Couch 247: Choose Cheese!

ArtieTheSequal · Mar 31, 2024 at 05:05 PM

just logged off work, heading out to walk again.

NP_Complete · Mar 31, 2024 at 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ArtieTheSequal

Thanks Lemon. Yeah, I want to read Jeanette's book, maybe I'll order that one too.

I did go for a walk today on my lunch break, for the first time in a while. It felt good to be outside again in the fresh air. It actually gave me enough motivation that I am going for another walk as soon as I clock off work in 20 minutes. I've done more than my share of work today so I'm just coasting for the last bit.

Possible trigger:

I also began identifying my 'red' foods as they said in the OA meeting the other night, and I have not eaten any junk today. H bought a small cheesecake the other day and he has eaten half of it already but I have not touched it, and I'm not going to either. Chocolate and cheesecake are two of my trigger foods I guess you'd call them. I eat them without even realizing I'm eating. Like with those stupid reeses - I know and taste that I'm eating the first couple, but then suddenly it's like I 'wake up' and there's a pile of wrappers in front of me that I don't remember even eating the contents of. It's ridiculous, it is. i'm surprised I haven't put myself into a sugar coma yet.

Possible trigger:

I ate an entire bag of Ruffles yesterday so you're not alone with the food thing. Not the snack size either. The big bag.

I don't think you're a bad person, so maybe I'm not bad either.

unaluna · 06:27 PM

Well now im settled in for the next couple of days. Rent is paid, water delivery is in, no deliveries anticipated, fridges are full of lettuce and spinach, sacksful of net zero tortillas, and canned tuna, salmon, and black refried beans up the yin yang. And eventually out the yin yang. Oh and oatmeal, and italian wedding soup. Gotta have chicken soup and meatballs.

Power is going out at some indeterminate but limited time and days long cement drilling for the new elevators will occur this week.

As the A-Team would say, I love it when a plan comes together!

Uh oh - i just tempted the Evil Eye! Hock-ptooiey! But let us celebrate this moment of peace, for however long it may last.

ArtieTheSequal · Mar 31, 2024 at 07:05 PM

I just learned a new poetry form, well it's kinda like found poetry I guess but it's called a Spine Poem. You make a poem entirely out of book titles. Fun!

unaluna · Mar 31, 2024 at 08:23 PM

Oh i like that!

atisketatasket · Mar 31, 2024 at 09:49 PM

So like

Cry the beloved country
It
Gone with the wind

Or

The Odyssey
Of mice and men
It will end in disaster.

stopdog · Mar 31, 2024 at 10:55 PM

I have seen it as books stacked on top of each other and you read the spines - usually top to bottom in the ones I have seen.

atisketatasket · Apr 01, 2024 at 12:59 AM

It reminds me of the Whose Line Is It Anyway? skits where they would improv a scene using only song titles.

stopdog · Apr 01, 2024 at 09:25 AM

The rollercoaster season is on us - in the high 70s today and 30s tomorrow. My heavy coated dog is lying on the tile floor in the bathroom.

unaluna · Apr 01, 2024 at 10:14 AM

Ive already turned on my air conditioner a few times this year. I am so glad i figured out i could leave it switched to AC all year long and not turn it to heat blower for half the year. There are always too many hot days before and after the changeovers.

There is an italian word, pronounced "shkee-yacht" that basically means to physically explode from the heat. I get it now!

ETA - schioccare is the italian verb for to pop. I really like the italian english groups on facebook. Theyve taught me to find words from my childhood. Its also fun to share identical memories with complete strangers!

stopdog · Apr 01, 2024 at 10:37 AM

I haven't cracked and turned mine on yet - and usually when I do turn it on before june it is because the dog is uncomfortable. I am putty in his paws

unaluna · Apr 01, 2024 at 11:59 AM

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I am putty in his paws

That sounds very messy.

stopdog · Apr 01, 2024 at 12:04 PM

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That sounds very messy.

No - the kind that cleans up easily. But I am a pushover for the pets.

ChickenNoodleSoup · Apr 01, 2024 at 01:20 PM

Oh, ACs in the US are not automated to the point where they turn on whenever the temperature is above whatever inside/outside? I do not know why I assumed they were, our heating has to be turned on and off, but somehow it sounds like it should be automated...

