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Happy Days

Its been an absolutely fantastic year so far. Its been mostly good, with certain downs and lows, but on the whole good. I spent 2009 and 2010 largely alone, in Delhi, Shimla and Dehradun, away from friends and family, except for the occasional visit to Goa and the long long vacation in December 2010.

2011 is not so, its like my loneliness has been done away with Mukta entering my life. And that too despite the fact that Mukta is in Bangalore and has been here at best a total of 20 days all of 2011. Hell, she hasn’t even been to the Chandigarh house yet, but I am not alone.

I have had the immense good fortune to have mom spend almost 4 months with me this year. This counting the time till September 22 that she intends to spend here. Nonetheless, it has been fun. I would really hate to see her go back to Goa. I am hoping Dad would join me here instead.

Its so wonderful to have your mother around, it can be slightly stressing at times, what with the number of controls one has to exert upon oneself, and the list of things one can’t do around the house or outside… But the upsides are more than worth it. I am eating home made food, Poor mom does most of the household work that would otherwise be held up till the weekends, leaving weekends free for both of us to gallivanting all over.

We have been on a weekend to Mussourrie, Shimla, last weekend was in Delhi where we were riding the metro up and down the entire city like small children. Believe it or not, we actually travelled from Gurgaon to Karkarduma and back, all of 90 minutes one way. but it was fun. I even managed to drag mom off to watch Kung Fu Panda 2 and Harry Potter 7B.

I bought my first car this year. The amazing Tata Nano. It is truly an engineering miracle. I still can’t believe how spacious that little car is. It may be little, but the car got me from Dehradun to Chandigarh, even climbed up the hills into Shimla. Added bonus being the fact that mom is no longer restricted to the house or dependent on public transport. She is comfortable driving the car into town and getting groceries. She even went into uncharted territory and kept a dentist’s appointment.

All in all, it has been a very good year so far. Very fortunate to have my mum close to me. Made me realise how lonely and dull I had become over the last 2 years. Here’s to you mum.

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