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General => Rants and Stuff => Topic started by: 42 on July 26, 2005, 02:51:15 PM
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Yes, the other thread was getting kind of long.
So, I'm happy because I just made the most heavenly cheese souffle. In fact, it is so good that my soul is being wrenched apart as I make this post instead of eating the light, fluffy, and savory souffle.
Here is the recipe I tried to follow and then heavily adapted:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_26372,00.html
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I'm happy because my vacation was slightly delayed and I've gotten to spend the morning with my girlfriend.
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I'm happy because I'm eating Cherry Garcia ice cream and drinking (non-diet) Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper.
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they make a non-deit version of that drink......I want some.....could I please have some?
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Yeah, I was certain they had to, but I couldn't find any till last friday, when the Metro Mart started carrying it. It's yummy. Come on over, I'll tell you where it is on the shelves.
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Sweetness.....
I can not wait....Got a big tournement this week, going to be away for the rest of the week....hopeyou guys will survive with out me. ;D
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How many times must I tell you that that stuff is evil and horrible-able.
But I am happy because I'm 2 hours into my 24 hour poetry marathon. Hoorah.
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I'm happy because...um...er... oh yeah, uh my internal bleeding stopped!
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I'm happy because I picked up some extra hours at work. :)
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I'm happy because I got a kodoma for my birthday.
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I'm happy because Sid Meier's pirates and Burnout 3 are awesome games :)
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I'm happy because I'm eating a sandwich grilled on a George Forman grill with Corned Beef, Roast Beef, Pepper Jack, and American Cheese on it. It's incredibly tasty.
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I'm happy because I bought a Coney's frozen yogurt while I was waiting for the bus today, and it had peanut butter cups in it. Yummmmmmm....
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last christmas I got a georg forman grill and a deep fat fryer, now I grill or fry everything, sometimes both... it makes me happy
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I'm happy because I keep finding cool fantasy books at DI when I go during my lunch break. Today I found a copy of Robin McKinley's "Beauty" (which I never read because I can't FIND the Provo library's copy)
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I liked Beauty, more than Rose Daughter.
I'm happy because I got to eat El Pollo Loco chicken taquitos with the most heavenly guacamole for dinner tonight. They really should have El Pollo Loco in Utah--for fast food, it's quite good.
However, El Pollo Loco is not enough to keep me here in So Cal. I'm VERY happy because I'm coming back to Provo sooner than I thought. I'll drive up this Saturday. Yay!!! Although I have a lot to do--including finding an apartment and a job--so my vacation time is pretty much over now.
Anyone have any good job leads? ???
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I preferred Beauty to Rose Daughter, as well. Rose Daughter has some improvements plot-wise, but in general, Beauty is tighter, better written, less flowery. Rose Daughter is more than twice as long, and I still don't get why she named the sister in Rose Daughter "Greatheart"--which was the name of the horse in Beauty. Weird.
I'm happy because I've finally finished reading what I have of Blacker Darkness. I just realized--at p. 222--that I don't have it all! Augh! That part goes in the grumpy things, really. Fell! You're leaving me hanging here!
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I just drove through Redwoods National Park, and I'm in the middle of Northern California's Redwood Forest, in a 30-year old camper. I have heat and air conditioning, electricity, plumbing, and, best of all, wireless internet access. I'm surrounded by trees and I have wireless internet!
This makes me very happy. To make things better, we've got a cell phone with free roaming that gets a connection here, too.
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My roommate had a birthday party tonight. I baked an apple pie and bought ice cream for everyone that came. We had a fun night. Played Scattergories. And played Cronology (a game that I find myself not liking because I'm no good with dates and years stuffs).
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You baked an apple pie? Wow, Gemm--your "attractiveness to girls" points just shot through the roof!!! ;)
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Its all about guys who can cook... I told you Gemm, I told you...
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/me takes notes
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:D
After two hours of timewasting I finally tracked down a post (and then another) made by my temporarily long-distance stalkee who, in turn, will never find me here...
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who are you stalking again...?
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I think she's stalking JadeKnight, her boyfriend/fiance.
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Wow. Those were really quick responses. You guys, like, live here. And I bet you're also telepathic and spineless.
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Telepathic, yes. Spineless, no.
So are you the douoche (http://www.timewastersguide.com/boards/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=other;action=display;num=1075778416;start=255) JadeKnight was talking about? (I still don't know what a douoche is. I tried to look it up on Merriam-Websters, and it gave me a definition of douche (spelled differently, without the extra o) that was really funny but I don't think applies: "a jet or current especially of water directed against a part or into a cavity of the body.")
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Is it a French word? Or Canadian slang?
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Jersey Norman (Jèrriais). Means "sweetheart".
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I am back in Provo! And I got to hang out with MY douoche last night--for over four hours!!! It was great. ;D
We had present exchange (as all good boyfriends and girlfriends should after a long trip). Of course we got each other books--we wouldn't be geeks if we didn't. For a gag gift, I also got him a really cool Hotmobiles miniature of the Batmobile (nod to Archon) and Mr. Freeze, which is the name of EUOL's current car (nod to Mr. Freeze, who is dead). Yup, Mr. Freeze died on Friday, and now EUOL is car-less. So I had to get him the miniatures so I could show up and say, "I solved all your problems. Look, I bought you a car!"
Besides a bunch of cool YA and MG books EUOL picked up for me at Tor, he got me two t-shirts. One is white and says "I [heart] NY" in rhinestones. Yay! I love shiny things. And the other is so funny--it is black and has this pink bunny in a straightjacket on it and says "cute but physcho" underneath.
He knows me too well.
Oh, and he says that the shirt will deter any other guys from asking me out. All part of his evil master plan! :)
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I'm happy because I have 6 more days of work and then I'm moving in somewhere with central air.
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I'm happy because this is the funniest thing I have seen all day. It left me shrieking in laughter...
I am back in Provo! And I got to hang out with MY douoche last night--for over four hours!!! It was great. ;D
"Douoche" is a specifically female term. If your sweetheart happens to be male (which I fervently hope is the case, or else you should simply ignore this unnecessary post and I'll just hang my head in stupidity), it's "galant," which means what it sounds like.
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I also got him a really cool Hotmobiles miniature of the Batmobile (nod to Archon)
:) Glad to be of assistance.
So as to not be hijacking this thread, I am happy because I just got a bunch of music from Lhotse, and it is good.
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I'm happy because I finally just watched Princess Mononoke for the first time. Yeah, yeah, I know, took me long enough.
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Wow.....I have not seen that movie in a loooooooong time....great movie
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"Douoche" is a specifically female term. If your sweetheart happens to be male (which I fervently hope is the case, or else you should simply ignore this unnecessary post and I'll just hang my head in stupidity), it's "galant," which means what it sounds like.
Oops. That is what comes of using foreign words I don't completely know the meaning of, I suppose.
I think EUOL would much prefer being called "galant." So I definitely won't use it. ;)
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I'm happy because I'm listening to a bootleg of The Cure covering "You Really Got Me"
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I think EUOL would much prefer being called "galant." So I definitely won't use it. ;)
I soooooo saw that coming. ;D I approve.
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I think I'm being overly grumpy. I need to counter with some happiness. Goooo positive thinking!
I'm happy because I am writing at all, even if it sucks. The more sucky stuff I write, the closer I am to writing good stuff (or so I've been told).
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I found an apartment! Yay! ;D
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I'm happy because I have amazing friends. ;D
Today EUOL, CtrlZed, and MsFish all helped me move. MsFish was especially helpful because she came over early to pack with me and didn't complain when I ordered her about (I'm very particular about packing). Moving went so much faster with four of us loading and unloading. I also found some plastic leis and plastic kazoos so while we were waiting for EUOL CtrlZed, MsFish, and I did creative renditions of Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and Sound of Music songs (CtrlZed claimed ignorance of the latter, but I think he was just pretending). EUOL, being the party pooper he is, did not join in the kazoo fun, though he did wear a lei. When we were done we went to Sonic for treats. That's how you make moving fun!
EUOL also found me a truck to move my big stuff. He's just the best boyfriend ever! (And I'm going to end this now before I get too gushy and gag everyone, including myself).
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Yeah, you really sidestepped that landmine.
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:P
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I'm happy because I'm back in Reno, and that means time with Ari!
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See, I'm not the only one on this board who appreciates their significant other.
(and yes, I used "their" on purpose. Down with the singular "his and her"!)
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I'm happy that today is finally moving day! So long Utah, it's been fun.
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*sniff* Even if I didn't see you very often, it makes me sad that you won't be in the central location of everybody else anymore. This lessens my reasons to pop down to Utah! :'( Kristy's in Salt Lake, you're leaving, can't ever get a hold of Fiona, Sallyann's back in Idaho--it's like graduating again.
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I'm happy that today is finally moving day! So long Utah, it's been fun.
Us Utahns will miss you. Even if you don't miss Utah.
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Been 6 days since anyone had some happy news, so I will start it back up.....I am happy because on Monday I have a job interview.......GO TEAM ME ;D
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I'm happy because I've had the most productive summer ever, and I'm going back to school (read: away from Reno) in a week.
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I'm happy because I've had the most productive summer ever, and I'm going back to school (read: away from Reno) in a week.
Thought that made you grumpy?
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I'm happy because I have a
BROADBAND
internet connection!
That means that I can access the internet from my VERY OWN computer! Quickly!
AND my computer wasn't letting me log in to timewasters and stay logged in, and I knew how to fix it, which means that I actually know something about computers, be it very little. So I'm proud of myself. And I have fast internet. Did I mention that I have fast internet!
HOORAY!
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Thought that made you grumpy?
Well, it made me happy first. Then JadeKnight said it made him grumpy, which made me grumpy. That kind of makes me emotionally volatile and combustable (is that even a word?) and otherwise a girl...
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Which in turn probably contributes to JK's grumpiness.
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never know it might make him happy.............who am i kidding your right
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Hmm. I hadn't thought of that. I hope it doesn't. I hope it makes him miserable. :P
In other happy news, my seven-year-old sister Alice wants to send you guys this message:
:) ;) :D ;D >:( :( :o 8) ??? ::) :P :-[ :-X :-/ :-* :'(
And Michelle, my eight-year-old sister, is jealous because Alice beat her to it.
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this is why I don't let my kids at hte keyboard.
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I'm happy because I made a delicious Mexican dinner last night and Ari's coming over to share it with me for lunch.
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I'm pleased that I managed to get the furniture rearranged in my living room. My new roommate had quite a bit of furniture to add.
Also some of our furniture is going to get tossed, so if anyone is interested let me know. About the only nice thing going is a "glass and brass" sofa table.
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I'm happy because I'm alive.
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I'm happy because my fortune cookie said, "Something special is coming your way." I can't wait! :D
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I'm happy because I'm the only one in the office right now so I can listen to the Cure at obscenely high volumes.
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Hey Spriggy, your Star Wars Minis arrived today.
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I don't really want to speak too soon, but I just found an apartment fairly close to school for $450 a month including EVERYTHING, furniture and all. Wheee!
Okay, so I haven't contacted the people yet, because it's so late to call. But you should all, like, pray for me, I want it so much...
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I'm happy because I can access the internet again. It wasn't working all day Friday and Saturday, all the way through this morning. I was beginning to think that I'd have to start paying for my internet again. :) I will eventually, but right now free is good for the broke girl.
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I'm happy because I can finally access the Internet from my own computer again. And the reason for this is a new wireless device for my little laptop. I'm finally on wireless with the rest of the world!
