Journal entry

Back pain, business, and marriage for good measure

Well today I awoke to back pain of doom! Its really annoying because its not like I did anything interesting to gain this pain, must have just slept on my back funny. So after about 2 hours of work this morning I decided to make my way to the osteopath to click my back into shape. Unfortunately 30 minutes and $40NZD later my back is still sore and I have to go back again on Monday. Its like being an old man or something.

Which reminds me of when my brother was about my age (23) and he was feeling run down and decided to pay the doctors a visit. After the doctor did a physical he asked my brother questions about life style like “do you go out on the town much?” to which he replied “most nights”. Now heres the funny part, the doctor says “well your not 21 anymore, I suggest you start to slow things down a little”. My brother has never been the same since, in fact shortly after this he settled down got married and now has a son. Way to take the doctors advice to heart big bro.

Anyway tomorrow, I’m meeting with the people who are going to do the analysis of my families business. I’m really quite excited at the prospect of this whole thing, but at the same time I’m a little apprehensive. I think it’s mainly because I’m worried about how my family will accept the changes the analysts suggest. Perhaps I should take a course in hypnotism to help with my powers of suggestion, but hopefully these people coming in have a few tricks up their sleeve.

I’m really looking forward to my up coming anniversary with my girlfriend; I can believe its been three years! The time has flown by and so much has happened in that time. Now of course its been three years everyone keeps saying So when are you two going to get married?. I can never understand why anyone would get married in this day and age. My girlfriend and I have been living together for about 2 years now; we share everything, completely trust each other and can rely on each other no matter what.

So after spending all the money and having all the stress would we wake up the next day and feel as if it was all worth it? I/We don’t think so. I mean what would be different? A piece of paper? More debt? And who is it really for? Certainly not us. My mother always says that marriage makes a family, but I think thats BS, my mum and dad arent still together after 27 years because of marriage, they are still together because of love. So if you asked me love makes a family not marriage at all. But in saying that its each to his/her own really

Anyway I should stop before I get into a rant…oops too late 🙂