The Couch 116: Puns Tsar Terrible...

atisketatasket · Jun 09, 2016, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by lolagrace

Bowing out for awhile. I've lost patience with the rudeness and whining on PC lately. Off to do more nurturing activities. I'll return when I get this bad taste out of my mouth.

I would very much like it if comments like this could be kept off the Couch. This is supposed to be a place where we all feel safe, where we might disagree but ultimately support each other, not a place where posters bring conflicts from the rest of PC. As the timing of your post suggests I am one of the people your comment is aimed at, I don't appreciate it in a thread where I often come for comfort and companionship during very difficult times.

I apologize to the rest of the Couch for responding and harshing the mellow of the Couch, but I felt I had to say something.

Ellahmae · Jun 09, 2016, 01:37 PM

Took double what I'm supposed to at night for sleep. So I'm basically groggy and drowsy and slllllooooowwww. T soon, going to ask about our conversation last night but I know we have so much other stuff to discuss so I'm not sure what's going to happen this session honestly. I'm in one of those quiet want to just sit there and stare at her moods.

Jun 09, 2016, 02:08 PM

Chris, I hope you will be back soon.

stopdog · Jun 09, 2016, 02:42 PM

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Good show. I'm thinking of finding a rockclimbing gym when I return to the US.

I might break a leg, but I won't put an eye out like SD always claims!

Spinal cord injuries are not that much better.

I like yoga and racquet ball and bicycling the most. I also enjoy playing basketball even though I am awful at it. One of my favorite sports I no longer play is fencing - I really liked fencing.

I could never get used to the tight shoes the times I went to a rock climbing gym.

Squirrel1983 · Jun 09, 2016, 02:46 PM

Well, I vowed to just throw the soda bottles in a trashbag and toss them rather than emptying them all out and recycling them. Heh. Bad Squirrel...filling a landfill.

I then took a nap. Bad Squirrel again. That means I wasn't cleaning. I am about halfway done. I took the trashbags out to the trashcan while my roommates were locked away in their rooms. I had several and did not want them to see. I just have to find places for some stuff and go through a stack of mail to separate good stuff from junk. I can do that tonight or tomorrow.

I don't like my shots...they wear me out. I am always tired the rest of the day and the day after when I get one. And my butt stays tender for several days. But, really...what choice do I have? I don't remember to take pills all the time and I don't want to be psychotic, so really I am limited in my options.

It's been raining all day here. Yuck! I hate driving in the rain, but it looks like I will have to since I have to leave in an hour and the forecast says it will still be raining. The end in not in sight.

unaluna · Jun 09, 2016, 03:10 PM

Hey squirrel

yeah my t gives me a pass on the recycling when I'm doing major cleaning. He's like, just get it outa there! So I pass my pass on to you

atisketatasket · Jun 09, 2016, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

Hey squirrel

yeah my t gives me a pass on the recycling when I'm doing major cleaning. He's like, just get it outa there! So I pass my pass on to you

This post reminds of the Great Homework Pass Scandal of seventh grade.

(My Catholic school was a hotbed of academic iniquity, don't know about yours.)

stopdog · Jun 09, 2016, 03:15 PM

I am baffled (truly) at how a therapist can give permission or not. I assume it is useful to you in some way and I am not criticizing that it works for you -more pondering because it would very much not be for me - the presumptuousness of such a thing would enrage me.

unaluna · Jun 09, 2016, 03:24 PM

I'm not trying to fence with or outsmart my t, which is how you seem to characterize your sessions. I already know I'm smarter than he is. And he does too. He is just blowing the carbon out of my carburetor; wiping my windshield clean; filling my tires; topping off my fluids, so to speak... so I can speed on down the road.

atisketatasket · Jun 09, 2016, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

I'm not trying to fence with or outsmart my t, which is how you seem to characterize your sessions. I already know I'm smarter than he is. And he does too. He is just blowing the carbon out of my carburetor; wiping my windshield clean; filling my tires; topping off my fluids, so to speak... so I can speed on down the road.

So basically, he's a hot hunky auto mechanic - like Puddy on Seinfeld?

Ellahmae · Jun 09, 2016, 03:36 PM

Patrick Warburton.... yes, please.