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Yay! Which reminds me that I need to get a new wireless card. I doubt it's the signal so much as my stupid Netgear wireless card. Can anyone recommend a better brand than Netgear?
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Yay! My hair will no longer give me headaches! I donated it today. It is now very cute. :) Layers and fluffiness and lazy curls... It makes me very happy. I have been talking about it for a month and finally just decided to do it.
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Yay! Which reminds me that I need to get a new wireless card. I doubt it's the signal so much as my stupid Netgear wireless card. Can anyone recommend a better brand than Netgear?
Netgear is one the top brands, it could very well be your signal you'd be surprised what could block a wireless signal. It really probably doesn't matter about what card you have (as long as it's a G or G/B type) over what router you have.
You can check newegg for the best deals, Linksys is a good brand if you do want to buy a new one.
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=34
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I dunno. I've heard some pretty bad things about Netgear, and I know our Netgear wireless router in Boston always was giving us trouble. And then when my roommates' internet was working, mine wouldn't. So, perhaps it's not the brand--perhaps it's that it's being used in a Celeron and got burnt up. This computer runs pretty hot.
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you get complaints about every brand, even if they're good. For example, I have a Maxtor Hard drive that has been in a computer that runs 24/7 and it's been in computers doing that (this is the third computer) for the last 6 and a half years. Very few electronics of any sort can boast that sort of performance. Yet I know a good selection of people who CONSTANTLY complain about the performance of Maxtor in general. So yeah, Netgear, over all, is a pretty solid brand. But if you have reservations, especially based on personal experience, I don't blame you. I'd advise like Sprig, go with Linksys in that case.
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Every broken harddrive I've ever seen has been a Maxtor.
I've never seen a broken seagate.
I draw my conclusions from this. My old maxtor died after three years. Current Seagate is two years and going strong, so I'm not ready to judge based on that, but my friends all use seagate and have no problems.
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three years is a reasonable period for a piece of hardware to last, though. That hardly indicates suckage.
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I don't believe they suck, merely an inferior brand. Among my group of computer using friends, several six year lasting seagates are there, while the lonest lasting maxtor is three and a bit years. Just my personal experiences show Seagate to be a superior brand.
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I own a Linksys G PCMCIA card for my laptop.
It makes me happy.
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I'm happy because I'm dressed as a ninja.
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I don't believe they suck, merely an inferior brand. Among my group of computer using friends, several six year lasting seagates are there, while the lonest lasting maxtor is three and a bit years. Just my personal experiences show Seagate to be a superior brand.
count me as one of your friends. As I said, my maxtor is as old as that seagate and it's the only computer component I own that has never, ever given me a single grief.
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My psp arrived.
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Yay!!!
The insurance company finally approved a bid for my room to be repaired. The flood and fire resostoration company is starting tomorrow.
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Let this be a lesson to you all: Always get renter's insurance.
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I didn't lose much. Mostly just junk that I need to get toss anyways. I lost a couple of text books, some envelopes, and all the Christmas presents I was going to give e. So nothing really important.
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He also lost all the Christmas presents I was going to give SE as well, we had a lot of stuff piled under that window.
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But mostly it was just RPG manuals and comics and a new computer plus video games and action figures, and we know he wouldn't really want those anyways. I'm sure those things are much better off in the trash.
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/me weeps
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I'm happy because on Monday I will have my very own local phone access and my very own internet access again...albeit dialup.
That's if all the pertinent technology functions correctly (phone cords, modems, the dorks at Qwest and Juno, etc.), which is a big if.
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I think we should squash the dorks at Qwest and Juno. I am in a squashing of dorks mood.
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*faint sound of squashing in the distance
Consider it done.
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chuuuuuuuuuuuunk!
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Did I miss out on a chance for destruction? :'(
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You ever have one of those days where you're in a good mood and you just don't know why? That's me today. Things are good. Dunno why, they just are.
Though--I think a lot of it is just that I really love my job. Got a proposal for a very exciting project this morning that I might be able to do. Who knows. It might not work out. But it's a fun idea nonetheless.
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I'm happy because Winamp and Eudora have announced that Unicode support is forthcoming.
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Got a little unicode love/hate thing going on then?
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Yes. I love Unicode, and I hate when it isn't supported.
So get on top of things, Sprig. =þ
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Received my phone charger in the mail (I'd left it in Seattle). Thanks stacer!
Yay! I have a phone again! ;D
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yay chimera!!!!
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yay for Jeffe's new avatar. Fizgig will rock your world.
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Wow someone actually has a better avatar then me.
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Received my phone charger in the mail (I'd left it in Seattle). Thanks stacer!
Yay! I have a phone again! ;D
Glad you got it. I forgot to send it the very next day, and I felt really bad. :/ The mail room here closes at 3pm and I'd gotten into a project and forgot to go over there.
I'm going through the same thing this weekend with my ipod--took the charger to work and forgot it there over the weekend. Thankfully, it lasts longer than a phone battery, as far as usage time goes. So I'm saving the rest of the charge for the commute Monday morning.
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Can't iPods be charged via USB? Just about every device I have that can connect to a PC (phone, MP3 player, ect) can.
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I don't have the dock, and my firewire cable is with the charger at work. But hooking it up to my computer through the firewire actually drains it. I don't have a USB 2 connection, just the old USB, and that's really slow for synching. Not sure if it drains it or charges it.
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It drains a tiny bit while it syncs, but after it's done synching, if you leave it hooked up it continues charging from the computer's power. Still would be worth it since you have a long night to charge it before tomorrow.
I'm happy because Nintendogs are so freaking cute.
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just to clarify ... USB 1 does not charge the ipod, Firewire and USB 2 do. But not USB 1. But firewire will draw a little power while its synching. A total recharge should take about an hour (in theory)
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Really? I could have sworn my usb ports were the old kind because windows whines about how it's not high speed everytime I connect by ipod.
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I'm pleased that the weather has finally dropped below 70 degrees, if only temporarily.
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I'm pleased that the weather has finally dropped below 70 degrees, if only temporarily.
WOW...If you have winters there anywhere near as bad as the winters where I am at you would not be saying that. Last year we had 2 weeks of -20 degree weather....let me tell you that is great fun.
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Ya Utah has incredibly mild winters compared to lots of the US, I grew up in Nebraska (3 months of below zero and 90% humidity winters) and it's so different between the two.
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On the other hand, you can live in God's county. ie, Virginia. Winters rarely get below freezing for long. Snow that actually manages to accumulate is almost always melted away before the next snowfall.
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I like cold weather more than warm weather.
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I like warm weather more than cold weather. I have nothing against mildly-cold weather, but I've spent enough time in the cold, sub-zero mid-west that I'm ready for milder winters. 42, you could have joyfully experienced such bitterly-cold weather if you would have visited me in the mid-west while I lived there.
Today in Colorado, the sun is out and it is in the mid-70s. I like it when the weather is like this.
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I freeze if it gets below 70. And even that is disputable--others have said I freeze if it gets below 80.
It's my thin California blood and lack of muscle that do it to me. I love warm weather. 8) Give me a warm state--but not the desert, if I can help it.
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It's my thin California blood
I heard northern Cally was cold...so that must mean your thin southern California blood, or is the north not that bad?
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Southern all the way, baby.
By the way, speaking of being cold, I have been freezing in my very well-airconditioned office. I have to wear pants and bring a sweater, and I'm still cold. Just a second ago the student secretary saw me shivering and went and stole the space heater from a room with two guys in it (they weren't using it, of course). So now I am happily and comfortably warm. Yay! ;D
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That happened to us when I worked in Special Collections in the library. The library--especially Special Collections--is climate-controlled for the books, not the people. And it's two stories below ground in a deep, stone-walled basement. I transcribed journals for my job--freezing in July, we had space heaters and gloves just so we could type. Our fingers just didn't work otherwise.
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Southern all the way, baby.
By the way, speaking of being cold, I have been freezing in my very well-airconditioned office. I have to wear pants and bring a sweater, and I'm still cold. Just a second ago the student secretary saw me shivering and went and stole the space heater from a room with two guys in it (they weren't using it, of course). So now I am happily and comfortably warm. Yay! ;D
At the place I am working at now (which is a temp job) the front desk secretary uses a space heater year round....it could be 70 in the office and she has it going full blast......
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Kill her. She's no use to anyone anyway. :|
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I second the motion.
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Do we have a volunteer to do that act?
Well I am trying to get her to stop doing that. Ever time I have to go work on her computer I ask her why she has it on. The funniest think I that she will wear a skirt. If you are going to be cold wear something warmer…just a thought
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I am really, really happy because one of the outside cats had kittens and they are so INCREDIBLY cute and adorable that my brain can barely handle it.
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Awww! I want a kitten!
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Well if you're out here you can take one home in a few weeks.
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Didn't you get a kitten once, stacer? And it totally turned out spastic or something? So you took it back?
Maybe I'm the one who is spastic. But I swear I remember you getting a kitten and then deciding against it...
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must... resist... snide... comments...
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I remember when my cat was a kitten. Drove us insane having to keep him inside while his innoculations did their part.
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Didn't you get a kitten once, stacer? And it totally turned out spastic or something? So you took it back?
Maybe I'm the one who is spastic. But I swear I remember you getting a kitten and then deciding against it...
It wasn't a kitten. It was a full-grown cat with behavioral problems and long hair, and I was currently out of money for allergy meds. So I continue to want a cat, but temper it with the realism of not being able to afford one--and the next one I get must be a kitten, and short-haired, so I can grow into the allergies.
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And so you can train it not to be spastic. ;)
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So I'm getting my LASIX eye surgery tomorrow at 12:30. Yay! No more contacts or glasses! I just hope everything goes well.
Wish me luck. Or, if you're religious, say a prayer for me that all will go well with the surgery. There really is no reason that it shouldn't go smoothly, but surgeries always make me a bit nervous...
I'll let you all know how it goes. Hopefully I won't be blind tomorrow. :-/
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Good luck! You are going to be experiencing something I have only dreamed of since the fifth grade--living without any vision aids. :)
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Well the newspaper job never called me, but I had a really great job interview today and they said they'd let me know by tomorrow afternoon. It involves about a half hour commute, but the salary and benefits would be sooo worth it.
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wow. There are people who hesitate at a half-hour commute?
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Yes, people who have never had to live in a place where a half-hour commute involves traveling three miles. The more distance I am from that, the more I wonder why I have a half-hour commute myself, though. It's much more interesting to sit on a train for a half hour and read than it is to drive. I've taken to listening to conference talks and books on tape, though, which is much more interesting than the radio.
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Cool! I too have taken to listening to books on tape for my half hour commute. I just finished Angels and Demons by Dan Brown and just started Harry Potter 5. (not 6, 5)
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Hey my commute was 17 minutes in Utah. I just miss having all the cities in a straight line along I-15. Instead I have to take all sorts of random back roads and encounter street lights and Amish buggys going 15 mph and wait to pass them.
But I recognize that it's really a very short commute as the world turns.
Ok, if I get the job I promise not to complain about the commute, and if I do please don't hesitate to mock me ;D
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I was for a week doing a hour and a half commute. I left the job since I realised there is no real point doing that, the job is nothing I can't get within half an hour.
But in London, one and a half hours is a standard commute I'm told. It costs MUCH more to live in the city centre itself.
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Fuzzy, you're back in Ohio?
I'm happy that I'm getting over my cold.
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I am well pleased that getting to work was cake.
Got in line, car was waiting for my destination. No traffic. In work early, blasting music.
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So I'm getting my LASIX eye surgery tomorrow at 12:30. Yay! No more contacts or glasses! I just hope everything goes well.
