I'm supposedly getting Freesat TV within the next month and a half at the longest. I'm hoping to get someone else's cancellation. I can no longer bear living with four channels of snow and endless trails for things on BBC3 and E4 and other channels everyone else seems to get in Britain apart from me.Of course I am also supposedly moving house imminently. Which is what got me so het up about signing up for satellite television. If I get that installed surely sod's law shall come into play making me have to move out before I get my hands on at least 83 channels of free entertainment plus supposedly another 200 that I can tune in manually. You even get a horror film channel. So I'm doing what's known as Tempting Fate. Plunking down £67 on something that will really brighten my life, when my life is due to be brightened immeasurably more by this forthcoming move. True, everyone at the new house will be recovering from severe nervous breakdowns but so am I. Only a few months ago I was hearing voices every day and getting funny looks in shops. I still have to take medication and when I don't my mood plummets and sometimes I get quite paranoid. People on the street seem to be talking about me. So I take my medication albeit grudgingly. And look forward to moving house. Or satellite TV.
The pest controller came round today as we still have roaches marching around our kitchens. I showed him the Mount Everest of unsorted belongings on my double bed. We pretty much agreed it's Priority Number One that as much of these unwanted books, records, DVDs, classical albums on vinyl etc which includes at least one carrier bag full of WOMEN's clothes must go down the charity shop forthwith so that's what I'm doing. Also I HAVE to get my house tidy for the Freesat man. Otherwise I will die of shame.
My methadone is down to 70mg as of tomorrow, which I'm really pleased about. 70 mils! Wow. Never thought I'd see that day. I might actually be on less methadone now than Anna Grace out in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Now that would be one up the spout for her!
My newest to-do thing, apart from not use heroin on top of my increasingly lowly methadose, and to clear clear clear the rubble off my bed, is to GET MY COMPUTER REPAIRED. I found out if I move house I can get 30 (gigabyte(?)) broadband plus a landline phone plus 75 TV channels all for about £30 a month so I might go for that one. IF and when I move.
Well Xmas is a-coming, the geese are getting fat. Please put £20 in the drug addict's hat!
That's a traditional rhyme here in Britain. I'm not into begging up change any more. I even found a dropped purse, with money inside, on Morrison's floor. And instantly returned it. See, a change in lifestyle is possible... I just wish I could change quicker. And cut out all illicit druggie-use ALTOGETHER...
Well there we are then, as they say in Wales. I'll have to ping or else I'll get terminated!
Good . . You sound enthusiastic again about a few things. Could be the meds, or less meth or a bit of full moon mania creeping in. Thats what I need this week to get everything done. Not even got time to write a post but saw you had so had to check in . . . Pleased you're on the up!
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Take care, Gleds. Hope that you get to move soon and the computer issue is resolved.
ReplyDeleteMy brother used to get Freesat which did have some better stuff than Freeview - however given I only watch BBC documentaries, Jules Holland, Time Team on Ch 4 and rugby and motor racing I hardly use any of the channels we get - I watch ITV4 much more than ITV1 for example
ReplyDeleteBuggerlugz: hopefully it's mania. Not fullblown psychotic mania but a touch of hypomania would go down very well indeed
ReplyDeleteSyd: the computer issue is up to me and I'm too para to take it into the shop it came from which is known to have the worst customer service in the business. I've been in 2 branches and was studiedly ignored the entire time I was in there. When I did collar a staff member she barely knew the difference between dual core and single core processors. The technical staff were offhand and seemed more interested in getting rid of me than answering any serious question. By hard drive is "broken" but it's only the cable (gut feeling tells me) that's down. Unfortunately this cable is utterly integral to the drive. I know this because I have taken the drive right out on several occasions and examined it. The rude and dismissive staff will insist that I buy a new hard drive leaving me with an empty computer. That is why I don't want to go back there.
Furtheron: anyone who's ever had Sky can get Freesat automatically just by cancelling their subscription: Freesat is the channels they're left over with. If that doesn't work you can get the box for £30 from Argos. I am chomping at the bit waiting for this fucking company to just INSTALL INSTALL INSTALL my television but it's still going to be a good month to a month and a half. I was only so into it at the start because I thought it should tempt fate into putting my housemove through. Also I get a money back guarantee so I can get the entire thing disinstalled if I do move out within 28 days of installation. If not I get to keep the box and whoever's lucky enough to get my cockroach ridden room gets a free satellite TV feed!