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Trivial things that make you happy - Part 2 - The Happyning

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  • #2372
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,503 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    When I go glancing through comments on boards.ie and think that is a great comment, great point there I never thought of that.
    That deserves a like.
    Fair play to them.

    Then realise it is comment I posted about a subject years ago....

    :D

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #2373
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Blissfully cool, cloudy morning. Wind music a sweet familiar sound, and even a hint of moisture in the air.. happiness . Slept IN the bed last night ;)


  • #2374
    Poochie05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,387 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    Getting my sh1t together!

    Spent the morning doing paperwork, updating online banking, updating meter reading for Airtricity, writing emails, a bit of online shopping and finally signed up for a Revolut card.

    If I was half as productive at home as I am in work I'd be dangerous


  • #2375
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    In from out .... the dog needed walk.Never enough but at least a try .. needed out too after working the 2 week shopping list ... Happy it is done... Lovely the wind out there, warm and benevolent.


  • #2376
    Ilovethe bonesofyou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭Ilovethe bonesofyou


    Happy that we're back to good old honest Irish temperatures. :)


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  • #2377
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sitting writing in my study with the window open and the scent of the honeysuckle flower right outside the window is wafting in with the light breeze that's in it, and that beautiful mellifluous Irish word leoithne, meaning 'light breeze' keeps recurring to me. Perfect. And I'm thinking of my days in Feothanach, and how feoithne means a 'gusty breeze'. A quick google later and I see some beautiful human being has written a blog entitled Some 60 Irish words and phrases for breeze/wind/gust. Another lovely linguistic distraction for the afternoon that's in it.


  • #2378
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Poochie05 wrote: »
    Getting my sh1t together!

    Spent the morning doing paperwork, updating online banking, updating meter reading for Airtricity, writing emails, a bit of online shopping and finally signed up for a Revolut card.

    If I was half as productive at home as I am in work I'd be dangerous

    And don't forget to claim tax back on loads of things from medical expenses to SEAI grants to tuition fees. You can go back four years but most people for some reason never bother claiming anything back from Revenue. They're pretty quick at paying back too, in fairness.


  • #2379
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,280 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    A little light cooling breeze , I am easily pleased !


  • #2380
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    A little light cooling breeze , I am easily pleased !

    Same here in Carlow. Some cloud cover with a delightful breeze. Back t the poor parched garden.


  • #2381
    Bredabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,498 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    Yellow Wax Beans! Yummy!

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



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  • #2382
    umop episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭umop episdn


    Petty posts


  • #2383
    Chev_Chelios
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭Chev_Chelios


    My cold finally drying up.


  • #2384
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    DunnoKidz wrote: »
    Seph and his cat posts make me smile :)


    Oooooh wrong thread :pac::pac::pac: this be the cheery thread ----> Trivial Annoyance Thread is >>>-.-<<< that a way :P

    Or..... ;) ....is there a "Let's all be judgmental" thread, I am missing?

    :rolleyes: It was a light hearted slag - a joke!


  • #2385
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    My bed. Always makes me happy... ;)


  • #2386
    erica74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭erica74


    Poochie05 wrote: »
    Getting my sh1t together!

    Spent the morning doing paperwork, updating online banking, updating meter reading for Airtricity, writing emails, a bit of online shopping and finally signed up for a Revolut card.

    If I was half as productive at home as I am in work I'd be dangerous

    What way does that Revolut card work? What made you want to sign up for one? I've never heard of it before.

    My TH is that my husband bought a little air conditioning unit over the weekend, €80 in Homebase and it's one of the finest things he has ever purchased. It's mainly for our dogs, our german shepherd is having a particularly bad time in the heat so she's absolutely loving it now. She flops down in front of it and has a good sleep, she looks rested, whereas before we got it, she wasn't really having a proper sleep because of the heat.


  • #2387
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    erica74 wrote: »
    What way does that Revolut card work? What made you want to sign up for one? I've never heard of it before.

    My TH is that my husband bought a little air conditioning unit over the weekend, €80 in Homebase and it's one of the finest things he has ever purchased. It's mainly for our dogs, our german shepherd is having a particularly bad time in the heat so she's absolutely loving it now. She flops down in front of it and has a good sleep, she looks rested, whereas before we got it, she wasn't really having a proper sleep because of the heat.

    Revolut is essentially an FX app, that offers a card. The card is MasterCard.
    You have two choices, you can load EUR into your account and then when you use it abroad in USD/GBP/SEK whatever, they take the FX rate as of that date. Alternatively you can take the value of today's FX rate and convert EUR into the currency of where you're going on holiday so the balance in your account is GBP not EUR. You can still use it in Ireland, it will convert back from GBP to EUR when you spend it.

