A Week of Lovin'

Last week was a wonderful week. Sitting down to blog was just difficult with all that was happening around me. My Mom-In-Law was to visit and that had me up-in-arms initially with an entire plan to clean the house. Well, clean I did but not completely to plan. I let a lot slip through after the realisation hit that she was my Mom; I clean when my own Mom visits but I definitely don't do a Monica so why now?

And she was Mom, oh so Mom; she didn't point out all that was not done and even offered to help me clean the fans. I have a fear of ledges so ladders freak me out. My fear doesn't stop me from climbing ladders but I do need a little help; someone has to stand down there and hold the ladder :P

Spending time with parents has become important in my life lately. Life is too short to miss out on family and love. I don't know if I'll be around tomorrow or if they will so I want them in my today. Every moment with them is precious. There is so much I have to learn from them - making Sambar from one Mom and Biryani from the other. They have stories galore to tell; there are more stories than time available to us it seems.

Mom was here for four days and the days flew. When she left it felt as if she had just arrived. Saying good-bye was more about saying come back soon. Mom do you hear me? Please come back soon.

Other highlights of last week were book review requests. I've been reviewing the books I've read on the blog. I have a huge back log as of now and need to catch up fast. My goal this year was to read a 100 books. I've read 65 books until now but reviewed only 16 books. Shame on me! I need to bridge that gap soon. But anyway, here are the two books I have got review requests for -

Tendrils of Life by Owen Choi
Roll Of Honour by Amandeep Sandhu

And I'm excited! This was the first time an author wrote in asking for a review and I'm honoured. It takes a lot to write a book (I know I've been trying for a while now) and it takes even more to ask for a truthful review. Being critical of someone else's work is easy, but accepting that criticism is difficult. Like Ego in Ratatouille says "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so."
Both the books deal with some very painful subjects and I'm looking forward to reading them soon.

The other latest news is that BBMP in Bangalore has made garbage segregation compulsory. That means a lot of new learning. Until now everything went into trash from veggies to dog poop. Now I have a lot of questions - how do I dispose my fallen hair and dog hair for starters. I'll do a post on my learning here soon :)

Do you have any tips on garbage segregation and disposal?