Black Wednesday

Damn, bum, poo, buggeration etc etc.

Today is not getting any better.

I'm currently sat at my parents' house in my coat and shivering like mad. Why are you not selling your car? I hear you cry. Because the flippin bloke let me down 5 minutes before he was due. By text!!!! I had dashed home from work, swapped the cars over, hoovered in the drizzle (I have no concern for my own safety - I could well have electrocuted myself and died slumped over the gearstick of my fiesta )and all for the sake of a sale. My bravery knows no bounds.

Oh, and my dad has not succeeded in fixing my heating. He has managed to ensure I have heating upstairs but I have none at all downstairs. So, looks like it's dinner parties in the airing cupboard and the TV in the bathroom from now on. He's going to have another go at it tomorrow with my brother, but his DIY approach involving a hosepipe, my outside tap and a coin sounds like a recipe for a small canape of a disaster. Thank god Tom's taking me out for dinner tonight - it'd have to be sorbet, gazpacho and salad otherwise.

Not only that, my divorce papers have arrived.

Felt a bit sick when I opened them but as they're only copies of the initial forms I sent but with an official stamp on then I was actually OK. I've texted ST to ask him to let me know if he's got his but I doubt the toad will get back to me.

Needless to say, this is not the best day I've had recently. I'm trying to put a positive spin on it but I'm not yet sure that an arctic party in the back of an unsold Fiesta whilst waving my divorce papers will attract many of my friends and family.

So, I'm on the sherry round at mum's whilst I try and get some circulation back into my fingers and update my autotrader advert.

Read the post on YAYW the other day that Kimmybob had started. Thanks ever so much to those people who said such nice things but I am not surprised that someone horrid and spiteful has started to post comments on here again. It seems sad to me that someone takes so much time out of their own life to read about my own and then say nasty things. I know this might sound like, "pot, kettle, black" but they obviously have a few of their own issues if they feel they have to be nasty to someone over the internet. I've said it before and I'll say it again, "If you haven't got anything nice to say, don't say anything at all!". That doesn't mean "adore every word that comes out of my mouth", just keep a civil tongue in your head and don't take time out of your day to be mean. It's unladylike and to be honest, cheap and vile.

Right, rant over.

I've also been busy looking at the blogs of other people who have linked their blogs to mine and I just want to say, altogether now......... "Well done Diddums!!!!!" Congratulations my lovely and keep on going, you're doing brilliantly. It's weird though cause you get lost in a great big web of blogs as you follow from link to link. It's addictive too - I ended up in Australia this morning doing this. Actually wish I was in Australia at the moment - at least it's bloomin warm there.

Am now going to call it a day for now. I have got to go and cook up a plan to sell my flippin car so that I can pay off my visa bills which seem to have spiralled out of control recently. I would consider selling myself but I don't think Visa accept coins through the post. So, any ideas for earning extra cash gratefully received.

Will update again soon.

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