Homemaker...

Thats what the 21st century housewife is called i heard. Better start saying "I am a homemaker..." The noun applies to me because i have no job, am at home 24 hours a day. Thats about it though. I would be on the last rung in the race of competitive homemakers. Reasons are many. My house is one of the messiest one around. The fact that i have a 2 year old daughter is the ace-excuse-card. I don't defend myself saying that the home looks lively due to all the mess. I don't like it myself. I am just too lazy to clean up.
I love cooking, yes. Again the laziness steps in. I buy cut vegetables from Spencer's. Cutting and sorting veggies - one of my pet-hates. sorting the methi leaves from the stem can really make me go nuts. Simply lack the patience needed. Kneading the dough is another one, not as bad as the methi thing though. Thats -2 for me on the good homemaker scale.
Third would be that i don't indulge in the women-talk. Have witnessed a few serious discussions. More for fun and entertainment, to elaborate
1. The top concern for every woman in the group is weight. Everyone, irrespective of her current figure, wants to loose weight. And everyone has theories, advises, references, examples (courtesy: Femina or Woman's Era).The apparent cause of most women being overweight - C-section and menopause, never overeating or lack of exercise.
2. Another hot-topic with the younger lot is in-laws. Whether in joint family or nuclear, women love telling there female friends how badly their in-laws have treated them. (And that their parents are next to saints)...
3. Husband obviously - he is untidy, never keeps his things in proper place, I always have to repeat things to him, does not appreciate all the hard work we put in. There is a consensus most of the time on the husband issue....
4. Children - Women love to boast about their children's academic excellence and the obvious superior intellect. eg- There was a mother of a 2 month old baby who told me her baby knows counting. How? She makes a gargling sound thrice when I say 1-2-3 ....Gosh!
5. Money: prices of dals shooting up, how one got a better deal than the other when she got palak for a rupee less. The fretting about financial crunches and the increasing cost of living, how the family is in a financial crisis as a result of 1. New home- EMI, 2. school donation 3. in-laws illness etc. (Please ignore the manicured hands & all the expensive make-up)
6. obviously the ornaments, clothes. Give a compliment on a dress and you'll get all the details about where the material was bought from, for how much, which tailor etc. You would be obviously recommended the same tailor.
7. how can i leave out gossip.... eg. xyz is not very good at cooking i think. They order pizzas everyday. I saw the pizza-hut box in her dustbin today...Poor children, how would they get all the nutrition?

Thats just a peep into the gyno-conversation. Not that i am immune to it. I get caught in the whirlwhind once in a while, that makes me more determined to avoid it next time. I prefer going for a walk with my daughter in tow. Or take her to a Garden. I have earned myself the reputaion of akdu, "thinks no end of herself" kind..... but i can live with it.... Am much happier having healthy conversations with my hubby and nothing-conversations with my daughter...