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Shopping with my 'boyfriend'

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  "I will be late, today", I told him, as I started pulling out my car keys. After waking up from a deep slumber, he sat up rubbing his eyes, his attention wavering over to a stack of cookies that I had left for him beside his bed. I smiled. The chocolatey draft had probably woken him. Taking a bite, he asked me where I was going.  "To the mall, I need some stuff", I replied in a hurry. Blinking his eyes like a five year old and munching at the same time, he said that he wanted to go too. Assuming that he also had things to buy, I gave him a nudge and asked him to get ready as soon as possible.  As we drove over, I told him that it would take me some time to shop. He quipped up that it was cool with him. We parked our car and headed over to aisle 5 to buy some spices and ingredients. As I started scanning the racks, he drifted over to the stationery section to buy some notebooks and pens that I needed. It took us some time at the counter as there was already a long ...
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If the 'Shoe' fits

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"Carrie Bradshaw had a lot of shoes, didn't she? Pair after pair of amazing heels, boots. She was a fashion icon after all!" screamed my sister. "Yes but I preferred Miranda's fashion. She was my fashion icon. Brisk and business like", my best friend retorted. Suddenly there was a pause followed by the sound of exaggerated coughing. Looking up from my "The Devil Wears Prada" copy, I see both of them staring at me.  "Well?' my sister interrogates with her eyebrows raised. "What?" I ask nonchalantly. "What do you think?", my best friend asks. "Who had better taste?"  "Both of them, I guess?" I reply weakly with a shrug. They clearly didn't look impressed. Carrie or Miranda, I don't know but at that moment they definitely resembled Samantha. Ready to explode.  I felt like Andy working for Miranda Priestly. Therefore I replied like Andy would have. Thoughtlessly and yet with spirit. "I think...
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My 'Jhingalala' Parents

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Enthusiastic parents. Need I say more?  It seems to me at times that my lot is just like Maria from The Sound Of Music exhibiting the enthusiasm of " 50 going on 20" while I slouch in a corner with an expression of a 100 year old Captain Von Trapp.  The combined energy that my parents have will surely be enough to fuel an entire city for weeks on end. I will personally write to the Municipal Corporation telling them to cut back on energy consumption and that rest assured, this unstoppable force that I was gifting them would definitely help them in the forthcoming election. It would be like a real life marvel movie.  I would probably take over the role of the Grinch ( not from Marvel, of course) as I am 'the glass is half-empty' kind of a person. Not to worry though , any realistic emotion that I would try to express will fall deaf to my parents' ears with the saying that, 'You have already become a grandma at this age. Try to live a bit. '  The word 'j...
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