Home Alone

Finally, my parents came back from Kerala after a long trip. They had been gone for almost a month, and it was me and my brother at home. Running a household is no mean business, I understand from my experience of keeping a truncated household going :). Doing all the little chores, keep the house clean, keeping track of the bills and the other things that keep coming up was enough to keep me occupied. And I was still having a race against time to catch the 8.05 am local train. Well, most of the time I had to make do with the 8.15 am local.

Did I not mention the biggest task of them all - food? Unfortunately, there isn't much I do in the kitchen beyond making tea. I extended those efforts to baking bread and making Australia shaped omlettes in the last month :D. For the rest, our neighbours were gracious enough to care of my gastronomical requirements. But left us with the most irritating task - washing utensils. Its especially frustrating because we didn't even have the joy of cooking the food ourselves. It is like having to fix bugs in code someone else has written. The next thing is to learn to cook atleast the minimum required for survival; I don't mind fixing bugs in my own code :).