The Happy Thread V - Page 16

**Mari** · 02-04-2011, 11:22 AM

Did you seize the opportunity to make snow angels?

On the other topic: A+ is pretty much impossible here, even in elementary school, though for various reasons. In elementary school it is argued that it would hurt the growth of other less bright kids of kids got a 10 (our grades go from 1 to 10, a 5.5 being a pass) so they created a ceiling at an 8. In secondary schools 10s are possible, but rare when it comes to Arts since there is always someway to have done it better and in university a 10 is cause for debate.

EllethValatari · 02-04-2011, 02:16 PM

Good for you, Tessar! It must be amazing to see snow for the first time!

***Jonathan*** · 02-04-2011, 02:29 PM

I once accompanied a person who there and then saw snow for the first time. She carefully let the snowflakes land on the back of her hand and examined them closely. That was pretty cute

The last sane person · 02-04-2011, 03:36 PM

*loves the mass effect series and the soundtracks, especially after playing them with my bro in the epic entertainment room I built him*

Fun times with my eldest brother playing video games. We've NEVER done anything remotely Brother-Sister before. How strange. But it was fun, for a man I hardly knew and had only rarely seen, we're scarily alike. I'm glad he's around now.

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-04-2011, 03:49 PM

Funkeh. I have a half brother and a half sister that I've very rarely seen, and a half brother I've never seen. All way older than me. I wonder if they're scarily like me . . .

The last sane person · 02-04-2011, 04:17 PM

Same here. I'm the youngest of my siblings by a long shot, even in regards to the youngest of my brothers. But my eldest brother is old enough to be my dad, really.

He is a half brother, as you say. Though that word feels strange in my mouth; we don't have the concept of "half" siblings. Even if you only share one parent, you call them "Brother" or "Sister" without the half denotation. Weird. Anyways.

I don't know if you have similarities with your siblings, but I certainly do with him, and I feel comfortable around him in ways that I do not with my closer full siblings. I can actually say I have a sibling that I am close to, even though I've only come to know him for the past year. It's just such a strange feeling, really. 22 years of pretty much being on my own and having a fractious-at-best-lethal-at-worst relation with my remaining brothers, within one year I've become comfortable and trusting with the eldest as if he's been here the whole time.

I'm happy in a confused way. Not sure how to put it.

***Tessar*** · 02-04-2011, 04:35 PM

You know, I have a friend that I only recently discovered and in a way it REALLY is like I've known him forever. In part because he and I are so alike (in regards to music we're extremely detail oriented and analytical, we're both the youngest of our families, we share the same views on just about everything... it's a little scary some times) but we also just connected almost the minute we met. It was surprising how after just two weeks of hanging out I would have considered him a closer friend than many people I've known and talked to for years.

I think sometimes you just meet someone you relate to.

**Mari** · 02-04-2011, 08:01 PM

My best friend and I started off with a sort of hate-hate relationship. But we are so much alike in looks, situation, interests... we think alike and when we don't we still know how the other thinks.
We are still very different though. Sounds a bit contradictory, I know, but that's the way it is. It's great

Lief Erikson · 02-04-2011, 09:24 PM

Everything in my life is going perfectly right now!

Actually, everything's been going perfectly since 2009.

***Jonathan*** · 02-06-2011, 06:32 PM

As I'm moving out of town shortly, my friends arranged a fantastic surprise party for me today!

I thought I was showing up for a simple homely dinner with my god-daughter and her parents. But in her room, all my closest friends quietly hid and when I entered the room...
... they all jumped forth and yelled surprise and covered me in balloons and streamers

I certainly have the best of friends

Voronwen · 02-06-2011, 11:01 PM

I just got back from a wonderful weekend with my Dad and my beloved church family. God was amazing today, and all weekend... and all the time.... Thank you, Lord!

GrayMouser · 02-07-2011, 02:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

Everything in my life is going perfectly right now!

Actually, everything's been going perfectly since 2009.

Nice to here from you Lief- last time you checked in you were talking about joining a religious community- how did that end up? (or has it?)

GrayMouser · 02-07-2011, 02:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RÃ*an

Just got back from a fun time - we got private suite tickets for the Phoenix Suns' game (basketball) for free from my husband's work.

Very nice!

