Sunday, July 19, 2009

Rite of Passage Weekend or Plain Growing Older

One knows one is growing old when the idea of a fun weekend is pottering around the house. This weekend was the first time in about 2 months that I put brakes on the other wise hectic life. It began with dropping D and the in-laws off at the station for their trip to NYC. I got home and cleaned my kitchen with a vengeance!! I took a walk around noon to the Subway on Route 9 and brought home some food. I polished it off watching some random stuff on TV and took a brief nap. Afternoon I was elated to discover that I had two 20% of Bed Bath and Beyond coupons so off I went to buy some stuff. I hit the mall later and did a brief bit of shopping.(You know you are really getting old when shopping is brief) and headed home with food from Gourmet India.I decided to do a detour to Toys R Us to buy some stuff for the extended family. You know the store intimidates me. My childhood toy stores were initially Five Star on Radhakrishnan Salai which had a entire floor dedicated to kids games and later the basement in Landmark. But never anything the scale of Toys R Us!! Headed home and cleaned out some more.

Sunday began with more cleaning and some office work. Come evening I began slacking off catching up with family members and checking out friends blogs. Which brings me to the answer Rite of Passage? Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that if I had a free weekend I would spend it cleaning!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 comments:

Preethi Mahalingam said...

Lol mugs ! U know what there s a little bit of Monica Gellar in all of us! I spent a weekend few months back ,just cleaning, cooking and doing errands. And i just couldnt believe it

Divya said...

welcome to house owning and keeping! I love cleaning.. Its my fav hobby now! :)
And btw.. "Toys R Us to buy some stuff for the extended family" (underline 'extended family') !!???

sam said...

ah well... when I'm alone on a weekend, i clean the stove and then i can't bring myself to use it because it's so clean so i end up eating out!

i think therefore i am said...

@mugs Monica huh?? I swear I was surprised..

@ DD po di gas goat.. I would say extending family then..

@ Sam ... Same here.. That is why I ate out as well