boss for my newer job giving me a totally positive review, even though i feel like i slack off a lot and am still figuring lots of things out
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
going to parties and knowing lots of people there and feeling like i've now lived in chicago long enough to have a social circle or even multiple interlocking social circles
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
long enough to have a social circle or even multiple interlocking social circles
If we're discussing innocuous things that I wish were a reality for me in LA, and would therefore make me insanely happy, this would be one of them. Getting there, but damn if work don't get in the way.
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
it took a long time. but i've been here seven years now.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm moving to the 4th floor instead of the top in a little under a month. thank God.
― emma goldbond (San Te), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
a rare instance where I get to post in both innocuous threads simultaneously.
went to the mall (which I usually hate) to pick up a few rap albums with my gambling winnings, and stopped for lunch. ran into a friend of mine who I haven't seen in a while, who stopped me and we had a nice quick 5 min chat.
her sunny demeanor and the friendly conversation was a big lift for me and put me in a good mood.
― r0b /via/ orl (San Te), Saturday, 5 February 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
The tick-tick of a nicely working derailleur when you're freewheeling along.
― Ron Rom (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 4 March 2011 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Sun is shining, nearly a weekend, and I was just briefly delighted by the sound of a (male, not particularly camp) coworker tittering like a naughty little schoolgirl.
(trying to make the most of being irrationally happy as my most irrationally-angry-making coworker has just got back from lunch, bah)
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 4 March 2011 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
- hearing YMO (Technopolis iirc) in tacky chain sushi bar
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 7 March 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh I love when ppl ask me for directions and I'm all like "Yeah! You're on X st now, you just hang a left and (etc etc)"― (Simple) (Elegant) (Stevie D), Friday, 1 October 2010 16:01 (5 months ago) Bookmark
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came here to post about this!
― jed_, Friday, 11 March 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
55. manic phase
― rockapads, Friday, 11 March 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
56. making a St Patrick's Day playlist, Mr Veg and began dicussing the finer points over dinner. Mr Veg adamant that I should include Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar On Me. Me going WTF? then reminding me that they recorded it while they were holed up in Dublin, Rick lost his arm etc etc...and then I lol'd and lol'd and lol'd
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
57. Youtube videos of babies laughing uncontrollably at dogs doing dog things.58. Hockey hugs after a goal. And the handshake-line after a playoff series is won.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 18 March 2011 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link
59. on the way home y/day, a boy of about 7 or 8 sat on a riverbank, staring contemplatively at a pair of swans right in front of him, staring peacefully back at him
(this would not be so <3 if I were not so distrustful of both children and swans)
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 18 March 2011 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
60. My dentist is like a dude straight out of Mayberry, sweet and lovely and quaint, the whole office feels like a delightful time machine. Today, greatest thing ever. As I'm having work done, my Mayberry-esque dentist begins describing a scene from Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke to his wonderfully square assistant. I had tears rolling out of my eyes as he describes in great detail the scene where the stoned motorcycle cop pulls the van over after it has caught on fire, his assistant looking on wide-eyed and not laughing really at all. It was all so surreal and hilarious and I have NO idea how my dentist even got onto the subject of weed or where Cheech and Chong fit in.
But it was great and made me happy despite being trapped in a dentist chair
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
61. Weaving through stopped bumper-to-bumper traffic on my bike62. Secret passages and underground tunnels
― jj n° fad (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 May 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
non-rejected jbr screennames that probably should have been rejected but the urge to torture with puns is too great
― michael nyman the composer guy (man) (dude) (get bent), Thursday, 5 May 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
My friend's very exuberant and ruffly dress today.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 5 May 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
Buying a food and its expiration date is your birthday.
― crabbbittts (Abbbottt), Monday, 9 May 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
but that's sad :(
― Jonathan Taylor-Swift (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 May 2011 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
"Happy birthday!! YOUR FOOD IS DEAD NOW >: [ "
― Jonathan Taylor-Swift (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 May 2011 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
I think it's just that I'm vain enough to appreciate any reminder that I was born, even in the form of a memento mori (for the food).
