as all of you know I enjoy company & love to crack jokes, I thrive when I am surrounded by friends. this past weekend hubby's college friend's son was getting married in NJ, so lot of hubby's other college friends were coming from all around world to wedding, we hosted lot of his friends at our home for wedding. & we had so much fun. I had made lot of food preparation in advance & kept it ready so that we could spend time together talking instead of cooking & cleaning. luckily al
As you all are aware I enjoy spiritual reading & agree with bhagwad geeta, buddha, jesus philosophy. give myself pep-talk every time I feel like giving up on anything in life. my biggest one is, "choices I make today will create my destiny." & my choices every day is dependent on what brings me satisfaction. & doing things right for my family does make me feel happy. If I get immediate thanks or appreciation it makes me feel good right away. but I have learn that some jobs like rais
Its Saturday I am surrounded by my family who I love dearly yes sometime they do drive me nuts my mom, brother, sisters, hubby & kido every one lol. but I love all of them with whole of my heart, & can't imagine my life without single one of them. Anyway today its rainy day. made sure hubby did not put his early morning alarm on weekend & he listened :D. So woke up on reasonable time 7:30am feeling happy & good about life. Today its rainy day which means lot of birds on our feed
ok today is bit of blah day nothing I can do quickly. I am slow in learning, person I carpool with who is my brother not very pleasant always ready to pick fight so while carpooling he will rather listen to his sports radio station then talk. Anyway yesterday I almost lost balance while getting out of car luckily able to grab person near me & did not go down. but I know falling with me is very very easy. my ankle from my car accident finally healed to be able to put weight on without feeling
I am by nature fun loving person like to be always laughing cracking jokes on myself or hubby. hubby can find good in any dire situation where as I can not, but having him by my side, I know we can get through anything in the world. any how some days I feel so grateful to be still here & love my life, some days feels like blah. I guess that is how life is for every one. In summer hubby usually play volleyball with his friends in park while I walk in their beautiful walking trail of park. ran
Yesterday We had major head on collision car accident. airbags from all sides popped up luckily we just got whiplash injury &back & neck pain. It was surprising we came out of unscathed from that accident, & still here to count our blessings. This was my new Subaru car with all safety feature which saved us from getting seriously hurt. looking at my all past accidents, stroke, it feels like I am cat with nine lives & feel invincible :D. I have gotten hit by 18 wheelers & did
Sunday is my favorite day. It is my own spiritual awakening day with super soul Sunday. I love waking up late on Sunday morning & start my day with nice cup of coffee first with political shows & then enjoy my super soul sunday on oprah's OWN channel to cleanse myself of all dirtiness of politics lol. As you all know I take whatever I like from all religions & believe all paths lead to one Supreme God. I am not religious person though I am spiritual person. According to our Hindu
Some days I feel so blessed & now that I have come so far out from my stroke event. I can see God's master stroke in my life. Today I feel even stroke was at perfect time in my life, it was at the time when I was forgetting my values & moving away from my designated path. With God's master stroke I woke up from my sleepwalking through life & started enjoying ordinary moments of life which brings in lasting & deep happiness. Its still so hard to believe even after so much of me
Today marks my 13th years as a stroke survivor & like for past 5 years we are celebrating as our valentine date. I am going to follow Tracy's suit & do my things I am grateful for.
1. I am grateful I can walk, talk & take care of my family single handedly. (its fact)
2. I am grateful I don't have any cognative difficulties, & grateful still got my sense of humor intact. Can laugh on myself & others.
3. I am grateful for my family, friends who decided to stand by m
I was so happy when I tried logging in to site & seeing it working & seeing blogs up & running again. makes me so happy to catch up on lives of all my blogger friends. Yesterday was great day I had read great reviews of movie hidden figures & hubby & I decided to watch it yesterday & then decided to take our son out for dinner, it was great day ended on very positive note. Watching movie made me realize how far America has come.
Without exception everyone absolutely l
I am so happy Blogs are back. So here is my first blog for year 2017, its copy of post I posted in forum when blog was not available & I needed to blog.
