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My dad finally got the go-ahead to walk without crutches; it's been 7 1/2 months since a motorcycle accident shattered his left femur, and he's been going crazy feeling trapped in the house all the time.
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Got a call from the company I sent in a C.V. to yesterday - I have an INTERVIEW ON FRIDAY!!!! WOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
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May 18, 2011 16:38
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Had a job interview for a decent job in a highly rated company, and it went SUPER well. Fingers crossed I get good news from them in a few days.
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May 21, 2011 13:39
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I got a call back for a really nice-sounding job I interviewed for last friday - second round interview today! WOOO!
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May 24, 2011 09:44
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This is AMAZING - I did a 2nd round interview for a job I really want yesterday, and they called bck a couple of hours ago to ofer me the contract! Huzzah!!!! The timeline was ridiculous: - Sent in resume Monday last week - got a call setting up an interview on the wednesday - interviewed on friday - They called to set up a 2nd round interview this monday - interviewed on tuesday - job offer today.
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May 25, 2011 17:28
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So I posted about a month ago in this thread about finally getting a job after being unemployed for a long time, and that the company I now work for is awesome and full of really nice people. Anyway, a company-wide announcement went out a couple of weeks ago offering a reward for anyone who recommended someone who was subsequently hired. I recommended a really good guy I worked with in the past, he was interviewed, he's being hired, and I get a free 750 euro in my next paycheck, plus another 750 if his contract is extended. Awesome. Eidt to add that it is doubly awesome, free money plus a really nice fellow former games QA person joining my team 
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Jun 26, 2011 11:50
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Michael D won the irish presidential election; he is a genuinely good man and will be a great president. I am delighted 
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Oct 29, 2011 09:53
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I finally took the lock off the kitchen door to see why the latch doesn't work properly - opened it up to find that the original spring must have been broken or lost a very long time ago, so someone replaced it with a corset spring. The corset spring was all flat and non-springy, so I replaced it in turn with a springy hair decoration from Claire's. Lock works perfectly now - I feel so competent. (also, it another 50 years when someone opens the lock to see why it's not working, they are going to be very puzzled when they find the tiny spring with a pearl on one end.)
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Nov 29, 2017 16:45
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My dad's bike was stolen from outside the house yesterday  Today, while walking back from the shops and only about 5 minutes from the house, we found it outside a shop so we stole it back again! Huzzah!
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Captain Invictus posted:Update on this: stepdad had multiple dark spots on both kidneys as well as inflamed lymph nodes indicating likely renal cell carcenoma + metastasization which would likely be a long, painful death sentence for him. That is absolutely wonderful news about your stepdad! About the bike - We found it while walking back from the shops so we just grabbed it and ran off, we didn't want to hang around and risk getting into a street argument with whoever took it. The fact that it was still so close to where it was stolen kinda suggests that either the thief doesn't have the brains to consider that it is not a good idea to ride around on a stolen bike in the neighbourhood you stole it in , or they already sold it on to someone else. Either way, not someone we wanted to risk meeting. Bike's all locked up and safe now
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The day started well; I looked out my bedroom window when I woke up and I saw a dolphin swimming south in the morning sunshine, and so far is continuing well as a bunch of books I bought and having been greatly looking forward to have finally turned up after taking a short unexpected trip to Sweden (specifically Malmö).
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Feb 9, 2018 14:29
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Going to try making candied peel today - I hear it makes the whole house smell amazing!
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Apr 23, 2018 11:18
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I just this minute found out that if I pay a small fee (25 euro), I can go alpaca trekking* fairly locally  *it's 2 hours of gentle walking really, but with a friendly alpaca!
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May 9, 2018 12:04
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Thin Privilege posted:I am so jealous. For content, my day is awesome because I learned that this is a thing Think I'm going to bring my mum there for her birthday; she loves walks and big fluffy friendly animals 
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May 10, 2018 09:23
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We got a new oven at the end of last year, and I used it back in... february? I think, to bake a christmas cake. First time using it for a big, slow cake bake, so I was a bit apprehensive. The recipe means I don't get to even open the oven door and look at the cake for 4+hours so that first look was quite a big deal and was not good - the cake looked very dark, possibly even a bit burnt. However, possibly-burned-cake was used today as a birthday cake and it's fine - not burned on the outside OR raw on the inside! So I know my standard cake recipe, temperature and timing work in the new oven - this is a great relief, I was not looking forward to tweaking my timings for the next few years to get decent christmas cakes again. Got to get busy and bake another cake for this Christmas now - I might even make 2!
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Aug 4, 2018 17:09
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I know it sounds weird, but most traditional christmas cake recipes will tell you to bake the cake at least a month before you plan to eat it - they really don't taste very good otherwise. I've gotten into the habit of making them at least 6 months before we're actually going to eat them, but the risk of problems due to the new oven made me wary of keeping this one til Christmas. The best christmas cake I ever made was over a year old when it was eaten - they don't go stale or 'off' since they are basically a solid block of dried fruit mixed with fat, sugar and brandy.