Wish me luck. Or, if you're religious, say a prayer for me that all will go well with the surgery. There really is no reason that it shouldn't go smoothly, but surgeries always make me a bit nervous...
I'll let you all know how it goes. Hopefully I won't be blind tomorrow. :-/
I CAN SEE!
Things are still a little fuzzy (which will go away as the eyes recover, they tell me), but nonetheless when they tested me I was seeing at 20/20 vision. It is amazing to be able to see as well as I did with contacts--with absolutely nothing in my eye!
And now I will get off, because I am not supposed to look at a computer screen for a couple more days (it's very straining on the eyes). I just wanted to let you all know that the surgery went well and it's looking good. ;D
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Lol. I don't have 20/20 or anything close to it, and i don't wear glasses :P Does the surgery just bump your eyesight up even on the type (ie near/far) that didn't need the glasses to begin with?
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When I got RK 7 years ago (the kind with the diamond-tipped knife, not a laser) it bumped my eyes up from like 20/400 to 20/40; I went back twice for touchups but it didn't do any good. I'm happy though; I now have some glasses that I wear for night driving and sometimes at movie theaters, plus sunglasses, but the rest of the time I go without.
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I plan to have this done someday when we have money. It's good to hear of more and more people I know personally getting it successfully done though.
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Saw World of Dance tonight, where BYU's dance groups perform their best pieces of the previous year. (And I mean I literally SAW it--without visual enhancements of any kind, but with my own two eyes.)
About World of Dance--all I can say is wow. It never ceases to amaze me how much talent there is in the performing arts at BYU. I love dance. It is such a beautiful expression of human emotions. There were some powerful pieces tonight--I was very moved. So I'm pretty happy right now. :)
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Ari's getting baptized. It's really exciting.
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Congratulations, Ari!
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That's awesome. Yay for Ari!
Lol. I don't have 20/20 or anything close to it, and i don't wear glasses :P Does the surgery just bump your eyesight up even on the type (ie near/far) that didn't need the glasses to begin with?
I'm not sure I completely understand your question Entropy., but I'll do my best to answer it. As I understand it, LASIK surgery can improve just about anyone's eyesight. The easiest, though, is near and far sightedness. It gets more complicated if you have astigmatisms (which I didn't, so don't ask me the details about that--I don't know). I just had straight up nearsightedness--anything beyond a couple inches from my face was blurry without glasses/contacts--so they said I was easy to fix. And I was! 8)
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Ah, so it'll improve even 'normal' eyesight up to 20/20 or whatever?
Shooting lasers into people's eyes sounds like a nervous job. But also kind of cool.
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Ari's getting baptized. It's really exciting.
HOoray for Ari!
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I am happy because
a) the weather's nice
b) baseball season is over and the Nats aren't in the playoffs. I won't have to listen to any more games interrupting my music
c) the power adapter for my monito top lamp finally arrived. I'll never have to turn on over head lights again!
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Much rejoicing...my apartment room is almost finished being rebuilt, the landlords are reducing my rent for the inconvenience, and I got to see Serenity.
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I'm happy because I did something for myself that needed to be done. Even if it has raised conflicting emotions in me.
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I've been sitting here doing bills and working out my budget for the next month, and for some reason it just wasn't adding up right. I kept going over it and over it, and I couldn't figure out why I was coming up so short, and I was really sad and worried I'd have to say I couldn't come down to Utah at all because I wasn't even sure I'd be able to make ends meet. Hyperventilating, worrying about how things just weren't adding up.
Then I realized I only added one paycheck for the month, not two. Whoops! :) It adds up much more nicely that way. Still tight, but with enough to spare that I can afford a little road trip (though not driving), a much-needed break from regular life, and still pay all the bills and eat. Eating is a good thing. So is paying rent.
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Paying rent is overrated.
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This morning I had a scare because I woke up and my left eye was all blurry and it usually isn't blurry when I wake up. But I put in my eyedrops like usual and got dressed and went to work. Still my left eye remained blurry. I got a huge headache (I've been getting a lot lately because I have to read and use the computer so much between work and school and fun). I also noticed that my eye was scratchy and irritated, like it was right after the surgery. Suddenly I remembered a caution from the eye doctor--I would know that the flap they had made in my cornea was askew if my eye went blurry and felt like it was scratchy and irritated, as if there was something in it, but there wasn't, and eyedrops didn't make it go away.
I was really worried at this point that I was going to need to go and see my eye doctor today and have them fix the cornea flap and then I'd have to wear the sleeping googles for another week (I just went off them, and am sleeping so much better). But I couldn't leave work so I stuck it through. Eventually it was time to put in more eyedrops. Immediately my eye felt better--I could see and the scratchy feeling was gone. I was so relieved! My eye had must've been overly dry.
And THAT is why this is on the Happy Thread! Because it is great that the problem was a dehydrated eye rather than a messed up cornea flap. Yay. :)
Consequently, I've been using eyedrops like a fiend to avoid such a scare again.
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I think I know how you feel about those sleeping goggles. When I burned my face this summer I had to bandage it for a few days, during the summer in a second story room that makes it too uncomfortable to sleep. As soon as I could take the bandages off at night I slept so much better, the thought of having to wear them again made me shudder. I'm glad you don't have to deal with something like that again, it's horrible when you can't sleep because of something you have to wear...
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Yeah. I can't sleep if I have anything on my face--it keeps waking me up. :P
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I found a cache of old 90's alternative songs and that makes me HAPPY!
Reptile 4:56 Starfish The Church
See Those Eyes (Single Version) 3:07 I Could Be Happy - The Best of Alte? Altered Images
Laid 2:38 The Best of James James
Grimly Fiendish 5:12 The Damned: Smash It Up - The An? The Damned
The Only One I Know 4:00 Melting Pot The Charlatans
Party at Ground Zero 6:31 Fishbone Fishbone
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Hundreds of mp3s of high-quality Lute music all licensed under a Creative Commons license makes Jade Knight very happy.
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
Meet my new car, Sonic.
http://autos.yahoo.com/newcars/honda_pilot_ex5spdat_2005/16183/style_slideshow.html;_ylt=AsRvBLpV0T5_ULKPKwgR4E7cW8QF?i=exfrdrvr75&a=all#imgs
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Nice. No wonder you're offering rides. I'd want to practically live in it at first, myself. Is it a hybrid? I'm thinking next year sometime, when my nice little Jeep Cherokee is about to give up the ghost (who knows, maybe it'll last a couple years; it's only got 99,000 miles on it--but it only gets 20mpg), I'm going for a hybrid. Better for the environment, better for the gas mileage. Of course, you have to pay a little more for a hybrid, so I'm hoping some used ones will be coming up for sale by the time I start looking.
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That's awesome! Hondas rock. ;D I love my Civic--I've never had any problems with it, and it gets great gas mileage.
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I am so happy that I've finally got my own bedroom back. It has a heavy new carpet smell, but it's better that being in the living room. Sleeping in the living room was making me really paranoid for some reason.
Also, the restoration company forgot to put the blinds back up and had thrown out the hardware attachments so I couldn't do it myself. I was told by the guy at Lowes that noone sells spare parts for blinds. Then I was in Walmart getting some new hangers and stuff, when I found the exact parts I needed. So now I have blinds meaning there is nothing left to do except organize my stuff.
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Yes, Old One's car is very very cool. Especially because I get to ride in it. :)
I am happy because I have (mostly) usable internet! After a month and a half! And it's free because I threatened to cancel my account! Yay me! It's slow, but it's mine. Which means I can un-fall off of the space of the planet. Whoo hoo!
Um, speaking of Old One's car...hey Old One...do you want to take me shopping Friday night? Are you busy? Do you want to play?
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I am SO there. ;D
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yay free internet... what seems to have been wrong w/ it?
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Well, this was a grumpy thing yesterday, but now it's happy, sort of. I went to go to work yesterday and my car wouldn't start. I've been worried about this happening for three years cause it's old (over 220,000 miles on it), but it's been running great this whole time. So here I am, needing to get to work that is 15 minutes away (not far, except if you have to walk it). I finally decided to ride the bus to the bus stop closest to my work and bike the rest of the way (a little over a mile). It took me 1 hr 15 min. And when I got to work I had two flat bike tires (don't know if they were like that when I started, but they weren't the last time I rode, so I didn't check). But I got there and I asked if anyone could give me a ride home and I found someone who could (and could bring my bike, too, so that's a happy thing). And then I talked to my step-dad who's a mechanic and he said it was probably the battery or the alternator or alternator belt. It's okay if it's the battery or belt, but bad if it's the alternator. So my husband and I got the battery charged and drove over to Auto Zone. They test batteries and alternators for free. Luckily it turned out it was the battery. Yeah! Something easy and relatively cheap to fix! Plus the Auto Zone guy installed the battery for us for free. So it turned out okay.
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I passed the Colorado Bar exam. That 3 down and 47 to go.
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Llongyfarchiadau!
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I'm getting a kitten today!
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You'll stand on it and break it's back you know. :P
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Yay! I have an avatar again. But I think now that I have it up again I'm tired of it and need to get myself a new one.
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Yeah! It's almost the weekend! One thing I love about my job is that my work time is very flexible. I can come really early so I can leave early, I can take a lunch break or work through it so I can leave earlier, I can work more than 8 hours a day, or less, and once my 40 hours are in for the week, I'm outta there. So today I got in at 7:30 a.m. and I only have 6.75 hours left, so I can leave at 2:15 if I don't take a lunch break (I still eat, I just eat at my desk and continue working). I love it! (and if I do go over 40 hours, as long as they give me permission to do so, I get time and a half, yeah).
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I got my hair cut and colored! Yay! I have style again--and bangs!
It's redder than I thought it would be, and quite dark, but it's nice to have a change. Also, the color is only semi-permanent, and will wash out in 4-6 weeks. My stylist said then I can go back to brown with blond highlights or make the auburn permanent.
I feel like a new woman. ;D
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There really is something about changing your hair that just makes you feel all sassy when you're feeling a little low. And even when you're not, but realizing that a change in life demands a change in you. That's why I cut my hair a couple months ago, myself--that, and it was giving me headaches. I loved it long, but it was physically giving me pain.
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I'm happy because my mother-in-law gave me her palm pilot since she never uses it.
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I had a friend who called it a palm palate.
We heckled her forever about that one. :D
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I'm happy because I actually slept. Yay!
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I'm happy because Jade Knight just said he loves me as if I could ace Chemistry. You have no idea what this means for mankind.
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/me ceases building a doomdays machine upon hearing of this news
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I'm happy because I got a new wok and when I made stir fry the chicken was so succulent it melted in my mouth.
Good pots and pans are DEFINITELY worth the money. ;)
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I am happy because I am pleased and willing to become addicted to Cosi's mint hot chocolate.
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Good pots and pans are DEFINITELY worth the money. ;)
I honestly would never have thought of that. Thank you.
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That's what I'm here for. ;D
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I shaved my head and have been growing a beard for the past... 6-8 weeks now. I enjoy being ridiculous.
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Really?! You need to post pictures. :D
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This is kind of a mix of grumpy and happy, but since the grumpy thread was getting ahead I decided to post here. (heh, internal rhyme. I'm good, baby!)
So I haven't been feeling well lately, which is bad. But the good news is that since I can't go out much I've been writing a ton. To the point of being entirely too obsessed with my characters. But I am going to finish part one of my ridiculously long and complicated first novel before the year is over if it's the last thing I do!!!
But, if I die, let if be known here that I want my laptop to be burned. I'd rather no one read my story unfinished and think I'm insane, since a lot of the redemption will come in the second half.
