Re: Joys and Good News

by **reboot** Sat Sep 10, 2016 10:24 pm

reboot wrote:Denali National Park has a sled dog puppy cam

https://www.nps.gov/dena/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams-pups.htm

Wondering wrote:Indeed! I've been following it for years. It's one of my favorite things on the internet.

How did I not know about it? Wondering, you were holding out in me Smile

This is my new internet happy place

by **reboot** Sun Sep 11, 2016 11:43 am

Wondering wrote:I tend to not talk as much about my National Parks trips and what I learned from them as I'd like because I think I bore people with my stories. Perhaps I over-corrected.

The mom of this year's litter was one of the puppies we saw when we were at Denali.

I will never be bored by national park stories. Denali is on my national park bucket list and might have just moved to the top.

by **reboot** Mon Sep 12, 2016 8:29 am

I moved the national park squeeing so we can squeeze and not bother others

by **Hirundo Bos** Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:02 am

I was working on a poem that I've been struggling with for years, and I think I've got it now

by Prajnaparamita Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:17 pm

Last night I woke up in a panic attack from a nightmare and found my head flooded with intrusive thoughts and disturbing images that I couldn't get out. So at 2 am I woke up my sleeping boyfriend next to me and he lead me through some soothing guided imagery until I was able to calm down and go to sleep. That in and of itself is really wonderful, but this is a man who has never used guided imagery before, doesn't have any experience in it and was also half asleep the entire time, so much so that he didn't even remember doing it when he woke up in the morning! Anyway it was just a really wonderful moment of my partner just getting and being really respectful of my mental health issues that I feel really grateful for.

by caliseivy Sat Sep 17, 2016 12:52 pm

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OMFG Y'ALL I DID IT! I PASSED MY DRIVING TEST!! AND I ACTUALLY PASSED ON THE FIRST F***ING TRY!
I was so sure I was going to hit a cone during the 2-point turn and I came SO CLOSE to it. I am so damn relieved now!!

by **Enail** Sat Sep 17, 2016 1:17 pm

That's awesome, Calisevy! All your frustrating getting in the driving time pays off!

by Wondering Sat Sep 17, 2016 1:33 pm

by waxingjaney Sat Sep 17, 2016 3:37 pm

Woohoo! Now you can get a Tesla and leave the autopilot on all the time.

by **eselle28** Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:28 am

Oh, congratulations, caliseivy!

by **eselle28** Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:29 am

Two nieces are even better than one, and there's something to be said for pictures of new sleeping babies to calm the wrath that follows political debates.

by Wondering Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:31 am

Congrats to your family!

by WJMorris3 Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:17 pm

waxingjaney wrote:Woohoo! Now you can get a Tesla and leave the autopilot on all the time.

But then it might become an Edison (if it's stolen).

by **Hirundo Bos** Sun Oct 09, 2016 8:24 pm

Just discovered another bird whose name in another language is Martin. I can now be a kingfisher as well as a swallow.

https://giphy.com/gifs/CA2IwEbpurZGU

by sky Sun Oct 16, 2016 4:19 pm

I made a new friend! Shiny/thrilled

by Wondering Tue Oct 25, 2016 8:24 pm

Tentative joy. My husband got a new job. Fingers crossed and knock on wood that it will work out and be something lasting.

Because, right now, we don't have to move and sell our dream house.

*fingers crossed*

by **Hirundo Bos** Wed Oct 26, 2016 9:58 am

Laser signals of possible artificial origin discovered at 234 different locations in the sky. May very possibly be something other than aliens... may not belong in "joys and good news" if it is. But I'm a little excited about it anyway...

by jcorozza Wed Oct 26, 2016 1:35 pm

Boyfriend and I got approved for our apartment! It's dog friendly, and we've both been wanting a dog for ages. I may have started snooping on petfinder already. Oh, and we got approved to adopt some rat babies from a local rescue (which is extra nice because one of my older boys died, most likely from a tumor, Monday. At least he will get to hang with his brother). I feel super adulty.

by **Werel** Wed Oct 26, 2016 5:07 pm

A magazine article I was interviewed for came out, and they ended up using my quotes to open, close, and advertise the issue. Embarrassed-proud. Embarassed

by Guest Wed Oct 26, 2016 7:59 pm

Werel wrote:A magazine article I was interviewed for came out, and they ended up using my quotes to open, close, and advertise the issue. Embarrassed-proud.

That's cuz Werel is just full of wisdom. ;D

In other Joys and Good News, I started my new job at my TV station. Shiny/thrilled

I'm a photojournalist now. Drawback is I may see some not so nice shit. Ewwww!

But hey, that's the nature of the business.

by bomaye Mon Oct 31, 2016 5:00 pm

Got my sister to laugh, snort and spit her drink out into the front garden all at once while she was leaving to go to work B)

by **Robjection** Mon Oct 31, 2016 6:07 pm

All these stories about Donald Trump getting you down? Here is a completely different story about quite possibly the slowest police car chase ever that might just make you laugh.

by BasedBuzzed Tue Nov 22, 2016 12:36 pm

More free tickets. Tickets to stuff I could go to for free anyway. Welp, more of an excuse to drag people along.

by bomaye Thu Nov 24, 2016 2:15 pm

FOGBOWS

I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW FOGBOWS WERE A THING

by Wondering Thu Dec 08, 2016 8:39 pm

I am grateful for the phenomenal insurance my husband's new job gets him. And the fact that I presciently chose the right plan for expensive chronic medical conditions a week before our little one was diagnosed T1.

I'm sure there are better and/or less expensive plans out there, but I've never personally had or seen one, so my mouth keeps dropping open at how little we're paying for big ticket things.

(Fingers crossed my husband can keep his job and his insurance doesn't change in the coming 4+ years.)

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