Couch 231: Live Long and Prosper!

I'm glad it helped, Kit.

I'm going to sink into the corner for a while, don't mind me. Today was hard. Nothing went according to plan all day, I even fell further behind than I was when I got there, yet somehow I stayed busy every second today. Told my boss I might have to work the weekend, I can't function with all this disorder. Boss shot that down. Hopefully tomorrow comes with stamina and mental clarity, and I can attempt to catch up.

Hugs or head-nods for my couchies. Hey, what's for dinner? I need inspiration or else I'm going to have cake.

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Hugs, Stressed (if wanted). I had a black bean burger for dinner (but at a restaurant--it was housemade though!) Not sure if that will help you in your dinner decisions. I hope tomorrow at work is better for you.

Hugs, Stressed.
Beans in the Instant Pot here. Probably with rice and kale and fresh tomatoes.
I like your idea better.

Cake for dinner!

I am watching a baseball game and it’s the home team’s bring your dog day. The dogs are very into it. Possibly more than the humans.

My dinner consists of a Trader Joe's Chicken Tikka Masala frozen meal, a bagged chopped Asian salad, and 12oz of a highly mediocre IPA called "Big Daddy."

I have leftover jambalaya from yesterday, various sandwich makings, and microwave meals. None of it sounds appealing so cake it is! (Well, pumpkin roll, but it's close enough.) But, I'm coming over to all of your kitchens because it all sounds delicious!

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Is there a particular recipe? Type of beans? Wondering, as we have both kale and fresh tomatoes from our farm share this week (and rice and beans in the pantry).

For dinner I'll be having leftover rice/black beans/corn/tomatoes with mango-peach salsa mixed in.

Hugs all around to those who need/want.

Ive been on a mac and cheese kick - hormel microwave, with a can of mushrooms mixed in, lots of onion powder, and some kimchee powder. Its amazing how adding the mushrooms makes it take like ten times longer to eat! Mac n cheese is a very inhalable food!

I was bad today. For supper I had a pumpkin cookie. My stomach is upset and my other option, besides going out or going to the grocery store, had tomato in it and that would have made my stomach worse.

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There's kimchi powder?

Found a few on amazon. My new favorite seasoning!

I love peach salsa

We had hot dogs and mac and cheese. Not the healthiest, but it's what we had and it's cheap.

I love that the one brand is Seoul Sisters!

I am probably late to the game, but I had summer squash, asparagus, roasted peppers and a peach with popcorn for dessert.

I also hope the IOP goes well, Kit. I agree with this sentiment whole-heartedly; you deserve every bit of help available to you!

Also LT, I know how much it hurts when a friend just ends the relationship. I'm sorry.

I sent an email to my therapist today saying I think I need to take a break. I hate to admit, even here, that him leaving, whenever that happens, is still feeling difficult for me. It still feels like a rejection or abandonment even though he doesn't want it to feel that way for me. Yesterday I asked him if he'd made a decision about end-of-year yet. He said he hadn't but he said that if he was still here that's when we would start tapering down. That triggered some deeply embedded crap that I'm not sure how to deal with. I want to be able to deal with it in a "oh, he's leaving, carry on" kind of way, but that's so not what I feel about the situation. Instead I've been doing a lot of crying and feeling like almost everybody in my life has left me in some form or fashion.

Oh, and he hasn't responded after about 8 hours. I guess he'll respond before we're supposed to meet Saturday, time TBD.

Thats the one i have! It is a great name, isnt it? The ingredients seemed more reasonable to me.

I feel for you, NP. I feel like this termination process has been all over the place, leaving you floundering in the wind. he needs to set some boundaries around this. Does he just not know his schedule and that’s what has been effing up your schedule. you can’t live internally in limbo.

I used pinto beans, the no-soak method. So 1 lb dry unsoaked beans, ~5 cups liquid, 45 minutes with natural release. I kind of make up the rest as I go.

Tonight: Saute bacon using the saute feature, scoop out the bacon pieces and add diced onion, saute and stir in the seasoning to the onion...a little fresh thyme and oregano, spices (smoked paprika, chipotle, coriander, black pepper, but no salt, add that after cooking). Dump in the dried beans, a pint of salsa and a quart of tomato juice for the liquid, frozen ham bone. Pressure cook. Natural release. Put the bacon pieces back in.

I made the rice separately in the rice cooker, forgot about the kale but usually I'd roast it to go in the bowl with the rice and beans. Served it with avocado and fresh sliced tomatoes.

I gather the only reason he's still here is because COVID happened and his school went online. I think he's done with school next May, but then has to do some other hands-on stuff. I don't really know to be honest, but he said he's definitely moving there next May. There are only 5 states that allow psychologists to prescribe and my state isn't one of them. I have no idea what his eventual plan is. He told me at one time that it was 50/50 that he'd be back here doing the same thing he's doing now after he graduated.

It really sucks being the collateral damage in what seems like his mid-life crisis.