It's not been a good week...

17:42.00 - Wednesday 6th April 2005   (Link to This Entry)

It started when I only received half of my wages this month - I had been paid for 12 days instead of 25 because I'd done 12 last month and the accountant thought that was my monthly wage. I drove home on Friday with the cheque but didn't cash it, waiting instead for Monday when I could get a new one made out.

I pranged the car on Saturday morning, sending bits of bumper and wheeltrim scattering up the town highstreet. The other guy's car wasn't so bad but ours is undrivable, and so a new car was required. One huge wad of cash later and I'm driving around in my Peugeot 306 TD. An entire month's wages (of which I only have half, remember) have gone on the car and there's tax & insurance on top of that.

Not only are we skint, but we have a relative coming to stay, possibly at the end of the month, and so we have to get the building-site of a bathroom finished as soon as possible. I'm not sure where all the cash for this is coming from, but I'm pulling in all the money I can from various sources, hoping it'll all add up to enough at the end of the day.

My new boss still hasn't seen the accountant about the rest of my cash so I'll have to speak to him tomorrow about that. There wasn't an awful lot of work available, so I've had a day off today (and missed a day's wages too) and I'm back in Scunthorpe tomorrow. At a time when I need all the cash I can get, I don't really want to be taking days off.

Things are pretty stressed in el Casa del Dude.