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The things I love about MY LIFE

  • 02-04-2010 8:47pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭SarahMs


    Long story short, lost my job, went back to college, living on very limited means.But I can honestly say I have NEVER been happier. I worked for 6years (full time, or part time while in education) Now I have up sticks and moved to Monaghan, have 3 dogs, and have become a student/housewife/volunteer. AND I LOVE IT. SO what do you love about your life? What are you proud of?


    I love that I have time to take my dogs out for walks twice a day.
    I love that I have dinner ready for my BF when he gets in everyday.
    I love that I went back to college instead of sitting on my ass.
    I love that I can sit here with a glass of wine, on my own and be utterly content.
    I love that I have parents that support me and are happy that I am happy.
    I love that I get up at 7am on a Saturday and do something that I love.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    • I love that I'm a good guitar player and I have the disipline to teach myself...
    • I love my sense of humour and my love of comedy...
    • I love my awesome friends and my ability to make friends quite easily...
    • I love my Mam and how much she cares about me and my siblings...
    • I love that I'm trying to get into my chosen career rather then doing a job I hate....
    • I love the fact that I didn;t get caught up in drugs at an early age like most of my old friends...
    • I love the fact that EVERYONE says I'm unbelievably unique..... One even said "Fago, there is not one person I know who is like you, you are unique... If I tried to describe you to someone who's never met you, they'd think I was bonkers..."
    • I love me!
    • I love Misticles very very much with all my heart and I will never ever love anyone as much ever ever ever... I want to marry her....
    • I like Princess Lala


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,746 ✭✭✭✭Misticles


    eh fago, you are forgetting something from your list... ahem (coughs horrendously loud) :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭KillerKity


    I love the fact that I managed to change my attitude from negative to positive. I also love the fact that I'm totally broke but I've never been happier!


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    • I love that I am now confident enough to be proud to show off the real me and not be worried of what other people think
    • I love that I have a boyfriend who loves me and treats me so well
    • I love that despite not getting the points, I still managed to get into college studying the subject I want to study (Law through Arts in NUI Maynooth, thank you!)
    • I love that I was raised to be independant and street wise and am able to look after myself perfectly fine
    • I love that if I ever have a problem, I know that I have a whole network of people who will help me and look after me
    • I love that I can be as crazy or weird as I want and I know all people will think is "typical XxMCRxBabyxX." No judgements just acceptance
    • I Love that I have had to survive far too much **** in my 18 years of life and mangaed to get through all of it and still have a positive outlook of life


    EDIT: Forgot some. I'll prob keep adding! :D
    • I love that I was raised in Africa and have had the opportunity to travel around half the world and catch the travelling bug
    • I love that despite financial problem, my parents will still spend whatever is needed to support me while I'm in college. Once I make enough money they are getting paid back


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭SarahMs


    KillerKity wrote: »
    I love the fact that I managed to change my attitude from negative to positive. I also love the fact that I'm totally broke but I've never been happier!

    i can totally agree with the broke part!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭SarahMs


    • I love that I am now confident enough to be proud to show off the real me and not be worried of what other people think
    • I love that I have a boyfriend who loves me and treats me so well
    • I love that despite not getting the points, I still managed to get into college studying the subject I want to study (Law through Arts in NUI Maynooth, thank you!)
    • I love that I was raised to be independant and street wise and am able to look after myself perfectly fine
    • I love that if I ever have a problem, I know that I have a whole network of people who will help me and look after me
    • I love that I can be as crazy or weird as I want and I know all people will think is "typical XxMCRxBabyxX." No judgements just acceptance
    • I Love that I have had to survive far too much **** in my 18 years of life and mangaed to get through all of it and still have a positive outlook of life

    thats whats its all about hun..... im happy for ya.... ya seem like ya have your head on tight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭KillerKity


    Being a poor student has really made me realise how unimportant labels and material crap actually are! I have people who love me for me, money can't buy that :D


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    KillerKity wrote: »
    Being a poor student has really made me realise how unimportant labels and material crap actually are! I have people who love me for me, money can't buy that :D

    +1

    While I was never one for spending too much on anything, being a student has made me find it hard to part with €10 for an item of clothing. Makes shopping very hard!


