Couch 97: Prime Pyramids

I love the yellow wallpaper. Is that the same one as the couch thats not quite the right color?

Sorry, isn't ringing a bell, though I'm so sleepy today, hearing my own name shouted in an empty room probably wouldn't either.

Absolutely devoured this story and will never look at wallpaper the same way!

I think I might have had too much wine for before-bedtime...

Ah, "The Yellow Wallpaper". I thought the title sounded familiar. Just read it to realize that I had to read it in my high school AP Lit class my senior year. I don't remember it being so creepy. Hmmm..

The woman's husband (an md) drives her mad by forbidding her stimulation and the yellow wall paper becomes her obsession.
I found it quite horrifying.

Is that the one where the woman has post partum depression and she is separated from her baby? She's confined to a rented room in Bath? At the end she's crawling around the walls completely out of her mind? That story scared me silly...

Evening, couch.

Well, I had my visit with my mom's dog and dinner with my mom.

The dog tore one toy apart within 30 seconds. Good thing it was in the clearance bin for like 56 cents. Hmmm...maybe that is "why" it was in the clearance bin. Lol. Oh well. I guess you get what you pay for.

I came home and took a nap after my visit and then woke up, took a shower, logged onto PC, read "The Yellow Wallpapaer", and here I am.

Need to go to the store before CVS work tomorrow to get stuff for lunch this upcoming week back at my school job. Need to decided if I want this to be a sandwich week or a microwave meal week. Maybe sandwich would be a good plan until I find out where I am stationed this year and what's available in ways of microwaves and fridges.

Summer is over...where did the time go? For the first summer since I have not been a teacher, I did not struggle financially. Thank you CVS job. Now to start saving for emergencies that I will have 2 jobs paying again. Though my student loans will enter repayment soon, but I will still be able to pay that and save.

I figure that I will save $75 a paycheck (CVS or school board). That would be 4 (or every-so-often, 5) paychecks a month, so $300 (or $375). It'll add up. I'd like to save enough to buy a "new" used car (or at least make a down payment on one). I like my car, but things just keep pooping out. It's a 2000. Low-milage (75,000 mi). First, the transmission hiccups...still need to have that looked at...yes, I know bad Squirrel. Now today, the AC didn't want to get cool. No AC in a car in Florida in summer...yuck.

I guess I should take the car in to be looked at before kids go back to school and I am on a out at 4:30 in the afternoon schedule. Monday and Tuesday, I am out at 3:00, so I could get it into a shop before they close. Just to see if it is fixable at a reasonable price.

The wikipedia entry is pretty interesting.

Squirrel - i think transmission / fluid check is a 60,000 / 75,000 mile thing. So that might be why. I spent a lot of time at my last dlrship!

I remember reading The Awakening /Kate Chopin in high school. I was quite haunted by it.

Oh, and Play It as It Lays/Joan Didion as well. That one made me sad.

I should have gone to the Mermaid Parade downtown tonight. I didn't because I have a giant headache, it's been plaguing me all day, but I bet the fun would have driven the headache right away. Oh well.

I teach "The Yellow Wallpaper" almost every semester. Quite a psychological and literary study. SO much going on in that story.

Trigger for grossness

Had such a challenging day with my H. I need a caregiver desperately!!! I almost threw up because of toileting issues. I think he has diarrhea. I'm totally exhausted. Finally got one of those adult diapers. Then he fell off bed and needed 3 men to pick him up. I have 3 agencies recommended. We have home healh insurance but there's waiting period. They're calling Monday. I feel like I am going crazy! I see T Monday. I can only leave H with my daughter til I get caregiver. I'm sorry for writing all this. It's too late to bother friends.

Yep, that's the one.

Thanks for posting this SD, chapter 1 made a fine pastime at 5 am when the rest of the world was snoozing. I may yet have energy for chapter 2, as my indignation has been stirred and the thought circles my mind "What were our mothers doing?"

I think perhaps more great grandmothers or great-great grandmothers for the time period.
But what I think they were doing mostly was conforming - society/family/the world can be very very unkind to a woman who does not conform. There is a price to pay for either choice.

We are seeing misogyny quite clearly in the news right now in the us political arena.

There is a lot of misogyny in the sf publishing world.

Dear self:

What other people say about their reality has absolutely no bearing on your reality. Don't change anything in your life based on half-told tales by strangers on the Internet.

Morning, couch.

Well....I jut woke up a little bit ago. My alarm did not go off. So, no going to get lunch stuff today. I don't have time, as I am not dressed or anything. I guess I will have to go sometime tomorrow. I will have a little time, not much but a little.

Or heck...maybe I will just buy my lunch the first week. That may be an easier option. The cafeteria wouldn't be open the first two days when there is no kids, but I could run off campus those days to grab food.

I just had coffee with a friend who was telling me about a family member (I have met them- a few times and it was always like a time bomb as to when she was going to snap and suddenly start yelling and then weeping at every gathering) who doesn't get out of her bed, worries about odd health concerns that she self diagnoses and all are extremely rare things, is dependent upon her grown but youngish adult children for survival, and so forth - but is taking an online course to become a therapist/counselor (in her state - they can do it almost completely online except for some supervision/clinical practice at the end).

Good god.

Morning (or evening) couch! I've been cleaning my house this morning, the kitchen table was so covered with paper-stuffs I'd forgotten what it looked like (well, almost lol!) My son and his friends took over the cooking side of the kitchen, they made fried macaroni and cheese (see pic below). It was surprisingly good, I've never had it before. They're all good kids. They still haven't learned to clean up all the way after they cook - but at least they get the dishes all in the sink now. Progress!

And oh yeah I had a dream last night that was crystal clear in its meaning. In the dream, I'm sitting in t's waiting room (not the old one, one I've never seen before) and I fall asleep, and dream that I am swimming in a deep pool, cleaning things off the bottom, large-ish metal objects, it's hard to hold my breath long enough to bring the stuff up but I am able to. And then I try to climb out of the pool without a ladder, I can't do it, so I swim around until I find the ladder, and then climb out on it.

SD--Yikes! You can become a therapist by doing it almost all online? Eeeek.

Artemis: Those look DELICIOUS.

Eeeek especially because the person I know who is trying to do it is batshit crazy. One can only hope this endeavor does not pan out - none of her other whacky plans have worked either.

Yes, one can hope.