THE WEEK AFTER!

Its been a hectic week all this week.

We were trying to get into the groove after the very enjoyable but very strenuous trip when my grand father started to feel a little sick.

A few visits to the nearby hospital & then a few tests later, turns out he had some infection and had to be admitted into the hospital for some minor surgery. Nothing to be worried about or anything of that sort, but just the word surgery was enough to scare both my grandparents!

We got him admitted on Saturday, and the surgery was completed that evening - just a one & half hour work. He is still in the hospital right now - should be coming home either today or tomorrow.

My dad, who stays in Bangalore, couldn't make it, since he took a week's off just last week and then its the financial year closing next month. So he's been very caught up, leaving things to be managed by us here. Thankfully, my uncle came down to help - so that made things a little more easier.. :)

I haven't had a very good time too. There were so many things to be taken care at work - so many e-mails, calls and all that stuff and then the hospital work. I was really looking forward for the weekend actually. But with so much going around, I fell sick too! Didn't make it to the office yesterday and having used up all my leaves already, I will have an LoP now :'( But my mom was like - its atleast better than having to go to office, falling badly sick there and making things worse after that! So I thought - maybe yeah.. !

When I went to my doctor yesterday evening, she went :-o :-o!! Hehehe!! She was like - what's wrong with you??? And I could shrug my shoulders & grin :D :D :D

Am looking forward to this weekend again :D Its going to be a long weekend since we have an off this Monday :D And then, there's a wedding this weekend too. So looking forward to take some time off & enjoy :)

BACK!!

Back to work and Its been THE WORST Monday ever!!

Haven't had such a bad Monday even in my college days or School days!

The last one week was pretty good! Had fun! Lots of it! Laughed so much - never laughed that much in my life till now :)

The conditions were pretty rough this year! It was way too cold with temps hovering between 5 c and 10 c! The nights were horribly chilly! We were wearing our jackets/sweaters, gloves, socks and then crawled into really thick bed-rolls and then covered ourselves with a thick mink rug with four of us huddled under one rug and we were still shivering under all the layers! It was that cold.

Mornings were no less. It was around 11 or 12 in the noon before the cold actually went down. Till that time, it was just a warm glow from the sun, with cold winds blowing around. And again by 4 in the evenings, it started getting cold and then back to shivering!

And staying in tents hardly helped :D The thin layers of cloth on top & sides just added to our woes. Too much work, too many pilgrims to be managed, not enough space for all of them to put up together - was a lot of hard work, but then fun too...

But the saddest part is, it was so much of hard work, that we hardly knew time was flying by. Before we could even realise what was going on and get adjusted to the conditions, the whole trip got over and we have been thrown back into our normal routines :'( The initial part of the journey back was a little sad with tears thrown in for good measure :D

Once back, all of us were so tired, we were just waiting to have our hot water baths, which was a luxury there, have some hot breakfast and just hit the beds. All of us slept like logs for 4 hours, got up to have lunch and again got back to sleeping for some more time and finally managed to open our eyes to the darkened rooms to realise it was already 6 in the evening :D

Freshened up a little and then received a call from our friends to check if my sister & me would like to go to the Eat Street! Did not know if it would be a good idea, but then decided to go anyways. And found out it was a good idea indeed :) The cool breeze hitting on the face while walking by the Hussain-Sagar was refreshing.... and then there were friends around.. so felt a little better!

Monday morning was not very different from Sunday morning :D Slept like a log for most of the time and got ready to go to work in the evening. At work right now and hardly in the mood to work. Around 90 unread e-mails invited me when I opened my lotus notes and 10 voice mails on the telephone. Sifting through all of them right now and thinking, do I really need to work :(
Was not in any mood to have dinner also. Had a few spoons and felt like I was going to throw up. Decided it was better to close the tiffin box than sit and wonder what to do about it :D
So thats the story from my side. Just wondering where to start and what to do and whom to call and what to tell..

It will be about another one week before I can completely come back to the normal grind and pick up all the threads and work as usual.... Until then, I will just need to hang on. The last time around, when I took a four day break to go to Bangalore, the coming back was very difficult and I took almost 2 months before I could actually interest myself in the work again. I had completely lost the interest to work and found it very difficult! Hopefully, it doesn't get that bad this time.... :)

Wish me Luck :D And here's me wishing you a good week ahead :)