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    SarahMs wrote: »
    thats whats its all about hun..... im happy for ya.... ya seem like ya have your head on tight.

    Thanks. :)

    The way I see it you just have to keep a positive outlook on life. I don't think IO could've gotten through some of the things I have without that outlook, :)

    Made me a better person today too


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭SarahMs


    Thanks. :)

    The way I see it you just have to keep a positive outlook on life. I don't think IO could've gotten through some of the things I have without that outlook, :)

    Made me a better person today too

    Defo! its your past that makes you. well thats what I think.
    I have always said 'thats just life and thats the way it is'
    i think when you accept that you cant control things.......... but choose to be a 'better' person thats when ya know your alright!


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    SarahMs wrote: »
    Defo! its your past that makes you. well thats what I think.
    I have always said 'thats just life and thats the way it is'
    i think when you accept that you cant control things.......... but choose to be a 'better' person thats when ya know your alright!

    Seems we have quite similar outlooks! Tis the way to be! :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30,731 ✭✭✭✭princess-lala


    I love my family :D Mostly including my gorgeous niece :D
    I love my friends :)
    I love my job :D
    I love the fact that I have achieved so much in 25 years that others wont do in a lifetime.
    I love that I have been loved so much in my life.
    I love being single :D
    I love being able to go shopping :D
    I love that I dont give a sh1t what people think about me :rolleyes:
    I love that I can tell it like it is and dont need to lie to people :)

    I love that Fago forgot to mention me :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭SarahMs


    indeed. id totally ask you out on a date. if i was a women and straight ha ha ha ha ha

    what year you in in maynooth? my bro is doing law


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    ha ha! pity about that! :P

    1st year but know a good few of the second years aswell! Which is your bro?!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭SarahMs


    wait I am a women.... im just not straight ha ha.... man........good friday going to my head!

    the tall dark handsome one..... goes by the name 'Murphy' to all the cool kids at least!

    *totally dont think my bro is handsome by the way*

    **is that even how you spell handsome? handsom?**


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    I am a woman too! :P Kinda confused now! :D

    hmmm Murphy? haven't heard of a Murphy! 1st or 2nd?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭SarahMs


    well if i was a lesbo you would totally be number 1!


    2nd..... ........... although he could be telling my mother he is attending ha ha


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    Don't know a Murphy I'm afraid! Must not be one of the crowd I know! can ask around though! Make sure he's not lying to you! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    Misticles wrote: »
    eh fago, you are forgetting something from your list... ahem (coughs horrendously loud) :P
    I love that Fago forgot to mention me :p

    What? You're both in there!


  • Posts: 0 Beau Itchy Topic


    I love that I finally managed to get a scholarship to live in a cool city and do the course I've always wanted to do.
    I love that I've met so many interesting people from all over the world on said course.
    I love that I found a part time teaching job I really enjoy.
    I love that my boyfriend and I managed a year long distance (he was 15 hours flight away) and he's now here with me and it's better than ever.
    I love that I have a flat which is a stone's throw away from anything I'd ever need - supermarket, shops, hospital, university, libraries...!
    I love my parents and the rest of my family


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭SarahMs


    [quote=[Deleted User];65226938]I love that I finally managed to get a scholarship to live in a cool city and do the course I've always wanted to do.
    I love that I've met so many interesting people from all over the world on said course.
    I love that I found a part time teaching job I really enjoy.
    I love that my boyfriend and I managed a year long distance (he was 15 hours flight away) and he's now here with me and it's better than ever.
    I love that I have a flat which is a stone's throw away from anything I'd ever need - supermarket, shops, hospital, university, libraries...!
    I love my parents and the rest of my family[/QUOTE]

    I love that
    gives me hope.
    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    I love that the evenings are longer an spring is on the way
    I love that 99% of people are really sound
    I love that when you realise this the world is your oyster
    I love being a bit of a bookworm
    I love still being a bit of a knacker p1sshead cos you dont have to be one or the other
    And I really love that boards is a good cross section of society
    And I love girls (sorry for hijacking da gurl forum)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30,731 ✭✭✭✭princess-lala


    Fago! wrote: »
    What? You're both in there!

