What made you smile today?

Olen, what a great dog story...that one also made me

Smiling, reading the dog stories. Thanks!

I have another one about my Golden Retriever. We had settled down in bed, and as usual, he was curled up on the foot of it. After a while he got up, flapped his ears and snorted as he does when he wants out. I took him to the front door, but he wouldn't go out. I took him to the back door and he rushed out, and rushed back in in a few seconds with his teddy bear in his mouth. We went back to bed, and he settled down with his head on the bear, very contented.

Now that's SWEET!

I am in Warsaw branch and I met some of my old (branch) friends after almost 3 years. And they claim that I look 3 yrs ynger rather than 3 yrs older (is that because I am auditing them ? ). I am grinning from ear to ear No bf surely agrees with me, methings

G - Maybe it's the clean air & good water in London that's had a regenerative effect....!

I was smiling today as I only have 2 weeks left until I am made redundant. That's not normally a happy thing, but the majority of our work has already been located to the new office in Glasgow, and every phone call I've had I can just say "I'm sorry but I can't help you as I don;t have the files here any more. I'll give the number of the Glasgow office..." then go back to mooching around A2K on company time!

What made me smile to-day
deni_zen and myself were on another forum together and the first email I opened was deni "signing" in here (welcome).

I couldn't believe my eyes. She is a really comic person and will be an asset to A2K. Again welcome deni. :wink:

Gautam: It could be. If you live a happy life and have a few smiles each day. It takes fewer facial muscles to smile than to frown.

That is not just smile-worthy but brings a hint of tears... and we think these are dumb animals?

I was wondering just yesterday if my dogs have "names" for their teddy bears. They've had them since they were puppies and keep them in remarkably good order, even though they are taken outside and sometimes left to get soggy-wet. When our red dog is feeling happy, she finds her teddy and prances around amongst us with him in her mouth, letting him share in the fun, I think.

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Gautam -- Three Years Younger? Nice! I think it is all that clean living and vegetarian food. I'm smiling because I am finally spelling your name correctly. Maybe that will make YOU smile. <Just go ahead and kick me if I have a dyslexic misspelling relapse, OK?> A thousand pardons for all the previous u's before a's. (sigh)

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Smokinggunne (& Deni_Zen) -- Welcome! Looking forward to seeing you post a lot.

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Grand Duke -- Smiling, but a little worried. Do you have another job lined up? Guess what I found on the free shelf at the library? The official guide to the Jorvik Viking Centre. Grabbed it, of course, in your honor.

There's rumours of possible job internally in another department that I really want, but nothing definate yet. The redundancy pay is roughly equivalent to 3 months normal net pay, so I'll be alright for a while. No worries?!

As for the Viking Centre, I've heard it has actual smells that've have been chemically recreated to make the whole thing as realistic as possible!

Good luck, Grand Duke!

Quick smile today -- sozlet has started using phonetic signs. Guess what the combination of the signs "pass" and "fire" means? (Took me a while.)

Well, that sounds good, GD. I hope the internal job comes through for you, but you still get the three months off in the beautiful fall -- a wonderful time of year.

The official guide is mostly coloured photographs and doesn't mention smells except once... sigh...



I hope that is not where the chemists decided to work their magical realism! I have to wonder though, as there is a photo of petrified human excrement (rich in bran, it says!) and another of an "Anglo-Scandinavian latrine seat." Almost too realistic for me! It did make me laugh out loud.

I think that the heady mix of excrement & sweat (both human and animal) are EXACTLY the smells they have recreated! Who said that science had no use?!

GD, I just realized something... ("heady" reminded me. ) Does this mean you don't have to take the drug test? Or <hopes not> was the drug test the reason for redundancy? (Sorry if too nosy.)

You still spell my name wrong. The correct spelling is D-A-H-L-I-N-G !

The drugs test is for the potential new job. The redundancy was a cost-saving exercise by some f*&k-wit accountants who run the company (sorry for language). I might be able to stall it for a while until I'm clean of pot. Hopefully! I've been working in accounts, tax & payroll for 6 years and I'm sick. The new job is as a project planner, and includes engineering training as well. Which is much more interesting than payroll...!

(Sorry to whinge) The really annoying thing is that the compulsory testing of all new employees is only a policy of the company I 'used' to work for, before we were absorbed into a larger one. They dont have this policy, but it depends from which office the HR work on my new job is done from as to if I'll have a test or not. Crazy!

<smooch> I will remember that! :wink:

Thanks for the welcome Piffka, I seem to be moving through the ranks anyway, Just hatched>>Newbie>> Enthusiast in training. :wink:

There's some confusion on first starting, the reason I almost missed your welcome.

And to anyone else who has said Hello and I haven't responded it's not intentional. :wink: