What made you happy today?

[cazzie34]

Joe Walsh's twitter

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom

[TwoStep2888]

got a new bed today, with new sheets, pillow, and comforter, can't wait to go to sleep

[thebridge15]

Originally Posted by TwoStep2888

got a new bed today, with new sheets, pillow, and comforter, can't wait to go to sleep

I still remember this day like four years later

So awesome

[justink]

This. This is amazing.

https://twitter.com/meninisttweet/st...75327698898944

[spoot388]

^ that. that made me happy today holy shit that was awesome. i love the nuggets mascot in the 2nd clip

[BTCS_JTR]

You know the part in Gypsy with Stevie Nicks is singing "Enough for me to love, enough to love," and she hits that nasty vibrato. That made me happy today.

[K270]

Well, at least some positive news about my missing LT 40 CD. Gave Musictoday a call and they said if the CD isn't headed back my way by the end of business day tomorrow, give them a call back and they'll ship out a new CD and the bonus disc. They even offered to expedite the shipping. So at least I'm a little happier about the situation. Just hoping it all works out.

[KevinTH]

My wife called me 5 years ago when we were dating and said she wanted to quit her job at a scummy sales company so she could go back to school and get her Masters to become a Speech Language Pathologist. She took a year and studied for the GRE and took it twice, maybe even three times, and did not do very well. This limited her chances at getting into a grad program as this is a very competitive field. But she didn't give up. She applied to a handful of schools and was denied by all but one. Cleveland State University. I grew up in OH and lived there for 23 years and had no idea that school even existed. With 2 months to finish things up for our wedding in Summer 2014, I found a job in Cleveland that barely paid me enough to take care of the two of us. I found us a place to live, and almost two weeks after we got back from our honeymoon we packed up and moved to Cleveland. To say the last couple of years living on one income, moving back to New England, constant uphill battles with her program was difficult is an understatement. She worked so hard from day 1, and she didn't stop. Late nights studying for finals while nursing the flu followed by early mornings to continue studying, 16 hour days split between course work and externships, the list goes on. She never quit. Even when she wanted to. Then she had the choice to either do a group project, or research, write and present a thesis. Almost everyone chooses a group project. It's easier and you can do it a lot quicker with less stress than a thesis. But my wife? She decided to challenge herself and go for the thesis. To summarize the thesis in one word...HELL. She had to go an extra semester (and always knew she would) because of a class she had to take earlier on. But the goal was to have it done by the end of her summer semester. She almost crumbled and broke down back in July when she found out that she would not be able to complete it in time to complete the summer semester. We worked through it and she picked herself back up.

I just got off the phone with her about an hour ago and she just finished defending her thesis in front of the thesis committee in Cleveland. They accepted her thesis and said her presentation was excellent. But even better is that they said it's publishable and that further research studies could come from her analyses. I didn't know it was possible to feel so happy for another person, even after almost 10 years together and 2 1/2 years married. Pride doesn't even cover it. This has been a real uphill battle for the both of us, but seeing her complete something that was so difficult for her is just...I don't even have words. I'm ecstatic. I have the utmost respect for her and what she just accomplished. She could have taken the easy way out multiple times, but she never did. My wife...Speech Language Pathologist. I couldn't be happier right now. I only wish I was there with her right now. Thanks for reading if you made it all the way through yet another one of my lengthy mushy stories :-)

[TheLastStop123]

Originally Posted by KevinTH

My wife called me 5 years ago when we were dating and said she wanted to quit her job at a scummy sales company so she could go back to school and get her Masters to become a Speech Language Pathologist. She took a year and studied for the GRE and took it twice, maybe even three times, and did not do very well. This limited her chances at getting into a grad program as this is a very competitive field. But she didn't give up. She applied to a handful of schools and was denied by all but one. Cleveland State University. I grew up in OH and lived there for 23 years and had no idea that school even existed. With 2 months to finish things up for our wedding in Summer 2014, I found a job in Cleveland that barely paid me enough to take care of the two of us. I found us a place to live, and almost two weeks after we got back from our honeymoon we packed up and moved to Cleveland. To say the last couple of years living on one income, moving back to New England, constant uphill battles with her program was difficult is an understatement. She worked so hard from day 1, and she didn't stop. Late nights studying for finals while nursing the flu followed by early mornings to continue studying, 16 hour days split between course work and externships, the list goes on. She never quit. Even when she wanted to. Then she had the choice to either do a group project, or research, write and present a thesis. Almost everyone chooses a group project. It's easier and you can do it a lot quicker with less stress than a thesis. But my wife? She decided to challenge herself and go for the thesis. To summarize the thesis in one word...HELL. She had to go an extra semester (and always knew she would) because of a class she had to take earlier on. But the goal was to have it done by the end of her summer semester. She almost crumbled and broke down back in July when she found out that she would not be able to complete it in time to complete the summer semester. We worked through it and she picked herself back up.

I just got off the phone with her about an hour ago and she just finished defending her thesis in front of the thesis committee in Cleveland. They accepted her thesis and said her presentation was excellent. But even better is that they said it's publishable and that further research studies could come from her analyses. I didn't know it was possible to feel so happy for another person, even after almost 10 years together and 2 1/2 years married. Pride doesn't even cover it. This has been a real uphill battle for the both of us, but seeing her complete something that was so difficult for her is just...I don't even have words. I'm ecstatic. I have the utmost respect for her and what she just accomplished. She could have taken the easy way out multiple times, but she never did. My wife...Speech Language Pathologist. I couldn't be happier right now. I only wish I was there with her right now. Thanks for reading if you made it all the way through yet another one of my lengthy mushy stories :-)

This is such an awesome story, I got goosebumps reading it. Thank you for sharing. Big congrats to your wife and major kudos to you as well for sticking by her through and through! That's true selflessness and a testament to how strong your love for each other is.