    Yeah yeah Ill remember that :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭SarahMs


    I love that I can wake up make a plan for the day and stick to it......... 27 more mins on the net!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,660 ✭✭✭G86


    I love that I got to where I am in life on my own, and no-one can take that away from me.
    I love my little sis for coming to see me this weekend when I was sick and couldn't go to Donegal to see her.
    I love that I have a job I'm good at (most of the time!)
    I love that I'm moving in with one of my best friends next month.
    I love my Aunty who brought me up, because she's the most amazing person in the world and was there for me when no-one else was.
    I love that I deadlifted 110kg
    I love my amazing boyfriend.
    I love that I can talk to aforementioned boyfriend about aforementioned deadlifting:)
    I love my friends, they mean the world to me.
    I love my best friend for always being there for me no matter what.
    I love that the nice man in the phone shop today fixed my sisters phone for free.
    I love that I'm alot more confident about my body than I was a year ago.
    I love that I was given a laptop even though I couldn't pay for it for a month, just because the guy thought I seemed like an honest person.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭anto2


    Il love it that i am living in a warm climate in Asia

    I love it that i am retired and do not have to work

    I love the eye candy all around me every day

    I love where i live with its lage pool

    I love my GF and step daughter


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭SarahMs


    I love my friends for taken care of me whatever happens


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    I love that I have great friends that will always be there for me yadda yadda.

    I love that I'm good with people, useful in my job. And useful in manipulating people to get what I want. (that last bit is a joke)

    I love my family. They are a bunch of weirdos. But I wouldn't have it any other way.

    I love my hair. It's a very important part of my life.

    I love that I have a weird type of confidence that makes me unafraid of much situations. Can have its downsides...but mostly UPSIDES!

    I love my dog. She's great.

    I love living in a pretty town where I can go for a nice scenic walk whenever I want.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭Vinta81


    - Out of all my friends, I seems to have the most stable family and I love having parents that are genuinely two of the loveliest and most generous people in the world

    - I've never had to want for anything, my paretns go above and beyond for us and I love them for it even though I can be a moody cow at times

    - I love living in Ireland, defo prefer it too England...I feel so settled here now

    - I love that my riends are just as nuts as me and that I've found a good small, handful of people that I hold so, so close to my heart

    - I love that I'm a caring person :o I will stop and listen/talk to anyone for hours if needs be, I'll drop anything for anyone if they need a pair of ears or a shoulder to cry on

    - I love that I can eat like it's going out of fashion and I never seem to put on weight :pac:

    - I love my house

    - I love that I can adapt to any situation, I'm not an awkward social dimwit, I just go with it

    - I love my blunt, off hand, sometimes perverted sense of humour. I'm not the "jokes" kinda girl, i'm more witty...like a female Seth Cohen..I just come out with stuff..if ya get me, it's not intentional...but I seem to make people laugh so :p

    - I love that he may ignore me now, but I've seen him nekkid :pac:

    - I love that I have travelled the world and I'm only 21, everyone should want to travel

    - I love college and my course and my projects and my lectures and :D

    - Oh and I love my hair :p

    - and I love my modesty :pac: (after reading this back)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    I love that I never have to live up to expectations because peoples expectations of me are so low.
    I love that I am an exceedingly responsible person when it comes to my sister. (I also hate this about myself)
    I love that I can cut ties easily when I have to...usually.
    I love that I can cook...really really well.
    I love women, I have all their albums.
    I love that I can find anything I want on the internet.
    I love that I have a plan, a plan that if I stick to it, will make me happy for the first time in a long time.
    I love that one day, I will be famous for something I am sure of it, I refuse to be mediocre all my life, I will do something great.
    I hate my life at the moment though.

    Still happy right this second that has to count for something! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Catari Jaguar


    I love that I never have to live up to expectations because peoples expectations of me are so low.

