blogging on

I've been reading various blogs of people unknown....oh what a fanciful habit it is becoming!! a few known faces sprung up amidst all of this...and you realise, that the one life you thought you were trying to lead that is different from the crowd...is just part of it....the same musings.... introspection..... depression or its imagination..... dilerious moments..... saying a few things in cyber space that you'd never say ever otherwise.....humour..... insecurities....faith....

it also makes me aware of the fact that perhaps we find solace in the nameless, faceless existence of the cyber world....it never fails to amaze me.....

will anyone read this....will it matter?? dont know....

home in focus....

today is day 5 of official home making....since i quit my full time job ....i have been revelling in the fact that i dont have to live by the clock......in an unexpected turn of events....my mind and body have settled rather quickly into a routine that i have never had before....i have begun waking at seven a.m without the aid of the mobile alarm!! have one slightly berserk in doing a few things that i have been almost fantasising about.....one was to finally finish sewing my sheer curtains...the material was a year and a half old...bought on a trip to chennai....languishing in the cupboard....cut and not sewn...it was like a taunt each time i opened the cupboard door....i finally finished sewing them and hung them up....boy oh boy!!

another set for my bedroom and many compliments from the husband later, i decided to put the considerable fabric trimmings to good use, attached a bit of silver lace, and voila!! had a new set of lovely cushion covers for my settee....left me thrilled and wondering what life was i living before this??

have been cooking up a storm.....lately the husband has been complaining that i seek the company of the kitchen more than him!! tried a banan walnut muffin minus the walnut...not bad....also dahi vada's for sunday evening snack.....big hit....

gotto finish some knitting i promised mom as my contribution to a project she's on....as the famous Mc D's line goes.....I'm lovin it

food blogging

mind over matter or is it the matter of the mind?? i have been obsessing over food blogs for the last few weeks ever since i discovered them....(why am i always the last one to know these things??)

it seems like many people have met with unexpected b ut well deserved success at this....lovely....soon food blogs will replace recipe books will they??

i liked quite a few....they seem to have this online party amongst them....makes me want to try my hand at this as well......i have been cooking regularly with various degrees of success for the last few years...especially after the marital knot was tied......i enjoy it and have tried to do it with consciousness....am an incurably chronic food nag.....k will vouch for this...am surprised that plates of food havent been flung at my face thus far while i have been indulging in the act....of nagging that is.....one time compliments dont mean a thing to me....i am a firm believer of pavlov's conditioning....it has to be reinforced like a barricade, or super strong glue!! ask k.....he will tell you and how!!

but like everything else that i do, i tread with caution...thats cos i can't handle failure very well i guess...i like to be successfull every time....i cant accept the fact that i cant do something perfectly in the first attempt.....i am my worst critic.....so i dont try radical stuff....things that may turn out inedible....so far so good i guess....i've barely had a disaster apart from the brick that was meant to be a cake......charred veggies that didnt know what they were before they got into the pan........

am off now to seek some more food blogging inspiration.....