Inconvenient Annoyances

Whilst going over the inventory yesterday, I had accidentally packed up in my stuff a nutmeg grater and a measuring jug, so I said I would drop them off when I found them
Well the cow called me and said "You were going to drop them off, but I think you may have forgotten and we urgently need that stuff back for the tennant starting at the beginning of August"

Oh my goodness, the new tennant is going to come into the house and go "Wow, this flat has no nutmeg grater.  Whatever are we going to do"  

Oh I'm sorry it's such a pain, but that was funny! No nutmeg grater?! zomg, I totally see her point, I mean, how could you be truly pretentiously middle class without a nutmeg grater?!

Oh I'm sorry it's such a pain, but that was funny! No nutmeg grater?! zomg, I totally see her point, I mean, how could you be truly pretentiously middle class without a nutmeg grater?!

But of course!!

I just need a whinge and whimper because I've just had a crappy day...

1. I've had a horrible cough/cold which meant that I haven't slept properly over the weekend and am generally run down and feeling crappy
2. I'm planning our wedding with two months to go, and still have a ton of work to do on my gown (I'm sewing it from my Granny's vintage gown). So I'm a bit frazzled from all the extra planning & worrying
3. Work is usually very enjoyable and a great environment, but a big project has come through and everything has gotten SERIOUS recently, and the big deadline is right at my wedding. So I've not had a chance to catch my breath at work at all
4. Hospital rang me to say one of my cold swabs came back positive for adenovirus so I had to leave work early (so get everything done in less time!!) to make it there before they shut at 5. And of course the bus took FOREVER so I was left running up the hill to the hospital (which a hacking cold, great!) to make it there in time
5. My mobile ran out of credit, so it was screaming at me every time my email tried to check the server. After the hospital, I topped it up with my last tenner before payday (see #2 above). Only to have the balance STILL be zero and calls still not work
6. I got home and there's no water. The pump won't turn on. Can't call our tenants to see if we ran out because of #5 above. Socket fine, no pump. (Fiance later determines that the pump chose today, out of all days in the last 2.5 years of its life, to give up the ghost. And Machine Mart close at 6, so I'm out of water all day tomorrow now, too)
7. I ring O2 to find out wtf my topup worked but I still have no credit, when I accidentally hang up the phone. This is the point where I break down in tears and have to go lie down (as it transpires, there's a bolt-on that I swear hasn't taken any money in the last 3 months, but decided to today immediately after I topped up, so I never saw the money)
8. I was supposed to go wedding shoe shopping with my FSIL tomorrow on my day off but I've now got to get up early for a conference call, meaning I can't have a lie in, and my cough is still too bad to go for a run (my only stress relief atm), and the thought of fighting through mall crowds makes me want to cry plus I don't have any money anyway even if I did find some shoes... so I had to ring her and cancel and I feel really bad.

I really just want to sleep all day tomorrow. thank god for the prescription codeine cough syrup they gave me so I can at least sleep now when I want to instead of barking all night long...

Awwww SP, that's a crap day. Feel better soon. ((hugs))

Nope, 'cause she's gonna charge me something stupid like £45/hour for the professional cleaners

Get over to the moneysavingexpert.com site, housing and renting board and ask them what your landlady is legally allowed to do. There are Scottish landlords and tenants on there. The site is free to join.

Many landlords take advantage and others just don't know the law. I don't know the laws for Scotland on renting, but someone on that site will.

In England and Wales the landlords have to put the deposit in one of the three deposit schemes and advise the tenant within 14 days of the tenant giving the deposit, which scheme it is in. The law came in as too many landlords use to keep their tenants deposit for made up reasons.

Aww SP, that sounds like the worst day Can you take a day off? If anyone deserves one, it's you! x

can't sleep.

Poor SP. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

For the past 2 days I had been telling my 2 year old that today we'd go to Nottingham so she could play with a friends 2 year old son at the Nottingham Riviera -- she was so excited to go to the 'seaside'...late last night before I went to bed I got a message from my friend that they couldn't make it today...

I'm just hoping my daughter forgets about it (she is 2 after all) so I don't have to try to explain it to her. 

SP, hope your day is better today! ((hugs))

Mine is no motivation at all.

Sorry, WebyJ- I hope she forgets too!  Maybe, you can do something else special for the munchkin.

Poor SP. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Yes, no wonder she ended up in tears.  But -- isn't codeine great? 

Hope today is better SP. 
My IA is a leaky valve to the towel rail in the bathroom.  £400 later and it doesn't leak anymore.  It couldn't come at a worse time-Monday evening MrRed5 was saying how we really need to watch expenses. 
We are beginning to realize just how crap at DIY the previous owner was.   

Beginning to think we need to call in the exterminators. We've had the mice for ages but it's really getting ridiculous. Then it was the skunks (pee-you!) and the woodchuck. There are a lot of cute chipmunks outside and I wonder if it's them running around between the floors (!?) I would think mice wouldn't make that much noise unless they're wearing hob-nail boots. 

Went to the dermatologist to ask about my the pigmentation on my face. The doctor treated me like I was totally wasting her time, explained how the NHS works and that they are seeing patients with serious problems, etc.... it was unbelievable. And then she even threw in a few "I don't know how they do things in AMERICA...." comments. I completely exploded on her. I've had psoriasis for 18 years and though it may not look like much at the moment, it's been really bad in the past, so I know all about severe skin problems. I wasn't expecting to go in and get a freakin' Extreme Makeover or whatever, I just thought maybe they could prescribe a cream I could try, since my GP didn't know what to prescribe, and that's why she sent me. And then, aside from that, it's not her face! It may not be a big deal to her, but it isn't a minor problem to me. I left fuming and in tears.  She was so condescending and rude.

The only good things that came out of it was that she did prescribe something I could try, though she said she didn't know if it would work and she didn't want to see me again either way... and then my father in law bought me an ice cream cone on the way home because I was crying when I got in the car. (This did make me smile because it was like he was trying to cheer up a crying kid.... hehe. When I thanked him later, he said "What? I just felt like an ice cream is all." Too sweet.  )