What's making you happy today? - Page 711

BigV · 04-27-2015, 02:17 AM

Today I completed planting all the flowers I've purchased over the past several weeks. I've been pulling weeds and grass from my garden, and today I cleared the last patch for the sweet peas I plugged into the ground. I still have some grass and weeds to pull, and probably a lot more flowers to buy, but now my garden is more delightful than derelict.

Griff · 04-27-2015, 07:16 AM

Nice!

footfootfoot · 04-29-2015, 09:00 PM

File this under bittersweet.
Signed the papers to make the separation official. She gets served on Friday, I sign more shit on Monday, then shit goes to the court.

It was turning a corner, no going back and I had to finally admit to myself I was never and will never get the love I wanted from her.

On the other hand my life is looking better and my stress levels have plummeted. I'm getting the back 40 in shape, baby steps, baby steps...

Clodfobble · 04-29-2015, 09:15 PM

Everything gets better from here on out.

*I can see clearly now, the rain is gone...*

BigV · 04-29-2015, 09:56 PM

Fuck yeah!

footfootfoot · 04-30-2015, 06:38 AM

Oh, and in other news I've dropped 30# and now weigh 190. My goal of 180 seems certainly attainable.

About those sit ups...

Griff · 04-30-2015, 07:19 AM

Whoa, nice job! Stress weight is a real thing, dump your stresser dump the weight.

classicman · 05-05-2015, 08:32 PM

Fantastic news.

orthodoc · 05-06-2015, 10:30 PM

Moving forward is good. Dropping stress/weight is great. FTW, foot.

I'm happy to have finished a week in Baltimore. I haven't posted in the Baltimore thread because everything I began to say seemed underwhelming. It was a significant week, however.

And I'm happy to have finished a week of networking and chatting at a national conference in spite of my hearing impairment. I'm not deaf enough to use signing but impaired enough to make every conversation a misery. I do lip-read as well as I can, but it's not just decibels. My hearing aids are ridiculously inefficient.

So, it's nice not to be embarrassing myself on a moment-to-moment basis. What I really need is a nice academic job where I don't have to hear people much. I don't know that the ADA will provide for me in my current job.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-06-2015, 11:15 PM

I've been wearing them for 34 years and I feel your pain. They just can't cope with crowds (3 is a crowd) and background like waiters or traffic make it worse. The increasing hearing aid commercials is I suppose a result of the boomers becoming a mass target. But the lying fuckers writing the commercials are real annoying.

orthodoc · 05-06-2015, 11:34 PM

absolutely. What I hate most ... missing the small things my kids whispered into my ears, or something a loved one says. They mostly know when I don't hear, but sometimes not, and I feel bad. It's so isolating, leaves you watching from outside a glass wall.

Like you, it's been a long time, since age 12 or before. Genetic, not noise-induced. Sometimes I'd rather be completely deaf ... just use signing and be done. It's like being severely myopic without glasses, but not totally blind.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-06-2015, 11:51 PM

Sometimes I think the damn things are only useful as a signal/reminder to people that I can't hear for shit.

orthodoc · 05-07-2015, 12:06 AM

That's only if they show. Modern types, if you have any hair, they don't show.
It was easier when I was bald.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-07-2015, 01:24 AM

The only ones that don't show are the tiny ones deep in the ear, unless you have enough hair to cover the ear completely.

I use the in the ear type...

now but for years I wore the behind the ear.
I was happy to switch because the behind the ear would quit when I sweat heavily.

glatt · 05-07-2015, 09:41 AM

That's interesting, that it can be a feature for the hearing aids to be obvious. Seems kind of obvious itself when you think about it. They have been working for so long to make them tiny and invisible, but that's not necessarily such a good thing.

04-27-2015, 02:17 AM	#10651
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Today I completed planting all the flowers I've purchased over the past several weeks. I've been pulling weeds and grass from my garden, and today I cleared the last patch for the sweet peas I plugged into the ground. I still have some grass and weeds to pull, and probably a lot more flowers to buy, but now my garden is more delightful than derelict. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

04-27-2015, 07:16 AM	#10652
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Nice! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

04-29-2015, 09:00 PM	#10653
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	File this under bittersweet. Signed the papers to make the separation official. She gets served on Friday, I sign more shit on Monday, then shit goes to the court. It was turning a corner, no going back and I had to finally admit to myself I was never and will never get the love I wanted from her. On the other hand my life is looking better and my stress levels have plummeted. I'm getting the back 40 in shape, baby steps, baby steps... __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

04-29-2015, 09:15 PM	#10654
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Everything gets better from here on out. I can see clearly now, the rain is gone... __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

04-29-2015, 09:56 PM	#10655
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Fuck yeah! __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

04-30-2015, 06:38 AM	#10656
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Oh, and in other news I've dropped 30# and now weigh 190. My goal of 180 seems certainly attainable. About those sit ups... __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

04-30-2015, 07:19 AM	#10657
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Whoa, nice job! Stress weight is a real thing, dump your stresser dump the weight. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

05-05-2015, 08:32 PM	#10658
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Fantastic news. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

05-06-2015, 10:30 PM	#10659
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Moving forward is good. Dropping stress/weight is great. FTW, foot. I'm happy to have finished a week in Baltimore. I haven't posted in the Baltimore thread because everything I began to say seemed underwhelming. It was a significant week, however. And I'm happy to have finished a week of networking and chatting at a national conference in spite of my hearing impairment. I'm not deaf enough to use signing but impaired enough to make every conversation a misery. I do lip-read as well as I can, but it's not just decibels. My hearing aids are ridiculously inefficient. So, it's nice not to be embarrassing myself on a moment-to-moment basis. What I really need is a nice academic job where I don't have to hear people much. I don't know that the ADA will provide for me in my current job. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

05-06-2015, 11:15 PM	#10660
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I've been wearing them for 34 years and I feel your pain. They just can't cope with crowds (3 is a crowd) and background like waiters or traffic make it worse. The increasing hearing aid commercials is I suppose a result of the boomers becoming a mass target. But the lying fuckers writing the commercials are real annoying. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-06-2015, 11:34 PM	#10661
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	absolutely. What I hate most ... missing the small things my kids whispered into my ears, or something a loved one says. They mostly know when I don't hear, but sometimes not, and I feel bad. It's so isolating, leaves you watching from outside a glass wall. Like you, it's been a long time, since age 12 or before. Genetic, not noise-induced. Sometimes I'd rather be completely deaf ... just use signing and be done. It's like being severely myopic without glasses, but not totally blind. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

05-06-2015, 11:51 PM	#10662
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Sometimes I think the damn things are only useful as a signal/reminder to people that I can't hear for shit. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-07-2015, 12:06 AM	#10663
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	That's only if they show. Modern types, if you have any hair, they don't show. It was easier when I was bald. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

05-07-2015, 01:24 AM	#10664
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The only ones that don't show are the tiny ones deep in the ear, unless you have enough hair to cover the ear completely. I use the in the ear type... now but for years I wore the behind the ear. I was happy to switch because the behind the ear would quit when I sweat heavily. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-07-2015, 09:41 AM	#10665
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	That's interesting, that it can be a feature for the hearing aids to be obvious. Seems kind of obvious itself when you think about it. They have been working for so long to make them tiny and invisible, but that's not necessarily such a good thing.

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