Insects and Politicians

Boris Johnson is now prime minister. I’m not going to comment any further. I’ll just leave the sentence there and let it sink in.

In other news, it’s hot! Too hot. The temperatures today are going to be the highest on record, and are expected to reach 39 degrees. This house has no air conditioning! Excuse me while I take my clothes off and climb into the fridge. I’m no good with hot temperatures. To be honest I’m also no good with cold temperatures. The only time I’m happy is when it’s right in the middle: temperate temperatures.

I can tell you who is happy though – insects! There’s a diverse collection of these things, mostly in my house. We have the spiders which, at night time, dangle spookily outside the windows (they usually climb inside the windows eventually); there are minute black lines which seem to love my arms. They wiggle about and cause itchiness; the moth-like things like to flap around and zoom into people’s faces; the large black beetles scuttle around the floors and have been known to climb into beds (yes, I screamed); the best one was the butterfly. The butterfly stayed in the house for three days and I thought it had escaped outside, but then it turned up, still alive and uninjured, in the hoover. I opened it up on the balcony and the butterfly flew away. Then, just when I thought it had gone for good, it flew back in through the front windows.

I’ll end this post now because of the heat/insects/the fact that I’ve forgotten what I was intending to write about. Happy heatwave everyone! Remember to stay in the shade (personally I think we should bring back parasols), drink enough water (a lake-sized amount should be enough), and keep away from politicians with cheeto-coloured hair because they will steal your parasol and put yachts on your lake.

Long Time, No Blog

It’s been ages since I last posted anything so here’s an update.

Mental Health

Great news here. My mood has been stable this month (so far!). I don’t know whether this will continue for long, so I’m just enjoying it while it lasts.

Yesterday I got a visit from a psychologist. She had a gentle, friendly manner but sadly there isn’t anything she can do to help because staff from the affective disorders team aren’t able to do home visits. I need to overcome the agoraphobia enough to get to the appointments. She encouraged me to start taking Citalopram because it’s supposed to help with anxiety as well as depression.

Speaking of agoraphobia, I haven’t made a huge improvement in this area. At least it hasn’t got any worse. Am still on the Talking Changes waiting list.

Life in General

Despite feeling much better, I’ve been doing a shameful amount of procrastinating. It goes something like this:

You think, ”I have too much to do. It feels overwhelming. Not one part of this to-do list is going to be pleasant. I don’t even know where to start. Thinking about it is making me tired.”

And you deal with it by not doing a single one of the important things. Instead, you decide that this would be a brilliant time to do some research. You know what I know nothing about?? ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART! So then you decide to spend all day reading about Ancient Egypt and cooking stir-fry and feeling guilty because you know you’re wasting time.

I’ll have to make a start though. Pretty soon this will be turning into the ‘Ancient Egyptian Art’ Blog. 😉