Happy Diwali!

When I was young and people asked me what Diwali was I explained it as the Indian Christmas, sometimes I still do although the concepts are very different. Diwali also known as "Deepavali" literally translated means a row of lamps. It is our Festival of Light celebrating the return of Lord Ram after he defeats Ravan and brings back his wife Sita after 14 years of exile.

It's celebrated with a great amount of fanfare, spending time with family, exchanging sweets, rangoli designs, and LOTS of fireworks. Because today it is pouring some of this won't happen but I am definitely looking forward to dressing up and spending my evening with family!

I'll leave you with a few pictures I found online...We have google safe search on at work so I'll try to update later from home with others...

From our family to your Happy Diwali and Sal Mubarak!!! (Happy New Year)

It's Monday! YAY! REALLY YAY!! and cows...

I am trying to shake off the weekend in me and accept that is Monday....unfortunately it is a little hard since I forgot work survival essential number 1 at home! Since all my work is either over the phone, on e-mail, or just on the computer I can't get through the day without this to help keep me focused. Today is going to be a loooooooong day without my ipod and it's even worse because it's Monday! Do you guys have something you just can't get through the work day without?

In other news pictures were printed and the frames were hung on our sitting room wall this weekend. All except for one! I am on the hunt for a 5X5 frame before Saturday, so hopefully I can find one and make it complete. Once it's done i'll take pictures and post them....

If this post could get any more random I saw this image over at Mangonette's blog today

It totally triggered the memory of this one that I took in India two years ago:

Cow's in your doorway are a daily occurence there, in fact there are cows everywhere just wondering around. Case in point this is a highway:I wouldn't reccomend touching these cows but I couldn't resist feeding the one that came to the door....Problem was then he wouldn't go away!

Anyhow Happy Monday to all of you....I am going to try and get some work done!

Vogue India

These pictures of Victoria Beckham from Vogue India are STUNNING! Growing up I always pictured having a white-dress wedding but as I got older I fell absolutely in love with sari's. I absolutely adore wearing saris and I think that there is no wrong body type for a sari. Short, tall, plump, or skinny every woman looks gorgeous in a sari! I will admit they are a little difficult to figure out and I myself haven't mastered the art just yet but I can do a much better job now then I could before!

Unlike these pictures of Victoria I thought these others that were printed in the August issue were very distasteful.


Don't get me wrong I normally love images like this because this is the heart of India. It is a heartbreaking reality to face when you see a gorgeous mall in Bombay and right across the street people living in slums and using card board to construct their homes. But if you look a little closer that baby is wearing a Fendi bib and the man is carrying a Burberry umbrella. There are days when these people may not even have money for food let alone EVER afford a Fendi bib. During Monsoon the best roof that they may have would be a plastic garbage bag so forget an umbrella. The middle class is not so large in India and most are either wealthy or incredibly poor and resort to sending their children out amidst traffic to beg in the streets. So while I do believe the images of the people truly are beautiful posing them with something that costs more then they will ever have makes my stomach turn.