Edit: heating in older houses, in new ones, there is an automated system depending on the ground temperature.

comrademoomoo · Apr 01, 2024 at 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ChickenNoodleSoup

Oh, ACs in the US are not automated to the point where they turn on whenever the temperature is above whatever inside/outside? I do not know why I assumed they were, our heating has to be turned on and off, but somehow it sounds like it should be automated...

Edit: heating in older houses, in new ones, there is an automated system depending on the ground temperature.

What country is this, if you don't mind me asking? Automated heating based on ground temperature sounds like a sci-fi world to me (the UK specialises in damp, mouldy housing unfit for rodent habitation never mind human creatures).

NP_Complete · Apr 01, 2024 at 02:03 PM

I have a smart thermostat that I suppose could be programmed to turn on and off depending on the outside temperature, but I haven't done that.

Lemoncake · Apr 01, 2024 at 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by comrademoomoo

What country is this, if you don't mind me asking? Automated heating based on ground temperature sounds like a sci-fi world to me (the UK specialises in damp, mouldy housing unfit for rodent habitation never mind human creatures).

You forgot to mention all the potholes too.

ChickenNoodleSoup · Apr 01, 2024 at 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by comrademoomoo

What country is this, if you don't mind me asking? Automated heating based on ground temperature sounds like a sci-fi world to me (the UK specialises in damp, mouldy housing unfit for rodent habitation never mind human creatures).

Switzerland. Our house measures the ground temp and if it's below a certain point heats, else cools.
Edit: the modern ones do.

LonesomeTonight · Apr 01, 2024 at 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ChickenNoodleSoup

Switzerland. Our house measures the ground temp and if it's below a certain point heats, else cools.
Edit: the modern ones do.

Oh, interesting! I'm in the U.S. and control my own thermostat.

I did turn on the AC for about 12 hours a couple weeks ago when it was really warm here for a couple days. Our house was just getting very stuffy. Heat is currently running (rather chilly and rainy outside).

ChickenNoodleSoup · Apr 01, 2024 at 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight

Oh, interesting! I'm in the U.S. and control my own thermostat.

I did turn on the AC for about 12 hours a couple weeks ago when it was really warm here for a couple days. Our house was just getting very stuffy. Heat is currently running (rather chilly and rainy outside).

Our whole cooling system in through the ground, it is not efficient if it is very hot outside.

Edit also modern house

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ArtieTheSequal Writing my way through... Member Since Feb 2020 Location: In the desert Posts: 7,341 (SuperPoster!) 4 5,820 hugs given	Mar 31, 2024 at 05:05 PM #781 just logged off work, heading out to walk again.

ArtieTheSequal Writing my way through... Member Since Feb 2020 Location: In the desert Posts: 7,341 (SuperPoster!) 4 5,820 hugs given	Mar 31, 2024 at 07:05 PM #784 I just learned a new poetry form, well it's kinda like found poetry I guess but it's called a Spine Poem. You make a poem entirely out of book titles. Fun!

unaluna Elder Harridan x-hankster Member Since Jun 2011 Location: Milan/Michigan Posts: 40,108 (SuperPoster!) 12 66.9k hugs given	Mar 31, 2024 at 08:23 PM #785 Oh i like that!

atisketatasket Child of a lesser god Member Since Jun 2015 Location: Tartarus Posts: 19,182 (SuperPoster!) 8 12.4k hugs given	Mar 31, 2024 at 09:49 PM #786 So like Cry the beloved country It Gone with the wind Or The Odyssey Of mice and men It will end in disaster. __________________ The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.—Alice Roosevelt Longworth

atisketatasket Child of a lesser god Member Since Jun 2015 Location: Tartarus Posts: 19,182 (SuperPoster!) 8 12.4k hugs given	Apr 01, 2024 at 12:59 AM #788 It reminds me of the Whose Line Is It Anyway? skits where they would improv a scene using only song titles. __________________ The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.—Alice Roosevelt Longworth

NP_Complete Grand Magnate Member Since Feb 2017 Location: the upside down Posts: 3,824 7 6,365 hugs given	Apr 01, 2024 at 02:03 PM #796 I have a smart thermostat that I suppose could be programmed to turn on and off depending on the outside temperature, but I haven't done that.