I just finished a chapter in my novel that, for some reason, was like passing a kidney stone to write. Whew!
I will be getting it ripped to shreds this week, I'm sure, but for now I am on cloud nine! Wheee!
So, anybody else wanna celebrate something that makes the happy?
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
My friend found a very important, sentimental book that I lost last May. I found out today. Whee!!!
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 619) on :
I made microwave chocolate fudge and brought it into work for today's potluck.
(At least over here. )
P.S. I'm also gay like Olivet. Whoopieee!
[ August 05, 2003, 01:03 PM: Message edited by: AndrewR ]
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
It's my birthday in less than three weeks!!!
Posted by Potemkyn (Member # 5465) on :
Olivet,
That's quality.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I'm happy that I can come here and read (and occasionally participate in) discussions about issues in which both sides are presented intelligently (for the most part) without it degenerating into a name-calling contest (for the most part). This is a marvelous departure from any of my previous experiences.
Go Hatrack!
Posted by asQmh (Member # 4590) on :
quote:It's my birthday in less than three weeks!!!
Hehehe. It's mine in less than 2. ^_^
Q.
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
It's my birthday today!
Posted by asQmh (Member # 4590) on :
Yay for August people! And happy birthday, Sopwith!
Q
Posted by hillarygayle (Member # 4624) on :
Joyous Date of Birth, Sopwith!
And happy almost-birthday to Q. ^_^ But I'm sure I'll be able to wish you happy birthday on *gasp* YOUR BIRTHDAY!
I'm happy gay today because I'm eating a bowl of fresh black cherries. *wriggles in glee*
HG
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Yeaaaay!!!
Olivet sent me a copy of Chapter 6.
I am, like, so awesome. You all can envy me my night tonight, now.
{Happy Birthday, Sopwith!)
[ August 05, 2003, 02:45 PM: Message edited by: ClaudiaTherese ]
Posted by larisse (Member # 2221) on :
I'm happy that you guys are happy . I am especially happy that I, too, have a copy of Chapter 6. Now I need to find a quiet place to read it.
I am also happy that I have a reason to use this ===> .
Posted by Pixie (Member # 4043) on :
Olivet, I just finished reading the copy you sent me and it's GREAT.
Happy B-day Sopwith and happy impending B-day Q!
I'm gay today because I've gotten to chat with Paul for 5 hours in the past 36 hours and, hence, feel very, very spoiled. to the person who got them those computers. Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
WOW! Thanks, guys.
Now I'm even gayer.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Olivet, are you in one of the Hatrack writing groups? or another group?
My happy thing is that i scored on some sales yesterday. i bought a pair of "Earth shoe" sandals that were 100 bucks, and I got them for 40. My feet are a mess, and I have to wear inserts, but these sandals are great on their own.(cuz, try fitting orthotics in sandals)
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I'd discuss the source of my current good mood, but it'd definitely be TMI.
Posted by Maethoriell (Member # 3805) on :
Your title is wonderful.
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Thank you, Mae. I try.
Way to go, twinky!
Elizabeth- I am in a Hatrack writing group, or rather, a Hatrack writing group that was together over a year when I joined it, and ended up being bumped off the site.
But the folks on this forum who read my story (a longsuffering lot they are) are those who asked to see it after I posted a thread begging for vailidation. Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Olivet, please feel free to send it along. It's not the journey one makes, but the company they keep along the way. Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
>> Way to go, twinky <<
Danke.
You don't know the half of it Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Olivet, I am also in a group that was "kicked out" of Hatrack. It was my "It is Our One Year Anniversary!" post that did it. Kathleen said no more group after a year. So, we stayed together anyway. it has been two and a half years. Liz
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
try mack's www.madowl.com site if you want hatrack writing critiques too.
I'M HAPPY
My car insurance company just called. They finally got to the bottom of my problems! For you newbies the progression of events went like this:
February) Totalled my car on an icy road on the way home from a dog show. Traumatized the dogs quite a bit. Had to ride Metrarail to work for about a month.
March) Signed car over to insurance company. Insurance company was great. Got money back for equivalent value. Got new vehicle, a fully loaded 99' white Chrysler Town and Country Limited, perfect for dog shows.
