Doing the odd jobs and being a super-mom!

October 15, 2008

“Please is frame ko yahaan par taang do!” : One of the frequent requests from me to my husband on random Saturday mornings until a few months ago. For the uninitiated, weekend mornings were meant for lounging on the sofa with breakfast in one hand and Economic Times newspaper in the other.

Two hours later when everything stays where it was and not an inch of movable/immovable objects has been displaced - Sigh.

“Please is frame ko yahaan par taang do!“, I repeat in an emphatic tone with extra effort for showing no signs of irritability. More often than not, the job gets done. Sometimes when the Husband is on a roll, more than what I had requested for.

Fast forward to now. I’m afraid the Husband has been officially liberated of such mundane chores as drilling holes in the walls to put up year old pictures or that odd collectible picked from an equally obscure place god knows when! Of late, I’ve donned the hat for doing odd jobs around the house from drilling holes (with a drilling machine of course) to fixing leaking pipes, removing a faulty fan regulator, securing velcros of mosquito netlons with adhesives and transporting stuff on and off from the lofts.

For people who live outside India, it might sound strange as to why such a mundane task calls for an elaborate post. Well, to begin with in India, atleast the people I know hire people for such services and never do such tasks themselves. There’s always a electrician or a plumber to be summoned who are more than happy to get things done for as low as Rs.50. But I just realised that it saves me immense time by doing it myself rather than calling the required person for such small things and finally getting it done the way I want. So here I am equipping my tool box replacing old star screw drivers and broken drill bits. Strangely, it also works as a great therapy taking my mind off things that I’d worry about if I were not doing anything. So when I’m stressed out I take to cleaning and fixing things around the house with recycling stuff being the latest fad.

When the Husband gets back, we would be pretty much an independent family and one less thing to argue on as to if the nail should have been 2 mm above the pencil mark or below!

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3 Responses to “Doing the odd jobs and being a super-mom!”

Vaz on October 16th, 2008 7:47 am

Hey lady, this blog says your acquiring new skills !!! which is good and it inspires me to do the same. You have always been inspiring from the time I met you.This is one way I found to tell you that.
Lakshmi on October 16th, 2008 5:01 pm

Vasanta,

Thank you! In all honesty, that was quite flattering to come from someone as dynamic as yourself.

- Lakshmi
Thinker on October 20th, 2008 9:40 am

Have to start learning practical things like these…don’t hang pictures on the walls at all:)