The Mistress Of The House
Acquiring
perseverance, a loving nature and a, character which had to succeed. She makes
fun of herself. Present day she looked in front of the mirror, and imagined
that she was a big movie star. She picked her favorite Indian movie song
and danced to it over and over, while her son now five months made sounds. As
she danced, she would hold him, and he would smile back, recognizing her.
Then she would stare at herself, “in front of the mirror and look at her eyes.” then go back to the dancing. Every morning she would get up and say to her infant son, “you think you’re cute,” “you are cute.” your cute, “I’m cute”. Her mother would tell her, on the phone “you are giving him the evil eye.” In India they believed the mother loved the son, so much by looking at him too much she could curse his looks.
She had gone to the temple and called the Pundit to perform what in India they called a Havan, for her son and the new house they moved in. Her family came during thanksgiving they had the priest perform the Indian prayer casting away evil spirits, and the evil eye, and for a good healthy life for their son. The mistresses mom, dad, sister, brother, maid and the neighbors were all there. In the evening they had dinner. Then the mistress told the neighbors, how she had gone to India and met her husband. The neighbors listened to her carefully as she told them, “You know I only met him for five hours”. “You know how he proposed, He said, “Yes to my surprise, and I told him, “I need time to think about it.” I agreed to get married right after a month. Before she knew it, her parents came for the wedding all the way to Jaipur, India, starting from America.
Then she would stare at herself, “in front of the mirror and look at her eyes.” then go back to the dancing. Every morning she would get up and say to her infant son, “you think you’re cute,” “you are cute.” your cute, “I’m cute”. Her mother would tell her, on the phone “you are giving him the evil eye.” In India they believed the mother loved the son, so much by looking at him too much she could curse his looks.
She had gone to the temple and called the Pundit to perform what in India they called a Havan, for her son and the new house they moved in. Her family came during thanksgiving they had the priest perform the Indian prayer casting away evil spirits, and the evil eye, and for a good healthy life for their son. The mistresses mom, dad, sister, brother, maid and the neighbors were all there. In the evening they had dinner. Then the mistress told the neighbors, how she had gone to India and met her husband. The neighbors listened to her carefully as she told them, “You know I only met him for five hours”. “You know how he proposed, He said, “Yes to my surprise, and I told him, “I need time to think about it.” I agreed to get married right after a month. Before she knew it, her parents came for the wedding all the way to Jaipur, India, starting from America.
Then
the neighbors, the mistress, her family all sat with her husband in front of a
bonfire in the backyard, and told stories about themselves and the neighborhood
while the mistress laughed.
When the mistress had just moved and had just reached North Carolina, She first knocked on the door of her neighbor, since her house was not opened and the real estate lady had not come. Her neighbor invited her, greeting her warmly and giving her water. Then the mistress asked, “Is there a swimming place nearby.” “The neighbor told her there was a YMCA.” Then the mistress of the house asked, “Do you work.” “The neighbor told her I take care of the house, and my two sons.” One is in the navy the other in college. The mistress told her “my daughter is starting kindergarten,” “then she told her that she wrote, and danced but since she was pregnant, she was just taking care of her daughter and herself. Then she told her neighbor, her husband finished residency and was a liver/ kidney doctor he also had finished surgery in India. The neighbor told the mistress that her husband was a business man. Then the girl looked at the big piano and asked who plays the piano. She said her son does. The girl told her I play the piano also. Then she asked do you clean your whole house she said yes. The girl told her I got the maid. Since I'm pregnant I'm not going to clean the whole big place and I want to enjoy time with my baby. Then she went to her front door and neighbor dropping her with her daughter and her husband was inside so she went and asked him did you want water from the neighbor he said yes. He was with the real-estate lady getting the keys of the house. Already inside with his nice pants, slender body, his pointed sharp nose, big sharp eyes, which were hiding behind his rectangular, shaped glasses, walking swiftly down to the basement seeing the house the wife following noticing the hardwood floors and high ceilings with the fan way high and the bar kitchen but too tired and exhausted from her flight.
