The Happiness Thread

Semester is over!

 

It's bedtime!

 

Whoo!

 

Wrote, edited and polished 4,000 words today. Definitely a good writing day.

 

You should share something in the workshop. Your angst has me curious.

 

I'm not going to do that because I plan to try and publish my work. I wasn't sure about it, but then I found out you can't delete posts so it would always be out there.

 

Honestly, there's seldom a point to posting past the first few paragraphs (in my humble opinion) but I understand.

 

That being said, I feel freaking brilliant. I'm in love with my story right now and that's not always the case.

 

Finally got a good nights sleep after watching the fireworks show here in Brooklyn. Not grand enough to count as great news, certainly, but considerable stress combined with the city that should be renamed "Pizza oven" gave me insomnia. Just glad I could sleep.

 

Mild OCD was satisfied today. Had a goal of getting down below 9000 threads in that subforum...

Just to be clear, no threads were deleted, just moved to where they belonged. If I can move 200 more to honestly correct homes, I will have moved over 1000 threads in the last week.

 

I have hit 14k words in my fantasy!!

 

Ok, and with a bit of help from some other members:



That's over 1000 threads moved since last Friday the 15th.

 

Heck, most of the stuff I post in the Workshop never makes it into the final ms. But I learn a lot from it anyway.

 

Congratulations!

 

Scored a good deal of wrought iron fence for only $40.00. Now all I need to do is add an ominous squeak to the gate let the grass grow a bit, maybe a pitch fork off to the side and buy an old gothic mansion and I'll be good to go.

 

Hey, just wanted to let you all know how much I appreciated your support when I came here saying that my boss insulted me and said that 'no one didn't like me'. It wasn't the first time he did this, a few months ago he made fun of my hearing disability by miming a violin when I tried to explain my hearing loss.



Well, it'll please you all (and me) to know that he'll be retiring this Friday. Of course I'll have to fake genuine sadness but when I'm at home?



It'll be a hell of a party.

 

Oh my god, the postman just showed up with a care package of Twizzlers a buddy sent me....

Yes, I know they're vile, artificially flavored sticks of something resembling wax, but I haven't had any in two years.

Do you have any idea how good they taste, when eaten sparingly?

 

I'm happy due to this short poem I wrote,

Cute like an absolute
Made by an innocent youth
A smile so strong to blind sadness
An innocence so honest to raise spirits
Clappy hands, a juice goatee
The happiness of youth for all to see.

~Children~

 

Y'know that feeling you get when you have the right tools for the job, and they function properly and everything just works?

Is that "happy"?

Cuz I kinda feel that way right now.

 

Even better. I LIED and wrote that I appreciated working for him.

The greatest cruelty you can do a man is to give him fake kindness. Oh sure, you could beat the ever bleedin' daylights out of him, or call his mother a whore but fake kindness? Showing compassion to someone though you know you never really meant it?

That's gotta sting worse than a punch or an insult.

 

You know what would really hurt me Link, is if you gave me ten thousand dollars but then not really mean it...

 

Me too @Link the Writer . But I would be really hurt even with just five thousand. It's cheaper to hurt me, Link.