Finally I started writing again… almost after a year and half. This time it’s not our anniversary... It's Payal’s birthday. First of all… “Happy birthday Payal!!!”😃
Now… For those of you who have a lovely wife like mine,
you’ll likely appreciate this blog. It’s
about compassion, caring & love… about sympathy, empathy and
sensitivity. It’s a glimpse into how wonderful
a wife can be when the chips are down💑. When the entire world is closed out.
When her husband is home quarantine with herself😷...
OR IS IT???
First of all, I have decided, I am not going to complain
anything about my wife on her birthday. Actually of late, there has been
nothing to complain about her except she is too organized or she treat me like
I don’t know anything or she don’t let me watch series/movies late at night or
she don’t let me read book at odd times etc… etc... All in all, lately I have nothing much to complain about.😶
So where I was… Ya… Payal has been really splendid in these home quarantine days.👍 Mainly when I am busy working. Of course when I am into back to back calls, I get the comments like… “Do you guys really work or just talk over call?”, “Is it the work that you do? Just taking to people?”, “I thought you are software engineer… you sure you are not doing some call center job?”, “You spend more than half of your 8 hours day on calls, talking noisily and making awful jokes and then laughing at them... Have you lost your mind?🙃”. But when the day is really hectic, I get awesome treatment like having food time to time. She will even ask what I want to have in lunch or dinner and my opinion actually matters at this point of time (otherwise most of the times my wife asks me what I want for dinner and then tells me I am wrong.).
Payal really appreciate my work and whenever I am busy coding or in some calls, she makes sure, I don’t get disturbed. I really want to thank her for that. Of course sometimes she complains that I says things like, “let’s circle back on that”, “I will get back to you”, “let me check”, “I’ll ping you” all day long and she gets so irritated that she wants to throw the water bottle at me😡. I hope she won’t put the poster stating “Husband on Sale” outside our house. (coz if no one takes me (and I am sure of that), then I will have to listen to more horrible things.)
Payal has been really supportive now a days. When we moved
to US, we had many plans that got ruined due to the COVID outbreak but she
hasn’t complained ever. In the circumstances when I brawls about this situations
she always shows me the positive side of it. That is great strength for me. Ya sometimes
she nags that I need to grow up and stop being kid. I still don’t know why she
says so but I mostly ignore as most of the times when she is complaining such
things, I would be watching "The Simpsons" or reading "Wimpy kid’s diary."😜
Payal is a great cook. Though many a times she has been underestimated about her cooking skills, I would like to proudly say that “Payal, you are an awesome cook and there is no doubt about it”😋. The way she prepares the food and the way she garnishes it after food is prepared, really requires great patience. Of course I should not dare to ask ‘how much more time till the food and her photography is done’. I have recently learnt a trick to know whether Payal is angry with me or not. I figure that out with her answers. Payal: “Do you want something to eat?” Me: “What are the choices?” Payal: “Yes or No” (If she is angry).
My wife and I play this fun game during quarantine, it’s
called “Why are you doing it this way?” Most of the times there is no winner.
Sometimes when the discussion becomes heated arguments, Payal wins. Quarantine
days have become the days to learn how I can avoid house hold chores without my
wife knowing it. I have learnt few tricks. Sometimes I muse… “What kind of
person you are when you have to use your wife’s empty cereal bowl because there
is a condition that if you are using new bowl, you have to wash it by
yourself!” Now-a-days I am keeping the count of number of times I did laundry
or any chore. It mostly helps me when we are fighting… just to be on safer
side😉. Mostly Payal is cool and she don’t fight quite often. (Not more than 5-6
times a week)
OK… So Payal just called me two times and warned me that if I
don’t get off my laptop and help with the laundry, she will slam my head on the
keyboard😨. I don’t think she really mean it but don’t want to take any risk. Let
me conclude the blog with some birthday wishes…
It would sound cliché but there is no exaggeration in saying
that I am truly a lucky and blessed man to have Payal in my life. My greatest
happiness are when I have chance to talk about her (and those talks are not
complains about her). She is the greatest gift to me😇.
Again wish you a very Happy Birthday Payal. Love you!!!💓
