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Real life happy
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@Testament said in Real life happy:
Sending a couple of my friends IG Reels of a rendition of Careless Whisper via trombone.
I’m happy, my friends? Less so.
Be specific. Via poorly played trombone.
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I’m now whistling the Careless Whisper sax riff to my cat who wants to kill me.
She might just kill me.
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But did you lead them to the dance floor, and were you feeling unsure about it?
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Finally broke 300 pounds as a personal record for deadlifting in the gym and broke through the 200 poind barrier on thr bench press. I had been struggling to get past that point for over a month now.
If there’s one thing my depression is weak against, it’s lifting heavy things and putting them back down.
@RightMeow it’s what I listen to in the gym.
Behold. Careless Whisper vid trombone.
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Met the new neighbor today and on a whim invited her to see my kittens.
Seeing people playing happily with kittens makes me happy.
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I… love middle school social studies?
I am having a mini existential crisis about the fact that I am in love with this job. I’m honestly sad it is ending?!
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This is now my happiness thread gdi.
Words from kids:
“Mrs, I actually learned something today.”
<after conversation about past teacher being unkind> “I mean, you are mean too, but not like mean, you’re strict and that is better.”
“This is so much more fun than normal.” (I literally lectured and they took notes?!?!)
“Mrs. Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us.” (He hunted me down in the hallway to say this and was actually serious.) -
Middle School dance? Hella fun.
The SMELL after a middle school dance? Ewwwwwww
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Final GPA for my Master’s degree. Considering there was a point when I lost track of how many times I dropped or failed out of undergraduate programs, I’d say this isn’t half bad.
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@Aria That’s fucking amazing! I know I’m just a person on the internet but I’m proud of you. That really rocks.
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@Aria AMAZING! Great job!
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After a year of being on the grind my business is doing well. We broke even the first year (lost a little but paid our salaries) and project around 300k in profit this year. I gave up my hobbies (been absent for a bit over a year on gaming) and adjusted my lifestyle to put in the work.
We are really making the difference. After the Super Bowl the NFL contacted me to tell me they were getting calls from people with disabilities (5 families total) asking if we were at the NFL Draft in Kansas City because they felt comfortable coming if we were.
The NFL never had that happen before and we had three people we recognized from the SB. One from ACL. We were recognized by the NFL for our service and locked in the next couple of years with events with them. Also, lots of music festivals, etc. Got the college football playoffs now, too. People love what we do and every event the ADA love we get is so amazing.
I went from loathing corporate life to loving owning my own business and being control of my fate to some degree. And we are truly helping people feel better about living their lives. I’ve never went to bed and slept so easy.
It’s so amazing. When I was shot in Denver with my son I thought I would never live a productive life again. The PTSD and night terrors went on for six months of me not being able to protect my son and him being murdered every time I close my eyes. I got help, took FMLA, and didn’t shovel it down. I had to sleep in other places because I would wake up attacking my wife thinking I was protecting my son from death. Rather than folding though we tackled our dreams, quit our corporate hack lives, refinanced our house for the downpayment and took a million dollar loan.
I never thought I would be thankful in anyway for what happened. Never even considered it a possibility but there it is.
Getting shot at with my son in Denver saved my life.
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I’ve got health issues, yo. I won’t get into the nitty gritty but I’ve been fighting for years to get my pain levels down. I’m at the point now where I feel like more of a human being.
And god do I like myself better on my lexapro. Shit that used to make me red hot angry doesn’t bother me as much anymore. Between getting the meds right for the pain and the anxiety getting taken care of I’m in a way better place.
Now I just need to figure out how to get out of bed with my alarm instead of oversleeping all the time due to this damned autoimmune condition.
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I’ve been struggling financially for a long time now to the point where I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to pay all of my bills plus gas to get to and from work or buy groceries this week. This is all due to vet bills and car troubles that have piled up over the last year or two. I was informed today that I’m getting a 10% raise and it goes into the next pay check, which is hugely helpful.
My Jeep has been in and out of the shop at least 8 times this year for cylinders misfiring. It’s been to 2 different shops that can’t figure out the issue. It’s gone at a 3rd shop and that shop owner knows my dad, so has just expressed he’s willing to help me out to get the Jeep fixed both in parts and labor and also getting it paid. This is a huge relief.
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Got that new job! Getting paid a livable wage and getting to go to Sandles resort with my company next year! Life is good!
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Happy or weird, I’ve got one of my college kids home now, and their D&D friends are coming over this afternoon to continue their campaign that’s been mostly over discord/online voice chat (a couple of the kids are still at school so will be dialing in). And they’re going to be having BEERS (some of them) along with the cheetos!!! I’ve known these kids since they were all 11 and 12 so this is just…wow. But. I like that our house is still hangout house!
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@mietze I love it. Either not weird at all or the best kind of weird.
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Husband and I have a year long bet going.
Goal: I read 100 new-to-me books this year.
Reward if I win: I choose where we take our next vacation and husband has to plan 100% of it. No mental load for me.
Reward if I lose: Husband chooses and I help plan.We have added some tweaks for my sanity sake:
- Two books previously read count as 1 (so I can still use them as anxiety control but not hold back the challenge)
- Audio books over 8 hours count as 1, under 8 doesn’t count.
- Books all have to be 100+ pages long.
My happy: we are halfway through the year, and I just hit 50!!!
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Watching Twitter implode has been hilarious. It’s not ‘bot scraping’ as Elon had implied. Their cloud storage contract with Google expired, and this is the result.
Rumor is that Meta had been working real hard in the background to make a Twitter like program that will also carry over your IG contacts.
Gonna be real interesting to see what happens. But also? Fuck Elon, I’m not paying for Twitter Blue from that overgrown manchild.
