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slvemike4u -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/24/2015 2:10:18 PM)

Only when mom makes it [:D]



LookieNoNookie -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/24/2015 5:56:02 PM)


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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

On my way home tonight, I popped into a favorite shop to stock up on magazines (one of my great vices). The store also sells cards, magnets, and mugs with cool sayings on them. My eye went straight to this:

[image]http://thepinkjoy.com/wp-content/gallery/new-york/new-york-23.jpg[/image]


One look, and I knew I'd found my mantra for the rest of Lent. Hell, for the rest of life if possible!

Joy came to me today in varied ways:

-- the kind nurse who visited and got me set up using my NutriBullet to make a veggie/fruit drink,
-- the NutriBullet itself, a surprise gift from a friend of Mom's who'd been moved by my emails,
-- laughing and gabbing with folks at work,
-- a fascinating Lenten program at my quirky, beloved church,
-- the initiative to reach out to friends about getting together on Saturday,
-- my cat, and much more.

Where did you find joy today?


I was gonna give you a smart ass answer (that probably only 3 people.....one of which would have been me....I'm still laughing actually) would have found funny but.....I will answer your question because.....it is truly an awesome question :)

In my cat, who thinks I'm her Dad.

When I leave, she greatly appreciates my "see ya" petting (got all my clothes on, sit on the bed as I do every morning, put my shoes on and....that's her clue...."he's leaviiiiiiiing"), and then she swats at me because....I think.....she doesn't want me to leave so....I think it's her way of "capturing me" with her claws in hopes I can't leave.....

So.....(every morning) I go "oh....yeah? You think you're better than me!!!!????? YOU THINK YOU'RE TOUGH??????? Well....you got another thing coming kiddo" and we fight for about 3 minutes, I leave with a bloody (seriously bloody) right hand, get in my car, head off to work, come back 10 or so hours later and she's like...."Hi Daddy.....I missed you.....can I kiss you?"

Joy.

(Until of course, the alarm goes off....then it's full on again....but....I have the keys.....I can drive....she can't and....she doesn't know where I work).



RockaRolla -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/24/2015 6:01:42 PM)

I have a lemon cheesecake cooling on the stove, and strawberry sauce to go with it.



slvemike4u -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/24/2015 6:54:17 PM)

Lookie,today(which has been really shitty) that story brought me joy....maybe it's the fact that I'm typing that at an off kilter angle cause my own cat is sitting on my lap.
Which she thinks is hers anyway....lol



shiftyw -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/24/2015 6:59:12 PM)

I'm struggling to find joy today. It has been pretty rough. But I guess I have to be grateful for all the time I've had with my family and the closeness I feel to them. They are all wonderful, unique people- we might not always agree- but we all can lover one another and accept each others flaws and thats the best I can come up with today.



dcnovice -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/24/2015 7:18:42 PM)

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I'm struggling to find joy today. It has been pretty rough.

I know the feeling. Big hugs!

As often happens for me, today brought both great joy (lunch with my brother) and tears (ostomy adventure in the men's room at work).



NookieNotes -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/25/2015 2:15:02 AM)

Yesterday, I worked all day, except for two things:

1. A new friend from CS was traveling through town, and stopped by to have a coffee with me at the end of the day. Was a lovely conversation, with many shared viewpoints.

2. I had dinner with a good friend who I don't see often enough. She told me I "get" her. I love providing that role for someone, and eating homemade chicken curry and chocolate-dipped strawberries! LOL!

Very joyful day.



LookieNoNookie -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/25/2015 4:02:23 PM)


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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

Lookie,today(which has been really shitty) that story brought me joy....maybe it's the fact that I'm typing that at an off kilter angle cause my own cat is sitting on my lap.
Which she thinks is hers anyway....lol


Get over it....tomorrow's going to be fucked up.

