The Happiness Thread

I do get paid for it! Writing about bunk beds, that is. And regular beds. And other things that aren't beds!

And I guess I'm a tad too young for you, then

 

Online toy-shop. Though I'd love to work for IKEA!

Instead I write about toys of the less fun kind all day... not that I complain or anything!

 

Kid toys. Kid beds.

Sorry to disappoint

 

This, this made me very happy.



I am a sucker for all things Fallout and I hate to say it but I maybe a Fallout Fanboy. . Loved them all, the flaws were to petty for me to care enough. Though honestly a few things in FO4 did piss me off. though I still loved it. I just hope what they are saying in the chat about it being multiplayer or PVP is false, I'm not a big fan of Multiplier and don't care at all for PVP. Maybe it's optional or has a Single Player mode. Either way. Need to reserve a collectors edition with that groovy Retro Pipboy. .

 

I told two of my coworkers the basics of my WIP and they didn't react like I was a delusional poser...

Even offered some helpful suggestions.

Could I maybe graduate from "writer" to "author" someday?

 

Excuse me... that is unpublished Author.... writers are the guys that write movie and television scripts. (I can make up any terminology I wish)

 

Journalists write articles. .

Bloggers are Bloggers, etc.

 

Hmm, I always assumed that a writer was someone who wrote, the big circle of the Venn diagram. Author would be the subset of people with completed (and ideally published) works.

The day I get a paycheck, even a small one, is the day I'll start using "author".

 

Just realized its my mothers birthday today (horrible son, I know), so I'm going over to her place to cook for her. Actually going shopping first but....details.

I didn't plan on cooking today, buuuuut she's been good to me. Plus, I can probably get her to help me cook, which is great. I'll be making some Lasagna with garlic bread on the side.

Would also have to pick up her Whole Foods mixed berry jelly she loves so much.....gah, not enough time in a day, I swear.

Anyway, woot!

 

I am trying to think of something happy and it is not easy if you have forgotten what it means for a while
but
happiness is a cup of tea in the morning to remind you you just got up which is the best thing in the world.

 

We all make up our own terminology, I suppose, but...as someone who writes articles, no way do I consider myself in the very big shoes of a journalist, even when I've written newspaper articles. Bernstein and Woodward working on the Watergate stories were journalists. Someone covering a war is a journalist. A true journalist will go to jail to protect a source.

A journalist documents events for people who aren't there, is how I look at it. I always use "writer."

 

Just for the record... I was just having fun, I mean we are all writers, clearly. . It's probably fair to say your not an author till your published. I wasn't really makeup my own rules.

 

Yeah, I know. I get it. It just irritates me when just anyone is called a journalist, or worse yet, calls him/herself one. (Not speaking of you directly, just in popular culture.) Maybe I should file that under "Things That Annoy Me But Shouldn't".

I like your definition of author, though. A step up the ladder (which I guess is how I view the word journalist).

 

I think we could agree on Unpublished Author vs. Published Author... I mean we are still working on novels.

Not just reporting the news or writing a report or blog..

Also I get the mislabels, it annoys me as well. I had a former coworker call herself a Certified Pharmacy Technician on her facebook. despite not being one.

 

So, for the sake of argument only, if I were to use jarred sauce as a base and doctor it up with garlic, onions, parsley, and a little wine, that would make me the walking dead? Asking for a friend.

 

Ah. I was thinking maybe it would save cooking time to get flavor. Never mind.

 

I use jarred sauces when I see something that looks interesting on the label but I can't mentally wrap my head around the taste of. Try it once, then make it myself if it has potential.

 

Dude you've got Homer in a skirt!!!!! Laughing so hard I can barely type.

ETA: Is it wrong that I want to print that and hang it in my office or on the fridge or something?

 

I like your thinking on that.