Whats making you happy right now

#11181 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 05 September 2014 - 04:52 PM

Mezla PigDog, on 05 September 2014 - 09:11 AM, said:

I have learned a new (anti)social skill. I'm usually painfully polite when trapped by boring people but an extremely boring lady was talking to me on a training course yesterday. She didn't take any of the usual conversational cues that she was boring me (trying to change the subject followed by forced smiles followed by looking around for escape). I just walked off

It was very liberating. I shall use it again.

She's probably still talking.

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#11182 Slow Ben

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Posted 06 September 2014 - 05:53 PM

High Priestess of our new tyrannical overlord whom we bow before said:

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My in-laws have bought a house in Oregon, just a couple of hours outside of Portland. Meaning we'll be spending our holidays in Oregon rather than Alaska from now on.

I am rather excited.

Oh my GOD!!!! I am super excited too. Where!!! Now if we time it right on a vacation we can all do microbrew hopping in Portland.

Also this has been making me smile all day

Explosions

I'm definitly up for that

! I'm not sure exactly where it is, but was told it was two hours outside of Portland.

Depending on which directon that two hours is my in-laws live either 3 or 7 hours from there. Beer party!

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

#11183 Binder of Demons

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Posted 06 September 2014 - 09:04 PM

Attended my first game last night for my new employers, and got to see a short video clip I made get played over the big screen as pre-match and halftime entertainment/information.

The clip itself was nothing great (just some match highlights and crowd reactions from the previous week) but to actually see it playing on a big screen in a stadium was nice.

Also got to swan around the stadium wherever I wanted with my shiny new ACCESS ALL AREAS pass. Would be much happier if the result had gone our way too.

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#11184 Grimjust Bearegular

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Posted 08 September 2014 - 07:51 AM

I just bought a motherfucking house! 215 square metres of awesomeness. It has a patio, a big fat backyard, double garage with a small room above with where I can write and sew and what the fuck ever, a bath tub...and the best part - fibre (for internetz)!!!

Aaaaw jiisssss!

This also means I can finally get a cat, or two, and a dog...oh, and a tea cup pig, and a pygmy goat!!!!

Things and stuffs...and other important objects.

#11185 worry

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Posted 08 September 2014 - 08:31 AM

Make sure it's a wimpy goat.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#11186 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 08 September 2014 - 08:41 AM

Binder of Demons, on 06 September 2014 - 09:04 PM, said:

Sounds ace! Who do you work for?

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#11187 Gredfallan Ale

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Posted 08 September 2014 - 12:28 PM

Well, I finally allowed myself to buy new clothes.

Last year, I decided I had to get back in shape, so I started changing my lifestyle a bit. In total, I've lost just under 20 kg (Google tells me that's ~44lbs) in a year, so my wardrobe was filled with ill-fitting clothes. During the year, as I was still losing weight, I only bought things that were absolutely necessary, such as a belt.

Now, I'm quite stable at a healthy weight, although I'm planning to lose some more weight next spring (leading up to my yearly cycling trip in the mountains).

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'

#11188 Binder of Demons

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Posted 08 September 2014 - 05:33 PM

Tiste Simeon, on 08 September 2014 - 08:41 AM, said:

Binder of Demons, on 06 September 2014 - 09:04 PM, said:

Attended my first game last night for my new employers, and got to see a short video clip I made get played over the big screen as pre-match and halftime entertainment/information.

Sounds ace! Who do you work for?

I started working as an intern (of sorts) for Munster Rugby. A frankly ridiculous job to fall into considering my relative lack of experience. So I need to make the absolute most of it. My old film/video classmates are suitably jealous.

Looking forward to the big European Cup games at home. Should be mayhem.

#11189 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 08 September 2014 - 06:44 PM

Binder of Demons, on 08 September 2014 - 05:33 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 08 September 2014 - 08:41 AM, said:

Binder of Demons, on 06 September 2014 - 09:04 PM, said:

Attended my first game last night for my new employers, and got to see a short video clip I made get played over the big screen as pre-match and halftime entertainment/information.

Sounds ace! Who do you work for?

Nice! Congrats!

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#11190 Gothos

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Posted 10 September 2014 - 03:27 PM

GF said she wants to enroll for pole dancing training. After some shock and actually coming to terms with the idea, it's actually pretty kickass. Worst thing is that I feel the pressure now to enroll with a gym myself...

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#11191 Tarthenal Theloman Toblakai

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Posted 10 September 2014 - 04:04 PM

Finally got a matching set of Lettered Malazan books!!! Got the first one through today, looks AMAZING. The book shelf may need upgrading....

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#11192 TheRetiredBridgeburner

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Posted 11 September 2014 - 06:15 PM

Just finished Skin Game.

Two words:

PARKOUR, BITCH! Posted Image

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#11193 Gredfallan Ale

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Posted 14 September 2014 - 08:35 AM

The cup of coffee I'm drinking.

#11194 Studlock

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Posted 16 September 2014 - 03:36 AM

I got my sister to pick up The Mirror Empire. Usually she reads paranormal romance which is fine but I hope this books kickstarts a interest in both epic fantasy and interest in feminist fiction (though not say some paranormal romance isn't, I don't read much, but I doubt the stuff she reads is).

#11195 Slow Ben

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Posted 19 September 2014 - 06:37 PM

Its fish taco friday bitches!

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

#11196 Vengeance

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Posted 19 September 2014 - 07:16 PM

I just saw that Assail and Crack'd Pot Trail were delivered to my house. So they are waiting for me when I get home.

How many fucking people do I have to hammer in order to get that across.
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#11197 Ukjent

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Posted 20 September 2014 - 08:51 AM

Slow Ben, on 19 September 2014 - 06:37 PM, said:

Its fish taco friday bitches!

ehhhhhhhh

#11198 Silencer

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Posted 20 September 2014 - 01:24 PM

NZ elections are over. Regardless of the result, this at least means I no longer have to listen to our elected representatives talking over each other like children in various debates, and it will no longer feel like anyone is studiously trying to avoid the topic of elections at work. Woo!

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#11199 Gredfallan Ale

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Posted 20 September 2014 - 02:13 PM

Silencer, on 20 September 2014 - 01:24 PM, said:

this at least means I no longer have to listen to our elected representatives talking over each other like children in various debates,

Now you have to deal with them governing your country like a bunch of children govern their sandbox.

#11200 Silencer

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Posted 20 September 2014 - 03:00 PM

Gredfallan Ale, on 20 September 2014 - 02:13 PM, said:

Silencer, on 20 September 2014 - 01:24 PM, said:

this at least means I no longer have to listen to our elected representatives talking over each other like children in various debates,

Now you have to deal with them governing your country like a bunch of children govern their sandbox.

So, "business as usual", as far as all politicians go, then?

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Shinrei said:

<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.