Couch 43 ... 1 year !! Thanks for the memories

ok i think granny panties and wife beaters are hot

now all we need is for stop to put on the ref's uniform and we are off. DING!!!!!

ok it was a great week, minus the me sick and oldest Grand sick and then this morning i tell W I dont want to drive them 1/2 way home. Part because I am tired, getting over being sick and have to go out of town tomorrow all this week and the other part because they are moving 6 hours south and I am unsure of when I will see them again and that stuff breaks my heart. I had the whole week off and we were going to get the kids Thursday, well they came Tuesday instead... not my choice, I said no to Monday. W is pissed and wont talk to me for hours and I say, I know your mad Ill go and she says, no she doesnt want me to go, because i don't want too. She said she would never do that to me. Ugg...being married sucks sometimes... so now I feel like I need to clean the house while she is gone so she can relax when she gets home. Ill pack later tonight and get to relax on my week off when I'm dead! Women! uggg!

Said before 50 years of age:

You Ain't Bein' Bad If You Don't Get Caught ... !!!



Said after 50 years of age:

It's Easier To Stay Out Of Trouble Than To Get Out Of Trouble ... !!!

ok I screwed up and should have went with her...now I have to clean to make amends... uggg

clean fast and surface and then rest

Should have GONE - I'm flashing back to 7th grade and some very mean nuns, sorry!! Just take care of yourself so you can work tomorrow. You guys need some lessons from my mom. It was all about her and work.

My mother was allergic to work.

ACK! I'm so glad I don't have a wife. LOL.

Even when I was married to my husband, he said that I wasn't the typical nagging wife. He came to appreciate - after our divorce - how I was so easy-going, didn't ask much of him and didn't nag.

I can understand the W being disappointed but ultimately would hope for understanding...I'm wondering if you're both trying to get the other to see it from each person's perspective.

She feels it is hard to drop them off too and she is tired also and wanted my support.... that was all she had to say.... Ugggg LOL

Seems like a lose-lose situation where one person had to make the sacrifice....UGH.

((Lola)) that sounds rough. Sorry that your relaxing week off before the start of the new job was anything but relaxing. I can understand W being disappointed but you need to give yourself a chance to prepare yourself for the new job. Try to take it easy, you were just sick the other day and don't want to start off new job under the weather.

So going anywhere fun? Did you already post the couchsitting list for this trip?

Good call, I need sitters for monday through thursday!

Hi.......

I find it is just the opposite. I care less and less about staying out of trouble the older I get.

Her stuff, dude. You don't have to make it yours.

I wish dissociating was like something you could perfect and do on command...

that way I could be doing what someone wants me to do that I don't want to do but my mind wouldn't have to know I was doing it...

Hey Murray...how are you doing?

I am pretty good at disconnecting on self command. I learned how to do it with my mother. Now I can pretty much tune out anything and not realize it, even throwing in things like "umhmm" "really" "wow". My partner and sometimes friends become snappish when they (often not incorrectly) think I have checked out from them. It is slightly different from disassociating for me - which is more floaty and odd.

Hmmm... I used to able to disconnect pretty well.. therapy has messed with that as well... dissociating for me is just gone...just lost time...it is usually only minutes not hours or days thank goodness...

there are certain activities that I feel obligated to take part in which I wish I could be "gone" for.. but I can't seem to make it happen when I want it to...

Hey Stop did you use the blow torch yet? it sounds like fun

That sounds like a terrible therapy side effect. I hope it does not happen for me.
I do hate the missing time of disassociating. It is sort of freaky and I really should be used to it by now.

And blow torches are so cool. I only got a little hurt because of not paying attention about how hot a part would get and I tried to pick it up wrong. But besides that I did not burn the house down or have to talk the partner out of calling for an ambulance. Highly successful endeavor. I am now going around to see what else I can torchify.

The first time I knew it happened to me (losing time) because my H and boys told me stuff that happened that I didn't remember and I realized I was gone for like 10 minutes... I scared me because it was brought on my some sales guy grabbing my hand and holding it down... I felt trapped and I was gone..

It still bothers me because I've always felt I could take care of myself in any situation and this proved otherwise...

Hey Ready
I'm.....here. That's about all I can come up with lol

If the activity you are wanting to dissociate through is what I suspect...then I used to have methods for that but I don't recommend them. Sorry.

I am also intrigued with Stopdog's blow torch. Several years ago I went through a phase when I thought I wanted to learn how to make my own glass beads and that involved a blow torch. It occurred to me that I am far to clumsy to attempt such a thing as much as I am interested. Maybe when I grow out of my awkward phase....it could still happen after all these years...right?

Hey Murray...

It probably is the "activity" you are thinking of but it could be useful for cleaning bathrooms as well... I'm open to ideas .... I'm not drinker though so that is off the plate.. the disconnect thing worked for years and it doesn't work now...

I've found as an adult I can do way more than I thought I could because I stopped listening to all the old voices in my head that made me think I was ...whatever...

Maybe you are not truely clumsy...