BS: What made you happy today

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 26 Sep 07 - 06:25 AM

Whoopee!!! Good news indeed CatherineJayne, now I have somewhere to bury the bodies!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 26 Sep 07 - 05:56 AM

Paul got a phone call today from his solicitor giving him some very good news about the woodland he now owns in his own right!!! It's the good news we have been waiting for!

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: bobad
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 10:12 PM

I didn't think people would be interested in my having a leak, Bert.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Jeri
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 09:54 PM

It started last night. I turned out the lights to go to bed then had to stand by the window for a while. One barred owl called, then another, then two, then the lot of them. It sounded like about 5 or 6, maybe more. I've heard one or two at a time, but not that many. Maybe the full moon meant good hunting.

Today, I went to the beach - something I haven't done for a few years. I walked barefoot in the surf and found a large hunk of black quartz. Some days are just about perfect.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Bert
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 09:47 PM

You don't tell people that bobad. You wait until they ask if there were any leaks and then you say indignantly "Of course not!"

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: bobad
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 07:03 PM

Replaced my bath/shower fixtures, sweated the joints, turned the water back on, and - no leaks.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 06:58 PM

Just received a phone call ;-))

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 03:45 PM

Not having the "bug that's going around" like I had yesterday.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 03:37 PM

Finding $75 worth of stamps I had left somewhere. mg

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 11:47 AM

Just finished work..early today. Had a really good day with a deaf student, and its great seeing her mix now ,with confiendence, with hother hearing students in her group. She was so shy at first. Its so nice doing something really constructive with a day.

rc

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: mg
Date: 25 Sep 07 - 12:11 AM

picking cranberries in the warm sun..they are great berries to pick..grow in huge clusters almost like grapes, you can sit on them and not squish them..no thorns...nice mossy little bed. mg

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 04:51 PM

I got a get well card from my daughter in the UK.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 01:38 PM

He he just read some of the jokes in the 4th joke thread, and yes they made me laugh lots, some real goodens for sure.
Just what the doctor ordered as i was having some moments of sadness.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 11:54 AM

I read the joke 4th joke thread and it made me chuckle lots!!! Lots of good ones in there!

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 11:40 AM

Thats wonderful Shelagh, speak soon xxx

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 11:38 AM

Somehow i feel at peace today x

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 11:30 AM

John Hardly, congratulations! That's a great thing to be happy about!

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Alba
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 10:38 AM

Ah noo that's very handy to know Giok. Somehow I jist knew yi wid be open minded like masel....;>)

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 10:34 AM

I'm open to bribery and corruption Jude
G

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Alba
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 10:32 AM

So Giok, whit yir saying is yir good for a tap on Thursday then....LOL
Jude x

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 10:08 AM

The deposit cheque for the Motor home arrived in the post, and is even now resting in the warm and loving arms of my bank. Looks like it's going to happen at last. I shall go YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY, when I get the balance in my hands on Thursday afternoon.
Giok
With pinkies crossed ;->

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 09:39 AM

*G* your right Shelagh!

Had a lovely walk and a nice conversation with a complete stranger and her baby in Starbucks. It really nice when people just say 'hello'

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 08:27 AM

He he Catherine you see the sleep, or lack of it, finally caught up with him in the end, little devil, remember he would not nap the other day. Aren't babies such joy. Lol x
rc

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 24 Sep 07 - 03:58 AM

Harry slept from 7:30pm last night right through until 7am this morning. Normally he's asleep by 8:30pm.

I've got a dining room table at last! Now we can have friends round for dinner!!!

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 10:55 PM

My daughter was down for a visit and when asked how classes are going in college, expressed frustration about her English lit class. World lit, but with all of these essays in between the lit readings that don't make a lot of sense. Seems my daughter skipped the prerequisite for the class, the intro to theory (the contents of all of those confusing essays). FORTUNATELY, Mom has her master's in English lit and was able to do a crash course over the next couple of days on how to understand what the theory is trying to get at. Now how often can a mom teach a teenager something new, and have her appreciate it? :)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Joe_F
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 10:13 PM

Kindness from people I admire.
A brass band.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Becca72
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 05:12 PM

The sick kitty is feeling better and actually wanted to play with his brother a little bit this morning.

Spent a few couple at the County Fair and had my yearly treat of hot apple crisp with vanilla ice cream. YUM! Now I'm set until next September.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Alice
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 03:59 PM

Chatted with Mudchat friends early this morning when I woke up...
it is great to have friends all over the world.
Woke up remembering that I am taking this week off from work..
and glad to actually have a job to support myself!

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Metchosin
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 03:59 PM

I'm so happy I could hang myself. LOL...... 100!

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Metchosin
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 03:49 PM

I'm getting a new hydro pole and this time, I don't have to dig the hole for it, like I did for the first one, many years ago. We're hiring someone else with a backhoe to do the job. Yippee! No more days and days of ramming a hole with an iron bar and carefully scooping out the hard pan, from a prone position, using a garden hoe. Yup, we've come a long way. We've entered the machine age.

We're also getting a standby generator! I'll be able to flush the toilet when the power goes out and not have to haul water for the horse. Ain't technology grand?

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Leadbelly
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 03:06 PM

To wake up again after lots of years of living.
Afterwards, to see my 5 cats, when walking through the garden and to give them love.
Listening to singing birds and taking a deep breath of the early morning fresh air.
Walking back into the kitchen to prepare breakfast for my darling.
And above all: to read this great thread,

Manfred from Germany

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: John Hardly
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 01:45 PM

halfway down the left column

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 23 Sep 07 - 12:51 PM

shopping and more shopping!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Riginslinger
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 09:26 PM

Acknowledgement by the mainstream media that Blackwater is actually working behind the scenes to keep the war in Iraq going.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: GUEST,rock chick
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 05:11 AM

chatting with a lovely friend yesterday, then spending time with a truly wonderful person and waking up to blue sky and sunshine, what more can you ask for. x

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Sep 07 - 03:08 AM

Putting the 280th person into the family tree, on just the one side. They can all trace their (or their partner's) ancestry back to one William Dunford, born in 1731.

