Is it me or is time flying by? Another Thursday. I took a long walk, had breakfast by myself, went to the bank and then hit the thrift stores. I bought a few things which I will post on Monday. But I took pictures for you guys. Those of you in India, who dont know how a thrift store looks like. This is Goodwill. I found the Villeroy and Boch plates here. I have always found pretty things and try hard to resist them.Sometimes though they just jump into my cart and refuse to budge.
2 racks full of bar ware
As I was taking pictures, a lady comes up to me and asks me what I am doing. I told her I write a blog and was going to post pictures on my blog. She then asks me what I write about. I told her I have 4 kids and I write about them and lately about thrifting. She said you cannot tell people to thrift, then all the good things will be gone. rofl. She also took down my blog url and said she would read me. She is an older woman, an artist who buys canvasses from thrift stores. We exchanged info about the best thrift stores to hit and which estate sales companies to avoid. It was enlightening convo.
I really liked the 2 brown vases. $4.49 each
See the books behind
$12.29 for each
I really wanted to buy these two lamps. They have a such a vintage feel to them.
Another thing I fondled
They arrange clothes by color
PS:I have more pictures of a 2nd thrift store. I will post those tomorrow.
Posted in: CA, Decorating with thrift Store finds, Thrift store.
Tagged: Thrift store
1. Empty laundry baskets
2.Samar’s improved skin condition
3.My easy wisdom tooth removal
4. The white Russian I made last night
5.Its 9.12 am, 3 older kids are in school and Samar’s watching tv.Peace and quiet.
6. The rain which improves Samar’s skin
7.Chai that NK makes every morning
8.My blog reader, commenter’s
ETA 9: My sister’s moving back So excited
I cannot think of anymore. Take up this tag if you want.
Posted in: Tags.
Tagged: Lists · tag
I had my working day in Samar’s classroom. I dealt with 2 moms who want to enroll in fall. We had kitchen snack project and I was the helper, rounding up kids…
Then, NK calls and says something’s up at work and he cannot stay with Neil and I should rush right back instead of enjoying my lunch with the other moms.
The girls had an orthodontist appt, I cannot afford to get Ashwina’s teeth fixed.Its going to cost around $4500, the braces and expander ..a 18 month treatment course.
And we have bad news from India. Think good thoughts on Thursday morning as NK’s dad undergoes surgery.
I am tired and all I want to do is curl up and sleep.
Posted in: Bhopal, Inlaws, Random Crap.
Tagged: bad news · Life Sucks
This week’s MM is going to be my favourite. I love this spot in my dining room. Almost everyone who walked into the house gives a gasp of surprise or delight(maybe horror) when they spy this corner.
Samar's breakfast, my blogging corner
The tablecloth, my mil gave it to me during my last trip to India. Its a heavy faux silk tablecloth that I use and throw in the washer/dryer and it comes out new again.
Doesnt this look like it come out of a magazine photoshoot?
See the light pink wine bottle in the middle, I am going to use it make a red sangria next time I have a party.
Everything you see is either from thrift store or estate sales
Nk bought me the double jigger and strainer yesterday. I dont really like it because I dont think I would use them. I use a shot glass to measure my portions but it was $2. The tray you know. The book was half off and I think it was a dollar. The recipes inside are meh but I like the cover. The stand I already had. The plant is growing. It came from a bouquet of flowers. And it started sprouting new leaves.
Another look
NK bought, the flamingo stirrers, 5 stirrers for $4. I found the fishes for 99cents at Savers. The olives spears were 25cents each at another estate sale.The alcohol in the decanter is tequila,in case you were wondering Pera.. Here are some of the drinks I have made in the past 2 months.
Tequila Sunrise
A Tom Collins
Gin Sidecar
Long Island Tea, with no cola.
Screwdriver
Posted in: Decorating with thrift Store finds, Monday MoneySavers, Weekly Series, estate sales.
Tagged: barcart · monday moneysavers · Weekly Series
My dentist, I must clarify is sort of a friend now. She is a young mom to 2 girls who also blogs. She offered to drive me home so that NK wouldnt have to drag all 4 out by himself. And the fact that I live 3 mins from the dentist’s office helps.
I have always had a strong reaction to drugs. It hits me really fast. I remember after the car accident, I was prescribed precocet. I took one pill in the morning and was out the entire day. I thought, the next day, I would take one only at night and hopefully sleep it off. Nope it still made me woozy and unable to drive and handle the kids. I didnt take any more after that.
The whole experience thus far has been fantastic. My cheeks are barely swollen this morning. I had some chai and biscuits. Am not comfortable chewing.(maybe some weightloss would ne a nice side effect of that). I am going to make some hearty cream based soup later.
and my wallet, I searched the entire house top to bottom. I finally gave up and hoped to god, it would be in her office. But when I went to bed at midnight, I found it under my pillow. OF ALL THE PLACES. Why it was there is beyond me. But thats one place I didnt look and thats where the damm wallet was.
Posted in: Crazy Happenings, Self.
