Thread: Post if you're happy or cheerful

I guess congratulations are in order.

I posted a few weeks ago that I was having a difficult time with interviews. Well, I finally had a good week after I posted that. And then the hurricane hit the north-east, so I got power back Sunday morning. So I started working one crappy office job last Friday. So I've been there about a week. I didn't want to work at this crappy office job, but took it in fear I wouldn't be able to find anything else. The job isn't really too bad. Just tedious and not helpful to my career at all.

However, after interviewing with a mortgage company a few weeks ago, they had e-mailed me shortly before hurricane Sandy hit, hinting that they were interested in hiring me. The position is for an entry-level accountant/mortgage agent/data entry. By the time I called and e-mailed the mortgage company back, no one was in the office for a week. Yesterday I called back this mortgage company, and finally was offered the position. After a week and a half of desperately trying to contact them.

So now I have a full-time, non-temporary, accounting-ish position after searching for two and a half months. And now I can finally pay down my $1,800 worth of credit card debt. About damn time.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

Okay, right thread this time.

I'm getting married!

We discussed it a lot and it's been decided for about three months, but I hadn't really told anyone, including my family (whom I just told yesterday), so coming out to anyone including DV made me uneasy.

We'd originally decided there wasn't going to be a wedding but it sounds like our families both want one, so I guess there's going to be one.

Congrats, Dianeva! That's great that both of your families are supportive. Do you have any ideas in mind yet?

Originally Posted by Dianeva

I'm getting married!

Congratulations I'm happy for you.

Flying dreams are my favorite type of lucid dreams by far. They're so satisfying and exhilarating.

Visual representation of the dream I had during an afternoon nap today (0:32 - 0:54):

Nothing like a cup of Earl Grey in the morning.

It gives me balance and harmony in an otherwise chaotic world. I can literally feel the tension in my body dissolving with each sip I take.

OMG, YES!!! I don't have to work from 11pm until 4am tonight after working a full 8-5 shift. Now my sleep will be all screwed up after taking that 4 hour nap this afternoon. ...Maybe I'll get lucky and go crazy lucid.

Skated like 4 hours today, relearned some of my old tricks that I couldn't do, and my other friend who skates inline was also there. We're going to link up again at his town this weekend with a bunch of people who inline too.

Just went on a date. Like the first one in forever. She likes peppers, and sex as much as I do!!!!

I tried hypnosis and it seems to work better than I thought.

Spoiler for Hypnosis:

I've been wondering if hypnosis actually works. I always assumed it was some new-agey self-help thing that doesn't actually work except maybe on a placebo level. Maybe it could help relax you, just as calm music might, but any of that stage-hypnosis in which the subject is actually convinced that something obviously untrue is true or is made to do something must be an act. Or it's genuine, but only because the person is lying to himself. He never truly believes it; he just acts like he does for attention or something.

So I listened to some hypnosis YouTube videos and they actually do seem to work better than I thought. The effect is nothing magical, but it put me into an almost meditative state in which I was only listening to the voice. It was like my mind began running on a new simple program: Listen to the voice and do whatever it says. I won't go into detail but one of the strangest things was that I couldn't move. I watched a 40 minute one earlier today that was supposed to be listened to before sleeping, but it was daytime and so I didn't plan to sleep. Because it was intended for sleep, there was no 'wakeup' thing at the end to remove you from the trance like the others had. At one point the voice tried to make me believe my body was too heavy to move, and I imagined this to be so, although I knew of course that it was just a mental exercise. When the recording was finished with and I'd almost forgotten about this, I tried to get up but realized I actually couldn't move for about 30 seconds. I tried to lift my arm and then my leg and I just couldn't. I was telling the muscles to move and they weren't. It wasn't sleep paralysis - I used to get that often and this was different. For about half an hour afterward I continued to feel this trance-like state in which I felt really suggestible and happy.

What I think happened is that I could move but convinced myself that I couldn't. It was more than simply pretending that I couldn't move though. Right now I can 'try' to move my arm but not actually move it, just some of the muscles so that it feels like I'm trying to move it, but I'm consciously controlling whether I really move it or not. But it was more than that. It was similar, but the knowledge that I was tricking myself was ingrained more subconsciously, so that consciously I was really, genuinely trying to move. So, if I was doing it right, in a way hypnosis is what I originally thought it to be. It doesn't actually make you fall asleep and you're still aware of the truth about anything you're lied to about on some level. But it did put me in a suggestible state in which information I was told really seeped into my consciousness so that I sincerely believed it a bit. Which is different from what I thought, that you never sincerely believe it at all and that you're really just pretending to yourself and others.

