Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Old habits die hard

Can you believe it January has almost come to an end? What is it with time that stops for no one or anything for that matter? I have been thinking of posting something for the last few weeks and then got busy with life. To be honest I am really glad that 2014 is over, had been a tough year at many levels. That explains why I was keener on 2015 to get started, but time seems to be rushing and I am yet to catch up with it this year.

I have carried on my old habits like laziness into this year too. Not just that in fact I have attained new heights in being lazy already in 2015. Just yesterday Smera came in from school with her school bag all messed up courtesy her lunch box. The bag had to be cleaned up and somebody (i.e. me) had to do the job, so gave my washing machine a golden chance to be my savior. 30 mins later not only the bag was clean, my washing machine survived my experiment (sporting a proud grin).

Now that I have confessed of washing the school bag in the machine, let me also share that I wash little Smera’s shoes too in the machine. Actually I go to the ridiculous extent of buying only those kinds of shoes that can be machine washed. To explain better these shoes do not come with washing machine friendly label, but I have attained this wisdom through my trial and error methodology (yet again sporting the proud grin).

Strange things happen to nice people. It continues to haunt my life in 2015 too. It is quite to keep track of the number of times that I got into trouble for bizarre reasons. After feeling proud about my accomplishment yesterday, I decided to help myself to nice cup of chamomile tea. And just before bed I stopped to have my daily dose of multivitamins. One of them is a big capsule and just as I put that in mouth, I heard Smera crying in her sleep, so I quickly downed the medicine with a small sip of water and ran to the bedroom.  She was alright and it just the dream, I switched off the bed to realise, something was stuck in my throat. In my rush I took little to have medicine and that thing was stuck in my throat. Went back to the kitchen had lots of water, the feeling got a little better however it didn't go away completely.
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Suddenly memories of biology class flooded my thought and made think how to get rid of the silly capsule stuck in esophagus. Remember esophagus, a thin tube connecting the mouth to the stomach? Yes that was hurting.  Then I remembered of rice, somebody once told me when something like this happens or a fish bone gets stuck, fill your mouth with a large ball of this rice and swallow it. Hoping the rice takes the capsule down my pipeline, I ended up eating an entire bowl of rice to feel better. With no choice I retired to bed thinking of blogging about this.

And as I got up this morning I was feeling much better and the discomfort was gone. Just then I decided to finish up my morning chore and sat down write this post.  I guess strange things will continue to happen this year too! Who knew that a dirty school and a capsule could inspire me to write my 2015’s first blog post. Wishing you all a very late but a real happy new year!




13 comments:

  1. Laziness gets me into trouble always :D but seems like u r putting it to good use :D :) Happy 2015 to you too!

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    1. Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment, This is my first comment in 2015 and thank you so much for that!

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  2. Old habits die hard.Belated Happy New year 2005

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    1. True Sir! Hope you have had a good start to the year!

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  3. :)
    Yeah, I've heard about swallowing the rice and it hasn't always helped the fish bone case.
    Have a great 2015.

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  4. Hahahahaha Happy new Year but I think you're wishing too early for the next New year!

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    1. Yes in hindsight I am very early for 2016 .. Happy new year !!

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  5. Hey Sangeeta, I thought i had left you a comment but can't see it here, so anyway here it is.....I liked this post and could relate to the inability to post anything for a long time. Well am glad that a capsule helped u write a new post, maybe I can find one too!

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    1. Awwie you are such a sweetheart Mehroo .. trust you are doing well !!

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  6. The title says it all it has the word "HABIT".. so habits are usually hard to let go he he he

    Bikram's

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  7. You're not being lazy! What's the point of having all this technology if we can't make it work for us?!! :)

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  8. Hahaha am so lazy myself. And can surely understand how you feel :P. Oh didn't know about the rice remedy. Sounds quite interesting :)

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