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DIARY OF A SLOWLY RECOVERING HEROIN ADDICT

I used to take heroin at every opportunity, for over 10 years, now I just take methadone which supposedly "stabilizes" me though I feel more destabilized than ever before despite having been relatively well behaved since late November/early December 2010... and VERY ANGRY about this when I let it get to me so I try not to.

I was told by a mental health nurse that my heroin addiction was "self medication" for a mood disorder that has recently become severe enough to cause psychotic episodes. As well as methadone I take antipsychotics daily. Despite my problems I consider myself a very sane person. My priority is to attain stability. I go to Narcotics Anonymous because I "want what they have" ~ Serenity.

My old blog used to say "candid confessions of a heroin and crack cocaine addict" how come that one comes up when I google "heroin blog" and not this one. THIS IS MY BLOG. I don't flatter myself that every reader knows everything about me and follows closely every single word every day which is why I repeat myself. Most of that is for your benefit not mine.

This is my own private diary, my journal. It is aimed at impressing no-one. It is kept for my own benefit to show where I have been and hopefully to put off somebody somewhere from ever getting into the awful mess I did and still cannot crawl out of. Despite no drugs. I still drink, I'm currently working on reducing my alcohol intake to zero.

If you have something to say you are welcome to comment. Frankness I can handle. Timewasters should try their own suggestions on themselves before wasting time thinking of ME.

PS After years of waxing and waning "mental" symptoms that made me think I had depression and possibly mild bipolar I now have found out I'm schizoaffective. My mood has been constantly "cycling" since December 2010. Mostly towards mania (an excited non-druggy "high"). For me, schizoaffective means bipolar with (sometimes severe)
mania and flashes of depression (occasionally severe) with bits of schizophrenia chucked on top. You could see it as bipolar manic-depression with sparkly knobs on ... I'm on antipsychotic pills but currently no mood stabilizer. I quite enjoy being a bit manic it gives the feelings of confidence and excitement people say they use cocaine for. But this is natural and it's free, so I don't see my "illness" as a downer. It does, however, make life exceedingly hard to engage with...

PPS The "elevated mood" is long gone. Now I'm depressed. Forget any ideas of "happiness" I have given up heroin and want OFF methadone as quick as humanly possible. I'm fed up of being a drug addict. Sick to death of it. I wanna be CLEAN!!!

Attack of the Furry Entertainers!

Attack of the Furry Entertainers!

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Regicide

THAT'S RIGHT. LAST NIGHT I KILLED ROYALTY. It was a Queen wasp to be precise. Last year I had a nest right along the eves where I live. At c.4am, attracted by my light (which always stays on; I'm v often awake at that hour) and able to infiltrate my never-quite-shutting properly sash window through the middle or the bottom these horrible blighters entered my room with an ominous buzz and proceeded to persecute me by divebombing the naked lightbulb. It was impossible to ignore them; every so often they would smack into the ceiling for no apparent reason and drop to the floor. I had no intention of getting stung and so armed myself with a newspaper (when I was too broke to buy chemical weapons) or (ideally) cockroach spray. (Why the cockroach version? This works on wasps and roaches; fly spray doesn't kill cockroaches very effectively at all. It's too weak. A direct hit of cockroach spray can zap a wasp in five seconds, which is far quicker than fly spray. It's the indirect hits you have to be careful of when the buzzing gets lower, the evil sting-with-wings circles haplessly, threatening to crash into you until you zap it yet again. And the room stinks of insect killer. I had weeks on end of this experience until finally the weather got too cold and I was sincerely hoping the entire colony had been wiped out. This seems now not to be the case. Hardly being an expert on the life-cycle of the common ("yellowjacket") wasp I looked this all up on Google and was told in late autumn new Queens emigrate from the colony setting up home elsewhere. The original Queen remains behind with most of the workers. All the workers die. Next spring she wakes (supposedly alone, according to "expert" sites) and sets about founding a new colony; chewing paper, laying new eggs, etc ... The old nest is always abandoned.

So why this plague of enormous wasps? They are not hornets. The European hornet is about the same size as these monsters but markedly brown-&-yellow in coloration whereas these are black-&-yellow. These look exactly the same as the wasps I had last autumn (I killed enough to know!) except they're nearly twice as big in some cases ...

What is the meaning of this plague?? Already I have killed two Queens in the last month. A third flew in during the day but fortunately left via my then-open window. Am I going to have five nests in buzzing distance of my bed come next autumn? Please no!!

14 comments:

Claire said...