Even if I finish this stinking novel, I think I'm going to have to burn it. It is far too revealing of my weaknesses and neuroses. And much too dark. But if I get it out of my system, I can move on to something more pleasant. Like a story about a happy little elf... ;)
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And much too dark.
Define TOO dark.
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Black type on Black paper.
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As in I am no longer comfortable with myself because of all the bad things my characters have to go through. And the terrible stuff that the villians do. I'm beginning to wonder if I really am twisted. :P
I don't know how Stephen King lives with himself.
I'm sure I'll get over it in time. I know logically that writing about terrible things does not make me a terrible person. I don't look at other authors and think they are bad because bad things happen in their books. But it is still a shock to let the story go where I feel it needs to go and then look back and say, "Did I write that?"
I'm having issues. Anyway. I can barely let my writing group read it. I cringe everytime I go. But then I just keep reminding myself that my writing is not me. It's hard to disassociate at this point, since it is my first long work (i.e. novel instead of short story). It will get better with time.
And I think I really do want to write something light and fluffy next. No more of this deep, dark, psychological stuff.
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I'm happy because the dogs were sweet and let me take a nap with them and because my husband took a picture.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/fuzzyoctopus/naptime.jpg
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There's nothing inherently wrong with deep, dark, and psychological, Chimera.
If the text uses those qualities to edify the reader, then the novel is quite a success regardless. If you're just writing to dump the dark things inside, that's fine too, though perhaps less beneficial for the reader.
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I'm happy because the dogs were sweet and let me take a nap with them and because my husband took a picture.
Awww, that's so sweet! (She says as her kitten naps at her feet.)
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If the text uses those qualities to edify the reader, then the novel is quite a success regardless. If you're just writing to dump the dark things inside, that's fine too, though perhaps less beneficial for the reader.
I'm attempting the former. We'll see when I finish it if it has degenerated into the latter. Either way, I'm writing and its my first novel so I'm just trying to tell the story without criticizing myself too much.
MsFish told me tonight that I'm not allowed to stop writing my novel, and what MsFish says is law, so I have to keep writing it. ;)
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I'm happy cause my company announced that they're taking us all to see Harry Potter the day after it comes out. I'm so excited!
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That's a cool company. Who do you work for?
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Just a software company in Orem.
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My order of books from Amazon came in the mail today, including the most recent Lemony Snicket book (The Penultimate Peril), the most recent Shannon Hale book (Princess Academy), and possibly my favorite Nancy Farmer book (The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm).
I'm so happy ;D I could cry :'(
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I just saw someone online asking where to take their computer to get it fixed and the first thing I thought was "Good idea, computer overpopulation is a real problem."
I'm happy that I amuse myself.
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So, wednesday night I was told by my Lit 400: The Beat's professor that John Ashbery will be giving a presentation at the Albright-Knox friday night at 8. I was over-excited but then brought back down by the thought that I'd probably have to work that night. Then I find my schedule and I work from 5-8. Now, I'm hoping I'll be able to leave early to get there as quickly as I can. oh boy fun! Poetry!
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I've read Ashbery's poetry. I'd be disappointed if I were able to go.
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I'm happy because I got to have a great girls night last night and spend time with fun friends. :)
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I'm happy because I got to watch Frogs last night, possibly the lamest B horror movie ever. It was hilarious!
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I went to Ohio Valley Filk Fest this weekend and I had so much fun that I can barely contain it. I met lots of new fun people and made a few friends and bought a CD, and learned lots of songs and laughed so hard I cried on for several hours straight and, and, and....
Now I wish I could play the guitar!
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That's the problem with filking...*sigh*
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Well my mom used to teach guitar when she was in college and she tried to teach me when I was in high school but it never really stuck. But she said that if I want to learn now she'll pay for lessons, and there's my father-in-law's old guitar here that no one is using atm....
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I'm happy because I have a working cable internet connection of my very very own.
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Yay! Did you say the other reason why you were happy?
[I'll be on after "The End of the Ward as We Know It" is over, so I'll catch you later. Just popping in really quickly.]
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yay cable modem!
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Yay indeed. And the other reason I am happy is that an agent has asked to see the first 50 pages of my book. That's progress, at least.
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Yay for an agent wanting to see your book!
I got to see the actual letter. It is so cool. ;D
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Yay indeed. And the other reason I am happy is that an agent has asked to see the first 50 pages of my book. That's progress, at least.
Yay! Hooray! Yay! W00t!
You so totally rock, MsFish!
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Yeah, well, likelihood is nothing will come of it. But it's something.
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That's more then a lot of people get.
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Yeah. I try not to get my hopes up though. That way when I finally do make it, I'll be really really surprised and happy.
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I'm happy because not all boys suck. :)
And because I got to see my roomate practice her self-defense moves on her sister (my other roommate), which kept me highly entertained. Then she taught me some of the moves, and I threw her over my shoulder and can spring up from the ground. I'm like part ninja now. ;D
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I'm happy because my wife could take our two sons to a candy factory today.
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i am happy because i have bought 3 boxes of ravnica this week, and i am having a dr. pepper slurpy right now while i watch a movie:)
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My Enlisted Performance Evaluation was finished today and I got great marks, fantastic marks. On a 7 point scale I got a lot of 5's and 6's (7's are hard to get).
7 is the good end of the 7 point scale by the way.
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Because of the move, I had to go into work today, even though I'm still sick (that's the grumpy part)--I had to pack up my stuff. But, happily, I got to come home as soon as I'd packed up my stuff. I should be taking a nap, but my kitten is having too much fun having me home. Perhaps if I wear him out, he'll get some sleep so I can too. :)
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oh man, kittens!!! i wish i had one. where did you move? you not working at wizards now?
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Oh, no, I should have been more clear. Wizards is moving across the street to a new building. So I went to work and packed up my stuff, then came home sick.
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ah, all clear. on a side note, you reinstituted the magic monster in me stace. After trying Ravnica, which is sweet, i am hooked again on magic. I have bought 1 precon(boros,if anyone wondered), 4 boxes and some singles of ravnica this week.
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Heh. I'm sure the Magic people love to hear stuff like that.
Another happy note: Mogget (my kitten, for those who don't know) has been getting a little bored with his toys. I was reading up online that you should rotate their toys periodically, so I put a cardboard box over his two favorite toys to hide them overnight. He is now attacking the cardboard box, and has figured out how to get the box off so he can play with the toys. Hours of entertainment.
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i still wish i had a kitten:( Your story just made me more envious. Maybe i can glue some magic cards together to make a fake kitten i can play with. Now that is hours of entertainment!.....
<runs to get some glue>
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I re-dyed my hair red one last time (it was quite faded when I was there last weekend, by the way) so that I could be Lucille Ball for Halloween. And it finally worked right! Yay! MsFish has excellent advice when it comes to this subject. I did the ends first, counter to the directions, and it looks so much better than last time.
But I'm getting tired of the red, really. I had the box (had gotten 2 for 1 on sale a while back), so I'm going to let it fade away this time. By Christmas I'll be a blonde again.
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I'm happy because I got to talk to two good friends I haven't spoken with in a long time. One of them--my guy friend from London--even got out his journal of the first day we got to know each other at a historic pub and read me the entry, where he described me as a kind and intelligent young woman who he enjoyed having a discussion with about our hopes and dreams.
That made me feel so good. That somebody would say such nice things about me after just getting to know me. And he said he still knows that about me--that I have a lot to offer, health challenges or no.
Thank goodness for good friends. :) And I know that someone is watching out for me, that my guy friend who I haven't talked to in forever would call me out of the blue to tell me something like that. So thank goodness for that, too.
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my undead character in D&D campaign died, but he got to come back to life!! so i am happy.
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Yay, I have tricker-or-treaters this year. 23 so far. Witches and Wizards seam to be a popular outfit this year. I've gotten a couple of Darth Vadars too.
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ah, you do anything else tonight 42? watch any movies or anything?
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I'm happy because I got stickers in my box of Poptarts.
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ah, you do anything else tonight 42? watch any movies or anything?
Actually I went to bed early. I was rather sleep deprived.
Which currently makes me really happy that I got some sleep finally. I'm looking forward to taking a nap this afternoon.
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I'm happy because I discovered hope. That may sound silly, but I think I've gone pretty much my whole life without understanding hope, and I get it now.
*Fish pats herself on the back
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yay hope! its a highly undervalued quality, but quite nice.
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I think so. And I'm happy that I've acquired it. It certainly was hard-earned. Now if I can just hang on to it...
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Hope is always good.
I'm happy because I discovered that my laptop is designed to be upgradable - RAM, CPU, Hard Drive, and even the DVD drive. I'm happier because I discovered that Hugebee did not manufacture it; they just comissioned it, so its manufacturer is still around so if something goes wrong I can get it fixed! Yay!
(Hugebee went bankrupt last year)
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I am happy because of my new descriptive icon.
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I'm happy because this afternoon I made delicious home-made corn chowder.
Oh, and because I got an interview for the Church Magazines Internship. If I actually got the paid internship, I may end up staying in Utah--though I would be in Salt Lake, not Provo.
Who knows. We'll see. At least I made it past the first step--they liked my portfolio and resume enough to interview me. :D
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That's great! Congratulations! I never got an interview with the internships, myself. I didn't really fit the English major profile they usually look for. Oh, well, I'm glad, really. The path I've followed has worked much better for fulfilling my dreams.
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I'm happy because I'm not a bored Politician anymore.
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That's nice, you liemonger. =þ
I'm happy because it's Monday.
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I'm pleased that I was able to paint the walls of my bathroom in under 2 hours (about 45 minutes of actual painting after about 45 minutes of taping). I still have to paint the trim and ceiling, but that is a project for tomorrow.
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You're painting your own bathroom? For fun, or because the landlord wouldn't do it, even after all the hassle of the water heater thing?
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I found a new love--the Food Network. ;D
I am so asking Santa for a food processor this year! I love cooking from scratch, but cutting and dicing everything is such a pain. Emeril and Rachel have convinced me that a food processor is absolutely essential to my happiness. ;)
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But then you don't get to play with very expensive, very sharp knives.
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Knives and I don't get along. I'm surprised, with how much cooking I've done lately, that I have any fingers left.
No, it's not that bad. But I usually stab or cut myself at least once. Part of the problem is that I don't have very expensive, very sharp knives. I have mediocre knives that I struggle to make do what I want them to do.
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Investing in a decent French knife is a must. You can get decent ones for like $15-20 if you look around. Lately I've been learning to use a cleaver, too, and that's saving me a lot of time (once I get used to it).
I'm really bad with peelers, though, personally. I've managed to grate a chunk out of my thumb before, and just this last week my thumbnail has taken two gouges from a peeler. I'm sooooo grateful for nails. I would be in a lot of pain if I didn't have them.
Food processors are nice, too, but it's not hard to make due without them - it just takes more time and/or skill.
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You're painting your own bathroom? For fun, or because the landlord wouldn't do it, even after all the hassle of the water heater thing?
Mostly because I there was left over paint from renovation of my room and the bathroom needed painting. So the entire fix up hasn't cost me anything. I also find that if I wait for someone else to do it, it doesn't get done or gets done when it isn't convenient for me. I'd rather just do things myself and have it done right.
I'm not sure what water heater thing you are refering to. They did have the boiler (which heats the house) worked on, but that was just its yearly maintenance.
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What was it that exploded and flooded your room? Or was it a rainstorm?
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I'm happy because I'm writing, rather than agonizing about writing.
