Minnie's Musings

I take pride in keeping an impeccable kitchen. My pantry is stocked, the fridge is full, and even the bottles and jars are labelled. Too good for a working woman, isn't it. Well almost :) So then what am I hinting at? Just the other day ( or so it seems, though its almost 7 months back), I realized that out of my set of 5 pressure cooker sets in all shapes and sizes, not one was working optimally. Reason - gasket issues, safety valves missing, and a couple of loose nuts and bolts due to incessant pounding by my house-help when she tries to clean these items. So I put them all in a bag, and planned to go out that weekend and get them all fixed at the store where I bought these from. However, seven months and several weekends later, they are all lying in the very same bag, in one corner of my kitchen counter. People say, "out of sight is out of mind". However, this one is well within sight, yet out of mind. I forgot or you can say ignored to tend to this...

Oh look at that chaotic office desk ... like it were hit by hurricane last night. And what about our wardrobes. Isn't it one of our well kept secrets secured perfectly well behind those closed doors. What if someone were to walk in an open those floodgates. I will say, do it at your own risk. And yes, call your folks and tell them about your whereabouts before you take the plunge. At least they will know where to look for you :) I ordered a 3 layered desk organizer last month from E office planet. But guess its lost amongst the piles of papers I stacked on my desk just the other day. By the way, that pile came from an attempt to clean off that chaotic desk I started off this story with...huh!! I over - heard a "working woman" shout out to her "executive husband" just  the other day, in an apartment right next door, " go find your pair of socks on your own. My uterus is not a tracking device that you keep asking me to find all your...