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Aug 4, 2018 18:20
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I baked a christmas cake yesterday, and I'm going to bake another one tomorrow. The whole house smells delicious!
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Oct 24, 2018 18:25
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Mikl posted:It's two full months until Christmas, isn't it a bit too early to be baking cakes? Nope - strangely it's actually a bit late I make old-fashioned rich fruit cakes which need to mature for at least a couple of months before you eat them, so I like to get it done by late-September. Best one we ever had was one that had been baked for the previous christmas, I think it was about 14-15 months old when it was eventually eaten. As long as you pack them up carefully in greaseproof paper, they keep for an extremely long time.Cake number 2 is in the oven right now - out in 4 hours! Pookah has a new favorite as of 13:18 on Oct 25, 2018 |
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Oct 25, 2018 13:16
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After a few days of humming and hawing I finally bought some CBD oil to see if it'd help with my anxiety/depression and... I think it's working? Yeah, I know placebo effect is very possible but it's been a couple of hours and my mind just feels a lot quieter and less tetchy than usual so I don't really care if it's placebo effect or genuine, as long I feel this much better edit: it does work AAAAA! I vaguely noticed that I was starting to get irritated by little things again and looked up how long CBD lasts and I was getting annoyed because it was wearing off. This is huge for me, even if I don't use it all the time, just knowing I can take some and safely give my mood a lift whenever I want is letting me feel really hopeful  edit2: VVV That tiling is smooth VVV Pookah has a new favorite as of 08:28 on Apr 16, 2019 |
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GWBBQ posted:This past weekend was the two year anniversary of my mom's diagnosis of advanced stage IV pancreatic cancer with two weeks to two months to live and she's in remission. That is marvellous.
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Pookah posted:After a few days of humming and hawing I finally bought some CBD oil to see if it'd help with my anxiety/depression and... I think it's working? Just wanted to come back to this in case it's of interest to anyone else - I've been continuing to take CBD oil every day for the last 2 weeks and the effect it's had on my anxiety and general mood is extraordinary. I literally haven't this well and happy in years. Stuff's loving magic.
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Scathach posted:That's hella cool and I'm excited for you! I have tried CBD isolate and it worked a little. Gonna try to oil for the anxious days. Thanks! I'm so excited for me! I really hope it works for you too - from what I've been reading its effect can be very individual but it really seems to be strong against anxiety. I've been harassing* family into trying it since anxiety/depression runs on both sides hard but getting anxious/depressed people to try strange new things is tough. *by 'harass' I mean I told them about it, I haven't been bombarding them with articles on the magic power of CBD; I know how counter-productive that can be. Pookah has a new favorite as of 08:23 on May 2, 2019 |
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May 2, 2019 06:55
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queserasera posted:I've been seriously thinking about taking CBD as a daily pill right alongside my other meds. This may be the push to actually get me to do it. Give it a whirl - from everything I've read it'll either help or do nothing, no negative side effects. (Still check for any possible interactions with your meds tho, just to be triple-y cautious)
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May 3, 2019 08:59
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Reading about everyone elses good news is a great boost to my day, plus I just heard that my order from betterworldbooks has been shipped! So in a couple of weeks I'll start receiving parcels of Gladys Mitchell and Edmund Crispin crime novels. I am so excited!
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Jun 4, 2019 08:31
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Brawnfire posted:Peppa Pig has caused my daughter to start calling me "DAtty" in a little British accent, which is probably the greatest development in my life since I discovered I could breathe This is painfully cute edit: Is it like this accent? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTpVI93hddY (Video is very sweet and no-one is disappointed by their terrible gifts) Pookah has a new favorite as of 10:32 on Jun 5, 2019 |
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Jun 5, 2019 10:27
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Brawnfire posted:Haha aww, she just turned two so it's less developed than that, but she's definitely doing the same sing-songy voice as this. We're painfully American so it really leaps out from the lovely upstate NY accent. That's too adorable
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Jun 5, 2019 14:41
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I took a chance on my old bag of henna being still good after more than a year of sitting open in a press, and it absolutely was!