Tagged: teeth tales
It went well, NK dropped me early. My dentist have me some drug(something like Valium but whose name I forgot) and it made woozy in 20 mins. I remember walking to the dentist chair and the oral surgeon asking me to clench the ball and he said something about my veins and I asking him whether he was calling me fleshy.
Then he switched to the other hands and popped the line in.
And thats all I remember.
I woke up at 1245 at home in my bed.
I know my dentist gave me a ride home. I dont know how I climbed up the stairs or who drove or whether I was wearing my jacket.
The bleeding has stopped and I had some rice congee.
I am still feeling woozy. No pain from the extraction but boy strong strong drugs.
I am now hunting for my wallet. I emailed my dentist asking whether I paid anything there and she said yes but I cannot seem to find in my purse. Weird!
Posted in: Crazy Happenings, Life Sucks, Self.
Tagged: teeth tales
Remember the chair from the living room spot down below. Yesterday, I decided I am going to remove its stinky cushions and try and give it a new life.
3 hours later, armed with a flat nose screwdriver and Ashwina’s beading pliers, I had a pile of these
Twenty thousand staples
And the chair looked like this
Skeleton of chair
I went out last night and found fabric(on clearance). It was suppose to be like this when its all done.
Sigh at what it could have been
After I took this picture, I flipped the chair and was working on removing more staples from its underbelly. One particular staple was being stubborn and refused to come out. Of course, I had to show that staple whose the boss. I mean I bench press 60 lbs and whats one teeny staple. I stood up, put one of my feet on the chairs delicate legs and pulled with all of my strength, Apparently I am stronger than I thought. The leg sort of got bent. I tried pushing it back into original position. Couldnt. I took a break and tried harder. Still couldnt .
After a few cheebyes and ka ni nas, I went to call NK. And he answers the phone with, WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME at this time. I shout back at him, why cant I call you. I hang up. I went back to the chair,picked everything up and went and dumped in the church’s dumpster. My 3 hours yesterday…completely wasted. The fabric I cut out in the cushion’s shape..complete waste of time.Luckily the chair only cost me 99cents and the fabric was cheap as well… Sigh
PS:Comments will close on the giveway at the end of NaBloPoMo.
Tomorrow is my wisdom tooth extraction. Send good thoughts my way.
Posted in: Life Sucks.
Tagged: my failed projects
Reading BL’s post about her blog’s birthday reminded me that I started this blog in Feb as well.. I went back to check the archives,and what do you know! My very first post was Feb 8th. I only missed the actual date by a week or so. Its been 5 yrs. WOW. Not an infant or toddler but a kindergartner! 5 yrs is a long time to be churning out posts isnt it?
All these years, I have changed what I write about. Inspired by other bloggers. I did daily outfit posts, did thrifting posts, did a Day in the life of Life(oh I will do another one next week). Current obsession is doing the house.
Most of all, the wonderful readers here, who leave me encouraging comments, who fight my trolls. Who tell me its in my head that I am fat(so no true, the mirror doesnt lie)
I started telling people I blog and now more than ever, people who know irl read me. Which sometimes leads to me typing something out and then going back deleting it before publishing the post.
I started on Blogger, shifted to wordpress and then on my birthday last year, bought my own domain. I have ads, I have statcounters, I have an admin userid. I delete annoying comments which piss me off. I mark those commenter’s as spam and its gives me tiny thrill not to publish them.(I can never run my own company, my employees will hate me and will secretly plot to kill me)
Anyways, whats a birthday without presents?Leave me a comment about whats your favourite part of Asaaan, seeing the daily outfits, seeing the Monday Moneysavers, or hearing about the kids’ conversations or stuff that happens between NK and I, or the weightloss/fitness updates(sidenote, I worked out yesterday and walked today). I will send something out to the person who wins the random generator thingy. It will be something thrifted. It might be brand new or it might be vintage. I dont have an idea yet but it will be something you would love. That I am sure of.
Posted in: birthday.
Tagged: blog birthday · giveaway
How creative am I with my posts title. HA!
I found this pack of 4 soda bottles at a small Mexican grocery store. I thought it would look good on my bar cart. And after consuming the drink, I would have 4 glass vases. The soda to put it mildly, was horrible. YUCK. Even my kids refused to drink it.
Not on bar cart.
I dumped the soda, washed the bottles, peeled the label and this is what I had in mind.The soda cost $1.99 for a pack of 4.
Ignore dirty window
This is the window with the chair + corner shelf in the living room
Free Bamboo shoots from the church's driveway
PS: My blog hit a new milestone today.
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Posted in: Uncategorized.
Tagged: decor crap · plants
I read a lot of blogs. If I dont clear my reader everyday, by the end of the week, I will have about oh 500 unread blogposts. I have divided my reader into Mommy, Non-Mommy, Friends, Decorating, Thrifting, Fitness, Weightloss.. Here are some (new)from my friends’s category.
June’s Before and After Desk
Kemma’s Scenic Routes
Jacq’s Enchanted Nature
Posted in: Uncategorized.
Tagged: Linky Love
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