COME GET YOUR KiICKS ON COUCH 66!

A friend of mine MADE her own turducken. Bought the turkey, duck, and chicken, and did all the de-boning and sewing. Because she's insane and does insane things like this, which is one of the reasons I like her so much.

I informed her ahead of time that I would not be eating her abomination, but reports from friends who did said it was very good. She was exhausted afterward, though, and said she'd never do it again!

I do a vegan turducken - I stuff an acorn squash...

mu_e the kitty is adorable! I bet she'll be adopted pretty quickly! Maybe you can try and hold off the impulse to go back and adopt her for just the weekend. Give someone else the chance and if she's still there on Monday, have your mom or sister adopt her for you. A year ago, we had to bring two older cats to the shelter for my dad and stepmom (long story) and were afraid they wouldn't be adopted after taking care of them ourselves for 6 months. I know just how hard it can be to give them up. Their pics never even made it up on the website they were adopted so quickly. We were so happy to know they both went to a loving home as fast as they did.

I thought this was funny and wanted to share: What If Adults Had Tantrums Like Toddlers? [VIDEO]

I was like this the other day about my computer issues, but had to pretend to be a grown-up professional about it.

wish I could watch videos at work

Mu_e, sorry about the kitties. It must have been so hard to give them up to the shelter. I think your reasoning that the two at the shelter have each other, and the chance to be adopted together, is good. I adopted a pregnant stray last year and she had four kittens. We kept two and my friend took two. It was so hard to give them up even though they were going to my friend and I knew I would see them often (and like you, I was really bonded with one of them). Anyway, my point is how much the two pairs love each other. Also the pain of giving the two up might lessen as you enjoy the ones you have.

Mast, I am a big fan of Grey's Anatomy too. How kind of your husband to get the DVDs for you. I watch hospital dramas when I am I'll too. Have you seen the English show Casualty and the spin-off Holby City? Glad your head is feeling better.

I had a bad day today. Really upset about my husband's job but I feel I have to be strong in front of him. I went to my needlework group and had to leave the room because I was starting to cry and there were too many people there. I was upset too because they were all talking about their kids and I don't have any. It's not that I feel I missed out especially, more that I am not part of things. I wish I could learn to keep my emotions under control. I am a total crybaby

Good evening, couch. TGIF!! Home from work and t session.. Cleaning and waiting for my h to arrive home from being out of town.

(((purple))) I am sorry it feels so lonely for you...and I really hope your H gets a new job quickly. That's a lot of stress, and when you have that much pressure on you sometimes tears come easily.

((MUE)) With everything that you have going on, the two kitties plus your "demon cat" (lol) are more than enough. Especially with all the expenses of pet ownership. You are being kind letting them go. I know it hurts though.

Healed...congrats on making it thru the week without H....good job!

MKAC - I think I'll have a tantrum like that tonight.

Thanks, everyone, for the support. I bawled my eyes out pretty much all day....and I still cried when I went back to the shelter to pick up the two kittens who just came out of surgery.

The one kitten that my daughter bonded with has a large incision on his belly cuz he had an umbilical hernia repaired in addition to being fixed. He is not a happy camper right now.

I went ahead and took D back to the T I do not care much for. The hospital T told me she has a really good reputation and offered some reasons why she might have suggested the shopping thing. So, before D went back to talk to the T, I talked to her privately first. I told her I was more accustomed to the "team" approach at the children's hospital, and I would appreciate it if she would meet with me FIRST to discuss things like the medication or the shopping trip. When she discusses it with D first, if it is something I am totally uncomfortable with, or have a good reason for not wanting to have happen, that throws me into the position of being the 'bad guy' if I say no. I would just like to discuss it first. She said that made total sense and she could see my point and would talk to me first in the future. Then, without me asking, she proceeded to tell me why she suggested the shopping thing and what she hoped it would accomplish. I'm thinking that the hospital T must have called and talked to her. In any event, as long as D likes her, and the T is willing to talk to me before making big suggestions to D, I am willing to just wait and give this a little more and see how it goes.

Sounds like a successful conversation with your daughters t, MKAC. Thanks for letting us know how it went.

I'm sorry mu_e. That must've been so difficult.

mkac im glad she has decided it is in everyones best interest to work with you .instead of trying to work with your daughter alone.

MKAC...I'm glad you were able to figure things out with D's T...

Granite... How is your newest kittie doing...still skiddish?

Happy Saturday everyone...

So MKAC, what was the reason behind the shopping trip? Sorry, if you don't want to say, then never mind. I was just curious. I am glad you got to settle things with her.

I have the kid overnight tonight. H has a band coming in for recording all day.

Good Saturday to everyone... You too Wiki...

My H and younger son are going on a boy scout trip overnight....so its just me and older son so I want to do something fun with him...these times are really rare...and our time is getting short.

I'm a glutton for punishment.

Morning couch.

I was so exhausted last night after 2 days of the kids acting like wild banchees. Thank goodness for the weekend.

MUE, I know how hard it is to give up kitties that you have bonded with. I recently gve mine up as I felt I could no longer care for them properly as I was too busy. I cried for weeks. It still hurts, but at least I am not crying anymore. I miss them greatly, but I know they deserved better than I could offer them.

MKAC, I'm glad to hear that your D's T was willing totalk to you first from now on.

Healed, gald to hear you survived the time while your husband was away.

Mast, I hope you feel better soon.

RTS, I hope you have fun with your older S, make it special for both of you.

To anyone else I forgot, I hope you have a good day/night/whatever.

She said D was resistant to discussing certain topics, such what she could do differently to manage stress, or new coping techniques, etc. She said doing something fun would divert part of D's mind and maybe make her more receptive to suggestions or more open to talking. She thought shopping would be good because D has no deep, dark topics they would be covering such that privacy was a huge issue. She said with younger kids she uses coloring books or drawing or whatever to distract that resistant part of their minds, but D is too old (and also too young) to be receptive to coloring with her.

Thanks for sharing MKAC...that kind of makes sense.

When my d was seeing a t in high school, the T used to tell her to apply to X amount of jobs per week. My D was having major anxiety about her illness (which was not yet controlled) and panic attacks when she went on interviews (because she didn't think anyone in their right mind would hire someone with a disease). It turned out that T was so much pressure on her she got worse. Then her Rheumy in Boston referred her to a T that specialized in chronic pain, and even wrote the T a long letter explaining the rare disease D has. It helped her a lot. She doesn't see the t regularly any more, but occasionally she makes an appointment just to chat. She's technically too old for that T, but the T hasn't given her the boot yet.

I have to say, sometimes it's weird for me, because I know I am a far from perfect parent, and I wonder how much she bi tches about me...lol. Like the way we biotch about our parents. (BUT I know I am no where near as bad a parent as mine)

Why did she think that D would find shopping "fun"?

imoften wonder if I completely messed up my son do to my horribleness. I did try to keep things in check as he was growing up but was not always successful. he said I am an awesome mom but who knows

I make jokes about instead of putting money in a college savings plan ...I'm putting it into their therapy savings plan... I'm not really kidding...

My grandmother was a piece of work and believe it or not my mother was a big improvement from that... I KNOW I am a HUGE improvement over my mother but I'm still suffering from the remnant of her parenting so I'm sure I passed a little down.

Hey as long as you didnt shut the factory down like i did... sometimes I feel kinda bad that all my grandmas etc survived and I put a stop to it. Otoh, then I would say, who really cares about frank sinatra jr? But now there's mia farrow's son Ronan who might be from frank... but ultimately I prefer to think I was the goal dna