[Poohbah (Gsq)]

My team at work. Lots of giggles today. As usual.
The boys, just about.
My friend spending lots of his day researching our travel plans for Hungary

[spannz15]

Snow Patrol were REALLY good and made me all buzzy xD

[Rachel Rose]

All of these smiles make me happy.

I wrote a five minute play for Theatre.


Got the confirmation email from my travel agent.



Life ig good.

[Joinee Evilrhian]

Yesterday. Yesterday was brilliant. Wicked made me cry sooo much (in a good way) and then I walked *miles* around London on my own for the first time ever. Seeing as sometimes I don't even like leaving my house I have a proper sense of achievement going on

Day 2 of birthday week is cinema time tonight, finally I get to see Dragon Tattoo...excited and tiny bit scared!

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Yay, glad you're having a lovely birthday time, Rhian

My particular special-mention smiles today are:
- my team at work
- one of the friends that I felt a bit hurt by yesterday, making amends today without realising (they don't know I felt hurt yesterday, but today they just happened to do something that proved that actually I'm a stupidhead and they do care about me a lot and probably I should just get over myself!)
- today being Groundhog Day and therefore having an excuse to think about how awesome Bill Murray is all day (I'm not even watching the film to celebrate, I just have it playing in my head)

[Joinee Mum White]

Lovely guitar lesson and coming home to find tha we now have the proper lights in the lounge! Mum White xx

[GJ Drought]

wow today really is goundhog day!

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Yep, 2nd Feb! I always remember it because 02/02 is a cool date

[Pud]

getting a text message ordering me back onto the forum because someone from Halifax has joined.

[KatieBooSmith]

A lovely afternoon with a friend for her birthday.

Cat, chat, and cake (with added Tom Hardy, as Heathcliff, in the background)

[Joinee Evilrhian]

My attic is finally getting decorated...a mere year after moving in
A friend who can't make my party tomorrow is coming to Swansea to see me tonight
Singing along to musicals really loud with my mammy earlier, we are the same person

[Platinum Joinee West]

I just bloody well love my life

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Platinum Joinee West, on 03 February 2012 - 05:34 PM, said:

I just bloody well love my life

This!

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Smiles of my own today include:
- my team, the boys and my friend
- F1 launches
- getting a project out the door (hopefully not to come back again) that has been annoying/stressing me for weeks
- it's the weeeeeeeeeeekend

[Rachel Rose]

Ravens. I don't know why. They always bring me joy. I think it's the way they remember me.

Maggie, my afternoon bus driver.

The cashier at Starbuck's.

My triple tall peppermint breve.

The movie Letters To Juliet.

Being upset with myself for dropping points in Algebra and then obsessively and with great determination putting all of those points back. My ass was draggin' this morning. And not the good dragon. That would have been better.

"it's the weeeeeeeeeeekend" Hallelujah ole amen pass the beer.

[HRH Gold Joinee Sheli]

Dancing last night was muchos fun, especially being told to 'assume the position on DOOM!'

Even better was when I sang the fist part of the doom song (doom doom doom doom di doom doom!) mostly to myself, because it made me giggle... and the guy I was dancing with at that moment started singing the rest of it back to me! we had a little Zim moment. Apparently I'm the first English person he's met who knows about Zim! (He is an American)

Also, being asked to dance by one of the boys, who then proceeded to throw me around the room with seemingly no regard to actual Lindy steps!! I had literally no idea what was happening, but it was SO MUCH FUN!

[Grandaddy Steve]

1. A lovely (but freezing)walk around the Kent countryside with some good chums.
2. (Weirdly) Listening to Esther Rantzen (I KNOW!) doing an excellent piece about the early days of Reggae on Radio 2 (I KNOW!).
3. Nice hot bubble bath to sort out the aches and pains of the walk.

