Goddamn Jinxed Car!!

Silly noises galore from the engine most of the way back to London this morning. Not getting worse and it doesn’t seem to affect the performance but it is a regular tapping in time with the acceleration.

Got back to the house, parked, turned the ignition off. Then decided to move the car so Nick could get out without bugging me.

Lo and behold the car started fine with not a single complaint or silly noise from the engine.

It was fine all the way to dropping Gemima at my sister’s and fine all the way to work from there too.

On a super-crap note however, I did call the garage and they suggested that there might be a little damage from when the car got really low on oil months ago (although the sceptic in me thinks its taken a bloody long time to manifest itself into a noise!).

They think that the warranty won’t cover it either because it’s a maintenance issue not a fault. On that particular note I might add that the car was given a full service when I bought it in December so I would not have expected the oil to have run dry in May with no sign of an oil leak.

Anyhow – the extremely shite news is that it could cost in the region of £600 to fix!

I don’t have £600 to spare. I don't have £600 full stop!

Plus I am supposed to be going to Swanage in a month. Might be hard with no money / car.

Now I’m SO stressed that I actually feel sick and I have no idea what to do.

Can’t wait for this year / divorce / house sale to be over.

Wouldn't it be nice to curl up in a ball and let someone else deal with all this for me! I'd bitch about crap karma but then I think about my relationship with Keith and realise that actually there is a balance and I do have something to smile about after all.

Smelly Candles and Snoozes

Spent the night at Keith’s last night. Didn’t tell anyone where I was going. Just went. Can’t be arsed with the situation at the house at the moment. Constant little digs from Nick because his brother is still staying.

Keith’s room was all lovely and candle-lit when I got there. He’d gone down to watch BB and I had said I would come back down and join him after I’d put my bag in there but it smelled so nice and was so cosy in the bedroom and I just plonked myself down and watched the light flickering on the walls. Next thing I knew Keith was blowing out the candles and turning off the music. I’d completely slept through BB!!

I can only apologise to Keith for being such crap company. I didn’t realise how tired I was until I stopped.

Plus I am stressed. Car was fine all day until about halfway to SWF when it started making strange noises again. Will have to bite the bullet and call the garage when I get back tomorrow.

Bleurggghhhh!!

Have spent a couple of days feeling like crap. Think I have a bug of some sort as well as it being that time of the month.

It never rains but it pours!

Had to go home early yesterday as I was feeling so rough.

And to cap it all, the car continues to be silly!

Early Starts and Silly Cars

Aaron and I ended up staying the night in SWF again.

Got up at 4:30am to drive back to London in time to wake Gemima up and get her ready for the school run.

God - what a silly time of the morning to get up!

Came down at 5am to wake Aaron up only to find him already up, dressed and waiting for me.

Left for London just after 5:30am. Pretty clear run. Car started making silly noises and sounding all tractor-like again on the way back. Its done that a few times. The oil light flickered on and off a few times so I pulled over and checked the oil.

It was fine.

I started the engine again.

It was fine.

God only knows what is going on with the damn thing! Bloody silly attention-seeking car!

Holiday Plans

Aaron and Sam have been hatching plans. After yesterdays trip out to meet Sam's friends followed by the water balloon fight, Sam invited Aaron to come back during the week.

Aaron breaks up from school on Tuesday afternoon so I will be bringing him back to SWF on Tuesday evening!

I am sure you can all guess what a hardship that will be. I get to stay another night with Keith. I am sure I can endure it though!!!

*grin*

Grrrr... Arrrrgh

It's that time of the month again!

Yes - I know thats probably too much information and no-one really wanted to know.

But its my blog - and I'll grumble if I want to!

Yep - I am both hurty and grumbly.

Bath and a back rub sounds good.

Mind you - so does cake and ice-cream.

Oh decisions, decisions!!

Water-Bomb!

So after all the time Keith and I spent making the garden look fabulous and tidy (well - ish) the boys decided it would be a far better idea to decorate it with bits of burst balloon.

By far the best way to do this of course is to fill the balloons with water and chuck them at each other.

So of course this is what they did!

Delightful!