The Happy Thread IV - Page 15

***Earniel*** · 05-12-2009, 05:51 AM

How about you two find yourself a nice Star Trek thread to discuss and spare the people who haven't seen the movie yet from further spoilers?

***Tessar*** · 05-12-2009, 10:40 AM

How about you find yourself a nice SETPHASERSTOSTUN!!! *pew pew*

... Oh wait, that's just my hand, and me saying 'pew pew'....

.........

>.>

<.<

....

o_O

Okay. Fine.

***Earniel*** · 05-12-2009, 11:36 AM

May I remind you that I do own a phaser, one that comes with stun Ã*nd full power settings. Don't tempt me to use it on you.

Okay, so it works on batteries and the light is broken... But still!

***Tessar*** · 05-12-2009, 04:02 PM

You broke the light!? >.<

***Earniel*** · 05-12-2009, 07:06 PM

It went out on its own.

I think the little lamp may need replacement after desintegrating meanie aliens for over a decade.

But it still makes noise!

**Mari** · 05-13-2009, 09:02 AM

I GOT IN!!! to my second choice in courses: the MA in Applied Linguistics.

I didn't expect it after my recent rejection and some other professor calling Japanese 'a fun studies' (i.e fun but utterly useless), so I am very happy right now!

sisterandcousinandaunt · 05-13-2009, 09:04 AM

That is AWESOME, Mari!

You'll be great.

***Earniel*** · 05-13-2009, 12:35 PM

Congratulations, Mari!

***Tessar*** · 05-13-2009, 07:09 PM

Yay Mari!!!!!!!!

OMG!

YOU GUYS!

I CAN HAZ WHEEL OF TIME RPG RULE BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So. Freakin'. Excited.

*SQUEE!!!*

And it was only $8 at halfprice!!! The book's been out of print for years, and usually if you find a copy online it's like $60 or more, because it was originally $40 and anyone looking for one now is probably trying to collect it.

But I totally lucked out and found it at halfprice for $8!!!! I'm so excited! I've been hoping to find that book for YEARS.

***VarnafindÃ«*** · 05-16-2009, 05:32 PM

It's a bit early to say yet - but it could be a happy evening for a Norwegian following the Eurovision Song Contest tonight!

***Tessar*** · 05-20-2009, 11:51 AM

Today is Wednesday, my friends! The day new comic books come out!

SWIFTLY! TO THE COMIC BOOK STORE!

Nerdanel · 05-22-2009, 08:46 AM

me and a friend are looking for a flat together, and now we've been offered 3 different ones within a week. X) it's great!

and, apparently we're now called the first gay heterosexual couple..

**Mari** · 05-22-2009, 10:28 AM

Congrats on the first part

, not quite sure what you mean with the second part?

Nerdanel · 05-22-2009, 10:50 AM

thanks

according to the person who came up with that term, i'm not comfortable about being called a girl and he's not comfortable being called a guy. as a couple, we're then a gay heterosexual couple.. although i'm not quite sure how that works myself.

**Mari** · 05-22-2009, 02:55 PM

Oh! I think I get it. Sort of

***Tessar*** · 05-22-2009, 03:28 PM

I now own two anthologies! One of selections from Oratorios for Bass/Baritone, and the other is a collection of Sacred Music for Baritone.

Yay music!

Since it looks like I'm going to be hanging on to my church job, it makes sense for me to invest in the books... plus they'll come in handy when/if someone asks me to sing at a wedding. One of them also has the bass solos from Handel's Messiah which I'm sure I'll be singing sooner or later.

... Of course I'm also out $44... O_o Ouch.

**Mari** · 05-24-2009, 01:49 PM

I've been playing Wii Fit yesterday and today

I didn't expect it, but it was fun. I wouldn't mind doing that regularly as opposed to going to a fitnesscentre... >_<
And I seem to finally have a good plan for my America-trip (thanks K! >_<) so that is coming along too now. Phew, things coming together feels great!

***Tessar*** · 05-25-2009, 10:33 PM

I totally figured out how to do chord progressions today!!!

Finally...

I mean I understood them in theory, but as far as sitting down at a piano and 'making up a song' based off of a progression I knew was impossible. But the other night I figured one of them out, and then everything just clicked for me.

