Okay, who is on atleast one if not on all of those SNS's? Wrong question, these days huh?!As you can guess, I'm one of the late entrants into this online social world.
Although last year my sister did try to "introduce me to 21st century" (her words!) by trying to sign me up, the lazy me never bothered to venture and see what the fuss was all about! What happened to the good ol' emails? But the final straw came couple of months ago, when my 9 yr-old niece suggested I open a Facebook account along with how sign up - felt like a fossil for a second there :-)
Don't blame it all on me though.. You cannot access these restricted sites at work and by the time us parents reach home to the kid-madness which doesn't end until the lil' peanut is asleep, one is more than ready to hit the sack hoping for a dreamless night :-)
But when I eventually did sign up onto couple of the popular sites and saw most of the people I know are on one or the other, definitely didn't take long for me to warm up to it.I'm sure everybody must have their own reasons for logging onto these sites but for me the most fun has been getting in touch with friends with whom I had lost contact for almost a decade. And I guess it is much easier logging in once/twice a week and and know what is going on with all friends/family rather than an occasional email to each one of them.
So, here is to yet another way to a smaller world.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Missing sock mystery
What is it about socks? Why and how in the world does one go missing and the other is right in front of you all the time?! I'm sure everybody must've experienced one time or another the exasperation of rummaging the drawers trying to find matching socks delaying the 'weekday' morning...
It does happen to me once in a while but lately it seems all the time with my little one. I do buy a few pairs every couple of months. The new sock pairs look so cute and almost like they are made for each other until their first wash. And after that hop into the dryer, one sock mysteriously disappears and seems like the other couldn't care less. I think the dryer loves try out assortment of socks by gobbling up one of the pair each time they come to it. And sure enough we never hear from the missing sock again. But even after six months, I'm not sure why I hang on to the hope that I might find it one day. The fact that my peanut would outgrow them long before there is any chance of finding them does little to dash my optimism..
About a month ago, one of the fun friday themes at my baby's daycare was a mismatch day. You can imagine my excitement at having gotten a chance to atleast a couple of single socks to use. I think I took more time than ususal trying to make a great looking pair of mismatched socks that day. Oh well.. what can I say - Though I'm game to an occasional mismatch day, the mystery of missing socks will haunt me forever :-)
It does happen to me once in a while but lately it seems all the time with my little one. I do buy a few pairs every couple of months. The new sock pairs look so cute and almost like they are made for each other until their first wash. And after that hop into the dryer, one sock mysteriously disappears and seems like the other couldn't care less. I think the dryer loves try out assortment of socks by gobbling up one of the pair each time they come to it. And sure enough we never hear from the missing sock again. But even after six months, I'm not sure why I hang on to the hope that I might find it one day. The fact that my peanut would outgrow them long before there is any chance of finding them does little to dash my optimism..
About a month ago, one of the fun friday themes at my baby's daycare was a mismatch day. You can imagine my excitement at having gotten a chance to atleast a couple of single socks to use. I think I took more time than ususal trying to make a great looking pair of mismatched socks that day. Oh well.. what can I say - Though I'm game to an occasional mismatch day, the mystery of missing socks will haunt me forever :-)
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
How is the April Fool's day coming along? Anything interesting??
This time, it was prank-time at work. Among 9 women in our team - 2 of them are pregnant and due this summer. So, the boss is already pretty busy scampering to get additional resources to manage the workload of the missing ladies and ofcourse he was the target of this year's Fool's day :-)
Of the remaining 7 non-pregnant women, 3 of us in a very well coordinated plan told the boss-man that we were expecting.. Missed actually seeing his reaction :-O since he works off-site! But heard he totally fell for it and is still probably reeling thinking about the effort and extra resources needed to fill-in for all the ladies in maternity leave.. Can't help smiling while I'm writing this :-)
And meanwhile hope he won't find out about the prank before the day is over.
Have a fun Fool's Day!!
This time, it was prank-time at work. Among 9 women in our team - 2 of them are pregnant and due this summer. So, the boss is already pretty busy scampering to get additional resources to manage the workload of the missing ladies and ofcourse he was the target of this year's Fool's day :-)
Of the remaining 7 non-pregnant women, 3 of us in a very well coordinated plan told the boss-man that we were expecting.. Missed actually seeing his reaction :-O since he works off-site! But heard he totally fell for it and is still probably reeling thinking about the effort and extra resources needed to fill-in for all the ladies in maternity leave.. Can't help smiling while I'm writing this :-)
And meanwhile hope he won't find out about the prank before the day is over.
Have a fun Fool's Day!!
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