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I think my interview with the Church Magazines Internships went well. :D I feel good about it. I got questions mostly from the Friend and New Era representatives, which are the ones I want to work with, so that's fine.
Tage and I had a conversation about Leven Thumps the other night and why I did and did not like it, which came in useful because the last question was what the most recent piece of children's literature I had read was and what I thought of it. Luckily none of them were directly with Deseret Press, because I was honest (and I didn't like it more than I liked it). But I think being able to give specific examples of editing choices I would have done differently gave me credibility. So, yay!
Anyway, they said I would know before Thanksgiving. It would be a four month internship, working full-time (40 hours a week) on site in Salt Lake, and it's paid. It's a good starting point out of school. So here's hoping!
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Chimera, that's spectacular! :D Internships can do so much to get you where you want to go. One major reason why I'm in Boston now pursuing editing is the internship that I did while at BYU getting my M.A. in American lit. What's more, the professor I worked for became more than just a boss or even a mentor. We're great friends. Internships can be great in lots of ways, so I wish you lots of luck!
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Using this board for my wacky stream of consciousness posts makes me happy.
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getting new D&D minis and magic cards make me happy!!
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Thanks shrain for your nice post. :)
The molten lava chocolate cake from Chili's makes me VERY happy. CtrlZed bought it for me to thank me for helping him move tonight. He also bought MsFish some food (she helped, too) of a more substantial nature, but I still think I got the better end of the deal.
As a rule I try not to buy sweets for myself. But it is perfectly okay if other people do. ;) J/k
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Chimera, how was Levin Thumps? I keep getting tempted to pick it up, since I want to help LDS writers who are writing stuff I'll actually LIKE.
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Thanks shrain for your nice post. :)
The molten lava chocolate cake from Chili's makes me VERY happy. CtrlZed bought it for me to thank me for helping him move tonight. He also bought MsFish some food (she helped, too) of a more substantial nature, but I still think I got the better end of the deal.
As a rule I try not to buy sweets for myself. But it is perfectly okay if other people do. ;) J/k
I'm happy because CtrlZed and Chimera are some of my favorite people.
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Chimera, how was Levin Thumps? I keep getting tempted to pick it up, since I want to help LDS writers who are writing stuff I'll actually LIKE.
e, I started to respond and it got so long I realized I needed to make it its own thread in Books. Here's the link. (http://www.timewastersguide.com/boards/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=books;action=display;num=1131731709;start=0)
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I'm happy because I have today off. Time to do things that need to be done is a good thing.
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seems like everyone is off today. this is the most members i have seen on at one time, 11!
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I'm happy to be happy. I know that doesn't say much but that's all I could think of.
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I'm happy because we had chinese food tonight, and the dogs are happy for the same reason.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/fuzzyoctopus/gotchinese3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/fuzzyoctopus/gotchinese2.jpg
(We didn't *mean* to give them chinese food, even though they are Chinese Shar-Peis. We'd put it on the middle of the table where they normally can't reach, and then left the room for a few minutes...)
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Same thing happened to me tonight, Fuzzy, with my kitten and my glass of milk. Except that milk isn't carryable, hence the huge spill of milk on my living room floor. I hope I cleaned it up enough--that's one thing I can't stand, the smell of sour milk.
I'm happy because I got a really, really big file cabinet from work in the move sale for $30. It's the kind that offices usually buy for a few hundred dollars, so even though it cuts off the view from my kitchen to my living room (a pity that, it's just 3 inches too tall to fit in the front closet, where I was going to hide it away)--even though it does that, it also prevents the cat from getting up on the kitchen counters. I moved the desk to behind the couch.
So, it feels both more and less crowded in here at the same time--at least the huge pile of boxes in my bedroom that I've been unable to unpack previously are now out of the way.
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Thanks shrain for your nice post. :)
Sure. I hope we'll be seeing another "Happy Things" post from you on the subject before Thanksgiving rolls around. ;)
Anyway, I'm happy because I found a super cute, black skirt plus some comfy and festive flannel pajamas at Old Navy yesterday! I also went on a cleaning rampage at my apartment and feel much more at "one" with my surroundings. :)
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Im happy cause Scott (Bob) brought in his Xbox a hdtv coverter and a game for me to play today. Indego Prophecy... and its flipping awesome...
Its controls make it very interactive and fun.
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My entire BYU career I've wanted to go to Final Cut, but fate and money and time and availability of tickets had never coincided to allow this to happen. Tonight, it did.
It was interesting to see the student films. My favorite was a really artsy one that everyone else thought was weird. It was about a tough construction worker who wanted to write poetry but didn't want anyone to know it, so he hid in the bathroom and kept eating the paper his poems were written on until he poisoned himself. What I got out of it was that supressing your desires and denying who you are can suffocate your soul. I found the symbolism and abstract nature of the film to be profound, while the other people in my group just saw it as strange. It is interesting how something can speak to you and not to other people.
My second favorite was a retelling of a Chinese folktale. My third choice was a funny one about a guy with anger problems, but it seemed a little Napeleon Dynamite wannabe to me. And there were some interesting documentaries and two computer animated cartoons. Overall, I'm very glad I got to go.
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The Final Cut is awesome. I saw a Jared and Jerusha Hess film there before they were Jared and Jerusha Hess (i.e., before they were married and famous because of ND). It's a short film called "Cardboard Only." I think I got to go twice--the first time back when it was still showing in the University Theatre, back when that was still open, and the second was my last year at BYU, which was when "Cardboard Only" played. I've found a site of the Hess's online that had the film for a while, but by the time I found it, the link was broken, so they must have taken it off. But I highly recommend seeing it if you ever get a chance.
My happy thing: I'm so much more organized than I was two days ago. Still quite cluttered, but it's a start! I cleaned off my coffee table and sorted the pile of bills I hadn't looked at for months (I've been paying the bills, just not sorting the papers). I also unpacked 7 or 8 boxes into my new filing cabinet--boxes that have been sitting in my bedroom languishing for the entire six months I've been here. Now all their little files have a home in my filing cabinet, and I have a lot more floor space in my bedroom. Yay!
Another happy thing related to that: I got a 5-drawer lateral file cabinet from the move sale at work yesterday for $30. It's 42" x 64", and normally retails for $650. It is the whole reason for me being able to feel so accomplished and organized. :)
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Kudos. :)
I, too, know the recent joy of getting more settled in. I finally got the rest of my stuff unpacked, including a bunch of my antique inkwells and poison bottles that I decided to bring with me instead of put in storage. Now I feel much more cozy and at home. Okay, my desk is still a wreck, but all my cool stuff is sitting happily on various shelves. :D
Edit: Oh, yeah, and my cuddly Wickett is out of his box, too. He's sitting high atop a bookshelf contemplating my room. It's for his own good, really, because he's far, far, out of reach of my roomie's dogs who just love eating plush, squishy toys.
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I found my flash drive
Now I have to decide if NaNo is worth continuing.
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e, that's great! Where'd you find it, anyway?
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In the girls' play room.
When confronted with the question, "Did you play with this?" 2 year old Rachael grinned broadly and said, "Yeaaaaaaaah" and did her little turn the head to the side in a cute way that guarantees that when she asks for a pony, she'll get one.
6 yo Elizabeth, actually found it. Right now, she's the good girl (y'know, until sharing becomes an issue again).
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Yep, cute little girls can get away with lots of stuff, huh. ;)
Of course, this could be a promising sign that your 2 yo is destined for SF greatness, you know, what with her sneaking off with a fancy little USB drive for some imaginary playtime!
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I'm happy to have MsFish as a friend. She's awesome. ;D
Though she wouldn't let me get a cute shrug for $10. I told her if we went to the mall I wasn't allowed to spend any money, no matter what, and she actually held me to it.
I was tempted to sneak away and go buy it, but it was kind of hard to do so since it was just the two of us. I needed ninja monkeys in pants to distract her. And to use their pants money to pay for the shrug. ;)
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Let me give you a free shrug:
::shrugs::
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lol ;D
Thanks. But I really wanted the orange one with sequins.
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Good for you (and for MsFish) for sticking to it, though. I don't go shopping at all mostly nowadays--it's much easier. Though I *need* to get new clothes to wear to work, especially jeans--my jeans are all at least 3 years old and fraying at the ankle, and long ago lost their blueness. But that won't be in my budget for another year. If anyone hears of freelance opportunities, by the way, I really need some leads. I need to find ways to make some extra cash to be able to speed up the ability to get such necessities.
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I'm happy to have Chimera as a friend, and it's because I love her that I would not allow her to purchase the shrug.
*shrug*
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what is a shrug anyway?
"so your saying there is a chance", a relevant quote that came to mind after reading my emails tonight
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Ninja monkeys never wear pants. THus, they have no pants money.
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Hmm, isn't a shrug basically a small shawl? <shrain shows that she might not be as fashion chic and savvy as she thought she was>
Anyway, I have two, count them, two joyous things to relate!
I got a coveted A+ on my latest asignment for my Book Pub Overview class. I did this content/design/organization critique of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction. (Yeah, you're probably thinking "book report," but this wasn't your typical book report, honest!) I gave that book a thorough going-over and enjoyed it thoroughly. Not a bad reference book, actually, but that's the topic for another post (maybe).
Next happy thing: my friend (a criminalist from CA whom I met at CONduit) just got a promotion. Sweeet! He so deserved it, too. He's practically running the entire lab, keeping the cases from reaching critical mass and imploding. :D
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I'm happy because my oldest brother and his wife had a baby boy last Saturday. Now if some of my other siblings would start having kids to play with my kids. Some aren't even married (and yes I am referring to 42).
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what is a shrug anyway?
Definition from a fashion site: Shrug - a sweater, usually of shrunken proportions, worn as a layering piece. Recent styles almost look like they are made of sleeves only.
And here's a couple of examples: one (http://fashion.about.com/od/springsummer05/ss/10styles_4.htm) and two (http://search.bloomingdales.com/exec/?PseudoCat=b.comSearch&cartItems=3&userName=&q=shrugs&pmdigital=27653&PartnerID=SEO&cm_mmc=PMD-_-SEO-_-na-_-na) and three (http://shopping.yahoo.com/search;_ylc=X3oDMTE1aGg1M3YwBF9TAzk2MDc5MjYwBGsDc2hydWdzBHNlYwNrYgRzbGsDdGl0bGU-?p=shrugs). But don't worry cyan--I wouldn't expect a guy to know what a shrug is.
Shrugs are everywhere right now--very fashionable. I really like the shiny ones with sequins and beading. 'Course, that's because I'm part raccoon. Oo! Sparkly object!
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Those pictures look like the girl current fashion here. Tshirt type things with those over the top. Looks pretty cute.
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That was actually going to be my second guess! Cool.
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had a good first meet with a counselor today. counseling can be fun! Looking forward to next week.
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*shrugs*
Ha, ha, get it? 'Cause they're talking about shrugs, but I don't really know or care about the clothing, so... um... I....
I'll go back to my corner now.
(Edited to clarify that it's the article of clothing I don't care about, not cyan's counseling thing.)
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Yes. I may have to lobby EUOL to put you in the corner
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I beat you to it, Harbinger. 1 page ago.
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point: jade. Next round! Fight!
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I think the Superfly Night Crew is getting moldy in that corner. Someone will have to clean it up before we can send anyone else there.
I'm happy because MsFish is the greatest, and because I've been writing something besides the stuff I do at work.
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There's a lot of love in this thread this week. :D
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I'm happy because I rented a movie called Hollywood/Bollywood. I won't watch it tonight, but I'm already excited. With a title like that, it has to be entertaining. ;D Hopefully it will be equal to Bride and Prejudice.
