[stopdog]

I liked columbo when I was a kid. The show has been on reruns recently and I tried to watch it and found him unbearable.

[Ellahmae]

Trying to post more on threads, be more 'involved' if you will. Most of the time though I feel my answers come out all upside down and backwards.

Morning, couch.

Never seen Columbo (is my age showing ?)

[unaluna]

What are you, eight??

I've never seen Columbo, nor had I ever heard of it until it was mentioned here. I just googled it.

[unaluna]

He's the Italian-American Sherlock Holmes! In a time before cellphones - because in most of his cases, if there had been cellphones, there would have been no problem! Then in one of the later shows, he actually uses a cellphone to solve the case. He is now on me-tv on sunday nights at 8 pm-9:30. He only has one eye - the other is glass.

[Ellahmae]

Originally Posted by unaluna

What are you, eight??

Haha! I wish :/, wait, no I don't....

I usually watch series online - I don't live in the USA, but somewhere in Europe.
I read the wikipedia page - I'll watch it once, I think, to see if it's something for me. I used to enjoy "whodunit" cop shows but I haven't watched them for about a year and a half. (Right about when my depression started getting from bad to extremely worse :-))

BTW, great on doing so much sports this week, unaluna!

When my alarm went off at 5:20 this morning, I was like "Um, no." I woke myself up about 10 times lastnight because I was snoring loudly lol, can't breathe through my nose with this cold. And I guess all that mouth-breathing made my throat more sore. So I called in sick. Slept until going on 9, aaaaaaah that was so needed. I'm feeling almost good enough to go into work after all. But I'm not going to, gonna stay home and rest and see if I can shorten this bug. It's already an occurrance (like a black mark lol) anyway, so I might as well take the whole day. I'm going to go veg out in front of the tv for a few hours and if I fall asleep again, so be it. This cold came on fast and is really zapping my energy.

Question about clothes dryers. The 220 outlet isn't putting out enough voltage so we can't use the electric dryer which was not working too well anyway before we moved. So I'm getting a new dryer. Does anyone know, if we get a gas dryer, does that plug into a regular electric outlet and the gas? or does it just hook up to the gas only? I have never had a gas dryer lol

I suppose I shouldn't be shopping online for a major appliance. I should wait til I feel better and go to the store and talk to them.....

[Ellahmae]

Just the gas connection and a 110 outlet.

[Leah123]

My daughter had another explosion last night. She was overtired and didn't have downtime. My husband told her to do something and she wouldn't. After it escalated, he threatened to take away her stuffed animals. She threatened to hurt him if he did. I told her violence would mean I'd throw one away, they're so dear to her. During the explosion, she said she wanted to stab herself. She had a really hard time.

She also will have periods of belittling us, lots of sarcasm, slamming doors, screaming, bedtime/overnight wake ups, and get in people's face a lot.

I've made some progress. She used to be physically violent at times, and now she is not. But I am disturbed when things get so bad, I worry about her and I wish life was more peaceful when things aren't going well.

I may be too easy on her. I've been using an explosive child book and it worked pretty well but I couldn't get my husband to buy in, and her overall attitude needs work in addition to the explosions. I think from reading up on the diagnoses she may have borderline ADHD and perhaps mild ODD along with being gifted.

I'd like to help her and have things get better, but my T thinks she really needs a psychiatrist, therapy and meds.

COUCH. Oh my gosh. T thinks I'm trying to protect her from meds.

But.... she's my baby, of course I want to protect her from drugs and from needing drugs and from how complicated life gets if we're all seeing therapists, as if we can't manage our own lives, and why is it so hard.

I want to quit therapy and stop thinking about everything so much and just take what I learned about self care and the baggage from the past that I understand better and just use it all and keep things simpler.

If I quit therapy, I'd save $700 a month and take financial pressure off my family. I could make other things easier.

I am facing big decisions. I don't want to go on with my schedule today but I dont' want to be miserable like this. I want... peace. WHY can't I have it.

I think when my daughter is heard, she does well, and when she's not she has a very hard time. But I guess the thing is that when other people aren't feeling heard, even kids, maybe it's not so bad. I know. She's never been super-mild, but... I've seen progress.

I don't know.

[Leah123]

I think I'm going to talk to my husband. I think we need a better system of discipline and clarity around our expectations and to see if we can work on her ability to handle tough situations better. Even my T thinks we let her off too easy, so perhaps more discipline would actually help her feel more contained if we did it right. But like T says, she doesn't want me walking on eggshells, and right now.... too much stress, feels like everything is eggshells, no margins at work, finances, family, etc. I'm sure I'm feeling extra pessimistic through.

