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The Best Things Ever: A thread for unabashed positivity and love

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13:14 / 27.11.02

Oooh, Sax... can we call the baby Zoot? Pleee-eease? Ask Mrs Sax if it's okay.

pleasesayyespleasesayyes

13:21 / 27.11.02

Actually, I might get Barbelith to chose the name. I was thinking Jenny Everywhere for a girl, King Mob for a boy. And "Fanny" would be a good start in life, I think.

13:24 / 27.11.02

But Zoot would be baby's fictionsuit. Baby needs a fictionsuit.

13:25 / 27.11.02

You *know* what name you have to choose if it's a girl...

13:25 / 27.11.02

Though, come to think of it, Mrs Sax might not agree.

13:27 / 27.11.02

Actually, Ariadne does go quite well with my surname. Bound to end up as a Lara Croft type adventurer. Or the heroine of a "Ripping The Velcro"-type period drama.

And I might register Zoot now.

13:28 / 27.11.02

Anyway, making me happy right now .. the imminent visit of a nice person, the stick of liquorice that I'm eating, a trip to Brighton this weekend, and the thought of Christmas. I know it's uncool and all, but fairy lights and tinsel make me feel all excited.

13:33 / 27.11.02

YAYYY!!! I am insanely happy now.

13:38 / 27.11.02

I have been making do for far too long with a saw that is about as effective as a steak knife at cutting wood. Yesterday I got me a new one. Today I have used it, and can report that happiness is a brand new 11-tooth-per-inch hardpoint saw.

And big congrats to the Saxes.

Goodness Gracious Meme

13:39 / 27.11.02

I'm going to bowl in the fact that I have borrowed a copy of the complete (including lots of unpublished ones, it seems) Lord Peter Wimsey short stories

Can I have a Kit-kat style 'ratbag' here?

Bonus points for the one where the Comte has to distinguish between two Lord Peter Wimseys, along with his disreputable cousin Death Bredon.

That, on the other hand *is* a fluffy huggy sun-filled thing... Pass the Montrachet, my dear... that would be the 1885, would it not?

I have been reading myself to sleep over the past few days with Murder Must Advertise. Which is definitely a thing of joy. Oh, and lent my lsis a DLS and she's now hooked and wants to borrow them all. Yes!

Have just been to a great local pub with one of my best mates and am now sleepily stuffed full of red wine, mushroom and tarragon sausages and potato/parsnip mash. Ummmmm.

Just bought a wicked pair of kid's gloves (tiny hands): black with red/white football print, and G-O-A-L written across the fingertips. £1. How cool?

Goodness Gracious Meme

13:42 / 27.11.02

Ooh, and looking forward to some long-overdue quality time with friends in London. Which is making me feel all gooey over my lovely friends.

13:48 / 27.11.02

Actually I was pretty well happy to start off with because my work schedule has been made even better; and now instead of working until four o'clock every day except Thursdays and having to stay until five o'clock on Thursdays, I'm working until four on all days. I do love having a perfectly regular schedule.

14:06 / 27.11.02

According to VH1, Wayne Newton has a private stash of penguins on his estate. I was not in the room when this was shown on TV, but I was assured that Mr. Newton's wife swam in the pool with the penguins. Something to aspire to, I imagine.

Hell yeah. Swimming with penguins? You can keep your dolphins, pal.

14:46 / 27.11.02

Another good thing is that a retired vicar is stalking me. He keeps writing letters to my editor calling for my resignation over my weekly column. Today he sent in a four page document plus cuttings with offending paragraphs angrily outlined in red.

14:51 / 27.11.02

Cats! All of them - mine, yours, random ones frollicking outside. Go out and adopt some today and watch the positivity and love grow.

The Natural Way

14:51 / 27.11.02

What paper do you write for? A local rag for local people?

I want to see what's getting the old boy so upset.

14:57 / 27.11.02

Local rag for local people. And the stuff that's getting him upset is pretty mundane, really... having a pop at the Royals, wondering why it's okay to get all nudge-nudge-wink-wink over Tipping the Velvet but why the same people got outraged over a (male) gay kiss on The Bill, being horrified at the Christian Institute who set up cards for people to stop their kids being adopted by homosexuals in the event of both parents dying. The usual.

15:08 / 27.11.02

Sax, you rock.

Have you got any fetal names? One couple of my acquaintance named their unborn Elmo. Another used "the Chicken."

And I know what H.I.R means about the saw. It's so nice, like getting new tires.

