Couch 94 - Blowtorches R' Us

I want to hear about the funny raccoon!

Evening (or should I say early morning, since it is after midnight here), couch.

I had CVS last night and tonight until what was supposed to be midnight, but was let go early both nights due to business being slow. Oh well.

Came home from CVS last night and made the graduation slide show/video for the ceremony for our kids today. The parents seemed to like it. 2 of them asked if I could burn a copy for them. I will give it to their kids on Monday.

Not much left to do. I am taking a "sick" day on Tuesday (my last day of school-job), as there is nothing for me to do that day and I would rather see and work with C. It's been a while. :-P

I have to work both Sat and Sun at CVS, but not until the evening, so I will still have my daytime hours to do laundry and CLEAN. Yes, I keep putting that off. I need to get it done though. Hopefully this weekend will be the time.

Still sore where I got the shot on Wednesday. I am fine if I am standing, but any pressure (even light) placed on it (i.e. - sitting, laying down) and I can feel it throb. Maybe there was something wrong with the injection kit and the needle size was mislabeled. Just trying to find a reason for my discomfort.

Well, I am beat. Off to bed for me.

I'm heading off to bed myself. I'm wiped! It was a pretty exhausting week at work assisting the newbies during their first week taking calls. Seeing t on wednesday was definitely the high point of the week! I can't say it enough how much I enjoyed our visit and I hope y'all don't get tired of me talking about it. Cuz I will probably keep doing it for a few more days yet! It really clarified for me that I was right when I said it felt like our relationship had changed. I'd begun thinking of her as more like a mentor than a t, and she told me she saw it the same way, and that was pretty much how it felt the other day when we were talking, especially when we were walking around the resort checking it out and just chatting. I didn't expect that, and it was so nice! Ok, I'll stop now. I need to go to bed. Have a good night (or day), couchies!

I've got a sore tummy.

I am sorry to hear you are not feeling well.

Is your stomach sore muscles like from moving the yurt or ache like from eating bad yak?

Unfortunately she arrived home badly hurt. Broken jaw, torn open chest. She is recovering from surgery to.remove half her lower jaw ( the broken part) and close the huge tear in her chest. Going to keep her heavy sedated for a few days so.i won't know too.much more for a while.
I think she can.learn to eat since they do a similar surgery In dogs with jaw cancer. But i.am worried about infection. The Injury was at least a day old. I.think.she was in shock. Tonight.she came home for help

I am so sorry about your pet. I hope she makes a good recovery.

Poor baby!
I am glad she made it home though. Sending healing vibes her direction

Gotta watch those Hangi CE. Hope you feel better soon.

Acck! I should have read back a few pages!! I didn't realize the raccoon was so injured. Poor baby!!

BB-I am sorry to hear she is so badly hurt, but glad she came home to you. I hope she heals well and without undue complication.

BB, praying for your baby. So sorry.

(((bay))) (((petpet)))

(((Bay))) I'm so sorry to hear that she was so badly hurt. I hope she'll heal.

(((Bay))) im so glad that at least she is back. I hope she will be alright.

BB I'm glad pet pet came home for help, but very sorry she's so badly hurt. Sending healing energy her way and comforting thoughts to you.

Serena Williams is about to become the first woman to win 50 matches across all the Grand Slams. Shes my hero. She just goes for it.

Poor raccoon. I hope she gets heals and gets back to her usual perky self.

Not to derail a different thread (and since this is not in response to a specific person or post, but just a general observation) : People often say that we have to learn that we cannot change other people. I wonder what is wrong with me, because to me, that has always been an obvious thing. I have to change because I am wrong and bad weird and wrong, but I have never believed that anything I could do could change what anybody else does or feels, or who they are. I also don't believe that I can change, and I guess that's my problem.

I hope you can get to a spot where you don't see yourself as wrong and bad weird and wrong, but I understand that personal belief. For me, it was not that I felt bad as much as I felt broken and completely odd from the rest of the world. That perception clouded all of my interactions and responses. What I found I had to change in myself was that old mistaken perception of myself. So the change was about seeing myself positively, not about changing because I was wrong or bad, but changing because I deserved better from myself. I wasn't giving myself enough credit. I had knocked myself down for so long, and I finally realized how unfair my own perception of myself was to my whole being.

Well, I just tried going out to clean my car out. Yes, I am still finding things to do other than clean my room. :-P The car needs cleaned out though as I need to be able to fit the mini-fridge in it to bring home from school on Monday. I got about halfway done cleaning it out and stopped. It was just too hot out. I got all the trash out at least, but I still have things that I keep meaning to donate to charity that have been in there since Feb. The place I want to donate them to has weird hours, but they use it all to better the lives of the homemless (give the homeless the clothes donated instead of selling the clothes to the public is a thrift shop). So, that is rather what I woudl want them to go to, but maybe I should just take them to good will to get rid of them. Or my mom told me I should just drop them by the place I want to donate to on my time even if they are closed and leave them outside the door. She put it this way if the homeless go through it and take some, then oh well, they would end up getting them anyways. I don't like that thinking because it implies that homeless people will steal. Yes, some do, but not all. Most do not in my opinion. They will beg for money or food, but not steal.

All my books from when I was in school are in my car too, as I haven't been in class sicne before I moved. I don't want to get rid of them just yet though. I may need them later.

Have CVS tonight from 5-10:45, not real late. The first week after school is out's schedule was posted earlier this week. I am slated for 35 hours. The other part-time techs only have 10-15 hours each for the week. I guess my being more available helped after all. I only have one day shift though.

Will attack room this summer as far as cleaning goes. 2nd half of car will be tomorrow before I go to CVS. I am such a procrastinator.

Mast - i wonder how much of that is cultural. My idea of your culture is that people are accepted for what they are, equality reigns, etc. In my italian background, people were poor and powerless, so maybe thats why they tried to control the person next to them - a wife, a child. My father actually told me that my turn to do what i wanted would come when i forced my children to do my will.

I have never been much on changing others or me - I was odd/different that I accept others will find me bizarre, but I don't dislike how I am - I chose me rather than changing to fit in. I know it is a choice and I know it is my responsibility. Usually long as others will refrain from insisting I must do it their way or telling me what to do or how I am, I am fine letting them do what they want.

Hmm. Maybe it is cultural to some extent, though I have seen the statement in Swedish as well.

Got my son's report card in the mail today. I am one proud mama!!! He got 5 A's and one B, and 2 of the A's are in AP classes - AP US History, and AP Physics. I looked at one of his physics tests recently, and it might as well have all been squiggles for how much I understood what I was looking at. I am SO proud of him!