Couch 56...Getting Back to our roots

It's rainy here, but we really need the rain.

Alrighty. I will start to fantasize about the floor instead. This would be much easier to do if they ever freaking vacuumed the carpet in this place.

I don't see any rain, but MKAC is to my northwest and my window faces southeast. So in my world she is a magical weather fortune-teller.

You all could drive here... its not perfect weather but not raining...and not too far from the shore...

Hey where is MUE?

Its Michael Jackson day at work! Who's Bad?

on Pandora.... Now its Blondie... So hard to keep up

Call Me ....not Call Me maybe

Now its my personal favorite.... Janet... okay for you young ones... Janet Jackson...

Ick.

Sitting at the hospital waiting for my doc.
Go hum.
I am not a patient waiter.
I am not a wait patienter.
I am not a patient patient.
Hooked on phonics worked for me!

Hey couch peeps! (and thanks, RTS, for checking in on me )

Met ex-group member yesterday for lunch and had a nice time. Then picked up groceries, a free DVD rental - and spent the rest of the night cleaning, making stuff and prepping for today...and watched the DVD. Got to bed SUPER late and had to get up early today for an assignment.

Luckily, the assignment ended really early - so I don't have to run around like a crazed woman to get everything together for today.

My aunt, cousin, her son, mom, 2 nieces, nephew, my daughter and I will be spending the day at the swim club. I made fresh homemade salsa, spinach dip, chopped up some veggies with ranch dip, have assorted chips, a couple cakes, sodas/waters/juice pouches. And we'll be ordering some pizzas. I just need to run up to get ice for the coolers, get changed and be at my mom's by noon. ACK - NOON? I gotta run!! LOL

Hope everyone has a good day! I'm hoping that being in the pool will help this horrible sciatic pain. My neurologist prescribed some prednisone, so I'm hoping it will also kick in to help with the pain. Keeping my fingers crossed.

And OMG, it feels so good to have my daughter home.

Hope the pool helps too, ME, sciatic pain is no fun.

I have a list a mile long of things to do before going on vacation next Friday and I might get a couple of the "easy" ones (hair cut, liquor store, meds pickup) done but I feel myself sliding into next week before I start to panic and get serious.

Oh - I didn't realise that that was what was behind that poll. I thought it was caused by the hand-holding discussion in a different thread. (Not that I would have responded any differently.)

FWIW, I support you - and I would have supported you if you had stayed, too. Maybe you could have worked throught he ruptures and maybe it would have been good for you to do so. Maybe not. In any case you have a different T now who seems to be helpful, and who might help you view things from new angles, and that is surely a good thing.
My major beef with Madame T was that she didn't really seem to acknowledge your Aspberger's. It's a factor in your personality, and it affects how you interact with others; it's pretty weird for a T, regardless of which methods they use, not to recognise this.

Sorry if this was inappropriate. I really just wanted to say that I don't think it was the wrong decision to make.

I don't think any of the Ts I've seen has asked me to fill out any paperwork. They have asked for my name and address and ID number, and that's it.

It's about a million degrees. We have been walking around town today showing our Chinese guest around, but after a few hours both she and I were feeling rather ill from the heat so we took the bus home again, and it was about a million and three degrees on the bus. The cats are lying like flat rugs in cool corners of the terrace and only waving an ear now and then to show they are alive. No rain for a couple of weeks, and none in sight

Hmm. I think this may be the first time in my life that the thought of getting into a pool, or a lake, is not unpleasant. That's how warm it is. (I am talking about a pool or a lake where there are no other people around, because that aspect of it is still horrible.)

Once again its time for recess and there's no one in the sandbox to play with...

Now Pandora has moved onto a litte Tina... what's love got to do with it?

which followed Bon Jovi.... You give love a bad name....

what is Pandora trying to tell me..

Leaving work to go to a party. I'd rather work. Funnnnnnnnnnn.

Im here... for a bit, trying to catch up on the last day of the couch

Hankster... the sandbox is big enough for everyone...

Ugh!! Major anxiety that came out of nowhere today!! Currently hiding in a corner and doing some lesson plans! I feel like I could burst out in tears at any moment! Have to go to stupid summer job in about an hour.. Sucks!

Hey Lola... hope the new job is engaging and you enjoy your weekend.

Oh Healed... I'm sorry ... I hope the anxiety will subside...

Thanks, but Im beginning to wonder. You all need to take a vote on that?

Healed I'm sorry honey, maybe it will go by fast?
Hank..plenty o room....

New job is overwhelming and underwhelming at the same time... LOL

W came up last night to visit and she will be here until like Tuesday or later as she isn't in school yet.
Weird thing is I am not happy to have her here. I am very focused on my routine and developing one and all of a sudden she's here and its throwing my routine off. I don't hate having her here, I just feel nothing. It is a very weird feeling, I am emotionally numb. No drugs or alcohol... just blah.

Lola... the W thing sounds logical... can you establish a while we are at my place we do things my way and when we are at your place we do things (schedules routines, etc) your way?

Is the new job "overwhelming" cause its all new people (projecting what my feelings would be)?

no its overwhelming because I am working for a group that I have no experience in and as of now am expected to do little to nothing for.... its just weird, I'm actually a project manager on something software related but had to be titled and place somewhere....

As for W, its not that she is doing things her way... Its more like I get very OCD regarding things having a place and being picked up etc.... and the longer I live alone, the more "weird dog owning" crazy person I think I will become. I think I could live alone forever now.... and not have an issue in the world. As long as things happened the same way all the time, I'm turning into "rainman"...whoppner on Tuesday!

Sorry, Lola! I hope things get eaiser for you at both work and home!

LC - are you trying to make your space "our" space instead - or do you want your space? If so, it may be that directness and boundary setting are going to be required. Are you and W trying to remain a couple or become friends? Are you still engaging with her because you want her or because she is familiar and comfortable?
I am not suggesting there are correct responses, just seeing if you are choosing for yourself, or just letting things happen?