The mistress said, we live in a jungle, the neighbor said, and “It’s quiet and peaceful”.
That evening they had dinner then went furniture shopping. There was an airbed and all the groceries to eat. The next day they looked for a washer dryer and a big TV. At night the girl slept on the aired but was uncomfortable her sleeping because of her pregnancy.
The next day they had lunch and her husband left back to St. Louis to sell the furniture and rent their condo/apartment.
Then she got a call from her husband that his flight was delayed and he would reach their late. He called to ask her to get some curtains for the windows.
She mostly sat in her room watching just dance on the Indian channel hoping after her pregnancy she would be dancing again. She also watched four Indian serials every evening. She called her maid and told her to come after a month. She called several doctors to get a obgyn. Then she went to the library and started reading Deepak Chopra's Dream Soul Mates. She sat outside her front porch looking outside, she heard the birds chirping the trees moving the crickets chirping and she sat in silence thinking she had never listened to nature in the stillness she looked around not a soul to be seen she talked with her daughter and said tomorrow we will go grocery shopping and look for furniture. She went to the mall, as she was now five months pregnant she walked from one side of the mall to the other and she was to tired, walking with her big pregnant tummy her loose comfortable black pants, and her white dressy shirt, with black and blue. Her daughter, who usually stood right next to her also walked, right beside her. Her daughter was five and she would start kindergarten. She had her enrolled before her dad left her daughter had put the packet of assignment here and there. So she went to her school met her vice principal and asked for another packet. Then she saw advance dance school nearby got the number and met the teacher. With her narcissist personality she told about her dancing and wanting to teach Bollywood dancing then about how her daughter had picked up her steps from her choreography. That she was interested in having her daughter learn ballet.
She went and met her teacher and watched some performances of ballet from the students the girl had so much interest that she wanted to dance but she was pregnant so the teacher told her after your pregnancy and you have the baby you can show me the steps
The lady with golden hair and a round face, who wore glasses, came after a month in the evening and threw all the boxes and garbage. And put her books in the library room and her suitcase in her bedroom. The Mistress had spoken to her husband and it was finalized by both of them that she would have the maid come and clean the big five bedroom and four and a half bathroom every two weeks. Her mother in law would come for four months to watch the baby and her daughter. Her husband was gone to St, Louis and would be back after a month. The maid would be permanent to clean her house so the mistress could enjoy time with her baby and nurse him and feed him and play with him. With the ultrasound the mistress knew it was a baby boy she was having.
As she was in her master bedroom with her husband she had changed her bedcovers from red cover to plane white covers. There were no decorations her dresser, chest and side table were all white. She told her husband I love the room but it's so plain and white. The bed sheets give it a plain look. There needs to be decorations. Her husband had gotten some beautiful vases from the furniture store. He added some yellow and orange decorated flowers on the chest vase. He had some red pink yellow orange decorated flowers on the
Vase on top of the dresser. Her husband told her, now look at your bedroom. She said it looks good now.
She was inside her, house, and there on top of the chest cabinet in the master bedroom, was a flowered filled beautiful colored vase.
Her dark black, long curly, sometimes nappy, frizzy hair long eyelashes, and her fine, dark black, small eyes, and prominent, big nose. “Her lips” were chapped, yet slightly softened,
When the mistress had just moved and had just reached North Carolina, She first knocked on the door of her neighbor, since her house was not opened and the real estate lady had not come. Her neighbor invited her, greeting her warmly and giving her water. Then the mistress asked, “Is there a swimming place nearby.” “The neighbor told her there was a YMCA.” Then the mistress of the house asked, “Do you work.” “The neighbor told her I take care of the house, and my two sons.” One is in the navy the other in college. The mistress told her “my daughter is starting kindergarten,” “then she told her that she wrote, and danced but since she was pregnant, she was just taking care of her daughter and herself. Then she told her neighbor, her husband finished residency and was a liver/ kidney doctor he also had finished surgery in India. The neighbor told the mistress that her husband was a business man. Then the girl looked at the big piano and asked who plays the piano. She said her son does. The girl told her I play the piano also. Then she asked do you clean your whole house she said yes. The girl told her I got the maid. Since I'm pregnant I'm not going to clean the whole big place and I want to enjoy time with my baby. Then she went to her front door and neighbor dropping her with her daughter and her husband was inside so she went and asked him did you want water from the neighbor he said yes. He was with the real-estate lady getting the keys of the house. Already inside with his nice pants, slender body, his pointed sharp nose, big sharp eyes, which were hiding behind his rectangular, shaped glasses, walking swiftly down to the basement seeing the house the wife following noticing the hardwood floors and high ceilings with the fan way high and the bar kitchen but too tired and exhausted from her flight.
