Couch 91 - Forget the small change

ragsnfeathers · Apr 01, 2015, 12:24 AM

I went to a talk tonight about sea turtles. There are 7 types and all of them are either endangered or threatened. It seems like every species of animal that isn't either useful to humans, or hardy or generalist enough to live with us are on their way out.

Depressing.

Apr 01, 2015, 01:20 AM

Where I live we have a turtle hospital and when we got a bigger swimming pool we donated the old pool to the hospital.

Apr 01, 2015, 01:21 AM

Possible trigger:

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I have done it!! It doesn't really work on my ipad though

Apr 01, 2015, 01:22 AM

I have 4 T-free weeks. My bum is going to planted here awhiles.

Apr 01, 2015, 01:23 AM

I talk a lot of rubbish when T is a way. Just so you know.

Apr 01, 2015, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by StressedMess

So I learned 2 personal things about T today. She's almost 60, and she's retiring in July to work for herself as a career counselor. I ooohed and ahhhed over self employment while she stumbled all over the place trying to stifle her (canned) reaction. She was going to say something conciliatory but it wasn't necessary. She thanked me for my congrats and expressed her intention to say a little prayer for me every time I crossed her mind, and asked me to do the same for her.

Is it weird that I'm not sad and weepy? Oh, well, I've been weird all my life, no sense changing now!

No, I don't think it is weird. I would be sad if my T said that he was about to retire, but that's just me. Are you planning to look for another therapist?

Also, if this is not too personal a question (in which case just ignore it) : that prayer thing - is your T in any way faith based, or did the comment come out of the blue?

Apr 01, 2015, 02:18 AM

20+ Geeky Kitchen Items To Satisfy Every Nerd?s Needs | Bored PandaI have a TARDIS mug but would love the tea infuser oohh!! and the death star ice mould

Apr 01, 2015, 02:23 AM

I have a TARDIS biscuit barrel. It makes the noise when opened.

By the way, have you seen the Google Maps Pac-Man? Zoom in on any city or town in Gmaps and you can create a Pacman game on the street grid.

Apr 01, 2015, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Mastodon

I have a TARDIS biscuit barrel. It makes the noise when opened.

By the way, have you seen the Google Maps Pac-Man? Zoom in on any city or town in Gmaps and you can create a Pacman game on the street grid.

I would so love the biscuit barrel. Haven't seen Google Maps Pac man will look them up directly.

KayDubs · Apr 01, 2015, 07:27 AM

Treating myself to a fancy schmancy coffee concoction on the way in to the office this morning. THAT was what drove me out of bed this morning, not any sort of desire to act like an adult and live responsibly.

granite1 · Apr 01, 2015, 07:32 AM

going to the gym today after a kind of blow out with me and the trainer . because the gym is good for me right and who cares what the trainer cares about me right? my money is as good as anyone elses. and is it all in my head anyway. I don't even know

unaluna · Apr 01, 2015, 08:10 AM

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We should definitely get the unicorn sprinkler for granite!!

Apr 01, 2015, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by KayDubs

Treating myself to a fancy schmancy coffee concoction on the way in to the office this morning. THAT was what drove me out of bed this morning, not any sort of desire to act like an adult and live responsibly.

Whatever it takes right?

I'm having a Mountain Dew for breakfast after hitting the snooze button for 30 minutes myself... time for me to go pretend at being an adult and haul my butt to work.... heehee

Apr 01, 2015, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by hankster

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We should definitely get the unicorn sprinkler for granite!!

I love that!

Apr 01, 2015, 09:38 AM

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Since Granite has blood sugar issues.

unaluna · Apr 01, 2015, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by My kids are cool

Or these: Vintage 1970 Metal Unicorn and Rainbow Salt and Pepper Shakers in Original Box | eBay

Since Granite has blood sugar issues.

Those are great!!

KayDubs · Apr 01, 2015, 10:08 AM

I won't lie, when I clicked on the first unicorn sprinkler link, I was kind of hoping for a unicorn-shaped lawn sprinkler that shot water out it's rear, kind of like this:

Couch 91 - Forget the small change

My neighbors would LOVE it if I had that.

unaluna · Apr 01, 2015, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by KayDubs

I won't lie, when I clicked on the first unicorn sprinkler link, I was kind of hoping for a unicorn-shaped lawn sprinkler that shot water out it's rear, kind of like this:

Couch 91 - Forget the small change

My neighbors would LOVE it if I had that.

