General

The longer this no smoking goes on, the more I post, it's great, gets it out of my system, almost like a friend to turn to.

Went to the dentist, got the shock of my life, £300 per crown, need minimum of 6, one veneer, £250, whitening of the bottom teeth to match my new crowns at the top £700 and a couple of bridges to fill gaps. I know I said I wanted a model smile but jeezus ... I just smiled sweetly and went along with it, had three xrays and top and bottom moulds taken, so that he, Mr Nicholas Louww, can study them for the best results, kerching, kerching, kerching, I could see the pound signs steaming out of his ears. I smiled sweetly and paid the £92 for the 15 minute consultation plus xrays and moulds, walked out of the reception and promptly felt in my bag for the bakky and papers ... S**T where are they when you need them most! Will I or won't I? Vanity over bank balance, difficult, I'm still pondering.

The second pic is exacly how I want my teeth, mine are like the tops ones, short, fat porcelain-fused-to-metal crowns, they look fake and nasty and cheap now, yellowed due to tobaco, I would love to have teeth like the bottom pic. In fact I've just made up my mind, it's only money afterall, and I would have spent the money on fags, why not get the teeth I've dreamed of ...I'm gonna go for it. SShhh don't tell Keith how much it's gonna cost, ouch. I might add before, during and after pics if I'm brave. My next appointment is on Tuesday at 12.20, kerching, kerching ...

I had a phone call from the credit department of TalkTalk this morning, hello, I am calling on behalf of talk talk credit department, you have an outstanding bill of £67.50 ... WTF? Oh, strange that, consdiering I paid one for £45 two weeks ago, got a bill in for £33.50 yesterday, which was an error, now it's £67.50, what exactly is this for?? Oh sorry, I don't have that information in front of me, boy did I let her have it, well I'llsee if I can find out what it's for and if you don't hear back from us then you can assume its an error, I'm bloody telling you it's an error (sorry, well peed off with them, totally had it up to here with them) Telling me that I owe them money and she can't even tell me what it's for, unbelievable, that's actually quite outrageous. (alongside £92 for a 15 min consultation with dentist)

Collected work today, , got it home, it was inaudible, phoned them up, they said they would redub it if I wouldn't mind popping back down there to collect it again, went down there, still inaudible, she said well I can understand it, so I said stick it on loudspeaker then and tell me which bits you can understand, cos I couldn't hear any of it! She couldn't, just wanted to lump a couple of bad discussions on me to spend the next two days trying to type up, cos no one else would do them, no way Josè. Under normal circumstances I would attempt them but being fagless, caffeine less and chocolate less, with a brusied head, me thinks it's not a good idea to put myself under that pressure. Bit annoyed about the two wasted journies though, petrol isn't so cheap these days, prolly cost me about £6!

A few people have shown an interest in my cat, Jolson. He is long hairish, black and white, named Jolson because of his white triangular collar and white feet/hands (Al Jolson). He is ten years old, and an absolute rag doll of a cat, he is one of a kind and understands all human emotions, when you're sad or ill. He responds with various meows when spoken to, asks to go out, comes up to your face, eye to eye before sitting on you, just to get a response from you to make sure it's ok for him to plonk for a while. He sits on his butt watching telly, as in the pic. The kids can do anything with him, one of martin's specialities is to hold him upside down and pretend to fire missiles out of his butt using his tail as a trigger, as cruel as it might sound Jolson loves this, he idolises Martin and trusts him 100%. always has done since a kitten, doesn't batter an eyelid. He loves Macdonald chips, sweetcorn and goes crazy for trifile, I mean really claw your eyes out for it crazy. He also plays fetch with straws, he has a bit of a fetish for them, beware if you are sucking a drink from a straw as he will pounce and claw it out of your mouth. Love him. (More pics of him above)

Quite excited about watching Vital Signs tonight, BBC 1, 9 til 10. I like Tamzin Outhwaite, I loved the lastthingy she was in, cried me heart out, you know the one about her dying of cancer with that gorge theme tune by Kate Bush!

A few craves today, nothing major, nowt to shout about, bearable ...