Anna's birthday party

i had feared Anna's birthday party might turn out to be a blood bath, or at least a historic event of some significance, because UNLIKE hindi movies where A loves B, B loves C, C loves D, in our party there were invitees among whom A hates B, B hates C, C hates D and so forth. But because of God's divine interference;) ...correction, Divine Intervention (lemme be politically correct) that everybody went home in one piece, and hopefully with full pot bellies (we are a fat family. and our friends are fat too. and we move in groups. fat groups.)

M and i sneaked a lil girl talk. and since i am the untimely married one, and she's the timely unmarried one-- she had a breeze of 'how-is-after-marriage' questions. i filled her with meticulous details without sounding disgusting. i'm not sure if M ACTUALLY wanted to know, or if she was just being polite like most other people, who asks the harmless question, "how is married life", without expecting u to be honest. u do know they really don't care about YOUR married life. their own married life is messed up enough to think about! so all that they expect you to say is a short "good" or "ok". and leave. they dont actually expect you to say something like "sucks". partly becoz nobody is so outright, and also becoz if u say "sucks" then they HAVE to ask you again another unnecessarily polite question, "why so". now imagine someone sits to elaborate on that, something like "u know, we have a horrid sex life, becoz my partner sleeps on me during sex, and he stinks of beer and cigarette, and he beats me up, and to tell u the truth i have a crush on my father in law, and i feel like stabbing my mother in law, and i get this urge sometimes to spit on the food i serve, and and and". ahem. imagine the pros and cons of this astonishingly honest answer to a married-life-question, if such were to be true.
anyway, M and i being friends , i very happily narrated to her my married life with certain obvious dramatizations to make it look funny-- like it were some bedtime story. but after a point it seemed, she might in fact go off to sleep if i wouldn't stop. so i did. and then she started off with her bedtime stories... and so the chain continued.

o something hilarious. Anna's friends and their parents were playing 'RockBand'. and the parents were on the instruments. the 6 year old Anna's friend was on the mike. and these were the lyrics she had to sing, and incidentally she sings REALLY loud! -- "i'm getting mine. u r gonna get some tonight...." and THAT my friends, is the pinnacle of being a rockstar!