Truly Thursdays!

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Sunday, week 1

Sevda says : Chika, let’s meet up already!
Swati says : I know, right? Geeze, I haven’t seen you in forever!
Sevda says : Eesh gurl…this sucks!!! What else have you got to anyway, eh, you usless little shite. :P
Swati says : LOL!!! No, for sure gurl…let’s do lunch this week or coffee after work?
Sevda says : Fo sure, chika! Gimme a shout and we’ll meet up!

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Scene 2
Wednesday, week 1

Sevda says : How’s it going? Am so groggy…wanna go home and crash!
Swati says : Hahaha! I know…me too! Haven’t slept enough last night…you know me and my sleep, eh? God…and to think that I have to drive back all the way to Sharjah… *shudder*
Sevda says : Aww, shame chic. Well, I’m sure you’ll get by the day just fine. :)
Swati says : hehe! Thanks love. :) How’re you doing…?
Sevda says : Oh, alright…just the usual. Work and all. And really tired, hey.
Swati says : I hear what you’re saying…

*blah blah blah*

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Number of meetings since week 1 = 0

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Scene 3
Tuesday, week 2

Swati says : Good morning, love! How’re you this fine morning? :)
Sevda says : Good moaning.
Swati says : *wince* What’s wrong, sugah?
Sevda says : Oh, just regular crap, ya know? Just…feel so pissed off!
Swati says : Hang in there, love…! Wanna discuss it over coffee or lunch? Let’s meet up…! It’s been so damn long!!!
Sevda says : I know…!!! Chic, I really do wanna meet up, but am swamped with work!!!
Swati says : Yeah, I know what you’re saying…am pretty tied up too! Lunch does seem unlikely.
Sevda says : If we do meet up, we won’t get enough time! :(
Swati says : I know…! :( Let’s catch up this weekend or something. Lemme know if you guys are up for a drink at Irish Village or something…I haven’t seen Claudio in a while eithere!
Sevda says : Keul! We should definitely meet up this weekend!
Swati says : YAY!!! Me excited already! LOL! Will give you a shout this weekend and we’ll do something! :)

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Number of meetings since week 1 = 0

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Scene 4
Sunday, week 3

Swati says : Hey gurl…sorry about this weekend. Things came up last minute! Had so much to do! :(
Sevda says : Oh, no worries, chika. Claudio got tied up with work and so I decided to stay home myself.
Swati says : I know what you’re saying.

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Number of meetings since week 1 = 0

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Scene 5
Wednesday, week 4

Sevda says : hey sweets am looking at the screen with squint eyes!! cant seem to open them!!! lol
Swati says : makes the two of us. yaaaaaaaawn
Sevda says : :) yup so sweet heart send me emails or something that i can read so that time can also fly and i can take my mind off things :)
Swati says : hahaha! :D
Sevda: chick seriously no haha!
Swati says : I will, if you send me stuff too! :) So bored, gurl. *grunt*

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Swati says : hey love...we might go out for a desi night on...interested?
Sevda says : let me check with the hubby cause he might be working the next day again!!! infact he might be out of dubai, if so then ill come with you guys
Swati says : grrreat! :)
Sevda says : :) im so tired!!! cant wait to go home and just chill
Swati says : i know...i can't believe it' only Wednesday - feels like thursday
wanna go home and sleeeeeeeeeeeep! i swear. tired of reading, staring at screen...watching tv. just wanna go and relax!
Sevda says : haha yup!!! so my man may be able to get his portug. drivers license which means he can convert it here!!
Swati says : oh WOWZA!!! :D :D :D that's great news, gurl! We can meet up more often then!!! :)
Sevda says : Fo sure, gurl! :)

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Number of meetings since week 1 = 0

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So basically, you get the picture. And you’re prolly sitting there, reading this, saying to yourself, OMG! That’s what I do all the time with my friends! And do you ever get around to meeting up? Hmmm, didn’t think so.

I got married in August, 2009 (in India) and have been back at work (I work in Dubai) since mid September. My friend Sevda works here as well. She couldn’t make it to the wedding and we haven’t met since I’ve been back. It is now almost the end of October. Yes, we tried, we talked about it, we spent hours chatting about how we never meet up. Did we finally end up meeting? Yeah, rhetorical question.

One weekend, thanks to a business proposal that Sevda and her husband Claudio were being introduced to by my husband Rohit, all of us finally decided to catch up! We finally got done with the presentation and decided to go for a quick movie. Since both Rohit and I had brought in our cars, we decided to have a boys-girls car only session. :) Those are always fun, especially if you have a 13-year-old-stuck-in-a-30-year-old’s-body for a husband. :) It was completely whacky, what with us chasing them and then them chasing us. Don’t worry, we kept within the sane-driving limit. *rolling eyes*

So anyhow…halfway to the movie hall, the men were leading the way (no, not cuz I dinnae know where to go, but cuz they’re idiots and full of themselves!) and my husband started doing all kinds weird things…like indicating the wrong way so I’d take it and then they’d laugh over it later, and some more stupidity like that! Anyhow…we were laughing our rear ends off and Sev was at her so-happy-that-I’m-cryin stage! :) It was then, and as unbelievable as it might seem, both of said the same thing at the same time: we’ve got to do this more often!

Yes, the same dialogue that we’d been ranting for months! Only that this time, we put our foot down (or is it “feet down?!”) and said, let’s decide on a plan and let’s do it now. So we did.

That was the beginning of Truly Thursdays!

We’ve pledged to carry on Truly Thursdays with just the two of us if no one else is willing to join us. :) The idea is to make an effort to catch up. No one ever has time to do anything – you’ve gotta make the effort to find time to catch up with a few special people, spend some quality time together, even if it means you meet them for just half an hour!

Our Truly Thursdays began last Thursday, 22 October at a Lebanese restaurant cum sheesha place close to where both Sev and I work. It was a grand success (I do hate using that phrase!). We had a great time, and it was nothing short of utterly delightful!

We’ve decided to make a ‘bucket list’ of sorts and keep checking things off of it as and how we proceed. :) It also saves us the torture of repeatedly saying to one another: so, whaddaya wanna do this Thursday? That kinda takes the fun outta catching up – makes it more of a chore than a fun activity! :) So we’ve both started putting together our lists of what we’ve been meaning to do here in Dubai but never got around to it. Or stuff that we’ve already done but wouldn’t mind doing again! :) I’ve got 7 things on my list so far. And I’m sure as and how we move from one Truly Thursdays’ night to another, our lists will move from a 7 to a 70 stage!

What I’m going to try to do – and I’m not making any promises here – is that I’ll try to do a quick random text post of what we did each Thursday and prolly add a quick picture to show how weird it all got! :) I do hope I get around to doing it!

Here’s to us and to Truly Thursdays! :)