Why are you happy today?

I'm happy coz I know what a "Chocolate-star" is...

Seeing the username Strawberystar... just makes me chuckle..

It's the end of half term - Reece has gone to his dads for the weekend, Alex is at work and the house is nice and peaceful and I'm going to relax and have a bottle of wine a nice healthy not fattening drink

First victory against the ridiculous US Bureaucracy... After many letters, complaints, appointments and god-knows-what, they finally issue me with my work permit... Now to find the "Vent" thread as I now have to start bloody working again. Bloody hell

There's bureaucracy in America? (Congrats about the work permit though, btw)

Well... Normally with Bureaucracy you know what is going to happen, how many forms you ahve to fill out, what the wait is and all that stuff. It is annoying but you are informed. In the US, you have NO CLUE! Every phone call to Homeland Security brings a new surprise. I have been quoted everything from 10 days to 2 years with regards to my work permit. I had my visa interview scheduled and cancelled within 24 hours but now I do not care. I can work and they can take 10 years for my visa as far as I am concerned...

Jebus.

Cos i was out in Manchester last night with some really good mates and we ended by having a real curry ( with no hint of a war ) and i'm going to pick up my son in 30 mins and spend the weekend with him, it doesn't get better

I'm happy because it's six months to the day since I gave up smoking. I've had one puff which I didn't enjoy and apart from that I've only been seriously tempted once.

I got fresh paint all over me, ah happiness.

All over as in all over? Remember what happened to the girl in "Goldfinger"!

Wheel well done.Only had one puff, i am a smoker and i have not had a puff either and not even been tempted !!!11

done with my cookies and first batch of banana bread is in the oven! mmmmm

what kind of cookies?

no kind special. premade dough from the store- the zimt... something... zimtplatchen? or something... not sure.

and now done making chocolate mousse!

I want some cookies then I would be happier.

not sure if i'm going to the arc tomorrow night or not, but if i do i'll bring you cookies, okay?

well done mere. And I thought I had cooked a few things today, but it seems that you have made like three different things.
Enjoy your sweets!

thanks Panama. i'll enjoy the part that's mine, but it's all divided up between 3 different groups of people.

I love that mere

I'm happy because I'm on vacation and have been blissfully oblivious to all the fighting and biting that happened on TT over the last few days and am now too lazy to read the threads that were closed.

Also, when I arrived at the airport I was flying into, it was like they'd cleared the place out just so I wouldn't have to be bothered dealing with other people. I got off the plane, stopped in for a quick potty break and then walked to the baggage claim and got my bag without any hassle. The place was nearly empty. I was so delighted. Then I realized the entire place was empty because some sort of fire alarm or something had gone off (it worries me that I was stood there completely oblivious to a blaring emergency signal ) and everyone else had evacuated the building.

You're not in Baghdad, are you?

I know people really poo-poo the idea of vacationing in Baghdad, but the flight was REALLY cheap.

I'm happy today because my children are alive and I don't have to think about suicide.

I just went through a pile of about 100 very official looking envelopes fearing the worst

It turned out only one of them was shit i didn't already know about and most were companies offering me a loan.

The day feels much lighter and brighter

That sounds very familiar, I know someone who didn't open his mail for 7 months and received a few nasty surprises upon finally opening it.

Why don't people open their mail?

I open it if I know its a bill, but my pay stubs and bank statements, never open, til I have a huge pile of crap in my mail box, and decide to sit down and place them into my binders.

I'm happy because kiddo doesn't have a concussion after having had to pick him up early from school after getting a "foot to the head". It wasn't a fight or anything - apparently an accident ? Whatever. And he only had one mistake in his German homework.

And I pay someone to open my mail - so it's almost all caught up!

i am happy because my internet at home is finally working which means i can listen to radio 1, choice FM and many other stations :-))))

I am happy because Haggis junior is having a good time in Prague on her school outing. And because for the first time in 21 years I am childless at home for more than a weekend.

I'm happy because I am now in possession of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, Cheerios, Spaghetti O's (or Hoops, I guess... ), and Quaker instant oatmeal. And it's all mine. And I'm not sharing.

I am happy because it is Friday, the SAS EG4 installation (some computer crap) finally works and the data extract that I need for the wanky French incompetent bastard down the corridor who can only write a specification in the style of a half-dead & drunk chimpanzee on speed is complete.
Bliss.
But Jenny L's shopping sounds great.

I'm happy 'cos Grumpy was already taken and the Dopey outfit didn't fit..

Now I'm really happy because I've just seen wanky, French and incompetent used in the same sentence and it just cracked me up enough to laff out loud..

Cheers Katrina!!

I'm happy coz i just had a massive, big as my head Zwiebelrostbraten for lunch, washed down by a couple of Augies.

And I don't think I have to work this weekend so I hopefully can go to the BNO which is good.

My 12 bottles of wine got delivered today that I ordered from the ForumVini... yummy!

C'mon Carm, share the wealth girl, share the wealth

Share the wealth? Man, you should have seen what DramaDiva and DDBug ordered!

I bought them mostly as Xmas gifts for the secretaries at the office.

I can type . . . . Only two fingered admittedly but it works for me

good one Dave, but, I don't think you want to be paid on the 400Euro basis do you?

I could live on that a day, seems very reasonable to me

ah, oh, how do I tell you this... that is a month.

TBH - doing secretarial temp work in London with 70 wpm i earnt £12 ph many years ago - daylight robbery Carm, do your secretaries have a union...

Enough to fill a swimming pool, I'm sure.


And you only read the articles in Playgirl

shh! about the pool, now everybody will want in.

there are articles in Playgirl?

Just bought a new tube of Ultramarine Blue.

just got the most beautiful flowers for my b-day.
So many nice wishes, hugs and smiles...I have great colleagues.

I'm realizing more and more that I have more good, supportive people around me than I thought, and that makes me very happy.

And here are some more Happy Birthday wishes to go with them!

I second that happy Bday Candy. Cheers!

I am happy cos although I was stooopid enough to miss my flight to munich this morning, I am booked on one this evening so will be there for the weekend after all!