(Said in the nicest of ways of course).



slvemike4u -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/25/2015 5:20:40 PM)

You don't know how right you were....first I dropped my phone in the drive way...than I backed over it....with my car.
Than having gone to the Verizon store I was told I had my choice of two insurance plans to file a claim under.
Which made both the clerk and I curious....why have two insurance plans for a phone ...you can't file two claims.
So I broke my phone than found out that I have been paying two different companies for a unnecessarily redundant service.
Okay the deductible is 200 dollars ...a new phone with my re-up discount would be three hundred and could be accomplished today....so three hundred dollars later,one dropped insurance policy later and the other insurance gets off the hook because the deductible is prohibitive.
Yeah ,I had a fucked up day and no I haven't found any joy yet.....sorry DC,I know it's supposed to be a feel good thread and I feel like a shit seeing as what you are going thru...but this is my reality,and today it sucked.



dcnovice -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/25/2015 6:12:52 PM)

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sorry DC,I know it's supposed to be a feel good thread and I feel like a shit seeing as what you are going thru...but this is my reality,and today it sucked.

No worries, Mike. It's meant to be an honest thread. As theologian Verna Dozier points out, “A faithful response [to life] can be to name the darkness when darkness has been the experience.”

All the best for a better tomorrow!

ETA: Everyone's pain is painful. Yours is just as real as mine.



shiftyw -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/25/2015 6:45:46 PM)

Today all the animals upset by my grams recent move to a nursing home all laid down together and took a nap in a big pile. It was heart melting and good to see them all together and relaxing.

It hit 50 today, which was just wonderful.



slvemike4u -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/25/2015 7:13:49 PM)

DC,I finally got my joy today....your reply [:)]

Thanks,pal...please,please feel better [:)]



NookieNotes -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/26/2015 4:45:44 AM)

Yesterday was, for me, over twelve hours of joy. About twice per month, Pet has to meet with an out-of-town client, and I ride with him, sow e share time together. I work while he's in his meetings, then we ride back. Yesterday, we also spent the remainder of the afternoon and evening together. We laughed, told stories of our childhood, and ate AMAZING Indian food (Groupon, yeah!).

I fell into bed quite satisfied with life. Heart meter = full.



DesFIP -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/26/2015 7:02:04 PM)

My son came to dinner. It was wonderful. We talked and laughed. He's living maybe a mile away, sharing an apartment with a friend and I never see him. He did say that Thursday is his best night and he hinted for dinner invites for future Thursdays.



GoddessManko -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/26/2015 7:14:50 PM)

I get to laugh and smile pretty much everyday. Everyone at my gym and on my facebook, skype and ym are always reaching out, all are excited for this new launch and I want to have it perfect before unveiling. I am in a perpetual group convo on skype but I tell them in my status I am usually busy working. This week is spring break and I'm spending most of it working rather than with my boys *sadface.jpg* but trying out a new workout. Going to the pool at my gym with my neighbor so I get to shed some clothing for the first time in months and show off all the hard work. My bestie and I are going into wholesale real estate (oh boy!). My collared is perpetually supportive and I receive tokens daily from him. Might bake a pie again soon, who knows. Life has been more quiet than it has been for the last 10 years but much needed rest and much rewarding work is being had. Summer is playtime with the kayaks, boats, tubes and jetskis. Should be a blast and sort of working now to play later. The forum is entertaining in the interim. I like to procrastinate (sometimes). [:D]
I am planning on ordering 3000 business cards every month and after this business project takes off, getting into the next one. My collared and I have been chatting less and he is SO GOOD about it. Always so content with my happiness and naught more. Life has been amazing. [:)]



DerangedUnit -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/26/2015 7:52:48 PM)

I'm not often in a bad mood... today, let's see keeping it pg... a nice hour and a half long shower nap while I deep conditioned my hair(water is like a meditation tool for me I'm sick so that was nice) then I sat outside and read until my sister called and we joked about ways I could disrupt her wedding, then my other sister called and told me she packed her dolls so that I had toys and she was running away to come live with me.... everything she says is adorable. Then daddy brought me lunch and he was happy and had a productive day we cuddled and joked and ate cheeseburgers, and then the cheeseburgers made me sleepy so I took a nap and when I woke up I found a bag of candy. Oh and last night(1am so it counts) I played with max the husky until we fell panting on the grass... life is good.



NookieNotes -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/27/2015 2:05:24 AM)

Yesterday I finally felt like I made progress on a business speedbump that I'd hit. Still have a ways to go on it, but scheduled some important automated info, so happy there.

Had dinner with a friend. The kids bouncing up and down were a bit much, as was the "over-cooked" green tea (yes, she used the word cooked in regards to green tea!), but the food was good, and the company amusing.

