Couch 246: Choose Change

Hugs, Scarlet. Thanks for checking in and letting us know how you're doing.

Back from my session. Holy smokes I'm wiped; she pushed me pretty hard today, harder than she has in a long time, and I cried/sobbed a good bit, but some difficult/good work got done as a result. Damn she's good at what she does, when I let her be.

Big hugs, Scarlet. I've been thinking about you, and I'm really glad you checked in. And are managing. I'm sorry it went so poorly with G. But good on you for realizing he's a poor fit and stepping away. I'm glad J can support you some. And that your H is supporting you. And L, too.

So sorry your dog got so sick, but I'm glad she seems to be doing better. Overnight vet care can be ridiculously expensive--years ago, we had a guinea pig who had to stay overnight, and it was crazy how much it cost (had to get oxygen at one point)--we only learned how expensive afterward and were shocked. So it was good you knew in advance and could make a decision. I hope she makes a complete recovery. Sounds like you're taking great care of her!

The tattoo sounds lovely!

I hope you keep coping and that things get less stressful for you. Check in when you can. We're here for you.

Anyone here know anything about working with marzipan?

I’m giving a holiday open house next weekend and have a tube of marzipan sitting around. Like to use it.

I have had a marzipan cake that is just marzipan and eggs - I am not a huge marzipan fan but the cake was okay

Time for cake:

ATAT is gluten free

Among other admirable and tasty qualities...

Marzipan is one of my favourite foods. I didn't realise turning it into something else was necessary. Cancel the open house, eat the tube as is (and solo effort), job done.

Gluten-free recipes with marzipan

There are several that are just marzipan but some look interesting.

There are several that are just marzipan and they look especially interesting.

FTFY!

Still have cake with GF flour.

Amazon.com.

Perhaps I’ll cut a bit off the end of the tube and see what I think before committing to anything…

I had a carrot souffle crisis - I misread the amount of carrots and basically doubled the carrot amount -so I sliced it up and put it into the dehydrator and made really good crunchy carrot cookies - fairly decent for us as well with only 1/4 c sugar and 1/4 c almond flour and eggs and carrots (4 lbs - I was only supposed to use 2 but tried making it without my glasses - never a good plan) -so now we have carrot spice biscotti sort of snacks rather than souffle

Hello old friends.

Jersey girl whats the haps?!

Hi Jersey!

Hi Jersey! How are you doing?

Hey everybody! I posted that earlier then dozed off for a bit. I was tired. I just need to see some familiar faces these days. Things have been a little crazy and just need a place to land. Hope you all don’t mind me hangin for a bit.

Glad you’re here, Jersey..

Thanks WFS! I hope you are well. I have a lot of reading catching up to do on everyone. ❤️

therapy is stupid hard right now. or maybe it's both hard and stupid. something just snuck up on me out of the blue in the middle of working and I had to stop working and go type it up and then I started crying and now I need to go for a walk before I can focus on work again. navajo rabbit.

Hugs, Artie. I hear you on that. Some stuff in today's session got me emotional, and then I was crying to a U2 song (Ultraviolet, with the repeated line "Baby, baby, baby, light my way") on the way home and just sort of want to curl up in a ball now.

Thanks LT and hugs back. I'm sorry you're feeling that way.

Thanks, Artie. We just covered a lot of stuff today, including a bunch about my D near the end of session.

It's kinda funny--right at the end, he said how today's session had been a bit disjointed and scattered (I'd also commented on this). And I said, "What, I need to come in with more of an agenda next time?" And he replied, "Or I'll just cancel my next session and we can try again now." I wanted to say, "Could we, really?"