I learned how to trill my R's tonite.
19 years man. Woooot.

Congr-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-ratulations!

Awesome, Dana!

I'm happy 'cause I just heard from my brother that he's engaged. He picked a good one, so I'm glad she will be joining the family.

Almost too much to name.
Highlights:
It's Christmas!
I'm with my family
I'm online (on and off - still enjoying my parents' company)
I'm going to watch football on Boxing Day with my bro.

It's all just so good!!!!

SG's new user title

I spent Christmas eve with my guy and woke up with him on Christmas morning. I am totally blown away by him.

Aww... Congrats, Dana!

That's really awesome.

groovy!

Yay Dana....you deserve a lovely fella :)

I found my camera!
I brought it after all. Annoyed that I missed Christmas Day (Dad ran out of batteries yesterday, so no pics at all - grrrrrrrrrrrr) but happy happy happy to have Boxing Day at least!

Found some Boscoli olive salad at Kroger today.

1) made progress clearing out and cleaning out my "home office" (aka my bedroom)
2) I finally figured out how to reinstall my sound driver!
3) and, I unplugged, cleaned, and replugged my computer--including the speakers. And the speakers work!
4) --I have finally gotten around to cleaning and sorting my CD collection; and
--and putting them into Itunes, and figuring THAT damn program out;
--AND . . . my new Ipod rocks!

Whew!

Cloud - that's more progress than I've made all year.

New mattress set being delivered today!

case, how's the new mattress?

+I'm sitting in a hotel in Montana and I can't even remember the name of the town I'm in. That's what's making me happy. It's at the south end of Flathead Lake, between Missoula and Kalispell.

The mattress is great!

The fact that I finished the fishie girl painting and have started 2 more 2' X 3' paintings is making me happy. I may be unhappy if I can't finish them in time for the event they are going in.

The new year, more money in the paycheck (what little Uncle sam let me keep but any little bit......), went cross country skiing for the first time Saturday and am still alive!

Very cool. So what's cross country skiing like?

Cold and a lot of work but very worth it. It's so quiet and beautiful in the snow. My legs are mad at me still. :)

*smiles* yah but I bet your lungs and heart love ya :)

I'm actually looking forward to it again surprisingly. Hopefully this weekend.

I have finally started making progress on editing all my explicit mp3s so I can continue to listen to (most of) them in the car as Minifob gets old enough to repeat curse words.

Progress makes me happy, but only because I'm successfully ignoring how slowly it's going so far. Have I mentioned I own a lot of Stephen Lynch albums?

non fatal reality checks

Kind and caring people.

I passed my test.

Well done! Did you use your wife's urine, or did you use some of that weird tea that's supposed to clean our your insides?

My kids went back to school!!!

*chuckle*

I could sell my own urine for that kind of test. It was a different kind of pop quiz (just as high stakes and just as perilous) and I aced it.

good for you, V. Whats the rate for clean urine these days? I may need to make a little extra cash on the side ;)

I have a job.

I am healthy.

I have some assets.

I have earned the praise and respect of my co-workers.

I prefer to think of positive things, but the absence of negatives makes me happy too. Some of these things I don't suffer are close calls, and some of them are longshots. Each of these situations that don't apply to me makes me happy.

I'm trying to count my blessings today.

I'm not in Iraq or Afghanistan.

I'm not in jail.

...

I thought this list would be longer. I'll keep working on it.

:D Nice!

shina:

Do you know me? In real life? I don't know you, but something's...unusual.

I do not know you that I know of.

I've got a job from now till I head out to Wyoming in March!

On that note, anyone here had any experience in the wildfire/controlled burn field?

Wear good boots

don't smoke

HA HA HA

get it?

*skips about doing the happy happy dance*

The little bout of depression that's been bothering me seems to have lifted. Yey. Am able to concentrate on my work again and not crippled by social insecurity.

Oh, and this is day three of seriously not smoking, no cheats at all. I am still using the gum, but that's a whole heap better than inhaling shit into my lungs. Two days in a row now, I have woken up without mad cravings. From 1st Jan til day before yesterday ( I think) I was half stopping, but then cheating if I was with someone who smoked (like having maybe half, or one cigarette in a day).

