Aaaaand, another year has come to an end. WAIT. You must be
wondering, where did I suddenly disappear and appear from? Which rock have I
been living under since May 2016? And without even being polite enough to greet
y’all properly and apologize at the very beginning of this blog post-shame!
Well, I lost my flow of writing for a long time- 7 months, to be precise. I
felt like my ability to make something, anything out of words had run its
course. Get it- flow, run its course? Not lame at all- pointing out your own
sad pun. It looks like my rambling mode has set in, but let me quell that. (at
the very best, for a bit)
This is yet another clichéd blog post, talking about what
2016 meant to each one of us. (yada, yada…yawn much) But this is the internet,
and I can type out the most trivial details of my life here. It is like I am
completely oblivious to someone falling face first onto their desk, due to my
life’s sheer mundanity. But I may as well get on, just to give as brief a recap
as I can about what 2016 was all about in my life. And, I present it to you
with a drumroll-
1. I got married!
Nope, not some fail clickbait that I aim at by typing the
above sentence. Remember how in one of my previous blog posts, I had mentioned I
was engaged to a wonderful man? Well, I am married to the one and only, Mr A!
Over our long one year and few days of courtship, we met only for about 5 days
roughly. Yep, 5 frikkin’ days ONLY. Because, we were in a long distance
relationship back then. Heck, this time last year, I was all excited about
getting engaged. And now, I am a married woman!
Our marriage was amazing. Every single thing about it- the
food, the covert glances Mr A and I exchanged throughout, the company of my
super-duper-fantastic cousins, the impromptu entertainment staged during 26th
evening for us, the moment when Mr A tied the thali around my neck, all the
relatives having a good time, the candylicious candidness of those two days-
everything added up so beautifully. It is like a montage of memories that I
will never forget. And a special mention to my aunts and sisters who helped me
get decked up- it was no easy job to truss me in a madisar, yo!
What do I have to say about our married life so far? It is
pretty awesome. I mean, we have faced our ups and downs like every other couple
does. We still do have our arguments, but we have both agreed on two major
pointers to stand by- compromise and immediately resolving the issue at hand.
Mr A and I got married on November 27 last year, so you can calculate and see
how many days have passed since. Right now, we are based in Seattle. I am
typing this entire blog post in the middle of a skin-drying, teeth-chattering
and 10 gazillion sweaters-layered (poor exaggeration skills) winter. But hey,
its all good. Life is good, so to say. (OK don’t sue me for that one, LG)
Now, how would I describe Mr A? I can only think of saying
it this way- I see glimpses of myself in him. He gets my totally normal
approach towards talking cats, eating-10-cookies-at-a-time attitude and my
laidback (NOT) tendency towards grammatical errors. We get along like the whipped
cream on hot chocolate which we had during one cold wintry day for breakfast.
(calorie-loaded DELISH drink zomg)
2. Tutoring tales
Oh, how very productive of me. I did work as a content
writer for about 3 months towards the first half of the year. But then I quit
and did try searching for another job. I didn’t land a full-time one, but
instead ended up as a tutor. I taught English and French for two sixth
grade/standard students, who were twins. I taught them for about 4 months, a
lesson in learning again for myself too! I am shameless in admitting this, but
I had totally forgotten the basics of French, a language for which I had won a
college award. (Low-key bragging) It was wonderfully weird for my brain to
revisit that part of my education again. I had fun teaching the twins too,
because we shared some good talking and fun hangman games. I had a taste of
what it almost felt like when I was twelve years old.
3. I actually danced in front of a crowd
So, my sister D (she is technically my cousin, but she is
much closer to me than that) got married in September 2016. Her wedding took
place at Courtallam, and it was one of the high points of last year for me. The
venue was beautiful, the events were fun filled and the best part was seeing my
sister getting hitched to a very nice guy. (shout out to him, if he is reading
this) Okay, so where’s the dancing bit where I looked like a sweaty loon
dancing under the evening lights? Well, here’s how it happened. A bunch of us
were prepping a dance routine for a few weeks for the Sangeet function. Out of
all the musical numbers, I skipped one. But give it my full life I did. While
dancing, that is. (Sounded like a martyr there for a minute. LOL.) I thrashed,
I flailed and made a glorious mess of it (in my head). But I had a blast doing
it. The crowd even asked for an encore (not for me though, pshhhh), and we all
danced all over again. I looked like a nodding dog while dancing, but well, it
was my first public choreographed routine and I loved it.
4. I got off Facebook and Instagram
Social media had me hooked, and I was getting sucked in as
if I was in a quicksand. I was posting photos on Instagram regularly and even
basing my worthiness based on how many likes my Facebook profile pictures got.
Gosh, I don’t ever like the feeling of being controlled by anyone or anything.
And so, I pulled the reins. I swore off the two humbugs in September, and I
must say, life is a lot better. Its much more peaceful for me, personally
speaking, as I can enjoy my trivialities with all my privacy intact. The only
crowds who were privy to those enjoyable moments in the process were/will be
the people accompanying me. (Looks like it’s going to be the husband-man doing
that for a long, long time)
Well, that’s all that really took center stage in my life
last year. What did y’all expect, a Bollywood movie? Expect an absence for a
long period to follow after this post is uploaded. Because if you’ve been
through my blog, you’ll know that I hibernate. And then, I appear out of
nowhere. *Poof*