CLUE

Gledwood said...

This is my back-to-English translation of the comment I left on http://karholdrio.blogspot.com's blog just now. I had to put it somewhere just for posterior'ity.


Babel Fish Translation Help

In English:
You know people would say nowadays that those women were fat! What uneven standards the industry of the beauty has! I absolutely found his blog by accident to intention, chascando that following button of blog upon the cover. I cannot really follow the words but the pictures seem pleasant. I also do blog: Gledwood vol. 2 (http://gledwood2.blogspot.com) you are most of the reception to pay a visit to me and to have a push through my secret newspaper in line! Also you can be that she can advise to me in my giant problem of the wasps. I watch ahead at its visit without delay. Of its English friend, Gledwood

Kárhol said...

Alo alo amigo inglès quieres t escribo en español porq tu lo hiciste ;) y t agradezco la visita y la sorpresa...regresare a ver, leer y comentar sobre tu problema de las avistas

besos desde Mèxico

Klatuu o embuçado said...

«The original Queen remains behind with most of the workers. All the workers die.» [...] «Already I have killed two Queens in the last month.» :)

Please, don´t You kill Your Queen... She seems to be a fine old Lady...
And I am a monarchic... ;)

Cheers!

Gledwood said...

Karhol: translation to English=

Alo alo friend inglès you want t I write in Spanish porq your you did it;) and t I thank for the visit and the surprise... will return to see, to read and to comment on your problem of you sight them

Unknown said...

Clearly it is a much more hospitable environment within your walls than..er..without. (You know what I mean.) Perhaps you should try not being so attractive to the Queens. (Nope, that didn't sound right, either)

Oh well. Hells bells. Ta-ta and many thanks for visiting the mindfulthings, Brave Sir Gledwood.

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Orlando Rubio said...

Hello,
Beautifully writen indeed. Very unique in style, I wish I have a skills like yours.

Peaceful/Paisible said...

these animals can be very dangerous...in France when there is a nest somewhere we call the fire-men, they have special equipment to get rid of them...be careful...
mum mousie always frightened her little boy gets wounded!
love dear...

Gledwood said...

Mousie: don't worry I will be careful. I don't have anything to do with these creatures unless they come in. Then I spray them. Trying to get them to fly out of a window that doesn't even open at the top is a hopeless business at 4 in the morning when it is pitch dark ...

Gledwood said...

Evil Spock had his Evilness assaulted on two occasions pedalling his pushbike last year, no?

Gledwood said...

Assaulted by WASPS, that is ...

Anonymous said...

I thought I had an agreement with the wasp denizens at my home and office. I don't bother them; they don't bother me. Until I got stung by two wasps (or got stung twice by one). Now all bets are off. If I see them or any evidence of them, I kill them. So much for my Buddhist ethics.

Gledwood said...

***k Buddhism / **** ethixx. If they're threatening to dive-bomb me as I reside in my bead ... bead? bed -- they are Dead Meat !!

grumpygit said...

Bumblebees are starting to appear down here...the size of small cars. What's going on...global warming?

Keep up the good work, my man!

Yours truly

Grumpy.

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If you have a slow connexion and are unused to viewing multiscreen films on Youtube here's what to do: click the first one and play on mute, stopping and starting as it does. Then, when it's done, click on Repeat Play and you get the full entertainment without interruption. While you watch screen one, do the same to screens 2, 3 and so on. So as each bit finishes, the next part's ready and waiting.

Mexican Black Tar Heroin: "Dark End"

Khun Sa, whose name meant Prince Prosperous, had been, before his death in the mid 2000s, the world's biggest dealer in China White Heroin: "Lord of the Golden Triangle"

In-depth portrait of the Afghan heroin trade at its very height. Includes heroin-lab bust. "Afghanistan's Fateful Harvest"

Classic miniseries whose title became a catchphrase for the misery of life in East Asian prison. Nicole Kidman plays a privileged middle-class girl set up to mule heroin through Thai customs with the inevitable consequences. This is so long it had to be posted in two parts. "Bangkok Hilton 1" (first 2 hours or so); "Bangkok Hilton 2" (last couple of hours).

Short film: from tapwater-clear H4 in the USA to murky black Afghan brown in Norway: "Heroin Addicts Speak"

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Some of the most entertaining scenes from Britain's top soap (as much for the poor research as anything else). Not even Phil Mitchell would go from nought to multi-hundred pound binges this fast: "Phil Mitchell on Crack" (just over 5 minutes).

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