MARATHON SLEEP. I must have been all Gabbled out! For every time I sat at the computer yesterday I found myself lulling fitfully into sleep ... snapping back to life with a jolt! ... So eventually after 4pm when the day's most pressing things had been done, I went home and lay down ... and did not awaken till after 3am. Then I cooked a light midnight lunch of brown pasta twirls (frozen) "baby vegetables" - ie baby corn and sugar snap peas drowned out with masses of cheap baby carrots. Then I drank cyder and chocolate milkshake (not mixed together) and lay down and slept once more only waking briefly for the Hoobs and not stirring again until 9am and Frasier. What is wrong with me?
Why all that sleep? Why?? I do a bit of extra typing and yet I sleep like a Montana bear in winter.
Other news: Laundretta is being punished! (Or quite possibly not as the case may be ...) A gurgling sound from the top of the stairs yesterday attracted me up. There she was, splayed out, snozzling at midday. A letter lay beside her - something to do with an altercation on a bus. I've no idea what she did. Could have travelled without a valid ticket. Could have clawed the driver's eyes out with her eagle's talons. I don't know. And the transport authority may or may not take matters further and sentence her to detention where she belongs: behind bars in London zoo! I bet they won't do anything, though.
Laundretta's behaviour has hardly improved from this short sharp shock from the law! This very morning! There she was! Splayed out yet again! Grunting the weeping sighs of an adult tantrum. It was all an act that she slipped out of as soon as she needed to pop out to purchase a pack of fags - as readily as a supermodel slips out of one outfit and into another ... Then ten minutes later, bang goes the front door. Stomp stomp stomp up the stairs. Crunch. She sits on a packet of crisps. And snozzle snozzle snozzle sniff sniff - sob - gasp! - snuffle, wail and holler! She's at it again because her boyfriend who sticks close by her to spend her prostitute's earnings on crack doesn't love her ...- I mean!!
Finally. At last. We have a lock once again on our front door. And the landlord has threatened Matran - the culprit who's always kicked it off in the past - with police action. And I hope when they do intervene he gets deported back where he belongs!!!
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I'm glad y'all liked my yesterday's poem! I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote it. But obviously I found it again, dusted it off, and found it a pretty convincing pastiche of Victorian verse even if I say so myself ...!
(Wrote it so long ago, it almost feels like it was written by someone else ...)
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I've altered now the very last line from
The bubble now has burst!
to
Of course - the bubble burst!
I felt the original wasn't quite "tight" enough // you know?
...
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PS:-
泡影
I think this means "bubble" in Mandarin Chinese. (Thanks, Babelfish.) How cool is that?!?
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BTW My newest video crazies are:
"Handling Another Hornet"
Blathering Bush
Mother's Day Card
Horny Cow!
Martial Arts Bloopers
and
Unplanned Cartwheel !!
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BTW anyone interested in the famous Thai monestry drug detox(aparently known colloquially as the Opium Pipe Monestry) - I've got their url! They're actually called Tham Krabok. Their detox is no walk in the park, but it is world-renowned. Thanks to The Junky's Wife for the link.
She also gave this reference that is immensely useful: The Discovering Alcoholic - well worth a look.
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What do you all think of my fab new clock? (From Clocklink.com.)Thanks go to Queenie from whom I purloined the idea! Very Ikea bourgeois Cape Cod or Hamptons holiday home kitchen wall, don't you think??
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All these changes are down to my finally learning how properly to organize my sidebar. Only today did I finally figure how to move elements around. Don't laugh but that is the truth...
Another thing I've finally got round to: pasting back up my Addiction Resources Links. This blog was always meant to be a crossroads of drugs and alcohol resources, info and help - but because I had such trouble arranging my sidebar to my convenience that went out the window for the past four months. Well now it's happening. If anyone has any good links they think I ought to know about, please leave a message below. Many thanks!
I've had that want to sleep all the time feeling too....I think it's all the rain, no sun and low light levels causing it.
ReplyDeleteYAWN.....
Rx
It HAS been raining an awful lot lately hasn't it?!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Google translation help I shall go to it and try and install later ...
Hey Gleds, I read your comment on Nic's blog regarding the old lady. I just want to say that I think it's fantastic that you helped. The world is turning completely apathic these days and I hate it. The same happens here. people are so self involved these days. As if helping someone else is something to be ashamed of. Well done mate! :-)
ReplyDeleteIt was great talking to you tonight. I got Ilse's url properly at last as well I will put it in my linxx::
ReplyDeletehttp://ilseswonderewereld.blogspot.com/
You were right that clock is pretty cool. I unfortunately can never seem to get these things to connect onto my own blog correctly. Sometime I will have to sit down and seriously work at improving my computer skills.
ReplyDeleteCan relate to the too much rain living on the West Coast.
Take care and that was one wicked poem you wrote there and I like the change you made to the last line.
I know how to do very little on my sidebar. I'm a little scared to experiment, as my friend wiped out everything once and that always stuck with me. So I've opted to stay very plain/safe.
ReplyDeleteI like the clock. Where, exactly are you located gled? I think I recall you saying London...is that right?
Toccata/Debs: I had the same paranoia.
ReplyDeleteMy old blog was on another company. I kept asking: how do I install a metre to at least count visitors (I had literally no idea how many people were dropping through - had a feeling maybe 40 or 50 people a day were calling but not commenting. Turned out I was right.) I kept on and on asking. People said just drop the html into the html editor. So I opened up a dummy blog on the same company. Dropped the html as I thought I was meant to. And it messed it up so bad that I had a white page with a counter at the top. Couldn't even get to log into it to sort it out. It was that damaged. So I know how you feel!!
Oh yea, that last comment makes me feel like fooling around with my template now!
ReplyDeletemethadone makes it that bit easier to dose off at random times. I was probably taking too much on my off days this week because not only did I sleep in past class when I had gone to bed EARLY, I one time sat at a café and dropped a book every half an hour. Actually it was weirder than that.. I would do my homework and then 10 minutes later stare down at the answers thinking "I think I was gone for ten minutes with my eyes closed because this moment feels like a COMPLETELy different moment!!" And i would feel embarrassed wondering what/IF the starbucks people noticed. And this wasn't on the days when I took HIGH HIGH HIGH mind-blowing high amounts (like 70 5 mg pills at once and an extra dose). It is a weird drug. I know I am on the time release kind but..
ReplyDeletedude, if I wasnt normally a person people though were on speed, than methadone WOULD make me into a zombie!
ReplyDeletedoes that ever happen to you?
ReplyDeleteGledwood, I am worried about you. The Hoobs?
ReplyDeleteBagpuss, yes. That is educational (especially some of the clever comments from Professor Yaffle) but the Hoobs are nothing more than some thick blokes with their hands stuck up a cloth puppet's jacksy.
At least Bagpuss is real and he moves about under his own steam.
And as for the mice from the mouse organ...
PS Have you noticed that Bagpuss never shits or pees in that shop window if he is locked in the shop overnight? He must have one hell of a bladder..