The Happy Thread IV - Page 7

**Mari** · 01-21-2009, 05:26 AM

You needed cheering up then?

***Tessar*** · 01-21-2009, 01:25 PM

Yeah, yesterday was a bit crappy, mostly because I had trouble in jazz choir. I'm so used to singing certain notes in chords, that I was almost completely unable to sing the right line during jazz choir... in regular music we basses typically only sing the root/fifth or maybe a few odd harmonies, but usually it's a logical progression. In jazz music, your line can make some of the most (seemingly, anyways) illogical leaps through different parts of the chords. It's just weird, and was really difficult. Plus I was already starting to feel a little sick, so... it was blech.

The concert was glorious, though

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**Mari** · 01-24-2009, 11:52 AM

I watched a Norwegian film for children. Those films always make me happy

Every Saturday, 15.30 o'clock. Today was Rumpelstiltskin and of course it had a happy ending.
Happy ending... ur doin it rite!

GrayMouser · 01-25-2009, 10:53 PM

Today is Chinese New Year- Happy Year of the Ox!

Had the traditional big dinner with all the wife's family last night, followed by watching the fireworks. Just started a week-long holiday- downside,so has everybody else so every place will be packed, though maybe not so much this year because of the downturn.

Our government has just handed out coupons worth about US$100 to every man, woman, and child in Taiwan to try and stimulate spending- guess I'll have to go out and do my patriotic duty

Ox people:

15 February 1961 - 4 February 1962: Metal Ox
3 February 1973 - 22 January 1974: Water Ox
20 February 1985 - 8 February 1986: Wood Ox
7 February 1997 - 28 January 1998: Fire Ox
26 January 2009 - 14 February 2010: Earth Ox

***Jonathan*** · 01-26-2009, 02:49 PM

Happy New Year GrayMouser

I'm an Ox person (Wood Ox), so I wore red today for good luck

Would you recommend any other rituals or stuff that an Ox traditionalist should do this year?

Nerdanel · 01-27-2009, 05:27 AM

The Chinese New Year also made me happy, when I almost by mistake realized that they were having a 4-hour celebration in downtown Helsinki on Sunday. I took some nice photos and had a great time developing them.. last night.. 'til 4 am. XD

Anyway, the snow is slowly dancing down from the sky, and the sun is sometimes peeking out from behind the heavy clouds.. It's a beautiful day.

**Mari** · 01-27-2009, 01:31 PM

My written presentation was deemed a good pass

Didn't expect that. Now I get to take my exam.

The last sane person · 01-27-2009, 03:11 PM

I'm a Leonine earth Dragon, RAWR!

I have a great fuzzy mane and tail? Fluffy wings maybaps?

I'm happy because I got an A on my test and my first two assignments and quizzes. Hurrah!

Nerdanel · 01-27-2009, 06:40 PM

I got some great news this evening: my granddad has decided to give the summer cottage to me! So I am now a land owner and have property..

I love that place.

*dances*

***Rían*** · 01-27-2009, 08:14 PM

That's wonderful, Nel! There's something so wonderful-sounding about "summer cottage" ...

Nerdanel · 01-28-2009, 04:18 AM

hehe.. yes, it's very nice. it's a small cottage in the archipelago with some forest around it.

this, for instance, is from there:
http://raido-ehwaz.deviantart.com/art/Sunrise-65386246

***Jonathan*** · 01-28-2009, 12:45 PM

A summer cabin in an archipelago is just heavenly. Make good use of it

Nerdanel · 01-28-2009, 04:31 PM

it is a small paradise, yeah

i'll do my best..

The last sane person · 01-28-2009, 04:40 PM

Oh you lucky bum!

CONGRATS! Sounds fun, go take a buncha pretty pictures of it.

Nerdanel · 01-28-2009, 05:26 PM

thank you! yeah, i'll go there as soon as i can.. it's quite far from where i live now (it's close to where my mum lives, about 500 km from here), but i talked to my grandmum today and she said it's reachable by ice now.. 8)

Nerdanel · 01-29-2009, 12:40 PM

a week ago i got an email from my supervisor saying, fill out this form, you might get some money for this summer. so i filled it out in a minute or so. now i've been granted 2000 € for working in a research group for two months this summer (ie. 1000€/month).

that was easy. o.O and i guess i know my summer plans now..

The last sane person · 01-29-2009, 06:39 PM

Heh! Well, that was some real brain-wracking planning.

Good to hear things are going swimmingly for you!

**Mari** · 01-30-2009, 06:08 AM

Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! I cannot only make myself audible today, I've added three tones to my voice! Yay for escaping monotone speaking! Who knows, I might actually get my voice back! Oh my goodness, this is a such a relief.
I've practically been without voice (i.e. I couldn't make myself audible and if I could I was very monotone and soft) for 6 weeks...
Oh, I'm so happy right now

There is hope yet ^_^

***Rían*** · 01-30-2009, 02:57 PM

6 weeks?!?! That's a long time! Welcome back, Mari's voice!