[Joinee Hathorn]

New found baby whispering skills

[LillyK]

1. All my best friends planning a night out at the end of the month (may not sound like much but we're spread out all over the country and it's pretty difficult to get us all in the same place at the same time!)
2. The boy I like texting me yesterday to tell me he'd be up for coming on said night out (as he is already friends with my best friend) AND that he loved my idea for a random recipe I texted him!!
3. Remembering a crazy chat I had with a friend last night
4. Speaking to a good friend I haven't seen in ages and planning a day out next weekend

AND lots of things! I am in one fabulous mood, everything is making me smile!

[joinee_doug]

Despite it being "too nice a day to stay inside", right now enjoying leafing through my books of Herman cartoons by Jim Unger. If you're not familiar with him, check it out sometime - 30 years old and they still make me laugh, they're absurd and timeless.

[Platinum Joinee West]

Unplanned hour long walk home through the lovely snow. Complete with abandoned bus and a snowball in the middle of the road that was about 5 foot high...

It was fun and a slightly challenging way!

[SJ Del (The Train Man)]

Discovering another joinee through Twitter. Have invited them to come and say hello.

[Hernaic Tom]

Post-pub snowball fight
Lots and lots of (Three) lapwings on the river at low tide, the first of which made me inhale in a surprised fashion
Renditions of Happy Birthday in about 11 different languages!

[Rachel Rose]

After watching a traumatizing movie about brutality to women last night, my joy is waking up this morning with Thomas bringing me coffee and giving me a sweet kiss. It simultaneouly caused a comforting sort of rapture blended with utter sadness for all women in pain everywhere.

I promise to be kind to every woman in my life and those I encounter anywhere all week long. And to hold the knowledge that somewhere a young girl has been stolen from her home, taken to harsh surroundings and is being tormented just because she is female, in my heart and mind.

Experiencing rape, loneliness and fear in an atmoshere of viciousness is the worst place a human can possibly be. Man or woman.

This post has been edited by Rachel Rose: 05 February 2012 - 02:01 PM

[HRH Gold Joinee Sheli]

Visiting home and going shopping with my Mum for a new phone for her.

Seeing my Grandma and Grandad, and a yummy roast dinner.

Seeing my Aunty, her partner and my gorgeous 14 month old niece. I haven't seen my niece for months and months, and she has gotten SO BIG! We had a lot of fun playing and I even managed to grab a few kisses and cuddles.



And a sort of smile... Driving home the motorway was pretty clear, apart from the outside lane. All fine, I just stayed in the other 2. Some parts were very foggy, and when driving through a fog patch I was all of a sudden really close to a car with no fog lights who had almost stopped, and I had to break suddenly and change lanes into the outside lane. Car ended up skidding for about 100meters, but I managed to keep calm and steer into it, and use my gears to slow down. Thus avoiding other cars, and the central reservation. Yay me! (I realise that I was also very very lucky!!!) So yeah, not a usual type of smile, more of a smile because I managed not to crash!!!

[Platinum Joinee West]

Hooray for not crashing!

My smile is that today a goat blew a raspberry at me. Today has been a good day

[Joinee Mum White]

Pud, on 03 February 2012 - 02:31 PM, said:

getting a text message ordering me back onto the forum because someone from Halifax has joined.

Yay! Hello. I just popped on here to look at the smiles from the weekend, while I have been away, and this has just made me smile so much! Mum White xxx

Oh yes, and my own smile is for a lovely visit to Barry to see Peter and Catherine's beautiful, new house. I so love going to stay with my kids in their own homes. I love the way they are all grown up and organised, and get the meals and stuff - it makes me feel so excited and proud of them Mum White xxx

[Grandaddy Steve]

HRH Gold Joinee Sheli, on 05 February 2012 - 05:29 PM, said:

Car ended up skidding for about 100meters, but I managed to keep calm and steer into it, and use my gears to slow down. Thus avoiding other cars, and the central reservation. Yay me! (I realise that I was also very very lucky!!!) So yeah, not a usual type of smile, more of a smile because I managed not to crash!!!

