Why are you happy today?

A simple phone call made things much better, now I am quite happy.

Good for you, NN!

get a room you two soppy plonkers

Cos my glider is back from the repair shop & cost much less than I feared to fix.
But it was an awful drive through pouring rain & Staus on the Autobahn to Oldenburg area & back to fetch it...

Because it just feels like a damn goood day that could progress into an even better night. Daddy's got his gladpants on.

worked a little overtime today (made some extra money, and haven't worked overtime in a long time), had a nice dinner with a good friend, still home early enough to clean the apartment, and did 4 weeks of laundry and ironing, now I can relax and enjoy my 5 days off.

amazing free lunch! they brought in great salad and pizza for everyone (200+) to congratulate a good 3rd quarter and great world Conference!
gotta love it when work busy lunch!
the coworker that i can't stand is out sick today-yay!

I also successfully led my first meeting here (we're planning a massive new translation of a lot of our stuff and I'm in charge of the project so we had a multi-workgroup meeting).

fingers crossed that i've found a solution for the dog i'm trying to help

Last night I acquired a new client for dog training

because everything is falling in to place like it was planned that way...it's like everyday a new piece of the puzzle is just slotted in...

Was just chatting to a friend and have stumbled on a solution to 2 problems i had.

1. I have a bureau type piece of furniture that i thought i was going to sell/throw away as it doesn't really match my lounge.

2. I was thinking what i needed to complete the bachelor pad atmosphere apart from a Pinball machine of course which hopefully another TTer is going to solve for me.

Solution :

Every B Pad requires a bar and i'm a bit partial to a cocktail or 3 myself.

Said bureau has a fold down flap at the front with shelves behind it and above it with a cupboard below, absolutely perfect for making mixed drinks and cocktails!!

Plus learning how to make them and sampling the results will keep me off the streets occupied during boring evenings.

God i love it when inspiration strikes!

Now what's the best/easiest cocktail making book to buy?

Edit: Just found a fantastic site with 151 pages of cocktail recipes on it. Wonder how many reams of paper i need at work to print that little lot out?

The most amazing book that I have in my collection for making drinks is called Bartending for Dummies. You can't go wrong with a copy of this book. There's over 1000 drink recipes in it. Here's the link for Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-0...x=13&Go.y=7

I think Mr. Boston's Official Bartender's & Party Guide is better.

Just because!

Hey-la, hey-la, my boyfriend's back!

Yeah it was my last day of work today - only 35 more sleeps till I'm partying hard in Berlin

Little Willi is getting bigger . . . 11 weeks old.

oh, he is so cute, better get your apartment cleaned up so he can mess it up!

He looks evil! I bode ill for your plants and curtains.

Don't worry, I killed my plants off long ago and he would actually be doing me a favour if he destroyed our YELLOW curtains. I wasn't the one who picked them out and have been trying to think of a cunning plan to get rid of them for almost a year now.

YELLOW! Then to add insult to injuty, there's a layer of lace curtain between the yellow curtain and the window! It's like a Bavarian nightmare!

a long boring day at work and arguing with someone i really don't want to fight with is all being erased after an amazing trip to the dog park and now playing wii and drinking good beer.

(just need to find a home/solution for a dog )

Because Elk City's new album is good, and Cherries in the Snow is a fun song. Reminiscent of Chrissie Hynde

Oh, shake open a bottle of red wine next to them, and forget that oxy-clean works wonders on red wine stains. ... Done.

Because I just mailed in an assignment, only two minutes late as opposed to the 20 minutes last time!

Because someone from my team quit today for really good personal reasons and we found a solution and now she's a permanent hire.

Because I met my future landlord, he's great. We've agreed on everything and we are signing in a couple of days. Things fall in place.

Two white stone.

I am happy because when we came home from the pizzeria Emily, the Mighty Hunter, was sitting in the front garden with a live mouse under her paws. Haggis Junior quickly expedited the cat inside while I picked up the mouse (who was seriously traumatized) and gently dumped it across the street in the Rednecks' messy yard. BTW, this is on the side of the street where the Japanese Fighting Cat lives ...

you have rednecks near you? do they have cars on blocks in their yard?

They have two dilapidated vans with the motors missing and in a high wind their doors blow open. One van is green, the other was thought to be white until they shifted them around yesterday and the hood of the white van turns out to be - dum-da-dum! - green!!! They are standing on a weed-infested paved area and even Scogs goes all German about them and wants to know if we can complain and have them removed.

Hmmm, pikeys.

I am happy today because I don't need any particular reason to be happy. Being happy on a daily basis is a matter of choice. Having a happy day is as simple as chosing to be grateful, focusing on thoughts that bring us joy and seeking out more of "the good stuff" (whatever that might be for you).

But I'm pretty easy to put in a good mood, even this still lightens me up if the day gets stressful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFHcFGKPMQ4

Where's that fucking bucket?

ah Keydeck, you sad, sad little man..don't be such a cynic. Even chest-hair showin', chain-wearin', chain-smokin', cranky Irishmen deserve a bit of happy thoughts, sans bucket occassionally

Hmm..let's see, I *do* have a reason to be happy though. In less than three weeks I will be in the Caribbean and then Mexico with my son. Scuba diving, cruising, laying on the beach, etc etc..


edit: and my new passport just came and I don't look like a nerd..not entirely anyway..

have fun with him! say hi for Brennan and me, please!

Ok, so the company just increased my salary. Woo hoo!

Telekom installed my DSL at home, and now my home office is up and running (I think thats a good thing..?)

Day4 and still no beer!! or I dunno

No TTT tonight then G ?

Your liver is probably .

My life is chaotic, I feel like I'm being tugged in fifteen different directions at once, I've just quit my job and my bank account looks like the work of a oversugared child the first day they encountered the minus sign in school.

However for the first time in my life I'm working towards a goal that I really want dearly and that makes getting up in the morning something much more than just starting another day.

this is good.

pints sometime? i mean they thought i was you and pints with T & M is prolly a good idea and you sound like you need em man.

Although folk might find the idea of 2 white dwarves in close proximity a tad, like, silly, like.

I know you is me, so pints with you would be a very metaphysical exercise but I'm prepared to take the risk.

Yer a Kerry boyo, I'm a feckin Lillywhoite, some sort of Coombe-born Dub stuck in a Biffo hosses cranium outside the Liffey Valley screaming bring back Pajos Junkboox/house/arsebiscuits.

Did any of the above make sense?

It does but there is an outrageous whiff of Eau d'Jackeen off it.

Yed not be wrong. Bud.
Prolly cus I spent half me bleedin' loife livin' in Ballyer. And I do appreciate wakin' up and not seein' a burnn' motor side the gaff. Shaymo.

Ye should have asked wan of the chisler to mind it for yez. That spontaneous combustion is terrible.

Don't know if it should be happiness or just plain shock - had doctor's tests just run (which was nervous about) and am not only in perfect health but also have borderline low blood pressure?!
So I asked for another test machine and still with the same result.

Bizarre.
Must work harder at hobbies, frankly.

I am over the moon as I had a these hand delivered today!!

[img]http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c148/satman124/Lillies015.jpg[/img]

_*sigh*

oh, that is sweet, good one grinner, hope things keep getting better.

Actually, the heart is just a prop in my studio...

well, the flowers are a nice gesture to say the least.

Those are some pretty flowers.