Dear iPod,

Did I ever tell you how much I love you? Well I do. You’re 30 Gigs worth of awesome. Why just this morning I was humming a tune that I really wanted to hear, and you turned to me and said “I have that. Here, have a listen.” So I did. “I have more.” you said when that track finished, “Would you like to listen to any of them too?” I was so touched by your generosity. Your just so considerate. Storing my entire music collection the way you do.

The only thing that could even possibly make you more amazing was if you played video, but alas you can’t possibly do every…..what, you can do that too? Really? Damn, you are great.

Your so sleek and sexy, with your beautiful curves. Your just a perfect companion when I travel, always keeping me entertained, never letting me get bored, and throwing up the odd surprise when I least expect it.

So iPod, thanks for being who you are.

You rock.

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After feeling like crap yesterday my boss took one look at me and sent me home. As soon as I got back I grabbed a duvet, got changed into comfortable warm clothing and lay on my sofa watching DVD’s, all the while feeling worse, and worse.

Eventually in the early afternoon I fell asleep, and with the exception of the point I woke up and transferred myself to bed, or the couple of times my mobile rang, I managed to sleep for a good 20 hours.

I woke up this morning and I feel so much better than yesterday it’s remarkable. I’m not exactly 100% yet, as my throat still hurts a little, my back still slightly aches, and I’m very tired. I think that these symptoms are only still a factor because the bug hit me so hard and so fast.

I imagine that in a day or two I’ll be completely back to normal, which is just in time for me to go to London and get sick all over again.

There’s a bug going around work at the moment, that is pretty much kicking everyone’s ass. Well it turned out that since I’d been lucky and avoided it for so long that it decided to come calling at my door yesterday afternoon.

Yesterday was spent sneezing, coughing, and going through stages of surface of the sun hot, and arctic tundra cold.

Well it’s still smacking me around, thankfully though, I’ve stopped all the coughing and such and now just hurt from head to toe, and frequently have the hot/cold thing going on.

I hate to complain about this but I feel like crap, and just want to go home.

Just ignore me…. I’m only feeling sorry for myself.

It’s one week into my new healthy living kick, I’ve spent the last week with my new diet and a changed set of eating habits. There has been a great improvement in the way I feel, and look and I can honestly say I’m enjoying every minute of it.

So far in the last seven days I have lost 15lbs, which is unbelievable. It actually makes me a little concerned about all the crap I must have been pumping into my body before.

So within a week, I’ve already dropped a third of what I hoped to. It’s obviously going to be more difficult to drop the weight from now on and I don’t expect to lose anywhere near as much next week. All I want is for a steady loss until I reach my target weight.

The deadline for my target was the beginning of April, and I wasn’t sure if that was realistically going to be possible.

However, after weighing myself this morning I’m extremely confident I’m going to manage it, which in turn makes the lifestyle change all the easier.

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After the nightmare of having a tooth removed last week, I had to go back into the dentist again today for a check up on the procedure, and to create the mould for the temporary denture I’m going to have to have for a month or two.

When I spoke to my dentist about it again today, he gave me three things I could do, other than just the initial option of a bridge that we spoke about last week.

1 - Make the denture a permanent thing - ahh, no thanks.



2 - Have a bridge fitted - Which would mean damaging the molar behind it. Not ideal.



3 - Having an implant fitted to replace the tooth. - EXPENSIVE AS HELL

I’d already ruled out option 1. I really didn’t want to have to deal with a denture, hell I’m not even 30 so I wasn’t going down that road.

Which left options 2 or 3.

Option 2 was from his point of view the worst option. Simply because you have to cut the tooth behind to fix the bridge too. This basically reduces the life span of the other tooth by about 90%

Option 3, again from his point of view, was the best option. The new tooth would not be adding any strain on those around it, and it would be firmly in place in the jaw bone making it just as strong as my other teeth. Then of course there was how much money this would make the practice. It comes in at a whopping £2500 for one dental implant. Yep you read that correctly, £2500 per tooth.

What to do, what to do? It’s not an easy decision. Obviously the preferred option is the implant. It’s much less damaging to the other teeth, but fantastically damaging to the bank balance. The bridge, while causing extra strain, is financially manageable, especially since the dental plan I’m on would take some of the hit with it, which it wouldn’t do with the implant.

So what have I decided to do……. For those of you who know me, the answer is an obvious one.

I have time to change my mind, but I think I’m going with the dental implant. It’s more expensive, but it means that I don’t damage any other teeth, and it will be a great deal stronger, and last a lot longer. I now just have to come up with some way to pay for the thing.

It’s something I really could have done without, but hopefully I won’t have to pay for any other dental treatments for a long damn time.