― crabbbittts (Abbbottt), Monday, 9 May 2011 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
"when does this cream expire – June 12? – how delightful, I am alive."
― crabbbittts (Abbbottt), Monday, 9 May 2011 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
oh my god, that is p beautiful actually.
― Jonathan Taylor-Swift (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 May 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
It's a totally little kiddish feeling. "My borthday is Important."
― crabbbittts (Abbbottt), Monday, 9 May 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
Noisy little bastard shouting the name of every car that passes the bus while his brother climbs on the seat next to me. All while the mum is browsing Facebook on her phone, completely ignoring their behaviour. Still half an hour of this to go before i can get off.
― not_goodwin, Monday, 9 May 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
I get the birthday expriation date thing too. Also seeing a car commercial and the disclaimer says PRICES GOOD UNTIL [YOUR BIRTHDAY]!
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 9 May 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
I think not_goodwin is in the wrong thread.
For real, right now the crushing synth in Zombi's "Surface To Air" is making me irrationally happy.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 May 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
oops. :-/
― not_goodwin, Monday, 9 May 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
67 (I think) -- being done with the @!(#*&$I()^& weed-eating/edging. I hate doing it, but I love looking out and being able to say "yeah that looks a lot better."
― Stomp! in the name of love (WmC), Monday, 9 May 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
new clothes.
― Introducing the Hardline According to (jim in glasgow), Monday, 9 May 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
Depositing a check via ATM
― Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Monday, 9 May 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
68. Old men wearing incongruous clothes. Like the old Chinese dude I saw the other day, wearing a sun hat and an awesome Morissey jacket.
69. Dogs that jump up and lick your face with affection no matter the time of day or how often you see them.
― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 9 May 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
There is a young woman who works as an aide at one of the schools where I drive kids. She's somewhat pretty, but not a knockout by any stretch, and I have not had any lascivious thoughts about her. But she has a grade-A good-person's face and somehow just looking at her makes me feel happier about the world.
Which is to say, people whose innate goodness radiates from them make me happy.
― Aimless, Monday, 9 May 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
otm
there's a tube driver in london who speaks with a really heavy caribbean accent, who says at every stop: "the next stop is....please take all your belongings with you and wherever you go, whatever you do, whoever you see, whatever the weather, have a NICE day!"
at every stop that exact same mantra! i turn off my ipod whenever he's driving just to listen to him.
― LocalGarda, Monday, 9 May 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
he should get an award
― LocalGarda, Monday, 9 May 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
tell me which line please
― conrad, Monday, 9 May 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
love those people
there's a lovely bagger at my supermarket, shy young girl and she always gives a big beaming smile & is so genuine & sweet, I just love her to death, she makes my day
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 9 May 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
ron4n, that guy sounds awesome. there used to be a bus driver in San Francisco like that, but he retired :(
― it is his "enigmatic signifier" (the table is the table), Monday, 9 May 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
I have sort of made it my life goal to be this person in everything I do p much
― Jonathan Taylor-Swift (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 May 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
that is a great story, ronan.
― Introducing the Hardline According to (jim in glasgow), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure where to put this. Geir just said this in another thread:
They are, I would think, rare indeed.
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 19 May 2011 11:34 (twelve years ago) link
Avenues. Love 'em. There's the one I cycle down through Hyde Park on the way to work, iridescent leaves lit by the morning sun, and a lime one through the grounds of Chiswick House, shady and cool and very green.
Oh, and while we're at it, and similarly, sunken lanes.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
Trolling this thread for ideas right now, iirc, could use some irrationally happy time today.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
go rub your wifes stomach jon
― Crooked Lust (thebingo), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
(lol at this out of context)
Definitely part of the plan, but have to wait until way later tonight.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
hey have you done the whole headphones on the stomach thing? that was my favorite part of my wifes pregnancy.
― Crooked Lust (thebingo), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
played beach boys to him all the time.
― Crooked Lust (thebingo), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
Also squeezing a good pimple makes me happy. This has nothing to do with pregnant wives
― Crooked Lust (thebingo), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, yes we have. We received those "Belly Buds" as a gift and we have a six-song playlist that gets played quite often. There is a Beach Boys song on there!
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link