Couch 157: Fair Value

I recently got 2 kittens and my dog went mental every time he saw them. I mean he would whine and nearly scream I kept them separated in the bathroom and patted the dog and gave him treats and a couple of days later I sat with him with the kittens in the room and patted him and more treats til over a week he would sit without me holding him for a while and so on. The thing is to get him to smell the kitten without seeing them and associating nice things with them

Ah, so it is--thanks! Thought it would be odd for them to get rid of that. (I know I can hit Command-R or whatever (on a laptop without function keys), but I'm just used to using the mouse for most everything!

Yes he is gray with faint tabby markings and black points like a Siamese. He also has lighter grey Amish beard which you can't really see here

Thanks, good to know I'm not alone! Maybe enough people will complain and they'll change it back...

I'll try googling.

That is the most annoying thing of all. But it is faster, but for how long?

Yay, I figured it out and fixed it thanks to Google!

"Go to 3-bar menu (or 'Tools') => Add-ons => Themes and choose the Light theme"

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1186522

A step by step guide for changing the theme in Firefox follows:

1. Click on the hamburger icon - three bars on the right
2. Click on Add Ons
3. Click on themes, where you will be presented with:
Default
Dark
Light

Choose the light theme.

It was a lot slower for me the first couple of days. Today, it's much better. I don't know why they felt the need to change so much.

Maybe they had to change so much as it was really incompatible with Win 10 I seriously considered changing but my faith in Firefox was justified again, except the small changes

Take care of you, daisy.

I have learned that there are certain threads or types of threads that it is best for me to avoid. But there are other threads and discussions that are helpful or insightful. So I try to participate in those and leave the rest. I'm sorry you're having a hard time, though.

It's been a long few days. My husband had surgery on Wednesday to replace his implanted morphine pump (battery life was about up). That went fine, but about 3AM Friday morning he woke up in pain and telling me something was not right. Within a few minutes, he was starting to slur his words and have trouble keeping his eyes open. Answering service had me drive him into a major hospital in the city. Spent 10 hours in the ER while the representative for the company that makes the pumps came in and did some reprogramming. They had switched pump manufacturers. The new pump is more precise and efficient, but that meant that the same amount of morphine he had been getting, less efficiently, from the old pump, was overdosing him on the new pump. We finally got to a room and by this morning he was alert and coherent again, and we were discharged by noon. He's back to the normal healing post-surgery again. Nothing is simple with him.

Thank goodness for an excellent pump rep and an excellent doctor. The doctor called me directly in the ER, gave me his personal cell number, and got on the phone with the ER docs (who really didn't know what they were dealing with). The rep and doctor continued to text and call me personally every few hours checking on my husband and being sure all was well. At one point, we were in the room as they were getting him settled and the doctor called me and spoke to both of us. The nurses all said that's one good doctor you have there -- hang on to that one. Yup. We know that. It took 30 years and lots of mediocre and downright bad ones to finally find him. Nothing like a rare medical condition to keep life a challenge.

So we're home. We're showered (we went there with nothing so we were rather odiferous by this morning). Our stinky clothes are clean. I finally had time to sit down and update the checkbook. Now I can relax.

This on top of Dad's two strokes has made for a busy and stressful three weeks. At least I'm off work for a week for Thanksgiving. Looking forward to a trip down to see extended family. Dad is making the trip too, so we are feeling very blessed at the moment.

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That is EXACTLY what i noticed, except for the tabby markings. Its like he has an undercoat of soft white down. And the little beard makes him appear quite piquant! Or astute? Like a little rabbi; i want to ask him a question! Wait until he grows into those big paws! Hes so fluffy!!!

Starting chapter 13, Personality. It opens with a paragraph about Lady Gaga....

Omg, when was this book written, NEXT year??

lolag, sounds very stressful indeed. i'm glad you're both back home. sending lots of good thoughts for you and your family.

I know, right? It was written in 2009 but just updated last year. Amazingly current for a textbook! At least, from what I remember....

I dont think i ever had a textbook that covered after WWII. And we liked it!!

Re my education - im listening to traveling europe by music on pbs? Wagner, blue danube, aida, stuff like that, then they play Grieg, pier gynt, and im like, isnt that bugs bunny's wake up song?

I just looked up the textbook for next semester's class, I'm taking Positive Psychology (just registered the other day), and I'm so looking forward to it! The table of contents is viewable on Amazon, one of the chapters is about foundations of emotion, motivation, and the nature of well-being. The emotion part interests me a lot.

I'm really loving this learning thing!

I was so hoping you would say that. And may I suggest you make this your avatar?

There's actually.........an uncanny resemblance.

I'm sorry to bring the mood down but I honestly don't feel well.

Staying on one session a week is hard.

After my last session on thursday- old memories from when I was a 9 year old child started coming back to me. Things I haven't even thought about for almost 10+ years.

R is going on holiday from the 18th to the 1st of December, but my next session would be three days after he comes back. 17 days. I feel silly writing that out- but I expect it to be hard. He offered to see me for one session whilst be was away- would it be wrong of me to accept it even if he was supposed to be away? And at the end of the day I know I won't accept it because it wouldn't feel right doing that to him.

Someone asked me out today, which was a surprise. But I said no- I don't feel very stable and don't really think he knows what he's getting into.

(((Lemoncake)))