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I'm happy because I have a real plot for my novel. I have NEVER written an entire plot in my life, especially not before the story was finished.
This is a HUGE step for me. Thank you, NaNoWriMo. And thank you, Ari, for telling me to try.
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There's a lot of love in this thread this week. :D
Along those lines, I should mention that CtrlZed is awesome. He was willing to have a long heart-felt conversation with me last night even though it was 3 in the morning and he had 4 projects to finish at work the next day. Yay for good friends!
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i am excited to start world of warcraft again with my roommates! and the expansion that will come out soon!
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I forgot to mention that I went rock climbing/repelling in a gym yesterday. It was a lot of fun! There were some times I got a little freaked out--at one point we had to go over a platform backwards and then let ourselves swing upside down before we could repel the rest of the way--but I did it, and felt so proud! I was one of the bravest of the group.
If it wasn't such an expensive hobby, I would totally get into it more. Another thing on my list: "When I am Rich." ;)
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I've been repelling before in Spanish Fork Canyon, and said the same thing when we were done--"if it wasn't so expensive, I'd do it all the time!"
Actually, though, when you do it out in the mountains, I don't think it is as expensive. You just have to have good ropes and good rings, right?
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I'm not sure. I know that to get a good harness it is about $100, according to our instructor. You can get a less comfortable model for around $50, but if you are going to go all the time I think you'd want to be more comfortable--it kind of hurt having the harness dig into my waist as I repelled down.
I think I would have to train in the controlled environment of a gym for awhile before I felt comfortable doing it on my own. And even then I would probably want to have an instructor with me the first couple of times. Which would only increase the expense, of course.
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We did it as a ward activity with friends who already had equipment, and we went to a site in Diamond Fork Canyon that had rings set up, so I was with someone who knew what he was doing. That's the difference, I think--it looked easier because the guy in charge had been doing it for years.
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There are guys in my home ward (At least 2 familiies) who have rock walls in their backyard.
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That's cool/borderline obsessed. ;D
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I forgot to mention that I went rock climbing/repelling in a gym yesterday.
Hey, did you go to that place called the Quarry over by Movies 8 in Provo? I've heard it's cool. My brothers have gone there before.
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I've been there, but that's not where I went this time. I went to a place called Hansen Mountaineering off of State Street in Orem. Actually, it's really close to Tage and EUOL's place.
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I went to a place called Hansen Mountaineering off of State Street in Orem.
Hmm, I don't remember seeing it. There's that Evan's Frontier Store I remember but I didn't realize there's a cool rock climbing place in Orem. I'm not one for heights, though... I made an exception for Notre Dame when I was in Paris, though. I got right up close to the gargoyles after climbing all those steps. :D Did you get to take a trip to France when you were studying in England? Man, I miss London sooo much! I've made a goal to get back there before I'm 30, which means I've got about 2 1/2 years and counting!
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Yay, I finished reading, again, the BofM today. Yup, Heleman still died this time too.
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it always ends up that way 42.
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I just feel like it shouldn't be called the Book of Helaman if Helaman isn't around for it.
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I'm really happy because I had a good NaNo day (and I even like my novel at this point).
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Did you get to take a trip to France when you were studying in England? Man, I miss London sooo much! I've made a goal to get back there before I'm 30, which means I've got about 2 1/2 years and counting!
Going to London was like coming home. I don't know why. I think it is my soulmate city. I still miss it.
I didn't go to France then but my family took a trip to Paris before my mission. Notre Dame is neat. But I love London more than Paris. I don't know why--I think it goes back to the soul city thing. It was uncanny, how I just felt like I belonged there--in a way I've never felt anywhere else. I wonder, though, if I would still feel that if I went back. It could partly have been the idyllic feel of a Study Abroad experience--no job, very little responsibility, and you already have your budjet worked out. It was an immersion into Shakespeare and Theatre and History with few interruptions--no wonder I loved it.
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But I love London more than Paris. I don't know why--I think it goes back to the soul city thing. It was uncanny, how I just felt like I belonged there. . . I wonder, though, if I would still feel that if I went back. It could partly have been the idyllic feel of a Study Abroad experience--no job, very little responsibility, and you already have your budjet worked out.
Yeah, I hear you about the "idyllic" part of the experience. I mean, I was working as a teaching assistant for Susan Howe when I was in London, but, still, it was such a wonderful place to be. So maybe it will feel different when I go back, who knows. But I do know that I'd rather go back to London for a few weeks before revisiting Paris or bumming around the rest of Europe. Oh, and as much as I like Boston, it hasn't captured my heart like London did. *sigh*
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Despite my suckage in word count today, I'm happy because Ari read what I have of my novel and she really enjoyed it! YAY!
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When I was last in london, it rained. :P
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York was quite nice, but it reminded me of Busch Gardens. Course the minster is awesome... but yeah nothing ruins the walled city thing more than 4 louts lounging on top of the wall drinking 2 litres of scrumpy jack.
My soulmate city was Florence.
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Never been to Florence, but when I go to Italy, I'm definitely putting aside some time for Florence.
York Minster was breathtaking! I was lucky enough to have a drunkard-free wall walk, though. ;) A couple of us wandered around York before the Coach left and found a neat rundown church and graveyard. Call me quirky or just plain morbid, but I love old cemeteries!
Last Sunday after church my roomie and I drove through Mt Auburn Cemetery. What a spectacular place! So many well-preserved headstones and statues surrounded by peculiar trees and set atop a hilly area. I saw some angels and celtic crosses (my personal favs). It's even got a working gothic church, a sphinx, and a tower.
We climbed up the spiral staircase of the tower and looked out over the Boston skyline in mid-afternoon. We could see a lot of the university buildings and such. Best of all, we could see the temple. Cool. We're going to go back and take pics either tomorrow or next week before all the pretty leaves are gone or the weather turns nasty. Can't wait!
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I find joy in thinking about future service activities to engage my future children in. After today, I want to regularly sew teddy bears and bake cookies with them and have them personally deliver those to the children in hospitals. ;D
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I took second place in sparring at the Rocky Mountain Tournament yesterday, and my sensei got his nose bashed in because he and the other instructors were sparring without any gear.
I think I believe in karma. Fear me, Mr. Oysten. ;D
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I have a new online friend. And I'm going to see HPIV today.
Happy^2
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My soulmate city was Florence.
I got my groove on in Dublin. And CHarlottesville. THe latter of which would be considerably easier for me to live in.
Helsinki was pretty cool, but just *thinking* about the horrid winters and hte darkness put me into seasonal affective disorder. So it's not something I could consider "home away from home"
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One of these days I'll go to Europe. *sigh*
I am rather fond of Tahiti, though.
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The essay on how poorly written Eragon was made me laugh and it lead me to my new favorite webcomic. Yay! I've been devoted to Order of the Stick because I haven't found anything else I like, but now I have a new love: Earthsong. The art is gorgeous--something totally up my alley--and I like the fantasy story a lot too. I'll post about it, including a link, in Webcomics. But it gave me several hours of timewasting entertainment. :D
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What the frick? I've been following earthsong for the last couple weeks, I didn't realise that essay was by the same person :s
She didn't use as many smilies for a start.
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No, it's not by the same person. But in her website I found a banner for Earthsong and the art intrigued me enough to click on it and go to the website. Then I was hooked.
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I made pies! Pie crusts and all. One cherry, one apple. They turned out so well. Yay! :D
Instead of feeling all sorry for myself not being home for Thanksgiving, I decided to make pies. Now I can bring one to the dinner that my ward's 1st councilor is hosting at his house for all us Thanksgiving "orphans." Cool.
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You are about to have the BEST Thanksgiving ever. The Nelsons are AWESOME.
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Thanks! I am totally looking forward to it.
But how's work coming on that editing project? Almost done?
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Nope. I'll continue working on it over the weekend. I'm putting it aside tonight and vegging, though. Spending quality time with the kitty. Dang, I was going to see Serenity this week and I forgot. Maybe I'll do that for a matinee tomorrow, if they're open on Thanksgiving.
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I am very excited that my husband just signed a contract with IHC to begin working at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in July 2006. Horray! A real job!
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Nope. ... I'm putting it aside tonight and vegging, though. . . . Dang, I was going to see Serenity this week and I forgot. Maybe I'll do that for a matinee tomorrow, if they're open on Thanksgiving.
Darn. Well, at least you can take a well-deserved break today. It's funny you should mention Serenity becuase, on the advice of one of my friends, I rented Firefly Disc 1 from Netflix and loved it! Man, I can't believe I'd never seen it. Well, okay, I didn't have cable when it was on the air, and the cable I have now doesn't include the sci fi channel. :(
But now that I've seen the first 3 episodes, I can't wait to see the rest--few though they may be. Of course, I am rather grumpy to learn that there were only 14 episodes, 3 of which never aired. >:( Hmmph. Stupid TV execs!! Anyway, I'm going to watch Serenity as soon as I've seen all the TV episodes. Goodie!!
Oh, and I'm also happy because not only did my homemade pies turn out great, but I successfully uploaded the pic onto snapfish. Don't they look yummy?
http://images.snapfish.com/3455%3A83923232%7Ffp336%3Enu%3D3262%3E5%3C6%3E347%3EWSNRCG%3D3233347%3A96538nu0mrj
Plus, I had an interesting porch guest this morning when I went out back to take the trash out. I was about to open my screen door when I noticed the fattest racoon I've ever seen! Of course, I've only seen maybe two or three. Anyway, this porky racoon (I call him the Thanksgiving Bandit) was just sitting there on the rug, which of course made me let out a scream.
He put up his head and just blinked at me as if I should've known he'd taken up residence on my back porch. By the look of him, he must've eaten a whole turkey yesterday. ;)
http://images.snapfish.com/3455%3A83923232%7Ffp335%3Enu%3D3262%3E5%3C6%3E347%3EWSNRCG%3D3233347%3A9653%3Bnu0mrj
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That looks like a very-well-prepared-for-winter *and* pregnant she-racoon, to me.
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But adorable. The "wipe your paws" mat is almost too great to be not posed.
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That looks like a very-well-prepared-for-winter *and* pregnant she-racoon, to me.
Ahhh, yes, now -that's- a likely explanation. Hadn't considered that my visitor might be an expectant mum. ;)
But adorable. The "wipe your paws" mat is almost too great to be not posed.
Yeah, I loved that I got the mat in the picture with all the words nice 'n' visible. :D
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;D
I may... with the emphasis on MAY have the new 10am to 6pm weekly watch...
which would rock! Its coming up in the middle of December!!!
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I'm happy because it's Black Friday, 20 degrees outside, and I don't have to work retail. I don't even have to leave the house. I have the internet so should I even desire to shop, I can do it from here - in bed, under three blankets.
And the two dogs are curled up on the bed next to me and dang it we're warm and cuddly and there are leftovers in the fridge and life is pretty good.
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Im happy because I got these things for my birthday
A Blue Snowball USB condenser Mic
Star Wars Battlefront II
The Serenity shooting script and collected movie book
A Carving Knife and Fork
and a boatload of books!
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I'm happy because we had a good early morning Black Friday today. We got a cable modem for $20 after rebates, a free paper shredder after rebates, a 512 mb flashdrive for $10 after rebates, 1/2 off pillows and sheets and towels, and jeans for $15. It was great. I know a lot of people don't like to get up early to shop on Black Friday (and deal with the crowds and such) and I say great! I wish there were more like you. It leaves all the good stuff for the early risers (I got up at 4 a.m.!). Yeah!