April) The calm before the storm.
May) Recieved two parking tickets on the old car from the City of Chicago. Additionally recieved a notice of impoundment ordering me to pay $500. The car was impounded for solicitation of prostitiution .
June) Insurance company sends me salvage documentation (but it is all from the state of TX where the company is located), I send it on to the City of Chicago, the ticket division and the impoundment division. The ticket division sends me notice that I am not liable for the tickets (Also in June, buy house, have emergency gall bladder surgery 3 days before house closes)
July) The Chicago impoundment division sends me an official notice saying my proof of non-ownership is insufficient. I get on the phone with my insurance company (a bit unhappy) and they send me more stuff to send to the Chicago impoundment division (it is still state of TX stuff so I don't know if it will work or not but at least it helps me stall them.) (Also in July, come down with mono that I likely caught in the hospital when I had the gall bladder surgery)
Last Friday)I get a notice from the Secretary of Sate saying that I need to renew my vehicle registration on the stupid car that I no longer own. I get extremely upset and call the insurance company AGAIN and ask to file a complaint or talk to a manager because the root cause of the problem is that the paperwork was never filed to get the car out of my name. I mention the possiblilty that I may need a lawyer, that I've had an extremely rough couple of months personally and I really don't need this complication in my life right now.
Today) I get two calls from the insurance company, one from the guy I talked to on Friday and another from his supervisor. It took them three days of constant work to get to the bottom of things. They got the same run-around internally from their own salvage department that I had gotten before.
They finally located of the Illinois sub-contractor that effed up and the contractor was like, oh no, we haven't filed the paperwork yet. (I'm betting knowing the sleaze that goes on here, they weren't planning on filing it either, because of the expense unless they got caught. There is only like a 30 day window to file the paperwork normally.)
Anyway they are sending me the Ilinois proof of sale and I should have it by the end of the week. I will have to take it into the Secretary of State's local motor vehicle office myself, but the actual paperwork is being filed as well. And, I got a nice apology from my insurance company.
So... maybe just maybe this is the end of it.
I'm holding my breath for the next shoe to drop but at the same time cheering that at least it is the beginning of the end!
AJ
[ August 05, 2003, 04:53 PM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Happy birthday, all you August people. I'm an August person, as well - mine's in 18 days.
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Elizabeth... That is so funny! I had been moved into the group after I met almsot all of them at Uncle Orson's writing class. I joined about six weeks before they gotthe boot. We have a yahoo group now, and we're all scratching away at novels (ever so slowly) so it seems a decent fit. I'm also a member of the online writing workshop for scifi fantasy and horror which is pretty cool.
Sopwith... were you asking to see it? Be warned, some people seems to find it shocking. Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
I am starting College in twenty-seven days! That makes me happy!
My mom has started remodeling my room three weeks in advance. It is big and has good light, so she's turning it into a studio. In twenty-seven days, I will be a guest in my own house.
I don't know if this makes me happy or sad...
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
quote: Hehehe. It's mine in less than 2. ^_^
Well, .
Happy birthday, Sopwith!!
Happy almost birthday, asQmh, and littlemissattitude... and all the other august people!!! We rule!!!
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
I just finished painting my kitchen, and I don't have to mess up my knees anymore!
A very merry UN-birthday to all of you....except Sopwith.....happy b-day!
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"we're all scratching away at novels (ever so slowly"
Ha ha. I am up to Chapter Six! (two and a half years...)
One of our group members is, we hope, about to be published.
If you ever want to trade stories(novels) give me an "e": edob63@yahoo.com
Not many people other than my group have read it, and it is nice to have someone read it straight through, instead of just as it develops.
Liz
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
Olivet, I hereby crown thee Queen of Eye-Catching Thread Titles. (I seem to recall a past thread entitled "The Joys of a Freshly Shaved Scrotum" - that was you too, right?)
I'm happy because my friend e-mailed me. And because I finished one of the six big art projects I have to do this summer.
~Jane~
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I saw Bend it like Beckham and that turned me gay!!
Or made me gay... I forget which. it was a funny movie!!
