Couch 227 - The Safe Couch

Horsey play date coming up soon, my favorite part of the Kentucky Derby.

If the hour of pre-show with lots of shots of Bob Baffert and horses wanderinb about and people drinking mint juleps ever ends.

ETA: of course I rooted for the horse with a food name—Soup and Sandwich.

AAARRRRGGGHHH! I just...ther are no words for this man.

Well we found a house that I am actually excited about moving to! It doesn't have a pool, but then I don't have one here anymore either because they closed it, it's over 30 years old and apparently they think it can't be repaired at a reasonable enough cost?! Anyway the house we found is a lot closer to our friends here who do have a pool in their backyard so I will be able to swim there at least sometimes. And I'm going to look for a gym with an indoor pool hopefully there's one not too far for during the colder months. We shall see. Time to start going through stuff and donating what I don't want to cart with me to the new place.

Big hugs, BCM.

Yay!

Have you already put an offer in and had it accepted?

How soon can you move in?

Yep. I was holding off on saying anything cuz I didn't want to jinx it. We're shooting for moving in June. I am in love with the kitchen especially.

Congrats, Artie!

Congrats Artie enjoy your new house

Well at last my ex is gone said he won't be comiing back to live so i can relax now. Seriously though its the Labour Day long weekend here and today is the public holiday and yesterday he tought he could take the bike he bought our daugher back for repairs. He didnt realise nothing will be open. This guy has lived through 60+ years of Labour Days how do you forget?

I cant believe my ex when i saidhow hard it was to find restaurants with good vegetarian meals, he said thats why HE suggested indidian or italian, i am sorry but my daughter wanted either indian or italian. I will stop going on about things now.

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Just got back from girls weekend with my lifelong friends. It was lovely and all, lots of laughing. We rented a farmhouse in wine country. There were sheep. We mostly ate in, didn't go shopping and spent some of that time hiking instead, which suits me fine.

Now it's time for me to head to sleep in my own bed, which is one of my favorite parts of going away, getting home to sleep in my own cozy bed. Except it occurred to me just now that I put off going to bed when I am home and that when I go away I sleep so much better. More deeply or something. Sigh. Night, Couchies.

P.S. una, did you wear a fancy hat to celebrate the Derby?

That sounds like a lovely weekend, WFS! And thanks for sharing the sheep photo!


I nearly always sleep much worse when I'm on vacation--something about being in a strange location and strange bed. Not that I sleep particularly well in general, just worse when I'm away.

Sounds like a fab trip!

Ugh... Dr. T had said about a month ago that he thought he'd be able to start in-person sessions in mid to late May (after his wife was fully vaccinated). Clients would have to be vaccinated, but we wouldn't have to wear masks, though would sit 6 feet apart.

I mentioned it today, and he said the American Psychological Association hasn't put out any new guidance on meeting with clients if both clinician and client are vaccinated. That their current guidance for in-person is both have to wear masks. And he doesn't want to do masks. So he's going to postpone it until they give additional guidance. He said he expects new guidance to come out by the end of the month, so it may not be that much longer. (I mean, the CDC is currently saying that two vaccinated people/households can meet indoors without wearing masks, or even one vaccinated and one unvaccinated person/household, so you'd think they would allow that, too?


But it's still frustrating. I'm having some difficulty going back out into society and figured going to therapy in person would be a part of, well, exposure therapy. And if I was there anxious about being in-person, he could help talk me through it.


I mean, I am worried about things changing and feeling different when we resume in-person, so in a small way it's a relief. But he'd also said we could have always stayed virtual for as long as I wanted (he said he expected some clients to just stay virtual). And I want to be able to have the choice. It's been over a year...

WFS that does sound like a lovely weekend, and what a pretty pic too! Thanks for sharing it. I need to find some friends to go camping with. I miss it, h doesn't like to camp. He likes the hiking part of being out in nature, but does not want to sleep in a tent.

Hugs, LT.

Thanks, Artie.

That does sound frustrating. Some of the docs at my hospital still wear masks despite being vaccinated, but it's just guidance though right not the law in your specific area. If he's not breaking any rules I don't see why he can't not wear a mask if he doesn't want to and you're okay with that.

Thanks, Lemon. I can definitely see doctors in a hospital setting wearing them still, because they don't know what patients they could come in contact with, plus I imagine it might make patients feel safer?


But I guess if it will just be Dr. T and I (or another vaccinated client) sitting in a room 6 feet apart, it seems like it should be OK? Like of course I'd still wear a mask to walk through the building and in the waiting area, then walking back to his office. Plus he said he was planning on initially having an hour between in-person clients (he'd see one virtually during that time) to give the air time to clean, just to be safe.

I have to wonder if he's also uncertain if he's ready to go back in person yet (whether for safety or other reasons) and is sort of using this to cover for it? He was meeting me from home every session last week (though was in his office today), so maybe he'll miss having that flexibility? Though I assume he could just decide he'll meet with clients virtually on a particular day, like if the weather is supposed to be bad, and work from home.