Couch 95: No title required

Welcome to the couch. It acts like a check in thread.
Open to all. Play nice. And the usual caveat from Stopdog that it is unwise to contact your T intoxicated or otherwise impaired.
It gets pretty hectic here sometimes so yell louder or start a new thread.
Cool whip will usually bring people out of the woodwork,

Nice couch ,Art.

I am waiting for Taggart to start. I shouldnt watch it really as it makes me think of my dad.

Ugh does anyone else get ridiculously heart achingly lonely after T sometimes? ???
I have good people in my life. It's stupid to.feel this way. I just want to cry though

For the first 18 months or so i did, huge bouts of angst and longing. Take as many hugs as you need, i am feeling generous today.

It's been a sad day in our house. My youngest son's choir director told them he was resigning to go to another school district today. My son's a bit crushed as this was his mentor, but he'll be fine. These things happen and programs adjust.

And this afternoon was a retirement party for one of the finest English teachers I have ever known. She taught all 38 years of her career at our school. Fortunately she is making the trip down to Austin with me this weekend, so we'll have some more time together.

I'm going on 3 years and it still hits me hard out of nowhere

I've experienced that, yeah.... sometimes I'd feel so lonely for her, that it physically hurt. One time I remember laying in bed before going to sleep and just crying... because I missed her so much and no amount of comforting from my h would help. It's weird, isn't it?! I just kept talking to her about it. Thankfully I haven't felt that way in a good while.

Watching that new show "Stitchers". It's kinda cool.

Ya know we gotta

Yeah. I know the feeling. I'm lonely for my T this week, not sure what brought it on...
Sometimes I'll just cry and cry because I know I'll never see my previous T again. Not as often anymore, but still from time to time...

I have a warm happy kitty sleeping in my lap. I like this feeling

I spent most of my day off looking for the documents I need, which kinda ticks me off because I wanted to swim this afternoon, but at least I found the elusive papers, without destroying my house in the process. For the umpteenth millionth time I am so grateful for what I learned in therapy, including how to ground/center myself when my brain tries to go into stupid-panic mode for no sensible reason.

Neither of my cats are snugglers. It's a shame because the orange/white one is soooo soft and he purrs SO loudly when you pet him. But he refuses to be snuggled.

Hello couchies goodnight couchies

((Granite))

Have you ever asked your T straight out, "Are you mad at me?"

Evening, couch.

Well, I got a call from the exceptional student education director at the school board today telling me she pulled my teaching credentials from the state database and saw that I was not certified to teach reading. I said I didn't think I had to be since I wasn't last year and was allowed to do extended-school-year. It's not the same director this year as last year (the one that was there last year retired this past December). This new director told me that since I was not reading certified that I could not do the extended-school-year, so that is off the books now. Oh well.

Had C this morning. He is still his usual self. A typical teen wanting to sleep in. :-P I got hm up and moving though. We went on a bike ride around his neighborhood. He tried to take the "short" route, but I wouldn't let him, it doesn't give him enough exercise.

Stopped to eat lunch at Chili's after C. Brought leftovers home to eat tonight, but I'm not hungry right now, so it shal be lunch tomorrow.

Came home from Chili's and fell asleep and took a rather long nap until I had to leave for CVS tonight. CVS was nuts. Realy busy. I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off. I survived though.

CVS is going well over-all. Last night it was slow and I go "news". The pharmacy manager wants to move me into the assistant inventory technician position. It is not an official label with corporate or anything (only inventory technician is), but it would be a step towards inventory tech. So, I spent the night doing inventory management training tasks, doing cycle counts, out-of-stocking prescription orders and adding them to the cart to be ordered the next day. I asked why he chose me when I just started and I am sure there are others ahead of me for such a title (even if it is just a title). I was told because I was a fast learner and smart and have been improving faster than any employee in the past that he can remember. That made me feel good. I have slowly learned to take compliments. When I was a kid and in college and before I started therapy, compliments would make me blush as they embarrassed me. Now I can take them to heart, say thank you, and tell myself all my hard work is paying off. So, I am in training to be the assistant inventory person. As boring as it sounds, I even find inventory stuff fun. I like using the scan gun and entering the needed information into it. I guess it makes me feel special because not everyone is allowed to use it.

Well, I have C again tomorrow morning, so I'd better get to bed, so I am not tired and am able to wake up in the morning.

Night, couch.

Yes. As soon as I walk out the at damn door. Sometimes when I am still in the office thinking about the door....

Night couch!!

Yeah some times I feel that way before I even start putting my shoes back on

Squirrel - congratulations on the mini promotion!! Well that kinda takes the sting out of the extended school year reading problem. What a bummer, after you had already put so much into specializing a program for your kid. But wow, the pharm mgr really appreciates your attention to detail. I can relate to that - that is one of my strengths too. Maybe my only one! They even said in one of my reviews, that a lot of stuff would have fallen thru the cracks if not for me. But i think it was a backhanded compliment. I dont think thats the case with your manager. im really happy for you.

hi cant . yes I have quite a few times now. she has said when I feel she is angry to just ask her . so I do when she is around me and I think she is . usually she will say noand then ask what is going on that makes me think she is angry . is it the way her face looks ? how she is holding her body? the sound of her voice or what she is saying etc....

my T wants me to call her today at 10 .she said that if I am not feeling better that she will set up something for today to see me. so im not crying hysterically I don't think it would be hard to feel better then I did yesterday.as I was hiding in my scraproom crying like a huge spoiled brat who had just been scolded and didn't like it . but I still feel so horrible but I don't think seeing her today is going to change that at all . I shouldn't have called her and I think I will decline seeing her .I don't want to get as upset as I was yesterday

Morning, couch. I am at C's right now. He is still asleep. His mom said he could sleep till 9, so I thought I would visit the couch.

I did not want to get up this morning. It is so yucky out. Bad weather always does that to me. I hate driving in bad weather too, so I left early to give myself time to use more caution. Supposed to be like this all day.

Still need to clean my room when I get the time and energy too. Maybe today. I'm stuck inside due to the weather, so it may be a good plan. Unless I choose to sleep the yucky day away.

CVS tonight. Hopefully it won't be as crazy as last night. I like steady, but crazy is a little rough. Especially, when there is only 2 techs (me and one other) on duty. It was still enjoyable though.

Well, I don't have much more to say and have blabbed enough.

Have a good day, couch.