So overall a good day (just as a total, I spent $280 and after rebates I'll have only spent $175. Better get those rebates in!)
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I'm happy because I have 6 (paid) days off work.
I'm happy because I get to go home early next year (haven't been back to Utah since November of 2003). I'd like to make it back home in Lagoon weather, instead of skiing weather, but we'll take it one step at a time.
I'm happy because I'm getting promoted on the first.
I'm happy because my daughter is finally learning to crawl.
Admittedly, I may regret that last one in a few days. ;D
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I'm happy that in my tedious work shift got interrupted by a chance to call the fire department.
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Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to MEEEE... happy birthday to me!
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...and many more! :D (Happy b-day Dr. Jeffe!)
I'm in a happy mood because I made breakfast this morning: whole wheat French toast w/ lite maple syrup and ripe strawberries, plus some OJ. Yum, yum.
Now I'm as prepared as I'll ever be to meet the challenges of creating a P&L statement for my book financing project... *gack*
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Is that real maple syrup?
Real maple syrup is yummy. Light (clair) maple syrup is better (I prefer it, at least).
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Neither, sad to say. You'd think that being out here in New England I'd let myself indulge in the "real" stuff. But I've got the Log Cabin Lite syrup instead. Lo-cal stuff, but tastes pretty dang good to me! We Americans gotta do something to counter the effects of Thanksgiving. ;)
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Counter the effects of Thanksgiving! Blasphemy! For me, Thanksgiving comes only twice a year and I celebrate for two weeks at a time just for good measure. Speaking of, I just made my fifth pie tonight.
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I'm happy because this is the first time I've been able to get away from my family and get online. I was feeling TWG deprived.
But it's fun to be with my family, even if it is exhausting. I'll have fun pictures to share in the near future. You guys have to see my adorable neice and nephew!
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Im even happier because my wife got me the Sliders box set...
even though she doesnt understand the addiction.
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Sliders the TV show?
I had a brief passionate addiction to it. It was cool.
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Ha you probably just thougt Quinn was cute didnt you? :P
Oddly enough the dimension sliding is the new Default setting for GURPS. :D
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No it was like my first exposure to a scifi show and I was fascinated by the premise. That and my Young Women's leader Kerri (who was my really good friend--she was 26 and recently married without kids and we would hang out and have sleepovers) liked it as well, so we started to get together each week to watch it.
Okay, and maybe we thought Quinn was cute too.
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Ahhh Chim-Chim you amuse me
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Ah, Sliders! I loved that show--and Quinn, too, naturally. ::)
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I'm happy because Ari was invited over to dinner by a young married couple in the ward last night. It was good and we had fun. And Ari's pie is delicious.
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I think this goes in Happy Things. Maybe.
I was frantically hunting for a missing CD ROM, and made a discovery in my storage room: I have Star Wars minis. I've never played. I'm only assuming I have all the pieces, but it's there. Should I ever feel the need to branch out from Magic.
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I'm happy because I finally caught up reading everything I missed on TWG over Thanksgiving.
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No more research for meeee! Ex-cellent!
I've not only finished my research on Tor for my book pub class but also found some snazzy sci fi/fantasy fonts on this really cool site (http://www.abstractfonts.com/fonts/). I think it's one of the better free font sites out there. I spent maybe forty minutes just browsing and downloading fonts. My title page of my research paper is gonna look sweeeet! :D Too bad I still have to write the paper, though...
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I don't care if this should go somewhere else:
Trailer for new Pirates of the Caribbean movie!
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/piratesofthecaribbeandeadmanschestqt1.html
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Oh yeah. Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom make me happy. ;D
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No way! Sweeeet! That made me VERY happy, fuzzy!! Thank you, thank you, thank you. ;D
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Yay! :D I'm happy now because Lightening_Eater read through my story and helped me smoothen it out!
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I'm so excited because I decided two months ago that when our housing contract ended in December I wanted to find a new one (one that was bigger with more room!) and last night we found one. Yea! The one we have now is only 600 sq. feet, but this one is 1070 and only $50 more in rent! We will move in about two weeks. And we will have washer and dryer hookups and live closer to work and school and the grocery store. Yea! Yea! Yea!
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I'm happy because Reggie, the dog who normally doesn't sleep on our bed, came to sleep on our bed this morning, and when J.T. got up he moved up to the head of the bed so I could cuddle with him and go back to sleep for another hour.
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My nephew reminds me that I am loved. He'll sprint across the mall to throw himself in my arms, yelling "Header! Header!" (aka Heather). Not very many people do that. ;D
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Friday we had new vinyl installed in our kitchen, replacing the nasty old stuff. It's so nice and shiny and pretty now!
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It's done! It's done! It's done! My profile of Tor ("Here There Be Monsters and Nerds") is done and turned in! My presentation is over with, too. Happy day! Now I get to catch up on TWG and unwind a bit. :D
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Yes! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Finally! I just finished my story for Creative Writing about a half hour ago! It was suppoesed to be 3-5 pages typed (and double spaced) but mine is a whooping 23, double spaced.
I'm so happy, now I can return to normal sleeping habits until the next short story!(that word is non existant for my 'short' stories. Thought this is a personal record for length of said 'short' story)
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Is that sleeping habbits or sleeping hobbits? I'm not sure which would be worse.
I did the same for CW in High School. Wrote a sprawling 30 page epic for a 7 page assignment. Fortunatly, the teacher thought it was brilliant.
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Something miraculously ate the negative numbers in my spreadsheet, I think. Anyhow, I'm now projected to be in about half the debt I planned for!
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My clutch works again! Yay! My brother was able to bleed the clutch after all, the $30-50 job that the shops wouldn't do for me without wanting to charge me $850 more for all this other work (which will need to be done eventually, but it can hold off till I save up a little money). So I didn't even have to pay anything at all! (Though I should think of some really nice thing to do for my brother.)
Plus, my friend Sallyann invited me to her house for Christmas. So, if my car holds up and is able to make the trip, I'll be spending Christmas with her really large family in Idaho, which is much, much better than spending it alone.
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I'm happy because even though Denver high today is 8 degrees, my wife and I were able to drop our oldest son off at pre-school and go to the gym, put the baby in childcare, and then sit in the hot tub for almost an hour. Hot tubs are so nice on cold, winter days.
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I did the same for CW in High School. Wrote a sprawling 30 page epic for a 7 page assignment. Fortunatly, the teacher thought it was brilliant.
It's things like that that let me know that I'm on the right track for a profession. Sadly I was unable to print my story because my printer is broken and it wouldn't leave the floppy at the school computer lab, so I had to e-mail it to myself. I shall turn it in tomorrow. :)
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I'm starting to think that maybe I should keep a running tab on these sorts of things. Here's today's installment of the "Further Adventures of Sci-Fi Mom":
I went to go pick up my boys yesterday and was surprised by Runaway and Bubba. It seems that both had found a pink highlighter and had decided to put warpaint on their faces. Or so their dad said. Runaway had several lines around his face and a large circle around his right eye. Bubba had little marks all over his face. It was a Kodak moment, especially with Runaway's explanation:
When I asked Runaway why he'd done it, he said he wanted to look like a zombie and promptly started to shuffle across the room moaning. Well, I couldn't resist. Trying hard not to laugh, I told him that zombies don't moan. They say "Brains!" and eat people's brains. His reply was "Well, I say this," and went back to moaning and shuffling across the room. He was a very determined 5-year-old zombie.
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That is so fun. Reminds me of the time when my sister was a mime... for the entire summer.
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I'm happy because Ms. Fish is coming to play with me tomorrow. :)
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I wanna play too! But . . . I have to go to work. Silly job.
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I'm happy cause we had a salsa competition at work today and I won. Sure there were only two entries, but everyone was raving about how good it was and even though I brought a gallon of it, it was gone in a half hour. Plus, for winning I got a $25 gift certificate to Chili's. Free food makes me very happy!
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Im happy cause I just got a whole lotta game PDFs for stuff thats out of print!!! Yay
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Whoo-hoo! My DVD set of Batman the Animated Adventures Vol 4 came this week from Amazon, even though the est. delivery wasn't until the 19th! Cool. Now I can take it home to UT with me. :D
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Whoo-hoo! My DVD set of Batman the Animated Adventures Vol 4 came this week from Amazon, even though the est. delivery wasn't until the 19th! Cool. Now I can take it home to UT with me. :D
I've only got the first.
though I am the proud new owner of a 300g external hardrive that I got for $170 off ebay instead of $350 at CompUSA.
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*Nice!* I only have this dinky 256mb one.
Oh, and I love your new avatar (don't you just love Mark Hamill as the Joker in the animated series? Ah, the happy childhood memories...).
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Yep, he's the perfect Joker. Sad thing is as long as "The Batman" is on Kids WB he can't be the Joker anymore since WB has barred any batman villains from showing up on Justice League anymore.
Apprently they don't want to confuse people by having 2 different versions of the characters out there.
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cause why would they want to give kids any chance to think at all?
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It's all about brand management these days...
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you'd think DC would have the right to say ... Get stuffed
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I'm happy because I got to talk to Brenna on the phone.
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you'd think DC would have the right to say ... Get stuffed
No, you wouldn't.
At least, not if you know that DC Comics is owned by Time-Warner, which is why all the DC cartoons and TV Shows either run on Cartoon Network or WB.
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I think it's funny that everyone's Christmas names are so long that when there are like 10 members on (like right now) and you look at the bottom of the Forum Screen the names stretch all the way across and seem to go on forever.
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as it should be...
remember our christmas personas are larger than life....
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My Dreidel looks cool now, and I didn't even have to do it. ;D That makes me happy, because all my attempts were just bad.
Listening to Norah Jones relaxes me. So I'm happy and relaxed.
Now if only I could write.
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I took my wife to an awsome Korean restaurant last night. It was the best Korean restaurant that I've been to in the U.S. It had the smokeless B-B-Q at the table and served authentic korean dishes like spicy pork bulgogi. Plus the kimchi was really good. I ate so much that I couldn't bend over afterwards. So if anyone is eating in the Denver area, I recommend the Korea House.
I have to fly to VA now. Any good Korean restaurants there?
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I'll ask my brother tonight. He served in Korea and married a Korean and until a few months ago lived in NoVA (now lives in MD).
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My brother-in-law has a Blockbuster movie pass and so he rents a LOT of movies. He rented Sky High tonight, so I finally got to see it. I enjoyed it every bit as much as I expected to, given Eric's review of it.
My only complaint is that Will, obviously did not watch enough Molly Ringwald movies if he doesn't know he's supposed to try and date the redhead.
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One can never see enough Molly Ringwald movies. *dreamy sigh*
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especially Molly Ringwald playing Ginger Rogers circa 1932
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I just found out that I can get Utopia internet (10 mbps). Not only that but they have phone and cable tv services too, and I can get all three together for about $98/mo (including taxes). For what I've been paying for these three, it will save me between $10 and $40 a month (because my long distance varies by month). And the phone is unlimited long distance (in the US and Canada) and includes extras like voice mail, call forwarding, and caller ID, which Qwest wanted to charge $5 more a month for. I'm so excited. I can't wait to get it installed!
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There is now a flourishing test-wikipedia (test-Ouitchipédie) in Norman (primarily in Jèrriais). It's been up for less than a week and already has over 20 articles.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test-wp/nor/
Anyone here is welcome to start learning the language & contribute.
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I have an AT-AT! Yay!
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Apparently I am not a Star Wars geek. I had to google that to find out what it was. :-[
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Chimera, we can't be friends anymore.
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I'm happy that this thread is almost at 400 posts.
