Couch 61: How Long Will it Last?

He is staying at least through tomorrow. Thanks ready

I hope recovery goes well for your father, granite.

Granite hope you are doing well too and that your father will heal quickly. (((((Granite)))))

Not yet, but it was GOING TO BE and in the end it WAS.

((( granite )))

Glad to hear your father came through the surgery ok....Hope he has a good recovery and that you are able to get some rest!

I was called to do an emergency assignment last night - so I was working from 8:30 PM last night until 6:30 AM - then had to rush home with only 10 minutes to get changed (cuz I had another assignment and needed to scrub and get out of the clothes I wore at the hospital) and make my daughter's lunch - 10 more minutes to pick her up from my mom's and drop her off at the bus stop - then headed to another assignment by 8 AM. Came home after 10 AM and slept for 2 hours - then got showered, went to T and then to another assignment.

I have only slept 7 hours since Sunday night....I am beat. Agency asked me to go back to the hospital for the same patient tomorrow for 9 hours.

It does make for a good pay week, though!

((((granite)))) thoughts are with you.

MUE-I agree that the money is nice, but damn girl...you are gonna burn out. I hope you get some more rest.

Thanks, Jersey. Yeah, it's been rough. This work is so unpredictable that I tend to take advantage of every opportunity that I get. Last week, I only worked 4 hours - so I was hard pressed to take on as much as I could this week. It often means missing nights of sleep which is so hard for me with being a single mom with migraines and other health issues. It's not ideal, but it's what I have available to me right now. And I love the work, which is a tremendous help. Too bad that even with all of the hours I worked this week and the missed sleep, I still didn't earn as much as I did at my last full time job. *sigh*

I am planning on getting a decent night's sleep tonight, hopefully. So, I'll be good to go tomorrow.

I am Glad you will get a nice rest tonight. It is hard but your right-enjoying the work makes it easier to deal with. Hugs

hi there...

I slept all day. Almost all day. I did go for a swim. I am so damn tired, I just want to sleep.

Granite...how's your father?
MUE...feast or famine! It is good that you have some money flowing though.

Hi Wiki... Its good you slept today. That will help you with being rested for your fundraiser thing this weekend.

Its exciting to hear about your daughters journey .... when does she graduate?

thank you guys so much for all the well wishes my farther is doing ok.he is still in the hosp but is on the mend

((( wiki ))) - Glad you've been getting some rest.

((( granite ))) - So good to hear your dad is doing ok.

Why on earth am I still awake? When I picked up my daughter from my moms, she said she expected me to be groggy. I wasn't. At all. Weird. I even decided to make a real dinner for myself - stuffed shells and fresh roasted green beans - so that I'd have leftovers to bring to my assignment tomorrow for lunch. Go me!!

It's now almost 9:30 PM. I need to be up at around 5:30 AM.....so if I can get to sleep in the next hour, I'll actually have a decent night's sleep.

Goodnight, folks!

Sweet dreams, MUE!

Granite, I hope your father has a speedy, uneventful recovery.

I had a long day, a tough T Session (one of those where I let T pick the topic - ugh), and lots of papers to grade for my advisor. But I got to play with baby raccoons and any day with baby raccoons is a good day.

I wish my xT would have picked the topic just once but he wouldnt even though I would ask him to... Even just once he would have asked me a follow up question on all those things he said we should discuss in more depth...

If wishes were horses! So you can be pretty sure he's not gonna pick the topic tomorrow? So it's gonna be excruciating. Sounds like you need pocket riders and to provide snacks

Ready...next T, you take a bunch of topics and scribble em down, then fold em up ... put em in a baggie and randomly draw, only on the slow weeks?

UGH. I soooo get this. I know the old, "it's your therapy, you need to take control of it and bring up the things you need to work through, T can't be a mind reader to know what you want to work on at this moment"....But, in reality, mustering up the courage to bring up those things is super hard and wishing that some of the burden of making it more bearable to delve into is quite reasonable.

And I am a dumbass for still being awake right now when I could have been asleep an hour ago.

I notice that I am less inhibited when I've reached the point of hyper over-exhaustion....I just sent T an email that I will probably regret by morning. :shrug:

OK, going to bed now. Promise.

Nighty night.

I see now that being on the other side of the world may well make this couch hard to keep up on, so forgive me if I am a little slow.
Thanks goodness it is friday night, although to have only just sat down at 9pm means I have had far too busy a day. I did at least get to see a client at a gorgeous beachside location and enjoy a coffee in the sun.

MUE I know what you mean about stayign up way past when you should. I just hate going to bed at the moment. Have to be up at 6am tomorrow as i run a local craft market once a month in my 'spare' time. Would love to give it a miss..but ah well..gotta go.

CE....but was it worth staying UP so late for??

It was! Documentaries about The Who are not so common that I can afford to miss one. It was about Quadrophenia, the last great Who album.

Control is my drug.

I guess it all depends on where we fall on the continuum. Some need to work on letting go of control while others need to gain some. We can be assertive about the topic of what we want to talk about, but we can't have control of what the T will say or do.

So, I got to sleep....and then had to wake up to use the bathroom. It was pitch dark, and I was hopeful that meant that I still had hours of sleep yet, as I groggily got back into bed. Looked to my clock and saw that it was 5 minutes til the time I had to get up. GAH.

*sigh*

Time to get moving. Hope everyone has a good day....or night, for those on the other side of the world.

Good morning couch. I have to be in work by 7am. Isn't that too early to deal with young children? lol. These times make me see why I never bothered to get treatments to have my own but also make me wonder why I never bothered to get treatments to have my own.
Sigh.

Well off I go. Hope you all have a good day.