The Uninspiring Title

Disclaimer: I haven't seen the final season of GoT yet, and I don't know when I'll get around to it. I'm busy trying to write posts here! The storm has passed. Sufficient time has elapsed between the release of the final season and people's dismay and displeasure with the GoT ending. So I thought I could not put my two cents into the mix, which by the way have NOTHING to do with the actual ending of GoT or my feeling towards it. It's a show and I'm over it. My feelings are more about the overall portrayal of the genders in the series as it progressed. While brushing my teeth this morning (this morning being 2 weeks ago when I started writing this), I was, as one does looking at YouTube and lo and behold I fell into a downward spiral of GoT ending and where the Stark siblings ended up, when I thought god why do D. B. Weiss and David Benioff insist on portraying the women of GoT as such absolute bastards? While the one bastard on the show is one of t...

 So because I think feeling sorry for myself is an Olympic level sport that I excel greatly at, I was reading past posts on this blog and reminiscing the good old days.. aka my 20s. I came across the post "10 Reasons I can't get married" and Number 4 read I'm 24. This promptly tilted me down an I'm 30 spiral. Picture Rachel from Friends. Source So instead of feeling sorry for myself, I decided to write a post about 30 things I've learnt, realized, and been made to realize, sometimes rather rudely, by my body/life over the last few years, now that I've turned ancient 30. 1. Hindi is a pretty kick-ass language Being one of those annoying 90s kids from India who grew up almost exclusively reading and speaking in English, I had the audacity to look down on Hindi as being too archaic and unnecessarily complex. As happens with most NRIs who haven't been living in India for a few years you develop a new-found respect and love for our मातृ भा...

So we're just going to brush the fact that I haven't written or posted anything in the last 5 years, are we? Or the fact that I have at least 7 draft posts in various and sundry stages of incomplete- ness ? Yup, because for the first time in forever I didn't have to force myself to write, it just flowed naturally, so ya, here's hoping this is a permanent goodbye to the long-standing writer's block! It's the end of an era, sigh! It's been five years since I met Ash and Drew as a part of the totally kick-ass band of female friends we all wish we had in the knitting in the city series. On Nov 4th, finally, the epic conclusion to the Winston Brothers series by Penny Reid came out with Billy and Scarlet's story and I for one was not ready to bid adieu to all the funny nutty characters of Green Valley, and most of all the Winston Siblings.   My introduction to the Pennyverse was with her first book - Neantherthel Seeks Human, wherein I was absolutel...