Day 19

Sorry for a very late day 18!

Day 19 is here on time :) and what a bitch it started out to be! So I woke up this morning to no power in my flat, I have one window, and it isn’t in my bathroom, so I had to shower in the dark, get ready in the dark, and just sort of hope for the best that I didn’t look too bad. It took me about 3 times as long to get ready in the dark compared to a normal day, and it wasn’t stress free as I’m sure you can imagine. After realising I was running quite late for work, I stampeded out the door, down the stairs, to find a nice coating of frost all over the car. Great, the one day I’m running late, it has to be the morning 5+ minutes will be added on for defrosting the car. So, midway through defrosting, a woman comes up to me and says, "I wouldn’t hurry". I looked at her, and she must of decided to continue from the baffled puzzled look on my face, “The electric failure has knocked the car park barrier out". I couldn’t believe what I had heard, I went and checked, and she was totally correct, the power failure had killed the car park barrier, which couldn’t be manually lifted either. Great. I mean seriously, what the fuck would happen if an ambulance or fire engine needed to come in such a situation. So, I phone the management firm, (manager’s mobile) to be told he is on leave, and can’t help me. I informed him after he had so casually said he was on leave, that I will be sawing the barrier off in which case, to which he said I wasn’t allowed. After suggesting that he come stop me, but oh no, wait he couldn’t, as he was on oh so precious annual leave, he said he would come out shortly. Funnily enough, about 10 minutes later, the power kicked back in, the barrier lifted and I was on my way.

The aggro that caused this morning I think I can safely say was the biggest test yet (after dinner with mum). And I still managed to not smoke. I was angry, very angry in fact. But didn’t feel like a smoke would make it any better, nor did I even think about having one. Pretty impressive I thought!

Work was average, I went for a run when I got in, eat pizza for dinner, and am about to retire to bed after typing this.

I feel days like today are actually good to reflect on, and I feel after the stress of the day, I am impressed I didn’t want to smoke at all :)

Speak soon.

Andy