Posted by Laurenz0 (Member # 5336) on :
Other people get the meaning of attention grabbing titles.
heh. There is an evil smily.
Yes. happiness is always good. Unless its bad. Which would make in unhappy. So really unhappiness is happiness for some. WHich makes it unhappy.
[ August 06, 2003, 02:04 AM: Message edited by: Laurenz0 ]
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
That last sentence confused me even more than the fact that there's a NUMBER in your name instead of an O...
Posted by Audeo (Member # 5130) on :
Let's see reasons to be happy today, or at least in the near future:
1) I earned $15 today by babysitting the neighbor kids (not much but I'm excited)
2) 5 days until I (finally) get the braces off my teeth
3) 16 days until I leave for college...dang I need to get packing
4) and only 28 days until my birthday.
[ August 06, 2003, 03:01 AM: Message edited by: Audeo ]
Posted by filetted (Member # 5048) on :
olivet,
you are gay and happy beyond measure and an inspiration to us all.
flish
Posted by Laurenz0 (Member # 5336) on :
quote:That last sentence confused me even more than the fact that there's a NUMBER in your name instead of an O...
lol. Actually. There is a story behind that. *watches as everybody either flees the room or zones out*.
Anyway, it was a letter awhile ago, but it originated as my hotmail account and I didn't check. So I lost the account.
I came back a few months later, decided i wanted one and put a zero there instead. Hey. It works.
Posted by filetted (Member # 5048) on :
cheers Laurenz-0.
doesn't matter how you got here, only that you came.
flish
Posted by Diosmel Duda (Member # 2180) on :
I'm coming back to Provo and Jon Boy after a long absence.
We're getting married in seventeen days!
A semi-large problem has more or less worked itself out.
I'm joining the happy club. Posted by Laurenz0 (Member # 5336) on :
"the happy club"?
I'm in!
But i choose to roll around in this club.
Am I the only one who thinks that peticular happy face is on drugs of some sort?
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Yeah, the Joys of a Freshly Shaved Scrotum, was one of mine. (It was a movie quote game, for those who don't know.) I think it was the longest thread I ever started, getting up to five or six pages.
Today, I'm happy because my kid is excited about school. Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I'm going out after work tonight.
(That, and I had an irresistable urge to bump this thread. )
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
What's up with all the old threads? Has everyone run out of ideas?
Oh no! All the new ideas are used up. I better get my last stories written up before someone steals them!
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
So what happened with the novel?
My birthday is this Monday. Yay, May Hatrackers!
Posted by Sabrina (Member # 9413) on :
I have new garden tools and a sunny weekend ahead. Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
quote:My friend found a very important, sentimental book that I lost last May. I found out today. Whee!!!
I wrote this almost three years ago. I have no idea what it is in reference to. I can't imagine what book I'm talking about. I don't even know what friend I'm talking about. I'm horrified I actually wrote out "Whee!!!" What was I thinking? And why is this memory absolutely, completely gone?
And thus we see the danger of recorded conversations. *muses*
Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :
quote:Originally posted by JaneX: Olivet, I hereby crown thee Queen of Eye-Catching Thread Titles. (I seem to recall a past thread entitled "The Joys of a Freshly Shaved Scrotum" - that was you too, right?)
Wow, that's kind of scary. I definitely just had the exact same reaction to this thread title as I had three years ago. At least I'm consistent...
Today I'm happy because the sun is out. It's been raining nonstop for the past week, so this is a big event.
~Jane~
Posted by sweetbaboo (Member # 8845) on :
Jane, you beat me to happiness is...no more rain.
So for me I am gay because the medicine the Dr gave my 3 year old really is helping her cough go away so that we both can actually sleep! Woo hoo!
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
I'm happy because I finally realized that I hate my boss to no end and will not continue to work here anymore. Now I have hope for a job that doesn't make my want to kill small rodents constantly! Yay...
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
I graduate in a couple days! Wee!
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
quote:Originally posted by Chris Bridges: So what happened with the novel?
My birthday is this Monday. Yay, May Hatrackers!
I, uh, finished chapter seven. Also, Happy Birthday, May Hatrackers!
