Expensive repairs
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Given that in a few months time - seven to be exact (although these things are never exact, so I’m told) - we will have a new, small person living with us and given that new, small people tend to cost quite a bit of money, especially when you are struggling by on one mediocre wage, I thought it would be a sensible idea to start putting some of it (money that is, not small people) to one side. Unfortunately I didn’t bank on having to shell out £629.58 on repairs to my poor little car, which will suck up my entire disposable income for the remainder of this year, and in all likelihood due to half-a-dozen November and December based Birthdays and a small annual ritual called Christmas, well into 2008 too. On the plus side my car now has a working heater for the first time since January, 2004 and I can now tell if I’m about to break the speed limit or not, which is always useful when driving an automobile around Berkshire.
In other news the sky today is seeping like a grey, rancid dishcloth. This really is completely unacceptable weather. I am attempting to improve conditions by making a sacrifice to the Sun Gods of a packet of Walkers Cheese & Onion crisps that I have just been given to eat. I would have been even happier had it been a free bacon sandwich but I really shouldn’t be so pedantic. Hooray for free food! And bacon.
I really have been eating a frightening amount of crap lately (I haven’t *literally* been eating crap, that would be both disgusting and incredibly unhygenic) but tonight I am going to attempt to offset my recent poor diet by doing a circuit class at my local leisure centre. I haven’t been for a couple of weeks so it’s probably not going to be pretty watching me puffing and panting my way around but at least I have last night’s leftover spaghetti bolognaise to look forward to afterwards, which is reasonably healthy. Hooray for reasonably healthy spaghetti bolognaise!