of the country. Got pampered endlessly by the aunts around there. Aunts are the best! No two ways about that. However I'm peeved that the Scout was like at priority-0 for them while I was at priority-1 or something like that and I cribbed to them about how intelligent women like them must not let themselves be charmed this way by a two-bit little thing. TheyAverage Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-23227304105827640452010-06-22T16:08:00.000-07:002010-06-25T21:59:02.801-07:00Dear bloggers, I turn to you for therapy. Show encrypted text<!--Have you, in your adult life, had a falling out with a reasonably close friend? I recently did and I'm still shocked by the turn of events. So we were at a party where the conversation was revolving around people's alumnus and common friends thereof. So this friend, let's call her X, is this loud and talkative type while her husband is this silent type who seemed bored at Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-37351955279525471622010-06-04T12:50:00.000-07:002010-06-04T13:01:08.214-07:00Red marker blogathon: You are giving an exam, is it?Following the posts at MFT's, Starry's, TPL's and Sue's blogs...Red mark 1: Wrongly formed question tag."You are a good boy, isn't it?""You don't want to go, is it?"Argghh! OK, now that I'm done with the screaming, here's my explanation on question tags.Question tags are sentence structures where a statement is ended or tagged with a question. The verb used in the question tag should be the Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-830938743403788482010-05-26T10:57:00.000-07:002010-05-26T11:47:00.192-07:00Tag: Guilty or Innocent from the ajji's POV.Minal tagged me sometime ago to do the "guilty or innocent" questionnaire. And like mim, I'm afraid me doing the tag wouldn't even be half as interesting as washing the dish rag. Again mim came to the rescue. I decided to ask my ajji to answer the questions like mim had done for a tag a few months ago. So here goes..Rules Go Like These ——-RULE 1- You can only say Guilty or Innocent.RULE 2- You Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-39622256759808147432010-05-13T11:46:00.000-07:002010-05-13T13:42:21.863-07:00Random film industry nomenclature postSince the blog world seems to be kinda slow all of a sudden I thought I'll stick this random post up. Not that I write profound, non-random posts when the blog world is not slow.. :PSo.. anyway.. tell me this if you will:Why are the Southy film industry names so confusing?So you would think the Tamil film industry is called Tollywood i.e 'T' for 'Tamil'? But nooo! It is called Kollywood for Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-64680229274377141992010-04-29T11:17:00.000-07:002010-04-29T11:28:31.176-07:00Newton's laws interpretedIf Newton figured out gravitation when he saw an apple fall from a tree, he must have figured out inertia when he saw a child idling through the morning routine.Case in point:* If the Scout is taking a bath, he wants to continue with the bath till the water freezes over.* If the Scout is eating his favorite breakfast (fruitloops or raisins or bububu (blueberry)), he wants to continue eating them Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-43813991748039038922010-04-19T17:26:00.000-07:002010-04-19T17:27:45.161-07:00This day, Apr 2009Number of gray hairs plucked from head: 1TodayNumber of gray hairs plucked from head: 5And that sums up my answer to questions like: 'HBD. what did u do?'Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-6041003087151549882010-04-05T14:05:00.000-07:002010-04-05T14:06:59.480-07:00The things you do for your kid..As part of my parenting duties, I single-handedly ate one packet of MnM's and a million jelly beans in the span of 30 mins.Why?: So the Scout doesn't make them his dinner. What better way to hide them than eat them? ;-)Lesson learnt: Jelly beans are so damned hard to resist. They come in a million flavors and colors. There are dotted ones, ones with tiny splattering of colors, multi-colored ones Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-11222737442419322392010-03-30T17:07:00.000-07:002010-03-30T17:12:11.464-07:00Of grandma's house and treasures left behind..What do you do when you see this and remember that a more exquisite one existed in your grandma's house? Or when you see brass pans and remember that larger versions of those were actually used to cook in ajji's house