Month: February 2007

Cold turkey

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I know why I got the lurgy this week, it was cold turkey brought on by my no shopping for non-essentials in February thing. 

Although last weekend I forgot and bought a DVD on eBay but if I don’t watch it ’til March, then that’s ok I think. 

And I can’t even remember why I was on eBay looking at things that I can’t buy due to me being on a no shopping for non-essentials in February thing and I really don’t know why I’ve been perusing amazon but I now have a nicely restocked wishlist waiting for my debit card’s reappearance on 1 March.

Also on my is it 1 March yet list is a stripy top I’ve been eyeing up in the window of Oasis that caught my eye on the way to work a couple of days ago and this morning I thought to myself, hmm, I might pop in on my way to work on Monday and get it if it’s still there, and it was only 1.5 miles later when I got near work that I remembered that damn, I can’t spend anything this month and I’m not sure a new stripy top is an essential, even if it would go really well with my skinny jeans.  But it’s not likely that they’ll still be selling it in two weeks though, is it?  Aarrgh.

And surely the hairdressers is an essential isn’t it?  Although I hate going to the hairdressers but at the mo, my hair’s a bit of a stringy mess so needs a chop, plus I want to dye it and it’ll be quicker to dye it if it’s shorter but I’m a bit scared to dye it in my new bathroom as I make a load of  mess and usually get hair dye all over the floor and the walls and the blind.  I haven’t yet got any on the ceiling but there’s always a first time I suppose, especially considering I got bits of tomato stuck to the kitchen ceiling once.  (The bits of tomato are still stuck to the ceiling, what with it involving getting up on a chair to unstick them.)

And I need gloves for the gym, as the rowing machine gives me blisters.  That must be an essential, right? 

And I want to get my carpets cleaned, now that those tossers from B&Q have stopped stomping up and down the stairs.

I had a cunning plan today though and in an attempt to stop me going home via the offy and buying wine and chocolate I left my wallet at home and only brought out £2 so I could buy some soya milk and after I’d bought my soya milk, I had £1.20 left and spent 15 minutes wandering around Holland & Barrett trying to decide what to spend the remaining £1.20 on. 

I am in complete agreement with anyone who’s reading this and thinking “WTF?  Wine and chocolate is of course an essential!” but I spent all last weekend hungover and didn’t get to the gym or out for a run and due to having the lurgy haven’t done anything this week either, so this weekend I want to redeem myself.  And now that I’m feeling better, I’m going to the gym tonight and may even go on the treadmill and try not to fall off.

I’ve got the lurgy

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I haven’t ran this week due to being stricken down by a lurgy.  Undoubtedly not helped by getting rat-arsed last Thursday after a month of abstinence.  Oh, and then getting rat-arsed again on Saturday.  And I’m sorry if I spelt lurgy wrong.

B&Q compensation update
I got a letter from B&Q today offering me £406.17; £200 of which is compensation, the rest out of pocket expenses (excluding the kitchen floor as I haven’t given them quotes for that yet) which means that they’re offering me a paltry £200 in compensation for all the hassle they gave me.  And the cheeky bastards go on to say that it’s a gesture of goodwill but their goodwill will only extend to 14 days and if I don’t accept it by then they’ll take back their gesture of goodwill and if I do accept it then it is acknowledgment that it is in full and final settlement of any claim arising.  They must think I’m just going to overlook the fact that not only are they incompetent but that they are also criminals who forge signatures.  And I have the original completion notice that they left for me, here in front of me which, funnily enough, isn’t signed.

Still, that’s a first offer, it can only get better can’t it?

B&Q forgery update

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Nicola from the B&Q ISC calls at 10:45 and leaves a message to say that the investigation is still ongoing and there are two possible actions that they might take.  If it is confirmed that the fitters did forge my signature, then the likely outcome is that they will be sacked by B&Q.  If they can’t confirm that the signature is forged then no action will be taken.  She says she will update me by the end of the week.

They should have been sacked anyway, the incompetent fools.

A lie-in

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After drinking on Thursday night for the first time in a month, I’m still not quite recovered and didn’t get up ’til lunchtime so no running for me today. Oops. I did dream I was in a race though so maybe that counts as training? I will have to run tomorrow as I have two races at the end of the month and need to do some training but I’m going out for a meal with Lorraine tonight and will try not to drink although we are going out in Leytonstone which is the home of the alcoholic and where everyone drinks until they die of alcohol abuse. And Lorraine did have cirrhosis of the liver a few years ago but that didn’t get her and now she has lung cancer and only a one in ten chance of living for another year so she guilt tripped me on the phone and said you have to come out, I might only have a few months left and I’d like to see you before it’s too late. I’ve known Lorraine for 20 years, it’ll be really weird when she’s not around anymore.

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