Sorry - Disasters all round lately

Sorry for not updating for a few days - I forgot my password. Life has been a little hectic for all the wrong reasons lately. Monday was spent at the eye hospital being poked and prodded ready for my operation next week - I came out feeling like a pin cushion because one of the nurses couldnt get any blood out of me, she tried twice and couldnt manage it but one of her colleagues drew some straightaway.

On Tuesday I had a hair appointment and when I turned up at the salon, discovered that although I had made the appointment for yesterday it had been entered in for Tuesday next week - thankfully though, I got my hair done. Then to compound it all when I arrived home from the hairdressers, I had no power - my lights worked but nothing else. So I reset the trip on the fusebox and followed my landlord's instructions and bang everything went off again and I couldn't reset anything. I was left without the means to make a hot drink, cook my dinner, watch tv or anything else. One good thing was that I managed to defrost the freezer but did lose about half the freezer contents so now I shall have to stock up again - no point claiming on the insurance for a bag of chicken legs and a few chicken joints. I was without power until lunchtime yesterday - the landlord's man came out and reset everything but once again, you've guessed it everything went off and he had to be called back. It took him 4 hours to resolve the problem - faulty wiring!! The fault was traced to the room where I have my office and my adjoining bedroom. I do wish though that they would put things back as they found them - I am now struggling to fit the coveronto the fuse box which although it is in a cupboard I don't like the idea of cooking steam getting at it.

I have a feeling that I am going to be let down again next week - my ex chap who has been trying to get into my good books promised to come up this weekend to collect a key only now he is sailing and last night kept asking me when my operation was. I now have the feeling that I shall have to find my own way home from the hospital as well as making my own way there - I am too mean to pay £40 for a taxi when the bus fare would be £3.30 for a daysaver ticket and I could get two buses - a bus into the city centre and a bus out. Why can't people be reliable?

I am looking for a new charity to support too - I keep being asked to help organise events but am never invited to any planning meetings so I am really wondering if its worth the bother? I had arranged for some good friends to sign some of their travel books that could be auctioned off at a charity dinner but now I feel as though their time and my time has been wasted, so I have withdrawn the offer of help - this may seem mean but I would rather support a charity that wants help with its fundraising rather than a closed shop who say they want help but when it is offered, is accepted and then I am dropped like a hot cake - I hate timewasters.