My Life after the Roll

When at home, my life used to be detached from outside world except for chatting with my parents and sisters. One fine evening it all changed!

Coming back from work, I opened my refrigerator wondering what to cook. And there they were - the real cause..of this whole thing..GAWAR BEANS (Goru Chikkudukaya in Telugu)!  Usually they are handpicked to take off the fiber on their sides. I switched on the TV, had the laptop on the carpet by my side and logged on to my yahoo messenger waiting for my parents to come on-line and sat down to pick the beans one by one. Now entered the other culprit of this incident, my one-year-old Mimi, who loves to bang the hell out of the keys on my laptop and kiss the cute baby on the screen (Mimi again, of course!). She jumped on my beans, spilling them all around. But after some struggle we made a deal that she would hand me one bean after the other as I pick them, and I'd let her play and make mess scattering the beans on the floor.

It went a good 2 minutes and then it got boring. What next?. Wow..Mommy's laptop, right there - on the floor!! Mimi jumped forward, drumming the laptop keys and typing in Afrikaans to Zulu, sending off-line messages to my parents. And then happened the infamous "Roll" about which everyone reading this is hitting their heads thinking, what happened!! Mimi pushed the laptop screen far back and made it as flat as a mat, sat on it and rolled once..ON IT! Boom, next minute I see, my yahoo messenger is going crazy and doing something strange..Oh..God..Nooooo..as I screamed, it sent out requests to everyone in my yahoo mailing list, to add me on to their messenger!!!

So my dears, that is how  you all got requests to add me onto your messenger list from "me"!!. I thank everyone, who accepted my request and added me willingly or hesitatingly on to his/her list already. I promise, I won't bother you too much except for saying hello occasionally; I know the pleasure of being not bothered by unwanted hellos and messages while you are in the chatting bliss with a loved one or a friend. And to all the people, who are still thinking about adding me on to your list or just ignoring my request, unable to decline me out of courtesy, I say -Decline away! I won't feel bad or anything, our friendship etc won't be messed up. I promise. I understand!

But for me, life has changed a wee bit. It actually got a lil' alive. I get pleasant hellos from friends with whom I haven't spoken for months and some actually years. I see no harm in exchanging couple of words and knowing how and where they are. And I absolutely don't mind sharing my news and boasting about my daughter too. So, I think it is good. I thank Mimi for giving Mommy a chance to reconnect with old friends and relatives. But from now, I am sure I won't put my laptop in Mimi's reach, especially when my messenger is on!

BTW, I also wanted to mention similar thing about my cell phone calls. If there is a call from me anytime (Sometimes in the middle of the night to the people in the East coast) and I am not talking except for babbling some baby talk, it's not 'me in danger' or anything! It's Mimi taking over the cell phone. Also, if you have a missed call from me with no voice mail, it's me grabbing the phone from Mimi and shutting it off before you picked up your phone. Mimi doesn't acknowledge the cute, pink 'Disney Princess' phone we got her as a real thing. And I am still getting used to the phone lock feature on my cell phone!