*click* *click* *click*
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Chimera, we can't be friends anymore.
That makes me sad. :'(
But I'm still happy because my true friend MsFish is a lot of fun to be with, especially when she goes undercover as a clueless non-geek girl. Curious what that means? You'll just have to read her column next week. But we sure had fun tonight. And then she helped me sort and toss out stuff. Yay, I'm making progress!
And all that makes me very happy. ;D
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I am hooooome for Christmas! And the mountains look as lovely as ever. :D Made it from Boston to Orem without any delays. Amazing!
Though I did have a screaming toddler on my 4 and 1/2-hour flight. >:(
However, I got about 75% of my Christmas shopping done at the airport--you know, the Red Sox hats, T-shirts, and various other Bostonian goodies.
I also found a neat hand-painted Russian Santa for my mom. She loves Santas, and this one is gorgeous. Score.
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I'm happy that an old friend of mine sent me an email today.
She is now living in Kentucky. Her husband has gotten a job as a theater professor and she has opened a engraving business that seems to be doing well. Her three kids are doing well and she finally seems to have a happy family.
I'm happy for her.
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I'm feeling very blessed.
Someone left $50 on my door last week, and today, Santa left gifts for me and my three boys on the doorstep. Things like this mean very much to a struggling single mother.
My visiting teacher made me a gaming bag (to hold CCG cards) for Christmas, and MsFish made me the most awesome quilt. (You rock!)
I only wish I had the time to put that kind of thought and caring into the gifts I give.
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Old One, the same thing happened to me today, only on my virtual doorstep. Someone (a friend of a friend, who must have heard from that friend about my car trouble) sent me $50 and said "Merry Christmas!" That was so, so sweet.
I'm happy because I think I have a car. I won't believe it till I drive off the lot with it. My brother was amazing. I really didn't even care about the car (a Honda CRV)--it was just one of several I was looking at--but it handled much like the Jeep I'd been driving, and had a lot of the same features--not that those features were necessary, but it was nice to see. But I was perfectly happy to look for an older Escort or something like that. It was actually way on the high end of what I was wanting to pay.
Decided to come back at night with my brother so he could check it out mechanically and we could look at other cars they had. One had electrical problems. The other had a leaky transmission. Not impressive.
I did like the CRV, but wasn't passionate about it, but they were really pushy, and I had called the credit union to see what they'd approve on a loan, and they told me a number that was $2000 less than the dealer's asking price. Actually, almost $3000 less.
You know I just started looking, so even though I liked the car, I could walk away at any time without regret, which between that and having my brother with me, who stayed firm the whole time, was able to negotiate (after THREE HOURS of back-and-forth) the exact loan price, which we had said we'd walk out if we didn't get.
So, unless something happens between now and end of day tomorrow, I will have a car, and I will be able to drive to my friend's house for Christmas, with a warm heart for all the blessings that have come this week.
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awesome stacy! I love it when a plan comes together
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As of January first my Basic allowance for housing goes up almost 300 dollars!!!! which is excellent for me...
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Yay for money!
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I have many things to be happy about. First, I feel so blessed to have friends like MsFish and CtrlZed. Last night I was seriously lying on my floor hyperventillating about all I had to do and feeling like there was no way I could ever get my stuff all packed or even fit it in my car. Well, MsFish came to the rescue. She's amazingly on-task about packing and organizing. As the boxes piled up, I began to despair, but she kept saying, "It will all fit." And, because of her, it did! Then CtrlZed came at midnight to help pack my car and also offered to take stuff to DI for me. They're just the best. I will really miss them. :'( Good thing I'll be back in the general area in 4 months. ;D
Second, I am happy because I found Harry Potter 4 on audio CD at BYU's bookstore. They didn't have it at Barnes & Noble, and that's what I wanted for Christmas, to listen to as I drive home to California. Well, while my car is getting serviced I came to campus--and they had it! On sale, too! So Merry Christmas to me!
Third, I'm happy because of the other Christmas gift I picked up for myself (it's so much easier that way--then I get what I want ;)). It's the Divine Comedy DVD--my favorite BYU comedy group performing my favorite skits. I went to the show they filmed--I may even be on the DVD! I won't know until I watch it.
And I bet you're happy that this post is finally over! J/K :)
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Cool. I'm glad things are looking up for you. Friends are the best.
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Friends are the best.
Truer words have never been spoken. Also, Chimera, that is awesome!;)
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Truer words have never been spoken.
except these:
And I bet you're happy that this post is finally over! J/K :)
Humor! AR! AR! AR! (if you don't get that I pity your Morkless life)
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Stacy hasnt posted... but this should go here... She has a new CAR!!!
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Yup. Yay! 2000 Honda CR-V. Pretty good deal on it, too--I got a private party price from a dealer, and a 60 day power train warranty to boot.
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Yay for Stacer! :D
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That's wonderful! A Merry Christmas indeed! :D I was just going to ask if you'd found something new. I'm glad you've got reliable transportation. I know how "uplifting" it can be to know you won't be broken down on the freeway at any given moment.
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Well I got to go shopping with my mom and sister today and we all had a great time and no one fought or insulted each other. It was fabulous. My corset pattern came in the mail today and now I have two to choose from and the fabric so I can start on the mock up before I order the hardware with my Christmas money. Yay.
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That sounds quite fun. What's the ocassion you'll be making the costume for?
As for me, I'm very, very happy because I got a free 30-day pass to 24-Hour Fitness at Meier & Frank for spending $50 on stuff I already needed! Yay! Before I moved to Boston, 24-Hour was my gym. Used to go every day. So it's cool to go back there and work out for free until I go back to MA.
In fact, I worked out today for the first time in . . . well, too long. But I wasn't as wimpy as I thought I'd be after not working out for a while. Hurray!! The elliptical rules. Unfortunately, I -do- have a few pounds of holiday heft to work off. *sigh* At least I'm getting an early start on my New Year's Resolutions, though...
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I'm happy that I beat my nephew in Quidditch. Thank goodness for virtual sports with off rules where a guy like me actually has a chance of winning.
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I'm happy that I beat my nephew in Quidditch. Thank goodness for virtual sports
Virtual? Man, I was having such fun imagining you and some little kid running around on broomsticks throwing balls at each other. Why'd you have to go burst my entertaining image? ;)
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Virtual? Man, I was having such fun imagining you and some little kid running around on broomsticks throwing balls at each other. Why'd you have to go burst my entertaining image? ;)
Just to burst it some more, my nephew isn't little. He's 13 years old and 5 foot 8 inches tall, which I believe is taller than a number of people that come to this board.
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He's 13 years old and 5 foot 8 inches tall
I'm that tall...ish, within a half inch or so.
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Well, well, my old boss (a prof at BYU) offered me a small job to do while I'm around. Yay! Now I'll have some gas money for the drive back to Boston. :D
There's a down side, though. This involves actually -working- while I'm on my holiday/school break. Rats.
But it won't be too irksome. Just messing around in Powerpoint to make a presentation on some ethnic lit that she'll present in class and at some other universities. Let's just hope my Powerpt skills aren't -too- rusty...
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Yay!
4000 topics! :D
(I'm bored)
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I'm happy that this thread is ridiculously long.
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I'm happy that "Lost" is so darn good, especially after all the time I spent resisting watching it because deep down I hate going along with the cool trends.
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I'm happy that "Lost" is so darn good, especially after all the time I spent resisting watching it because deep down I hate going along with the cool trends.
"Lost" has robbed me of many hours in the past couple of days. But I'm happy I got a lot of hours of DVD goodness to watch at the moment.
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I just really hope they get around to explaining why the two Korean people spend so much time speaking Japanese.
And I hope it's a better reason than "ah, the stupid American viewers will never notice."
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I just really hope they get around to explaining why the two Korean people spend so much time speaking Japanese.
And I hope it's a better reason than "ah, the stupid American viewers will never notice."
Since I don't speak Japanese or Korean I wouldn't know. I know both of the actors are Korean (well one is American-Korean). If they are speaking Japanese, they would have to have been taught it on the set cause neither list being able to speak Japanese on their IMDB resume.
But now I need to move on to Battlestar Galactica, so that more of my time gets wasted in front of the TV and DVD player.
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I'm happy because it's been a nice, quiet day and I've been able to do some necessary and some just-for-fun writing.
I'm also happy because I have the coolest dreams--they're vignettes of ready-made worlds and plots.
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Level up! Now I'm only . . . uh . . . still lots of posts behind others who joined after I did.
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I just really hope they get around to explaining why the two Korean people spend so much time speaking Japanese.
And I hope it's a better reason than "ah, the stupid American viewers will never notice."
I thought they spoke Korean. At least, it was Korean enough for EUOL to translate it. Any time one of them would say something I'd start yelling "What'd they say? What'd they say?" until EUOL translated. Eventually he did it automatically. :D
I'm happy because after a slightly lonely New Years Eve I went to my local singles ward and found some old friends who I didn't know were here--and made some new ones. The singles ward needs some strong, active people, my friends said, so they were excited that I'd be sticking around for four months. Yay! I like to be needed. And I'm glad to make friends--hanging out with my fam's alright, but you can only take so much. ;)
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I'm also happy because I have the coolest dreams--they're vignettes of ready-made worlds and plots.
Try this one
Me and some famous actors were fighter pilots. Tom Cruise was shot down. I see his parachute land just as my plane is shot down. I manage to make it back, but no one has seen Tom. Turns out he was abducted by aliens (suspiciously reinforcing his scientology) and the govt was covering it up. Then when we try to reveal the truth, the govt starts trying to crack down on us, until Tom showed back up. Then people started helping us. They got us to the airport, got us the prescription glasses we needed (yeah, I dunno either) and got us flights out of town. I decided to go to Las Vegas, because westerners are notorious conspiracy theorists and I could get a place to stay out there just by knocking on someone's door and telling them that the government was after me.
I dunno.
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Heh. Of all the places to go in the west, your brain picks Vegas.
The worlds I dream of are sci-fi or fantasy worlds. A civilization living on flets and about to evolve into flight. A planet-eater/void-creater trying to kill a teenage boy because his father has run away and he needs control over the planet. Yeah. Stuff like that.
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alien abduction isn't sci-fi? What, are you scientologist too?
It's not so weird that I'd pick Vegas. after all, I spent two years (less two weeks) of my life there.
What's weirder is picking Tom Cruise. That doesn't make me... gay does it?
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People really really need to guard their wireless acounts...
Thanks Mark25!!!
:D
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I had a strange dream where I was an elimentalist and I blew up a cloud. The water came down muddy. And I could levitate anything that was wood or stone or stuff because it was part of the earth. It weirded me out, almost as much as the time that raptors dressed up as humans so that they could ambush me in the movie theater. Or the time that I was Frodo and there where like a billion One Rings and I had to pick them all up, lest the army of orcs that where coming got them. For some reason Galadriel was there.
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Finally! My story is working! Now I can finish it and turn it in!
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I'm happy because I've seen more movies in the last 2 weeks than I've seen in the year before that. I'm now prepared to argue with any of you about King Kong, Narnia, or Harry Potter.
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I'm happy because I've seen more movies in the last 2 weeks than I've seen in the year before that.
Cool. But this begs a very important question, e. Does this, by chance, cancel out your grumpiness from being around folks who've got "their heads up their butts"?? :o
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Not really. The latter causes me to live out my days in fear and anger.
The former distracts me for a few hours from the fear and anger.
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Ah. Well, pleasant distractions do seem to be a necessary component for sanity these days.
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I could've sworn I locked this. But I'm certainly happy to do it now.