Couch 179: Even-numbered days in a year

ok for reals. nighty night.

Just saving a spot in here so I can find the new couch

Yeah, i know! Its just, im always ranting about the marshmallow test, mainly about how i think its unfair to kids who dont KNOW where their next marshmallow is coming from, and this even-odd thing is a HUGE story from my childhood that "proves" how dumb i am - but i never realized until last night that it WAS a marshmallow test, and that i reacted THEN in accordance with my same insightful(!) awareness now. They only recently started to get the marshmallow test right, per MY standards.

I had to google it, but thats not exactly the right word? I felt it didnt sound right. *throws a baleful glance in the general direction of the couch. Or maybe its just that she hasnt plucked her eyebrows in a while*

I don't believe you didn't already know.

There was this poll on here recently about phrases that your T has said to you. I checked almost all of them except "I'm proud of you." Well, I guess I could go check that one off now. T just responded to my "thera-aversary," thanks-for-being-there, I-know-there-have-been-conflicts-but-I-like-working-with-you, etc. etc. email. And as part of that very kind response, he said: "I'm proud of the work that you've done and keep doing, and I hope that you are proud of yourself for it. I see a budding strength in you!" I know some people might find that to be cheesy or patronizing, but it really touched me. (And I'm pretty sure he knew that it would.)

Bark says thanks for the new couch!

Oh that face! So beautiful!

So happy that he responded that way! I think I'm actually touched by it for you even. I sure don't think it's cheesy or patronizing, I'll never forget my t saying "I'm so proud of you" on a phone session after I'd told her I published my little book of poems. Not a phrase I heard growing up from my parents, and didn't hear from my mom then either.

Morning couchies! Just dropping off some hugs and headnods all around before I head to work. I'm still feeling pretty darn great after my session yesterday evening.

Bark takes a great selfie!

I've just been told my brother is moving back to the UK next year
Worst news ever. He is awful and triggers the hellouta me

Bark is adorable!

Please give her a kiss on her perfect little forehead and tell her that I love her

Good news: my PI cancelled lab meeting because he was up until 2:30am working on a grant proposal
Great news: that means I can get in late, so I'll be picking up my new bike on my way in instead of having to wait until tomorrow (very briefly had a Rebel 250, but there were title issues and I wanted something bigger so I'm getting a Vulcan 650, I was just waiting for the shop to switch out the obnoxiously loud after market pipes to the originals)

What a long day. I've been at the car repair place for 4 hours already and it's going to probably be another 4 hours. Ugh.

Could they give you a rough estimate of how much work still needs to be done?

I didn't think it was cheesy, it sounds lovely.

That sounds very tough. You don't have to be nice to him- limit contact as much as possible. Go "out" if he says he wants to come visit. Take longer to reply back to any messages, instead of within a few hours take days to reply back.

Do you at least have a way to charge your phone? That's always the worst part of waiting somewhere for a long time for me

Yes, thankfully I have a charger with me. They were nice enough to bring me a burrito when they got lunch too. I expected this to take a while just not all day.

I got stuck for six hours once. They gave me certificates for two free oil changes.

I feel like car repair places always take longer than they say they will...It was nice of them to bring you food! Hope it's not too much longer.

Yikes.

They need a courtesy van.

To be fair, they did offer to give me a ride but I'm a good 20 minutes away and that seemed a bit far so I declined. I planned ahead and took the day off work for this. They're replacing the rack and pinion(steering) and apparently have to take a bunch of crap off to get to it. Also doing an oil change and alignment while they're at it. It ain't cheap, but cheaper than a new car.