yup, I did actually take 3 days off work with an infected wisdom tooth…sounds ridiculous huh. But it was so painful, especially at night so I couldn’t sleep in-between taking doses of painkillers. And my cheek swelled up on one side, and I couldn’t open my mouth to eat.

But the other issue is my hour long commute into work. I couldn’t get an appointment to see a dentist, or GP until 11:30am on both wed and friday…add to that the waiting times due to them having to squeeze me in (half hour one day, an hour on friday). Then the trip to the pharmacy…..by the time it was all done it was 1pm. An hour train ride into work and it would be 2pm….so hardly seemed much point, especially since I felt in pain, hungry and disfigured.

Anyway, pain and swelling have gone so I feel much happier, and although today was monday I had my fortnightly day off work, so I got my hair trimmed (needed a tidy) and mentioned to the hairdresser that I wanted to get high-lights put in. I had in mind I could discuss it with her and book an appointment for next week, but she said I could have it done straight away….so I did! I love it! I now have some blonde streaks through the front. I’ve never had my hair coloured before, so quite exciting for me!

What else have I been up to? Oh yeah, went on a booze cruise around the harbour last weekend with Dave and some of his friends to celebrate the end of Movember. I for one will not be mourning the loss of all those ridiculous moustaches that have krept into being through the month of November in the name of charity! The  booze cruise was good fun (I have never known the combination of booze+cruise to be anything but!). Rain mostly held off to let us enjoy the boozing and cruising in the sunshine. We got back to Darling Harbour at around 5pm, so headed to Cargos to carry on the boozing. Cargos has a great location on the water-front – however it is unforutnately a low-brow bar with high-brow pretentions. This is evident in its stupid policy of enforcing a dress-code after 8pm…despite the fact half the people in the bar came in earlier in their jeans and flip-flops! However it is large, has outdoor seats by the promenade and serves booze, which what we required at the time!

On tuesday I went to see Quantum of Solace with Farz which pleasantly surprised me. They stripped Bond down to its best: lots of action as Bond remains suave throughout and got rid of most of the gimmicks which have become cliched over the years: the bad chat-up lines, the gadget-packed car, the disfigured evil baddie. I loved the fact that the baddie in this film was in the environmental business – nicely blurring the lines between good and evil.

That’s really all I have to say for an update. Pete’s not been sailing recently, so no sailing to write of. Salsa class was pretty much the same as always. And being run-down with tooth-ache I didn’t feel like doing anything for half the week anyway.

Very un-exciting!