Usually I like to blog about my life every now & then & love the support I get in the form of comments which always encouraged me to post more positives of my life. When I first came to this site in Nov 2004. I was hugely depressed. I never thought I would find joy in living again, & could never feel I belong here. I felt I w
I was thinking about writing things to be grateful about for this year till yesterday. Today I feel so much at loss. can't do any work properly & feels like going in circle can't decide what I want to do in life & how to go about it. okay my life is still great, lot to be grateful about & I have no complaints there. I got amazing family & I am surrounded by most of the people who like me or pretend to. Anyways life goes on. I understand life could have been so much worse than wha
In my last blog I was talking about adjusting to all new changes in our life, agreed they were just inconveniences and not disaster. Sue's comment on my last blog is about adjusting our sail to wind of change in our life was so perfect thanks. also read another beautiful quote on change "The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings" by kakuza okakura. All these beautiful quotes gives me strength to adjust with new change. As I am growing older & gaining lot of life ex
we just returned from our week long vacation to India. lot of things are changing so mood at home was somber. government cancelled 500-1000 rupees bill to curb black market. Every one was worried on how to get their money deposited in bank without getting into trouble or paying high taxes on it. In India most of transaction happens using cash only. so mood was somber. once we returned home we changed our cable service provider went from cable service to fios so that added more change on how I ac
Twelve years ago in 2004 when I suffered stroke at age of 34 after delivering premature baby & loosing her day later & then suffering stroke day later which paralyzed on my left side fully. I thought I would never find joy in living again. It felt like with such a big loss how any one can recover from that. Though being young & having great family support & very young son I found my will to fight on, it was really one day at a time. It was horrible period, It scared me when I loo
Recently we were invited our friends Indian classical dance performance. we have seen this little girl growing up right in front of our eyes. So hubby & I chose to went. The whole event was so well planned & feel great event. you feel happy inside seeing these young girls grown into such a thoughtful beautiful young girls, and how greatly their parents raised them. one thing that stayed with me long after when event ended was chief guest & our spiritual guru with whom we periodicall
Other day I was just thinking about all changes they have come in my life. Some did feel like wildfires in forest though it felt pointless at the time when I was going through it, but now looking back at it, It feels like it was perfect timing. Sometimes you need that kind of change which feels like wildfires in your life to burn dead & dry trees & weed so that something fresh can be reborn at its place. yes in wildfire along with dead weeds some of green grass can be burned too but th
Windows is frustrating me for past few days. I m saving my file on desktop & when trying to find it back to send in email I can't seem to find file from my windows folder, I know I should be able to resolve the problem since I myself am nerd & it frustrates me no end that I m not able to crack this mystery & solve my problem. So Some days I feel like smart Alec when I figure something out & some day feel like stupid Alec. So for past two days feeling like Stupid Alec & I hat
Today is very special day when we both are celebrating our silver jubilee anniversary. We decided to do our housewarming party & our silver jubliee anniversary both on last weekend. It was so much fun I am blessed to have great family & friends so get together was lot of fun. I feel longer u stay together your day start to hold more meaning. we both have gone through some really great time together & some not so great & I feel it requires courage & determination to stay p
Now that finally we are settled in this new home & everything is falling back into place again. I can find bathroom in night with my eyes closed again & not bumping into window Now I can see another change in my horizon. & I don't know what to do. I know the change which is planning to show up in my life is good one but it is putting me out of my comfort zone & routine & I am not so sure what to do. will need to learn new things & not sure whether I want to go throu
I know I have recited these lesons learnt many times but I guess I still need something still to learn so keep on learning. & I have done very well in my school life when I write down those lessons, I learn quickly. So here writing again so that you guys will also learn with me. We are still finding some kinks here & there in our home & getting it fixed as we go along. ofcourse it creates stress till the problem is not fixed or sorted out. I am so able to dial down my stress level by
things are so different now every one got digital phone camera video handy now. when our son was little we used to carry those big analog video recorders. I used to b always one to remember to video those ordinary moments of kido playing around with every one. hubby never liked to do it. so our official videographer will be either me or my brother. During our this india trip we converted those analog casettes into dvds, while watching it even now with kido brings back so many sweet memories
We are back from our 10 days India vacation where most of it this year we spent in our village in India. It was fun & went fast met so many extended family of our chandra family in our village where we had all gathered for religious ceremony it took me bit longer than getting used to all noncomforts of village where hubby was adjusted there in a blink. ofcourse I being people person enjoyed all hooplas with family. visited all temples near by with family played card games & other g
life feels so fragile sometimes & you never know when your number is up. recently in our neighborhood very young guy age 45 died of sudden cardiac arrest, he leaves behind two young kids & wife. we never knew the family but went to their home to give our condolences. It feels so sad to meet such a young family to go through this big loss in their life. while walking back hubby & I were talking & were saying how given opportunity she would have rather have stroke survivor then no
As we are going through yet another change in our life we moved to our new home & started preparing our old home ready to put on market for rent. I used to get overwhelmed with amount of work it is involved in moving into new home & preparing things for all that is involved. I was admiring hubby's ability to keep calm in chaotic situation, when so many balls up in the air how does he stays calm & not buckle under pressure. he shared with me good technique on how not to get overwhel
