Inconvenient Annoyances

My car just went in for its MOT yesterday... and failed drastically !!

Now, it's an old car (16 years) and has done over 100,000 miles, but I thought it was still running okay, but apparently not.

Unfortunately, I just spent £110 on new tyres, which I can't get back now, and the car needs about £400 of repairs to make it roadworthy. It's only worth about £300 anyway and the garage reckoned it wasn't worth repairing as it's so old, which means I'm now on the hunt for a new car... and I need one by Tuesday, so I can drive to Swindon to catch up with a friend (thank goodness I'm on holiday from work right now though and don't have to get to work every day)!

Oh no... that's awful. 

I can't wait to get out of my current job. I'm supposed to be training to handle a new responsibility at 10am this morning with an overloaded colleague who has been trying to hand the customer complaints off to me for months and hasn't had time to show me (and they've been piling up and not getting responses). The HR manager just asked if I could make coffee for a meeting at 11am, and when I explained I would be training today for something she said, "Still, we need the coffee." Jesus.  Is that all that matters around here?!

Yikes, that is sucky, Jewlz.

The tradesperson cancelled on me today as the van broke down. At least he called. Why he couldn't leave a message when he rang last night I don't know.  But at least I know who called now.

The tradesperson cancelled on me today as the van broke down. At least he called. Why he couldn't leave a message when he rang last night I don't know.  But at least I know who called now.

Annoying!  I hate it when people don't leave messages. 

I found a slug...in our house...by our kitchen sink.  I don't know how it got there, and I couldn't see a slime trail.  It really grosses me out to think that it could have crawled across our kitchen to get to the sink.  Maybe it came up through the drain, which is pretty gross as well.

Slipped down the stairs last night and hurt 2 fingers and the joint/knuckle where my big toe meets my foot.  Was hoping it would be better this morning, but looks like I'll have to go to the A&E today to get them checked out.  Not my ideal Saturday.

Grown adults behaving like petty high school teenagers.

I found a slug...in our house...by our kitchen sink.  I don't know how it got there, and I couldn't see a slime trail.  It really grosses me out to think that it could have crawled across our kitchen to get to the sink.  Maybe it came up through the drain, which is pretty gross as well.

Eww.  My cat has come home with slugs on his nose...

Slipped down the stairs last night and hurt 2 fingers and the joint/knuckle where my big toe meets my foot.  Was hoping it would be better this morning, but looks like I'll have to go to the A&E today to get them checked out.  Not my ideal Saturday.

Ouch! Sorry to hear that. 

Ouch! Sorry to hear that. 

Thanks.  My fingers are fractured but my foot just has a bit of a nasty bruise.  Could have been worse, so I can't complain too much.  I've broken a finger before so I know it'll be alright in time.  Have to say, I love the NHS. 

Traffic was utterly abymsmal today. People were SUCH jerks on the road, too. What should've been an hour drive this morning took 2.5, and in total, I spent something like 5 or 6 hours in the car today. Just to go from London up to Milton Keynes and back. Totally horrific and spirit-sapping.

And I've got to get up at the crack of dawn for my race tomorrow... eek!

Bought a chicken yesterday to roast today. Opened the chicken and it smelled kind of funny. Not in-your-face bad, but a little strange. DH smelled it too and we agreed that we would cook it and if it smelled bad when it was cooking, then we wouldn't eat it. It smelled okay when it was in the oven, but DH was eating a leg and it smelled kind of funny. Then when I was cutting the rest off the bone some of it was a strange color. Awesome. Well, we both ate some of the chicken, so we'll see how we make it through the night! THEN, I went to eat some of the cake I made the other day and it had already gone off. I took one bite and spit it out. If I don't get sick from either of these incidents, it will prove I have a stomach of steel!

Bought a chicken yesterday to roast today. Opened the chicken and it smelled kind of funny. Not in-your-face bad, but a little strange. DH smelled it too and we agreed that we would cook it and if it smelled bad when it was cooking, then we wouldn't eat it. It smelled okay when it was in the oven, but DH was eating a leg and it smelled kind of funny. Then when I was cutting the rest off the bone some of it was a strange color. Awesome. Well, we both ate some of the chicken, so we'll see how we make it through the night! THEN, I went to eat some of the cake I made the other day and it had already gone off. I took one bite and spit it out. If I don't get sick from either of these incidents, it will prove I have a stomach of steel!

Sorry to hear about your dodgy chicken & cake hopefully you have a stomach made of steel. now if that was me I would have already had stomach issues by now    the past couple years my stomach has been sooo tempermental its not even funny & now the meds I take with every meal the side effects don't help with my tempermental tummy either!!       so you totally have my sympathies!! 

Another car-related IA for me today:

As I mentioned on here the other day, my little old car failed its MOT last week and is not worth repairing, so I'm having to buy a new car. We looked at several cars over the weekend and I put a deposit down on one that I'm picking up and paying for this evening, so, all I had to do this morning was call the insurance company and set up the policy... or so I thought.

It's taken me about 4 hours of calling companies and getting online quotes to find a good price! The problem is that I have a driving conviction on my licence and because of the nature of it, several companies won't touch me at all and others want to charge extortionate rates. Until now, I've been a named driver on my mum's policy which was fairly cheap (at least compared to other quotes), but changing the car and going fully comp means the policy goes up by about £400 per year and I won't even be the main driver on it, so I can't build up any no claims. However, if I take out my own policy with the same company, it'll cost £2,000 per year!

So, I've spent the morning trying to find a better deal - there have been some cheap quotes, but the insurance company reviews on the internet are terrible, so I'm having to go for one that is not cheap, but thankfully still under the £1,000 mark.

I'm just kicking myself because if only I didn't have the conviction on my licence, I could probably get car insurance for only about £200 or £300 a year (as I'm over 25, I've been driving for 9 years, and I have never had any other convictions or points on my licence, or any accidents or claims).

Motivation is at an all time low today.  I just want to sit in my pajamas with a cup of tea and a book that has nothing do to with anything even remotely academic. 

Sunday Dh & I went to Subway an I got there new Limited Edition Chicken Temptation sandwich I wont be getting that again.      I got a footlong so I had half for lunch an was going to have the other half for dinner. well shortly after I had half my sub for lunch I was getting a upset tummy big time not had one that bad in a long time so I figured the cookie I had from Subway didn't agree with my lunch.      I had to have toast for dinner last night cause my tummy was still a little upset an I didn't want to chance getting sick again. so I saved the other half of my sub for lunch today I didn't have any cookies today but I had the same stomach issues again today shortly after lunch as I did on Sunday afternoon after lunch.    I was really looking forward to having that sandwich I wont be having that again.     I will be staying with my old faithful chicken bacon ranch I haven't ever had any problems after eating that.      I have to have toast again for dinner tonight.