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Refresh: My Word of the Year #WOTY

January 1, 2019

Ever since Corinne put up her post for the WORD OF THE YEAR, I’ve been thinking of a word to set the tone.

Is choosing the word of the year prescience? A subliminal message of the shape of things to come?

In 2016, my word of the year was BE ME. I found that this was the year that made me find out many things about myself that I had forgotten. Travelling to the US with Daughter No.1 and Ms. Papaya, experiencing the Fall in New Jersey and hanging out with a school friend after many years, gave me a chance to find out myself and be me.

PATIENCE was my word for 2017 and there were endless times when I would have normally lost my shirt. I was quite surprised when I found myself actually waiting without grumbling.

Similarly, CALM was my WOTY in 2018 and this year I experienced several situations that required me to remain calm. And it was only this attitude that helped me navigate the challenges that this year brought me.

So, I realised that choosing a word for the year is of great importance. In today’s paper, the Word of the Year is NOMOPHOBIA which is the fear of no mobile. This is NOT my word of the year. In fact, I was wondering about my word of the year when suddenly it came to me as I sat down to write this first post of the year REFRESH.

Every year brings new challenges. There are new lessons to be learned and new opportunities to learn them. There are new people who come into our lives and some who leave them. Transitioning relationships and situations require a lot of skill.

In the earlier half of 2018, my father-in-law passed away. As we cleared up after him, I was astounded with the way he kept things in order. I wonder if he had a premonition that made him hire Godse to be his right-hand man to organise things in his life. We discovered that he had kept everything in immaculate order. All his paperwork was done and life completely de-cluttered.

Taking a cue from this, I want to make 2019 the year where everything in my life is in perfect order. I want to make my body fit, my blog fit and my life fit. I want to tidy up all the loose ends, clear up the clutter and streamline everything.So for a while I though I should make Fitness my WOTY.

But fitness only applies to my physical body. It is a bit of a stretch to apply it to all the aspects of my life that need to be tidied up. So I thought REFRESH would be a more appropriate word of the year.

Hence my word of the year is REFRESH.

What is yours?

Linking up with Corinne at EverydayGyaan
Thinking about the numbers #MondayMusings

December 31, 2018

It’s New Year’s Eve and I am planning a nice dinner of apple pie, mushroom soup, pizza and chicken.

But seeing today’s newspapers with statistics and reviews, inspired me to make my own graphic using VISME. So this is actually a lesson that I’m putting to good use and is not really a reflection of my obsession with numbers.

During my failed Alexa rank campaign this year, many bloggers told me that it is NOT about the numbers. But even though Maths is not my strong suite, I have an obsession with statistics and couldn’t help making this infographic.

Please take it with a pinch of salt. More as an exercise in learning a new skill i.e. making an infographic with Visme.

Happy New year all!

Sharing this with #MondayMusings hosted by Corinne of EverydayGyaan
Thank you December 2018 #GratitudeCircle #FridayReflections

December 30, 2018

52 Thursdays and 11 Gratitude Posts.

For someone who wasn’t one for gratitude posts, this is quite a lot !

I have too much to be grateful for and I mistakenly felt that public acknowledgement of my gratitude would attract the evil eye.

But I find that regularly thanking the Universe for the abundance in my life has been satisfying.

So I would like to thank December for a month of jollity.

After Daughter No1.’s birthday early in the month, it was Jingle Bells all the way.

I was lucky to share in the Christmas celebrations of Wow Dinga, Ms Papaya and Little Po.

Both the little ones were adorable in their costumes and did a sterling job at their school concert. Ms Papaya was upset, though ,that there weren’t any Queens or wise women bearing gifts for the young babe. I’m surprised that feminists haven’t tackled that one yet!

December have me the chance to catch up with my folks in Pune . I also managed to meet the next generation and the next at a quick lunch with my cousin.

But all was not smooth sailing . The storm in the teacup was caused by my domestic help . Oftentimes, help is more of a hindrance. Ever since H came to our home, there has been an undercurrent of subversion and by Diwali, things at home reached a peak. H was one discontented creature and was always wanting more. More free time, more money and more freedom to do as she liked . She reneged on the terms of employment with us and managed to squeeze out a month’s bonus. This didn’t go down well with me at all.

But worse still, when December rolled by, she gave in her notice. Funnily enough, she worked even better after this but by the middle of the month, I was lucky to get someone else. I am grateful that H left as she did because she would have been a handful to get rid of later.

The alert from Goodreads was a wake up call for me to catch up with my reading and update my bookshelf. I have now managed to exceed my goal !

So December , thank you for a fruitful month of joy and celebration.

I would also like to thank Vidya Sury for hosting the #GratitudeCircle and Corinne and Shalini for hosting #FridayReflections.

Happy weekend all.

Ciao

Refresh: My Word of the Year #WOTY

Thinking about the numbers #MondayMusings

Thank you December 2018 #GratitudeCircle #FridayReflections