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  • Thanksgiving 2014

    This year we had  Thanksgiving dinner with Rekha aunty’s family and friends. The traditional Thanksgiving menu is non-vegetarian (stuffed turkey with mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce with pumpkin pie). But being Gujrati Jain,we had a traditional Gujrati dinner – Puri, moongdal, undhiyu, patra, orange basundi and finished up the dinner with Marie Callender’s Pumpkin Pie which was

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  • Random thoughts..

    A few days ago, I created a Instagram account and took couple of pics as I ate my lunch and made a dessert for my husband. All my friends from facebook were on instagram, I came to think what’s the point of being on multiple social networking sites and posting same pictures all across social

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  • Celebrations!

    Celebrations!

    Time to celebrate finally!! I have finally finished my DPD requirements and now I am just “one” step away from being a Registered Dietitian. I have begun studying for the “Registered Dietitian” exam,but preparations are not in full swing yet. My mind wanders from painting, to learning music, to learning Spanish to relaxing and just

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  • Ranting

    Ranting

    I am writing a blog post after a long time. This time its not because of lack of time, ideas, happenings in my life to write about. Its moving my blog from one hosting site to another. When I began blogging, I used posterous as my platform. As soon as I got comfortable with that

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  • 2014 Resolutions!

    I am very good at making resolutions but not at keeping them. However, I will continue to make resolutions for this year as I do believe that even though I may not achieve them completely, I may take little steps in that direction which definitely makes me feel happy. I read this somewhere and it

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  • 2013 reflections

    2013 was a beautiful and a blessed year for me! January: I was in India having a gala time with my parents ( I visited after 2 yrs) February: My husband traveled to Japan March: Traveled to Japan to meet and husband over my Spring break. April: I enjoyed the beautiful sight of cherry blossoms

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  • Day 30: 5 favorite things…

    Each one of us have some favorite things  we cannot do without.  For me, these things are as follows: 1. A small cotton pillow: As far as I remember I have that pillow with me whereever I go. My grandma made it from cotton that was grown in our very own fields of Mazgaon. I

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  • Day 29: Five songs or pieces of music

    Today’s topic is an interesting one ‘Five songs or pieces of music that speak to you or bring back memories. Use  YouTube to include them in the post’. Here are the 5 songs that speak to me or bring back memories 🙂 🙂 🙂 1. Ek Main Aur Ek Tu Hein, from Bluffmaster. This brings back

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  • Day 26: Somthing I read online…

    I can’t believe I made it to day 27. Topic for the day, “Something you read online. Leave a link and discuss, if you’d like” I often browse a lot and read a lot of articles on organizing, philosophical stuff, health related stuff and many other random things! Sometimes, I end up spending a lot

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  • Day 15: A Day in the life

    I would have liked to put pictures every hour or two of what my day is like…but may be I will add them later. My day today was like this Wakeup. Take thyroid medicine.Sleep again Finally wake up Have Masala chai Cook lunch Have lunch Take a bath Work on MS project Work on my

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