July 2003

July has been a pretty uneventful month with my time spent mainly working, or preparing for my interview with the American embassy which finally comes round two weeks into August. I'm very nervous about the interview, yet at the same time I am more than happy to get it all over and done with.

I bought my wedding ring. I found exactly what I wanted in Romford and it fitted pretty well so I bought it. It was a weird feeling, yet quite undramatic at the same time.

There really is not much of noteworthiness that remains. The start of the month was really rather hot and sunny and the end of the month rather grey and miserable.

I notice that I have been dreaming a lot less recently also.  I wish I knew why that was, as I like to be able to remember my dreams.  I'm remembering only very small parts of dreams if anything, like a person or a brief situation.  Nothing really worth keeping a note of.  The dream diary had been filling at quite a rate until this month, it's a shame not to keep it that way.

July has also been a month of trying to make plans, many of which haven't worked out.  I wanted to have a 'stag' weekend away at Alton Towers, but that just didn't work out.  I switched the Alton Towers trip to a one day trip on my birthday, which falls on the Saturday this year.  I've always wanted to go to Alton Towers but have never made it there for one reason or another.  I'm looking forward to the trip as much as the Disney trip a few years back.  This should probably be my last chance for a while.

Organizing people is so difficult, whether it be for a wedding or just for a trip to a theme park.  When you want people to have no imagination so you can ship them in a group, pick them up, dump them and collect them, then people all have their own ideas how things will work and create infinite problems.  And when you just want people to be someplace, sometime on a day then they want you to direct their every movement.  No one will tell you what their plans for the time in question until they hear other peoples.  I'm sure you can spot the problem there!

There are plenty of plans to make and are slowly being made.  Plans that aren't easy to make.  The wedding plans are slowly happening on the assumption that I will successfully get through the interview.  I know it should be a breeze as I have all the evidence and I have nothing to hide and nothing wrong with me, but I will worry about it until I am in the country, not just until I get the visa in hand.

Tomorrow, Saturday August 2nd I will pay for the interview itself assuming I get myself up on time.  I didn't get up last weekend when I had originally intended to sort that out, that is when I relied on my parents to wake me up.  I have alarm clock back up tonight, although it is just after half two now and I have the alarm set for a little over seven hours away.  Will I be in shape to get this done?  Time will tell, who likes predictable huh?

Tomorrow also, there is a bbq being planned here at my house with people from our pub quiz team and some of my friends, should be interesting.

I have plenty of plans for August, something completely different to July, which will just go down as a bridging month I'm afraid.  At least I earnt myself some money whilst it passed by.