    It's also free to make transfers to bank accounts (international and local), takes about 3 days. If any friends have Revolut you can make and take payments instantly.

    I can't recommend it highly enough.


  • #2388
    mikemac2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,998 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Someone brought kinder surprise eggs into work. I thought these didn’t exist anymore due to kids choking on the toys, must be an urban myth

    I had two eggs with delicious chocolate and I made two toys to display for my desk :)

    Hmm I believe the toys were complex when I was a kid, today it was one click and complete


  • #2389
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Someone brought kinder surprise eggs into work. I thought these didn’t exist anymore due to kids choking on the toys, must be an urban myth

    I had two eggs with delicious chocolate and I made two toys to display for my desk :)


    Only in the USA, they are banned over there due to a choking hazard.


  • #2390
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,036 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Someone brought kinder surprise eggs into work. I thought these didn’t exist anymore due to kids choking on the toys, must be an urban myth

    I had two eggs with delicious chocolate and I made two toys to display for my desk :)

    Hmm I believe the toys were complex when I was a kid, today it was one click and complete




    It was the US they were banned in.


  • #2391
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Watching two squirrels enjoying the birdbath.


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  • #2392
    Poochie05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,387 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    razorblunt wrote: »
    Revolut is essentially an FX app, that offers a card. The card is MasterCard.
    You have two choices, you can load EUR into your account and then when you use it abroad in USD/GBP/SEK whatever, they take the FX rate as of that date. Alternatively you can take the value of today's FX rate and convert EUR into the currency of where you're going on holiday so the balance in your account is GBP not EUR. You can still use it in Ireland, it will convert back from GBP to EUR when you spend it.

    It's also free to make transfers to bank accounts (international and local), takes about 3 days. If any friends have Revolut you can make and take payments instantly.

    I can't recommend it highly enough.

    Mine is Visa, apparently it's a recent change. Not sure if they do both now.
    But yes, handy for buying online and travelling. You can use it as a normal debit card in most places. Contactless too.

    There's a few threads about it here on Boards:
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057481488


  • #2393
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Japan winning! I love it!


  • #2394
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Japan winning! I love it!
    2 - 0 !!!!
    :eek: TH I didn't put a bet on that game.


  • #2395
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    My smallest cat, who loves to sit near me and "give out" when SHE thinks she should be fed, then comes to purr her thanks and huge affection . Never heard so vocal a cat since I bred Siamese.


  • #2396
    mikemac2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,998 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Japan winning! I love it!

    You jinxed them :(


  • #2397
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    You jinxed them :(

    sad-puppies-that-will-ruin-your-day-1-5801-1330112703-51_big.jpg






    :pac:


  • #2398
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    I won E25 on a E1 scratch card last Saturday! Me and Mam going to lunch on it Thursday before our hospital appointments!


  • #2399
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    A feast for Seph ;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6MmYC00ZHo

    Crazy Russians,,


  • #2400
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    3-year-old asked me for real money last night. Real money. Usually she's just "baking" stuff in her pretend kitchen and getting me to pay her in her toy money via her intermediary, her giggle-filled 1-year-old brother/butler who serves me (and then attempts to eat the "money", of course).

    But I'm looking at her aghast with her latest request. 'Suigh síos a leanbh', arsa mise, and she comes over to the table and pulls herself up on the chair with a grin on her. Deadly serious face on me: 'Tá sé in am labhairt leat mar gheall ar an... Drochshaol'. So, I begin to tell her about the... Famine. The wife, at the far side of the kitchen, looks over at me incredulously on the hearing of this, and then giggles to herself. However, back to the little one and she's not quite getting the seriousness of it all so I make sure I keep telling her we hadn't even a red penny to feed ourselves. No money at all. For effect, I turn around the laptop and google some of those amazing NLI photos of starving, dispossessed peasants undergoing eviction in 19th century Ireland. They had no money so we have to look after it - remembering Seosamh Mac Grianna's extraordinary short story about the life of a man in his final days during the Famine 'Ar an Trá Fholamh', I exclaim 'Bhíomar ar an trá fholamh a mhuirnín!'. By the time I was finished I was sure she'd never ask me for money again and was quite chuffed with the effects and drama. Instead, she pipes up 'But that's why I need money!'.

    Fecking hell. Disastrous Daddy Talk No. 1 (of no doubt many!)


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  • #2401
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,091 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Fuaranach, your children have me in stitches! :D


    Funny kids (not only Fuaranach's) make me very happy.


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