**Mari** · 01-30-2009, 03:21 PM

Yep, I'm hoping it will stay

01-21-2009, 05:26 AM	#121
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	You needed cheering up then? __________________ 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"...

01-24-2009, 11:52 AM	#123
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	I watched a Norwegian film for children. Those films always make me happy Every Saturday, 15.30 o'clock. Today was Rumpelstiltskin and of course it had a happy ending. Happy ending... ur doin it rite! __________________ 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"...

01-25-2009, 10:53 PM	#124
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	Today is Chinese New Year- Happy Year of the Ox! Had the traditional big dinner with all the wife's family last night, followed by watching the fireworks. Just started a week-long holiday- downside,so has everybody else so every place will be packed, though maybe not so much this year because of the downturn. Our government has just handed out coupons worth about US$100 to every man, woman, and child in Taiwan to try and stimulate spending- guess I'll have to go out and do my patriotic duty Ox people: 15 February 1961 - 4 February 1962: Metal Ox 3 February 1973 - 22 January 1974: Water Ox 20 February 1985 - 8 February 1986: Wood Ox 7 February 1997 - 28 January 1998: Fire Ox 26 January 2009 - 14 February 2010: Earth Ox __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

01-26-2009, 02:49 PM	#125
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	Happy New Year GrayMouser I'm an Ox person (Wood Ox), so I wore red today for good luck Would you recommend any other rituals or stuff that an Ox traditionalist should do this year? __________________ 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 it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

01-27-2009, 05:27 AM	#126
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	The Chinese New Year also made me happy, when I almost by mistake realized that they were having a 4-hour celebration in downtown Helsinki on Sunday. I took some nice photos and had a great time developing them.. last night.. 'til 4 am. XD Anyway, the snow is slowly dancing down from the sky, and the sun is sometimes peeking out from behind the heavy clouds.. It's a beautiful day. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

01-21-2009, 01:25 PM	#122
*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	Yeah, yesterday was a bit crappy, mostly because I had trouble in jazz choir. I'm so used to singing certain notes in chords, that I was almost completely unable to sing the right line during jazz choir... in regular music we basses typically only sing the root/fifth or maybe a few odd harmonies, but usually it's a logical progression. In jazz music, your line can make some of the most (seemingly, anyways) illogical leaps through different parts of the chords. It's just weird, and was really difficult. Plus I was already starting to feel a little sick, so... it was blech. The concert was glorious, though .

01-27-2009, 01:31 PM	#127
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	My written presentation was deemed a good pass Didn't expect that. Now I get to take my exam. __________________ 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"...

01-27-2009, 03:11 PM	#128
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	I'm a Leonine earth Dragon, RAWR! I have a great fuzzy mane and tail? Fluffy wings maybaps? I'm happy because I got an A on my test and my first two assignments and quizzes. Hurrah! __________________ 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.

01-27-2009, 06:40 PM	#129
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	I got some great news this evening: my granddad has decided to give the summer cottage to me! So I am now a land owner and have property.. I love that place. dances __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

01-27-2009, 08:14 PM	#130
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	That's wonderful, Nel! There's something so wonderful-sounding about "summer cottage" ... __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

01-28-2009, 04:18 AM	#131
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	hehe.. yes, it's very nice. it's a small cottage in the archipelago with some forest around it. this, for instance, is from there: http://raido-ehwaz.deviantart.com/art/Sunrise-65386246 __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

01-28-2009, 12:45 PM	#132
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	A summer cabin in an archipelago is just heavenly. Make good use of it __________________ 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 it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

01-28-2009, 04:31 PM	#133
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	it is a small paradise, yeah i'll do my best.. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

01-28-2009, 04:40 PM	#134
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Oh you lucky bum! CONGRATS! Sounds fun, go take a buncha pretty pictures of 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.

01-28-2009, 05:26 PM	#135
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	thank you! yeah, i'll go there as soon as i can.. it's quite far from where i live now (it's close to where my mum lives, about 500 km from here), but i talked to my grandmum today and she said it's reachable by ice now.. 8) __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

01-29-2009, 12:40 PM	#136
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	a week ago i got an email from my supervisor saying, fill out this form, you might get some money for this summer. so i filled it out in a minute or so. now i've been granted 2000 € for working in a research group for two months this summer (ie. 1000€/month). that was easy. o.O and i guess i know my summer plans now.. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

01-29-2009, 06:39 PM	#137
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Heh! Well, that was some real brain-wracking planning. Good to hear things are going swimmingly for you! __________________ 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.

01-30-2009, 06:08 AM	#138
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! I cannot only make myself audible today, I've added three tones to my voice! Yay for escaping monotone speaking! Who knows, I might actually get my voice back! Oh my goodness, this is a such a relief. I've practically been without voice (i.e. I couldn't make myself audible and if I could I was very monotone and soft) for 6 weeks... Oh, I'm so happy right now There is hope yet ^_^ __________________ 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"...

01-30-2009, 02:57 PM	#139
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	6 weeks?!?! That's a long time! Welcome back, Mari's voice! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

01-30-2009, 03:21 PM	#140
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Yep, I'm hoping it will stay __________________ 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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