h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I don't know if it's just me or if everybody's life goes into meltdown now and again. I just find if one thing goes wrong things just keep going wronger and wronger until it hits bottom and then ... well, just sort of levels out.

I consider myself a pretty up-beat person for most of the time and my glass is always half-full never half-empty but just for the moment the downward spiral seems to be going at full kilter.

November and this journal a day thing will help me keep this particular spiral 'for the record' and at least I'll know that it's not just my imagination - 30 days in which things went bad.

I was eating a baguette with ham in it .... mmmm, it was lovely, very fresh and tasty. Then I heard a large crack somewhere in my head. It wasn't my skull, my jaw or my neck it was a tooth. Right at the back of my mouth I have a crown, a bridge and a tooth without a nerve ?! I don't remember why - it's been like that for about 20 years - all that work was done at the same time. I can honestly say it's never given me a bit of trouble in the 20 years it's been sitting in my jaw and doing all the chewing type work. Last night it seemed to find fresh baguette just one step too far.

I'll have to find time to get to the dentist someday soon. The tooth without the nerve hurts - I don't know how or why because I can't see anything obvious but I can't eat on that side of my mouth ... maybe I'll shed a few pounds (weight).

I took a phonecall at work today from daughter's school and had to go fetch her - she was feeling sick. She's been lying on the sofa since temperature up and down the whole day.

I was at the doctor again today - I have another chest infection. More of those horse pills they pass off as anti-biotics and another course of steroids. Only back to work and off for another week! I'm sorely tempted just to give up altogether, it's getting to be a bit of a struggle.

Anyway, going to try to sleep this off - or at least sleep off the sickness caused by the anti-biotics.

Maybe things will look up when this journal a day thing is over ... it's been notably downward since it started .... when the last journal is posted tomorrow I promise I won't post another until my news is good.

Tops up Fizzy's glass.

See, it's full now - only good things can happen from now on in.

Keep us posted...

Hope you feel better soon.

My sympathy.

I hope you do feel better soon,

get well soon