Vrooom vrooom. Beep. *SMASH*
I did it. I wrote about a billion emails (at least five) to people, crossed them off my list, and then called those for whom I don't have an email address. Job done. All I need to do now is follow up the emails with calls (as promised in said emails) tomorrow, and hope that everything gets sorted out.
I've been approaching this wedding planning thing a bit like a corporate deal. Do nothing and soon enough the deal will tank. No, seriously though, I've been assuming everyone will have a much more adversarial attitude to the whole thing. When I got a proposal from the florist which had a ridiculous amount for something I'd thought was much cheaper, I called her on it. In the next proposal, she'd discounted her original quote by 50%. I was panicking that I didn't have the cheaper figure in writing, but it was irrelevant. People seem a lot more eager to please than clients ever did. And that's partly because this time, I am the client, and partly because we're planning a happy celebration.
We've got a bit less than three weeks to go now, and I've got my trial makeup thing tomorrow. I'm going to a mate's house and it should be fun - who doesn't look forward to being beautified? One small problem is the location. It's either a ten minute walk to the tube, a twenty minute tube ride, then a bus ride of indeterminate length - or I drive and it takes about half an hour. Hmmmmm. No brainer? No way.
First, I try to avoid driving. Second, I've never been there before so will be driving with the map on my lap/ clutched in my sweating little mitts and crumpled over the steering wheel. Third, actually more a subsidiary of second, I don't know what parking is like in the area I'm heading to. Or rather, I know what my parking is like and as I'm off to a suburban area of London my chances of finding a parking space that suits my needs (no cars within 100 metres, preferably no pedestrians, cats, lampposts or sleeping policemen either) is minimal. Fourth - I think I'll have to turn right at some point en route. If I go up to the North Circular I should be able to turn right with the help of traffic lights, but driving on the North Circular with a map clamped to the steering wheel does not sound like an ideal way to spend time.
However - I hate buses. They vibrate in a certain way, and the lines they take around corners have me feeling waves of nausea before I've travelled ten minutes. And this route (because if I get a bus I'll insist on following the route with my A-Z) is a long one which means I'll feel even worse from trying to read in a moving vehicle.
I guess I'll see how tired I am in the morning. If I can't face leaving at 0830 to catch the tube (my appointment is 10) then I'll drive and leave at 0915.
All this makes me question why I applied for a job in the same business park where I worked for nine months - 45 minutes drive up the A1. I have no idea - apart from the pay is great - but I've got an interview there next week. So maybe I'd better drive tomorrow just to convince myself I can still do it.
Anyway, the long and the short of this, or rather, the moral of the story: avoid North/ North West London roads tomorrow between 0900 and 1000.
I've been approaching this wedding planning thing a bit like a corporate deal. Do nothing and soon enough the deal will tank. No, seriously though, I've been assuming everyone will have a much more adversarial attitude to the whole thing. When I got a proposal from the florist which had a ridiculous amount for something I'd thought was much cheaper, I called her on it. In the next proposal, she'd discounted her original quote by 50%. I was panicking that I didn't have the cheaper figure in writing, but it was irrelevant. People seem a lot more eager to please than clients ever did. And that's partly because this time, I am the client, and partly because we're planning a happy celebration.
We've got a bit less than three weeks to go now, and I've got my trial makeup thing tomorrow. I'm going to a mate's house and it should be fun - who doesn't look forward to being beautified? One small problem is the location. It's either a ten minute walk to the tube, a twenty minute tube ride, then a bus ride of indeterminate length - or I drive and it takes about half an hour. Hmmmmm. No brainer? No way.
First, I try to avoid driving. Second, I've never been there before so will be driving with the map on my lap/ clutched in my sweating little mitts and crumpled over the steering wheel. Third, actually more a subsidiary of second, I don't know what parking is like in the area I'm heading to. Or rather, I know what my parking is like and as I'm off to a suburban area of London my chances of finding a parking space that suits my needs (no cars within 100 metres, preferably no pedestrians, cats, lampposts or sleeping policemen either) is minimal. Fourth - I think I'll have to turn right at some point en route. If I go up to the North Circular I should be able to turn right with the help of traffic lights, but driving on the North Circular with a map clamped to the steering wheel does not sound like an ideal way to spend time.
However - I hate buses. They vibrate in a certain way, and the lines they take around corners have me feeling waves of nausea before I've travelled ten minutes. And this route (because if I get a bus I'll insist on following the route with my A-Z) is a long one which means I'll feel even worse from trying to read in a moving vehicle.
I guess I'll see how tired I am in the morning. If I can't face leaving at 0830 to catch the tube (my appointment is 10) then I'll drive and leave at 0915.
All this makes me question why I applied for a job in the same business park where I worked for nine months - 45 minutes drive up the A1. I have no idea - apart from the pay is great - but I've got an interview there next week. So maybe I'd better drive tomorrow just to convince myself I can still do it.
Anyway, the long and the short of this, or rather, the moral of the story: avoid North/ North West London roads tomorrow between 0900 and 1000.
posted by Chaya at 11:32 pm
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