Couch 82: If you're happy and you know it, be a number!

I believe mine are the cutest babies ever. I think every parent thinks that.

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OK I am calming down now. Using my grounding exercises so I can start thinking rationally again. My son is going to go to his school counselor tomorrow and talk to her about how to fix this. I told him if he cannot get it resolved, to tell me, because then I will go have a meeting. He wants to try to fix it himself first. I will let him. Now that I am calmed down I realize of course that he can get student loans for college. His future is not destroyed. I am still getting used to letting myself feel my anger and perhaps that makes me over-react...

... but the teacher is STILL wrong.

I agree. It would make sense to offer a different final exam option. Especially since he let the teacher know in advance.

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Board of education
Superintendent
Principal
Guidance counselor

Lots of options

Remember you are his advocate...let him try but if it doesn't work...you start at the bottom of your list and move up.... Hell have no fury like a pissed off mom!

Yep - he's going to the counselor tomorrow, if that fails I'll go to principal, then the superintendent, then on from there and you are right hell hath no fury like a pissed off mom!! I am taking my anger and instead of directing it at myself I am going to fine-tune it and take it wherever I need to!!

Wow. I just realized something. When I thought about that, the hell hath no fury like a pissed off mom, I realized why I am so out-of-proportion upset about this. It's because when I was in grade school and there was this one boy who was in my class EVERY year, would routinely beat me up, steal my homework, throw my class work out the window, destroy my art projects, in short made me so miserable I tried to stay home "sick" all the time and cried to my mom over and over and over about this kid, and she NEVER did anything about it but tell me to stop being a baby; it's because of that, that as I talk about how I want to step up for MY kid and fix this, that I cry, I cry for little me.

Yowsa, I think I just had a session with my inner therapist again!!!

This week is filled a bit too much for me with social obligations.

And a performance of the Messiah starts in just a few minutes - one to add to my comparison chart.

Update - no it is not - they (BYU) have goofed it up by adding in wacko acting about Handel. An emotional roller coaster for me. Happiness over thinking there was going to be just a performance and plummeting into dismay finding out it is screwed up.

I am stuck at home as the pdoc says i'm not to drive until the meds kick in and I don't have the attention span of a gnat anymore, plus shes worried aboout my road rage. I am getting so irritable with myself , even making a salad sandwich invloves all the profanity I know.

that sounds rough BP

It is SD because the girls are here and may want to go somewhere and I'll have to ring their dad. I still trying to find out why my eldest is frightened of her father. If anyone is frightening it would be me.

my cat is laying here next to my mouse pad and rubbing his head/face on my hand, purring up a storm, and lightly biting my hand, strangely it is making me feel so loved.

The other cat is sitting under the christmas tree looking up at the ornament he wants to steal. ha! i don't want to go to work today. i'm having an "i want to go back to bed and sleep for a week" kind of morning. Meh. Off to work with me...

I went grocery shopping yesterday - my big treat is, i can swear in 5 flavors of mustard now ( i didnt buy any dairy.)

Hankster - have you tried making your own mustard? It is great fun and you just need some different vinegars and some mustard powder/seeds/other herbs to play around with. I have a honey one, a beer one, a fiery one and a regular one in the fridge right now. They do have sit for a couple of days to mellow out some but I love getting a sausage or pretzels and setting out all of my flavors and dipping into each one.

Sd - sounds too much like cooking, and you dont even get to eat the product, its just a condiment! I happened to find angel hair shirataki noodles on sale so i stocked up. I have not yet mastered my kitchen. It fights me.

All you do is mix stuff together and let it sit. It is chemistry - not cooking.

Hey Stopdog, I saw this today and thought of you: If People Who Don't Want Children Said What They're Actually Thinking

Also, my friend with the ugly baby? One of our other friends commented on the baby's photo today saying he looks just like his mother. I thought, OMG, that's mean!

I thought of stopdog today when a student I was tutoring suddenly quoted Monty Python.

I'm totally with you. I'm coming out of a manic phase in which I had severe road rage (even got pulled over by the police). I was so angry and irritable. I hope you feel better soon.

Hello,

Just wanted to stop by and say that I had a really good session with my psychologist today. It felt like we talked about relevant things and I functioned quite well socially too. I still had inadequate eye contact and all that kind of stuff but I didn't shut down or anything (I didn't even find it super difficult to express my thoughts today so I avoided frustration as well). Even left the session smiling, which rarely happens.

Now I won't see the psychologist for a month, which is always tough. Hopefully I'll do okay. Bit worried about going home to my family even though I can't wait to see them. Haven't seen them since August so I'm really looking forward to going home but it's always really tough to be around people for such a long time without any real personal space (I'll be there for 10 days). Oh well.

Over and out.

Chemistry is cooking. (Sez the chemist)

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My advocate managed to piss me off this morning for no particular good reason. I'm working hard to stay positive facing into the next two weeks of kids out of school, T out of town and all the stuff I need to do - job/place to live/divorce papers/etc., put on hold for the holidays. I feel like I just got a bunch of impossible expectations dumped on me, even though I didn't really...

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If there's cold food for lunch I'm gonna cut a *****. I'm cold, hungry and grumpy. After lunch I'm firing up my kettle for a cup of tea and maybe some ramen if lunch sucks... I wish I had a space heater and fuzzy carpet. I'm an utter grouch today...

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