on special occasions and they looked as if they were polished everyday. Or when you see London's guard dolls at a friend's house and remember that even finer miniatures of those Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-11397902741682980712010-03-19T14:48:00.000-07:002010-03-19T14:49:16.862-07:00I dream of...thankfully.. not Jeannie. These days I dream about topics I could write about on this blog. Trust me they really feel like juicy, witty, profound blog worthy topics in my dreams. But I can't remember them the minute I wake up. Very frustrating. Usually my dreams aren't about blogging though. In the past I have had this one recurring dream where our families are opposed to our marriage and they Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-45604242435261389842010-03-16T21:23:00.000-07:002010-03-16T21:33:45.636-07:00Happy Ugadi!Ugadi 2009 (Virodhi samvatsara) feast by the mater.Ugadi 2010 (Vikrutha samvatsara) uhuh feast by uhuh me. Still, there is hope for this year I think. Happy Ugadi! Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-55874622511000566702010-03-06T13:30:00.000-08:002010-03-06T13:48:04.724-08:00Reading list[Feeling really blah, and thanks to Chox for kicking me out of blah-dom. :)]Read 'Dreams in Prussian Blue' by Paritosh Uttam who is a friend. Liked it! I think it is good literature and at the same time entertaining. Good job from a first-timer, especially someone who isn't a blogger. Some of his short stories (available on his site) are very well-written too.Reading 'Arranged marriage' by Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-39737088839478448282010-02-19T16:03:00.000-08:002010-02-20T13:43:22.200-08:00V-day highlightsThought I should get this post out before Ugadi at the least. The Rajni dialogue about 'late' and 'latest' .. totally applies here.V-day lunch: 'Mushy hearts pasta' (refer header pic) from the Average kitchen. V-day dinner: party at a friend's place. Made a V-day themed game for it. Each person picked two cards with words written on them from a pile of cards. The goal of the game was to make a Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-69473545257955009032010-02-08T14:47:00.001-08:002010-02-10T11:27:21.674-08:00When we get frisky and make heads turn..Ahem.. and by "we", I do not mean the GI and me. Aha! Now I have your full attention, don't I? So, this Chinese co-worker friend (a spunky, unpredictably funny, straight girl for the record) and I were walking back from lunch inside our office campus. We were discussing some work topic, when I low-five'ed her for some work item that we seemed to have found a solution for. She low-five'ed back andAverage Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-59570922566167808482010-02-05T10:40:00.000-08:002010-02-05T10:47:44.833-08:00Menu-ad-nauseamBrunch menu, 3 Sundays ago: Mysore Masala Dosa, Sambar, Chutney, Uppittu, Kesari BathBrunch menu, 2 Sundays ago: Mysore Masala Dosa, Sambar, Chutney, Uppittu, Kesari BathBrunch menu, last Sunday: Mysore Masala Dosa, Sambar, Chutney, Uppittu, Kesari BathBrunch menu, planned for this Sunday: Mysore Masala Dosa, Sambar, Chutney, Uppittu, Kesari BathGuests: Mutually exclusive sets of people each weekAverage Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-6512262115513841682010-01-28T11:34:00.000-08:002010-01-28T11:40:44.177-08:00Err., What's my passion?"No way! Who wants to be an engineer?! Everyone's an engineer these days". "I don't want to be a doctor. I don't have the mindset". "I hate history". "I don't want to be a geek doing Maths". "I don't have time for extra-curriculars. I would rather hang out with friends and have fun. Life is short". These are some of the statements that I have actually heard from some kids / young adults out thereAverage Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823886643354525774.post-17021980499629831682010-01-19T12:11:00.000-08:002010-01-19T12:20:20.037-08:00Lessons for the day.Did you know that cop cars have some kind of push bumpers (?) that are used to push a stranded car off the road? Well, I learnt that bit of info today. You know it's like some days are designed to make one learn these things. So I drop the Scout off at daycare and turn the car around and wait at a red light on my way to work. I notice that the clock on the car's dashboard is showing the wrong Average Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534190698401809182noreply@blogger.com23