Ellahmae · Jun 09, 2016, 03:37 PM

Off to T - we shall see how this goes today... :/ Hopefully I don't just sit there and stare at her.

unaluna · 05:01 PM

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So basically, he's a hot hunky auto mechanic - like Puddy on Seinfeld?

That's it, we're broken up, I'm talking to vegetable lasagna!

Eta - that's what I want on my tombstone

stopdog · Jun 09, 2016, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

I'm not trying to fence with or outsmart my t, which is how you seem to characterize your sessions. I already know I'm smarter than he is. And he does too. He is just blowing the carbon out of my carburetor; wiping my windshield clean; filling my tires; topping off my fluids, so to speak... so I can speed on down the road.

Not my point - I am wondering at the behavior of the therapist - not the client.
And I also know I am smarter than the therapist - but I am not nearly as wily.
I don't understand how a therapist thinks they get to give a client permission to do or not do something. Arrogant sons of *****es is how that sort of thinking seems to me - not your analogy which I truly do not understand. I know we see therapists for very very different reasons and you never appear to understand mine any more than I do yours.

unaluna · Jun 09, 2016, 05:00 PM

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Not my point - I am wondering at the behavior of the therapist - not the client.
And I also know I am smarter than the therapist - but I am not nearly as wily.
I don't understand how a therapist thinks they get to give a client permission to do or not do something. Arrogant sons of *****es is how that sort of thinking seems to me - not your analogy which I truly do not understand. I know we see therapist for very very different reasons and you never appear to understand mine any more than I do yours.

Just because I am smarter than him, and younger, and prettier, and everything else, doesn't mean I can't improve. Hmm. Am I arrogant when I question / correct his pronunciation? Maybe. But we have a relationship where it's okay. So yeah, it's okay for him to tell me, lulu - give yourself a break already. Although I think that would be the LAST thing he would tell me. Waaaaaaay deep down, I'm not sure we get each other.

atisketatasket · Jun 09, 2016, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

That's it, we're broken up, I'm talking to vegetable lasagna!

Eta - that's what I want on my tombstone

The vegetable lasagna bit or the broken up bit? Because if it was just the broken up bit, the phrase would gain at least two new meanings in context - 'specially if we got you a pre-broken tombstone.

Or - or - genius strikes! What if we got you a tombstone that looked like vegetable lasagna and said "we're broken up" on it?

healed84 · Jun 09, 2016, 05:36 PM

Oh how I love the buzzed feeling after drinking alcohol.. Not drunk, just feeling fuzzy!

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StressedMess · Jun 09, 2016, 06:14 PM

Contacts are funny little boogers. I can see again (in the distance) and I can almost see again (up close) but I think I need readers. The fun of putting them in and out, however, is not so great. Hopefully I can get them back on in the morning without grievous injury, because they work much better than my glasses.

The not so good news is I have to see a retina specialist next week because she found scarring on my left retina. I'm not going to worry about it until I know there's something to worry about. Oh, who am I kidding, I've been googling like mad all day.

And with that, I'm off to find something to eat, it's been that kind of day.

stopdog · Jun 09, 2016, 06:44 PM

Why would it be wrong to push a therapist away - if one does not want what they are pushing upon you? Or even if one just wants them to stay back in general.

awkwardlyyours · Jun 09, 2016, 06:59 PM

Stopdog: No offense but your posts have me imagining you brandishing a lightsaber and yelling 'Stay back' at the woman.

Or, perhaps more appropriately, a wooden stake and a clove of garlic.

atisketatasket · Jun 09, 2016, 07:05 PM

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Stopdog: No offense but your posts have me imagining you brandishing a lightsaber and yelling 'Stay back' at the woman.

Or, perhaps more appropriately, a wooden stake and a clove of garlic.

You know that's what she brings to appointments, right? Chain mail and a kevlar vest, bearing a wooden stake and garlic? And also a silver bullet (oddly, no gun). This is documented in several earlier threads - here's one.

stopdog · Jun 09, 2016, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by awkwardlyyours

Stopdog: No offense but your posts have me imagining you brandishing a lightsaber and yelling 'Stay back' at the woman.

Or, perhaps more appropriately, a wooden stake and a clove of garlic.

Yes - that is mostly accurate.