An eventful couple of days

The last couple of days have been stressful but with good news at the end. 

Yesterday I got in from work and discovered the house freezing cold. The heating was not working and all the radiators were stone cold. After a lot of fiddling with the thermostat and timer I had no luck so got our tiny heater out and put it on to try and warm the house up. On top of that the internet was not working :-(

So I was on the phone to British gas homecare and managed to arrange to get the engineer over this afternoon. Unfortunately I had a friends leaving lunch between 12 and 2 and the engineer was due to come from 12.  One of my very good friends offered to come and sit in the house so I could attend the meal - how kind. Anyhow I called British Gas back this morning and a very nice man arranged to have the engineer come after 1, so I managed to get to most of the meal.  I accidently left the heating switched on last night and woke up this morning to a warm house.......at some point last night the heating came on, that was so odd. The engineer came and put a new value in which apparently was not working properly. So fingers crossed it is fixed.

With the internet after a call to virgin media to reset the IP address, I had to reset the wireless modem to its factory settings and do a bit of fiddling and thankfully got it working again.

I went to give blood this morning and will get the results next week - I hope all is ok.....

I had a lovely lunch with my friend (and other work colleagues) who didn't know about my situation - so once again I had to hold it together when explaining. Whilst I am getting better I still have to fight back the tears. She thought it would take around two years to get over the emotional aspects. When talking to her I realised it has been a year since he told me he was leaving me and I'm still an emotional wreck :-(

And then when back from lunch I got a ping from an OU friend to say that our results were up. Tentatively I went to my record and was gobsmacked to find out that I had passed ! I cried with relief. I didn't get as good a mark as I was hoping to get, but I was closer than I expected and didn't just get a pass. I have no idea how this happened!!!

So now I am sitting here in a warm house with the internet and relieved to know I have passed my exam - what a difference a day can make !

Oh and I forgot to mention in my last post that I managed to smack my eye with the edge of the car door leaving me with a cut and bruised eye - ouch.