It has been 5 months since I last wrote a post for my blog. I am 30-ish days away from getting married.  The fact is, time has flown and these numbers keep growing (or reducing), but it has brought with it new and terrifying-slash-awesome experiences, I’m in a good place now.  I have dodged this subject – on my blog – since I decided to get engaged.  For those of you who read this and know me well, you’ll know I’ve been very lucky in love. So absolutely no surprise that I (we) decided this. It’s a beautiful way to complicate life, right? I’m talking about getting married. You’ve heard it all before, but the general consensus is that it’s both terrifying and amazing. Umm...well so are many other things.


I’m really sure that no matter how hard you try you cannot escape some stereotypes of 'growing up'. I’ll explain. Me, you and many before us, all made big promises never to assume or behave in certain ways just before or after we get married. And yet somehow, in some way it becomes easier just to do the thing that has been tried and tested. And that  is really what terrifies me. I want to know that when I make a decision I’m making it because it is the right fit for my problem or situation, not because it has had success in the past. 


The problem is you can never really know what will influence you to make decisions in the future. You can plan for it, but having to think of someone other than yourself adds new dimensions to your thoughts/worries and decisions. Sigh.. Well apart from this really 'deep' stuff, planning a wedding has been super fun. I love the idea of planning anything, so perhaps I'm in my element. 


Apart from this, the usual  madness prevails. I have met some pretty interesting and inspirational people over the last couple of months. I continue to be the girl with the rose tinted glasses, with extremely idealistic notions and would thank you or anyone else not to rain on my parade. I'm happy this way..In fact just the other day I met this woman who founded a fairly popular ad agency and the way she went on about her philosophies and ideas about work and life.. I got chills man..and I mean the good kind! :-) AND, I'm working on a novel..Yes I will publish some how! and honestly I'm actually really proud of this.. more so because I'm being awfully analytical and scientific about it. Mapping out characters and story lines and figuring out the overall plot and stringing all the pieces together on this mind-map, before I begin typing away (furiously). I have of course to really get my act together here and write more often and produce the quality I want to see. I am in no way aspiring to make this some literary masterpiece.. NO WAY. It's just good old/feel good..piece of (pulp?) fiction. I attended a workshop recently and got a heavy dose of just how average a writer I am.. but heck.. I will do it anyway (do I say this a lot?).


I am SO looking forward to the time off I'll get in May. Ah..don't get me wrong, its only second to getting married ;-) haha! It's going to be a good year folks.. more travel, more fun, a lot of new people, super high from great (I think) ideas.. and most of all a whole lot of love. 


Happy.. :-) 
PS. I basically just rambled on here no?.. I-me.. blah blah.  I really just wanted to say hello.. it's been a while.