Want to be taken seriously....are you serious!!!!

I say...
I am woman, hear me roar!!!

Now why would anyone care as long we don't learn to respect ourselves, respect our commitments and respect each other.

I know its a trivial thing, but it affected me.
Women in my office decided to come all traditional dressed up one day. While everyone said yes, there was a lukewarm response that day.
Fine!!!

Another day same story. But some women said they were unhappy about the response. So, some women took initiative to have a desi day the next day...and that day is today.
No body except me, including the leaders in this initiative, has turned up all dolled.
And I had an audit today, the last thing I wanted to do is look unprofessional. Yet I believed, since it was a desi day at office I should be a part of it. And I committed.

Sad it is that we women want to be taken seriously, at work, while making decisions...while all the time we can't seem to respect our own decisions.
How many of us commit to reach at a venue at 5 and reach a good one hour late.
I have heard this from so many women...when a woman says NO its a NO, its not a MAYBE. Are we sure??? Can we blame others not to take our NO very seriously when we have proved time and again that we can't seem to keep our own word.

This a very trivial matter, but it speaks volumes about our attitudes. Out of 25 odd women only 1 kept her word, rest couldn't care less.

Six years of togetherness

6 years ago today, I got married to Db.

Six years, siiix...siiiiiiixxxx. It does not feel that long at all.
We were but kids when we got married, and it feels like growing up together, getting to know each other as we grew and having a hand in bringing up each other. And I must say we have well brought up each other and I am quite proud of what each of us has become and we have managed to build a very healthy relationship.

Many people over the years have told me that I am quite a unique person, that they have never met anyone like me. I do not completely deny that nor do I completely accept it. I know its very easy to appreciate someone like me, like someone like me but its very difficult to live with someone like me. It's no mean task, and I applaud Db for living with me since 6 years and still having his sanity intact.

I was all so lucky to find my match who would accept me just the way I was without changing a ounce of me.

Here's raising a toast to US.
I am lucky to have you the last thing I see in a day and first I see in the morning. '

Eeeshhhh!!! That's a lot of cheese!!!!