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

RedSun · Dec 08, 2014, 02:00 PM

I hate doing mileage returns.
And hanging my clothes up.
I do like hoovering though.

NowhereUSA · Dec 08, 2014, 03:00 PM

I need to vacuum :-/ I hate vacuuming. But I have a toddler.

I also hate hanging clothes up.

And mileage. Blerg.

KayDubs · Dec 08, 2014, 03:05 PM

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I am eating trader joe's triple ginger cookies and filling out time sheets for my fee request.

Just walked past Trader Joe's on the way to the subway. Good thing I hadn't read this prior to that, because I would've definitely stopped in to buy a box. Also, I used the aeropress over the weekend and it worked! Just gotta play around with the ratios a little to get the coffee exactly where I want it.

NowhereUSA · Dec 08, 2014, 03:13 PM

Do you ever have days where you need a second cup of coffee? I feel like I need a second cup of coffee. My H got up with the little one today (he does a couple of times a week, but he spontaneously offered last night) so I could stay up until midnight playing my video game

I slept until 10am!! I never do that. But it's off from my regular sleep schedule and since I'm headed towards my mid-30s, it's like my body says, "YOU SHALL PAAAAAYYYY...." :P

JustShakey · Dec 08, 2014, 03:22 PM

Soon as I get outta this place I'm firing up my new kettle. That's all I'm sayin'

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RedSun · Dec 08, 2014, 04:20 PM

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Soon as I get outta this place I'm firing up my new kettle. That's all I'm sayin'

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Dec 08, 2014, 04:29 PM

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BPA, I didn't post yesterday because I didn't want to make you feel worse, but small rodents are susceptible to heat and fumes both. If you have to move the babies again, you absolutely must transport them in the passenger area of the vehicle with you if you want them to live. Also, don't give them salted peanuts. That is something I learned the hard way and it sucks for the animal when we don't know things like that. I still feel sick when I think about making that mistake.

They weren't the boot I have 2 door hatchback and i had to put them in back becuase the cage won't fit anywhere else. Thanks for that I'll remember we go back to my place.

Dec 08, 2014, 04:36 PM

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And Cup o' Soups.

I wish they would make roast beef and vegies in a cup.

NowhereUSA · Dec 08, 2014, 04:38 PM

Mice are cute as pets. However I did have some not pets (field mice) get in the house. Had to lay the traps with peanut butter :-/

Don't like killing them but couldn't have them running around freely in our basement.

I did have a pet mouse when I was a teen. Rescued him from a guy that was keeping them in a box in his sock drawer (I don't even).

stopdog · Dec 08, 2014, 04:42 PM

I have a field mouse (or mice at this point probably) in the house - the cat and dogs have thus far proven to lack competent hunting skills although they all gather at times and stare at a spot under the stove. She(he? they? how would I know) did eat some salted nuts that were on the counter. The bag had a hole in it and some mouse droppings were there when I got up one morning. I have seen the little guy a couple of times. I am trying to leave the situation up to nature/pets/survival of the fittest without me interfering.

CantExplain · Dec 08, 2014, 04:42 PM

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Wow. MY body feels like rocket there's surges of energy everywhere. Better make sure all my O-rings are intact. Little trails of energy flowing from fingers, little filigrees of light everywhere. Better than the rainbow guy on youtube. Maybe I should lie down now.

I sometimes get like that. It usually means I need insulin.

CantExplain · Dec 08, 2014, 04:43 PM

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It would be I didn't know it is the harbinger of mania. See I should be asleep but my brain won't stop .
With some T youcan never win 😉

Exercise!

CantExplain · Dec 08, 2014, 04:45 PM

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I just really have to stop caring about teenagers and their desperate pleas for help on this site. I keep thinking they are telling the full story and they never are. Duh, StressedMess, you have a teenager, you know the nature of the beast!

Teenagers are very difficult to help. How can you advise someone who no choice but to live with their FOO?