She's doing better in some areas, but I think her new super-strict teacher is stressing her out too. I have some ideas to encourage better behavior. Maybe we can.... collaborate. Is it enough, I don't know. But I feel like this is getting out of hand and I want it to get better, not more convoluted. I'm afraid of more interventions.

[StressedMess]

I have so much useless junk around here, and nothing that I need. Came home sick from work, no medicine for intestinal issues. Cut my finger on a serving bowl, no band aids. I'm sitting here with a big attitude and need an adjustment. Maybe I'll put shoes on and go kick a stump or something!

[unaluna]

Originally Posted by StressedMess

I have so much useless junk around here, and nothing that I need. Came home sick from work, no medicine for intestinal issues. Cut my finger on a serving bowl, no band aids. I'm sitting here with a big attitude and need an adjustment. Maybe I'll put shoes on and go kick a stump or something!

Let me take care of you i always have fun bandaids and immodium in my backpack!

Wow. I have never heard of a gas dryer before.

Leah, is your daughter currently in therapy? Sorry, I don't know all the details.

Originally Posted by Bipolarartist

Wow. I have never heard of a gas dryer before.

Yeah... I've always had electric in the past. Electric dryers are cheaper to purchase, but cost more to run. Gas dryers cost more to purchase, but are cheaper to run. That's what I hear, anyway. So we went to the local appliance store today and got a good deal on a discontinued Maytag model, it will be delivered/set up on Saturday and I will have plenty of laundry to break it in with by then lol. I guess the salesman wants it out of the way, since they don't carry it anymore, so he gave us $100 off. Woo! One of the plusses of dealing with a local 'small' business (they're not so small, but they are family owned and local) is that they can do stuff like that. I didn't really feel like going out and looking at dryers today, but I'm glad hubby convinced me to. Now it's done. We also went to the post office and got our mailbox keys ordered. So now I'll be able to put in our change of address stuff. I've just been going over to the old house after work every day and picking up the mail there. Our friend who owns it now is going to be doing some work on the inside for a couple weeks before he starts renting it out, so it works out. After we did those errands I came home and slept for awhile. I'm awake now, and my throat is so much better. I'm glad I took today off so I could rest my throat, talking on the phone 8 hours a day just exacerbates an already sore throat. And I am such a big baby anyway when it comes to sore throats!

It's been interesting not having my laptop. I'm definitely more active - up and doing stuff in the evenings instead of sitting in front of my laptop all evening. I use hubby's computer here and there (like right now) but not for hours on end after work. I think I'm actually going to hold off for awhile on buying a new laptop.... I never saw that coming! My weight loss program starts Friday evening (the free one from work I mentioned previously) and while it will work on a regular computer of course, it's optimized for smart phones, so I'll probably be mostly using my phone for that. I'm excited. I feel like all the work I've done in therapy for the past just under 4 years is coming together all the way around right now. Yeah, it took the major stress of buying the house to get me to see that, but... I'm thankful. I'm becoming me. It's been an amazing journey.

(((Leah))) I'm sorry you're going through so much with your daughter. Your love for her always comes through in your posts and I think your t is right that you want to protect her from having to be on meds etc. I imagine I would be the same way if it were my son. I am sending all kinds of good thoughts your way for things to settle down for you in your life overall. I don't know how you do it sometimes and I think you are amazing!

Originally Posted by unaluna

Let me take care of you i always have fun bandaids and immodium in my backpack!

I accidentally cut my finger yesterday, can I have a Dora the Explorer bandaid?

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[unaluna]

Originally Posted by artemis-within

I accidentally cut my finger yesterday, can I have a Dora the Explorer bandaid?

I have a Barbie one... im very old you know!!

So i weighed myself on the gym scale and i think it finally showed a loss, only i was so confused and tired i couldnt figure it out! You know cuz you have to add the little marker weights? I bought a lot of protein and greens today - stopped at the farmers market, got the cutest box of multi colored baby carrots! And french breakfast radishes, whatever tf they are!

[JaneTennison1]

Originally Posted by QuietMind

True. Life kicked you badly recently?

Sadly so. In addition to every other crap thing I also now have a diagnosis of an incurable (but thankfully not fatal) illness that I am not insured for.

I want to cry but I've settled for eating a whole bag of bbq chips instead.

[UnderRugSwept]

Originally Posted by unaluna

I have a Barbie one... im very old you know!!

So i weighed myself on the gym scale and i think it finally showed a loss, only i was so confused and tired i couldnt figure it out! You know cuz you have to add the little marker weights? I bought a lot of protein and greens today - stopped at the farmers market, got the cutest box of multi colored baby carrots! And french breakfast radishes, whatever tf they are!

Wait, what colors are carrots coming in these days??

And congrats on the weight loss!!

[JaneTennison1]

The purple carrots I had were just orange inside. Color me disappointed!!