I am feeling confident now that I can do this. :)

Oh yeah, and I am sooooo looking forward to revision and exams being over so I can spend a bit of quality time with D. Just been flying visits lately. Last exam will be over in 5 days time, yey!

My car, which wouldn't turn over when I tried to leave last night, just started right up.

I'm thinking maybe it hadn't "clicked" all the way into park...it was as like times when I've stalled in gear, then you can't start it until it's in park or neutral. Battery is fine...everything else worked. I did try to move the shifty thingy, but to no avail. So, after getting a ride home last night and a ride in today...I thought I'd give it a shot.

Thank you thank you thank you. Couldn't have juggled a car repair right now.

:)

Its Thursday. One day closer to the weekend. I have the most wonderful and handsome husband, and the sweetest baby in the world :)
4 years and 9 months until I can quit and stay at home w/ little one and still have met our financial goals...
Did you know we've gained 20 minutes of daylight since Dec 21? Spring is approaching...

Tink, sharing my life and sharing her life. SonofV, getting schoolwork done. Daughter, combining ambition and industry to achieve her goals. ElderSon, working toward what will make him happy and successful.

Minifob, who was mildly sleep-deprived for a variety of coincidental reasons, took an almost four-hour nap yesterday, allowing me to clean the entire house top-to-bottom. It was awesome.

OMG, if I had four hours to clean, it would barely make a dent in the piles of shite around the computer! :eek: The problem is, if I have four hours, I don't use them for cleaning! Are you nesting?

Ha! No, not yet. I was mostly scrubbing the bathrooms and mopping, because those are basically impossible to do with Minifob around, plus moving the Christmas junk back up into the attic. I do nest, but usually it's entirely useless stuff like constantly rearranging clothes in the drawers.

Shawnee, most cars are not meant to be left upside down for any length of time. I'm glad to hear that you got yours turned over.

Yesterday I signed up to volunteer in a local charity shop one day a week. Scary but it feels good. I get shown around on Saturday and start on Thursday.

I've also managed to book a free haircut for 5 Feb - fully qualified hairdressers on an induction course for a very upmarket salon (to learn the way they do things there). It would cost me £73.50 if I was paying. Also the Manager was very taken by my story of getting back on my feet and has said he'll try to get me into the colouring part of the course too - wooohooo!

Tomorrow I am going on a London Walk called Darkest Victorian London, Peeling Forbidden Fruit and I am looking forward to it enormously. I'll take pictures if there is anything which translates well without too much explanation.

Yey you Sundae! :)

One exam down, two more to go! Then a whole semester before I have to sit another.

It has been in the mid to high 70's here all week.

I found my library book!

:happy dance:

I've been... slammed at work, and my desk is a mess, even by my lax standards. It was right there, under that pad. Interestingly, I had the devil of a time finding it, because I was looking for a green book (the color of the last one I just finished) and the one that was lost is really blue.

This Week From Hell is almost over.

Well, a couple more hours. Right now I have to call someone who is most assuredly going to yell at me or cry to me.

But then...!

Happy edit: that is the 3rd student today that the front desk people asked me to call because they were SO MAD when they called earlier. All 3 of them were just fine talking to me, and were quite able to handle the situation after I spoke with them. Damn, I'm better at this than I thought (a week like this I have to remind myself!) :)

I Got A Raise Effective Monday!!! YAY!!

Good goin Shawnee. Making that stuff less stressful for those students is a great service to them.

bbro, congrats!

Thanks!! I am dancing in the wind. And here, I thought the phone call was going to be bad news. :D

Thank you Dana, that means a lot to hear that. :)

Sorry, Shawnee, I was just so excited. Although, it was people like you who got me through college, so thank you for being so patient!!

We just dodged a bullet.

The superintendent of our school district just released his much anticipated proposed redistricting plan, and our kids will be grandfathered. They get to stay in their school and not get bussed off to some new place where they don't know anyone.

519 other kids around the county are not so lucky.

Congrats, that whole redistricting thing sucks. There will be some very pissed off parents out there. Get ready.

I got a boyyyyyfriend.
(Photos to come as soon as I remember to take some of us.)

That's great, Razz. :)
We'd been wondering where you'd been.