CantExplain · Dec 08, 2014, 04:49 PM

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Honestly, I think there are several. There are a couple of people I tried to help, both in the forum and in PM -- actually spent a bunch of time looking up resources for a person, finding funding and loans, places to stay, places to get mental health assistance, etc. I still cannot tell whether the people just posting for attention, like making fake calls to the crisis line, or if they are posting for some other malicious purpose. In either event, I try to stay away.

Teens are probably looking for attention and sympathy rather than for advice. And not just teens. Perhaps the majority of us.

CantExplain · Dec 08, 2014, 04:52 PM

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It is off-putting for me if someone asks for help and then seems upset with me about what I offer. I fully believe I could be wrong about what kind of help is needed (in my view - perhaps the nail is not the problem even if I think it is - I could be wrong about that part) but becoming testy because I did not give the right help is annoying. Say thanks and go ask someone else is how I try to handle it IF I have been careless enough to ask for help.

I almost never ask for advice or help about me specifically because the wrong kind really does piss me off - so I understand why someone would get pissy about the wrong advice. I often, on this site, am given advice I don't want or need even where I specifically say it is not what I am looking for. I have even had to tell the therapist I am not looking for her advice - I just wanted to tell someone about it. Also, I might well want to change, but differently than the advice giver's way of doing it.
But that is different from when someone posts "please give me advice" and then gets pissy (I do think pissy is different from simply rejecting the advice).

"Help me" means "Wave your magic wand and make everything all right."

Wave harder, Stopdog!

CantExplain · Dec 08, 2014, 04:54 PM

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I'm tired of it. I want my life back. Why is taking it back so hard?
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Because the life you want is not the life you had. You don't want your life back, you want a new life. That takes a lot of work.

Have you made a list?

NowhereUSA · Dec 08, 2014, 04:55 PM

People want to help. If someone gives me advice I don't agree with, I just move on from it. It only irks me if they get insistent that THEY MUST BE RIGHT. Even so. It's the interwebz. People are like that and I'll just go read something funny.

stopdog · Dec 08, 2014, 04:55 PM

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"Help me" means "Wave your magic wand and make everything all right."

Wave harder, Stopdog!

I don't want help nor do I often try particularly hard to help others- why would I wave harder?

CantExplain · Dec 08, 2014, 04:56 PM

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It was more of a passive-aggressive "implied" fuvm to me. That's why I asked if PC gets a lot of trolls. I was sort of pushing for more explanation not so much saying what she should do.

Shakey I need that latte today, thanks a million . I'm trapped in my house with a virus (thanks kids!!) and of course they feel all better now since I'm the one who stayed up all night passing out ginger ale and saltine crackers and comfort. Ugh.

Work is my refuge sometimes!

If it weren't for the moderators, PC would be a trolls' playground. It's full of easy targets.

granite1 · Dec 08, 2014, 04:56 PM

going out to dinner with a bunch of people .I so don't want to go

CantExplain · Dec 08, 2014, 04:57 PM

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It was more of a passive-aggressive "implied" fuvm to me. That's why I asked if PC gets a lot of trolls. I was sort of pushing for more explanation not so much saying what she should do.

If it weren't for the moderators, PC would be a trolls' playground. It's full of easy targets.

CantExplain · Dec 08, 2014, 04:58 PM

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Work is my refuge sometimes!

Work of ages, cleft for me...

A might fortress is our work...

CantExplain · Dec 08, 2014, 04:59 PM

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I hear you. I'm trapped in the DES. I wish I was at work. I have no idea why anyone would be on assistance by choice. I'd rather be back doing my crazy 10 hour nights...

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If fact, very few people are on assistance by choice. The Welfare Queen is largely a myth.

NowhereUSA · Dec 08, 2014, 04:59 PM

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If it weren't for the moderators, PC would be a trolls' playground. It's full of easy targets.

It's why I don't try too hard around here. I post what I'm going to post and I'll give my POV and then usually let it be. They can use the google if they need more info, plus I think there are plenty of helpful stickied posts on PC.

CantExplain · Dec 08, 2014, 05:00 PM

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I am so crabby. I was on Facebook desperately wishing there was a current events test / intellectual reasoning test that was necessary as a prerequisite to voting in this country.

Well, at least voting is limited to those who can get up the morning and can find the polling booth before sunset.

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