About 250 of 'em lived in the same village over about 190years. Those 32 kids at mother's school with the same surname that she said we weren't related to? She was wrong!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 10:38 PM

Got the first coat of paint on the new porch floor. I've been telling myself to do it all summer.

[whispering] Now it's storming, but the weather demons messed up. They should have waited until the SECOND coat was new and vulnerable.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Bert
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 05:50 PM

Oh, Ayla's the Granddaughter really.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Genie
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 04:55 PM

Les and Jude, thanks for your condolences and blessings. Les, it sounds like your mom's situation is much like my mom's.   My mom is physically in great shape for 91, partly because caring for Dad gave her a pretty good workout every day and partly because she has a wholistic-medicine oriented MD daughter nearby.   She's also an independent spirit who's not inclined to feel sorry for herself, but I fear that sometimes extends to not acknowledging some of her own emotional and social needs.   With Dad having gone on, she could be free to enjoy her "golden years" without having to spend so much time and energy on "housekeeping," but finding yourself suddenly free of responsibilities and with lots of time on your hands can be traumatic in its own way.   It won't surprise me if she "follows Dad home" within the next few years.   And, since her short-term memory has begun to deteriorate noticeably, that might not be a bad thing.   She does not want to have her mind 'go' for 10 years before her body finally follows suit.

It is, indeed, a joy when leaving this world is both timely and peaceful.


Bert, congratulations on your daughter's "poopy noises."

And, Les, happy birthday to your daughter and it's good to know that the bully situation is under control, at least for now.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Rasener
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 04:04 PM

And thanks to you Jude. I will do that. :-)

Les

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Alba
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 04:02 PM

Oh and Villian ma dear
Give your Daughter a Big Hug from me and please wish her a Very Happy Birth Day from Jude in America if you don't mind.

Love to You and Yours
Jude

Yes, I agree with you. People can be very cruel but like a wheel turnig with time their actions will always comes back to them one way or another...then..well let's just call it cosmic justice Villian:)

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Rasener
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 03:54 PM

Thanks Bert

Genie my condolensces and I understand how you feel.

Last year my father passed away at 90 (almost 70 years married), leaving my mother alone in a nursing home with macular degeneration, angina, arthritus, poor circulation, wheelchair bound and in nursing care.

He could have run in the olympics but his parents couldn't afford the cost in those days. Fit as a fiddle up to 6 months before he passed away. Then he went really down hill and wanted to end it. I was happy when it was over.

My mother is not handling it at all and is so depressed and has had enough. The kindest thing anybody could do is help her on her way.

Keep at it and think of the good things about you Dad.

best wishes.

Les

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Alba
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 03:53 PM

Bless your Father's Soaring Heart Genie.
Thank you for sharing your feelings with us
Holding You and Yours in my thoughts.
Have a safe and peaceful Flight Sir for that is surely what you have earned
Love, Light, Blessings and {{{Hugs}}}
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Genie
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 03:33 PM

What made me happy today - actually last night - also made me sad.   My father has been in very poor and deteriorating health for at least a couple of years and his quality of life had become increasingly poor (macular degeneration, poorer and poorer hearing, asthma and restrictive lung disease, complications from hip replacements leading to poor mobility).   To see a formerly athletic, intelligent, educated man, who was accustomed to being in leadership roles and very active, deteriorate so much in his last 5 to 10 years has been very sad and frustrating for all concerned, not to mention placing a heavier and heavier burden on my mom, who is now 91.    After being officially on "hospice" status at home for the past 15 mo. or so, he finally passed on, very peacefully last night, just 2 months shy of his 92nd birthday, with my mom and my sister (who is also his family physician) at his side.

We will all miss him, and I am concerned for my mom's transition to not having him around after almost 75 years together and 70 years of married life.   But on the whole this is a relief to all of us, including my dad, and a welcome transition.   He is at peace now and the happiness we feel is the sort so beautifully expressed in this song:
"Flyin' Shoes" by Terry Pinnegar

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Bert
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 02:39 PM

You're right Villan. You have to keep bullying the school until they get it fixed.

Wish her a happy birthbay from all of us.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Rasener
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 02:32 PM

My daughter was very distressed at school becuase of verbal bullying.
Being Autistic, she was very very upset.
After many e-mails betwen myself and school, the problem seemed to be solved.
She came home from school in a very happy mood and it would seem the issue was sorted.
Its too early to know how it was sorted as my daughter will not offer any comments to us.
However, I don't give a shit. She is happy again as its her birthday this weekend and she won't be worrying about the other issue.

People can be so horrible to special needs people. Bastards.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Bert
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 01:54 PM

I was sitting down playing with Ayla when she started making this weird noise in her throat kinda high pitched squeak with her mouth closed.

I asked Tree what was the problem and she said "Ah, that's her poopy noise. She has started making that noise every time she poops."

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 12:41 PM

Fingers crossed, but I have accepted an offer on the motor home I've been trying to sell for about 4 months. If all goes well I will be a VERY happy bunny indeed.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 12:37 PM

Telephone call from a good friend.

Subject: RE: BS: What made you happy today
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 12:31 PM

Just about 16 months ago I was having 2 chest tubes removed after cardio bypass surgery. I was happy to get rid of them but they sure felt weird coming out: like a pair of snakes slithering out. Sorry for the disturbing image, but that was the day I really felt like my recovery began. Best of luck with yours Jacqui.