15:32 / 27.11.02

I had a damn good night last night. I help run TAPAS - The Alternative Performing Arts Society at Birmingham uni and last night was surprisingly good. We had five acts, two of which I knew to be fantastic anyway, and three un-seen ones. In particular there was a trio of students who looked about 17, played guitar and could have been very amateurish. In fact they were really good in an improvisatory post-rock/jazz kind of way (also an ace drummer). Definitely a good night. And then a drum + bass night where the headlining DJ wasn't there because his wife had gone into labour... I wanted them to tell us if it was a boy or a girl at the end of the night (but they didn't). It was still fun - first time I've been out in ages.

16:06 / 27.11.02

my new chum at work made me laugh so hard today i thought i'd die. a wonderful thing.

16:33 / 27.11.02

I found out that my new American colleagues are just as sarcastic and cynical as my English ones, and also like to slope off to the pub for lunch! Wonderful.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:41 / 27.11.02

The video for Ladytron's new single 'Seventeen' rocks my world like a big rocking thing. I also want to sleep with all the band, possibly all at once, but I haven't decided yet.

Otherwise I got 'Attack of the Clones' and laughed myself silly at the fatbeards on patrol on the 'supplementary material disc' and MASH is on the Paramount Comedy Channel. MASH rocks.

Oh, and Helen Love. Always good for the cheering of the spirit. Except when it doesn't work...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:06 / 27.11.02

Today- a good day. Payday. And buying comics and stuff. (Clowes' "Like a Velevt Glove Cast in Iron" and Moore's "From Hell". Both to replace lost comics from earlier.) And books. Naomi Klein's "Fences and Windows". Cool.

12:39 / 28.11.02

The semester's almost over! 1 paper this week, 2 exams next week and 2 more midway through December! I've never been so excited! Woo!

13:13 / 28.11.02

Jenny Everywhere for a girl, King Mob for a boy

YES!

Congratulations, Doc - for the letter from the literary agent too.

(I know I've totally missed the boat on the round of congrats that went on above, but I've only just looked at this thread. So there.)

Best things for me right now? The fact that the world's greatest comic shop, Gosh!, have not only agreed to stock my (first attempt at a) mini-comic, but given me a staff recommendation and already sold out of the first batch. Call me Much Chuffed Lentil.

Also the fact that I have sorted out a fiscal rift that was developing between the better half and myself by finally taking some sort of responsibility for my finances is making me do a little happy dance right now.

13:39 / 28.11.02

Congratultions Daddy Sax, Mommy Sax and the forthcoming little Saxlet.

Nice one Lentil, what's it called?

Good news today - well, I had a job interview and it went really well. Dunno yet though, lots of other internal candidates.

14:21 / 28.11.02

As of tomorrow, I've made it through a tough month. Weehee!

I've got today and tomorrow off. WeeHee!!!

I've got a brilliant Thanksgiving meal all planned.... AND I don't have to eat turkey! Waha!

Lovely friends surprise visiting me. WOOO!

Just, good stuff!

14:30 / 28.11.02

That's written in the style of Ric Flair going slightly mad, actually thinking of Ric Flair going WEEEEE after every comment instead of WOOO is quite a happy one!

The Natural Way

14:38 / 28.11.02

I think I'm ill.

Whoops. Wrong thread.

14:55 / 28.11.02

This will cheer you up, it would also be great for the Christmas presents idea -

Looking For

And check out those glowing reviews!

14:55 / 28.11.02

Mr Illmatic: "Slab Comix"

Good luck with the job!

20:58 / 01.12.02

Aieee, now this is the best thing ever... where they have been tearing down the old laundry plant on Milwaukee and Wabansia, they are *not* putting up condos as we assumed. According to the signboard that went up today, it is going to be ...a library! Can you imagine?

21:47 / 01.12.02

Saxy - a special (and hysterically funny, but cruel) thing for you:

Baby's named a bad, bad thing

sample:

I'm expecting triplets in April and we've picked out the girls names: Alexana Chenaur and Kia Nicasey. the boy my husband wants to name Richard Allen, I think it's a bit boring and prefer Shaden Elijah. Last name Zane. What do you think? I prefer unusual but not to far out.

Many congrats to you both

15:53 / 02.12.02

I happy about the best web-toy EVER!

www.sodaplay.com

And that I just finally got my own copy of one of the best movies ever, Tampopo. Much happiness and time-wasting in my life

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:21 / 02.12.02

Well, I love tea. Tea is good. Especially tea sent from foreign climes.

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