There is room for everybody on Couch 72

not a lot i'm ok just kind of scared about my up coming trip with some friends. I have not traveled with them .im scared that they are going to see the real me. I hate that my T and I talked about this for a whole session and I actually felt ok about going .even excited about it for a change . she helped me come up with some plans for getting alone time . helped me not worry so much about my not talking a bunch and that I wont have my own car. I felt good and now as it gets closer all of it is just out the door . wasted time .im scared and feeling down and like im going to loose these people as friends if I go . im feeling like my T is just wasting her time with me. it is also sunday and for some stupid reason I always seems to be down and everything seems worse on Sundays and Mondays . just whining ill be fine. pluss I need to stay off other threads

wow glad she is still coming .you were so looking forward to her visit . can you pawn the mother stuff on another sibling at all.

yea...I told my brother she was his for 3 days.

I think you are over thinking the trip, chickie. But I get it, because I hate going away with people too. I totally understand why you'd freak out about it.

Will you have your own room?

for mkac

yes I will have my own room thank god. my big thing is that I am not very social . I usually interact with these people one a month or so all together in a big group crafting .if im quiet it goes un noticed . and I usually can do ok in short periods of time but this is 4 days together in a small group. yikes

I was thinking of MKAC the other day when I saw something on Facebook that said keep your pets inside and the picture was of a horse sitting on the couch with a lady in a chair reading a book. I laughed hysterical thinking of MKAC when she told us the story of her horse looking inside the windows of her house for her when she went inside.

Well that will help...you can do small doses. Just really try not to jump to the conclusion that someone is upset with you, don't try to read their minds. Just be yourself and if someone seems "off" a bit,
don't blame yourself for it.
PLUS, you can talk to us.
AND call your T.


that's a riot Jerz

what the frig, everyone and anyone is calling us to see if there is still Church today.

Do I look like the website, or the email, or the pastor, or the radio?

grrrr.

LOL this is almost exactly what my T said .especially about the jumping to conclusions about what others are thinking. she said that when this happens I need to challenge this and ask myself if there is anything I have done to cause what I am thinking . to notice if it may be coming from in me. if I am unable to see it clearly to go take a nap things might look differently after time.
I would never call her but she did say I could if things get bad. but I do have you guys here and I think that will be enough . im just kind of frustrated I am feeling this way right now.

My next therapy session is tomorrow afternoon and I have no idea what to say and what to discuss or if I even want to talk. Does anyone else ever feel like that when it comes to therapy? I've found it increasingly difficult to find the motivation to go see my therapist these past few weeks, even though I really need therapy.

granite--i think your reply in growli's thread was great! don't put yourself down in it, you shouldn't get "blasted" for having an opinion--and its not like you were mean and went off on her. you have valuable advice to offer!

First...thanks for all the hugs. They must have worked because I'm feeling much better today!

Neut...I've felt that way many times! Once I went and didn't have much to talk about (even with T trying to prompt me, and finally T said, "Should I pull out a magazine to look at? There doesn't seem like much point in this." That worked! Then I've gone and had so much to talk about I'd get frustrated that I only had an hour!

My creative juices seem to be flowing today in regards to my web design and marketing/photography/jewelry business (yes, I'm eclectic). Motivation to get out of the house and purchase a couple of things! Woot woot!! I'm using an idea from my old job in my new endeavor. Once a year, we had planning meetings for each of our I/DD clients to plan their next year of training using a particular method. I'm going to use that method for strategic planning and use T as a guinea pig. She is an artistic and visual person, so I think she'll respond well to this. I've seen the method used once in strategic planning for a think tank I belonged to.

Jersey...here it is:

I plan to trap her soul in a cabbage and chop it with a bread knife.

I don't like greys. Mr T respects that.

The universe doesn't make sense unless we force it to.

Wow! Can I see?

Maybe I should cut her throat with Occam's razor.

William Occam bought an axe
Gave his father forty whacks
When he saw what he had done
Gave his mother forty one.

Think of it as "Siberian cocaine".

Im watching "As good as it gets". Is the dog cute or what?? Also saw Notting Hill yesterday. I realize i am way way behind on movies.

Greetings everyone. I've been on a self-imposed hiatus. Hugs to all that accept them.

We had an earthquake 50 miles from here on Friday night, 4.4 or so. Our house shook for 5-6 seconds. Very strange experience. Our exchange student(from Tokyo) kept saying, "very mild, very mild. " Supposed aftershock today but we didn't feel it.

I'm further behind than you, Hankster. I watched Steel Magnolias with W today. First time I've seen it. I don't want to sound sexist, but it is a definite chick flick.

Maybe its me but when did the expressing of an opinion become a damning criticism of another poster. I have read 3 threads that made me feel mad and I will try to refrain from reading. On the other hand why I let a few people spoil my day. I am trying to be tolerant but I have a hangover.

Hi BPA.

Hi Ike glad to see you. I laughed about your Japanese student saying the earthquake wasn't anything to worry about. It's just brought home to me how exposure to something brings a nonchalance to perspective. I would certainly freak out at any sort of tremor.

It's good to see you, BPA. I've missed you. How you been? What r u listening to?

I was also thinking about how if you don't know your behaviour is unusual you think other people are strange. Like my mother used to make us hide under the bed if anyone knocked on the door. I didn't realise that this nt normal til I was about 8 years old and at a friends place and hid under the bed when the vacuum salesman came.