    :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭sleepyescapade


    I love my OH very much
    I have very supportive friends/family
    I am starting paid work placement on Tues, I realise not many are in that position and that I am fortunate
    I love my dog
    I care very much about others, perhaps too much


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    • I love all my nephews and nieces, i specially love seeing my yr and half year old niece doing all this new and crazy stuff, she's mad!!
    • I love the fact that im the "cool auntie"(Their words not mine):D
    • I love where i'm living now-it's what i've always wanted.
    • I love the fact that i've eventually gotten over two "friends" who were no good for me.
    I also have an awful lot more of 'i hate the fact..' but i'll concentrate on the above for now:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,462 ✭✭✭Orla K


    I love how I have just rediscovered how strong a person I can be.

    I love my mind, how I can see all sides of situations and that I can just sit and think to entertain myself.

    I love that I have a plan again, which will be hard work but very rewarding and I love that, of the people I know in my life, it has shown me which ones have confidence in my abilities/intelligence and which don't(now I can no longer listen to the ones that don't)

    I love that the stuff that happened with someone getting pissed off at me for something stupid has finally made me realise peoples true sides and now I can cut through all the crap and not have them use me to make themselves feel better

    I love how I no longer feel stuck/trapped.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭MissMotivated


    I love that my OH and me are now living together and happier than ever when this time last year we weren't happy and were about to embark on a 5 month split.
    I love my job even though I still have so much more to learn.
    I love that my family members each seem to be happy enough at the moment, they all deserve it, I love them so much.
    I love love my 2 and half year old nephew, my heart melts when I see him and I would die for him!!!
    I love that if I don't like someone I can just ignore them without feeling the need to pretend like I do, life is too short to waste time on people that don't matter, and I don't see the point in being fake!!
    I love that at 26 I no longer need to follow the crowd in order to feel like I'm fun enough or cool enough, I don't need to go out every weekend just for the sake of it even though it may make some of my friends think I'm gone a bit boring, I have a mind of my own and I love doing my own thing!!!
    I love my life at the moment and I hope this feeling lasts!!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30,731 ✭✭✭✭princess-lala


    I love that I get on so well with my niece - and that shes so cool, told me yesterday that shes gonna come to the pub with me to find me a boyfriend :D Her daddy has a girlfriend (her mammy) and her uncle has a girlfriend (his wife) and I have nobody so shes gonna find me someone :) Aaaw how innocent :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭TwoBirds


    My mam, my friends, my cat. :p I love that I really genuinely can learn from all the mistakes I make, I love that I have come out on the other side from the crap times. I love that I am studying something I love, and even though it's so tough I wouldn't change it for the world.
    I love that I have learned to not let past disappointments annoy me anymore.
    I love that I can justify living off pasta and Pot Noodles because 'I'm a student'.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,644 Mod ✭✭✭✭Daisies


    I love
      that for the first time in my life Im feeling good about my body shape (it also helps that my weekend at home involved people telling me I last weight and look great) my true friends, they know who they are and they've helped me get over the friends who just weren't worth my tears that 2 years on there is still a big group of poeple from college who I know if I lost my job would bend over backwords to help my in an industry that is all about who you know that Ive taken the guts to start posting on boards and feel a part of something after feeling alone and with no friends in Dublin (thanks guys) and finally I love that after working hard in school (being called a swot) and working through college I have a job that enables me not to worry about money and finally being able to treat myself and the people who mean a lot to me


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I love my unbelievably fantabulous daughter, she seriously rocks
    I love that my husband is my best friend, and that noone else would laugh so much at the calgon add with me
    I love my family, they have supported me so much
    I love that I have been relatively successful in achieving my goals
    I love that I have some of the best friends anyone could ever hope for
    I love that, despite the crap that I've been through, I have never become bitter
    I love that I am a positive person who always looks for a silver lining
    I love that I usually only see the good in people
    I love that I love my job
    I love that I am happy 90% of the time


    Great thread OP :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,390 ✭✭✭The Big Red Button