The mistress said, we live in a jungle, the neighbor said, and “It’s quiet and peaceful”.
That evening they had dinner then went furniture shopping. There was an airbed and all the groceries to eat. The next day they looked for a washer dryer and a big TV. At night the girl slept on the aired but was uncomfortable her sleeping because of her pregnancy.
The next day they had lunch and her husband left back to St. Louis to sell the furniture and rent their condo/apartment.
Then she got a call from her husband that his flight was delayed and he would reach their late. He called to ask her to get some curtains for the windows.
She mostly sat in her room watching just dance on the Indian channel hoping after her pregnancy she would be dancing again. She also watched four Indian serials every evening. She called her maid and told her to come after a month. She called several doctors to get a obgyn. Then she went to the library and started reading Deepak Chopra's Dream Soul Mates. She sat outside her front porch looking outside, she heard the birds chirping the trees moving the crickets chirping and she sat in silence thinking she had never listened to nature in the stillness she looked around not a soul to be seen she talked with her daughter and said tomorrow we will go grocery shopping and look for furniture. She went to the mall, as she was now five months pregnant she walked from one side of the mall to the other and she was to tired, walking with her big pregnant tummy her loose comfortable black pants, and her white dressy shirt, with black and blue. Her daughter, who usually stood right next to her also walked, right beside her. Her daughter was five and she would start kindergarten. She had her enrolled before her dad left her daughter had put the packet of assignment here and there. So she went to her school met her vice principal and asked for another packet. Then she saw advance dance school nearby got the number and met the teacher. With her narcissist personality she told about her dancing and wanting to teach Bollywood dancing then about how her daughter had picked up her steps from her choreography. That she was interested in having her daughter learn ballet.
She went and met her teacher and watched some performances of ballet from the students the girl had so much interest that she wanted to dance but she was pregnant so the teacher told her after your pregnancy and you have the baby you can show me the steps
The lady with golden hair and a round face, who wore glasses, came after a month in the evening and threw all the boxes and garbage. And put her books in the library room and her suitcase in her bedroom. The Mistress had spoken to her husband and it was finalized by both of them that she would have the maid come and clean the big five bedroom and four and a half bathroom every two weeks. Her mother in law would come for four months to watch the baby and her daughter. Her husband was gone to St, Louis and would be back after a month. The maid would be permanent to clean her house so the mistress could enjoy time with her baby and nurse him and feed him and play with him. With the ultrasound the mistress knew it was a baby boy she was having.
As she was in her master bedroom with her husband she had changed her bedcovers from red cover to plane white covers. There were no decorations her dresser, chest and side table were all white. She told her husband I love the room but it's so plain and white. The bed sheets give it a plain look. There needs to be decorations. Her husband had gotten some beautiful vases from the furniture store. He added some yellow and orange decorated flowers on the chest vase. He had some red pink yellow orange decorated flowers on the
Vase on top of the dresser. Her husband told her, now look at your bedroom. She said it looks good now.
She was inside her, house, and there on top of the chest cabinet in the master bedroom, was a flowered filled beautiful colored vase.
Her dark black, long curly, sometimes nappy, frizzy hair long eyelashes, and her fine, dark black, small eyes, and prominent, big nose. “Her lips” were chapped, yet slightly softened,
With plum colored lipstick.
