Day: August 7, 2021

The Worst Christmas/Birthday You Ever Had 

- Roshan

The worst Christmas/Birthday you ever had {make it funny!}

So I am picking worst birthday because we don’t really celebrate Christmas, not being from a Christian family, and it is just another holiday for me. Also this is my birthday week since I just turned 45 last Monday. So I have had a couple of really bad birthdays that I can remember. Most of them have been good but these two were bad. I’m only going to mention one for now.

When I was maybe 8 or 9 – I can’t remember which – I was at my maternal grandmother’s house for the summer, my family having come from Kuwait to India for the vacations. Just 2 nights before my birthday, which I was really looking forward to, I was having an early dinner of dosa with sambhar when someone gave me some ladoos for desert. Now until that day I was ok with ladoos and took one and ate it. They offered me one more and so I happily ate that as well. And then I would regret it.

The next couple of days I was sick really bad. I had the runs, really terrible loose motion and that left me tired and dehydrated for most of the waking hours. I had to wait for three days, including August 2nd which is my birthday, before I could eat proper solid food and the stomach illness subsided. It wasn’t all bad though because a day later I had a postponed birthday party with gifts, some of my favourite food & cake so it was all good at the end. 

Prompt from Sweet ideas: 50 things to blog about at FatMumSlim

Special Traditions That You Have Shared With Your Kids

- Roshan

What special tradition from your childhood have you recreated with your own children?

I don’t have any kids of my own…..that I know of. But, a few things that I have asked my sister to share with her kids – my two nephews and niece – is mainly things that my sis and I enjoyed as kids. Like the cartoons that we watched and loved as kids. Tom & Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Droopy etc – those and more were the awesome cartoons of our childhood and which we still stop to watch when we see some on tv. I’ve even searched for them on Youtube so I could watch them and laugh for a few minutes.

I would have wanted to share my love for other things but I don’t see them all the time or spend too much time with them. Like music – hard rock & heavy metal -, horror movies, science fiction but I just haven’t been able to. One exception is my sister had once asked me to get her the episodes for the 90s scifi show V, which was a big favourite of ours when we were kids. My sister and I love the show and she wanted to show her kids the episodes. It was a big hit.

Other than that I don’t think I have managed to share any traditions. Once in a while we do gather at my home and order dinner just like what we used to when sis and I were kids. And especially when we order either fried chicken like KFC or shawarma, it reminds me of my childhood. I do like that.

Prompt from 31 Days Of Writing Prompts For August at The SitsGirls

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man

- Roshan

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man is a 1951 American science fiction comedy film directed by Charles Lamont and starring the team of Abbott and Costello alongside Nancy Guild. The film depicts the misadventures of Lou Francis and Bud Alexander, two private detectives investigating the murder of a boxing promoter. The film was part of a series in which the duo meet classic characters from Universal’s stable, including Frankenstein, the Mummy and the Keystone Kops.