things that are making you happy - Page 2012

hope it all went well. rest up, mang.

Collapsing onto your own bed will feel heavenly.

Welcome home.

Pretty morning. Happy to be alive!

So this is happening.

My federal return just hit the bank account this morning. I predict a couple of nice bottles of wine shall be consumed this weekend.

very nice. buy moar shoes.

FTF how it's gonna be. I like my big returns as it's easy to just drop it all in my investment account.

being prudent can be boring. smart move though.

Some legal advice: narrow that stance.

Actually, the Coke is sort of a replacement for smoking that started when I quit, at least to start the day. I've always had a taste for coke (or "soda" for the Yankees in the room), but I picked up having a Coke first thing in the morning when I stopped smoking. When I was a smoker, I'd wake up and the first thing I'd do is light a cigarette, to the point that I didn't even leave my bed when I smoked in the house (something I cut out long before quitting). While I was quitting, I needed something to replace that part of the habit, and I started grabbing a Coke to sip instead of a Marlboro to smoke. Now we always have Coke in the house. I don't kill a whole can or anything first thing - most mornings I open one, take a few sips, and put it back in the fridge for later - but there's no denying that the habit was created while I was quitting smoking.

Saving money FTW.

No one ever got rich by spending!

If Southerners say "Coke" and Yankees say "soda" why do I say "pop?"

To those of us south of the Mason-Dixon, you're a Yankee, too, pop.

Back when I was staffed on that project in Denver (*shudders*), we'd all be cooped up in a tiny conference room and every time I went to fetch some snacks and shit for the team, my VP would always ask for a 12-er of diet coke.

He would polish that shit off within 2 days. I can still vividly hear the snap/crackle/pop of him opening the cans like they were candy, lulz.

People in Chicago and the north use pop as well