She had just moved into the neighborhood. She sat outside on her
back porch and she listened as she heard the enchanting melodies of the birds
chirping. She stared and looked, around at the big trees, the big houses; she
saw not a soul outside her house, for days. The stillness made her lonely.
She had a cab driver who told her he was from Egypt, and she told him she
was Indian. He said, people are always around in Egypt, Here people are busy in
the U.S. no one has time to talk to each other. People are very lonely here, In
India Culture is similar like Egypt, every one helps one another, you are
pregnant with your daughter and no one is there to talk with you, I understand
it is hard. You want someone to speak with. In Egypt it's different. Why you
look so sad. The young women said I'm not sad, I am just angry I've been
waiting for half an hour no cab came ma'am I'm sorry you can keep me as
permanent cab I'm cab number 2
The cab driver later spoke to her family after five months. Her family had come for the Havan ceremony and thanksgiving dinner and were leaving back home. The mistress had invited cab driver number 2 to take her family back to the airport. The cab driver spoke to the mistress’s mom and told them the mistress of the house, who is your daughter, I have for the first time seen a smile on her face. She looks very lonely I could feel it she is very lonely. He told her mom, you must speak to her everyday for five minutes. When the mistress’s mom came back home, she told her what the cab driver had told her. Her mom told her he was a nice cab driver. He felt she was lonely because she was pregnant and was going to the obgyn by herself, and he could feel no one was around her, and she had told him she was in a new place and did not know anyone in Winston Salem. Later her maid came and told her hugging her you look great so beautiful and glowing. She said well there's so much that's happened. As the maid cleaned the house, she cleaned the toilet without gloves, later touching all the kitchen and library room books. Then the mistress lady asked the maid would you please wear gloves when you clean my bathroom. And not touch the books that I use for prayers don't take me wrong but it's for religious reasons. The maid later told her thank you for asking me to wear gloves I'm doing it in all the houses
The lady told her I just want to enjoy my baby. I'm just glad that you here and the first person to see otherwise I notice everyone in this neighborhood is moving with their house on sale. As the lady talked to the school to get a bus for her daughter in front of the house as she was getting close to her due date. After a month as she had been talking to the office and was persistent the bus came so she had prepared while delivery her daughters grandma could get her from the front door. The young lady told her husband her master bedroom looked too white plain and dull therefore he brought colored vases and colored flowers for the bedroom. She put red blankets to give the room a brighter look.
Sometimes, she came in from the back porch. She loved entering from the backyard, into her master bedroom. The mistress never wanted to leave her favorite place in her house. It was her master bedroom.
She loved to look at herself in the mirror. She had a narcissistic personality.
The mistress loved to dwell on the past. She kept thinking, about all the auditioning, and dancing she had done. She retold her story to all her friends over and over again. She loved to laugh and felt she was a happy person.
Even though in reality her life was lonely. She realized she had changed that with all the friends she had made. She was such a contradiction. She would say, “yes” then “no”. The mistress would tell her friend, Yes, “I am excited to have a new baby”, no, “I am not happy to have moved”, because of all the exertions, She would say, “I was enthusiastic about the move,” “then she would say no,” “ I miss St. Louis”, and didn’t want to move here.” She loved to write. She told her all friends about it. The mistress would explain to her friends specifically. She would tell them, she was nonfiction short story writer and a nonfiction poetry writer. Then she would say, “I'm so approval seeking”, but I am good at the writing. I'm cute I like myself. Then she dreamt so much. The mistress remembered her dreams clearly. She would get lost in her unconscious world. She would share her dreams with her friends. She daydreamed a lot. She even dwelled a lot. Still she tried to live in the present. She realized she was not calm at all. When she spoke to her friends she cut them off , She didn't let them finish their topic, and changed the topic. She would interrupt them in the middle of what they said, a habit of hers. She was diverse in her languages and understood different languages. She could speak a few words on each language. She spoke Hindi and other dialects in Hindi, such as Guajarati, Punjabi, south Indian, then French, Japanese. She had a strong relationship with her friend of love for years. almost like a family member but she was a friend who shared everything with her friend about herself and her friend helped her boost her ego. As she spoke to her friend she had a sense of humor and talked about all the Indian sopapras and imitated the actors and characters in humor. Whenever she talked to her friend she said hello to her in a different language, and made fun of herself. She had a playful nature with her friend. She was the Mistress of the house.
