when it rains.... it pours!!

ok this is a raving rant....so its here that you turn back... else, subject yourself to some domestic ranting.....

i am yet again without a maid...albeit temporarily..... she's had a tragedy in the family and has taken off to the village.... so for the last 5 days, starting monday, i have been without a maid.... with the festivities of diwali, most households have extra work/ people staying over etc, which has meant that the replacement maid (the stepnee who fills in when mine's on leave) has too much on her own plate to help me out even on humanitarian terms..... 

well this isnt the biggest of the messes that have happened.... wait...i will tell you about an avalanche..... 

i hate doing housework..... vessel washing... sweeping and mopping.... i will do it only if there's a gun to my head.... in a household of two adults, its surprising how many dishes we dirty (note to self: cut down on the utensils used in the kitchen you nut!!) .... we eat three home cooked meals a day... atleast mostly... which amounts to a lot of plates, glasses, dishes, serving bowls, cooking vessels, pressure cookers, spoons... oh well... i think you figured that's a lot of dirty dishes.... so every morning now, while i wait for the milk to boil, i am scrubbing dishes..... dont ask me why i dont do it before bedtime... i have a thing about sleeping with smelly hands.... no even if i wash them.... i "think" they're smelling and thats insomnia inducing....

clothes, thank the Lord i have a washing machine.... if there is one thing i hate more than washing dishes, it is washing clothes.... normally the maid does the folding too.... but that i can manage.... yeah i know i pretty much have delegated ALL the work to her.... but hey!! i still cook....

home doesnt show too much of distress when not swept and mopped....so i can live 2-3 days without dusting, sweeping and mopping.....but today is day 5....so i dusted, and swept and mopped.... my wrists are feeling terrible....so are my knees and thighs....and i was out of breath a few times.....but that's because i am so overweight and have zero fitness.... so i will not whine about it....

here comes the bummer!! i ran out of cooking gas this morning....  dont have a spare cylinder..... AND my microoven conked off a week ago and has gone for repair.....which means in the middle of a delicate saute of onions and tomatoes.... my gas just flickered shut....so now.... that's truly the icing on the cake.... i've called the gas company who've said atleast a week.... and i am not familiar enough with the neighbours to borrow a cylinder.... the service centre said it will be a day before i get back the microoven....so i guess till then i will be ordering food!! or better still it could be the perfect time to go on a fruit diet!! but that's the whole point.... i hate to do something when it isnt my idea.... so a fruit diet because i cant have cooked food isnt such a hot thing right now.....

i'm just hoping i get something in working condition....else poor K will be at the receiving end of this!! 

this makes me feel like i am not in control....that i havent planned enough to have backup.... or simply because i cant have chai when i want.....!! aargghh

see this was really pointless....you still here!! gosh!! now go.... i am signing off too