I Hate Being Sick!

Hi again! I've been really sick for the past few days! It started off as a terrible stomach ache and continued for three whole days! It was like my insides were being squeezed over and over again! I can't even tell you how I finally got cured! It's way too embarrassing! I kept taking medicines after medicines and the pain kept coming back! My doctor told me that it was because I wasn't eating enough of my leafy greens and was eating way too much chicken! That is true! But I love meat! And I do eat vegetables, it was just in the past few days that I had been eating a little too much! So, after three days when my stomach finally settled down, I kept getting hunger pangs every two hours because for like two whole days, all that went into my stomach was either medicine or the blandest of the blandest khichdis (it's goulash in English!). Anyway my stomach is finally back to normal! No more spasms and no more hunger pangs! God I am so relieved! But my mom has banned meat or any other food that is hard to digest, so that my insides don't act up again! Being sick sucks! I mean, I know people take care of you and all but still! The discomfort you experience is not worth it! Anyway, goodnight and I'll write soon!

A New School

Hi! My school started this week! So I finally have something to do! Today they sorted us into our houses- Diamond, Coral, Sapphire and Emerald! Oh! It is Gitanjali, by the way! It's just a different branch! Anyway, I've been in Diamond House my entire school life and I was praying that I wouldn't be sorted into Diamond! And look at my luck! I was sorted into Diamond! When my name was called out, I was wishing that I never have to wear yellow pants again (I mean, what kind of uniform is that?) and just my luck, I got Diamond house! At least if the sorting was cool, like it is in Harry Potter, it would be worth it! But no! They just sort you into whatever strikes their fancy! And then I found out that the 11th and 12th don't have to wear the same uniform as the others! Frivolous topic, I know! But that's what's on my mind! Now that school has started, I'm back in the same funk! I want a holiday! I mean, is there no pleasing me? My sister was right, I really am an odd little thing!

Home.

All this shifting made me start thinking... What is home? Eric Weiner said, "Home is where the heart is" and someone else once said, (don't ask me who, because I can't remember!), " A place is only as good as the people in it". I completely agree with both statements. Home doesn't have to be an actual place! People are home. Family is home. I admit that a house is necessary, because we need shelter. But how can you call it a home if you have no one to share it with? No one to argue with, no one to cook for, no one to cook FOR you, no one to chat with after a long, long day just to unwind. That's not home. That's just a house! You can be a nomad and still feel at home with your tribe! Because they are your comfort zone. In my opinion, that's home! Home can be anything, but mostly it's the people you're with. Because what is home without friends and family?I chose a weird topic didn't I? I really am weird that way! But that doesn't mean I don't believe in everything I just said!

Moving

God! Shifting a house is such a pain in the butt! There is so much work to be done! The first day, we decided to take all our shoes to the new house. It was just two houses down, (please don't ask me why we moved to a different house in the same colony! I've answered that question one too many times!) so we,(me and my sister) stuffed our shoes into packets and carried them there! And we have WAY too many shoes! Now I get why my grandmother calls us spoilt brats! And those were just the shoes! After that we carried cutlery, crockery and so on and so forth! Finally removed into our new house.... But our work was far from complete! The air conditioners were tripping,so we had to get new MCBs',the television and the DVD players had to be connected! I accidentally screwed up the sound bar wire, earning the nickname 'ruiner'! I've sworn not to go anywhere near the connections again! And look what that resulted in! No one has connected the other DVD player! Someone has to and it ain't gonna be me! The curtains had to be put onto the rods and my sister has gotten into a kind of tizzy! Every single day she wants to do the dusting of the house! She goes to the gym before I wake up and before she comes I make the beds so that she doesn't start screaming about that as well! And dealing with people is not easy! And we've had to deal with a lot of people. Starting with the household help to the electricians and plumbers! Then our Internet got disconnected and it took them a week to connect it again! I was cursing BSNL day and night! Can you imagine a week without Internet? I can live without Facebook, but without Wikipedia and google? No way!anyway, I guess we've finally settled in, but it takes time to adjust to a new house. I still kind of miss our old house, with all it's faults! Nostalgia, I guess!