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 It is the end of academic year for us. My daughter, Sasha  finished her final exam. My students will write their exams in May. So I can not go anywhere before April end.

For us, the summer has already started. It is so hot here.

Sasha has already started to prepare for our annual visit to my parents. She is making  greeting cards for everyone and an activity book for her cousins.   We will be leaving in the last week of April and will have to come back by May 20th, as Sasha’s school reopens on May 22^nd. Last year, I spent two months with my parents. This year, I don’t get even a month.

 My sisters are planning how we are going to spend the time together. We will stay together at my parents place. Then we will all go and visit both my sisters in their homes. The three weeks will pass in a wink.

A few days back was our  wedding anniversary.  Though we don't celebrate it in a big way or in any other way , it was nice to look back on the years that went by.

So we didn't celebrate the anniversary. But our daughter gave us a greeting card that she made by herself. She drew a wedding scene in it. It was quite comic the way she drew it, with the bald priest, the bride, the bridegroom with his traditional turban.  As an afterthought, she also added breasts to the bride. We just laughed and laughed. And that was the most wonderful part of the day. 

I have been sick with cold, cough, headache and backache. I also felt tired all the time. It was the backache which gave me more trouble. Other than that I was not sick enough to remain in bed. I carried on with all my regular work. But the backache was funny. I didn't have problem as long as I was standing but sitting in a chair or lying down was a problem. I also had a recurring rash on my face.  With homeopathic medecine, I could see the  improvement within 3-4 days.

My husband was irritated with my decision to take only homeopathic medecine. But I didn't want additional trouble with the allopathic (western) medecine, that gives me acidity. I have trusted homeopathy since my parents used it when I was a child.

Now, it is my husband's turn to be sick with cough and cold (luckily no backache and no rash). And he decided to go to the same homeopath.

I was mostly off xanga all these days. I couldn't resist peeping in a couple of times.

Last week I heard about two people passing away in different places. I  was not close to both of them. 

A distant relative of my husband died. He was 104. He was fairly active till the end and was rarely ill during his lifetime. His wife had died 25 years back and he was staying with his son and son's family.

Another death occured of an aquaintance. He was 50 years old. He felt uneasy and went to the doctor for check up. He collapsed in front of the doctor and died there.

 I am sure the 50 year old man would have liked to spend a few more years with his wife, two  children and 80 year old mother. The 104 year old perhaps wouldn't have minded  leaving this earth a few years earlier.

I know nobody can understand or explain  the way death behaves. But I feel it was very unjust of death.

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I don't make new year resolutions. But last week, I wrote a post about not making the resolutions. Then I read so many posts on resolutions: either about making them or not making them, that I just deleted my post and made a resolution of never writing anything about resolution.  And I see that I am breaking my resolution as soon as I made it.

I was feeling very positive about the new year. But 5-6 days in to the new year and it already seems like the old year. Do you still feel the excitment of the new year?