The Couch 147: Maximum Break!

I graduated h.s. in '94. My class was 1,100 people or something ridiculous like that.

The only person I would be interested in seeing from h.s. was one of my science teachers; I had a mad crush on him. Wherever you are Coach S, I still lurve you!

The only time I was on facebook was to get info for my 30 year high school reunion about 8 years ago. I really don't get the point of facebook - but total strangers tried to friend me - I don't know why. There were 600+ people in my graduating class.

What were they marinated in, SD?

soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, a tiny bit of toasted sesame oil, a little brown sugar, an onion and a little red pepper.

That sounds really good.

I think it is quite tasty = on its own, or with kimchi and brown rice.

The (very childish) high point of my hearing from people from high school was when I found out that the girl I'd had a ginormous-super-duper-gawdawfully-embarrassing-and-embarrassingly-obvious crush on but who'd blown (rarely) hot and (mostly very very) cold towards me throughout that time, ended up being very vocal about chasing me down and wanting to be in touch with me, more than a decade later.

But, this time around, I had the supreme pleasure of cutting her off -- not because I wanted revenge but suddenly realized that my teenage hormonal self's fantasies about her were rather at odds with my adult distaste in dealing with this slightly nutty and rather depressed adult (and avowedly straight) woman's feelings of possessiveness towards me.......as satisfying as I did find it for a little while.

Wow, this talk of class size really puts into perspective how small my high school was. There were approximately 220 kids in my graduating class.

SD, your cucumbers sound delicious.

What is kimchee?

Kimchi is a delicious Korean cabbage dish. (I dictated it earlier and did not proof read -the spelling was off)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimchi

There were about 80 of us in my high school senior class. About 1/4 of them would qualify as "mean girls." And there were a lot of cliques.

My parents sent me to a small girls school so I wouldn't get lost in a crowd. I still managed!

More cooking shall be done today - I'm going to make chicken & dumplings I think.

Interesting side effect to making the butter-recipe pie crust yesterday - my hands are soft as silk. I may have to start using butter on them as a moisturizer. haha?

I hate my T!!!!!!!!

I graduated in 2006. Should have been 2005 but I dropped out for a few months

My mom put me in a private southern Baptist Christian school for half my junior year and my whole senior year. There were 5 seniors including me. I was basically bullied there and called a Satanist and a Nazi (the Nazi thing came from a book I brought one day called Mother Night by Kurt vonnegut. It has a small swastika on it).

Anyway since it was a private school they had their own curriculum which including memorizing paragraph long Bible versus

Needless to say I didn't do well there and dropped out. I got my high school diploma months later at the community college because I was only 4 credits shy of graduating

i slept awful and am emotionally and physically exhausted from work. i have stressful dreams because of work. i wake up early not getting enough sleep, feeling stressed out, have to get up because i cant lie there and feel stressed and anxious.

i went to see T and it went terribly. he indicated he thought i was high bc i was so tired. i started crying and said why do i even try. i left 30 min early, crying. before i left i told him i hate going there and feeling worse. he said i dont like it either

he also said he doesnt appreciate being yelled at and accused of things. i wasnt really yelling but i did raise my voice some. i am very irritable and emotional as well because of PMS

i wish i HAD NOT GONE THERE TODAY. i left and he said go home and get some rest. i walked to my car sobbing and almost hit a car when i pulled out.

I'm sorry Junk, that sounds really out of character for him. I wonder if he had his own cr@p going on. Not that it's any excuse to chastise you. You don't deserve that at all

Nature pics from my backyard! One of the current baby birds left the nest for the first time today and we were here to see it. So was Mr. Lizard, but the other birds are doing a great job of chasing him away. He finally gave up and left.

Ugh, I'm sorry. That's wrong of him to suggest you were high... It does sound like he has his own stuff going on, that it's not about you. You said you're pretty sure his wife is pregnant, right? Maybe stress about that? Whatever the reason, he shouldn't take it out on you. You should definitely tell him how he made you feel, whether next session or before that.

You sure don't deserve that, jDNA. I'm so sorry. That must have felt so bad. There must be something else going on, but like LT said he shouldn't take it out on you. (((jDNA)))

I graduated alone, in a class of one.

We are limited to 2 movies every Saturday. Gotta keep the Trekkies from straying to other channels. Last night was the time travelling whales one. Nimoy is a wicked director the nuclear weapons scene was totally improvised with a real cop and pedestrians

Were you home schooled?

That's a beautiful lizard art