Couch 202: The Grande Unicorn Frappuccino couch.

Mini couch roadtrip to Denny's!

Or get some eggo waffles. Or some pepperidge farm french toast flavor cinnamon raisin bread. For a minute there, i forgot how to spell raisin.

I'll hop in if I'm not too late. If I am too late, I hope your session went well. If you ever get a chance to try Kusmi tea, give it a shot. It's really smooth. It's a little expensive so when I get it, it's sort of a treat for myself. I think last time I bought it on Amazon it was $16.99 for 20 teabags. But they are muslin teabags and so it feels a little more special than the paper ones. My family is really peculiar in that we "do teas". We do tea parties and such instead of baby showers, wedding showers, graduation parties etc. Sometimes we do a tea just because. When you are growing up, if you are a girl, you get tea pieces for your hope chest. So by the time you are an adult, you have a full service of tea dishes. Mine are violets. My sister's is Old Country Roses. Another cousin has forget-me-knots. I'm on a tangent. Anyway, enjoy your tea.

I looooove violets. They do tend to spread, though. But they smell so good and look so beautiful.

The air conditioning is making me cold, even though I am wearing long pants and a cardigan. If I put my space heater on, I'm a little too warm. Can't quite get comfortable today. Made me think how I'm not quite comfortable in myself lately. I'm reacting to things I normally wouldn't react to. I'm risk taking when I normally wouldn't. It's like the me I know doesn't quite fit this me that is doing her thing lately. T session can't come soon enough. But I'm trying not to count on it being a good one. I don't want to count on it fixing things and then leaving me worse off. I feel a little less depressed today but I feel like any second the rug is going to be pulled out from under me and I'm going to be worse off. It's a weird, on the edge, feeling. I don't like it.

Set heat around medium, wait till a bunch of bubbles form to flip it over.

@LostOnTheTrail, I just should send my Dad over to make you pancakes. He made them for me back to back days this week. Or may I suggest IHOP? HUGS Kit

The former owner was walking around the property, slipped and fell and and had to have it wrapped up with gauze and there is still seeping out of the gauze. I must say, it is triggering me mightily.

Also, the former owner is okay. He probably should go to urgent care because it was rusty there but he probably won't.

Hopefully he keeps up on his tetanus shots. I do. Otherwise boy he will be sorrrrrrrryyyyyy!

That's what I said too. Great minds must think alike.

WHO guidelines used to state once your antibodies are at a certain level you don't need tetanus boosters

That's interesting. I've never heard that before. Every time I end up at the ER for SH they want to give me a booster whether or not it has been 10 years. They always say it won't hurt to have one. (Not that that shot won't hurt but that it won't hurt me to have a booster even if it isn't time yet. Luckily I'm not bothered by shots.) Probably a way to get more money out of me/insurance company.

Maybe its all the acid rain up here. My dr keeps boosting me up.

This was awkward guys...the former owner and his employee called me from my desk to help them with some accounting stuff. So I went. But my new boss was sitting in a chair in the office and he watched as I was helping them do their work, and since the former owner isn't the one paying me anymore, it felt awkward because I was pulled away from my desk to go do work for someone else not on new owner's payroll. (Not that I was really working hard at my desk anyway. I've done what I can do with my work for the day until someone gives me the green light that it is okay to pay bills.) But new boss doesn't know that and he didn't look happy that I was pulled away from my desk to go help former owner. So I helped them quickly and explained a few things and then asked if they needed anything else and scooted back to my office. Where I promptly informed you guys of the situation!

Couch writers, I have a conundrum. I've written a poem for this call. Publishers are based in the US, and it doesn't specify whether they're open to international submissions. They haven't responded to my email requesting such information. Do I assume that they are, or assume that they aren't?

I would assume they are and submit the poem. Good luck! I hope you get published!

T - I'm exhausted and have the worst headache. I'm not sure anything got resolved but it didn't get worse.

I’d assume they were open, and I’d bet so long as it’s in English it’s fine. Plus it doesn’t look like you have to pay, so all you would lose is some time.

Also, if you don’t mind gluten free I am making pancakes for dinner and to freeze later.

My mom calls this “when the pancakes start to look worried.”

You’re our woman in Accounting.

I just emailed one of my bosses that works in NY to see if it is okay to pay bills. I emailed her before 8 AM this morning with the list of bills I want to pay but I haven't heard anything. So I resent it. I feel dumb. But on the other hand, I need to know if I can pay the bills or not. Usually she will get back to me by 11 AM and it's after 2:30 PM. On the other hand, it's after 2:30 PM, that means less than 2 hours left of work! I have to go to the bank for work after work though but it's also my personal bank and I could use some cash from the ATM so no worries there.

My pancakes were always hit or miss. Usually the first ones were just right, and then subsequent ones, not so much. I use a ceramic non-stick type of pan. I found, by accident, the secret to perfect ones every batch: coconut oil. I had been using safflower or grapeseed. Apparently, the coconut oil has a higher amount of saturated fat, so more no sticking. And the smell is great! I only use virgin organic, though--the kind that is solid white in the container. I keep it in the fridge and just chip out chunks to use.

Isnt that like what they call James Bond?

LOL! Love it! Plus I'm madly in love with Daniel Craig. I can watch him be Bond all day long.

My former boss who works for the former owner is moving to working from home today. So I won't be seeing her at the office anymore. I'll still see her because my family delivers dinner to her most nights but still, it won't be the same.

Listening to Nick Cave, good idea?