OH THANK GOD

Well it's been 11 days since my last entry and I have been to Manchester and back again in that time. Amongst some important conversations and discussions we did manage to have some fun. Sometimes it seems so many issues dont get discussed because its not the kind of thing you do on a chat or on the phone that I feel like volumes of things pile up in order to get discussed face to face. Right from day one I felt like talking about all this stuff, which isnt easy because its SO important and hard to talk about but having done this marriage thing once before, neither one of us is taking it lightly.

One good thing is that I did manage to spend more time with his family and when I say family, it was ALL of them. Great Aunt from Australia who said I had grown a lot (she has Alzheimers) and cousins, sister kids, mom and dad, brother in law and so on and so forth. Me and my blinders had a great time that night speaking Armenian (some of the time) and getting to know my extended family.

I also saw "The Da Vinci Code" and "Mission Impossible III". The DVC caused quite a big discussion as I saw it as pure fiction, or something to "ponder" and S saw it as a conspiracy to weaken the church and faith in general. Again, my blinders and I seem to live a happy life but he does have a point. I thought I was the conspiracy theorist, but it seems we are clones in that department too. God help our kids.

I am (sometimes) easily influenced, especially by people close to me, so it was hard for me to hear some of what S had to say and see things in a darker light. I have looked long and hard for my particular shade of rose-coloured glasses and I am not ready to give them up, nor do I think I can function quite so well without them. I think as people go, I am pretty realistic when it comes to most things but overall I am still quite the optimist. I still think people are generally good inside even if the best of us is still motivated by greed and money at times.

So while S saw the film and book as undermining the faith, religion and the church, I saw it as a theory that if Jesus was just an ordinary man and not a deity, then the message of the book was that all humanity is capable of such great feats and miracles. See what I mean about the glasses now?

Anyhow, as I wrote to my sister, the more I get to know S, the more I like him. Sometimes I really dont like what I hear becasue it shakes my beliefs, but in as many ways as we are alike and will grow together becasue of it, we are polar opposites as well and we will, as a result help each other grow out of our boxes and cast aside our blinders (hopefully).

On a more practical note, I sighed a HUGE sigh of relief today as I found out that my boss Peter can indeed drive Oscar and I to Sofia on the 21st of June. I was holding my breath on that one since I had NO idea whow I would get OB to the airport on a bus. So to that I say "OH THANK GOD!!"