Now I can sit down and do impromptu songs

. I am going to be SUCH a pop singer for the next few days

.

***Tessar*** · 05-27-2009, 02:41 PM

Well, after much prayer and many weeks of worry and wondering... I have an (at least temporary) voice teacher.

He's a person I know, and he told me a few days ago (when I was explaining my voice-teacher woes to him) that he would love to teach me a few tricks. So today I went in for an informal voice lesson, and this guy is AMAZING. He's just like my old voice teacher, and he had a few new tricks to teach me that really opened my voice up on the upper register!

He wants to keep meeting, and I'm so unspeakably happy right now.

It was funny, because while I was thanking him profusely (partially because he told me that I don't even have to pay him... I mean good GOD who does that?) he got a funny look on his face and told me that he had no idea what had moved him to invite me for a lesson except that he felt like he "needed" to for some reason.

I'm putting that one down to prayer

.

He told me that he was really surprised how well I sing considering what I've told him about my voice, and that he thinks my 'problems' all boil down to having a slow-to-develop voice. He said he's had students like me in the past, and unlike most men who hit their peak around 35-40, I may not hit mine till I'm almost 50, but I'll probably keep my voice a lot longer.

He said I have good technique, I just need to age a little more before I'll be able to make the sounds that my technique has set me up for.

I'd be more dubious, except that it's almost exactly what my old voice teacher told me too... and I have a great deal of respect for both men, so I think I can trust them on that.

He said that he agrees with my old voice teacher and thinks I'll be able to have a professional career, because he thinks I have the 'instrument' and he said that he's rarely met anyone my age who can 'hear' the way I can and who can understand and translate technique so well.

Fingers crossed that I really do have what it takes.

That would be awesome if I really can become good enough... All it boils down to is that I have to keep giving it 101%, pray like it all depends on God, and work like it all depends on me

.

**Mari** · 05-27-2009, 02:51 PM

*huggle* That's great news!

05-12-2009, 05:51 AM	#281
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	How about you two find yourself a nice Star Trek thread to discuss and spare the people who haven't seen the movie yet from further spoilers? __________________ We are not things.

05-12-2009, 11:36 AM	#283
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	May I remind you that I do own a phaser, one that comes with stun Ã*nd full power settings. Don't tempt me to use it on you. Okay, so it works on batteries and the light is broken... But still! __________________ We are not things.

05-12-2009, 07:06 PM	#285
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	It went out on its own. I think the little lamp may need replacement after desintegrating meanie aliens for over a decade. But it still makes noise! __________________ We are not things.

05-13-2009, 09:02 AM	#286
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	I GOT IN!!! to my second choice in courses: the MA in Applied Linguistics. I didn't expect it after my recent rejection and some other professor calling Japanese 'a fun studies' (i.e fun but utterly useless), so I am very happy right now! __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

05-13-2009, 09:04 AM	#287
sisterandcousinandaunt Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4,535	That is AWESOME, Mari! You'll be great. __________________ That would be the swirling vortex to another world. Cool. I want one. TMNT No, I'm not emo. I just have a really poor sense of direction. (Thanks to katya for this quote) This is the best news story EVER! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26087293/ â€œOften my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.â€...John McCain "I shall go back. And I shall find that therapist. And I shall whack her upside her head with my blanket full of rocks." ...Louisa May

05-12-2009, 10:40 AM	#282
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	How about you find yourself a nice SETPHASERSTOSTUN!!! pew pew ... Oh wait, that's just my hand, and me saying 'pew pew'.... ......... >.> <.< .... o_O Okay. Fine.

05-12-2009, 04:02 PM	#284
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	You broke the light!? >.<

05-13-2009, 12:35 PM	#288
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Congratulations, Mari! __________________ We are not things.

05-13-2009, 07:09 PM	#289
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Yay Mari!!!!!!!! OMG! YOU GUYS! I CAN HAZ WHEEL OF TIME RPG RULE BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So. Freakin'. Excited. SQUEE!!! And it was only $8 at halfprice!!! The book's been out of print for years, and usually if you find a copy online it's like $60 or more, because it was originally $40 and anyone looking for one now is probably trying to collect it. But I totally lucked out and found it at halfprice for $8!!!! I'm so excited! I've been hoping to find that book for YEARS.

