Couch 141: The Inversional Hexachordal Combinatorial Couch

1. I don't think my T has a better life than me.
2. I am not upset therapy is a business. I appreciate it.
3. I haven't (yet?) had a T "do" anything to me, nothing that really harmed me, anyway.

Hmmmm....the sorry WAS genuine (capital letters in my world emphasize things), but it just did not cross my mind to go edit the post...probably because it was in the past and I am assuming you just hit on "read new post" and will never see it again?

I don't know what read new post is

On the forum page, if you click on the little black arrow next to the title of the thread, it brings you to the newest post since you've last read the thread.

Ah I see. I shall continue doing it the non-new post way

Good to know. If I ever make such a gross error in judgement and over-use exclamation points/capital letters or an emoji, I will go back and edit it just for you.

(so much effort in not using an exclamation point)

Why not just avoid exclamation points, capital letters, and emojis?

Or, let SD deal with it.

Thanks. Or one could just boldly go ahead as one chooses. My aversion to overly emotional punctuation and capitalizing not withstanding.
I never understand what the blinky things mean. Or why they are so popular.

True, but it is some weird innate nature for me to use all the exclamation points. I don't know why. Also capital letters for emphasizing instead of italics or bold. Probably because I am too lazy to stop and highlight and press the little button. The life of a first-worlder is so difficult. (See right then I wanted to put a roll-eye emoji because I feel like it helps emphasize my point).
For me, I find the written word can be taken in so many various ways, and if I add a smiley to a text that possibly could be taken in a negative tone, then the recipient will understand I was joking, or not trying to be mean. Something like that.

But it doesn't emphasize it, it detracts fom it. Straight-faced sarcasm is so much more elegant and effective. I only use roll-eyes when I want to make it clear it's sarcasm. But that robs it of its edge.

The grating ugliness of the punctuation doodles in my signature is starting to outweigh the satisfaction I'm getting from being petty about the Latin thing

I'll let it go a few more days at least.

Just got done with a perfectly pleasant conversation -- after about a month -- with one of the parental units (the other as usual was absconding which just works best all around).

Apparently, my simply and firmly stating a few times over that I'll only be calling once a month seems to have finally sunk in -- no fuss, no drama and just a regular conversation ending with 'Okay, will talk end of next month' (I'd said I'd call at the end of each month).

Wow. This feels super surreal (I'd loaded up on multiple substances to ingest post the call -- that I'd thought would be invariably guilt-tripping and all-round awful -- but now, it's all unnecessary).

Did hear a whole bunch about how my brother's doing (major mental health issues) and the responses of the parental units to it -- speaking only once a month seems to have finally given me the distance needed to realize how insane all of it is. Had a visceral reaction to just not wanting to be anywhere near the whole situation (after having warned them for years and offering to help etc).

(Sorry about dumping this on the Couch.....just feels less nutty that way.)

plus it's so funny watching people flounder around wondering if I'm being sarcastic or not

You are absolutely correct. My brother is a master at it. I also have the same sense of dry wit as he, except it apparently comes off as just anger. It caused many, many fights with my mother for a long time, and I felt like the inferior child (even though i was first born AND born at 24 weeks--because, duh, i am a damn miracle baby!--sarcasm).

Therefore, I will forever use emoji's and emphasization. (is that a word?)

it would be funny if my boss at work didn't tell me in a review that i am difficult to read; if my comments were just sarcastic or taken in anger.

Evening couch.

I am trying to get tired...stupid 3 hour nap after C today. I have to be back with C tomorrow at 7am...he lives 30 minutes away from me...that means leaving at 6:30. Geeze can you say early to rise needed tomorrow? Then I have CVS after C until 10pm...I'll be one tired squirrel.

I love exclamation points!!!

I also love doing the?!?!?!?! thing.

P.S. I might should have put a trigger warning on this for SD...

P.P.S. Oh, I like those ellipses things too...

P.P.P.S.

Thank you. Absolutely, you're right. This is why I'm going to vent to T tomorrow and try to calm down.
I'm sure neither of us are in our right minds. We've just found this out. There is not a human being on this Earth I love more than my daughter.

I just finished Lesson 3 in my online class. The assignment was to write a short character sketch of the protagonist and the antagonist. I just realized I can put all of my self-hatred into my Protagonist and then have her overcome it as part of overcoming her lack of self-worth.

eta: yesterday when I told t about taking the class, she was all excited for me. she was decidedly un-excited when I told her about the story I am writing. too close to self-therapy i guess. threatening her income. ha.

While hunting down CW's email last night from our initial exchange before I made an appointment, I discovered that she looooves ellipses...but, she does not do nornal ellipses. Hers are 5 dots and have a space on either side.

I may just use her favorite emoji in the future instead of calling her CW: ��

ok i've caused enough trouble around here tonite. i'm going to bed. night couchies!

Nobody understands Stopdog. All we can do is love her.

D(19) has just made herself some macaroni with a fried egg on top, and is eating it while watching Homes Under the Hammer.

How do we know SD isn't the understandable and totally explicable person and the rest of us are the incomprehensible ones? And yet she loves us anyway?

Thats what i thought too but im too lazy tonite. I bet its some weird greek thingie again or a part of your sinuses.

Eta - my pet peeve is the misuse or abuse or uniquuse of ellipses.

I would love to work around children. When I am with my grandchildren I feel alive. No worries.