Couch 160: The Squeaky Clean Couch!

It’s no below zero here today, it’s not snowing.. and the sun is trying to come out.. feels good! I am already over winter!

You so funny!!

I get the impression that you're making fun of me now

Ugh car drama w h this morning, I had to leave work for 45 minutes to go take h a key, we do NOT get time off in January and now I have to work til 6 instead of 5 to make up the time I missed since 7:45 am is too early to take lunch (I'd only been here less than 2 hrs and HR won't allow it.) I ate the pizza they brought in today and now I feel like I'm gonna hurl I guess my stomach still reacting to the earlier drama. Should have known better.

I should go ping woebot.

Woebot can be helpful in a pinch. When I was really stressed about my biopsy last week, talking to it helped me calm down.

I haven't been to work since last Wednesday. I haven't had students since December 19th. This stupid winter storm and my state's inability to cope with it all. I'm going stir crazy. I'm spending way too much time at home.

I read through and it seems a lot of you are struggling. I hope everyone is doing okay today. Hugs and positive thoughts as appropriate.

Woebot is awesome sauce.

Had my surgery yesterday and being discharged today. Yeah me. I've been in the hospital since Sat night. It feels like it's been weeks. My room doesn't have a window. I really. At times it has felt like I've been institutionalized (IP Psych or jail), like I can't leave the unit and I look out the hallway windows with longing. In fact all of Sunday I would walk by the exit door and not even "see" that it was the door out. A total twilight zone episode feel to it.

Pain meds probably not helping there.

Hope your safe at home now and your surgery went well.

Hugs, Elio. That sounds like a rough hospital stay. Hope you aren't in too much pain...

Hospitals are like being incarcerated in what I have seen. Glad you are out.

Ugh. Didn't he do this last year when you were working overtime? Or maybe it was that you needed the ride to work and he complained. Either way, I feel for you on the car front. By the time I was able to afford a new one, I never knew how freeing it was to know my car would work every time.

But maybe your H could hire Uber next time? I think it's fine to just say you can't leave work. Period.

I'm glad you're home. I can't imagine being in a room without windows, regardless of the setting.

I had my session today. About 45 minutes in, I learned that my therapist thought I was uncertain about continuing and seemed to think I was being critical (at least, it seemed that's how she was taking what I said until that point), when I thought I'd made it clear I wanted to continue, and that I was trying to bridge a disagreement by bringing things we do agree on. So for a moment, I was .

I spent the last bit of session doing what I thought I'd been doing for 45 minutes. I think she now understands that I want to continue, and also why I can't do what we had been doing. And I understand her problem, which is that I changed therapy vehicles midstream and she has to figure out how to adjust to that.

In the middle of all that happened this past week, I let go of my second weekly appointment, which is something I was working toward anyway, but it was going to be more gradual. I think that threw her as well, but it's kind of a separate issue. I need to put that money into retirement, so it's more about wanting to plan for a future, which is something I have never been able to imagine before. In the middle of last week's upheaval, I just expedited that move. It's going to be hard to adjust, but I'm glad to be able to start saving more money in this way.

Yep a year ago we were down a car cuz of son's accident and h didn't want to have to drive me while son used my car. Good memory. Today it was a stupid thing we just didn't know - that unlocking it with the spare key instead of the fob thing would set off the alarm and prevent the car from starting so he was stuck at home & couldn't work. He just made it such a huge drama, was so upset on the phone when he called me, I couldn't separate myself from his "stuff" to think about telling him to call Uber to come to my work n get the fob. He doesn't understand the corporate thing, his job he can just say I can't work cuz he's a contractor, but yet he makes ME take time that I have to stay late to make up and probably puts a black mark on my record. All so HE can work when it's so much easier for him to be off. But I guess to be fair he had my car cuz he was getting my tire fixed. I kinda owed him.

Sorry. You didn't want to hear all that. Guess I needed to vent!!

Today Info was late, because, “I’m sorry, there was a long line at the pharmacy and I needed to get my husband’s Viagra prescription.”

What does one say to that? I went with “no problem.”

She was however wearing a smashing pink outfit, easily her best so far, except it clashed with the orange skin and hair.

Atat that really is tmi

I wish there was bovine therapy i love my cows. I drive out of town every now and then to be with cows.
I amcurrently waiting at my ex house for a package as they have gone to his parents could arrive anywhere between 8am anc 5 pm and broke the charging cord for my iDevices and have 10% on my ipad and 52% on my phone its sad when that is the most devasting thing in my life at the moment

Hugs to those needing them

I think they do that sort of thing at clients from time to time for no good reason. One time out of nowhere the woman told me her home computer had a virus that caused porn to come on whenever they turned on the computer and said "and it is not even good porn that we would enjoy" - I just said that certainly was adding insult to injury and went on with whatever it was (not about computer virus porn) that I was talking about.
I really think they should think before they speak.

Is she just helping you in the sense that it makes you feel better to know that there is someone who is so... so... shall we say clueless, yet is still able to walk erect? Or its like having a female Homer Simpson for a t? Hmm - i might be jealous! Or envious, i forget which!

My t's neighbor has a cow (that I watched her help wrangle back into their yard one time as I drove up lol) and it was outside last week when I was there, so we could hear her moo-ing as I walked in from my car.

More useless trivia: i sat on a cow once on a dairy farm. Backwards. Wish I still had the picture.

O I need some Pepto bismal. The free pizza lunch at work did a number on my poor tummy. Blurgh....

(((Artie))) hey! H cant be all drama girlie-man for something like the car not starting, then be all bully he-man bossing you around and telling you to quit therapy! Its one or the other! Them's the rules! Theres no "kinda" liberated!

Eta - oprah said, theres a new day coming...!

Is Oprah still on tv?

I saw dr phil for the first time last week i only lasted about 6 mins couldnt stomach it

My t once tried to do a funny dr phil voice once but because i had never seen him i just looked at him blankly while my t chuckled to himsrlf