What's making you happy today? - Page 623

monster · 06-07-2013, 07:45 PM

Monkle

richlevy · 06-07-2013, 07:50 PM

Found out grandkid #2 will be a boy.

Don't care about boy/girl so much that it's at the point where it can be determined.

Sundae · 06-08-2013, 02:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

Monkle

This is now my new favourite word.

Chocolatl · 06-08-2013, 06:46 AM

Congrats to your families, rich and Happy Monkey!

Today I'm happy because we survived the last night's four hour trip and Beans' first night in a hotel. Today she finally gets to meet my mom and my brother! Woohoo!

orthodoc · 06-08-2013, 09:53 AM

Congrats HM and rich!
Have a wonderful visit, choco. Very special.

Sundae · 06-08-2013, 11:32 AM

Got the card.
Turns out Fathers Day isn't until next Sunday.
But at least I'm prepared.

Clodfobble · 06-08-2013, 11:48 AM

That's fantastic, Sundae. Beautiful.

glatt · 06-08-2013, 12:41 PM

Wow! I need to step up my game for father's day

orthodoc · 06-08-2013, 10:11 PM

That's wonderful.

DanaC · 06-09-2013, 04:45 AM

Glorious.

And that final pic of the two of you together is beautiful. Really beautiful.,

orthodoc · 06-09-2013, 05:29 PM

This morning I planted ten tomato plants, eight peppers of various sorts (sweet to hot), six cucumbers, lots of dill, basil, parsley, and thyme. The oregano has taken over and mostly has to be ripped out as a weed, so there's lots of that for drying whenever I feel like it. There's space for three rows of seed. Next weekend I'll sow kale, rainbow chard, and Chioggia beets. That's all the raised beds will allow, unless I find a spot here or there as the season goes on. I'll tend everything on weekends and harvest baby kale and chard all summer. That's a good thing, and hopefully will help keep me on track.

Sundae · 06-15-2013, 05:34 AM

Well, I got the call from Waitrose!

They want me on the Deli counter, which was one of the preferences I expressed on my application.
AND I have filled in the medical form, which I was able to answer 100% honestly as it was all about allergies and food-handling issues. Phew!
So now it's just down to references. Something that still makes my stomach churn, but I can't fix what has happened in the past. I'll just have to deal with it as it happens.

The hours I've been offered:
Sunday 09.00-12.45
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 06.30-09.45
Thursday 09.30-13.30

Sunday is time and a half, so I'm pleased to get that one.
Mon, Tues & Weds are an earlier start than I would like, especially as it's not a warehouse job where I can just roll out of bed - I have to be showered and clean and well-groomed.
But it's a job, and after all gives me the whole day free!
I can look for other work in the afternoons when I'm back in the groove.
And all Friday off for appointments etc.

For four days of the week I'll be mostly setting up, stocking shelves I think, as the store will be closed. Waitrose is not 24 hour. When the store is open I'll be working with CHEESE! Cheese and cooked meats and olives and all the things I love.

And I get 12% discount after 3 months.
Although I think Mum would rather I was out of the house more when she was awake, she seems mildly pleased that I really have been looking for work (I think she thought I was pretending) and after all it will benefit the family greatly. I'll get 25% off at Joohn Lewis too - some electrical items excepted.

If I get this, people, life might just work out after all.

Griff · 06-15-2013, 06:09 AM

I'm so happy for you! Mmmm... I love some cheese as well.

limey · 06-15-2013, 06:23 AM

This is such fabulous news! Sundae I'm so happy for you! Well done!

Lola Bunny · 06-15-2013, 06:46 AM

Wonderful news!

06-07-2013, 07:45 PM	#9331
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Monkle __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

06-07-2013, 07:50 PM	#9332
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Found out grandkid #2 will be a boy. Don't care about boy/girl so much that it's at the point where it can be determined. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

06-08-2013, 09:53 AM	#9335
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Congrats HM and rich! Have a wonderful visit, choco. Very special. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

06-08-2013, 11:32 AM	#9336
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Got the card. Turns out Fathers Day isn't until next Sunday. But at least I'm prepared. Attached Images __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

06-08-2013, 11:48 AM	#9337
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	That's fantastic, Sundae. Beautiful. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

06-08-2013, 06:46 AM	#9334
Chocolatl Glutton for Gluttony Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 1,409	Congrats to your families, rich and Happy Monkey! Today I'm happy because we survived the last night's four hour trip and Beans' first night in a hotel. Today she finally gets to meet my mom and my brother! Woohoo!

06-08-2013, 12:41 PM	#9338
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Wow! I need to step up my game for father's day

06-08-2013, 10:11 PM	#9339
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	That's wonderful. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

06-09-2013, 05:29 PM	#9341
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	This morning I planted ten tomato plants, eight peppers of various sorts (sweet to hot), six cucumbers, lots of dill, basil, parsley, and thyme. The oregano has taken over and mostly has to be ripped out as a weed, so there's lots of that for drying whenever I feel like it. There's space for three rows of seed. Next weekend I'll sow kale, rainbow chard, and Chioggia beets. That's all the raised beds will allow, unless I find a spot here or there as the season goes on. I'll tend everything on weekends and harvest baby kale and chard all summer. That's a good thing, and hopefully will help keep me on track. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

06-15-2013, 05:34 AM	#9342
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Well, I got the call from Waitrose! They want me on the Deli counter, which was one of the preferences I expressed on my application. AND I have filled in the medical form, which I was able to answer 100% honestly as it was all about allergies and food-handling issues. Phew! So now it's just down to references. Something that still makes my stomach churn, but I can't fix what has happened in the past. I'll just have to deal with it as it happens. The hours I've been offered: Sunday 09.00-12.45 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 06.30-09.45 Thursday 09.30-13.30 Sunday is time and a half, so I'm pleased to get that one. Mon, Tues & Weds are an earlier start than I would like, especially as it's not a warehouse job where I can just roll out of bed - I have to be showered and clean and well-groomed. But it's a job, and after all gives me the whole day free! I can look for other work in the afternoons when I'm back in the groove. And all Friday off for appointments etc. For four days of the week I'll be mostly setting up, stocking shelves I think, as the store will be closed. Waitrose is not 24 hour. When the store is open I'll be working with CHEESE! Cheese and cooked meats and olives and all the things I love. And I get 12% discount after 3 months. Although I think Mum would rather I was out of the house more when she was awake, she seems mildly pleased that I really have been looking for work (I think she thought I was pretending) and after all it will benefit the family greatly. I'll get 25% off at Joohn Lewis too - some electrical items excepted. If I get this, people, life might just work out after all. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

06-15-2013, 06:09 AM	#9343
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I'm so happy for you! Mmmm... I love some cheese as well. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

06-15-2013, 06:23 AM	#9344
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	This is such fabulous news! Sundae I'm so happy for you! Well done! __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

06-15-2013, 06:46 AM	#9345
Lola Bunny Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 2,728	Wonderful news!

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