Couch 61: How Long Will it Last?

I go white water rafting in w.va. i tried kayaking a few times but i am not good at that unless on a lake or something.

The Book Thief came highly recommended to me by several people. I started it. Read 3-4 chapters and just didn't like anything about it.

I love kayaking. Lakes are fun. Long Island Sound is really fun. I've never been white water rafting. Sounds like a wild ride!

I haven't white water rafted, that sounds scary. I have bungy jumped, parachuted from a plane.....but rafting......a bit scary!!!

There is a storm here tonight and all the sounds are making me really jumpy and freaking me out a little. I'm home alone tonight, my son is at his dads, so feeling pretty stressed. It makes all my cptsd hypervigilant nerves twang with every big gust of wind, bang of soemthing outside or branchs on the windows. Ugh i hate it...wish i had someone here to give me a hug.

Arrggh...now the power keeps going off and on....I hate that!!!!!!!!!! Stormy...you can take a hike please.......

Is it any better yet Jane?

I am reading it right now (or at least trying) from what I have read it is good. Young adult doesn't bother me as I taught middle school and high school English.

No its not better, but I am going to curl up in bed. i think its especially bad tonight because I had a tough day at work that really started making me all hypervigilant and emotionally upset.

i had to develop a plan for the team I work in to seperate them into 2 and it had some negative impacts for many of my colleagues(and me) and so I am stressed about upsetting people and worried they will all blame me even though it is the companies fault for under resourcing us! I just got the short straw to come up with the plan because "you are the only one that has the brain power to handle this" said my boss!!!

The plan was delivered to the team today...with express instructions to not take up any issues with me, talk to the boss only. Of course the boss left early and I was left with the fall out. There were tears, tantrums and threatened resignings.............

And so i take on board all of that negative emotion on top of my own 'stuff'......and those right there are the ingredients for the begining of my own perfect storm.......then throw in an ACTUAL physical storm............

(sorry to rant, just alone and scared and no one to talk too)

Did you raft the Gauley? I have been on the New, but want to try the Gauley.

This is true, but it is still is a reflection of me when it comes to the client. They don't see the agency in the background, only me. I'm frustrated, wishing I stood my ground. Instead, I'm stressed out about getting there on time.

It's a big town hall meeting at a government location (and it just dawned on me that because it's a government assignment, the mileage reimbursement is HALF of what the agency usually pays - making this 120 mile assignment even less appealing).

MKAC, I'm glad that you're still hanging on the couch. I can understand staying away from the forum, especially when your feedback isn't received the way you intended it to. It can be useful to get feedback on how we're perceived, but I find that on the forum it's typically not expressed in a healthful way.

Morning, couch peeps! I woke up 25 minutes before my alarm was to go off. At least I didn't oversleep! Gotta get showered before waking my daughter up. Early day at work for me.

Hope everyone has a great day!

MKAC-I'm glad that you are going to hang around on the couch. One thing I realized when I was away was that in this case, I can have my cake and eat it to by just hanging on the couch. I did answer a few threads last week here and there but it was just general question ones/fun ones. I'm staying away from anything that requires a lengthy opinion or looks like a recipe for some sort of confrontation. To each their own, that's just a self care thing I put in place for myself to be able to be here with the couchies.

Good luck MUE. I know your stressed so I hope things go smoothly and your day treats you well.

Good Morning/afternoon/evening...my family got stuck in traffic trying to get to george washington bridge in nyc...they had to drive all over the place to get to a tunnel instead and didnt get home till 2am...

All of that could have been avoided if they took the tapanzee in the first place but people dont listen to me.

Everything is back to normal with my H...btw normal sucks but I have no one to blame but myself.... Today my H watched me go through my purse twice...go through all my coat pockets.... Look all over the downstairs of the house...go through our mail organizer ....go out to my car and back in...etc... Then reaches in his pocket and said oops I must have picked up your keys by accident...

My H keeps his keys in a drawer in the same place every night no chance he confused the two...mine were right on kitchen counter next to my purse

I wonder what he gets out of doing stuff like that

Oh, RTS. I'm so sorry. I would've threw them at his head.

Jersey...you never react because then he will say I dont know why you are so upset it was just an accident.... And it just makes you look like a crazy person...

That's true, RTS. I was speaking out of anger.

Ah, the crazy one, my familial role----------makes things so much easier for everyone else. Mostly.

Morning all...
Someone needs to get couch 62 up and running...
Any volunteers?

Lola...I read:
as "arrested in w. va"
I did a double take. Guess my eyes aren't awake yet!

I have been on both the New and the Gauley.

I guess I'll start Couch62

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