[M. Steng]

Originally Posted by KevinTH

My wife called me 5 years ago when we were dating and said she wanted to quit her job at a scummy sales company so she could go back to school and get her Masters to become a Speech Language Pathologist. She took a year and studied for the GRE and took it twice, maybe even three times, and did not do very well. This limited her chances at getting into a grad program as this is a very competitive field. But she didn't give up. She applied to a handful of schools and was denied by all but one. Cleveland State University. I grew up in OH and lived there for 23 years and had no idea that school even existed. With 2 months to finish things up for our wedding in Summer 2014, I found a job in Cleveland that barely paid me enough to take care of the two of us. I found us a place to live, and almost two weeks after we got back from our honeymoon we packed up and moved to Cleveland. To say the last couple of years living on one income, moving back to New England, constant uphill battles with her program was difficult is an understatement. She worked so hard from day 1, and she didn't stop. Late nights studying for finals while nursing the flu followed by early mornings to continue studying, 16 hour days split between course work and externships, the list goes on. She never quit. Even when she wanted to. Then she had the choice to either do a group project, or research, write and present a thesis. Almost everyone chooses a group project. It's easier and you can do it a lot quicker with less stress than a thesis. But my wife? She decided to challenge herself and go for the thesis. To summarize the thesis in one word...HELL. She had to go an extra semester (and always knew she would) because of a class she had to take earlier on. But the goal was to have it done by the end of her summer semester. She almost crumbled and broke down back in July when she found out that she would not be able to complete it in time to complete the summer semester. We worked through it and she picked herself back up.

I just got off the phone with her about an hour ago and she just finished defending her thesis in front of the thesis committee in Cleveland. They accepted her thesis and said her presentation was excellent. But even better is that they said it's publishable and that further research studies could come from her analyses. I didn't know it was possible to feel so happy for another person, even after almost 10 years together and 2 1/2 years married. Pride doesn't even cover it. This has been a real uphill battle for the both of us, but seeing her complete something that was so difficult for her is just...I don't even have words. I'm ecstatic. I have the utmost respect for her and what she just accomplished. She could have taken the easy way out multiple times, but she never did. My wife...Speech Language Pathologist. I couldn't be happier right now. I only wish I was there with her right now. Thanks for reading if you made it all the way through yet another one of my lengthy mushy stories :-)

Awesome stuff, bro!

[drop2d]

Aweome stuff KevinTH!

[KevinTH]

Thanks all! Very happy day today.

[K270]

Hopefully in a couple days my LT 40 will be in my hands. Even the guy I talked to at Musictoday was shocked by the route my package has taken. He said it looks like its headed back to us so we'll go ahead and expedite you on a new LT 40 and 8 disc bonus. I'll know more on how quickly it will get here when the shipping email is sent with tracking number.

[rconverse]

That's awesome, Kevin!

What made me happy today is that it's my last day in the office until 2017.

[Useliteski]

https://dbr.ee/FAwT this song by my two two fav electronic artists.

[ToySoldier#34]

Getting asked by a female professional vocalist from Berklee to write a song that we could perform live as a duet, I'm basically in awe any time I hear her sing so to have that come up today was pretty cool

[BTCS_JTR]

Didn't happen today, but my sister got married yesterday. My mother was ballistic (happy tears of course)

[K270]

Received my copy of LT 40. Looks like the other copy found its way back to Crozet. It's been sitting in the post office there since Saturday. Couldn't care less what happens to it now.

[TwoStep2888]

hanging out with a friend I hadn't seen in a while

[jenhen27]

Unexpected Christmas Bonus. I actually complained in the Irritated thread about not getting on earlier. If we were getting one it should have come on the 15th. I think the boss got wind of the grumbling and cracked. Don't care what prompted it. Just happy to have it as it couldn't have come at a better time.

[TheLastStop123]

ordering a pair of over ear wireless headphones that don't suck. thanks audio-technica!

[JRS1386]

Paid off a student loan. 3 remain. I have been out of school for only 4 years and have been aggressively attacking these bitches. One of my loans that I have left is gigantic though (consolidated all my stafford loans) but it should hopefully have $17,500 of it forgiven at the end of this year of teaching. Just got to pray they (government) doesn't try to dick me over and only give me the $5,000 forgiveness (the big bucks is secondary math, I teach middle school which counts, but my school is labeled an elementary school because it goes pre-k to 7th)

[defcon]

Arnold Schwartzenegger's official page liked my comment (Get to the chopper), so I got that going for me, which is good. Also, it's festivus.

[bartender_man]

Having Defcon back. Entertainment about to pick up around here.

[cazzie34]

A great nights sleep

[ToySoldier#34]

Listening to this for the first time

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RFCrJleggrI

[recentlyJTR41]

The fact that it's Christmas time. Had a great Festivus last night.

[justink]

boss man called me this morning and told me to get a bad ass steak dinner and charge it to the game. Claim Jumper, here I come!

[scrock25]

Originally Posted by recentlyJTR41

The fact that it's Christmas time. Had a great Festivus last night.

So what were the greivances and who won the feats of strength?

[recentlyJTR41]

Originally Posted by scrock25

So what were the greivances and who won the feats of strength?

I started but then I lost my train of thought