I've had a worse two week time period in my life, to be sure, but man this one is up there mostly due to volume rather than intensity of bad things.
About two weeks ago we discovered fleas in our house. We had our cats going outside this summer, and noticed they were itching themselves an awful lot, then suddenly started seeing the little buggers everywhere. We spent a lot of time vacuuming and washing, and finally called in some professionals, and we will still likely be dealing with them for a few weeks.
That same day I sat down to take a look at our finances to put together a budget, because the wife and I were noticing a dwindling savings. We've got an 8 month old, so its no surprise we are spending more now than before. The big issue was we (meaning I) didn't change any other spending habits. I have a large sum of money that I was able to credit to junk I buy just because... At one point in my life everything I owned could fit in the back of my car. What happened?
I went to a conference for work last week. Somehow I managed to double book myself at the hotel, at the "Promotional non refundable rate" for conference attendees, so I spent a grand of company money. Not sure how I'm going to explain that one.
Lastly- just this morning, I backed up into another car in a parking lot. Not a ton of damage- ours worse than theirs. They are getting an estimate to fix theirs, and i'm just going to leave mine or fix it myself. Neither of us want to report to insurance, so I'll be paying for their repairs which doesn't help that second situation.
Here's where it really hit me in the nuts though- All of these things, every single one is due to carelessness on my part. We should have protected the cats from fleas, I should be more aware of my spending, I need to get my poop in a group at work, and I need to pay attention to where I'm going. I really could have prevented all those situations- so this isn't a "Ahhh life is mean and nasty and picking on me post" but more of a "I need to grow up and get focused on the important things post"
I put this here because I needed to get it all out, and the wife is currently a bit upset with me over the fender bender and isn't ready for a nice face to face.
UPDATE:: Wife just brought me candy and rum. I think we might survive this one.