Couch 198: All the Countries Couch

Thats where i drag in the old fashioned loveseat, where the two people sit facing opposite directions. Hey i think ikea or somebody like that has started making one.

Its their delaktig loveseat.

Thanks for the new couch una! I think this pillow is appropriate.

My Ts office set up is awesome! He has a chair for like every type of client. Then in the space where he does more interactive therapy stuff they are office chairs and I can usually ask to move either my chair or his chair to where I am comfortable.

Butterfly, that is gorgeous! Thanks! It matches a new couch cover they have at ikea, but i cant post it!

So... adult protective services came to do a wellness check on me because of my son. They left but said they were going to look into options but they didn’t take him... he asked for ER and then took off because he wanted to be arrested... thankfully the farmers by me were plowing and trying to keep me posted... but it still ended up being a 911 call and we are at the ER waiting on a psych evaluation. I got heat exhaustion and want to lay down SO bad.
While I was driving to the ER I had a flash of T hugging me. It was so real I almost got into an accident and had to pull over until I could stop crying and catch my breath. I’m a little... OK totally... weided out by it. I know I turn to T for comfort but to have it happen like a flashback while driving was crazy! And now I want a real hug.

So I am going to be a published fiction writer. It’s an online literary magazine with a print anthology at the end of the year.

Not exactly where I hoped to start publishing (I have a bias towards print) but it’s a start.

That looks like an excellent setup for foot rubs.

DELAKTIG Loveseat - Gunnared medium gray - IKEA

I am very attached to T. When on the office side I sit on the couch directly across from him and on the edge so I can reach him if I need. When we are doing other work he will pull his chair up so that the arm of his chair is up to the end of the opposite arm of my chair (the chairs make a weird s shape. This makes him REALLY close but the arms of the chair keep us from touching... unless we choose to.

I have never been to IKEA.

Congratulations.

Congrats! Which one?

I have never been tempted to dye my hair even though I started going grey in my 30s and I always had a great deal of pressure from my ex MIL. Now for some reason all my grey hairs have naturally turned red. Weird

I woke up in the early hours cold because the animals had stolen my doona.

Congrats @@

Congrats! Wanna share where we will be able to see your work?

That makes two of us.

If you ever go...I strongly advise packing a lunch, water, and some emergency rations, and tying the end of a ball of yarn to the entrance door and unspooling it as you go.

Also be prepared to throw some elbows.

IKEA is a maze. You can’t get out without walking the entire store and it’s rather large. You literally have to walk the whole thing to get out. It’s a trap.

Congrats, @@!

I'm so mentally drained right now, I'm amazed I can still put sentences together. Had extra session with T today after some stuff from yesterday's session left me in what he termed "emotional turmoil." I was crying even as I paid T today, and he said he felt bad that I wasn't leaving in better shape. Session was helpful, it just dredged up so much stuff, mostly about my dad, right in time for Father's Day (and I'll see him Sunday). I sat in the parking lot for a half hour getting it together. I wished I could have had more time talking to T, but as he said right at the end of session, he'd be seeing me Monday, and I'm supposed to then see him Friday (due to concert Wed. night), but he said if I wanted to see him earlier than Friday for the second session, I could. It's like he was trying to underline the fact that he's there. He seemed particularly invested in me today, too, like seemingly moved by some of the stuff I shared. But it was like 55 minutes wasn't enough, and I wish I could have talked for another 30 minutes or even an hour.

Not true! If you can find them, there are secret portals that allow you to skip portions of your journey. Knowing they exist is half the battle.

One of my classmates this semester totally has my number. She's in my small group where we review each other's poems. This week she said that my writing always brings her to the place where I am, but leaves her feeling like she got stood up for a blind date. Like I'm there hiding, and she is left aching for me to come out. I think she's exactly right and if I get no other useful feedback for the rest of the class, I won't care. That one piece of feedback feels huge to me. I guess I am still hiding from myself.

Hint: They are marked on the store map, but they're not glaringly obvious because they want you to traipse through the whole damn maze of a store.

Congratulations @@!

Hugs for everyone who wants one, and sedate head-nods for everyone who is anti-hug.

I had a Horrible day (I almost wrote that in all caps) and I'm really glad it's over. Happy weekend couch!

I’ll have to take note of those secret portals next time I find myself in an IKEA. Which I’m guessing won’t be for a quite awhile because I rarely go there even though the one near me is only a 15 minute drive.