Suns are my favorite team, though I'm not a great basketball fan.

1) got a close friend from Phoenix, so have to support them

2) Steve Nash- not only Canadian, but short!

3) Los Sols

GrayMouser · 02-07-2011, 02:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jonathan

I once accompanied a person who there and then saw snow for the first time. She carefully let the snowflakes land on the back of her hand and examined them closely. That was pretty cute

On the rare occasions we get snow on the mountains in Taiwan there are massive traffic jams of people driving up to get a look.

Speaking of first experiences, reminds me of a couple I knew who moved from Saskatchewan to Vancouver. They decided that it would be romantic to spend their first night camped on the beach. As the man later said, "What did we know about tides?"

Lief Erikson · 02-07-2011, 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrayMouser

Nice to here from you Lief- last time you checked in you were talking about joining a religious community- how did that end up? (or has it?)

On the 9th of this month, I'll be visiting three religious orders. I'll first be visiting the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity in Texas. I'll be with them about five days. From there, I'll fly to the Franciscan Friars of the Eternal Word in Birmingham, Alabama. I'll be with them about nine days. And then I'll fly to a come-and-see event in St. Louis and will be at it till the end of the event. That will be a three day period of discernment with the Dominicans. Then I'll fly home.

I hope to know where my Lady is calling me, by the end of this trip. Or to discern where I'm called in the immediately following weeks of prayer and discernment.

***RÃan*** · 02-07-2011, 10:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrayMouser

Very nice!

Suns are my favorite team, though I'm not a great basketball fan.

1) got a close friend from Phoenix, so have to support them

2) Steve Nash- not only Canadian, but short!

3) Los Sols

I'm not a big basketball fan either, but it was a fun experience

Yes, Nash is pretty good, esp. for (IIRC) starting late at basketball (I think he was a soccer player?)

EllethValatari · 02-08-2011, 12:31 AM

I'm overjoyed to be back to school and I think I'm the only student who feels this way! We're supposed to be hit by another crazy blizzard Wednesday. I'm really hoping we don't! I was driving through an older part of town and passed by a Presbyterian church. On the sign where they usually post their sermon topics it read, "Whoever is praying for snow, STOP!" I laughed.

tolkienfan · 02-08-2011, 12:54 AM

I'M ENGAGED!!! HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY

**Mari** · 02-08-2011, 02:27 PM

Wow Tolkienfan, congrats!

Elleth, you are not the only one who likes school (though how much I want to go back really depends on how far into the school year we are and how long the holidays were...

)
That is funny.

Ingwe · 02-08-2011, 03:55 PM

Right now, sitting on MSN, just had to talk with my ISP about phone-related problems (phone, cable, internet through same company), and got it sorted out (for now). Isn't that Comcastic?

02-04-2011, 11:22 AM	#301
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Did you seize the opportunity to make snow angels? On the other topic: A+ is pretty much impossible here, even in elementary school, though for various reasons. In elementary school it is argued that it would hurt the growth of other less bright kids of kids got a 10 (our grades go from 1 to 10, a 5.5 being a pass) so they created a ceiling at an 8. In secondary schools 10s are possible, but rare when it comes to Arts since there is always someway to have done it better and in university a 10 is cause for debate. __________________ 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"...

02-04-2011, 02:16 PM	#302
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	Good for you, Tessar! It must be amazing to see snow for the first time! __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." â€” J.R.R. Tolkien

02-04-2011, 02:29 PM	#303
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	I once accompanied a person who there and then saw snow for the first time. She carefully let the snowflakes land on the back of her hand and examined them closely. That was pretty cute __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and itâ€™s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry thatâ€™s ever been written. ☻

02-04-2011, 03:36 PM	#304
The last sane person The Black NÃºmenÃ³rean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	loves the mass effect series and the soundtracks, especially after playing them with my bro in the epic entertainment room I built him Fun times with my eldest brother playing video games. We've NEVER done anything remotely Brother-Sister before. How strange. But it was fun, for a man I hardly knew and had only rarely seen, we're scarily alike. I'm glad he's around now. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

02-04-2011, 03:49 PM	#305
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Funkeh. I have a half brother and a half sister that I've very rarely seen, and a half brother I've never seen. All way older than me. I wonder if they're scarily like me . . . __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

