Welcome to couch number 23!

Good morning all!

Wiki- I hope the moves goes smoothly today, I have been thinking and praying for you!

MUE- Have a good day.

Today is the last day of the 4 day weekend in our house. No plans, so I think I will just relax in between cleaning.

That is impressive! I always in awe of people who can play complicated pieces. I never did too well on piano...but part of that was having my mother as a teacher.

My internet gave out on my last night. So I went to bed....

I often write in my journal like I am writing to t and find it lowers my anxiety as well. Now that I think about it, I've never told t that sometimes I write my journals like I am talking to her....somehow I think my t might not approve of that completely. I can hear her say it now: Therapy is about you, not about what I think."

Wiki

Morning to everyone else! Guess I better shower so I can get to the doctor by 8....

Cuz everyone loves getting just 2 hours of sleep before having to babysit 2 undisciplined kids, right? -sighs and rolls over-

@Sconnie: My t actually suggested me to write in a journal, it was originally to find anxiety triggers but it's become a 'write out my feelings' type of thing. I'm also keeping a separate journal as a dream diary.

Good morning. I am frickin exhausted. I did not sleep well and was plagued by dreams reminiscent of an action flick. I don't want to go to work, but alas...

Leaping within me
My poetic soul takes flight
At these offerings

Morning all. Great weekend. Went to Chapel Hill and watched football with my old college buddies(on the tube). We lost. Lots of alcohol consumed. Sunday my old roomie took me for a ride in his new toy, a Ferrari 458. A rocket sled on wheels. We hit 100 on the entrance ramp to I-40 and I was glued to the seat. It's a good way to clear out the hangover cobwebs. I'll post a picture later.

oh yes, picture! Glad to hear you had a good weekend, Ike.

It really is hard to do any kind of serious cleaning when I have two kids and one puppy under my feet!!

wow hubby let me sleep and i also had just normal dreams .ones that i could stay in forever. nothing bad and nothing unrealistically good just normal .

hows things today?? anyone got good plans

wiki i hope the move goes smooth and the showing is stress free

sconnie how did the appointment go today .i hope you liked the new NP

chopin sorry about the bad dreams you can write about them here maybe it will help to write them down

What are all of the other Tuesday people doing with Christmas & New Year's day falling on Tuesdays?

sorry about the bad dreams. made me think about the very first active imagination (AI) I did. it was in t's office, shortly after I'd had one of those nightmares where I would wake myself up screaming at the top of my lungs. That was the day she first told me about AI and a little bit of how to do it and she asked if I wanted to try going back into the dream, in the safety of her office, and ask who it was in the dream who they were and why they were doing what they were doing. I discovered that day that I have some inborn talent or something for doing AI's because as I closed my eyes sitting there on the couch I went immediately back into the dream at a scary part of it and tried to mentally ask "who are you" but before I could I started crying and had to shake myself out of it. But interestingly..... I've been doing AI's for about 9 months now and it has been almost that long since I stopped having nightmares that I awake screaming from. I don't know if it's the weekly therapy that stopped the nightmares, or the control over my dreams that being able to go back into them in AI's makes me sorta feel, but something has sure worked. Probably both.

What exactly is quality time?

Thank you for this , as It hadn't dawned on me.

I hadn't even thought about that yet.... t wants to go back to Tuesday mornings after she moves, now that my schedule at new job is a later one (I start at 11 now) today is my last evening appointment and our last in-person one before she moves. Hmm.

Ack Ack Ack! What???? I hadn't even realized this until now.

I don't remember much of the dreams. My H's BFF's mother died of complications due to diabetes and there was some kind of gunfight on a train.

My H is a child. He fell asleep on the couch sometime before I woke up and I had the hardest time trying to wake him up to go to bed. Just in case I don't get home before he has to get up, he needs to hear the alarm.

At work now. All seems quiet. I really don't have anything to do. I'm about to ask my boss for a task of some sort. That could be dangerous.

Sorry about the bad dreams Chopin. My dreams are like movies too.

Artemis what is AI's?

Thanks for the heads up about Christmas and New Years, pbutton! I'll have to talk to him about that.

I bought Chia seeds yesterday! Can someone remind me what I put them in other than oatmeal and yogurt?

My first thought? DIRT for chia pets! lol.

You can put them in water/liquid to drink. I sometimes mix them in orange juice. They go in any smoothie or cereal. If you make a gel with them, you can put them in baked goods like muffins (I have put them in waffle batter and muesli bread)(If I made pancakes I would put them in there, I just don't like pancakes)

Yeah...shouldn't have asked my boss for something to do. Now I get to write policy. Fabulous. Where I need to revise uses wonderful words like promulgated. Then again, I guess once I'm done, I'll be promulgating the new policies.

I make chia gel with 2.5 TBL of seeds to 1 C water. It keeps about a week or so. I also mix the seeds into jam, let it sit for a couple of minutes and spread on bread sometimes with almond or peanut butter.