Thursday, January 09, 2020

2019

2019 was another fun filled year.  One of the best years for work life balance. After TB acquistion, the work load was lessened and hardly worked on any weekend. Compare that to 2018 where I worked on most of the weekend for Phil**

Jan : Started Diet after the heavy trip of Cruise+new year  (10 days). Weight was around 187 pounds. Reduced some weight in Jan/Feb. Had get together for Sankaranthi. New CEO at Aptt

Feb:  Attended SKO in LA and It was fun.  Srujan visited and had get together. Booked tickets for India trip. Won Tennis game with Krishna and Manoj bava.  Started getting wrist pain and saw the doctor , advised to rest.  Marriage alliance for Rakesh started.

Mar: Celebrated Abhi's bday at home. Took the kids to park and played there. Rakesh's marriage finalized. Traveled to Amsterdam and visited Tulips. Was in Amsterdam on Abhi's bday. Wrist hasn't improved and started PT. Went to Boreal for Sking. Started Scoop and active on scoop. made couple of friends and some extra cash. Busy training Sindhu on SFDC and Apt.

Apr :  Took kids to Skiing. Pranav did well, Abhi started learning.  Went to Dodgeridge. Went camping and celebrated Ugadi with panchan's at Reddy garu's home. Gordon left Apt.  Got first portion of retention.

May :  Class mates night out at Vijendar's home. Lot of discussion on Tesla. convinced Kishore to put buy Tesla stock. Went to India.  Enjoyed Rakesh's marriage. Dance on the marriage night was fun. Barat was great. Everyone danced.  Earlier, Jess left Apt** that was sad moment. I tried for RVP position but didn't happen. Sindhu got Job. Pranav got medal in swimming.

Jun : Bonalu in Kankal, it was fun.  Dhoti function for Pranav and Abhi and it was great. Everything worked as planned. Went to Ahmedabad for work. Enjoyed watching world cup cricket. Gained lot of weight. Back to US by end of Jun. End of India trip, weight was 187 pounds.

Jul: Started Gym.  took membership in 24 hr fitness. Got trainer and focused on improving wrist and knee. Started Pilates to focus on overall body. very active in Gym. Losed 7 pounds by end of Jul. Raghu and Rajesh visited home and we had sleep over at my home. YK and kishore joined.  Enjoyed world cup final which was close. Learnt Poker for the first time  Started reading books.

Aug: Vig and kids back from India. School started .Pranav 5th grade and Abhi 2nd grade. Abhi started Eye level as well.  Tinku visited bay area. had pooja at home and had surprise 38th bday for me on Aug 15. Went to down town for marriage day and walked on Pier39 with kids.

Sep :  Got hike of 10k. no promo. Attended Reimagine in San Diego. Traveled to Eind. Went to Del valley for Labor day.

Oct:  Traveled to Kankal for dasara. felicitation happened. Friends get together for sweety bday.

Nov: Power cut in Dublin. Diwali get together at home with families.  get together in San Diego ,ocean side . Teju's enagagement was fun. Neeraj and Sunayana helped a lot.

Dec: celebrated Pranav's bday at Bowling. Enjoyed the time off. Went to Copper pollis for new year. celebrations went well. Kids had lot of fun. Ladies danced well. sweety practiced a lot for dance. I did lungi dance :).