Happy Things 2006: Generation X

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I am happy because Hondas are valuable enough to fix, rather than just declare totaled. So I will get my car back next week.

[Shrain]

Cooool, Jeffe. Always nice to have a car that works!

I'm happy because rafting was sweet. Also, I actually went on a date yesterday to see X-Men III. Afterwards, we had a bite to eat and wound up talking about Mistborn. It's funny that he's already heard about EUOL's trilogy. How, you might ask. Well, it turns out that he's a friend of Stacer's.

[stacer]

Who? I can only think of a couple people who are still single, and only one of those guys actually asks girls out. Does his name start with a J? If so, he's a great guy.

[Shrain]

Heh. No, an "R" actually: Ryan. We were talking about how I want my novel to be a stand-alone, which led to talking about marketing. (Ryan thought I was saying that stand-alones do better profit-wise in the long run, yet I was just saying how I'd have a better chance of actually *selling* a stand-alone to a publisher since I'm an unknown writer.) I mentioned EUOL and Elantris as a case in point.

Anyhow, to my surprise, Ryan not only knew about Elantris but had an opinion about the Mistborn trilogy, saying how he'd "heard" it was better than Elantris. So of course I had to ask who his source was! I got rather excited because I thought maybe a new, positive review had come out. lol. Still, it's kind of cool to find out that you're friends with him.

[stacer]

Oh! I know who you're talking about! And that's *great* that he's asking girls out! He's so shy. He's a good guy. And actually old roommates with the other guy I was thinking of. Or wait. Old roommate of the current roommate of the guy I was thinking of? Anyway, yeah, really good guy.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

My daughters are being brought up well.
"When are you going to finish your magazine, papa?" 6 and-a-half year old Elizabeth asked me yesterday.
After some initial confusion she explained that she wanted to see what I was doing with the pictures I took of my action figures.
So I connected Juno, and ten minutes later, when I actually could look at web pages, I pointed them at FPM
She started reading the comics to her sisters, understanding almost none of them.

However, "Galactus hungers!" and "I wanna be Ant-Man" are now favorite quotes among the children of my household.

[Shrain]

And that's *great* that he's asking girls out! He's so shy.

Thanks. Yeah, I hadn't held out much hope that he'd actually ask me out! I half expected nothing to ever happen. For one thing, he asked my (former) roommate out last year--or tried to, anyhow. Sad to say, even though she wasn't seeing anyone, she said no ... and not in a very tactful way. Poor guy. (She swears she didn't flirt with him, but she could've fooled me!) I figured that he might be afraid of more of the same, you know.

Aaanyway, it helped that I invited him to my housewarming/b-day party. Also, I'm just lucky to have a gal friend who put in a few well placed hints when we three and one of his friends went to see The Da Vinci Code last week. Yay for friends!

[Tekiel]

I'm happy because summer vacation has officially started!  Yay!
No more homework
No more books.
No more teachers' dirty looks. . . oh, wait.

[Faster Master St. Pastor]

I'm happy because there's only three more days of school left (counting today)! I'm also happy because I am finally able to get on the computer in the morning and just relax instead of having to worry about doing homework. And to make it better I pulled it off with a 3.0, which even though it isn't as high as I would have liked it's still good (especially when you compare it to my family).

[Shrain]

WhooHoo! My little brother got his mission call this morning--he's off to the capital of El Salvador! Bueno!

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

si es mus bueno...

[Shrain]

Hey, thanks, Jeffe.

(BTW, your typos are awesome. I love how "muy" became "mus" even though the "s" isn't even a right-hand key like "y" is. lol)

[Harbinger]

Even though I accidentally cut my hair way too short, it still looks pretty good.

[Shrain]

Sometimes you get more than you bargained for--and it's awesome. When I called my new landlord to see if he could do a spring cleaning of the old A/C in my place, since it's super dusty, etc., he said how about a new one? With a remote. Sweet! So he's going to come doublecheck the measurements and order a brand new one. Hooray!!

[Faster Master St. Pastor]

Two days late, but who's counting?

Schools out! Prepare for screwing around all summer! Hooray!