I saw this thread on the front page and went Posted by Ozymandias (Member # 9424) on :
My friend stoped doin cocain!!!!
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
Now that is something to celebrate.
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
I keep waiting for the obvious response of "I'm GAY because I have sex with people of the same gender! Whee!!!!"
I'd do it myself, were it true.
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
Might be worth doing just to say that. Let's see, who's around...
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
quote:I wrote this almost three years ago. I have no idea what it is in reference to. I can't imagine what book I'm talking about. I don't even know what friend I'm talking about. I'm horrified I actually wrote out "Whee!!!" What was I thinking? And why is this memory absolutely, completely gone?
There are probably a few posts of yours floating around that you don't remember writing, but I don't think this one is from me. Posted by Mama Squirrel (Member # 4155) on :
Squoose is letting me work today (so why am I on Hatrack you ask). Anyway, usually his first two naps of the day are 30 minutes each. Today his first nap was 1 1/2 hours. His second nap was 1 5/6 hours. He is currently 35 minutes into his third nap (although it looks like it might be ending soon). Each of these naps has been in the crib. Yay to not having to wear the sling so far today. This makes me happy.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
And Olivet - that was the reaction I had in mind when I bumped the thread. *tents fingers and chuckles*
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Oh, you wee evil beastie! Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
YAY! I have inertia working in my favor for once! I'm on a roll. Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Um, I haven't finished that one yet, but I'm polishing my NaNo novel. If anyone is interested in the first chapter, email me. Concrit is appreciated.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
quote:Originally posted by Frisco:
quote:I wrote this almost three years ago. I have no idea what it is in reference to. I can't imagine what book I'm talking about. I don't even know what friend I'm talking about. I'm horrified I actually wrote out "Whee!!!" What was I thinking? And why is this memory absolutely, completely gone?
There are probably a few posts of yours floating around that you don't remember writing, but I don't think this one is from me.
On the up side, I now remember what book it was. I had left my scriptures at my friend's new husband's family's house when I went to Austin for their reception, and she got them back to me. They were my mission scriptures, so I really was thrilled to get them back.
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
Phew, When I read the title of the thread I was afraid that I was going to burn in hell for all eternity if I opened it, but I couldn't resist. Sorry if a joking voice is hard to make in forums.
Anyway, Ozymandias, great name, great poem.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
Yes, I think we're all frequently tempted to be gay. Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Yeah. So I'm not gay gay. I'm happy gay.
Or, more correctly, I'm using cheap gimmicks to beg for critical readers. I'm actually not very happy about THAT. *wry smile*
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
My good (girl) friend's newish girlfriend came to visit and I liked her alot. YAY! Cause if you don't like your friends' lesbian lovers, you have problems.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
I'm QUEER! Because I am posessed of peculiar mannerisms that roust the local constabulary!
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
I'm a Fruit Posted by TheSeeingHand (Member # 8349) on :
![[Hail]](graemlins/hail.gif)
(I seem to recall a past thread entitled "The Joys of a Freshly Shaved Scrotum" - that was you too, right?)![[Smile]](smile.gif)
![[Wall Bash]](graemlins/wallbash.gif)
Whew!![[Party]](graemlins/party.gif)
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
)![[Kiss]](graemlins/kiss.gif)
![[Cool]](cool.gif)
You all can envy me my night tonight, now. ![[Wave]](graemlins/wave.gif)
. I am especially happy that I, too, have a copy of Chapter 6. Now I need to find a quiet place to read it.![[Group Hug]](graemlins/grouphug.gif)
.
![[The Wave]](graemlins/thewave.gif)
![[Evil Laugh]](graemlins/evillaugh.gif)
![[Evil]](graemlins/evil.gif)
![[Wink]](wink.gif)
![[Dont Know]](graemlins/dontknow.gif)
![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
.![[Confused]](confused.gif)
![[ROFL]](graemlins/rofl.gif)
![[Blushing]](graemlins/blushing.gif)
(It was a movie quote game, for those who don't know.) I think it was the longest thread I ever started, getting up to five or six pages. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
At least I'm consistent...![[Embarrassed]](redface.gif)
Also, Happy Birthday, May Hatrackers!