Knitting scarf

My scarf that I'm knitting currently! :)

Winter storm

This post is for Mridula who keeps telling me to post some pictures. I had taken some short video around a month back when there was a huge snow storm here. :)

The Courtship - Catherine Coulter

It is a romance between Lady Helen and Spenser Heatherington, Lord Beecham. Beecham overhears a conversation between Alice and Helen and is intrigued. Helen wants Beecham as her partner but not in the way he is thinking :) She wants his help in finding a mythical golden lamp rumored to make its possessor all-powerful. It was supposedly given to King Edward when his wife was dying and she was restored back to life. Interesting story!

Mad Jack - Catherine Coulter

Lord Cliffe is happy with his lonely existence when tow of his great aunts come to his home with a valet "Jack". Jack tries to steal Lord Cliffe's horse and is caught by him. That is when he realises that Jack is a lady actually in hiding from her stepfather. He needs to save her and her sister from the step father without alerting the step father to her presence! Does he save the day ? :)

Things about me……

…………..that you may or may not know, but are true. Yup! that’s the tag passed on from Colormesunshine. The rules are:

Tell your readers 10 things about you that they may or may not know, but are true..

Tag 10 people with the award, and be sure to let them know they’ve been tagged (a quick comment on their blog will do).

Link back to the blogger who tagged you.

Ohh my! 10 things that people don't know about me :) That's very difficult task :)

1. I love cooking and trying out new recipes. I'm a sucker for food blogs and love love the way people give helpful tips while creating a dish

2. I prefer not sleeping during the day. I hateeeeee sleeping during afternoon on weekends. I feel it's a waste of time

3. I like doing things like knitting, cross stitching. Most of my friends find it a weird trait in a computer engineer ;) (I'm currently knitting a multi directional diagonal scarf :) I will put up a picture sometime this week)

4. I loveeeeeeeee eating. I'm trying to control my weight but I can't seem to eat in moderation all the time!

5.I like travelling and seeing new places. I've seen almost all the places in US now. You name it, I've been there :) I would love to see Europe and Australia.

6. I have to-do lists for every single thing to do - while visiting places, while going to the grocery, while moving house. You name it and I have the list. I think I have OCD sometimes! I can't leave things half done in between.

I can't think of any more right now but will add as it comes to mind :)

I would like to pass this tag to many people but have just selected 10 now that come to mind:

Monika - I'm so impressed by her determination to lose weight! I would love to hear new things about her

Asaan - I like her super saver tips. I'm so jealous of the things that she gets in thrift stores. After seeing her stuff, I'm planning to go to the thrift stores when I need to buy some stuff.

Soyfeliz - He's a good friend but I would still like to know some new stuff about him that no one knows!

Raj - Would like to hear what things people don't know about him. He's a very straight forward person.

Shilpa - Oh her dishes are so yummy and so typical of Mangalore. She recently put up posts about breadfruit and my memories of my mom's awesome curry made me almost cry!

Chandni - I'm a avid reader of her blog. She's really nice and has lovely posts!

Choxbox - Like her family and the way she writes about them

Sundar - Oh the posts about his missus and his two sweet kids! I love them and wait to see his next post. I'm going to try his Mysore pak recipe soon!

Swaram - I like her sweet simple logical way of posting. Her posts are really good and I keep waiting for her next one!

Kiran - I like both her blogs http://thirtysixandcounting.wordpress.com and http://karmickids.blogspot.com/. I love the tales about the brat and stuff he does hehehhe Would like to hear from her

Woo hoo! First award

Woo hoo! This is my first award on my blog. In Nancy's words - "The Blog Friends award goes to those blog-friends who are silent most of the time but when I write a really good post they never hesitate to tell me how much they liked it:-) ..." And she really did spread a lot of cheer for me in this new year.

I would like to thank her from the bottom of my heart for this very special first award for my blog.

I would also like to pass this award on to

Mridula - for sweet comments on my posts and encouraging nature

ChefinYou - for her lovely yummy recipes. I follow a lot of food blogs but I love hers the best!!! I feel so sad if she doesn't post any recipes for some time. She gives step-by-step instructions and is really cool if you ask her questions. She responds quite soon too!

CraftyShines - Man is she swesome! I love her little creations and she responded so sweetly to my email!

Indianmakeupblog - Oooo I love her blog. She gives excellent advice on makeup and how to put it. I don't use makeup but for sure would like to try a little after seeing her tutorials

Colormesunshine - For her lovely blog and also reply to my doubts :) they were quite dumb but she was sweet to reply

I have so many more to add :) But as of now, I can remember only these many!

The aristocrat - Catherine Coulter

Brant Asher is a famous football player in New York. He comes into an inheritance and goes to England to see what it is. He learns that he has to marry Daphne Asherwood if he wants to get the inheritance. It's very confusing for Brant with aunt Chloe who transforms Daphne and the vamp Lucilla who wants the inheritance. Eventaully Daphne and Brant get married but do they stand the test of love? :)

Patience - Lori Copeland

Oh I liked this novel. It is about Patience Smith who gets kidnapped by a man who thinks she is another woman. She escapes and stumbles upon an abandoned mine with a lonely orphan Wilson. Wilson tells her that there is gold in the mine and that the old prospector who died told him that. She goes and tries to get help in mining the land but no one comes because they have heard the mine is haunted. Jay is the Sheriff from the town she was kidnapped. He comes to search for Patience and finds her and tries to take her back. But Patience is trying to convince him to help her mine the mine. Nice story :)

Now and always - Lori Copeland

Katie Addison is the good person that we all wish to be. Helping battered women in a shelter, taking in injured horses and helping people to mend their hearts. Warren is her neighbour and she has very little sense of finance :) She takes Warren's help to try to fit a budget. On the other hand, there is the sheriff Ben who can't seem to get Katie's attention ever since he didn't turn up on prom night. Katie is still angry with him for that. In the end, who does Katie choose? Warren or Ben. Read to find out :)