PLEASE can i make that my avatar PLEASE????

KayDubs · Apr 01, 2015, 10:34 AM

Anyone here a fan of The Bloggess? This morning she made a pretty awesome announcement about her new book, which looks like it will really go into her experiences related to mental illness. I'm REALLY looking forward to reading this.

Emphasis mine...

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In the years since I started writing about mental illness I’ve received so many letters from people who were affected by this community, but there were special ones I kept in a folder that I named “The Folder of 24.” – It was called that because it contained 24 letters from people who were actively planning their suicide, but decided to get help instead. And not because of what I said…they did it because of you. Almost every single one explained that what convinced them that depression was lying to them was the amazing response to my posts. They could look at a single person like me and think it was still a rare illness or something to be ashamed about…but when thousands of strangers shout out into the darkness that they are there too, it makes ripples. And those anonymous strangers saved lives without even knowing it. If you ever left a comment or a kind word you may have been the cause of someone’s mother or daughter or son being alive. Being thankful to be alive.

When I was on tour with my last book I’d sometimes talk about the Folder of 24 and how that folder is the best reason I’ll ever have for writing. And then something strange happened. After a reading people would lean in close and whisper “I was 25.”

There were so many 25’s.

This was what I went back to whenever writing this new book got too hard. Because I knew that to truly write about what it’s like to struggle with mental illness I’d have to go deeper and talk about things I haven’t written about, for fear that everyone would back away if I talked about self-harm, or mania, or the personality disorder that pushes me from “normal” crazy to something a bit scarier.

I wrote and deleted and rewrote passages, and I’m still afraid of how people will react. I’m in the exact same place I was seven years ago…afraid to share but unable to tell my story without laying it all out. And so I’ll do the same thing I did before. Because I don’t have any other choice but to be myself, and hopefully you’ll still be here in the same wonderful way you have been.

I hope you’ll come with me on the next step of the journey. I hope you’ll see yourself, or someone you love, in these pages and learn to love them better. I hope it shows people that laughter and joy can come from chaotic bizarreness. I hope you know how much you’ve helped me to become my own 25.

This is a humor book and I’ve been told that it’s funnier than my last. Most of the people who’ve read it don’t have mental illness. Certainly none of them have my specific diagnosis, but they still loved it because I think everyone can relate to the ridiculousness we bring on ourselves, to the fact that laughing at a dangerous, terrifying monster is the only way to make it small and easier to hide in your pocket.

I think everyone can relate to the fact that a ton of ******** happens every single day and the only way we can battle that ******** is choose to be furiously happy whenever we have the opportunity. That means different things to different people, but to me it’s about making clothes out of live ferrets, making the best of it when you get kidnapped by an actual funeral, and occasionally balancing your taxidermy raccoon on the back of your cats to create a Midnight Raccoon Rodeo in your kitchen when you’re having one of those weeks where you’re afraid to leave your house.

It also means celebrating the fact that I HAVE FINISHED THE BOOK. AAAAAAHHHHHH! Sorry. Just happy.

FURIOUSLY HAPPY. And scared. And back to happy again. | The Bloggess

KayDubs · Apr 01, 2015, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by hankster

PLEASE can i make that my avatar PLEASE????

LMAO I just stole it off the interwebs; have at it!

StressedMess · Apr 01, 2015, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Mastodon

No, I don't think it is weird. I would be sad if my T said that he was about to retire, but that's just me. Are you planning to look for another therapist?

Also, if this is not too personal a question (in which case just ignore it) : that prayer thing - is your T in any way faith based, or did the comment come out of the blue?

Thanks for not thinking I'm weird, Mast! She will be replaced by the clinic, I won't have a choice of who I see. This will be my fourth T since May 2014.

The prayer thing came completely out of left field, I've never discussed my spirituality with her, and she's never discussed hers with me. She did mention that spirituality is an important part of our "wellness wheel" but she did not go further than that. I know a lot of people might be offended by it, but I am very "I believe what I believe, you have the right to believe what you believe, and let's not pick a fight about it." If it had been more than a faint mention, or if I had felt she was shoving it down my throat, I would not have been so receptive.

Oh, happy Wednesday couch. Did anyone get or give any good April Fool's today? (I forgot, until I got to work. . .another tradition I seem to be letting go of.)