Maybe you didn't fly the best skill test ever, but if it took you 52 hours over 14 months, that is pretty good, so you appear to learn at reasonable pace and, more importantly, retain it quite well.
While there is nothing wrong with yielding to a good temptation (well, certain things excepted if you are married or similar), normally you should have your en-route flying reasonably automatic before you add flying under the hood. By this I mean that staying on heading and altitude "just happens".
So perhaps, instead of sitting on the ground for a month, start out training without a hood, but including radio navigation, to ease you in instead of starting full-on.
And please, use a hood when it gets to it, not foggles - foggles are cheating.