What a week

This week has been a whirlwind week for me, with ups and downs and everything in between.  Somehow, I ended up working 30 hours in the first three days of the week (Monday – Wednesday), so I took it easy on Thursday, since I’m not able to invoice more than 40 hours a week.

Having not worked at all on Thursday, I realised I was unable to work much on Friday, since Jennifer now works on Fridays, leaving me to look after Lily.  This isn’t a problem in and of itself, but it becomes significant.  Later Friday night we decide to eat a couple of steaks for dinner.  Whilst preparing them to be cooked, I notice they are two days past their expiry date.  After asking Jennifer a couple of questions about this fact, we decide that they should be safe to eat and cook them up.  After we eat, we lay in bed, watch a little TV and get some sleep… by about 3am!

As I awaken on Saturday morning, my stomach is absolutely churning.  As it turns out, eating those steaks was a very bad idea after all. To make matters worse, I have to look after Lily again, since Saturday is the only other day Jennifer has to work.  Exactly 15 minutes after Jennifer leaves to go to work, I hurl what can only be described as Steak pulp.  This process is repeated another two or three times before Jennifer gets home from work.  Every time I had to get up to either change Lily’s nappy, or make her a bottle, or anything else that was required to care for here throughout the day, I was quickly overcome by an overwhelmingly nauseating feeling, which was often followed by a violent wretching at the porcelain bowl.  As you might imagine, I didn’t eat at all on Saturday as the mere thought of food was rather nauseating.

Come Sunday morning (I woke at about 11am) I’m feeling MUCH better, but fairly weak.  Jennifer decides she needs to get a little Christmas shopping done, so she heads out and I look after Lily for a couple of hours.  Jennifer arrives home just in time for us to prepare ourselves to bowl league.  This is not how the night was spent in the end.  Our car has been making a rather loud clunking noise from the front-left axle, which we were told was a worn CV joint.  For months now, we’ve been intending to take it up to the dealership we bought it off to get that repaired before it wore out completely and wheel just dropped off.  Well, tonight, the axle snapped.  

We were about halfway to the bowling alley and felt the car start to wobble quite violently, so we pulled over.  I had to run back a little down the road to call Bill, my father-in-law, to see if he would come and get us.  As luck would have it, he was in town, so he came down to where we were, gave the car a quick look over and told Jennifer he would drive it back to the store, while she followed in his truck.  The axle held up right until we reached the store.  At the exact moment we reached the store and got ready to park the car, we heard a loud crunch and felt the car drop a little on the left hand side.

This weekend taught me two very important life lessons:

  1. Don’t eat steak, or anything for that matter, once it’s past its due date.
  2. If you hear a clunking noise from your car, fix it sooner rather than later.  Your wheel may just fall off.

With all the fun and games behind me, I have the ever so fun task of catching up on missed work, thanks to being unable to work Friday, Saturday and sleeping half of Sunday, due to a stomach bug I had caught from eating food that was past it due date.  We also have to find/steal/borrow a vehicle we can use until the car is repaired, which could take anything from a few days, to a few weeks, to a month or so.  The winning money would be on the latter.

Merry Christmas everybody!


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