The Happiness Thread

It's always inspiring and comforting to meet very old people who are still active, with their minds fully intact. It gives us all hope!

 

Amen to that!

 

the clouds look lovely today ministrel! I love those everyday things in life. Like how the tree near my house looks beautiful!

 

Success!

I keep fit and keep the weight off by belly dancing, but there has always been one movement that has completely eluded me: the flutter. (It's a rapid flutter of the diaphragm achieved by holding the breath, releasing it slightly and... oh, it's so difficult to explain.)

I've been making a concerted effort of late, doing breathing exercises, and yoga, but still, no joy. I've been feeling a bit disheartened. During my practice this morning I finally did it. Ok... so I tried it a second time and failed miserably, but just that one little moment of tangible proof that it's not beyond me has put me in such a good mood.

An old dog (or at least a middle-aged one) can learn new tricks.

 

My 15 year old got her junior cert results today - 7 honours and 3 passes - woohoooo so proud!

 

Congrats to your daughter, erebh! (And to you, too ...)

 

Good going , erebh.

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On another note, better living through chemistry that is, two Percocets, one beer, and a bit of 'things could be worse' philosophizing and I'm feeling better now about the cast for 4 months. I'll only have trouble with my on-call appointments and I have to change one Oct flu shot clinic. That's not bad considering my Oct schedule is so critical to my practice. As long as there are no hiccoughs in healing, oh well I'm at least not unhappy at the moment.

 

I'm really happy to have another salary. It's good to be alive.

 

Paid and alive beats being unpaid and dead.

Congrats on your job! By "another salary" do you mean you now have two jobs? Or were you unemployed before?

 

I left work yesterday with a hairy problem I expected would take a couple hours to solve. I walked in to work this morning to find a completely different problem that also looked like hours of hair-tearing effort. On top of that, I was scheduled for three and a half hours of meetings, so I had a narrow window to work on the two problems.

I solved them both, with even a little time left over.

Yes, this was a good day.

 

I played my first game in 3 months last night following my recovery from a dislocated knee. Don't get me wrong, I'm still not ready for Monday night Premier League action, but it felt awesome to have a ball at my feet and be playing football again. I played well within myself, though, not wanting to put my left knee under too much pressure.

 

I saw a big beautiful deer crossing the street tonight half a block from my house. I live in the city with a park in my backyard.

 

You're very lucky! It's always a great thing to have wildlife around. It reminds us of why there's a world.

 

I got a new volume of Fruits Basket from my library.

 

I'm happy because today I enjoyed socializing with some friends at a local diner during lunch. We chatted about the Boston Red Sox, the weather, and about where we had travelled over the years.

 

I've been at this job (one) for four years now. It was a pretty good salary. I'm happy to live another day to have one again.

 

I'm happy today because...

I just am. The sun's shining, the sky is blue and I feel inspired to write

 

It's yet another good day! The weather's great!

 

I've been on this forum for less than a month and already have over 100 posts!

 

The new roof's on the house and they did it all during a three day dry spell and it looks really nice.

 

I'm looking forward to a raise! I hope I get a good rating!

 

Woohoo! I drew blood successfully on 4 people despite having a cast on my right hand. I couldn't do it on a difficult vein, but I have an option for those, sending them to a lab.

The set up was hilarious, half a glove taped on the three fingers and saran wrap over the cast to keep things up to infection control standards, but hey, it worked.

It means I can still carry on my practice while in this cast, and that's critical for a self employed person with no back up staff.

 

My class for today got cancelled because the professor is sick. Gotta love the common cold.

 

I bet the professor wouldn't be posting on the Happiness Thread ;-)

 

it's a great day!