Feline Musings

 Human beings have developed the concept of milestones – to keep track, to reminiscence, to celebrate, to mourn, to repair, to learn, to evolve, and mostly just for the heck of it. I have also decided to document the key milestones in the First Quarter of the First Nuptial Year of OUR life.  

1.       After years of sprawling like a log on exclusively-owned double-beds, and being finicky about bathroom cleanliness, hubby and I have managed to survive each others snoring and have mutually approved bathroom etiquette.

Target to be achieved: Share the same cupboard. Difficulty level: Virtually unattainable. 

2.       Hubby has given up his love for saas-bahu serials, and I have almost forgotten my keenness for Hollywood flicks and Channel V. Hubby and I peacefully watched Sarabhai vs Sarabhai for the first three months, and now that the program is off-air we have zeroed in on Roadies 5.0. The TV remote control has hence been saved from any cat-fight induced damage and our TV is also safe and sound.

Target to be achieved: Watch cricket highlights. Difficulty level: Requires some efforts from my side. 

3.       I can make round, puffed-up chapattis and have no qualms about making stuffed parathas in the morning. Hubby’s wolverine famish for stuffed parathas has been considerably satiated. The paratha consumption count is down from four to two. Paratha and chapatti-making are no more intimidating activities. We have dinner, everyday, at home, and I cook without any help (or intervention) from hubby. We have not had any major culinary disasters.

Target to be achieved: Bread-butter, fresh fruit and juice breakfast. Difficulty level: Attainable but requires “cold-hearted” efforts from my side. I love the “serving-hot-paratha-to-hungry-hubby” regime. 

4.       We found a common fun-activity. Well, some people may say it’s too early in our marital life to require board games to entertain ourselves, but I seriously needed some intellectual stimulation. I miss my bed-time reading and my pre-marital efforts to get hubby into book-reading failed miserably. So, I finally found an activity which interests hubby too – Scrabble. I guess he is more excited about the math involved in the game, but anyways he is at least ready to play.

Target to be achieved: Hubby playing independently and winning too. Difficulty level: Attainable, hopefully soon, else he will lose interest in a game that I always win. 

5.       We set the house in order – furniture, kitchen, curtains, air-conditioning, gas connection, geyser… and more.  

Target to be achieved: To build our “own” nest. Difficulty level: Seems unattainable as of now. But hopefully we will be able to purchase a house someday, somewhere, sometime!! 

6.       We have our own car – a sleek silver Hyundai i10 – and hubby absolutely adores it. I am also thrilled to have finally got a car, after having “imported” the driver from the States. (For those who are nor aware, hubby and I met in the US when he was the colleague responsible for my pick-and-drop from home to work.) So, practically, I selected the driver, much before the car-purchase.

Target to be achieved: I have to drive on my own. Difficulty level: Seems unattainable because I am “shit-scared” of the traffic in Noida-Delhi streets. 

7.       We both managed to strike a decent chord with our respective family members, which is a great thing considering that we are from very diverse cultures.

Target to be achieved: Less restrained more informal affection. Difficulty level: Absolutely attainable for the simple reason that both of us will give it our best. 

8.       We have finally planned our honeymoon. We are off for a “Backwaters of Kerala” tour in the first week of April.

Target to be achieved: Enjoy, relax and come back rejuvenated. Difficulty level: None.

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