So here I am back in the land of blogging. Not that I actually went anywhere I just didn’t feel much up to writing anything. It has been a weird couple of months. Much of which has put me in a reflective mood. More on that later.
Wedding plans are going great guns. All the big stuff is sorted and we are now into the finer details of what is hopefully going to be a big arsed fiesta. Looks like people are also looking forward to it as it will combine various elements of both a western union (no not the dodgy Nigerian thieving scam bank) and a Latino wedding. Latenglish if you will. A phrase I have coined. We are very excited and the more things we tick of the list the more excited we get. We took CN up to the hall the other day along with one of the other bridesmaids for a practice walk down the aisle. Both did very well. CN will be carrying the rings and there is a thought that at the end she will present me the rings with her favourite phrase..”Happy Birthday Daddy”
Talking of CN she has settled very well into her new school. It really was a good move. You see inclusion works up to the point where to include them you have to exclude them. Make sense?? Not really!! Allow me to explain. In order to include her in main stream they kept having to take her aside and working with her so that the others can focus on the curriculum and tests, which means she was actually being excluded. Better?? Anyway she is very happy with the new school and is very happy to go. No longer do we get the stress of if I have to take her in after an appointment she creates hell, well cries a lot. She just walks in now with a bye bye Daddy.
The LL is busy trying to hold down her job and studying for her ACCA exams. Some good news the other day. ACCCA has acknowledged that her degree and Masters does actually count to one of the exams so she doesn’t have to do the long arsed theory one. She is also busy teaching Spanish, which I am attending but not in her class. She had trip down to London a couple of weekends ago to vote against the President (Chavez) who put this amazing bill together about reform and more money to the poor and oh by the way you will also not be able to vote me out clause. Thankfully he lost. Politics is a big part of our lives and feel slightly embarrassed about always bitching about the country but having never voted so how can I. Believe me that will change and don’t even get me started on the state of the country... I will rant another day.
Sadly my Uncle passed away and that is the one thing that really made me sit up and think a lot. You see it was sudden but not unexpected. For many years now he has been struggling with alcoholism and became almost a recluse. Not helped by firstly looking after Gran in her last years, especially when she was very ill. You see going through his stuff I found some Diaries and started reading them. They go back to the early 60’s when you would have been a young man. He was full of life and very popular and started to make me think. How does that happen? How do you go from that to ending up alone, a drunk and dead at the bottom of your stairs with no-one around? It is really sad. Doubled by the fact that After Gran died we had a bit of a falling out and as usual as I was about to go over when he died. So now I feel even worse. I know I did make the effort before but it did become more difficult and I should have swallowed my pride and just popped over every now and again. I guess the moral is don’t put of until tomorrow what you can do today. I really should start living by that.
In other news I am now helping a local band Los Dos Amigos (who are playing at the wedding). I was originally helping out another band the awesome Rubbersnake (I work with DM from the band) but they always seem to play on nights I can’t help. So I have become a bit of Roadie/Manager/Promoter type. I guess helping out where I can. My Guitar playing is getting better but is now really down to practice. Have a little band myself but we are all just learning so we are at the same level and taking it slow. We have no visions of conquering the world but hopefully one day we can play a gig. Talking of which I have played 2 now. One was at the Spanish school in front of 50 strangers, one song (but we all have to star somewhere). It was the Spanish version of the little drummer boy. The LL played too but I have never done anything like that before so it was very nerve racking but we got through it. The 2nd was with DJ Brunex from Los Dos Amigos. At friends house and was more songs and I had to do better as he is obviously very good. I kept up and we did a set to about 15 people.
Right that is the catch up done I will try and be more regular as well as blogging more often… Badadish… Thank you I am here all week, I really am.
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