Ode to my TBR book(s) for Theme Thursday(ribbons) and dVerse Poets Pub–

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-Vidya Tiru/LadyInRead

For Theme Thursday(ribbons):
Growing up, I had to wear pigtails to school everyday – our school frowned upon hair let loose or even pony tails (except when your hair was too short for pigtails). and so my mom faithfully oiled and braided my hair each day and tied it up with ribbons – now there were rules about ribbons too – black ribbons for all days of the week except Thursday, when we wore white ribbons. Now, the colors had no symbolism – it was just that they were part of our uniforms. We wore navy blue uniforms on all days except on Thursday when we wore white uniforms. I did have ribbons of other colors too, to wear outside school, that matched with the outfit I wore – not that we had too many occasions to wear too many others since we had uniforms for school. and then after we got home, we mostly played which meant, anything went. But I loved my ribbons until I grew up, cut my hair shorter and did not need to bother with it anymore (especially now:)). Now I have ribbons only for gift wrapping, and the ribbons my kids receive at their various sports classes as they achieve different levels (swimming, gymnastics), and the ribbons they bring home for Red Ribbon week or other awareness weeks at school.

Another one for Thursday Thirteen and for AlphabeThursday – (letter is D):
This is a list of thirteen different things starting with the letter D that I love:
1. My darling daughter AND 2. My wonderful dad (I put them up here together)
3. Dancing
4. Dreaming – I love my dreams – the ones I have when i am asleep and those I have when wide awake! I encourage my kids to dream big too and follow their dreams
5. Disney – movies, the parks (not the paraphernalia)
6. My Digital camera
7. Decadent and Delicious Desserts – my favorite part of any and every meal
8. Delhi – the city where I was born
9. Daffodils – I love the color yellow and seeing daffodils in my garden always cheers me.
10. Dawn and Dusk – could not pick one from these two so they both go in here – I love watching the sky at these times.
11.The feeling of Deja Vu – Especially when it is something wonderful that gives me this feeling but even otherwise, there is something so mysterious(of course!) about this, I love it
12. Dew
13. dVerse – a new favorite of mine that starts with D

For NaBloPoMo

Are you happier when you’re working or when you’re relaxing?

Depends on the task I am doing for work/relaxation – I am happiest when I am doing work that relaxes me – blogging, watering the plants, washing the dishes(this one, I dread doing it when I see the sink full of dishes but the moment I start, I feel good about it).