DAY:27,28,29,30

Been busy. Or was I?

you'll never know.

Oh actually you will, because that's exactly what I do here. I write down what I've been doing throughout the day. In today's case what I've been doing for four days.

Frankly speaking, I have no idea what I did on the 27th, but I'm sure it wasn't a great day, it's not been a great day in quite sometime. maybe the quarantine is finally getting to me. Maybe I'm slipping into depression, but my symptoms show more of aggression. And I really want to go to wonderla.

Yes the days haven't been great, but there were some really great moments.

28th August, I woke up fairly early. These days (As in the past two days) I wake up before ten. But yes I still lie on bed till twelve; it's still an improvement. Morning's go by so fast. Probably because I spend it sleeping.  Anyways I didn't do much throughout the day I was watching Modern Family for sometime, then the class. All day I was asking amma to take us out on a drive, but she seemed too busy. I let go of the drive idea. Around six, Pablo and I got ready for the walk, that's when amma was done with her weeks work, and since it was a Friday she wanted to let go of all the stress and relax, so we did end up going on a drive. This was the best thing that happened all day, especially since I was feeling very low throughout. It really felt so good to just sit in the car with amma and Pablo, with rolled down windows and the radio playing in the background. We kept on going till we were super hungry and decided koshy's as our final destination. We had to make one quick stop at ATM. We parked the car, near the ATM, and amma went to draw cash. I waited in the car with Pablo, who was wailing till amma returned. Amma came back, started the car, and began to take a U-turn. This is when our car decided to act up, and the steering refused to turn. We were stuck in the middle of the road going back and forth for quite sometime. Somehow after what might have been the hundredth trial we managed to take the turn, and made our way to Koshy's, amma bought chicken sandwiches, veg sandwiches, chicken croissants, and jam doughnut, as I and Pablo waited in the car again. It was a real tragedy that they were out of chocolate doughnuts. 

We started our return journey home, all the way praying the car doesn't get stuck at another turn. I was so glad to be back home safe for two reasons, first, I was so scared that we might meet with an accident because the steering kept getting stuck. And second, I was starving, I could no longer wait to stuff my mouth with the sandwiches and croissants and doughnuts. 

Just when I finished eating, Ankur called me down for a walk. I didn't have the mood or energy to handle Pablo, so I went alone; Pablo had enough outing for one day. I was still a little low, and it was probably evident on my face because the first thing he asked me was what was wrong with me. Since I didn't have an answer to that we let it be, but that guy is really good at talking, and listening to him somehow I started feeling better.

29th August, eleven-thirty. I wasn't ready for another day, I tucked my head under the blanket and tried my best to fall asleep, but chechi and her best-friend felt this was the most appropriate time to be on a call, and she had put Varsha was on speaker, both of them were shouting. It's basic manners to not disturb sleeping people. Getting chechi out of the room was impossible, but I did try, I screamed at her like three times, all it did was make my throat sore, because chechi didn't move an inch, nor did either of them bother to reduce their voice. I had to give up my sleep. I freshened up and was watching TV, when chechi came with a proposition. She asked me if I would accompany her to go get some rose plants. All I do these days is watch TV and wait for an opportunity like this to go out.

After having breakfast, and bathing sunscreen, at one o'clock we left the house, on our quest to buy rose plants. Our first stop was a small nursery in Rajajinagar. We bought a beautiful and also the only red rose that was there. But this place was a little over budget. We realised it wouldn't be very cost efficient to but plants from these small nursery's, so we set route to Lalbagh. I hadn't gone to Lalbagh in ages. Even though Lalbagh was closed, the nursery was open, we went in and as expected the whole place was filled with a variety of plants, we walked around the nursery in the scorching heat for a while, till we found the roses that we knew would fit perfectly in my sisters growing garden. We were now exhausted, dehydrated and starving. We walked to the billing counter with our plants, just to find it  closed because the staff had gone for lunch. This was by far the second worst wait of my life. I didn't know how much longer I would last. Thankfully when the counter opened we were the third in the line. Chechi and I realised to true value of water today. On the way back home we stopped in front of a small shop to buy water, juice and some snacks. It was a tiring ride, but it was really fun. I think this was the first time chechi and I spend time together like this, this might have been the first time I felt like we were grown ups. It was a pretty good dau. We got back home at four-fifteen. I had lunch and thankfully it was a no workout day, so I was left with an abundant amount of time in my hand, which I spend watching  more TV.

And that was a wrap on day 29.   

Day 30, there where two things special about today. First being, I along with Harshita, gave a webinar on content writing, and I was super nervous the whole day. Second, I wasted all day doing nothing till five-thirty, after which I got super busy and we had to skip our workout. Yes on day 30th amma and I had to skip the workout.

The session we took, in my personal opinion went amazing, I was super proud of myself for doing it. I was on cloud nine when we were done. I haven't done anything like this in ages, I missed that nervousness you feel before presenting to an audience, and that rush of adrenaline you feel when you step onto a stage to give a presentation, a speech or whatever, and most importantly that feeling of accomplishment  you feel when you're done, and you know it went well. I miss school days, I never realised then how much I used to enjoy even the smallest speech we had to give in English class.

It was eight-ten when we the session got over, and the next day was Onam. This is my most favorite festival. The only festival I actually enjoy. Whats not to like about Onam!!!

I was supposed to get flowers for the pookalam in the evening but I kept procrastinating and then it got late. But you cannot have Onam without flowers. So amma and I went out in the night to get flowers, I'm so grateful to the few ladies who were still selling flowers. We bought a lot of flowers, after all what is Onam without flowers. 

I'm so excited for tomorrow!!!!