Not Yankee doodle but babushka lass.

Didn't I tell you you will see me more often?

See, I turned up today! I do keep up my word.  Most people don't. That irks me. Or makes me trust them a little less. Mostly the latter. In rare times the former. Most people are not even worth your ire.

There is this person on my BBM (Black-berry messenger for the uninitiated) for instance. I had pinged him and he said "I am driving and I will get back to you in an hour." Nothing wrong with that. Except that the hour has stretched to more than two weeks now.
See what I mean? There are so many like that. I bet you know people like that too.

I think it's rather cool to say what you mean and mean what you say. More importantly to do what you say you will do. (or not do). And since I like to be a rather cool person, I always keep up my word.  Yeah, I am old fashioned like that.

Of late I have been really working hard on my fourth book. I do not know where the hours vanish. I sit down to write around 9.00 a.m and before I realise it is 2.00 PM and I haven't even eaten my lunch. There are endless cups of tea though. Always.

I also always have a notebook next to me on which I make notes. They are usually, unusually quirky notebooks and journals that I pick up on my travels. I need them like shoes need laces. Somehow I am incomplete without them.
 For instance the one I am using at present has this picture of a woman dressed to kill, in a business suit and it says "Commander-in-Chief". Whoo! Makes me feel powerful just looking at it. And on each page on the inside, it says  "What a town. You can't even trust the back-stabbers."

I love such quirky things. It nudges my creative side. Actually gives it a sharp hard kick.

Anyway, the endless cups of tea I consume in the course of writing, always rest on this journal as I work lying in bed (yes, I am lucky, I know! I can work in bed :) ) and I do not want the tea to topple over my lovely 10" mattress. So the journal comes in handy in more ways than one.

Needless to say it is full of tea-stains. And doodles. I usually doodle when I am thinking hard about the plot. I doodle unaware of what I am doing. Sometimes, when I look at it  later, I am surprised seeing the doodle I created and  I wonder 'where did that come from'.

Today was one such day.
A tea stain turned into a pretty girl wearing a babushka. That does not happen often.

And  I just had to share it with you.
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