It’s a beautiful
Sunday morning… You get up very late (After a fun filled Saturday. Lunch at
friends’ place, afternoon nap also at friends’ place, then a very good 3D
animated movie at movie theatre, Dinner date with your dear husband.. that too
in Olive garden, after a long long time..) ...at 9am (!), when you actually
want to get up early and then clean the house (or get it cleaned with a lot of
follow up? ;-) ), get ready, and cook ! Because friends are invited for lunch
at home…actually they are husband’s friends… that too his friend and ‘her’
husband (is it the reason you get up late?, No No)
Anyway, gist is you
get up late…at 9 or 9.15 am…Still it’s ok because you have got close to 3 hours
to do all these things. You wake up and a big list of ‘To-do’s start running in
your mind…Ok, shall I do the vacuum first? Or shall I put Dal in the cooker and
then start cleaning? Wait, or I can first knead the dough for rotis so that boring
work is done first OR…
you think..Let me
have some nice morning tea with toast and biscuits, do some facebooking(it is
really important to know what is happening all around the world) and then think
about all these…after all I have 3 long hours in my hand…and anyways Menu for
the lunch is ready which is Rotis, Cabbage sabji (dry),
Kosambari (which husband has volunteered for) , Rassam, Rice and Chawal ki Kheer
and that’s it (Huhh)
You have also shopped all the
grocery needed (how clever!)
So you chose last
option of first-tea-then-all-the-cleaning-and-cooking and guess what, if you
are lucky enough, your husband makes garma garam tea also for you (yeyy, yeyy).
Over the tea, you get
a fantastic proposal from your kind husband…He says, shall we take our guests
out for the lunch?(Afterall he has to help me in the kitchen :) ), you think, no cooking so no mehnat…but of course
in this deal we have to pay for the lunch. you do some thinking and some
calculations (God knows what) and agrees to his proposal (before he changes his
mind J)..and there you
are…relaxed and happy.
You put up lots of
oil in your hair to prepare for the hair wash, you get vacuum cleaner in the
hall…you start with your india calls and plan to do all the dishes and kitchen
cleaning after that…and “tring tring”…your husband gets a call from the same
friend..and she says, they already started and would reach our home in another
half an hour. Also they won’t have lunch because they have to travel back and
are already late. Oh no ! Emergency Emergency !!…your house is a small mess
after a careless Saturday, you are another oily mess which needs a lot of
cleaning J and your
kitchen sink is accommodating lot of vessels which need to go inside dish
washer, you need to cook something real quick to serve for the breakfast, make
tea and also cut some fruits or think of some quick sweet dish…Uff uff…where to
start from?
You keep vacuum
cleaner back in the closet skipping the vacuuming plan…you just keep things
neatly in the main hall and run in the bathroom for a quick(?) hair wash…your
real good husband takes care of dishes and a little bit of cleaning in the
kitchen…while you are in the bathroom you decide you can make Upma for the
breakfast…so you scream from inside and then your husband also roasts Rava
before you come out.
After you finish your bath in ‘just’ 20 mins, you ask your husband to take bath real fast…and he comes out in 10 mins ! You start making Upma, keep milk for boiling and also start cutting mangoes. You manage to almost finish your all the cutting and preparations before they arrive. You welcome them, they give you a small bag, you peek inside and find some chocolates J..
You ask your husband
to take care of them and again run in the kitchen…When you are trying your best
to multitask, boiling milk refuses to support you and it expresses the same by
coming out of the vessel, again it can’t even do that quietly, it makes a great
sound so that everyone comes to know L..anyway, you garnish your upma with chopped coriander
and grated coconut and serve your guests.
Meanwhile your tea also spills out L You ignore it, and clean it (!)
After all this running around, you get to talk to them and you come to know that, they are really nice and were not expecting much, maybe just a cup of tea..they also praise your cooking and make you happy J After some chit chat, they thoughtfully take their camera out for a group picture and also let you copy the same from their SD card then and there only..how good !
So, you realize that
you too have now 2 new friends to add to the list…
You give them a small gift as
they visited your home for the first time, they like it and
Then they say that, in the bag of
chocolates there is also a 50$ gift card (and you are super duper happy) …but
you say, it was not needed, why did you get it etc etc and etc.
After they leave, you
realize that you have almost whole of your Sunday free and your dear dear
husband offers you to go out for shopping…with that 50$ card…with an offer that
you can buy anything you want and he would just pay the bill…
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