Begin Again

Its been ages since I have written -- anything good  or bad. I am completely out of touch from my writer's club and I am missing it immensely. Not that I was a star there -- far from that actually -- but it was a good meet up activity once a week to be in the company of some amazingly awesomely creative people.
      For the record, this is my first blog after marriage and somehow saying this makes me love this blog even more. This is the only alibi to my various changing moods and life phases. Now to the most obvious question -- "how is life after marriage?" In one word -- chaotic. Mostly because I have been thrown off from my beautifully cocooned comfort zone where I would come back, lie lazily, surf the net, WATCH VAMPIRE DIARIES  go to sleep, hop 2 steps from my house to reach my bus stop the next day and get into my office routine. Now my entire wardrobe is in bags, I have no access to download my favorite serials and I am having a little trouble sleeping in a new place. But honestly, its not that bad also. I have been married to someone I wished to get married to and it is (touchwood) lots of fun. There is a lot of chit chatting, teasing around, serious discussions (steve jobs kicked out of Apple, Being Human donating 200 crore a year and Katrina Kaif being painfully beautiful), song parodies (which the husband is annoyingly good at) and ofcourse minor bickering.  It, of course, will take time to completely settle down and shake off this alien feeling of standing in a dusty bus stop with no chai ki gumti nearby to pass the time waiting for the cab.
   There is still a long way to go.  This is a new phase of life and although it still has not sunk in yet, it is going to grow huge. As usual, I will be recording it all here. 

The D Day!!!!!

Na na karte I am finally taking the plunge TODAY!!! I am getting married ...today ...in a few hours ...which are soon going to fly away, like all the other days have been. So why am I at home writing a blog, while I should be away getting married? This is the deal --  I am not supposed to go out today the whole day except when the reception starts! All the cousins are busy with their really little kids and I do not have major reasons to stay with them. So I opted for a quiet time for myself. This just might be the calmness before the storm as they say.My lifestyle is going to undergo a change, the degree of which I am totally unaware about. My dressing sense, is going to go through an entire revolution atleast for the days when I will be in my sasural, which happens to be Ahmadabad. I will be a mellowed down agyakari bahu , which is opposite to the bindass tomboyish image I have been carrying along all this while. But right now I am focused on today. I want things to go smoothly which is seeming a bit difficult. There are, as I mentioned earlier, cousin sisters with  kids whom I am seeing after so long that its almost awkward. There is my aunt who hates the very sight of me and I am left wondering why is she even attending my wedding. So the relatives are bang on doing their job of criticizing and showing their displeasure for every little thing. Thank God of course for a few understanding ones who are helping with the unending arrangements. 

So You see, I am not at all in the "bridal" avtaar as yet although I have my hands and legs orange with henna and face yellow with haldi. I am hoping when I don my lehenga and stand up on the podium, I might start feeling bride-y. Right now, as I write this, my few moments of peace have gone for a toss with my mausi sitting at home with me who is hard of hearing and is watching TV at the loudest volume. So much for the little joys of  life!!

Anyway, the barat has arrived and they must have been welcomed by now, hopefully , without any glitches. I will sign off here now because a) I am too blocked to write anything else and b) I have packing and bathing to do. Hopefully there will be a next blog which I will write with a much calmer mind.