It's one of those days, where everything upsets you. The irritating person next to you on the bus, your inlaws (actually mine are rarely this way), the inability to find something u need in the stores, so on and so forth. I was supposed to pick up a costume for Mani's fancy dress competition the day after tmrw, and this other mother (we travel together from school) kept badgering me as to y i wudn't rent a costume from the place she suggested (which is also from where half the other mothers are renting costumes). Plssssssssssss is there contractual agreement, "it is illegal to rent/buy costumes/accessories/etc from any place, other than the one suggested by Mrs. ...." I thought this was a democracy. Anyway,, I was running late for picking up the costume and then i get a call from home, the pest control guys r there and I am required immediately. some days, I tell you. I rein in the initial volley of abuses bursting to come out of my mouth and inform in laws that I am on my way and will b home ASAP. The oppressive heat plus me tugging along 2 oversized bags (mine gym and Mani's school) , a screaming a kicking Mani , walk into a stuffy shop (under construction with cement and debris flying around).

I come home with the elephant costume (Mani wudnt settle for anythin else), and got the pest control done. The costume I realized after coming home, was so worn out and dirty, Mani wud require a tetanus shot before even getting into it. Anyway, several attempts to scrub the dirt off the once-white-and-now-mud-colored tusks, were in vain. My spirits sank even lower.
I realised my mood swings must be thanx to PMS.

I ran over a zillion options (all very cumbersome) on how to whiten the tusks in my mind, when i chanced upon my neighbour, who very casually mentioned that I should use white shoe polish over it, and even better, she would lend it 2 me.

the whitewashed tusks looked gr8. and i also applied a deep maroon nail polish i bought today and everything looked fabulous. to top it all i dug out a CD with episodes of Sex and the City that i had never seen.

sometimes in this world, there is poetic justice.!!!!