Revolutionary Breakthrough!!! Easiest Way to Lose Weight!!!!

Eureka! Eureka!

Last night, several years of my research into finding sure-fire methods for sustainable weight loss reached their culmination! Before I reveal this momentous discovery to you, let me first enumerate the myriad benefits of this ULTIMATE weight-loss method!!!!!!

1. Eat ANYTHING you want and still weigh NEXT to NOTHING!
2. NEVER again count calories or hunt for calorie charts for Indian foods!
3. Portions size? Who cares? Eat JUMBO size portions of anything you want!
4. Absolutely NO side effects except for lots of confidence and enhanced self-esteem!
5. No need to work hard at the gym ANY MORE and permanently damage your knee joints!
6. Save money by cancelling your gym membership and by never having to buy another diet book/ workout DVD etc. EVER AGAIN!!
7. No Diet foods or costly medications required, it's DIRT CHEAP!!!
8. The results are INSTANTANEOUS!!!!! 

Oh, if I had only known this earlier, I could have escaped from YEARS of misery at being overweight. The solution is so simple that a child can do it!

In fact, a child did do it...

Aaaand you weigh....

Yup, thaaat's right, NEXT TO NOTHING!!!!

Disclaimer: Please follow the weight loss method described at your own risk. This website washes its hands of all negative consequences arising from not aligning the chair properly or leaning forward too much over tummy to peek at the scale resulting in overbalancing and subsequent contact of subject's nose with aforesaid scale. Please note that as with all weight loss ads, model in photos is very, very slim.

Special Day!

He can recite all 20 of Ben Ten alien avatars in the order they appear in the title song.
He thinks nothing of pouring away a month's worth of coconut oil.
He sometimes keeps me company till 11 at night to watch Castle, which he calls "Cassoo".
He cannot fall asleep without clutching somebody unless he's in a moving car.
He pulls up my plants and flowers while I am weeding.
He loves experimenting with toys almost to the extent of the evil boy in Toy Story 1 - fortunately he doesn't put them back together in macabre combos.
He will give you kisses as long as you can convince him that he CAN'T kiss you.
He can out-glare you when you try disciplining him, but will break down and cry if you show an iota of sympathy.
He will sit at your side and soothe away any hurt saying "It's okay".
He has all of a younger brother's cunning and will scream to have his way with his elder brother.
His younger cousins can hurt him all they want, but he won't retaliate and will defend them if they are scolded for hurting him.
He has this way of tilting his head and winking with a cutie pie smile that can disarm you right in the middle of a tirade.
He holds our hearts in these little hands.

He turned three yesterday. Our younger son, Nidhin, our Anikkuttan

NaNoWriMo score and updates

It's the day of reckoning and how many words do I have to show for my NaNoWriMo challenge? A mere 5124 against the target of 50,000. But hey, that's a beginning! I found out several things during the process - I like typing on the keyboard better than writing - well, that's an eyeopener, to say the least. May be some pro-environmental brainwashing is finally taking hold, because when I tried to write on paper, the thought of several rewrites and additions came to mind and I could not do it. So tap, tap it is for creative writing! I also found that although one part of me wanted to stay on and keep describing scenes, another part wanted to speed up and finish the plot while the flourishes could wait for later. It really was effective, because when I look back at the - ahem - MS, if find that I can clearly conjure up the entire scene as I visualised it in the first place when I read the sketchy scenes and can easily add up the atmosphere and the works.

So was the exercise futile? Not at all, because in my book, something is ALWAYS better than nothing. After all these years of nonstarting, at least I have started something! Yay, go Me!

Last Sunday morning was given up to weeding activities. All four of us were busy with something, I don't have pictures of what I was up to, but I will certainly show what our younger one was up to - pictures by my husband....

Have you ever seen a more disreputable little ragamuffin? And this was before he reached his full glory. One of our elderly neighbours who happened to catch a glimpse almost fell over in concern - "Oh, what happened to the poor baby, did he fall?" We hastened to reassure her that no baby was harmed in the process of creating the mud baby. And what was I doing Sunday afternoon? Mopping up the mudprints this selfsame mud baby had tracked into our living room while none of us were looking.

Grossed out by all the brown stuff? Here's something I caught while waiting at a railway station...

I didn't know that banyan leaves came out in this transluscent red! They were shining like jewels in the morning sun! And here is one fit to be made into a valentine

I wonder if the colouring is seasonal?? Can you tell me?