02-04-2011, 04:17 PM	#306
The last sane person The Black NÃºmenÃ³rean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Same here. I'm the youngest of my siblings by a long shot, even in regards to the youngest of my brothers. But my eldest brother is old enough to be my dad, really. He is a half brother, as you say. Though that word feels strange in my mouth; we don't have the concept of "half" siblings. Even if you only share one parent, you call them "Brother" or "Sister" without the half denotation. Weird. Anyways. I don't know if you have similarities with your siblings, but I certainly do with him, and I feel comfortable around him in ways that I do not with my closer full siblings. I can actually say I have a sibling that I am close to, even though I've only come to know him for the past year. It's just such a strange feeling, really. 22 years of pretty much being on my own and having a fractious-at-best-lethal-at-worst relation with my remaining brothers, within one year I've become comfortable and trusting with the eldest as if he's been here the whole time. I'm happy in a confused way. Not sure how to put it. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

02-04-2011, 04:35 PM	#307
*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 know, I have a friend that I only recently discovered and in a way it REALLY is like I've known him forever. In part because he and I are so alike (in regards to music we're extremely detail oriented and analytical, we're both the youngest of our families, we share the same views on just about everything... it's a little scary some times) but we also just connected almost the minute we met. It was surprising how after just two weeks of hanging out I would have considered him a closer friend than many people I've known and talked to for years. I think sometimes you just meet someone you relate to.

02-04-2011, 08:01 PM	#308
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	My best friend and I started off with a sort of hate-hate relationship. But we are so much alike in looks, situation, interests... we think alike and when we don't we still know how the other thinks. We are still very different though. Sounds a bit contradictory, I know, but that's the way it is. It's 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"...

02-04-2011, 09:24 PM	#309
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	Everything in my life is going perfectly right now! Actually, everything's been going perfectly since 2009. __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do." Last edited by Lief Erikson : 02-04-2011 at 09:25 PM.

02-06-2011, 06:32 PM	#310
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	As I'm moving out of town shortly, my friends arranged a fantastic surprise party for me today! I thought I was showing up for a simple homely dinner with my god-daughter and her parents. But in her room, all my closest friends quietly hid and when I entered the room... ... they all jumped forth and yelled surprise and covered me in balloons and streamers I certainly have the best of friends __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and itâ€™s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry thatâ€™s ever been written. ☻

02-06-2011, 11:01 PM	#311
Voronwen Lady of AndÃºniÃ« Join Date: May 2009 Location: AndÃºniÃ« Posts: 572	I just got back from a wonderful weekend with my Dad and my beloved church family. God was amazing today, and all weekend... and all the time.... Thank you, Lord! __________________ " ...But the Exiles on the shores of the sea, if they turned towards the West in the desire of their hearts, spoke of Mar-nu-Falmar that was whelmed in the waves, AkallabÃªth the Downfallen, AtalantÃ« in the Eldarin tongue." "Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest ... " ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline

02-08-2011, 12:31 AM	#317
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	I'm overjoyed to be back to school and I think I'm the only student who feels this way! We're supposed to be hit by another crazy blizzard Wednesday. I'm really hoping we don't! I was driving through an older part of town and passed by a Presbyterian church. On the sign where they usually post their sermon topics it read, "Whoever is praying for snow, STOP!" I laughed. __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." â€” J.R.R. Tolkien

02-08-2011, 12:54 AM	#318
tolkienfan Elf Lord Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Internet Posts: 803	I'M ENGAGED!!! HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY __________________ Don't be hasty! Thanks so much to Last Child of Ungoliant, Twista, and BeardofPants for my avatar!

02-08-2011, 02:27 PM	#319
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Wow Tolkienfan, congrats! Elleth, you are not the only one who likes school (though how much I want to go back really depends on how far into the school year we are and how long the holidays were... ) That is funny. __________________ 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"...

02-08-2011, 03:55 PM	#320
Ingwe Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Somewhere not of this world Posts: 402	Right now, sitting on MSN, just had to talk with my ISP about phone-related problems (phone, cable, internet through same company), and got it sorted out (for now). Isn't that Comcastic? __________________ I'm back. Everyone fear for their lives. Arrggghhh! Get to the choppa, it's Godzilla, fighting Indiana Jones, Copyright, uh-oh!

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