Distracting myself through sparkles. And weddings.

Contrary to the title's suggestion, I'm not going to any weddings at the moment, nor am I in fact getting married.  I've instead been busily occupying myself by stalking admiring on Facebook the weddings of former schoolmates and been getting somewhat confused.

Now, I love weddings.  In many respects I am that ridiculous image of the girl who's been planning her wedding since the year dot and thinks about it probably more than is healthy.  Besides thinking about cakes, and wondering how a girl can incorporate (potentially) two massive cuddly dinosaurs into some mythical day in the future, they're something which is important to me both because of my personal beliefs and my religion, as for me they are the ultimate way to solidify a relationship.  But obviously a marriage is so much more than the wedding day.  Also, I am not a mental Christian as unfortunately I seem to be labelled as as soon as I mention it, thus I think same-sex marriage is great, if you want to live together; fine, and I'm a big believer in the 'try before you buy' attitude of premarital sex.

Ignoring that wall of text, what I've really been rather freaked out by is the fact my classmates seem so young!  My friends and I have counted 10 people out of a year of 90 who either have children, are married, or both, and whilst I suppose that is the cliche of the older you get, the more weddings you go to, it seems like a huge amount.  I love to think about weddings but I think that if I were getting married now I'd absolutely freak the fuck out.  I'm happy for the fact these people have found the person they wish to spend the rest of their life with, but so many people are still at university, still studying, now with children and a husband, and that seems weird to me.  It just seems like surely people, and relationships, will change outside of the student bubble, and a marriage seems like a massive thing to have to try and change through whilst you yourself might not know what's going on.  I'm sure I'm being too cynical/ immature about this though and no doubt they'll have charming marriages, revelling in years of successful communication and maturity.  But we'll see.

The sparkles of the title refer to my new nailpolish today- China Glaze's 'Dorothy Who?' from their recreated Wizard of Ooh-Aahz collection (2009).  It's bright blue with silver sparkles and freaking awesome.  If I can find my camera (still have not even attempted unpacking) I will show it off.  Or maybe I'll suffice with a rubbish webcam photo.