mental health will drive you mad

Mental Health Will Drive You Mad....

Yesterday, I made an attempt at taking a "mental health" day off from

work. I should have just come to work.

See, I was supposed to take the baby to the doc yesterday anyway and I

had an appointment as well which I'll talk about shortly. As I'm

driving home Tuesday, the dreaded "Check Engine" light binged on.

GREEEEAT. So, I figured I would take it to Honda since I was going to

take the day off anyway. Then I get home...HUGE fight with BD. HUGE.

Didn't get any sleep whatsoever. So, I ended up driving around all day

like a zombie. Got the car fixed, got the baby to the doc and then my

appointment. I have to confess...Guilty is not the only one in family

counseling. Oy. Me and BD have been having a rough go of it lately and

decided to give it another shot as we had been once before. We

seriously need help communicating. He says black, I say gray. Vice

Versa. Anyway, we went for our initial session last week. I went for

my individual session last night. It was good though. And bad. You

know, I am the type of person that can sit here all day and tell you

about my life and it won't bother me. But ask me how it FELT. Forget

it. That's what she did last night. "Pookie...how did that make you

FEEL when that happened?" "What? Um..." *TEARS* "Oh Pookie, that must

have been hard?" *TEARS* So, bottom line is that I walked out of there

not at all liking what had just happened. BLAH. I got home to BD and

the baby asleep so I made two HUGE rum and cokes. But, because I had

just chowed down on the biggest cheeseburger known to man, it did