Couch 239: Cape Coral Couch

Thanks! That stuff looks amazing, so many good smells. Lancome used to have a lip balm with sesame oil in it, it was fantastic, but they discontinued it.

Yes Jennette McCurdy. The name of the book is so triggering, i cant even write it!

If we could all just soo easily decide to stop (sarcasm)... circling back to those dismissive MDs you (stopdog) seem to dislike so much:

"Oh why don't women suck it up and stop whining? Just choose to lose weight/marry a man/have kids/insert misogynistic stuff here."

Then when challenged: "I never said it was easy to make lifestyle changes to improve your health."

Or a new MD "Well, not all MDs. Mr X has a great reputation. "

Whatever tone you intend, you sound very dismissive of others. It's like your default tone on particular subjects that aren't food or pets.

You don't have to care what others think of you, I know.

You think therapy and western medicine is a scam, you do what works for you. Great!

I literally am born and raised in a nation with many Eastern medicine traditions, in a region full of it, and how its not at all "all good". Nor is therapy and Western medicine all good.

I could go on about my utter distaste of deeply offensive cultural appropriation of yoga (religious icons on the floor as decoration and plenty else) and other Eastern traditions (Ayurveda, Qigong, acupuncture, herbal medicines, "real" mindfulness stuff from various Buddhist traditions) in the West. You don't see me coming on here to bash folks who like yoga or acupuncture or the plant medicine I'm familiar with.

But you seem to repeatedly disparage people.

There are costs. I wish i had been exposed more to economics than psychology when i was younger. IMO ecnomic principles facilitate better decision-making.

ETA - I have to say, i once again agree with SD. It IS a choice. Mine was to go no-contact with my mother, and later my aunts. When my t proposed it, it seemed unfathomable. Like NOT locking my car door! (Still not possible, btw.) I soooo wish i had made the decision earlier in my life.

I tried acupuncture for mental illness and it did nothing. The practitioner said it would take years and to stop all my psych meds (which depending on the meds I was on could have literally killed me).

So Western medicine is far from perfect, but I don't really trust Eastern medicine either.

It does smell good!

I can say that smoking the item before jerkying is a good idea.

Thanks - it broke down amongst predictable groups.

I use my toaster oven more than any other appliance. Most of the time the regular oven is too big for anything I am cooking except during the holidays and I often opt out of those anyway as I do not enjoy them. I like old age more and more.

I am glad.

I don't use my oven all that much anymore either. I still use it to broil steaks, but when my son moves he's giving us his bbq grill as it's only 6 months old and they can't have on in their new apartment after they move so... heck yeah I'll take it... so I'll be using the oven even less after I get that. I still bake things from time to time but mostly I cook in my instant pot either with the pressure cooker lid or with the air fryer lid depending on what I'm cooking. I use the stove top, too of course. But the oven, not so much anymore. I don't eat very much bread anymore (because I enjoy it too much and don't control myself so it's better to just not eat it at all) so I hardly ever bake bread anymore. The air fryer bagels yesterday were a treat! Thankfully it only made 4; I still have 2 left. H did not like them much.

Yeah i used to buy at least a loaf of bread a week. Now i mostly use carb-smart tortillas. Some tortillas have the plush bready texture - these have the smell but not the thickness. Bad joke body shaming

I may look for those tortillas. When I want a sandwich, I usually just make rollups with chicken or turkey lunchmeat and a slice of cheese. But rolling that up in a tortilla would be good, too.

Instead of bread, we use the carbs balance tortillas. Even H will eat them! You can even make pizza with them.

Watch out, the tortillas are a backgateway carb! Theyve led me to eating WASA - so bad! I found sourdough wasa on amazon.

So you all may remember I was having a conflict with a colleague over her refusal to make a regular event she hosts.

Since whenever I last posted about it, we’ve each spoken to our chair about it individually. He was going to talk to the two of us together, but then the poor man found his sense and brought in a therapist (who’s hard of hearing). So now we each meet with her individually and then together as a group including chair.

It’s like marriage counseling! With your boss!

Ugh, my D just tested positive for Covid. After spending the night last night with my 74-year-old parents last night (at least they're double-boosted, as of a few weeks ago). She only showed symptoms tonight. And we're supposed to go to the beach with my parents in a week. Not sure how all of that will work out now.... And I'm either doomed from spending an hour in the car with her today OR I got false negatives when I had a sore throat for a couple days early last week (no fever or other symptoms aside from a little achiness, and I tested Monday, Tuesday, and Friday).

LT, I hope your D just has mild symptoms and no one else gets it. Its really going around.

Thanks, Polibeth. I figured it was inevitable that we'd get it at some point. She's been in some indoor summer camps--she wore a mask, but some others didn't. I feel like H and I have been a bit more lax lately, too, like occasionally eating indoors (when it was super hot out).

I hope her symptoms are mild too and that you & your h don't get it. I sure understand the being a bit more lax lately - I think so many people are just so over it all by now - like my h didn't wear a mask on our flights last month and I'm sure that's how/why he got sick. At the same time it seems like there's not much rhyme or reason to who gets it and who doesn't. It's so weird. I feel like I won some kind of lottery or something not getting sick myself while I was taking care of h when he had it not long ago. Knock on wood.

Thanks, Artie. She's been sleeping much of today. I agree it seems sort of random who gets it and who doesn't--Dr. T said today that it's like a roll of the dice. I mean, D attended in-person school since March 2021--she's masked the whole time, but they dropped the mandate at some point, plus she was eating in the cafeteria unmasked. And went to weeks of camps last summer and this summer and just now got it.

It's great you never got it while taking care of H. I've read speculation that some people could be genetically resistant to it, but they need to do more studies on it. Or if someone was infected with a previous coronavirus (there are some others that cause common colds), the immune system knows how to fight it off.

Sending well wishes to your daughter and to you, LT. Covid is pretty miserable all round (and add in health anxiety and even more horrid!) so I hope it passes through as easily as possible.

Thanks, Comrade, I appreciate it. And I deal with health anxiety as well.

Ugh! I really don't like meeting new people. My anxiety is so high. But besides that, I think this new pdoc is going to be much better. According to the reviews, you'll only meet the pdoc once, and then you just see the nurse. I liked the nurse too. She suggested some good med changes, so we'll see. And she'll still allow me my benzos. But yet again, she wanted me to do IOP... But I mentioned that I see L twice a week, and she felt reassured by that.

I feel a little relief. At least I don't have to go back to the other pdoc!

[QUOTE=unaluna;7241919]Yeah i used to buy at least a loaf of bread a week. Now i mostly use carb-smart tortillas. Some tortillas have the plush bready texture - these have the smell but not the thickness."

If you have a whole foods near by - their whole wheat tortillas are pretty good I think