Couch 198: All the Countries Couch

You need to reorder your list for a true crescendo.

My deck is currently being power washed.

Aaand they are spraying all the chemically stuff into my neighbor's screened-in deck, too.

Anyone else always look at the clock right at 12:34?

Maybe it's an unconscious thing b/c it makes my OCD happy.

That was just to throw you off, like slipping on a banana peel as you approach the peak of Mt Everest.

Boy i am full of it today, amn't i?!

In preparation for your pool?

Darn @@ you really hit it on the nail there. I even stopped putting emojis in my replies to her and not hugging her posts .

My HP laptop is close to it's 6th birthday. My apple Iphone is still good 5 years later too!

Dunno It changes things for me. I spent all this time feeling the lurrrve didn't know that i was the one giving out heart shaped cookies.

I use Tapatalk most of the time and it doesn't have the hugs option...

So

Hugs!

Hehe I'll keep taking the hugs but I'm teasing.

I realized there is an issue with that: mosquitos the size of birds (almost).

I don't think all of the citronella in the world will help with them, ugh.

I love you couchies!!!!

That is all.

I am so miserable. I feel like all I ever do lately is wrong things. Now my son is upset because his gf is upset that i took some of their clothes out of the drier last night and folded them so the rest could get dry faster, and they want me to leave their stuff alone. i was only trying to help. i didn't know i was causing a problem. my son said "nobody ever means to cause a problem." i know they are stressed out by their bug situation. i am an emotional mess right now anyway, stressed for them and their situation and having 4 adults living here suddenly is a little stressful too. i am not handling life at all right now and i just want to run away and hide in a cave.

and i'm probably already reacting negatively about turning 57 next week and of course L will be out of town next week. i'm sorry i'm such a mess.

Artie! The only mistake you made was in folding the clothes! You should have left them in a wrinkled lump!

That little girl needs to realize shes a guest in somebodys house and not to hog the facilities, AND she should be folding (and doing) YOUR laundry.

I would ask your son, "Is this how you acted at your uncle's house?"

Nobody MEANS to cause trouble. Right. Well, i do!

ETA - I see i am going to have to start up my classes, "lessons in lesbetiquette - from no backbone to lesbone". Stop me before i pun again!

Eta2 - i realize i am channeling my ma. My only regret is that i dont have minions upon whom to perpetrate my righteousness. so youse guys will have to do. Cheezit no wonder my playwright group said this was the role i was born to play.

Hugs, Art. It's OK to be a mess. You can join my "Clients whose T's are away the week of July 4" support group.

Oh that probably needs to be a thread, if it isnt already. Who the heck put the 4th of July on a Thursday?? Its like just BEGGING ts to take the whole week off! Man! I blame Trump for this!

Eta - okay, somebody needs to clam down. Is there a :breatheintoapaperbag: emoji?

work is on my last nerve today too and that's not helping. And I can't stop eating my stupid feelings these poetry prompts have been dredging up since this class started

Everything about me is just wrong.
wrong, wrong, wrong.
at least i'll be off work in a little more than 3 hours. maybe i'll go swim again.
ignore my little pitty party.

What una said, that should be a separate thread! <3 great idea.


I don't know why the heck these poetry prompts are doing such a number on me. I don't want to begrudge L time off, sheesh. She deserves it. But I am so hugely emotional and every stupid little thing is making me cry. Everything. Oops, dropped a glass on the floor and it broke? Cry. Son upset that gf got upset? Sob incoherently. Emotional poetry prompts? Yeah, Artie, great idea to go over the top and rip your heart out while writing your poems yeah that really ****ing helps everything.


Does anyone have a cave I can hole up in for awhile?

Artie, try not to take the whole laundry thing too much to heart. People can sometimes be a bit weird about other people touching their things. Maybe the clothes you took out so the others would dry faster were still a bit damp or something. I think what your son said was unnecessary and rude.

When my roommate leaves her stuff in the dryer and I need to use it, I fold her stuff so it doesn't get all wrinkled. She just piles mine in a heap on top. That's fine - I have no expectation that she will fold my clothes for me - but I certainly wouldn't be angry if she did.

Makes me think of biscuits.Sorry never mind me.

And I appreciate it.

The errant hug attribution has been corrected.

Omg, my cat just hit my tablet, lost my message and changed the layout... how very appropriate...

Anyway, I think while we are starting new threads we need an “I’m an emotional basket case” thread where we can put all the really crazy crap making us cry or go off the handle... then poetically blame it on something totally different but totally irrational.

I'm with Una. Let them be upset. You didn't do anything wrong. and you were trying to help. It will blow over. It's not like you set fire to their clothes, but I can understand if it was stuff like underwear.

When my sister came over to stay for 4 days. It was still uncomfortable and we got on okay. it's just i'm used to having my own space now. I found taking some time out helpful. maybe you could go grab a latte and leave them to it for a few hours.

I'm going to be nothing but a giant puddle of tears on the floor of t's office tomorrow I can see it now. As soon as she looks at me with her compassionate eyes I will likely start bawling.
Maybe I should bring her a mop.