We have just bid a goodbye to the Year 2012 and welcomed the New year. The end of a year makes me a little sad that the year is never going to be in my life again. It's like parting with someone who you will never see again.... am I just weird to feel so or is it normal? I assure myself that it's normal and assume that maybe that is why we started the culture to give so much priority to celebrating New Year that we don't dwell over getting sad at saying bye to the past year. Positive, positive :)
The year 2012 has been quite accomplishing for me from personal to the professional levels, so quite glad with the year in general. Before welcoming the new year, I did bid a farewell to the old year in style this year.. ..' De-clutter' is the word. I spent two complete days of the last few days of 2012 to suck out every last piece of rubbish from my cabinets, wardrobe, shoe racks, and the drawers that I was dreading to open, because they were so full. No, it's not the case that I am a shopaholic as such, not quite there yet... the case is that living in a small one bedroom flat and never sorting out and throwing out your unwanted stuffs doesn't pay off for too long, two years, in my case.
First up, 'PAPERS' The bank letters, bills,some fashion magazines, menu to a Chinese,some random playing cards, postcards that I never sent away to people, some receipts, to even some newspapers.. .. actually piles of them in the drawers, some filed away and some just lying about.. they were starting to fall from every creek or gap in the drawer.... like a zombie creeping out from a pit hole and they were terrifying me.
Apart from letters and papers, there was another serious problem area ..'SOCKS', yes, you know those old socks that look bad even after you have washed them and dried them .. and you think these need to go to the bin now .. ..and then you think 'oh, I have washed them now so I will at least use them for once and then chuck them away after that', .. You go and buy new bundle of socks but you never throw those nasty ones..... you use them and then somehow it ends up in your laundry basket again because you just cannot be bothered to throw it straight away. Then once it ends up in laundry basket, guess what happens? Yes, it gets washed and then you think the same thing again....'Well, last time, I will use it and it is going to the bin, Seriously, this is the last time' God knows how many such 'last time' passed on and a pile of horrible socks were still there, mocking at me. So, I had to give another big push to my backside to dig into the pile ... So, now I only have the nice socks, like a lady should have ;)
Just after the de-clutter session, my dear friend from Chicago made the effort to fly all the way to UK and be with me during the New Year Time. Our visit to the Moomin Valley in London was cherry on top and she even bought my favourite 'little mai (sanumaya)' for me !! A huge Thank you to Khushi, you made it even more fab;)...
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| Moomin shop in London :) |
Ok.... having said it all, it was a good start to the year all in all... Yes, Welcome 2013, please be nice to me this year too and I will be good to you, what say? Deal!
