Couch 231: Live Long and Prosper!

And I would be annoyed too at the lack of choice regarding the smart home thing! Especially making you pay for something you don't even want.

What is twitch? Never heard of it.

Meanwhile im going back to the dark ages - i lost my tv clicker this week.

Eta - oh i see @@ likes doing that! Honey i wanna watch Professor T tonight. Plus my antenna is on the blink again.

Isn't twitch more of a live streaming platform? A lot of gamers use it to stream games and I think they can monetize it as well. And there is a live chat component to it.

I just went off on L in an email. Everyone wants me to continue this fee reduction conversation, and I've had enough. I'm actually losing touch with the reality of my relationship with L: the facts and history. They feel so out of reach, like a dream. I don't feel connected to her right now. I feel like I'm screaming for help and no one is listening. Everyone is just focused on their wants and needs (money) and forgetting what I want and need. Saving $30 a month is of no help when therapy sessions are $150 each.

I'm wondering how she's going to respond. Defensive? Disappointed? Frustrated? Overly logical? Normally I'd apologize or try to soften things. I kind of just want to blow things up and see where s*** flies.

I thought you had a plan to slowly work down to one session a week than would save you a fairly good amount of money? I know you might like to keep the same number of sessions going, but sometimes the reality is our budgets only allow so much toward certain things.

Why not try that plan rather than seeking to blow things up as you put it? Fight that default react to take this as a personal affront and instead use this as an opportunity to slow down your reaction and put that more thought-driven plan which seems very helpful into place.

That sounds like the Bark Boxes Lone Dog gets every month, with a treat and a toy. He destroys the toy and either wolfs down the treat or rejects it, so the squirrels in my mom’s yard get it. (New cat is not going to lower herself to eat dog food.)

I'm thinking about signing up for that Mindful Souls subscription box, at least for a few months while I'm working overtime and especially for while I'm not seeing L. I saw an ad for it on instagram just now and it looks like something that's right up my alley and they have a 15% deal for your first box. I think I may just do it. They send 6-8 items a month that are things like aromatherapy items, crystals, gemstone jewelry, and other woo kinda stuff that I like.

I used to get one called Goddess Provisions that sounds similar to that--maybe check into that one as well?

I've gotten assorted other subscription boxes over the past few years, too, for things like makeup/skincare, clothing (for me and for D--well, a couple for H, too), personal care items, etc. It's fun to have the surprise, and some are good values. but then you can overloaded with stuff.

There's actually a site where you can swap items from those boxes with people--I was doing that for a while. It's fun. Like one swap, I traded some makeup I wasn't going to use for a throw

blanket.

I went for a walk because the sun is shining and the sky is very blue this afternoon. We've been getting so much rain lately I thought I'd better take advantage of it since I only had to work 4 hours today (Labor Day and we would have been off except for the overtime) and I'm glad I did because the sunshine brightened my mood.

Sounds lovely! I went for a walk both this morning and Saturday before H and D got up, as our weather has gotten cooler. I realized that if I'm going to get back into walking, I need to just do it and not make excuses. And not start surfing the web, just get up, change, and go.


What's funny is I think I encountered the same squirrel on both walks (different coloring from our usual squirrels). It walked along next to me for a minute the one day (to the point that I was hoping it wasn't rabid), then this morning stopped on the sidewalk to look at me. Maybe it could smell the guinea pig food on me...

I just cut off 5 inches of my hair! And it feels so good! I got an a-line bob. I wanted to do something to feel a little better about myself.

What's funny is I think I encountered the same squirrel on both walks (different coloring from our usual squirrels). It walked along next to me for a minute the one day (to the point that I was hoping it wasn't rabid), then this morning stopped on the sidewalk to look at me. Maybe it could smell the guinea pig food on me...