The cab driver later spoke to her family after five months. Her family had come for the Havan ceremony and thanksgiving dinner and were leaving back home. The mistress had invited cab driver number 2 to take her family back to the airport. The cab driver spoke to the mistress’s mom and told them the mistress of the house, who is your daughter, I have for the first time seen a smile on her face. She looks very lonely I could feel it she is very lonely. He told her mom, you must speak to her everyday for five minutes. When the mistress’s mom came back home, she told her what the cab driver had told her. Her mom told her he was a nice cab driver. He felt she was lonely because she was pregnant and was going to the obgyn by herself, and he could feel no one was around her, and she had told him she was in a new place and did not know anyone in Winston Salem. Later her maid came and told her hugging her you look great so beautiful and glowing. She said well there's so much that's happened. As the maid cleaned the house, she cleaned the toilet without gloves, later touching all the kitchen and library room books. Then the mistress lady asked the maid would you please wear gloves when you clean my bathroom. And not touch the books that I use for prayers don't take me wrong but it's for religious reasons. The maid later told her thank you for asking me to wear gloves I'm doing it in all the houses
The lady told her I just want to enjoy my baby. I'm just glad that you here and the first person to see otherwise I notice everyone in this neighborhood is moving with their house on sale. As the lady talked to the school to get a bus for her daughter in front of the house as she was getting close to her due date. After a month as she had been talking to the office and was persistent the bus came so she had prepared while delivery her daughters grandma could get her from the front door. The young lady told her husband her master bedroom looked too white plain and dull therefore he brought colored vases and colored flowers for the bedroom. She put red blankets to give the room a brighter look.
Sometimes, she came in from the back porch. She loved entering from the backyard, into her master bedroom. The mistress never wanted to leave her favorite place in her house. It was her master bedroom.
She loved to look at herself in the mirror. She had a narcissistic personality.
The mistress loved to dwell on the past. She kept thinking, about all the auditioning, and dancing she had done. She retold her story to all her friends over and over again. She loved to laugh and felt she was a happy person.
Even though in reality her life was lonely. She realized she had changed that with all the friends she had made. She was such a contradiction. She would say, “yes” then “no”. The mistress would tell her friend, Yes, “I am excited to have a new baby”, no, “I am not happy to have moved”, because of all the exertions, She would say, “I was enthusiastic about the move,” “then she would say no,” “ I miss St. Louis”, and didn’t want to move here.” She loved to write. She told her all friends about it. The mistress would explain to her friends specifically. She would tell them, she was nonfiction short story writer and a nonfiction poetry writer. Then she would say, “I'm so approval seeking”, but I am good at the writing. I'm cute I like myself. Then she dreamt so much. The mistress remembered her dreams clearly. She would get lost in her unconscious world. She would share her dreams with her friends. She daydreamed a lot. She even dwelled a lot. Still she tried to live in the present. She realized she was not calm at all. When she spoke to her friends she cut them off , She didn't let them finish their topic, and changed the topic. She would interrupt them in the middle of what they said, a habit of hers. She was diverse in her languages and understood different languages. She could speak a few words on each language. She spoke Hindi and other dialects in Hindi, such as Guajarati, Punjabi, south Indian, then French, Japanese. She had a strong relationship with her friend of love for years. almost like a family member but she was a friend who shared everything with her friend about herself and her friend helped her boost her ego. As she spoke to her friend she had a sense of humor and talked about all the Indian sopapras and imitated the actors and characters in humor. Whenever she talked to her friend she said hello to her in a different language, and made fun of herself. She had a playful nature with her friend. She was the Mistress of the house.
Feb 1, 2012 Copyright@Vinita Singh
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