Couch 158: The Newberry Couch!

i feel a little sad this morning about the letter i wrote to t last night, but i'm using what she taught me, it's feelings and they're not me and they'll pass so I'm just gonna let myself feel them and also allow my happy to stay right alongside with the sad. interesting way to feel. i love being my weird self.

have a good day (night) couchies! catch you later on break!

I just packed up my nieces’ Christmas box. One gets a giraffe onesie, the other gets an elephant onesie.

We shall be a family of onesie-wearers. It’s important to pass traditions down to the next generation.

Until one brave person just says no.

(I am almost always that person in my family.)(I let the rest of the whackballs who share my dna do whatever they want - but I will not join them in the madness). (I will drink port and observe their tomfoolery from a detached distance, shake my head, and go back to reading the paper.)

You mentioning the elephant one made me think of MC (stuffed elephant, of course), then I had a fleeting image of him wearing an elephant onesie. Which I quickly banished out of my head and hopefully will not haunt my dreams tonight!

It may haunt my dreams

I think there should be a thread, “What onesie would your therapist wear?”

Info would probably be a tiger going by her jungle-decor theme.

By the way, did I mention last time I was there I noticed she had giant pumpkin sitting pillows?

The first woman was not whimsical that I could tell - but she would probably be more likely to go to victoria's secret and wear god knows what.
The second one was rather like prof. McGonagall or Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham or any other of the maggie smith later characters - such a thing simply would not be done.
I did not find either of them warm - although I am certain the first would describe herself as being so.

I'm just trying to make it through to the weekend. I had a little trip to crazytown today and I kept looking around myself trying to find another adult to lean on and hand this problem over to that person so I don't have to fix it. There is no person! I'm in charge and it's all on me and I was paralyzed with indecision.

I have two really close friends at work and we talked through it and I'm feeling hopeful that there is a light at the end of this tunnel (not an oncoming train) and that I will be okay.

At least I still have the couch and onesies!

I think for my t, an owl onesie.

I don’t know how I feel about sharing my owl onesie with a therapist...

Ack. Don’t share a onesie with a therapist You don’t know where those people have been.

Hi couchies,
I’ve not been around much lately. I’m not in a good place right now & life is a struggle. I just want to vent as I’m well aware that no one can help me.
Yesterday was my birthday, which is an anniversary of the day I was taken into care. I know it was about a billion years ago, but it hits me every year. Then there’s Christmas to deal with. My child parts want to spend Christmas with my t & be his ‘therapy daughter’ Ridiculous, I know, but when my emotions are my child parts, I just feel so strongly the longing to be part of a family. I hate Christmas & on top of that, I won’t be seeing my t for a few weeks either during that time. I will be spending Christmas alone again (Apart from my dog Ellie) Friends have invited me, but they are with their families doing family stuff & I would feel like a spare part & that I’m intruding on them. I’d feel that they are inviting me out of pity. I know a lot of people moan about their family & how stressful it can be, but I don’t have any family. I’ve talked only this week to my t telling him how I’m feeling, but it just makes me feel worse as saying it aloud feels far more intense. Anyway, I’ve vented which is what I needed to do.

I didn't mean she would share anybody's. She'd have to get her own!!

eta and goodness knows i've paid her enough over the past 6 years to afford it!

Are there black owls? Might be a problem.

I am reading an account of a Swede who attempted to reach the North Pole by balloon in the 1890’s. It should be fascinating, but the author keeps making mistakes—e.g., saying that Battle of Yorktown happened in the Civil War.

to all who want.

I can't picture my t in any kind of onesie.

Sorry about that, SD! At least you don't have the same knowledge of MC's appearance that I do!

MC, I'll stick with the elephant, I guess. T...first thing that popped into my head was something in the big cat family...maybe a lion? He does have a beard, so kinda like a mane. Or maybe a leopard? Yeah, I think that fits. He's fairly lithe, stylish, and wears some patterned shirts, so that seems to fit.

Well, okay...but she’s on probation.

The honor and status of the owl onesie must never be besmirched.

Cootie onesie. I think i have some illness. "They said" the flu shot was not very effective this year. I just feel yucky. I hope it doesnt get worse. I am not in the mood!

Not ridiculous at all. Just against the rules.

Is that the one where the Italian dropped a flag that was much bigger than the other two?

The first thing that popped in my head for my therapist is also a tiger onesie.

We're both dog people, but he feels like a big cat to me for some reason. No wonder I can't trust him.