Bought a new loose leaf tea after to bring home, trying that this morning, and some new around-the-house comfy pants, since the ones I've been wearing were falling apart before my eyes.

Mostly, just felt good when I fell asleep. A good day.



LookieNoNookie -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/28/2015 6:50:10 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

You don't know how right you were....first I dropped my phone in the drive way...than I backed over it....with my car.
Than having gone to the Verizon store I was told I had my choice of two insurance plans to file a claim under.
Which made both the clerk and I curious....why have two insurance plans for a phone ...you can't file two claims.
So I broke my phone than found out that I have been paying two different companies for a unnecessarily redundant service.
Okay the deductible is 200 dollars ...a new phone with my re-up discount would be three hundred and could be accomplished today....so three hundred dollars later,one dropped insurance policy later and the other insurance gets off the hook because the deductible is prohibitive.
Yeah ,I had a fucked up day and no I haven't found any joy yet.....sorry DC,I know it's supposed to be a feel good thread and I feel like a shit seeing as what you are going thru...but this is my reality,and today it sucked.


But Mike....think about this.....

You probably have one of those fancy phones that does everything but hibernate for winter and dial your Ex if you need cash.

Mine makes phone calls.

It opens....it closes....it beeps (more than I care for), I get photos (which I can't see or download...or forward) and it makes.....

....phone calls.

It doesn't do anything else.

Actually, I think it might but...I don't give a shit. And if it did....I wouldn't know how to take it to the next level (nor would I care).

(And even if someone showed me....I couldn't give a fuck).

It doesn't do email (actually, it does, but I don't give a fuck.....see above).

I want my phone to make and receive phone calls.

My clients know I can't (actually, I refuse to) get "text". And I won't respond to a text.

EVER.

Nevvvvvvver.

If I had to send "Hi, I got your text....very interesting stuff....I'd like to tell you more....allow me to do so......blah blah blah blah blah......", I'd have to kill myself.

And then (just prior to) I'd hunt down the person that sent it to me and....if they were really BIG and muscular....I'd hire someone to kill them.

My clients know this. They hate this but...I respond to every phone call NOW.

Instantaneously. Within seconds of their call.

But if I don't respond....it means I'm dead, don't give a shit, underneath a bus, don't give a shit, hit by an asteroid, don't give a shit or.....I just don't give a shit.

They know that my time is my time and.....that my time is most assuredly not....their time.

(I like that).

Smart phones are most absolutely the pivot point where I probably should join the human race but....

....I just don't care enough to make that happen.

Kirk to Enterprise....

(Delete stress).







DaddySatyr -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/28/2015 11:06:39 PM)


In keeping with the theme:

As some of you know, I have been back at school. Because I've got a pretty big chunk of work experience in the field in which I am studying, I've had a fairly easy go. I was even asked to teach about half of the class periods in one class.

I am attempting to do what's called "tackle" a couple of other classes. That's where I show that my experience has brought me to a point where I can demonstrate what are supposed to be the goals of these particular classes, without taking them. It affords me an automatic "A" in the classes and I only have to incur about a third of the cost.

Anyway, one of the things I had to do, I went to do on Tuesday. the event did not co-operate and what I got out of it was sub-par. I also should say that it's been a long time since I did this particular sub-division of this work so, I am, probably a bit rusty, too.

I went back to a follow-up event on Thursday and nailed it. I don't particularly like this kind of work but it was satisfying to know that I was able to return to form, fairly easily.

So, my joy, today is the satisfaction of knowing I haven't lost too many steps, in my old age and I am probably going to kick this "higher education" thing in the ass.



Michael



NookieNotes -> RE: Find Joy in Each Day (3/29/2015 4:00:15 AM)

Yesterday, I woke and worked a bit, then went out with a friend to get a few things for a party. Relaxed before the party, then dressed as a pirate (a butt pirate, actually, had a huge dildo strapped on over my jeans), and went off to enjoy time with good kinky friends.

After, I spent time with one of my girlfriends, sipping tea, eating fresh-baked blueberry muffins, and enjoying her warm hospitality.

Again, went to bed smiling, as a guest in her home.

I just gotta say, I love playing dress up! *smiles*



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