Couch 184: Welcome to Zanzibar!

SlumberKitty · Dec 21, 2018, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by atisketatasket

LT—CVS has socks just for Dr. T!

Couch 184: Welcome to Zanzibar!

These are adorable. I'm actually wearing red penguin socks today. It goes with my Christmas Mickey/Disneyland long sleeve tee shirt. My office is very casual. Beyond casual. I am however, wearing loafers.

SalingerEsme · Dec 21, 2018, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Jersey 3

Thanks, but it has to do more with the quality of her life. She already wears diapers in the house but usually she urinates so much that unlimitely she soaks through the diaper and the onsie holding it on. (We use a onsie to hold the diaper on because she does not have a tail. It was already docked when I rescued her. I tried dog diapers and human diapers and neither one holds up to her bladder even when she does not have an infection. She drinks her weight in water every day but it’s not an option to limit her water because of her other health issues, the vet said she must have access to her water at all times. I’m fighting an uphill battle with her. My boss just gave me a nice big Christmas bonus-that should cover most of her vet visit on Saturday.

She is really lucky she spent a long cared for life on your watch. I had to let go my true love heart dog last year, and there was a lot of relief mixed into the heartbreak ( he had hemangiosarcoma of the spleen) bc it was then or after a total crisis. He went so peacefully and in no pain; my vet and I were both in tears, but not the bad kind of tears. It seems like, from your description, her system is shutting down, and you are doing the right, humane thing.

WarmFuzzySocks · Dec 21, 2018, 02:55 PM

Things are not going well in this house.

It turns out that the kids' dad remembers the conversation we had in September about remodeling the office into a separate apartment for him, which I described on the Couch as wrestling as octopus Hydra, is this: I asked him to get an estimate, and he said he would.

I told him I was confused, that I thought we'd dropped the topic since his reaction was so extreme. When I reminded him that I'd locked my door that night, he responded that was old news and he remembers me telling him but he "thought we'd moved past that."

And he was so disappointed that he'd worked so hard to get the estimate and this is the reaction, it's disappointing.

I just...The dissonance is deafening, both the outer dissonance of competing perceptions, and in the inner dissonance of trying to continue to be calm, measured, careful, respectful, compassionate, balanced in the face of shifting ground when I feel drained of compassion and tired of constant watchfulness.

Echos Myron redux · Dec 21, 2018, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by atisketatasket

LT—CVS has socks just for Dr. T!

Couch 184: Welcome to Zanzibar!

My dentist was wearing socks just like those!

StressedMess · Dec 21, 2018, 03:24 PM

About half the gifts are wrapped, the menu is planned, I have to make a list and go grocery shopping ugh. Also cleaned up a little but have far more to do. Bah humbug.

Dec 21, 2018, 03:48 PM

It looks like i may have christmas all to myself this year. No stress about whether people are happy or will i say the wrong thing. Its nice. I need to finish mowing my jungle today as i havent had the lawn mower because it was being fixed.

Dec 21, 2018, 03:49 PM

Omg i've got to get me some penguin socks.

Dec 21, 2018, 03:50 PM

I can hear Robin Wiliams as that penguin in Happy Feet now.

LostOnTheTrail · Dec 21, 2018, 03:53 PM

Wow - I didn't know Robin Williams was in Happy Feet, but when I think about it....Lovelace?

Dec 21, 2018, 03:55 PM

H e voiced Ramon and Lovelace but i was thinking of the Ramon character

Dec 21, 2018, 04:12 PM

Am I the only person in the world who doesn't like Robin Williams? I found him irritating and nauseating in equal measure. Apart from his role in One Hour Photo, he was suitably creepy in that.

Dec 21, 2018, 04:13 PM

Don't get me started on Good Will Hunting ...

04:39 PM

Stormy (black cat) was so happy to see my son today!

Dec 21, 2018, 04:14 PM

Or, god forbid, Dead Poets Society.

Dec 21, 2018, 04:15 PM

Why the hell have I watched so many Robin Williams' films?!

Dec 21, 2018, 04:18 PM

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Why the hell have I watched so many Robin Williams' films?!

Hmmmmmm.

Dec 21, 2018, 04:20 PM

i have just noticed a thin crack on my ipad screen no wonder its been a b i t c h to use lately

Echos Myron redux · Dec 21, 2018, 04:28 PM

I adore Robin Williams. We're all different though!

SlumberKitty · Dec 21, 2018, 04:32 PM

Robin Williams always got too silly for me. I can make it through about 3/4ths of the way through Mrs. Doubtfire and then I'm anxious as heck. I can't finish watching it. I enjoy his movies until he gets too zany. Kit

atisketatasket · Dec 21, 2018, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by SorryOozit

Am I the only person in the world who doesn't like Robin Williams? I found him irritating and nauseating in equal measure. Apart from his role in One Hour Photo, he was suitably creepy in that.

I never was a fan. And I really detested when he tried to do a Serious Role (What Dreams May Come).

Dec 21, 2018, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by SlumberKitty

Robin Williams always got too silly for me. I can make it through about 3/4ths of the way through Mrs. Doubtfire and then I'm anxious as heck. I can't finish watching it. I enjoy his movies until he gets too zany. Kit

I love the zany. My ex used say it was like living with Robin Williams, epecially when i talked a million miles an hours non stop and covered 10 topics in one breath. I loved his stand up more than his movies.

ScarletPimpernel · Dec 21, 2018, 04:47 PM

Saw my Pdoc yesterday and talked to her on the phone today. I'm getting back on all my meds. I can't do it without them right now. So she's re-prescribing me Lamotrigine, Wellbutrin, Clonidine, and Clonazepam. Man, I take a lot of meds

And my dad doesn't think anything is wrong with me. Pfft. I don't think I'll ever become a mom.

Dec 21, 2018, 04:54 PM

I am still mad your T scarlet in fact i am mad at all Ts who just flat out refuse to even consider having a discussion about peoples financial situation. At least my T agreed to see me at a reduced rate it was more than i could afford but i did it by cutting back on sessions and lately my t has been kind enough to see me and delay payment for a period. I once owed 8 sessions.