Sounds like you're a good driver. Not many people would have managed that under the circumstances. Well done.

Lots of smiles playing with my grandchildren today. Ollie (2) is as cute and bright as anything and Annabelle (3 months) has an endless supply of giggles for Granddad Steve.

[HRH Gold Joinee Sheli]

Thanks Steve!!

[Platinum Joinee Plub]

I finally have my engagement ring back!!!

[HRH Gold Joinee Sheli]

Meeting went really well and left me feeling quite positive about doing supply.

FINALLY got my glasses sorted. Turns out all that was wrong was the dispenser who dealt with me when I got them didn't fit them properly. So I was expecting a load of hassle and in fact all it took was 5 minutes with a good dispenser to fit them properly and now I can SEE!

Sunshine.

Feeling gooooooooooood.

[Pud]

actually it's what made me smile yesterday. Went over to my dads house. I was dreading it as it's been ages since I last went so was fully expecting to find it had again been broken into numerous times and wondered what I was going to find. I was so worried I got John to go with me as I couldn't face it on my own.

What I was really not expecting was to find that no one has been in since our last visit, all boarding up intact and everything exactly as it had been.

excellent result :-)

[Grandaddy Steve]

Got a new job today which was rather smileworthy. www.oft.gov.uk.

[GJ Drought]

finsihing work! rough day arguing with jamacan women and dump people!

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Yesterday's smiles were mostly due to booking flights for our trip to the Hungarian GP. We're flying to Vienna and then roadtripping across to the Hungaroring. Very exciting! Hope to see a little bit of Budapest and Vienna before we make our way home after the race.

Also went to a talk for us marshals, this month it was Ant Davidson, which was cool. He's such a nice bloke. These talks are always really interesting. I'm such a geek!

And I had a nice lunchtime where (in between helping non-BIO with the flights) I got to tell tales of Brno and similar sillinesses, while walking in the sunshine.


Today, I had a nice day, nothing to complain about. I think my particular 'made me smile' moment was when I got in my car and was a little bit kicking myself and in that dodgy 'my-evening-could-go-downhill-now' mood, but when I switched the car on, BW started playing, and I just pushed the volume right up and let him get in my head, and he did his whole 'stand back, world - it's OK, I can do this on my own' thing and I totally bought into it and felt instantly better. It is massively uncool and fan-girly and yet also quite magical how sometimes he can just *fix me* when I'm teetering on the edge of breaking a little bit. It's not an exact science, but when it works, it works. "If I'm drowning please don't save me, coz I gotta save myself.."

[Platinum Joinee West]

WELL on my way to clearing my credit cards.

So naturally to celebrate I went clothes shopping.

That isn't entirely true, I went clothes shopping because I've lost nearly 2 stone and my trousers are all falling down, and the old-pair-of-johns-trousers which I've been wearing for the last 2 months (which are hideously unflattering by the way) aren't suitable for winter wear. They're too thin and too short and my ankles get cold :/

And with a long weekend in what I am assured will be freezing Amsterdam, I needed some jeans.

So, in addition to my credit card excellentness, I am also smiling about the fact I am currently wearing a pair of jeans. First jeans that have fit me properly in a LONG time though over to the grr thread about the sizing...

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Having properly fitting jeans is awesome, isn't it? I have started a new love affair with Levi's, which is a pity because they are EXPENSIVE, but I'd rather pay double and get a pair of amazing fitting jeans than buy a pair of Gap jeans that fit me nicely for about a week and a half and then hang off me like a sack for the rest of eternity. It's also a pity because now I hate wearing my non-Levi's jeans because I'm aware of just how awful they are..! Which means I really need to buy more of the awesome ones so that I have more choice. Which is expensive. But so worth it.

It's because they have different shape jeans for women of different shapes. Well, durr. Of course a beanpole like me doesn't fit into the same jeans as really curvy girls. Dear every other shop, this is why your jeans don't fit me. And probably don't fit the really curvy girls either.

