The all purpose happy feelings thread

[Footman311]

Great thing happened today, I went to the doctor for a check up(like sixth one sence I was hospitalized for severe exhaustion for the second time in three months) wasn't I very fun time either hospital visit. But that's not happy at all, the good news is I've been cleared to skate again and have a shot at making the midwest all stars again. I missed most of the regular season and playoffs but summer league is coming and I'm hoping to feel better by then.

Lifes a bowl of punch G'head and spike it-Nick Hexum

[oneyedchicklet]

Hey All,

As most of you know, I have a bit of an obsession with Mickey Mouse. Well, I just got back from spending a week with him. Yes, I was in Florida. But not only did I meet Mickey (again), I got to meet with Marie. Most of you know her as "ladybrymstone". I must say that she's just as sweet and funny in person as she is online. She drove 30 minutes to meet with me. We spent the day together and went out for drinks, dinner and karaoke. I can't remember the last time I laughed so much. I'd also like to thank her for being such a good hostess and "cruise director".

I also had a great time in Disney. On a side note, anyone planning a trip there, I leave you with this little tip. If you are the least bit clostrophobic, avoid Mission Space after eating a tomato and pesto sandwich. Good results do not follow.

I'm home now and trying to make heads or tails out of everything. So I'd better get back to that. The real downside is I have to go back to work tomorrow.



Love and Hugs,

Barb

Now serving Bitter, party of one. Your table is ready.

[Yellow Crayon]

Today was a decent day because my two best friends, (Dev and Erica). Put up signs around my school that were like, "Happy Birthday Tor!" And they had funnnnnny pictures of me on them.



They made me giggle.

Its safe to say I have a few in my locker.



It was fun...

then they gave me my present.

I'm not sure why, seeing as how my birthday isnt till Saturday. But, Im not complaining.



~Tori

[Yelowsub]

I am all completely happy because my school's Gay/Straight Alliance kind of fizzeled out 2 years ago (before I got here) and last week someone started it up again. Like full out - they're re-writing a constitution, they put adds around tables on campus and in the school paper. Last week we had our first meeting and 7 people showed up! No one really expected anyone else to show up. We changed our name from "Somewhere Under the Rainbow" (yeah no one liked that name) to Pride Alliance and we're having our second meeting tonight.



It just really looks like we have a good core group of people that want to have a great safe club.

"Trying to talk about love is like trying to dance about architecture."

[Rosenberg]

Thank God March is over and April is here (this is a good reason to be happy)! Also, the swelling in my face is finally starting to go down, although I still have two gorgeous black eyes and my face and neck are a palette of lovely pastel shades. And hey, baseball season is officially here now, so that’s another reason to be sort of happy. Now, on to the crappy feelings thread…

[theatremouse]

Go Mets! say I.



Excellent game. Made my day.

[Willowlicious]

It's been a shockingly good 24 hours at our house. My girlfriend is graduating with her Masters in Physical Therapy on April 30th and yesterday she was offered--and accepted--a great-paying job starting May 3. I can't tell you what welcome news this was. We've sacrificed a lot to put her through that program and it's finally going to pay off. I'm very proud of her.



Plus, hey, how 'bout those Tigers?!! I never would have dared hope for a 4-0 start from a team that traditionally buries itself in the standings before April is over. The best we can possibly hope for is still only a .500 season, but after last year, that would be heaven.



And the Red Wings won their first playoff game, too. Yay!



Amy

[theatremouse]

i second that go tigers! things are finally looking up for them. (i had given up years ago...)

[SySnootles]

To that I have to add a "Yay" for the Brewers. While we're only 3-1, we look substantially better than any team from the last five years.



And, on a non-sports note, I was able to get all the classes I wanted for next semester!! Yay for me!!!

Catie



When I'm 130 years old, I want a pill that makes me so happy and so unself-conscious and so randy I'm willing to make love to my fuzzy bed slippers on my front lawn and yodel at the same time. -- Scott Adams from Dilbert and the way of the Weasel

[Yelowsub]

I only have about a month or so (I'm not much for counting down) of my freshman year at college and I feel like I've really found a great group of people (hopefully we'll be able to pick up in the fall semister) but we spent all last night watching movies and going to the diner and then going to breakfast on campus (my first time being awake for it all semister). It was just a lot of fun and I hope that we'll do it again. I didn't get to sleep until 9:30 this morning.



plus it's Easter weekend for me so I get to go home and hang out with my family

"Trying to talk about love is like trying to dance about architecture."

[Yellow Crayon]

Today is my birthday.



Woo Hoo.



I stayed up till like 7 this morning with friends, watched Texas Chainsaw, and ate cake at midnight, it was swell.



Yay.

