The wedding planners

Published on August 19, 2004 By Melinda Stanners In Misc

So, last night my friends Apryl, Rose and I went to our first Pilates class (and it was great, absolutely fantastic), and when we were gorging on pizza afterwards

Apryl came up with this idea:

That we should start a wedding planning business.

No kidding.

We have Rose the accountant for the business side, Apryl the archtect for interior design and lighting, and me there for co ordinating everything and maintaining the mental health of the bride and groom as their parents drive them to eloping. And since I'm the resident romance writer, being obsessed with love and all (well, within reason. I'm actually very pragmatic), I thought it was ideal. None of us really want to work in our qualified areas - Rose finds accountants boring, Apryl wants to be an interior designer/fashion designer as opposed to an architect, and I don't think I'm really good for psychology. We have discovered the perfect out!

Thing is, I could probably get the hang of research, and come to enjoy it, but at the moment anything is looking better - probably because I don't feel like I'm being very well guided in the way that things are done here. With a more active supervisor things might be better.

But as far as clinical goes, I have made the discovery that I am apprehensive of the mentally ill - the really sick ones are quite . I can't be a clinical psych because they just don't seem to like me, and I don't know what to do with them.

This is ironic, because I'm the one trained in psychology, but my mother, a teacher, studied counselling because she attracted so many broken people with real problems. They're drawn to her and she's just wonderful with them. But I attract the mentally healthy and whole, most of my friends are functional, healthy, non-addicted, mature and responsible people, some from excellent functional homes.

Considering my less than normal upbringing, I find this astonishing. Obviously my acting is better than I thought

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