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Poohbah
Member Since Jan 2020
Location: Somewhere I'm working to leave
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#561
Doing better. My regular therapist will help. Have to juggle stuff but not in danger anymore.
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Child of a lesser god
Member Since Jun 2015
Location: Tartarus
Posts: 19,146
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#562
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Always in This Twilight
Member Since Feb 2015
Location: US
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#563
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Grand Poohbah
Member Since Feb 2019
Location: Toodlepip
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#564
My therapist informed me today that she is taking two weeks holiday over the Christmas period. Of all the instances when she exercises free will, her taking time off is the one which enrages me the most. Two weeks!! What is she planning on doing?! Apart from drinking whisky, I mean. I hate this so much. I told her that I don't think she should be celebrating Christmas and she laughed. Yeah right lady, it's funny now but just wait until I turn nasty. I hate the lack of control. And the fact that it highlights that I will miss her and that I need her, or at least I believe myself to need her. This is an utter abomination. Time off at Christmas. Who does she think she is?!
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Magnet
Member Since Jun 2017
Location: in the garden
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#565
Hugs, QM. I’m glad you’re doing better.
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Always in This Twilight
Member Since Feb 2015
Location: US
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#566
Love Dr. T--we were talking early in session today about reasons I don't like Thanksgiving, and one I mentioned is that I'm a vegetarian, and it all centers around a dead bird in the middle of the table. At the end of session, after wishing me a Happy Thanksgiving (tomorrow, for you non-Americans), he added, "Good luck with the bird carcass!"
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Writing my way through...
Member Since Feb 2020
Location: In the desert
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#567
They cancelled overtime for today woohoo! And, offered VTO even so I took them up on it. Instead of just going to lunch now, I am done working until Sunday morning! (tomorrow is thanksgiving in the US so we are off for the holiday, and my normal off days are Fri-Sat)
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Tweaky Dog
Member Since Aug 2011
Location: England
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#568
I'm sorry, LT. A festival that centres around a dead bird must be really hard as a vegetarian. I hope there are still things that you find delicious to enjoy. Dr. T's remark was very, very funny. Thank you for sharing.
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Legendary Wise Elder
Member Since Jul 2018
Location: CA
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#569
I'm alone in the office today and I can feel the aloneness. It's palpable. It's also eerie. Usually this type of event hypes up my hallucinations but they seem to be staying quiet. Maybe the newish medication is helping. But then starting tomorrow 5 days off. We get Thanksgiving and Black Friday off, then the weekend, then I took Monday off as a personal day. I need to take Helen to the vet. She's not sick. It's just time for her wellness exam. So that's Monday. And a session with my new T Julieanne.
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Quietmind 2
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Child of a lesser god
Member Since Jun 2015
Location: Tartarus
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#570
To me Thanksgiving has never centered around a dead bird. (We never had turkey when I was growing up.)
It centers around family, biological or created. Maybe that’s the underlying problem? (I know I was very, if not unusually, lucky in my biological family.) __________________ The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.—Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
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Writing my way through...
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#571
We're doing thanksgiving over at our friend's house tomorrow, another of our friends is in town visiting for a couple weeks, and he'll be there too. Should be fun, since we moved we're only like 5 minutes away, so that's nice. We're all fully vaccinated so it will be lovely to enjoy a relatively 'normal' holiday. We'll probably still eat outside just to be on the safe side, but the weather here allows it and they have a nice big patio table so that will work!! I am trying to plan what I'll eat - I've been doing SO well since July with eating healthy, I don't want to wreck it just because it's a holiday! I'll figure something out!
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Always in This Twilight
Member Since Feb 2015
Location: US
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#572
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One good thing is that since I've gotten into football, I can just spend part of the time watching that. Which saved me a bit going to my sister-in-law's, which also includes some of her husband's family, who are just...very socially awkward. Like acting as if I'm not even there, like I'm invisible (even if I speak to them). So I could just sit and watch football in awkward silence with them. (It's an every other year thing, alternating with my parents, though we get out of seeing sis-in-law this year because her husband refuses to get the vaccine, and my D won't be fully vaccinated for another couple weeks.) |
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Always in This Twilight
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Location: US
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#573
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That sounds like fun! And I think it's OK to be a bit unhealthy for one day. |
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Always in This Twilight
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#574
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Thanks, Lost. I'm generally OK with the presence of it, and thankfully, my parents (and in-laws, when I spend it with them) are understanding of it now. It's just a bit weird to me when the electric knife (in my parents' case) comes out, carving up the bird. There do tend to be a lot of good side dishes, like mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, this green bean casserole thing (Dr. T and I got into a brief discussion about that today), and cranberry sauce, which I'll be making. And usually pumpkin and/or apple pie for dessert, though I'm not a big dessert person. |
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Grand Poohbah
Member Since Feb 2019
Location: Toodlepip
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#575
Do you exchange gifts at Thanksgiving? Apart from the food and family contact, how else is it celebrated? And has the celebration changed from its traditional roots?
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Legendary Wise Elder
Member Since Jul 2018
Location: CA
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#576
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How else is it celebrated? In my family we watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade religiously Then we watch Football. Then we watch a Christmas movie. I don't know how it has changed from it's roots but it probably has. __________________ Dum Spiro Spero IC XC NIKA |
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#577
I'm by myself in the office today. Usually that makes my hallucinations hyped up because of underlying fear or something. They were doing pretty good but I just heard voices, like a soft woman's voice and it doesn't match any of my coworkers and there is no one in the building. Creepy. Just when I think I am doing well....something like this happens. If it keeps up I'll take a half of olanzapine.
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Quietmind 2
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Child of a lesser god
Member Since Jun 2015
Location: Tartarus
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#578
Back from Visa's. Never seen a therapist wear scrubs before. Different.
She got weepy when I was describing the plot of LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and how I relate to it.
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Poohbah
Member Since Jun 2014
Location: Earth
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#579
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My Dad's football team is playing my football team this year so we will be watching that together at his house. There are 11 of us for dinner - which may be awkward because 3 of them are his wife's kids and their families and while one of them and I are good - I barely know the other two. |
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#580
I really like green bean casserole.
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