Money Money Money!!

So I pretty much made a killing at the wedding (not including the jewelery given to me by parents, family and inlaws), making the following list a possibility.
Things I've bought ostensibly for the marriage/house:

• Ipad for the 'Husbaand'
• Cupboard+Bed for the house
• Vase to hold flower lights
• Flower lights from Thailand
• Shoe cupboard
• Rattan Laundry basket
• Carina 6 ft lamp
• 22 pc crockery set
• Coffee machine

*edited to add

• Bookshelf
• step sideboard currently used as dressing table
• shoerack

And yay! I still have vouchers left!

In my non missed absence:

• I got married - three times
• had a wedding after party in a fancy ass suite at the Taj Lands End with champagne flowing
• visited Thailand for the first time (Honeymoon)
• stayed in a Pool Villa
• bought fabulous and fabulously expensive shoes
• moved home (Khar)
• been sick for 3 weeks
• started playing House
• discovered maid trauma
• bought things like vegetables, masalas,
• obsessed about putting boxes away
• own 4 chairs too many
• attended 4 weddings - 2 on the same day
• ignored the sales
• started and finished the millenium trilogy
• started planning a trip to the States 

Since TheCharade now has me addicted to fashion blogs, I consider it my duty to opine on the fashion of major awards ceremony. Presenting The Golden Globes:

• Think Amber Riley looked superb 
• Julianne Moore - My God!who said Red clashes with Pink?
• Justin Bieber wears what I was trying to convince my husband to wear for the wedding - Suit with sneakers!
• I understand shoes not matching each other - but to then not match the dress as well! Helena Bonham Carter - explain yourself.
• These 3 look like left overs from Oscar 2010 - Carrie Underwood, Olivia Wilde,
• If January Jones ran out of material, she should have put the apron in front to better use!
• Jennifer Lopez returns to her Latin (read Mexican) roots - by wearing a Poncho!
• This year's icecream - Lea Michele!
• I know it's Glee - but polka dots and checks!! 
• Since I only bought the inner wear, I'll just drape the sheer curtains like a sarong: Halle Berry! 
• Competing for vampire of the week - Jayma Mays and  Piper Perabo!

That's all, folks! Stay tuned for further updates and the Oscars!

Dilemma - Help needed!

***DECISION MADE*** going to Turtle bay.


Ok as I posted earlier, I was supposed to go to Turtlebay on the May 1st weekend. However this has become option 1:Let me note the approximate costs:
Tickets: Rs.6260
Ticket forfeited by Juggler: Rs.2050
Stay: Rs.5000
Food + Drink: Rs. 4000 minimum
Shopping: Optional but accounting for Rs.700 minimum
Total: Rs.18000
Benefits:

• New location
• Friends
• Beach
• Good food
• Sea + Ocean activities
• Loads of alcohol

Option II: The juggler is going to HKG on the 4th - my birthday is on the 8th.
Fly in on the 7th and come back on the 11th.
Ticket: Rs.25000
Stay: Free
Food + Drink: Free
Shopping: Optional but taking Rs.5000 just in case
Total: Rs.30000
Benefits:

• SAMARA
• the Juggler for the birthday and in Hong Kong at the same time
• Good food
• Excellent shopping

Help with the decision making!! please feel free to let me know what you would do!

What's been going on?

The perfect Margarita:
2 Parts Tequila: 1 parts Triple Sec: 2 part Margarita Mix

This is how I killed Friday night at home with friends.
Saturday night spent between the airport and Toto's.
Sunday spent tidying house, watching 'M*A*S*H' and first half of 'Don'.
Thursday night was spent in a plane back from Bangalore.
Wednesday was spent in front of the TV as was Tuesday and Monday.
Sunday included church and a walk.
The previous Saturday had B-52's, Blush Zinfandel and lots of auto's.

The week also included lots of long distance phone calls and constant texting.

Shopping of the week:

• lingerie
• bag
• belt
• kurta

Gifts received:

• The awesomest pair of red shoes ever [How I wish I had a camera phone!!]
  
• A lovely pin tuck bronze-y shirt
• a purple shirt with matching multicolored sweater [like a twin set but not twin!!]
• pink and orange OMO top

What I have learned this week that absence does not make the heart grow fonder - it makes you realise how fond your heart already is!!

So many things - so little time!

I've just going to list all the stuff that has happened...not in exact chronological order!

• I got lasik surgery done on Saturday
• I was no longer blind by Sunday
• To make up for the loss of glasses, I went shopping [bought 2 tops, green & cream and a pair of shoes, pink & brown in the same shoes]
• Went to Club IX on Sunday where the waiters outnumbered us 6:1, I'm serious and I remember those days when one could not get a waiter to serve you for hours
• Revisited Harmony thrice a week and still wasted food
• Finalised weekend plans for Goa with the Manali Gang and Holiday plans with R
• Met A & K at Toto's where I drank a small glass of wine which was equal to the price of a whole pitcher
• for the first time ever, I tried to tell my dad something [I normally let my mom do this job] and he cut me off b4 I began
• I think I made someone write again
• Went to Toto's on Thursday and got my best friend back
• and I defined a new space in my life - semi semi thing thing!!

The thing is the old saying is true - when it rains, it pours! I'm kinda finding it hard to balance my life the way I want it- normally I have the least stress on priorities since I can weigh up everything but in some cases I'm learning, one cannot rely on the past and one needs to look at the future. I hope it gets easier with time since I like the life that I had but I want the life I can see!