Oh dear, I appear to have gone on a little jeans rant. But I do love my jeans so much.


New smile: non-BIO has geniusly rearranged our outbound flight, giving us 12 extra hours exploration time. And at some point we're going to drop by Slovakia!!

[joinee_doug]

Poohbah (Gsq), on 08 February 2012 - 10:22 PM, said:

Oh dear, I appear to have gone on a little jeans rant. But I do love my jeans so much.

It must be in your DNA...


(see what I did there? Jeans/genes/DNA ? It's this type of thing that accounts for my unsolicited comments on the webs)

[Joinee Mum White]

Having a really lovely couple of days getting plans sorted out, and a fabulous visit to Brighton Pavillion. I really did enjoy it so much, the dragons are amazing. Thank you K, you are the best tour guide ever, Mum White x

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Dragons? What dragons?

[Rachel Rose]

Lou and her dragons. I love that about her.


I am happy to see so many smiles here. I have some, too.


I was very nervous toddling off to school today. All those fresh young minds. My 46 years sometimes feel like they're holding me back, but...wait for it.

I am at 176 of 179 algebra topics.

I got an A on my theatre exam.

I got an A on my psych exam.

I got an A on my communications exam.


And those are some pretty impressive smiles for an old lady like me!

[PJ Hannah B-R]

Poohbah (Gsq), on 08 February 2012 - 09:38 PM, said:

Also went to a talk for us marshals

I read this as US Marshalls and imagined a room full of cowboys.

[Joinee Mum White]

Poohbah (Gsq), on 08 February 2012 - 11:42 PM, said:

Dragons? What dragons?

Lou - It is utterly amazing. Brighton Pavillion is just full of dragons. All the decor, everywhere - pictures carvings, supports for lamps, massive ones on the ceiling, stained glass, even the designs in lots of the wall paper. It is AWESOME! It is my new favourite place Mum White xxx

[Keen Joinee (GTJ)]

I started art classes yesterday. The teacher said "I would rather look at this crap [pointing to my work] than a perfect painting of St. Paul's Cathedral" Best back-handed compliment EVER

[Grandaddy Steve]

Two 29 minute rides on the Boris Bikes today. Fighting capitalism one minute at a time!

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Joinee Mum White, on 09 February 2012 - 10:41 AM, said:

Lou - It is utterly amazing. Brighton Pavillion is just full of dragons. All the decor, everywhere - pictures carvings, supports for lamps, massive ones on the ceiling, stained glass, even the designs in lots of the wall paper. It is AWESOME! It is my new favourite place Mum White xxx

Ooo so there's another reason to go to Brighton! (One of the reasons being one of my favourite Australians - shhh, don't tell him I called him that - and another one of the reasons being, I guess, my friends that live there... )

Today someone told me I was the most interesting person he's ever met. He has clearly only ever met massively dull people, but it made me smile all the same!

Oh and CONGRATULATIONS Rachel!!! Those marks are AMAZING!!! You are clearly very brainy

[joinee_doug]

Keen Joinee (GTJ), on 09 February 2012 - 11:12 AM, said:

I started art classes yesterday. The teacher said "I would rather look at this crap [pointing to my work] than a perfect painting of St. Paul's Cathedral" Best back-handed compliment EVER

In your review, you can excerpt it as, "I would rather look at this... a perfect painting..."
-(insert teacher's name here)

[Joinee Mum White]

SNOW! Mum White xx

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

1. Exclamation marks
2. Switzerland being a possibility
3. THIS:

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

[edit: I don't think what I wrote made any sense! I was just reading some stuff I wrote back in 2008/09 and life's twists and turns have just made me smile. And also I can't tell you how immensely glad I am right now to be here in 2012 and not still stuck back in 08/09. It wasn't fun back then. Well, occasionally it was. But about 95% of the time, it really was not. 2012 is ace, however.]

This post has been edited by Poohbah (Gsq): 10 February 2012 - 09:01 PM