The Happiness Thread

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  1. matwoolf

    matwoolf Banned Contributor

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    Wordstar kid too - although suffered also in a tech family with Apple 2/Computer Weekly abuses.
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    I got the job. I now have 2 jobs, 2.5 jobs - even including resignation from unpaid fluffpile Sci-fi reader role.
     
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  2. Lemie

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    Celebrated my birthday early with my parents today.

    Got a iitala tea light holder (Famous glas from Finland) with a note that read "When you miss your mother and father. Light a candle and think of us".

    It's my mother's way of saying she accepted my decision to move.
     
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    I got work at 10, but there is always time to have a laugh about something. :supergrin:
     
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  4. Lemie

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    Just sold my entire Doctor Who collection of 8 seasons. Made good amount of money and just got an e-mail from the buyer how happy she is to have gotten almost the entire (modern) series. Felt good not only to get rid of things I can't take with me, making some money - but also really making someone truly happy too.

    ETA: Just found out how much money I made in May (I'm getting my pay a month after due to being hired from a different company). I make a great deal more than my last job. Almost makes me wanna stay in the country.
     
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  5. Jon7z

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    Reading this made my day! Yay, mouse support for ipads coming soon! Throw away that laptop.
     
  6. flawed personality

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    We went public with our engagement to CT's family this week, so I am now going around telling all my people when I see them. That in itself is a huge happy, as we'd kept it on the DL for 3 months! :cheerleader:
    On top of that, he's planning to make me things for Christmas, and he asked for my ring size!:supercute:
    I have a feeling that this Christmas will be the best Christmas ever!!!
     
  7. Iain Aschendale

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    Just shut down my most personal Facebook account again.

    Drinking from a firehose of hate is easy, but tsunamis of it give me indigestion.
     
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  9. Millamber

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    The wife and I have finalised all of our plans for next week when we head to Scotland to drive the Highlands. I keep looking at images of places on Google Maps and it looks so beautiful. It'll be an awful lot of driving (I live on the south coast of England), but I'm really looking forward to it :D
     
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  10. EstherMayRose

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    I got a new book yesterday: Children's Costume: The Complete Historical Sourcebook by John Peacock, which is a pretty good name for a costume historian, IMO. It's full of gorgeous illustrations, and I keep flicking through it. A lot of my characters are children, so it's pretty handy since it's not a very well-researched field. I have one of his other books, The Chronicle of Western Costume, and I honestly cannot sing its praises enough. It's got thousands of illustrations and covers the ancient world right up until the 1980s, pretty much one year at a time. Unfortunately, the kids book isn't as comprehensive, and up until the "invention of the child" in the early 19th century, it pretty much covers 500 years in only sixteen pages. It's still a gorgeous book, though, and I'd recommend both, especially Chronicle of Western Costume, to anyone who writes historical fiction.
     
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    Working hard for two months it finally paid off!

    Sort of feel like going on a shopping spree tonight but I'll settle for just some nice food or something.
     
  12. John-Wayne

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    Work, Minecraft, sleep, repeat!

    That's my life at this moment, and I'm enjoying it! Oh, there's also some writing in between as well
     
  13. flawed personality

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    I started another craft project today, and that makes me happy. :)
     
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  14. EstherMayRose

    EstherMayRose Gay Souffle Contributor

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    I just read an article about coming out and it contained the advice to parents not to out their child. "Be patient and let your gay soufflé finish cooking before you open the oven door." I will be changing my title to "gay soufflé", effective immediately.
     
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    If you're not gay, and you're not straight, you're... stray? gaight?
     
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    The Derek Jarman diaries on Radio 4 are very beautiful - tho’ Rupert Everet’s narration arguably fruity & metropolitan [ham] mmeh...
     
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    I have a great happenis, today.
     
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    EstherMayRose Gay Souffle Contributor

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    "Bisexuals are great. They're not gay. They're not straight. They're graight."
     
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    AaaaHaaa! LOL

    :superlaugh::superlaugh::superlaugh::superlaugh::superlaugh::superlaugh:
     
  20. Homer Potvin

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    I hate souffles... they take 26 minutes to bake on top of the prep time. Hard to turn a table when the dessert course takes a fucking hour.

    Good analogy, though. No way to rush a souffle.
     
  21. disasterspark

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    Switching from novels to comics has made me loads happier and made me enjoy reading again.

    For months before I thought that really smart people read books, or how I would never make it as a comic book writer/artist (amplified by the fact I can't draw shit), so writing was the only option. Yet I never enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed comics. Reading regular novels felt like a chore, even if they were objectively pretty good. But I could finish multiple comics a day if I wanted. And I would always want more. Hell, I loved reading them when I was a kid. Not exactly the case with novels (English class flashbacks). One day I was sitting in my room, playing guitar, a bunch of books were sitting in my room, collecting dust, having not even opened them since I checked them out from the local library. Suddenly I just thought "Fuck novels, I may like writing them, but I don't enjoy reading them at all. I wanna do comics again." so I soon went out and turned in all of the novels I had, and grabbed checked out a few comics. And I've never looked back.

    I'm not knocking novels entirely. If you like them, great. What I'm saying is, I realized I only wrote my project in a "novel" format not because I enjoyed the medium, but it was "easier" in my mind because I didn't have to draw. Though switching to a medium that requires some, at least basic experience with drawing, I actually like drawing, even if I'm not good at it. And I'll still read non-fiction books for information, or occasionally write a silly fanfic when I'm bored. Even though I've only started getting serious, I think it will be a lot more enjoyable than hopelessly devoting my soul to a medium I don't even enjoy consuming, all in the name of being easier. Life is too short for that.
     
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    Okie Dokie, then.
     
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    It feels good to finally turn in edits to my editor. Finally. I can't believe how hard it is to meet deadlines. I'm trying. But now I believe the piece is done and ready for publication. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what the editor says back. This sure is a hard game we're playing when money and publication are involved. For now, I can breathe a little easier. The hard part is done. Yay! (for now)
     
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    5 minutes in the microwave, sorted :D

    https://www.mummypages.co.uk/recipes/cheese-souffle-in-a-mug
     
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    Just won 500 NOK (~51.50€ or $58) on a scratching ticket. Made my day, or at least the next handful of hours.
     
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