    Good things about my life ...
    • When it comes to college, and my career ... well, things have fallen into place very nicely over the years. I've made silly decisions at times, but I've been extremely lucky in that it's always worked out for the best, and I'm in a good place now. It's not that I haven't worked for it - because I really really have - but the fact is, plenty of people work hard and don't get anything to show for it in the end, and I have, so I'm very grateful for that.
    • My family are kinda cool, I suppose. There are a lot of us, and my friends and I were just telling my teenage sister at the weekend, she's very very lucky in that we've broken down all boundaries with my parents - not only do they accept that me and my brothers will have mini-house-parties every single weekend we come home - they actually enjoy it, and get on great with all our friends! They even buy us all cheap drink when they go shopping up the North! :D Oh and it's kind of cute that, even though my parents are all old and stuff, they get on good and go for big long strolls on the beach every evening (sad but true!) And all my brothers and sisters are good craic also.
    • My fiance is amazing, I could go on a lot, but I'll leave it at that :)
    • My car is a very important part of my life. I love my baby Mitzy-moo to bits, we've had some amazing times together, and - it's a long long "boring" (to other people) story but fate brought us together, and I know that I'll never ever have another car that means so much to me :) Seriously, I have her nearly two years now, and I have never once sat into her without thinking, God I love my car ... that's gotta be a good thing!
    • I am very good friends with some very very cool people. If I really think about it, excluding my large family and my fiance and his family ... if I think about the other people close to me that I love to bits and could count on for anything ... I couldn't count them on both hands, I don't have enough fingers! :D That's gotta be a good thing, right?
    • I love love love love my apartment. It is prettiful and toasty-warm always, and it's lovely and tidy and clean, with lots of candles and yummy food, and I've a massive en-suite bedroom, and I live there with one of my best friends and we are very very happy together :D
    • I like that I can play the piano. Well, I most certainly cannot sing, and I'm not very good at sports etc, so it's good that I have some sort of talent!!!
    • I love living in Ireland. Yes, I see the same faults that everyone else does ... but I see all the good things too, and I wouldn't want to have grown up anywhere else, and I wouldn't want to grow old anywhere else.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 711 ✭✭✭dammitjanet


    I love that I've found my soul mate
    I love that I've got great friends who are always there for me
    I love that I'm in the most kick ass Battlefield BC 2 Clan ever!
    I love my nephews and niece, I'd do anything for them
    I love that I'm writing again
    I love that I'm going on holidays with my OH in the next 2 weeks!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭LeahK


    Right now I love

    * Today! Its sunny and hasnt rained so far. I got to walk up the canal and listen to Lionel Richie in peace. I didnt have to avoid one puddle or get fuzzy hair on my little trip. Lunch was delicious so all in all it put me in great form.

    *I love my boyfriend. He makes me belly laugh all the time, especially when he does his Arnold Swarchenegger impression and his Zapp Brannigan impression. :o

    * I love my family,3 nieces two brothers and a mam and dad. We are so un-disfunctional, sometimes I think I should start a fight so we can be more like other families!

    * My friends are cool too, they are a good bunch and I'm blessed that we have all stayed close!

    * I love cadburys cream eggs.

    * I love playing Super Mario Bros on my Wii. I find it hard but I will finish it someday :)

    * Finally - this could possibly beat all other points...I LOVE bed. I love sleeping,lying there,getting into it at night,lying there in the morning,naps etc etc . God was in good form the day he invented it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭SarahMs


    I love that when I had a migrane and felt like awful, my OH brought my pups up and let them in the bed even though he hates having them in the bed.

    I love that he made me dinner and had the fire ready for me when I eventually got outta bed.

    I love that we have the freedom, trust and honesty to go off and do our own thing for a few days and its not big deal that we don't talk for a few days.

    I love that my mam got me a strawberry smelling USB stick coz i lost my other one.

    I love that after not seeing my sister for a few weeks, she says 'I wrote everything down to tell you so I won't forget'


    I love the sun


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,404 ✭✭✭✭Pembily


    Vinta81 wrote: »
    - Out of all my friends, I seems to have the most stable family and I love having parents that are genuinely two of the loveliest and most generous people in the world

    I am the same and I love my parents for that!!!
    I love that I only have 5 weeks of college left ever!!
    I love that I went back at 23 to do what I wanted to do in college and got through it...
    I love that at 26 I am finally confidentish about my body!!!
    I love that I have great friends and family...
    I actually love being single after 4 years (don't have to worry about anyone else - pure selfish!:eek:)
    I love the sun!
    I love being able to walk without pain :D
    I love that I have my whole live ahead of me!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 hwiser09


    I love my life because of my kids and above all I have a GOD who continuously loves me unconditionally.


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