[Saena]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YELLOWCRAYON! (I'll be 17 in a month)



So, my happy news...well, I'm in a delightful mood because I had a GREAT Easter. I relaxed all Spring Break, but for once, my Easter was actually a spiritual experience (as opposed to being excited about friends and photo ops and jellybeans and such). It was quite a rush! I loved it.



I'm also in a great mood because I just finished reading the third Harry Potter. See, before the first movie came out, I had read the first and second books, and loved them of course. But I kind of stopped there, for no apparent reason. It wasn't until I was watching The Chamber of Secrets with my sister and her boyfriend that I realized I hadn't read the 3rd book yet. I started reading Wednesday evening and finished at about 11:00 last night (Monday). It was amazingly fun to read, and now I just can't wait for the movie.



Lastly, school went by quickly today. That always helps- a less than painful first day back.



Have a fantastic day guys!

[Gatito Grande]

I don't know if the following is exactly a "happy" feeling, but certainly a grateful one: an online acquaintance (a regular reader of my blog) has just sent me $99 (in a Mail Order marked "Survival!" w/ a smiley face ). I was flabbergasted, but very appreciative.



GG Hang in there, Tabby Out



I also think I feel the first twinges of a crush coming on (not the money-sender---I can't be bought for quite that cheap! ), though that probably belongs on a "scary feelings" thread . . .

[ohtrustysodamachine]

hmmm my happy thoughts...welllllll im happy to say that its mine and my girls 3 month anniversary on the weekend and i couldnt be more happy.......and i bet your thinking 'why didnt she post this on the weekend?'

but the answer would be that i just couldnt wait to tell everyone!!!!



i love you baby and cant wait to be with you



happy anniversary for the weekend baby!!!



jess

[Willowtara19]

, kittens!!



WOO HOO!! Finally the 18th!! *grins*



LMAO Nope I'm not crazy.....it's just that today's mine and my baby's 3 months anniversary and since she posted in here 3 days ago, I was dying for today to come *grins again*



Awwwww baby hun you're such a cutie You know how much you mean to me baby....as well as I know what I mean to you



Happy 3 months anniversary to you too babe



I love you too baby and I can't hardly wait to be with you



Vero (aka Willowtara19)

"The heart rules the mind" Alison Krauss, That kind of love

"Baby, I'm too lost in you, caught in you, lost in everything about you, so deep...." Too lost in you (Sugababes) Mine and my baby's song....I love you so much, baby

[RosenbergLover]

..... I'm in heaven. I was walking in the hall with my girlfriend yesterday, and she just pulled me aside and kissed me......God she's a good kisser.

[mollyig]

It's Thursday, I don't have work tomorrow and it's a bank holiday weekend! Woo hoo! Because my gf works a shift - 1pm to 9pm - I don't get to see her as much as I'd like, so the weekends are wonderful - long weekends especially wonderful!

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"Love is just like breathing when it's true" Indigo Girls

[theatremouse]

I don't have a brain tumor! Whoo!

[3peanuts]

I'm graduate!



For the crappy feeling thread: I'm jobless...

"I like Amber Benson 'cause she's a proletarian" Sarabiga

Keynes was right

[Gatito Grande]

Well, 3p, you're still one up on me (at the moment).



OK, the (penultimate) dissertation revision is, theoretically, at the printers (in NJ, while I'm in Michigan: my first attempt w/ Kinko's online printing).



Please, please pray (send good wishes, karma, etc.) that Kinko's doesn't F-up my dissertation (I can't even take a nap until I can talk to them about the order "which we haven't yet received" ), that my advisor, and then the All-Powerful "Dissertation Secretary" (whoever the F that is: some bureaucrat at Teachers College) luv it, and that I can all the requisite paperwork together, along w/ the 3 final, Final, FINAL copies of the dissertation together, by 4 pm Friday in New York. (No sweat, eh?)



Then, if I can just get hold of a doctoral gown, maybe scare up a stray Commencement ticket or three (optional, but my family will kill me if they can't attend, because I was too out of it to get all that crap taken care of in time), and last but not least, NO LAST MINUTE DISASTERS! (particularly of the "pay us this money you owe us or we won't let you march/get hooded" variety. Me paying anyone $ Fat freakin' unemployed---still---chance!) , so then



I CAN GRADUATE!!!







GG Maybe this belongs on a Exhausted, Desperate Plea thread? I am genuinely happy to have that (almost the last) dissertation revision behind me. Out



ETA: Aaaaaaaaargh! Spoke too soon: Kinkos did, in fact, f-up my order. Now, I'm emailing the files to the store in NJ, again (I have been trying to get this printed/delivered, since about 2 AM this morning, w/ only about a 6 hour break for sleep. One frickin' thing after another . Ooops, I'm starting to sound like I belong on the other thread, right? Typical.

Edited by: Gatito Grande at: 5/3/04 3:31 pm

[jixer]

Hello Kittens-



Good Luck GG!!



