What's everybody glad of just now?

In My Humble Opinion
1

Me, I met an awesome girl: Québécois, smart and sexy, motivated, and incredibly nice to be around.

I’m still in that euphoric initial stage, but (rather alarmingly) I see a lot of potential with this one. She’s suggested that, after she’s had her fill of Vancouver, we movie to Montreal and set up house there, which is bitchin’ because I’ve been idly thinking about picking up and going there anyway.

Anyway, right now I have this bizarre feeling that everything is just peachy, no matter what happens. It could just be a passing thing, or something much more permanent, but whatever it is, it’s just fine.

It’s disorienting because I’ve been used to heavily qualifying my relationship stuff for the last five or six years, and this is, confusingly, absolutely perfect. She’s even approximately the same age as I am – just a few years younger. (My last GF was twenty years older and the one before that was ten years younger – both of which presented a few problems.)

So, yeah. I am so fecking chuffed.

Also in the news, I bought a new couch, had the back-breakingly uncomfortable old one hauled away, and was offered a job today. So life is good.

This puts me in a frame of mind where it would please me to hear various and sundry bits of intelligence from Dopers who have reason to be cheeful this spring.

Unexpected tax rebate? New kittens? Why are you grinning like that?

I wanna know.

2

Tomorrow’s Friday.
That, and my 7-year-old gave me my Mother’s Day card early, which he made in school. It says:

Dear Mom,

You’re the man.

Thanks for everything.

Love,

Nathan
:smiley:

3

That the antibiotics are finally working.

4

I may have a job soon. :slight_smile:

I went in for an interview a year and half ago with a lady who owns a nearby shop, and she was telling me about the new and exciting things she was hoping to do with her store. She asked if I was any good with computers, and I told her I was, and she told me to give her a call as soon as I got my Employment Authorization. Well, she’s friends with my FIL, and he called me excitedly this morning, telling me she just created a new position that needs to be filled - when he described it, it was the same job she had been telling me about a year and a half ago. According to him, she just got it going, and needs someone for the position. So he told her, coincidentally enough, his daughter-in-law just received her work permit, the same DIL who she interviewed so long ago…

He says he gave her my number. I called today but she was out. But I’m really, really hoping to hear from her. :cool:

5

Hear hear! I’m psyched because I got my car fixed for less than I’d thought, and just saw an owl in the woods. They are so beautiful.

6

I go on R&R in 5 days. I will have my first hot shower in two months. I will see my wife. Me my wife and the dog are going camping for a few days. I’m going to a nationals game. I will sleep in my own bed. I will eat my favorite foods.

7

The people at the new job are cool.

The boss’s boss is the usual frenchkissesass idiot but he is here only 2 days per month; the boss is cool; the customers were considered “difficult” by everybody but I have established a rapport with them in zero time flat.

Part of the reason for the last is that I’m from “right around here”, unlike everybody else in the team.

Which means I get to go home (and, hopefully, get to drool a bit over the Nephew) every weekend if I want to. Mom’s so happy she almost floats.

Since the rest of the team is 5-6 hours from home (depending on Madrid’s horrific traffic), we get in late on Mondays and leave by noon on Fridays. So we get 3 long days but I’m only getting 3 hours of overtime per week, in a sector where 15 hours is way too common.

The food at the restaurant where the team eats M-Th is very good. Fridays, I eat back home.

And I’ve been contacted by 6! people with other offers in the 4 weeks I’ve been here (#6 this morning). So I know I should be ok to get the next job when this project is over. I’m actually starting to have a network, yay! (Too much of my work history is outside the country, I used to know more people in my sector in the US than in Spain)

So yeah, life’s looking good. Now if anybody knows any nice single male engineer/artisan types in their 30s or 40s, living somewhere between, say, Milano Paris and Madrid…

8

Sorry, I forgot: the health problems I’d been having in Costa Rica (my last assignment) and which looked scaringly like the list of symptoms for MS (which btw get worse if it’s too hot) are gone. Gone, gone, gone.

So whether it is extremely mild MS or just a lot of heatstrokes, I don’t really care. (MS is non-treatable, so even if I went and found out I had it, all I’d be able to do is “suck and grunt”, which I already do thankyoumuch). All I care is that I’m OK now, and whenever I get health problems again I’ll worry about them then.

Did I mention the Nephew?

(sorry, can’t post pics)

9

I just finished university. After 3 years of doing the long distance thing, I get to move in with my fiance.

10

I just landed a new job. :smiley:

11

T.G.I.F.
The boss and boss’s boss come today at 1pm. After that I can sneak off for the weekend.

12

My sister is flying in from Vermont this afternoon as a surprise for our mom. It’s been two years since the three of us were all together at the same time, so I’m pretty excited. :slight_smile:

13

I’m moving out of my dorm room today, and I never have to live in one again. (Yay apartment in August!)

I’ll be home for the summer with my goood job and my best friends.

I had my last night at my crappy job yesterday.

I’m not hungover. :slight_smile:

14

I got the part in the play that I’ve wanted for ever so long…! Apparently, I “nailed” the audition.

Yay me!

15

I’m graduating in two weeks, and I just found out that I got Phi Beta Kappa. Yay!

16

My husband just got a new, much better job, we just bought a new comfy bed a couple of days ago, and I realised yesterday how lucky I am to genuinely like all my co-workers and my job.

Also my SIL is having a baby this weekend, which will be awesome.

That’s a lot to be glad about.

17

I think I realized yesterday that I loved my boyfriend of a year and a half. Now, it may take a while before I admit it, to either myself or him, but it just kept trying to pop out yesterday, and I thought to myself: “This means something…”

Also, I moved in with my new roommate and she is awesome! And my new bedroom has vaulted ceilings! How cool is that?

18

Two weeks ago, we were stammering about trying to figure out where we were going to find nearly two thousand dollars to pay a surprise property tax bill after the county decided to re-assess. The county claimed that my bank did not get this bill, so don’t expect the bank to pay this from the “impound” account.

Called the bank to confirm this, and sure enough, no notation that the bank knew about the added assessment. Eep.

Two days later, we get a letter from the bank saying they’ve paid the added assessment. WTF? No - Woohoo!

Seems the rep on the phone was looking at the wrong dang mortgage for us. No idea how the bank knew about the bill when the county said they did not send the bill to the bank.

So, we’re very happy about not needing to find two thousand dollars by next Monday.

Better yet, yesterday’s mail brings a statement for the impound account. Seems they have to do an annual re-jiggering of the numbers to be sure they’re not keeping too much of our money. Seems the reserve is over limit by about seven hundred dollars, and they have to reimburse that to us. That check’s being sent right back to be applied as an extra principal payment so we own about another doorknob’s worth of the house free and clear. :cool:

19

I am finally completely moved out of my old apartment.

20

The semester’s officially over (and I’m pretty sure I got an “A” in my class), it’s Friday, I get to hang out with my best friends and their son all day tomorrow, I get to see my mom on Sunday, I gave a successful presentation at lunchtime yesterday, and I’ll be ending the work day with a poker game in 2.5 hours. What’s not to be glad of? :slight_smile:

(BTW, congrats Larry! On all counts!)