@Isandir I had a similar experience. It was a problem because I was working at directory assistance at the time, lol. I also got an injection that helped. The most probable root cause was traced to a faux cheddar dip; haven't had those since.
@Isandir I had a similar experience. It was a problem because I was working at directory assistance at the time, lol. I also got an injection that helped. The most probable root cause was traced to a faux cheddar dip; haven't had those since.
I used to get this throat infection every year when I first moved to Bangkok, but for two years it was conspicuously absent, making me think I had become immune. I don't mind it too much; I look at being sick as a change of pace that gives a little dose of perspective. I will, however, avoid faux cheddar dips from now on...
I've got two weeks off work, my girlfriend moved in with me (without overwhelming my house with horrible crap, she actually only brought nice things), I've got a warhammer room now (a table for painting and a table for gaming), a little drawerthingey that holds my paints, brushes and Bitz, my birthday's celebrated on sunday with all my friends and the temperature's gone down by enough that doing things without sweating all over everyone is once again possible.
I'm happy someone started this thread. There's a topic 'What made you happy today' (http://www.gog.com/forum/general/what_made_you_happy_today) and I asked the topicstarter many months ago if I could copy the idea to the BG fora. By the time I had recieved his 'yes, of course', the idea for a counter to the 'vent your unhappiness' thread had popped up there, voiced by @Shandyr and as I am really active here anymore (for not playing BG for ages, still waiting for my fav mods to be compatible), I wouldn't want to 'steal' Shandyr's idea and just waited for someone else to start a happy thread. And voila, here it is!
Blessing @Isandir. And what made me happy? Having vacation and sitting in my backgarden relaxing and reading a book.
I have a choice: go see a member of the Chicago Bulls who will be at my school today, go see Guardians of the Galaxy in the VIP sofas that are in Thai theaters, watch Star Wars: Episode III with my wife (who is working her way through the series with me for the first time), or relax and make portraits.
...or do any combination of the above. Life is good.
I've got a warhammer room now (a table for painting and a table for gaming)
This is awesome. Having your own space in your house completely dedicated to something you love is a great way to relax and completely forget about all of the annoyances in life that shouldn't even be annoyances in the first place.
I'm happy someone started this thread...I wouldn't want to 'steal' Shandyr's idea and just waited for someone else to start a happy thread. And voila, here it is!
One of the choices my wife and I ended up selecting was going to see Guardians of the Galaxy. Though I've never been a comic book reader, I've always loved the movies with some of the more well-known heroes and villains. I wasn't sure what to think of GOTG since I was completely unfamiliar with them.
It was absolutely awesome! It struck the perfect balance between humor and action, and more importantly, didn't take itself too seriously. I can't remember simply having that much fun in a movie in a very long time.
8 months in at the new job, and I was just told I'll be receiving a promotion.
On the not-so-good side, someone has apparently stolen my identity (through the eBay password leak a few months ago) and presumably opened some sort of account that allowed them to charge $450 under my name. I guess you can't win 'em all.
Nasty business, that is. Identity theft happened to me once, but I stopped it before the thief could spend a lot. As for happiness, my ferret always makes me happy. Whenever I come home after a hard day, she jumps at me and attacks my shoes, then I pick her up and play with her. Feels good.
I was really happy when I at last finished my BA studying, and that I'm after the exam I did almost 2 weeks ago there aren't results yet cos it take around a months but I'm free and there is no need to study all the time and I can do whatever I like.
Also my cat is so cute and make me happy just by being there with me, even if he annoyingly wake me up each morning cos he wanna go out to play
Went back to school a month ago and this week we had our first test in what I believe translates into the "science" subject in Englishy school systems. I had a feeling it would go pretty well... and not only did it go well, got a 6, answered every single question correctly. If I do well on the next two tests as well (getting 3 or better) I'm guaranteed a passing grade. I'm still pretty happy about that! Now if only the math test next week would go as well, urgh...
Cinema day, woo! Off to see the new Dracula thing in about an hour. Also got some more tests rated today. Two of them were very good (5 and 5-!) and the last one was... acceptable, seeing as I only actually need a passing grade in it. Also I have ice cold cola. Cold soda makes everything better!
Sunday afternoon. Sitting at Tom N Toms Coffee with my laptop, drinking a cinnamon mocha. Doing work, writing a new article for LinkedIn Pulse, cruising the Baldur's Gate Forum.
Today my husband and I stood in our kitchen and danced together for the first time in a very long time. Very slow, and only for a few minutes, but it brought joy to my heart and tears to my eyes. I can’t seem to stop crying yet.
It has been a very long road, but moments like today give me renewed hope for the future. I have what I call my “faithful steed Bessie” now. A four wheeled walker thing-a-ma-jig that I am getting a bit better with. Never give up!
@Ravenslight: Awesome to hear! I know you've been struggling with this for a long time now, and it's great to hear that things are going in the right direction.
@wubble: If it makes you feel better, I once went for a streak of two years with no holiday...
All my life i had asthma and as I got older I started to develop all kinds of allergies that seemed to get worse every year. Eventually I started getting skin rashes all over and nothing seemed to help. I talked to doctors and they prescribed things that only made allergies worse and gave even more rashes.. About a year later my friend died... He was a young man who just got married and graduated from culinary college, I went to his wedding. He had started getting bruises all over his legs that made it painful to sit, he went to doctors.. after a few months and seeing 8 different doctors (none of them could tell him what was wrong) finally one of them told him he had leukemia and they started treatments right away. The treatments were not successful and he only lived for about 6 months. I was overwhelmed and angry, angry at how much time that was wasted trying to find out what was actually wrong with him and might have helped him to have lived. And angry at the doctors that had failed to do their jobs. Another friend of mine died a year later, they didn't know why, she went into a coma and was brain dead so eventually they decided to pull the plug. My mother got eye-surgery and it wasn't done properly and she lost all sight in one eye that is now slowly shrinking and is effectively dead. I knew that if I was gonna change what was going on with me I would have to find the way myself.
