The merry month of March is a a week gone now, and my newfound mantra * (read last blog),  seems to have run into something of a snag..  I got smacked by a monkey!!

Let me start at the begining.  I was ALL 'gung ho' with the said mantra in action.  The do-gooding ...,  followed by rewarding myself with a plethora of  FUN things... It was in this mellow mood that in the backyard, i was bent over, contemplating the readiness of my compost pits.. (read first blog...FTB)...  Coming along quite nicely... was in my mind as i straightened up and came eye ball to paw with an Alpha Male monkey, who had been (ahem) eye-balling me so to speak!!! 

I know better than to alarm alpha males...but a shock reaction took over, and i think i let out a 'YEgaaads.'\!  To be fair, i must have startled him, as he had been sitting there on the backyard wall calmly chewing guava leaves.. AND watching me with natural born curiosity (never knew they ate 'em...) when  my straightening up must have startled  him..  And he pelted me.  That was HIS 'fun thing'. 

It was a lightish smack... Something like a harrassed teacher, telling her tots to SIT DOWN for the n th time. He was the first to recover , for he KEPT sitting there, now chewing again, eyeing me with elastic facial contortions.. That's why they call it 'monkey faces' i suppose. 

To my credit, i recovered too in what must have been seconds, but SEEMed like Ages...  I ducked, turned,  and walked  a few paces, and then turned around towards him and fumed softly W/O eyeballing him.  " WHY did u DO that to me , you..YOU....APE!"   Didn't have the resonance it does when used on people. 

Anyways, for the next hour or so while i stood my ground in the backyard. said AMM (alpha male monkey) shadow danced around me trying to make overtures, even offering some guava leaves.  Naturally, i refused.  But i think we made our peace.

So now that i've done my 'good deed' by NOT over reacting and calling in the guards,/ alerting the RWA,/ screaming for the Haryanvi version of the MCD swat team (who'll put Ms/s Mengler and Himler to shame), Gotta go and find my Fun Thing for today.. Enough of bears, rats and monkeys .!  This year is turning out to be a zoological Fun Fair.. And it's only March yet.

Took advantage of the quiet house that afternoon , to listen to Neil Diamond  and Leonard Cohen after AGES..  One pulling at the heart strings with raw passion; the other cool , suave, intelligent..   Music is trulymy BLISS!. 

Hope the rest of you are having some Fun too.

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