The best way to begin a new year!

Wishing everyone a wonderful 2024!!

Started the year with an allergy attack 30 minutes before midnight and cheered in the new year with a stuffy nose and watery eyes.. my friends made up for this small inconvenience!

It was lights out after coming home. 

The only cure I have for most illenesses these days in hot yoga! So it was good to start the year with Yoga and this has become a routine.

This is before class..

and after class..

You always leave the room wiped out, but happy.. "feeling like a million bucks!".. or after 13 years, adjusted for inflation "feeling like 2.3 million bucks!" 

Before walking into class we all get to pick an Angel card for the year. The idea is to internalize that and see if you can change your behavior.. this years card was "Light" (my wife got Love).. so we are now love and light!.. Hopefully we don't go light on love! See, even an angel card teaches you to put your wife first! 

2023 was not great, but it done. My goal for Yoga attendance is to do at least 200 classes a year which is about 4 times a week given all my travel schedules. 2023 was 218 classes. 

Going to stay more positive in 2024! Blogging defiintely helps me be more positive! 

Wishing you all a healthy 2024!

The 60 day Winter challenge in on at BYSJ! So if you want to challenge yourself this year, please go ahead! Will cheer for you all the way!

A small Tamil New Year celebration

We are in June.. it has been a month and a half since the Tamil New Year rolled in. After that trip to SLO and the knee getting all inflamed, it took me a few weeks to just get back to walking.

So the Tamil New year was a muted celebration. However we did have two potluck parties to attend and had fun chatting with friends. For once I had company from my friend and guru, when it came to wearing a dhothi. 

When not in dhothi.. it was this..

Now that the number of folks coming to Tamil New Year party in a Dhothi has increased by 100% , there is a plan to double that coming April !! 

Wishing one and all a belated Tamil New Year! This years name is Sobakiruthu (google says Dhunmukhi which was I think the year in 2016). Apparently a good year for me.. time will tell.. 

We can always check the blog post next year same time!

Happy New Year 2023!

Usually there is a photoblog with a family picture wishing everyone a Happy new year!

This year, we are not together for new years. It is the first time since getting married, that San is not with me to watch fireworks, or be together at someones place to usher in New year or be at some airport lounge waiting for a red eye flight back to the US! 

We miss her a lot. Okay, I miss her a lot more than the kids! 

Still she had the idea to take a family photo over the phone. So I am taking that photo for the blog!

The little one, who is not so little anymore is working on college applications! How time flies! This blog started before she was born! Now she will be off to college in a few months!

Here is one such Happy New Year picture from this blog from 2009!! 

Given the weather outside, we are just staying put at home and watching TV till midnight! These are older kids now that don't want to venture out in rain. There was a time they would go and play in the snow on Dec 31st. Those times are long gone!

2023 is going to be a big year for this family where the kids will have serious decisions to make!  We hope for the best!

Wishing everyone a wonderful 2023! May you have a  healthy, happy year ahead!