I'd add a smiley but they don't have one for Holy Sheep(skin)



Jixer

[guardian146]

I passed calculus and physics so i don't have to retake them over the summer. so my day has been pretty damn good.



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I'm dancing like a monkey!!! - GIR

MONKEYS - Ian: MacHall

[Gatito Grande]

Thanks, jixer. I think this one is close enough:



Update: the advisor has my dissertation (Kinko's finally came through), and he will be passing it on to the Dissertation Secretary: the Last Furkin' Roadblock!



GG With the D.S. sign-off, then it's just the final printing (in triplicate), all the assorted gobble-de-gook (forms, forms and more forms), and getting myself a cap-n-gown and, hopefully, some Commencement tickets . . . Out

[Tempest Duer]

Hoping for the best, GG.



But anywho, the smoothness that is this Kitten scored a nice girl's number... she's kind of quiet and shy, but she seems really sweet.

Saying that up is down will not make up, down.



~Gene Burns

[urnofosiris]

I don´t often post in this thread, in fact after posting this thread I think this may be the first post I am making for myself. Not that I am not happy, I just have not gotten news that has made me this happy in a while. My big brother called me a couple of hours ago and the first thing he said was "you are going to be a granduncle". That´s a first for me and I am only 32.



His oldest daughter, my oldest niece (27 now), just found out she is pregnant. I had thought about what this might be like before, but I seriously did not expect to be this excited and happy about hearing it. I almost started to blubber. I read an article a while ago about there being no such thing as happy tears because when you think you cry out of happiness it is really because you are thinking about something sad. A bit cynical, but it may be true. Part of me was thinking about the fact that I can never have children and grandchildren and that my father did not live to see this day. He should have, he would only have been 70 now. I am sad he is not here to share in this, because I know how happy this would have made him, but it is ok to be a bit sad this way, it does not lessen the real joy I am feeling. My brother is a good man and he is very happy and my niece is such a wonderful woman, I am so happy for her.



It is still very early days, but apparently she could not keep it to herself, neither could my brother and neither can I and I am very superstitious about cheering too soon, but so help me, I can´t help myself now.



I am going to get very plastered this weekend, or as Patsy would say: cheers, thanks a lot!

[Gatito Grande]

GG is graduating.* Yay me!



GG If there are any other Kittens at Columbia University, look for me among the thousands of others at Low Plaza on the 19th.+ Out



(*) That's "graduating" w/ an asterisk (sorta like Roger Maris). I will be hooded as Doctor Gatito (aka Juliana Collins Fisher) , but my name in the program will read "May '04 Graduate, pending final completion of degree requirements" (that's those last, Last, LAST corrections I make, if necessary, when the High Muckety-Muck "Dissertation Secretary" is done w/ it). So, I won't be getting my diploma next Wednesday . . . but here's the deal: nobody else is either! There's a six week waiting period, which will be (better be ) enough time for fixing those last typos and footnotes.



But my family gets to see me get hooded, and that's what really matters: my freakin'---12 years in the making, one marriage later---moment in the sun!



+ Or if you really wanna see me, and you're in the Big Apple next Wednesday, just hang out by Saint John the Divine Cathedral shortly before 2:30 in the afternoon. That's the Teachers College Convocation, a far more intimate (only hundreds of people, not thousands!) gathering. Check "Show us your pictures" to see what my ugly mug looks like (I'd tell you I'll be dressed in Columbia blue, but that won't help alot )



And if there's the slightest chance my ex-husband is reading this: IN YOUR FACE!



ETA: Dr.G (hey, you're Dr.G, and I'll be Dr.GG---it's just you're the well-paid medical kind, and I'm the type w/ nuthin' but debt )---just wanna say Congrats on becoming a Granduncle. I happen to think that Happy Tears define Ultimate Happiness (not the converse). Enjoy your blubbering! (I'm saving mine for My True Love. May I meet her soon! )

Edited by: Gatito Grande at: 5/10/04 3:43 pm

[xita]

Garfield, congratulations! I am so happy for you. I know how happy I was when my first niece was born. You wait for that day, I wish you the best of luck!



gg, congrats!

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"Trust is a risk masquerading as a promise."

[Gatito Grande]

Thanx, xita.



GG Really ready for the job hunt now. Maybe? Pretty please?? Out

[jixer]

Hello Kittens-





Congratulations Dr. G and GG the PhD!!



May happiness bust out all over!





Jixer

[skittles]

GG: Congrats!! You know how happy I am for you!!



Dr G: I'm sure all of your nieces & nephews have always considered you a "great" uncle, but to have it "official" as a "greatuncle" is fantastic!! I wish your niece good health & an easy pregnancy & birth.... the raising of the child is the challenge!!

skittles



In vino veritas