Blue Saturday

"I'm not dead yet!"

because i seem to have accumulated several lifetimes of bad karma, last night i realised i've got fucking bedbugs. god knows how - cannot think of anything from the outside that i've brought in in months, and this feels very rapid, like the last couple of days

middle of the night stripping all the bedding putting it into a 90 degree wash but kinda pointless cos no dryer to blast it with and no way of dealing with the source problem, trying to isolate my bedroom as much as possible but now faced with making the house tidy enough to bring in the professional pest controllers, i feel like fucking Job except you know without being righteous before the Lord in the first place

if i make it thru today that's seven days sober but come the fuck on something isn't playing fair

nb this isn't depressing in itself just ENOUGH ALREADY I GET IT

christ, very Job like. seven days ongoing would be a massive up yours to that karma tho.

i don't really have the energy or the inclination for the pub today tbf, tho i wd like to just be there in company if i didn't have to do anything about it

i'll probably stop at home and post too much again instead. Wolves on TV tomorrow, that will be a sterner test of non-resolve

might need a corner shop/chippie run at some point maybe

Bedbugs can get onto you from other peoples clothes or belongings afaik? Anyway post as much as you like and get to seven days. What will you get in the corner shop.

craving Vimto squash and idk what really, my appetite is like an 18th century fop with the vapours lately

i've had one other person in bed, weeks ago, no visitors to speak of. i'm in a mid-terrace and wondering if they can somehow make their way across from a neighbours tbh. i figure there's no point me spending money on chemicals and doing the job wrong, gonna give the council a ring on Monday and see when they can get somebody out to give pro advice/treatment. at least it's gonna force me to do some of the tidying i've been apathetically avoiding for months

nah, not an 18th century fop, like the protagonist of À rebours, that's what i've become. except without the money, like.

Yeah get the council to sort. Don’t think I’ve ever had Vimto. Is your corner shop like ours in that it does brands and things you’ve never heard of and dodgy Russian Kinder eggs, or is it just a normal one?

i've got an old school sweets, cigs and porn mags corner shop and a Polish-run random European delicacies including Russian Kinder eggs shop both at the end of my street, and a mini Tesco two minutes further away on the main road, so i'm spoilt for choice really. i haven't been hungry in weeks i don't think but i get these occasional brain cravings for a v specific taste and then it wrestles it out with my desire to never leave the house (sober) ever again. really not craving booze atm so that's handy.

2019 Vimto cordial is a sad, watery, sugar-light parody of what it was when i was a kid but it's wired into my dna at some childhood level

Every day (when) I lie here stuck in feelings of futility, inability to focus on any distracting activity, loneliness, hopelessness, regret, attachment, inner/outer ugliness, deeeeespair

well that's when I run off to the pub, the only exit route my pea brain can grasp at

it never lasts, I have to come back

ah fuck. I think I'm not gonna drink today but fuck

Did you?

Still sober :) yay me

Tomorrow tho hmmm

hi NV I haven't made it a week yet but tomorrow I will

2 nights ago, approx. 1 hour after I said to my spouse "I need to just fucking man up about some of this shit" there is a RAT IN THE FUCKING BATHROOM, had to dig around in the basement, figure out how to set a spring trap after years, set it, put it in there and close the door (there was a window cracked to outside). rat has vanished, trap unsprung. wariness continues.

OK there is a definite universal conspiracy against getting your shit together for some reason

xp :)

Good luck with tomorrow and also with the bugs, I am combing fleas off the kittens so I feel your pain on that score

Don’t think I’ve ever had Vimto

Disgraceful. Fizzy > lollipop > cordial.

Never had any of the stuff. Did you know it’s a big thing at Eid? There’s no shortage of Vimto everything in much of the Middle East.
https://www.vimtoarabia.com/prod/

Yeah I did know cos I've bought Saudi Vimto before and it's much more like the old UK formula

Never much cared for fizzy drinks tbh

every morning I start the day with a glass of Rocks Orange concentrate mixed with sparkling water. That's a very wholesome type of fizzy drink imo.

Yeah mixing most cordials with sparkling water is good. Tetley weirdly do this lime and elderflower one that’s really good but barely available anywhere.

yall just fyi this mix of deep house classics put a huge smile on my face this morning

https://soundcloud.com/rinsefm/chaosinthecbd230819

I'll be on that tomorrow morning :)

I've remembered why drinking is bad not good. Oh I met some student libertarians last night. Cunts.

Wait I've just seen a Macmillan "Go sober for October" advert self-destruction is the only morally correct response

John Thaw is drinking warm breakfast vodka in The Sweeney and the very thought is making me bowk

is that the animated one where one character offers another one a drink, they say ‘no’ and then turn into a superhero?

that ad is fucking infuriating because the superhero refuses a drink with a flat ‘no’, not a ‘no, thank you’, which is fucking terrible manners and makes them unfit to be a superhero ffs

Damn straight

Also when charities nag me I get hives

well, yeah

I drunkenly fell into a beer garden umbrella last night and fucked my shoulder up and now I can't hardly move and yeah sobriety is probably the right idea tho but y'know what is this world if full of care

Mr Horrible
Mr Horrible
Telephone call for Mr Horrible

I watched the sunrise get it right along the Banks of the Humber

Alll clouds and infinity

What the fuck are we

What the fuck are the windows cleaners

I know it's Suxlumdsr today

I made wobble Mom

He killed a motherfucking chicken - baby - chockeemmmmmm

I think that my ugliness might be a thing to annoy me with

How’s your shoulder?

Knackered but I figured out a quality anasthetic

The sky is beautiful cloud-checked blue and in 2 minutes the Spooniez people will seelll me booze unless they decide I'm undesirable but lol come the fuck on it's Spoons unless I look remoany I'm in

Tbc

*Adam Curtis voice*

He looked remoany

*Tim Spoonie voice*

Nobody gave one (1) fuck

*Steve Albini voice*

This is Hull, we do what we want

*Sweep voice*

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE

All Rory Stewart was the reginbrau

Ah bollocks it's reign of dusk

REIGN of dusk

Hi die hi

Somebody spiked my marquis haha

realm actually too. still it worked.

marquis de sadness

A+++

I realised it was realm three quarters in and thought I'd self corrected but I'm glad you did Fizz

Weirdly it wasn't a convo to be had in the drinkingy pubs I'm in now THIS IS NPT A CRITQUE EXXEP SELF MAYBE

my god, I'm full of bars

Friends and lovely people have cut me off from every local bar. Swear to god I will kill motherfuckers rather rthw inot drk k

ONLY GOD CAN STOP.M ME ABD RTBAT CC UNT I'SNT REALI WILL DIE I A DOTCH OVER THIS

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when you wonder why it's so dark at 9 in the morning and then it gradually dawns on you