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Jun 24, 2019 14:08
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Picnic Princess posted:I did my first hike after being declared in remission from Lyme and two coinfections. I performed better than when I would do 6 summits a summer, before I got really sick. It really makes it seem that I was sicker for longer than I thought, because one symptom is air hunger, which can trigger exercise induced asthma. Which has been an issue plaguing me since at least 2004. I walked up a steep slope for 400 vertical meters on a 2km trail, and did not have any asthma symptoms whatsoever. It's absolutely blowing my loving mind to just not have loving asthma anymore. It dominated my outdoor life for years and years and years. I can't even imagine what I'll be capable of when I get into shape again. I am so happy for you, finally feeling well after a long long illness is the best loving feeling in the world. I'm feeling pretty good today because a few weeks ago I complained about the labelling of a CBD oil I was taking, and the company sent me a big huge bottle as an apology! (I also feel guilty because it wasn't that big of a deal and this stuff is expensive and I really wasn't fishing for free stuff when I complained and and and... anxiety - poo poo better take some oil )
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Jul 16, 2019 09:34
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I got a big bottle of Eau de Rochas and a nifty pair of trousers for hardly any money in the thrift shop.
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Jul 31, 2019 15:54
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That's pretty much the best possible outcome! (barring the 'bit of ham' scenario of course)
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The end wall of our garden developed a huge, possibly old wall-topplingly huge, overhanging growth of ivy and I was dreading having to deal with it because getting access to the base of the stems looked like being a serious pain in the rear end - it's behind a workshop which is surrounded by thick shrubbery laced with brambles. But I went down there this morning with gloves and a loppers and it was actually quite easy! The overhang of the workshop roof kept the sides pretty clear of growth so I was done in about half an hour. The mass on top of the wall should die off soon and become much lighter, and we can pull it down and drag it away then. The main stem was a whopper though - about 12-14 inch circumference. Those brambles though, they are going to be a nightmare to deal with - but that's a fight for another day (and for someone else!)
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Sep 18, 2019 15:08
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I have a favorite little kitchen knife that I have protected for years and my parents just brought me back another 4 identical ones from France. I have an actual stash of lovely sharp little knives now
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I just got an unopened box of Yves Rocher Cedar Wood and Lime for 5 euro in a thrift shop - I liked the decription of the actual scents in it, but was a bit dubious because all the reviews harped on about it being 'resolutely masculine' 'super-manly' 'oh my god so goddam butch you'll grow an extra testicle' which I thought probably meant it has that kind of default Manly Cologne smell, which I do not like at all and, being a relatively young woman I also do not want to smell like someone's grandpa. Turns out it's absolutely gorgeous! - I get the same kind of feel from it that I get from Un Jardin Sur le Nil, which is my all-time favourite perfume, but which I cannot currently afford.
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Oct 22, 2019 08:48
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My dog had to go to the vet's earlier today for dental treatment, which meant general anesthesia -I just got a call to say he's awake and sitting up (I was horribly afraid something would go wrong and he wouldn't wake up at all )
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Oct 29, 2019 15:39
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Years ago I got a 3/4 length corduroy coat that fitted beautifully and looked great on me. Unfortunately I then gained weight and the coat stopped looking so good A couple of years ago I lost a load of weight again, and managed to shrink right past my lovely coat so I still didn't get to wear it. Yesterday I found an almost exact duplicate of the coat - same brand and stying, slightly different colour and in my current size, in a thrift store for 10 euro, plus it had just been dry-cleaned! I am ridiculously happy about this danged coat
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Hirayuki posted:My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer a few years back. It's apparently a slow-growing type, the kind that won't become fatal until ten years after he's probably already died from something else. It's more or less under control. He mentioned it to his cousin earlier this year, and his cousin encouraged him to get in touch with the VA, that it might have something to do with his stint in Vietnam and the Agent Orange he encountered while there. So this summer he did all the paperwork and got into their system to possibly be considered for, I guess, reparations of a sort. He saw a VA doctor last month and has been waiting to hear back. That's marvellous - a real case of something good coming from something bad. Hope your dad's health stays good My latest awesomeness: I found a perfect christmas present for my mother, who is a fairly new vegan who has a lingering love for leather handbags. Yesterday I found a beautiful, high-quality portuguese leather bag in a thrift store so she gets to have the bag but not the guilt of buying it new!
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BioEnchanted posted:So she's Vegan Buffalo Bill. "I won't eat you... but I love your SKIN!" Pretty much. We do not question the ethical inconsistencies, doing so causes much irritation.
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Nov 16, 2019 13:02
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AngryRobotsInc posted:It's early, but my day is already made awesome. Nice! There's something extremely satisfying about repairing a knitting mistake - its usually so drat fiddly and so easy for it to go horribly wrong (though that might just be because I am not exactly an expert knitter  )
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AngryRobotsInc posted:I keep telling myself I should use lifelines, but then I never do. I was sweating bullets the whole time, because man, picking up stitches in garter stitch is no fun at all. I know, any time I do it I somehow manage to pick up a bunch of stitches the wrong way around. I tell myself that it just adds character and makes sure that no-one thinks the item was just shop bought. Like that is a thing that anyone would ever think about my knitting.
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I keep finding gorgeous Christmas party dresses for half-nothing in thrift shops!
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