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We picked up the rings yesterday. They are sooo beautiful… I love them!
I honestly can’t wait to wear it permanently!
The final countdown is well underway! I still can’t believe all this time is passing by so quickly. 6 weeks to go – wow. Really scary…
We have mostly everything sorted now. Only a few little details to look after, but all the big things are under control.. even my family travel arrangements are done and dusted! (It looks like if you book several tickets from the same website one after another, they start going up in price. So when you get to the third booking in a row, prices are considerably higher than the first booking. This caused a couple of funny situations with my family…)
I am finally having Hair and Make-up done professionally despite my original refusal. But it is something off my list, and hopefully I won’t be having any more nightmares about it! (although in my last nightmare, I HAD booked the Hair and Make up lady but my phone was off on the day, so I didn’t hear her call, and I forgot that I had to have it done, and an hour before the ceremony I was in the biggest stressful fit you could imagine… Well, that’s nightmares for you)
We also went to see the florist to discuss centrepieces. We originally planned doing them ourselves, with a big candle in the middle and some carnations and ivy, but then we realised that it was a lot of work and decided against it. I’d like something like the pictures below. I saw somewhere something very similar, more like a fishbowl with three or four roses floating in it, and it looked gorgeous. The florist, however, said that it could be a bit pricey as they would have to outsource all the fishbowls. But she’s still going to find out and give me a call.
We need to go and see the cake maker too. Firstly because we’re going to have to pay the remainder monies soon, but most importantly because we originally asked for calla lilies on top of the cake and now we want to change it to white roses. I hope there’s not much of a problem, because she could have already made the calla lilies and then we couldn’t change it. The cake is going to look nice, though 
And I hope everybody likes it! I know it’s very simple (lemon sponge cake) but it so hard to please everybody! and lemon sponge cake is quite popular. I am a bit worried about my family, because they are used to quite rich Spanish cakes and they may think that I haven’t tried hard enough to get a proper cake…
We have also booked some excursions for the honeymoon. Two helicopter rides, one visit to a volcano at sunset, and one day in the beach doing some snuba.
The thing about snuba diving is that you have an air tank on the surface, so it is much better than snorkelling (especially for someone like me, who is petrified of drowning!). And we also hope that Jon will enjoy the Helicopter rides, as it could be a 50-50 thing with his vertigo. Dave -who also suffers from vertigo- did one three years ago and he was fine, so Jon reckons that he’ll be ok too.
All the excursions that we’ve booked are quite short in time (no longer than 3 or 4 hours), as sometimes you can get very tired and the whole purpose of the Honeymoon is relaxing! Short excursions also means that we have a bit more time to ourselves and to enjoy the islands at our leisure.
The countdown continues….
When I was younger I used to listen to music in English and not understand a word of the lyrics, unless I got them from somewhere and spent a while translating them with a dictionary (this is, of course, way before the internet was a part of our lives). I could, then, love a song without knowing what the message was.
Now, thank god, my level of English has greatly improved and can listen to a song on the radio for the first time and understand mostly everything. The thing is that with this new “power” I’ve got, I don’t instantly like songs based on their tune alone like I used to do. Now I take lyrics into account as well.
There are a couple of songs around at the moment that are really getting on my nerves. They are nice pieces of music, great catchy tunes. However I HATE the lyrics. They are so irresponsible that I worry they haven’t been banned from radio stations. I am referring to Lily Allen’s “The Fear” and Kaiser Chief’s “Never Miss a Beat”
How, I wonder, can a band/singer be SO irresponsible with their lyrics? Don’t they realise that young people are going to be listening AND be influenced by what they are saying? It’s really annoying that some rock/rap/hip-hop bands get the stupid “parental advisory” sticker in their albums just because they swear here and there, but bands that are encouraging children to not to go to school and to not to worry about anything apart from becoming an anorexic get away with murder.
The first time I hear the new Lily Allen’s song I was very impressed. I thought that she had musically matured and might start making some proper music, until I heard the lyrics. Here’s a couple of examples of what I mean:
I want loads of clothes and i want fuckloads of diamonds
I heard people die while they are trying to find them
Now I’m not a saint but I’m not a sinner
Now everything’s cool as long as I’m gettin thinner
And the same with the Kaiser Chiefs’ song. Although the impact was more direct with this one. As I listened to it, I loved the tune and I hated the lyrics:
What did you learn today?
I learned nothin’
What did you do today?
I did nothin’
What did you learn at school?
I didn’t go
Why didn’t you go to school?
I don’t know
It’s cool to know nothin’
Very fucking annoying. I beg radio stations to use a bit more of common sense and be a bit more responsible. I know this could be seen as censorship and any kind of censorship is not very well seen in the public eye any more, but we have to draw a line between what is “simply cool” and what is “simply irresponsible”. Please.