Anyway, the one I watched was for overcoming procrastination (thought if I was testing it I might as well do something that would actually help me if it worked). And I ended up doing something productive later on in the day. It ingrained an idea in my mind that I have to do something productive every day, even if it's small. That's an idea I've tried to convince myself of for years but never really kept up with it for more than a day or two. There's always something I'd rather be doing, and by the end of he day I don't really care about accomplishing anything. Then a few times throughout the day I feel so terrible about myself for failing to accomplish anything, build up the determination and am ready to do something productive, but end up falling into the habit of laziness again. I don't know if this is actually going to work long-term.. maybe I just wanted this to work so badly that I forced myself to do something to day. But even if that were true, I've wanted it to work really badly before, I've felt intense determination, but only about 2% of the time does it actually lead me to do anything as this has.

So yeah, I'm happy about that, and about the fact that I've discovered hypnosis in general. It seems to have unlimited potential to me. After being put in that trance state I imagine just about anything could be ingrained in a person's subconsciousness. I wonder if they have any for lucid dreaming.

That's another thing I'm happy about lately. I've been recording my dreams and am remembering enough to write at least a couple paragraphs. My recall isn't as good as it could be, but enough that I think it's time to start doing RCs again and seriously try to LD.

And my boyfriend's coming in 15 days. I'm soo sick of the distance, being physically together is like heaven. There's so much I'm stressed about regarding him coming here but knowing that he's going to be here makes those problems seem like nothing.

I gave Anderj101 his two-thousand-and-first like.

It wasn't about bacon but I still enjoyed it.

Happy to have my new android phone ^.^ whew... it's not that expensive but it was given by my mom and she work hard to give it as a present because of my grades last sem(it's not really that good at all hohoho >.<)

My face when I came back from college and my mother told me about my father's new obsession with Twilight.



And then I laughed my ass off for about twenty minutes straight.

Imagine a strict, rigid military father oozing about Twilight.

Originally Posted by Queen Zukin

My face when I came back from college and my mother told me about my father's new obsession with Twilight.



And then I laughed my ass off for about twenty minutes straight.

Imagine a strict, rigid military father oozing about Twilight.

It must be Kristen Stewart, her stoic demeanor is a hallmark of what it is to be a true solider, a true docile body willing to do whatever it takes for-----I think it's just her stoic demeanor.

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I still have Orange Chicken, Fried Rice, AND Crab Rangoon from last night. Along with Eggnog

Premium Rich EGGNOG, that's heavy stuff, that would be vodka for some of you.

Also reading Zukin's post with the twilight thing made me happy. I'm usually never happy when I wake up in the morning, so thanks Queen Zukin.

I would die if my father liked My Little Pony. XD

Lol Twilight?!?!? Really? Lmao, SAVE HIM NOW.

lol

Originally Posted by Linkzelda

It must be Kristen Stewart, her stoic demeanor..

I turned the extra storage room at my place into a gym of sorts. I particularly enjoy the punching bag - now whenever I need to vent off my anger I would just go into that room, and punch.... feels soooo good.

I scored a goal in football after ages!
Curled the ball past the goalie, outside foot shot. Felt great to be scoring again!

Just watched this again:



Quite possibly the best scene in the whole of Doctor Who.

I think I'm posting too much here. But still, this is quality stuff.

Woah', that was cool! I want to have my own gym too, too bad we don't have any vacant place in our house...#envy
I'm going to enroll myself to gym program wanna loss some weights.

Originally Posted by LightofHeaven

I turned the extra storage room at my place into a gym of sorts. I particularly enjoy the punching bag - now whenever I need to vent off my anger I would just go into that room, and punch.... feels soooo good.

It's 5:36 AM, and I'm finally done with my 5 and 1/2 paper on U.S. History. And because lab is cancelled because of Thanksgiving, that means I have 7 HOURS of sleep up for grabs. I'll only sleep for 5 hours of course, and pray that I don't oversleep and miss class (as long as there isn't a blackout, the alarm clock shouldn't reset).

Just have Sociology to study for Tuesday, and Organic Chemistry Homework that's due this Wednesday. Other than that, I can have more time for myself and spend the rest of the week preparing for food for Thanksgiving , even though I rather stay in my apartment and eat regular food.

Originally Posted by Linkzelda

It's 5:36 AM, and I'm finally done with my 5 and 1/2 paper on U.S. History.

Congratulations! I knew you could do it!

My reaction when I logged into DV today and all the features have returned to normal.

This is how I felt when I figured out that the plugins for DreamJournals and the Community Hall were back on...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr...ailpage#t=219s


And for the full effect...well, it's more like below.

Today I woke up, took a look at DV, and said,
"Ya know, I've got a bunch of vacation days saved up, and I don't really want to go to work today, so ya know what? I AIN'T WORKIN' TODAY!"
It's been a nice day off so far.