I made huge changes to what i ate and drank. I ate very simple meals (no meat or dairy, mostly fruits and vegetables and a little fish and eggs and nuts, quit drinking alcohol and eating processed foods), everything i ate was very plain, no seasonings of any kind. After a week or so would add or remove things and see how that affected things. I have always been fit but decided that i needed to increase my exercises to a more regular daily schedule since I knew that sweating helps eliminate toxins from the body. I stopped using any kinds of scented or chemical soaps or shampoos or laundry detergents. Things did not change right away but after several months went by i noticed some differences, skin was little better, less allergies, I stuck with it and kept making even more little changes. It has now been 4 years since i started all the changes, I now get no allergies at all, I have not even been sick in 2 years. My asthma acts up for a few days in the early spring and late fall but i don't even need to use inhalers for the first time in my life, it just goes away after those few days and does not bother me again.
Things can get better, you just have to never give up.
Bought me some new skates this year and i teamed up with 7 other guys i didn't know,to play some hockey.(first time on ice since 2009) 1 moment i was chasing the puck i took a heavy blow on my left side and face palmed the ice with the other guy over me,i got 2 teeth in my head and a blue shoulder.First thought i had was to drop the gloves but when i took a good look at the other guy checking he's teeth we both started to laugh and smile,nothing can beat a good tackle,we were both ok and we played some more.
My husband and I met on a dance floor. A year later we got married on that same dance floor. It was a breathtakingly wondrous time of life.
you spent a whole year on the dance floor? you must have been very tired
ps bad jokes make me happy
also I found my favourite T-shirt this mourning that was good.... yeh ive not got much going on
I’m going to choose to believe this was meant as a light hearted joke. But I do have to say, sometimes the line between funny and hurtful can be very thin.
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Blessing @Isandir. And what made me happy? Having vacation and sitting in my backgarden relaxing and reading a book.
...or do any combination of the above. Life is good.
It was absolutely awesome! It struck the perfect balance between humor and action, and more importantly, didn't take itself too seriously. I can't remember simply having that much fun in a movie in a very long time.
She said Yes!!
On the not-so-good side, someone has apparently stolen my identity (through the eBay password leak a few months ago) and presumably opened some sort of account that allowed them to charge $450 under my name. I guess you can't win 'em all.
Also my cat is so cute and make me happy just by being there with me, even if he annoyingly wake me up each morning cos he wanna go out to play
Update: Dracula Untold was very entertaining.
Life is good...
Today my husband and I stood in our kitchen and danced together for the first time in a very long time. Very slow, and only for a few minutes, but it brought joy to my heart and tears to my eyes. I can’t seem to stop crying yet.
It has been a very long road, but moments like today give me renewed hope for the future. I have what I call my “faithful steed Bessie” now. A four wheeled walker thing-a-ma-jig that I am getting a bit better with. Never give up!
@wubble: If it makes you feel better, I once went for a streak of two years with no holiday...
I have a story I will share.
All my life i had asthma and as I got older I started to develop all kinds of allergies that seemed to get worse every year. Eventually I started getting skin rashes all over and nothing seemed to help. I talked to doctors and they prescribed things that only made allergies worse and gave even more rashes.. About a year later my friend died... He was a young man who just got married and graduated from culinary college, I went to his wedding. He had started getting bruises all over his legs that made it painful to sit, he went to doctors.. after a few months and seeing 8 different doctors (none of them could tell him what was wrong) finally one of them told him he had leukemia and they started treatments right away. The treatments were not successful and he only lived for about 6 months. I was overwhelmed and angry, angry at how much time that was wasted trying to find out what was actually wrong with him and might have helped him to have lived. And angry at the doctors that had failed to do their jobs. Another friend of mine died a year later, they didn't know why, she went into a coma and was brain dead so eventually they decided to pull the plug. My mother got eye-surgery and it wasn't done properly and she lost all sight in one eye that is now slowly shrinking and is effectively dead. I knew that if I was gonna change what was going on with me I would have to find the way myself.
I made huge changes to what i ate and drank. I ate very simple meals (no meat or dairy, mostly fruits and vegetables and a little fish and eggs and nuts, quit drinking alcohol and eating processed foods), everything i ate was very plain, no seasonings of any kind. After a week or so would add or remove things and see how that affected things. I have always been fit but decided that i needed to increase my exercises to a more regular daily schedule since I knew that sweating helps eliminate toxins from the body. I stopped using any kinds of scented or chemical soaps or shampoos or laundry detergents. Things did not change right away but after several months went by i noticed some differences, skin was little better, less allergies, I stuck with it and kept making even more little changes. It has now been 4 years since i started all the changes, I now get no allergies at all, I have not even been sick in 2 years. My asthma acts up for a few days in the early spring and late fall but i don't even need to use inhalers for the first time in my life, it just goes away after those few days and does not bother me again.
Things can get better, you just have to never give up.
1 moment i was chasing the puck i took a heavy blow on my left side and face palmed the ice with the other guy over me,i got 2 teeth in my head and a blue shoulder.First thought i had was to drop the gloves but when i took a good look at the other guy checking he's teeth we both started to laugh and smile,nothing can beat a good tackle,we were both ok and we played some more.
ps bad jokes make me happy
also I found my favourite T-shirt this mourning that was good.... yeh ive not got much going on