Trivial things that make you happy - Part 3 - The Happyning

Jenna James

Was up at 5.15 for the gym so while I was waiting checked website for out of stock coat (for me) x 2 and both available after a few days of trawling local branches and checking online. Yay!

Jenna James

Jenna James wrote: »

Was up at 5.15 for the gym so while I was waiting checked website for out of stock coat (for me) x 2 and both available after a few days of trawling local branches and checking online. Yay!

Well wear

TH cos I'm no much TA'd atm :pac:

Jenna James

Deleted User wrote: »

Well wear

TH cos I'm no much TA'd atm :pac:

Thank you :pac:

I will only keep 1 lol

I also have no TA (yet lol) as mostly TH's today

branie2

Getting another Christmas card in the post today

Aglomerado

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Clever track sequencing on Now albums.

Now 13
Transvision Vamp - I Want Your Love
Duran Duran - I Don't Want Your Love
Human League - Love Is All That Matters
all in a row

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this! That was a great compilation!

NewbridgeIR

Aglomerado wrote: »

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this! That was a great compilation!

It's very good - was up against Hits 9 at the time which was poorly marketed (but I actually prefer)

dubstarr

Got a new tattoo today,wasnt planned.
But it was a great deal and she had a free spot this morning.

Dial Hard

I came second in our global company quiz

ohnonotgmail

dubstarr wrote: »

Got a new tattoo today,wasnt planned.
But it was a great deal and she had a free spot this morning.

are you going to tell us what the tattoo is of?

Autosport

Won the work lotto

Jenna James

Dial Hard wrote: »

I came second in our global company quiz

Autosport wrote: »

Won the work lotto

Coinkydinky :pac:

Gervais08

dubstarr wrote: »

Got a new tattoo today,wasnt planned.
But it was a great deal and she had a free spot this morning.

TH - I forgot tattooists are open again!! Just messaged the guy who does me so fingers crossed !!!

branie2

Pixie was very good, and it was great being back in the cinema again after a couple of months.

Bredabe

After the drama in my TA yes, I walked the long way back to work alone.
This generated two TH's, 1. The number of men* who were sitting outside coffee shops chatting with friends/family/colleagues/teammates.
2. A dog ran up to me for a head rub and the young man who came to take the dog back to its table didn't run a mile from me as I'm so old and fat**.



* I'm a passionate advocate of normalizing men talking to each other in general, even more so outside of alcoholic inspired crap/enviroments.
** Currently dealing with a lot of clients who say this very thing to me to avoid having to do what is needed to improve their situation.

the purple tin

Saw a handmade 'Satan, Please Stop Here' poster in someomes window :eek::pac:

Ted_YNWA

the purple tin wrote: »

Saw a handmade 'Satan, Please Stop Here' poster in someomes window :eek::pac:

I've seen ones along the lines of:

"It's not the dog you should be afraid of, it's the wife"

Gervais08

I baked twice today - Christmas sugar cookies, and a chocolate version.

I’m now going to eat my misshapes with many beers while watching footy.

Nom.

mikemac2

Scented candles

I bought 4 different types in Ikea, only 2 euro each

Using the vanilla for the next while

cj maxx

The laughing from the kids. We were sitting in a carpark outside a McDonald's drive through where effing seagulls are everywhere, picking at bins and dropped chips etc.
One was sitting on a car in front of us ,where the people were eating. Anyway there car takes off with the gull sitting on top. We see it leave the carpark, drive down the street, around a roundabout and onto the main road with the gull still sitting on the roof. The laughs from all 3 of us at the sight of it

Gervais08

I made two different types of Swiss sugar Christmas cookies and they turned out so well I’m making them again and giving them as gifts to my friends mam and to the handymen in work!!

PsychoPete

It's the start of the last working week of the year, half day Friday then two glorious weeks off to eat myself into a coma

On the Beach

PsychoPete wrote:

It's the start of the last working week of the year, half day Friday then two glorious weeks off to eat myself into a coma

Who are you and why have you stolen my identity?!!

Your Face

All my assignment deadlines got extended.

Surreptitious

Received a thoughtful gift from my Landlady for Christmas.

SineadSpears

Coming out of the shopping center earlier & a Tesco staff member was handing out a small paper bag with a free hot chocolate & a mini mince pie in it!!

Such a lovely thing to happen on a Monday of all days too

branie2

I was in Galway for a couple of hours today

Gamer Bhoy 89

Bought and set up my first Christmas tree with the other half

^^^^

Yep, definitely looks like there's a tree in there somewhere

That's some decoration job.... Props

Having a nice cup of decent coffee, but more TH is listening to the children in the primary school playground nearby. The excitement is building every day now! Lovely to hear them.

bolgbui41

A long one, and a bit moan-y at first, so apologies:
TH for students saying thank you.


I know third level students have been having a hard time learning online - especially first years -but these last number of months have also been really trying for lecturers. Between new tech, constant changes to working conditions, adapting courses - sometimes with very little notice - and trying to actually facilitate student learning in seminars, it's been a less-than -fun couple of months. Everything is so much more time consuming that usual. And we're currently down nearly a quarter of the workforce in my department because of covid cases, so I've been doing the work of others, too - 60-70 hours per week for the last four weeks just on teaching, with zero time for research. I'm just so tired now.



But today, when I've been holding individual meetings for students, several of them have thanked me for the courses I've run, or for giving detailed feedback, or told me how much they learned. And it means the world. Very few students every say thank you. It's probably just a throwaway couple of words for those who did say it today, but I cannot overstate how much just hearing those words has made my day. I mean I did, of course, make it awkward by thanking them for thanking me, but hey - at least I'm facing in to the rest of the afternoon feeling much better than I did this morning.