Couch 250: An August Couch

Lemoncake · Oct 13, 2024 at 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by comrademoomoo

I know you didn't ask me, but Adrienne is the darling of YouTube yoga. I like her and she has a million videos to choose from, including morning yoga and short yoga and yoga for anything you can think of. However, I am fat and old and there's not much allowance for my kind of body in her practice. She will highlight only doing what feels right for your body, but I can find it a bit dispiriting.

Look up Dianne bondy on YouTube. There is a space for bigger women too.

I joined cross fit once upon a time, and the group leader was very supportive and the trainers always gave me extra attention too. In my own experience, of joining four gyms- it’s always been my own judgment more than anyone else’s.

I’m pretty sure you could find a local group too if you searched. Some council sport centres also do chair Yoga.

NP_Complete · Oct 13, 2024 at 12:19 PM

I'm trying to learn to crochet. I bought one of those Woobles kits and it turned out pretty well so I thought I'd try to make a cute ghost with glow-in-the-dark yarn using this pattern How to Crochet a Ghost: Simple Steps for Spooky Decor – HiCrochet.

This is what I ended up with. Haha! I have no clue where I went wrong.

unaluna · Oct 13, 2024 at 12:36 PM

In the words of the great B. Bunny, i think you forgot to take a left turn at Albuquerque!

LostOnTheTrail · Oct 14, 2024 at 10:20 AM

Couch Workout Club day 75

Walked around town for over an hour.

ArtieTheSequal · Oct 14, 2024 at 12:43 PM

our a/c quit working again after paying a small fortune to have it replaced at the end of July. now we find out today that the tubing or whatever that was already in the house is not copper, and they installed the new a/c with copper, so couldn't weld had to use connectors. Well the connectors are leaking coolant. He said they can replace the connectors and put new coolant in for $2600 that might last 2 years, or replace the existing piping with copper and weld them for a permanent fix for $4500 and it would still be under warranty for the rest of 10 years since it was installed. we are beyond ticked off needless to say. these people apparently think we have a money tree growing in our yard. Ugh.

unaluna · Oct 14, 2024 at 01:35 PM

Omg are they serious? Im so sorry.

LostOnTheTrail · Oct 14, 2024 at 02:16 PM

*Curls up on Couch, whimpers*

LonesomeTonight · Oct 14, 2024 at 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ArtieTheSequal

our a/c quit working again after paying a small fortune to have it replaced at the end of July. now we find out today that the tubing or whatever that was already in the house is not copper, and they installed the new a/c with copper, so couldn't weld had to use connectors. Well the connectors are leaking coolant. He said they can replace the connectors and put new coolant in for $2600 that might last 2 years, or replace the existing piping with copper and weld them for a permanent fix for $4500 and it would still be under warranty for the rest of 10 years since it was installed. we are beyond ticked off needless to say. these people apparently think we have a money tree growing in our yard. Ugh.

Ugh, that sucks, Artie, I'm sorry. Shouldn't they have let you know this when they were installing it? Does the warranty cover any of this by chance?

LonesomeTonight · Oct 14, 2024 at 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by LostOnTheTrail

*Curls up on Couch, whimpers*

Hugs, Lost. Want to talk about what's going on? If not, we'll keep you quiet company on the couch.

LostOnTheTrail · Oct 14, 2024 at 03:40 PM

Thanks LT,

There are so many facets that I don't know where to begin.
I find myself wishing that I could feel the sense of safety with R that I had before the summer, so that I could talk openly with her.

She's missed so much.

ArtieTheSequal · 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight

Ugh, that sucks, Artie, I'm sorry. Shouldn't they have let you know this when they were installing it? Does the warranty cover any of this by chance?

Thanks LT. Unfortunately, the warranty doesn't cover it because it's the original tubing or whatever in the house. The guy today said yes, they should have mentioned it during the install and so we submitted a complaint. It's ridiculous. At least they offer 0% financing for 12 months so we went with that, now we just have to pay the whole mess off within the coming year. Things will be tight for a while but we'll figure it out.

ArtieTheSequal · Oct 14, 2024 at 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by LostOnTheTrail

Thanks LT,

There are so many facets that I don't know where to begin.
I find myself wishing that I could feel the sense of safety with R that I had before the summer, so that I could talk openly with her.

She's missed so much.

Sending safe hugs, Lost.

ArtieTheSequal · Oct 14, 2024 at 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

Omg are they serious? Im so sorry.

Thanks una. It's only money, I suppose...

unaluna · Oct 14, 2024 at 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ArtieTheSequal

Thanks una. It's only money, I suppose...

I hope your complaint is effective. I dont know the legal terms, but it seems like they made the mistake and they should pay for it. You didnt ask them to do it wrong.

LostOnTheTrail · Oct 15, 2024 at 05:56 AM

Couch Workout Club day 75!

Another good milestone marked with a mediocre workout in my favourite self-care app.

stopdog · 10:48 PM

It seems like such confusion between support and enabling.
My students confuse the two all the time when giving feedback to each other - we have to spend a lot of time getting them to give useful feedback rather than mere pap

unaluna · Oct 15, 2024 at 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by stopdog

It seems like such confusion between support and enabling.
My students confuse the two all the time

Interesting! I would say, enabling involves judgment, by a third party? Support is given in a judgment-free zone.

stopdog · 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

Interesting! I would say, enabling involves judgment, by a third party? Support is given in a judgment-free zone.

That is not how I would define it. Enabling helps people stay stuck. Enabling is telling someone what they want or hope to hear (or I suppose what you think they want or hope to hear) - not what they necessarily should hear or know in order to get to where they want to be.

unaluna · Oct 16, 2024 at 03:17 AM

Sounds like a reading or viewing of Harrison Bergeron is in order. Let them argue their lifeview with Kurt Vonnegut. "Nobody should be better than anybody else because it hurts people's feelings to be not as good."

ArtieTheSequal · Oct 16, 2024 at 12:56 PM

i don't know if this is what you're talking about una but on the couch, there are so many here who are vastly more intelligent than I am and often I feel like I'll never measure up and that I'm somehow "not as good". I'm not fishing for anything by saying that. It's just the truth of how I feel. I know that comparison is the thief of joy and all that but sometimes it's hard.

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unaluna Elder Harridan x-hankster Member Since Jun 2011 Location: Milan/Michigan Posts: 40,904 (SuperPoster!) 13 68.7k hugs given	Oct 13, 2024 at 12:36 PM #723 In the words of the great B. Bunny, i think you forgot to take a left turn at Albuquerque!
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unaluna Elder Harridan x-hankster Member Since Jun 2011 Location: Milan/Michigan Posts: 40,904 (SuperPoster!) 13 68.7k hugs given	Oct 14, 2024 at 01:35 PM #726 Omg are they serious? Im so sorry.
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unaluna Elder Harridan x-hankster Member Since Jun 2011 Location: Milan/Michigan Posts: 40,904 (SuperPoster!) 13 68.7k hugs given	Oct 16, 2024 at 03:17 AM #739 Sounds like a reading or viewing of Harrison Bergeron is in order. Let them argue their lifeview with Kurt Vonnegut. "Nobody should be better than anybody else because it hurts people's feelings to be not as good."
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