The 2009 What Made You Smile Thread
 

Ive been waiting years to get one of these topics under my belt. So lets begin the new year with a new topic!

Im smiling for no real reason, just sitting around playing with my macbook. Going back to uni in a week and im actually looking forward to it! So now im just relaxing till next thursday. Had a real low key new year with my family.

Your turn! How was your new year?

A very good friend visited me and we sat in my room to have some good food, whiskey and talked about '08 and plans for '09. One hour before midnight we went to another friend of mine to watch the fireworks from his roof. After that we went to the Café Central to meet the "in-crowd"... kind of. I had a fun time. And I found myself in a local culture magazine. I tried not to show off to the people around, but it was too hard to resist. :D

wow you two sound like you had really nice times :D

Had a nice quiet New Year's with assorted members of my husband's family (we all rented a house at a ski resort for a week). We played games, had a little Espresso Vodka (I highly recommend), watched the ball drop on TV and went to bed. The best part was that the baby slept in til 7am this morning :hello2:

I am new to the world of facebook. Out of curiousity, I just found my high school obsession by e-snooping. He was once the ultimate bad boy, tortured artist, in and out of rehab, musician, misunderstood genius, you know the type, basically TROUBLE. For my 16 year old self he was the perfect unreachable guy. Anyway... now he is living in a wealthy neighborhood, looks like your average yuppie, is no longer cute, and *gasp* he has found Jesus. Ahahahahahahahah!!! On one hand I am glad that he is alive (this was not a sure thing back in the day), but on the other hand I am blown away that one could change so much. Illusions shattered. Facebook is so weird.

just pretend that you never found him and he'll stay this weird guy in your memory and you can tell your kids your story until the point you finished high school... or you can plan things a bit and prepare them for life and tell them how you found him again and he found jesus and illusions can be shattered... you can use all this for a brilliant story, no matter how far you tell it ;)

nothing so far has made me really smile today. oh, i'm still in my pj's, that makes me smile! i actually got some for christmas and they're soooooo comfy. my first pj's in years!

^ Thanks for the advice. I kinda feel that what has been seen cannot been unseen though ;) Oh well. I am still amused by this.
Another facebook observation, it would appear that all of the guys from my high school are using their kids pics as their main facebook picture. While this is sweet and all ( and I am a mom I understand this), really can they not have a pic of themselves too? Apparently this is what happens to guys from my area in their 30's. Interestingly enough, I am finding this is not the case with half of the women. It is so weird to see pics and catchup with people that I knew a lifetime ago. So that is my smile. It's a little freaked out, and a little smirky, but it is a smile.

And lastly Jo, yes comfy pj's are the best! :)

i´ll quote myself:


well... it turned out... i get this job! :hello2::hello2:
it´s really cool, i´ll teach spanish to foreign pupils who want to study spanish in buenos aires... i´m really really happy :D

^ Hurray Verenita! Great news!

^^ that's really cool. when will you start?

congratulations, verena! i knew you'd get the job, well done!

i just went to an african place up the road with my brother and my boyfriend. we had a really nice dinner and i tried some palm wine. really interesting taste... anyone ever tried that?

Congrats

I was on a quiet beach in South France with my friends. We decided to light a camp fire( even though it was illegal ) I brought a guitar. We snuck along th side of a cliff where the waves crashed against a barrier and light the fire after a whilre. My freind pulled out his i pod and we sang and [layed guitar to our favourite songs. All six of us stayed there drinking cheap german beer in France and things couldn't get any better. We stayed there for ours into the night.

Congrats Vee! :smiley32:

I went out earlier and found a $230 blazer on sale for... $34! Also, a friend just sent over a copy of a video from our new years party involving a drunken rendition of Living On A Prayer (we were playing Guitar Hero). We're atrociously bad, but in the best possible way.

i'm just smiling because i'm just learning my line for the verdi requiem. it's just so beautiful (the entire piece of course)!

i just told greta (aka your middle name) that she's mentioned here and she's probably smiling now and so am i because of this

Team Canada beat Russia!! 6-5 in a shoot out :D We scored with 5.4 seconds left in the game to take it to over time! Woo! One more game and we'll have our fifth straight gold medal at the WJHC!

The feeling is mutual :icon_pray

Today we will easily beat Srahmans Canada in the final and win our first gold for over 20 years. They almost lost against Russia and had to cheat with the clock to beat USA. We have crushed everyone so far including a 5-0 win against Russia, Go Sweden!! :)

PS. Srahman, if we somehow will lose, go easy on me. :)

I am always happy when Sweden beats Russia. :smiley16:

this made me smile: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7811686.stm Cute kids! :)

Going over to my favourite woo-themed site and reading a loong thread about bigfoot, which had the most hilarious argument going on between a couple of sensible and rather sarcastic guys and a bat**** crazy one, it is just so absolutely hilarious. And, on a link in the thread, I found the greatest sentence of the year:

"Obviously, the invisible Sasquatch theory lends no further scientific credibility to the existence of the hidden man-ape."

i'm looking forward to meeting up with some people from my sign language course tonight! it's gonna be fun especially since we'll be trying to converse a bit in sign language. hehe
and i'm looking forward to it as well because it'll distract me a bit from the stupid exam i have on friday.

purrito

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what made me smile? ... knowing that Damo is coming to town!!!!
it didnt make me smile actually.. it made my cry of joy!! :D

my exams finished 3 weeks ago before holidays. I have 5 weeks holidays! Man I lovew the Irish education system!

yeah, i know how it works up there. we've got christmas holidays which could be nice if we hadn't exams in the last two weeks of january... if you're someone that takes his/her studies seriously you don't have much of a holiday then... ah, well... i'm more that kinda person that takes one or two days off and then another one and another one and then this happens and then that and in the end i get all panicky. not always but i'm really good at it. i'm trying to get better, though... i don't know if i'll ever manage...

:smiley4: i like the cat burrito :smiley4: