I have made a discovery, the best thing since sliced bread, and it can be purchased at a local supermarket. It saves a lot of time, energy, water and blood (since you don't cut yourself). It's none other than packeted pre-chopped vegetables.

What the experts have done here, is taken a small step in the direction of eliminating all needs for a chopping board and a knife from the modern home. Who needs those stone-age things anyway? Now you can just walk in, buy the pre-chopped veggies and your ready to cook them.

Along with this, I've made two more very important and life changing discoveries. Clothes (contrary to popular belief) do not have a self clean feature. This means I need to wash them. And if you, like me, thought you could just dump everything into the machine and it will take care of things, then you my friend are highly mistaken (like I was). One go at putting absolutely everything into the machine resulted in a white-fluffy thing covering all of my black pants and dark shirts. Some quick Googling (Oh the power of the internet!) showed me that I need to separate the lights from the darks, and towels and sheets should also be washed separately. Now only if the washing machine people stuck a big sticker on the lid of the darned thing telling me that! The second one, is a compound discovery.

Maggi Noodles sticks to pans, rice sticks to pans, overcooked potato curry stick to pans, gravy sticks to pans when it dries over an extended period of time. And things stuck to pans are not easy to get rid of. A lot of scrubbing, soaking, swearing and elbow grease is needed to make the things clean.

Parents are back next week, which means there is one more week to go. Hopefully, I won't die. The nice folks in the Sri Lankan blogosphere have already started looking, because I'm not online these days. Managing a house is tough business you know. One is not left with much free time to do anything else. And even if you're just too tired to cook for yourself, you still can't slump to bed. You have other mouths to feed. Wet little noses which come at midnight and press against you to remind you that you need to feed them. Mouths which can't be fed nikang Maggi, but need a good nutritious meal with meat and egg in it. Parents, come back!