05-16-2009, 05:32 PM	#290
*VarnafindÃ«* Princess of the Noldor (and Administrative Empress of the Lone Islands) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Imladris (and sometimes Norway) Posts: 3,304	It's a bit early to say yet - but it could be a happy evening for a Norwegian following the Eurovision Song Contest tonight! __________________ Signature picture art - Bard the Bowman - by vigshane Avatar art - Footsteps of Spring (a young Luthien) - by Henning Janssen

05-20-2009, 11:51 AM	#291
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Today is Wednesday, my friends! The day new comic books come out! SWIFTLY! TO THE COMIC BOOK STORE!

05-22-2009, 08:46 AM	#292
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	me and a friend are looking for a flat together, and now we've been offered 3 different ones within a week. X) it's great! and, apparently we're now called the first gay heterosexual couple.. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

05-22-2009, 10:28 AM	#293
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Congrats on the first part , not quite sure what you mean with the second part? __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

05-22-2009, 10:50 AM	#294
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	thanks according to the person who came up with that term, i'm not comfortable about being called a girl and he's not comfortable being called a guy. as a couple, we're then a gay heterosexual couple.. although i'm not quite sure how that works myself. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

05-22-2009, 02:55 PM	#295
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Oh! I think I get it. Sort of __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

05-22-2009, 03:28 PM	#296
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I now own two anthologies! One of selections from Oratorios for Bass/Baritone, and the other is a collection of Sacred Music for Baritone. Yay music! Since it looks like I'm going to be hanging on to my church job, it makes sense for me to invest in the books... plus they'll come in handy when/if someone asks me to sing at a wedding. One of them also has the bass solos from Handel's Messiah which I'm sure I'll be singing sooner or later. ... Of course I'm also out $44... O_o Ouch. Last edited by Tessar : 05-22-2009 at 03:30 PM.

05-24-2009, 01:49 PM	#297
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	I've been playing Wii Fit yesterday and today I didn't expect it, but it was fun. I wouldn't mind doing that regularly as opposed to going to a fitnesscentre... >_< And I seem to finally have a good plan for my America-trip (thanks K! >_<) so that is coming along too now. Phew, things coming together feels great! __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

05-25-2009, 10:33 PM	#298
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I totally figured out how to do chord progressions today!!! Finally... I mean I understood them in theory, but as far as sitting down at a piano and 'making up a song' based off of a progression I knew was impossible. But the other night I figured one of them out, and then everything just clicked for me. Now I can sit down and do impromptu songs . I am going to be SUCH a pop singer for the next few days .

05-27-2009, 02:41 PM	#299
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Well, after much prayer and many weeks of worry and wondering... I have an (at least temporary) voice teacher. He's a person I know, and he told me a few days ago (when I was explaining my voice-teacher woes to him) that he would love to teach me a few tricks. So today I went in for an informal voice lesson, and this guy is AMAZING. He's just like my old voice teacher, and he had a few new tricks to teach me that really opened my voice up on the upper register! He wants to keep meeting, and I'm so unspeakably happy right now. It was funny, because while I was thanking him profusely (partially because he told me that I don't even have to pay him... I mean good GOD who does that?) he got a funny look on his face and told me that he had no idea what had moved him to invite me for a lesson except that he felt like he "needed" to for some reason. I'm putting that one down to prayer . He told me that he was really surprised how well I sing considering what I've told him about my voice, and that he thinks my 'problems' all boil down to having a slow-to-develop voice. He said he's had students like me in the past, and unlike most men who hit their peak around 35-40, I may not hit mine till I'm almost 50, but I'll probably keep my voice a lot longer. He said I have good technique, I just need to age a little more before I'll be able to make the sounds that my technique has set me up for. I'd be more dubious, except that it's almost exactly what my old voice teacher told me too... and I have a great deal of respect for both men, so I think I can trust them on that. He said that he agrees with my old voice teacher and thinks I'll be able to have a professional career, because he thinks I have the 'instrument' and he said that he's rarely met anyone my age who can 'hear' the way I can and who can understand and translate technique so well. Fingers crossed that I really do have what it takes. That would be awesome if I really can become good enough... All it boils down to is that I have to keep giving it 101%, pray like it all depends on God, and work like it all depends on me .

05-27-2009, 02:51 PM	#300
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	huggle That's great news! __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

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