Three things that I have not been enjoying recently

Toothache

Last Thursday I expressed distress at the thought of having one of my teeth out, now I can’t wait to be rid of the little bugger. For the past 5 days I’ve been swallowing pain killers every four hours and avoiding chewing on the left hand side of my mouth. Every now and again I’ll forget and take a big bite of ice cream, sugar cane, or broken glass and then spend the next ten minutes rolling around the floor in agony.

The prospect of going back to work

I’ve had quite a bit of time off recently and have very much enjoyed being a man of leisure. it hasn’t quite got to the point where I have been sitting around the house in my underwear eating peeled grapes, but it’s gotten pretty close.

I go back to work tomorrow. Hughes Law states that the dread of going back to work is directly proportional to the amount of time you have had off. As I’ve had around three weeks, give or take an odd shift here and there, I’m feeling pretty miserable. Not half as miserable as Kerry though, as she’s facing returning on Monday after six months off.

Having no money

For the past few weeks Kerry has been receiving statutory maternity pay rather than her full wage. This has resulted in quite a significant drop in our income. We’ve still been able to meet the bills and the mortgage, but any disposable money has completely disappeared. My cash card was even refused at the cinema on Sunday, which was rather embarrassing.

Of course it doesn’t help that money tends to run through my fingers like water. I seriously need to have a proper overhaul of my spending. I wouldn’t mind if it all went on tangible stuff like DVD’s and computers, but it doesn’t – it all goes on buying dinner instead of taking a packed lunch and getting takeaways three or four times a week.

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