old age and plans

For a few years now....no lets be precise....for two years now a group of us ladies (I still think girls is so much better but well) have been meeting on and off for a drink and pot luck.Any excuse to get together.Our conversations has over the years revolved around old parents,young children,trying bosses and husband who drive us mad,but who for some reason some of us love and others hate.

Over these last years we have seen children grow up and leave home,divorce happen,husbands being absent more often than not thanks to work.Long and short of it is that suddenly we are a bunch of women who are almost always alone.So we meet,to support each other,to cheer and encourage and comfort.We have now moved past all of these topics of yesteryear's to our current obsession.Retirement plans.Increasingly we are discussing setting up homes close to each other of creating revenue generating ideas that we can all work out together .Our plans are varied.It ranges from babysitting business to food chains to managing talent and so on and so forth.Yesterday two of us has already though of doing our Ph D and were looking for funding.
We are also aware that none of us can possibly be at home doing nothing.We are restless spirits,we need to do stuff.The conversations continue but we haven't got down to concrete plan.

I believe its all about what we are doing at the moment.Secretly we all enjoy what we do,we love bitching about our bosses...imagine life with out a fussy boss,we love complaining about our dysfunctional families...unfortunately we love them.We hate city traffic but are ready to drive off at the drop of a hat,we hate parties but love to go just to watch everyone else.Well why then are we discussing retirement.Me thinks we are not ready for it,but as a topic for late evening conversations,its perfect.
I dread to think of this gang being at home jobless.Not only will we drive ourselves mad,we will probably drive the rest of our families crazy too.

see saw fads

Whats it now,a month or more,not sure,but some of the blogging in me went out of the window.Not surprising really considering how everyone I know asks me what my latest fad is.The annoying thing is that the question is accompanied with a knowing smile which really says...oh well we never expected her to stick to anything for long.Considering I have stuck to jobs a lot more than others and stuck to husband for years and years,all this is a bit unkind.

Alright lets give all my friends and well wishers the benefit of doubt,and tell everyone what the fads have been.Started with learning tanjore painting which fell by the wayside the moment it graduated into craft.Hate messing around with glue and paint and stuff like that.A Faber castel pencil with soft lead is just for me.Doodling is more my thing.

Then it was this blog which I couldn't get enough of so I wrote and wrote and felt good.Never mind that no one reads it but its good for my soul to know that all this is being recorded for posterity.Then life took a bad turn and turned busy and the corporate cat was reduced to corporate rat and then the race started in full earnest,so the blog went for a toss until today when I discovered I had a mew left in me.

The last two months have been about getting out of bed at 5.30 am and dashing off to the gym.Its resulted in my feeling lighter and more energetic and very proud of myself.The tragedy is that its all motivated by guilt.Because the arrangement is that a friend picks me up,I hate to let her down so off I go.On days I need to pick her up its the same story....guilt.And to think guilt is a negative emotion.Don't know how long it will last but there are a set of clothes in my cupboard from the thin days that are waiting for me.

That's about the current obsession,fad whatever.