Another Miserable Day

Without wanting to sound too depressing, today has been miserable. This is mainly down to the particularly foul weather, grey skies all day with almost constant drizzle. I totally understand how people get SAD and even I - a normally chirpy and optimistic sort of person - was feeling down in the dumps today. All I wanted to do was curl up in my nice soft duvet and lie in bed all day, but that wouldn't have got anything done. Not that I did all that much anyway but at least if I'm out of bed I can at least feel like I'm doing something.

The day consisted of finishing off all of those half started tasks, crossing them off one-by-one from the 'to-do' list. I finally managed to apply for a new tax disc, something that I have been trying to do since receiving my reminder notice at the beginning of the month. Because I was getting rid of my previous daylight insurance and moving to a new company where I would be without restrictions, the DVLA decided that I simply didn't have any insurance for when the new tax disc starts. I had already bought the new insurance, but for some reason they hadn't added it to their magic 'database' which is an all knowing and all powerful entity similar to the one used by TV licensing, both are to be feared and worshipped if you believe the adverts. Anyway, that's now out of the way and I got round to renewing my contents insurance as well sadly no discount this year despite having the car cover with the same company.

On a related topic I also had the tracker removed from the car, so now I know I'm defiantly free of constraints! The guy who came to remove it was in a right muddle, for a start he was early - something practically unheard of these days - more worryingly however, he thought he was coming to fit a new one! For some reason he had convinced himself of this and I quickly corrected him prompting him to recheck his papers and confirm that I was right. He then proceeded to tell me about the complete bosh job that the installer had made when fitting it. I was pretty convinced that it had been him as I thought I recognised his face when I first saw him. I accepted that I might have been wrong whilst he continued to moan about the mass of cables amassing behind my glove box, thanks in part to a previous tracking device from my previous insurers - who withdrew their pay as you drive insurance - and the alarm. When he did finally get the device out, I had to stop myself laughing when he pointed out it had his name on it! He then tried to convince me that it must have been one that he had fitted somewhere else and had been relocated to my car but I was having none of it.

The rest of the day was spent in front of the telly, some good stuff on tonight, Economy Gastronomy is a particular favourite of mine and next week they are visiting a student house so I'll be making notes for that episode.

I've added a few bits and bobs to the layout of the blog as well, I've now got a Twitter link at the top and a link to my archive. I'd completely forgotten about that until I was reading someone else's earlier and realised I'd deleted it when I got rid of my sidebar.