Count your blessings - tell me why you're happy

I pick up my new (to me) car tonight and I'm ridiculously excited after having to do a car share with OH for the past 8 months and before that, driving a 15 year shit box. Air conditioning and 6 CD auto changer here I come ?. OH is also lending me the money to pay so that I don't have to take a loan out.

OH is being made redundant on Thursday next week. He has managed to get another job and will be starting the following week. He's over the moon to be leaving his current cowboy company and to be going to work for a big, proper company who follow the rules. The money isn't great but the opportunities are so much better.

I've finally accepted that a) we won't be moving house to the much more desireable town anytime soon and b) I really should sell my rental flat as soon as prices pick up a bit. This means we are making plans to improve the house we do have and to put my stamp on it so that it's not OHs batchelor pad anymore. OH's positvity about his new job is rubbing off on the house. He feels inspired to get stuck into all the DIY that is long over due. He just didn't have the energy to do it all before.

After living with OH for 9 months, I finally feel accepted into his group of friends. I wasn't local before moving in so felt very distanced from them all. I've been going out for drinks and making plans with some of the other girlfriends and it's nice to have some friends near by as most of mine are from where I lived before.

Finally, [twee twat icon] I'm hugely looking forward to our wedding in August. It's all starting to become real now and most importantly, an end to the ridiculously boring planning is in sight ?

I have a fabulous husband, some really great friends and I'm off to Gidleigh Park this weekend to celebrate my 40th birthday. I'm very blessed. ?

Sophie I'm really excited your mum is well. Great news.

I'm happy because-

I have hot water in my house, and I called out a plumber I didn't even have to pay for (the joys of renting!)

My new tenants could have gone nuts about not being able to use the waste disposal unit in the kitchen or the lack of bedroom blind but seem pretty laid back so I'm happy.

I am so lucky to have such wonderful, supportive and helpful parents, sisters and brother in laws who have helped us tremendously and I am very grateful for them.

My boss bought me an enourmous bag of roasted chickpeas, which are surely laced with crack ?

after two weeks of stress i am relaxed enough to walk around without being full of so much nervous energy I look like a meth addict who has been without a score ?

I'm happy because despite all the job-associated rubbish other things are looking up

I have another prescription for the anti-sickness drugs so no worries about getting really ill again for a little bit

They are turfing our lawn and it looks fab

The painting is nearly done in the living room so we'll be able to move the furniture back in and have some space to move again

B is having a pleasant phase and is actually a whole lot of fun to be with unlike her devil child incarnation of last week

Oooh fab thread ?

i have a great homelife with a brilliant bloke, albeit he's a margainal loon. we have a fab house with a smallish mortgage which we're very grateful for

i have some fab friends and two hobbies (archery and photography) that i didn't have this time last year

my friends and family are all in good health and have good lives

we have a few trips away to look forward to this year (majorca, scotland, paris, london)

i love my job, however frustrating it can be at times

and on monday we start IVF. which may or not work...but at least it's a chance for the family we want so much. 30 years ago we would have had little hope at all.

I have a wonderful OH who I love very much

Our first baby is due on 16.06.09

Our house has finally turned the corner and is nearly all done

Its nearly summer and I love the sun ?

I have a very flexible job and I am very lucky to have security in the current climate

Hurrah for happy things.

My Step-mum has finally finished her chemo, and can concentrate on getting her life and body back. I'm losing weight and toning up despite not being able to run. We're going to Santorini in 18 days to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary. My husband is fab. My cat is ridiculous. I have great friends and family. My feet are no longer orange after a Johnson's Holiday Skin trauma earlier in the week.

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LTP, I'm particularly ? at your counted blessings. It's so lovely to read, we have the real LTP back!

I guess my blessing is that I have lots of people who love and care for me.

Also, I'm recovering well from my elbow operation, which was 3 weeks ago today. They managed to do such a good job and I can move my hand again, which after the palsy means hooray! I'm now dressing free and had the had the all clear to start moving elbow again, which although will take weeks to move properly, is a real relief.

It also means I'll be back knititng properly again soon, which makes me a happy magic.

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I'm happy because I have prescriptions for stuff that might finally cure my cough, which has been making my life grim since Christmas. I've spent the day away from passive-aggressive ranting by No1 son and have instead had a lovely day in the garden next door, with my friend and some of her children. We've sat down, drunk tea, had a chance to chat while 3 toddlers had a picnic in the sun and were hilariously entertaining and the baby sat and watched. I'm happy for her because her youngest child, who has Downs, seems to be spot on developmentally for his age and has no known problems yet.

And I'm happy because I'm married to a lovely man, our kitchen is all finished bar a bit of emulsion and we might be able to put our house on the market soon.

I've just gone back to uni to do a Masters and got 77% in my first assignment for one of my modules. This has made me VERY happy.

I spoke to my partner in crime best mate from uni in Kenya on Skype, with voices and video and everything. This nearly made me cry.

I am sort of learning to cope with my hideous boss. When someone asked me a question today and he came over to answer, I was less annoyed than I normally am.

The Inbetweeners is on tonight!

We have another viewing of our house tomorrow, and our dream house is still for sale.

However I didn't get tickets for One Big Weekend. Grr.

Plenty to moan about too, but it's so much better to focus on the positive.

My son is a joy.

We now live in our dream house that we've been building for years. We probably can't afford it, but it's so utterly effing fab (but all our friends hate us! )so i just feel so chuffed to have a rocking gaff. (..........except now i am looking at Anouska Hempel's gaff on TV; i stand corrected!)

I have finished all the hideous hideous work load for the year that hasn't given me a weekend off since Sept. I still have some pretty massive hoops to jump through but the illegal overtime hours are behind me for another 6 months anyway! I also have a fab new deputy who is amazing and a joy to work with.

My family has been offered a v exciting businees oportunity which could be ve'y interesting (and may give me my get out of school free card eventually, y'never know!)

OH - and, while i was saying to my H this evening that i wished i was Kirsty Allsop - he said "You are kirsty allsop.... but thinner and prettier" THINNER?!?! Noooooooo WAaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. I am SO happy he said that, cos i was pretty convinced he thought i was a total troll. (i am utterly not thinner or prettier than KA, who i idolise - mind you, he doesn't think she's all that!!)

Wubly. Good times.

Such a lovely lovely thread.

* It's sunny, I love the sun, I feel more positive and much more happier.

* I passed an exam today for a job I REALLY want and have the interview on 6th May

* My family and friends are happy and healthy

* I have the most AMAZING boyfriend who really does adore me and I had forgot what that felt like until I met him, his family are brilliant, complelty insane but brilliant and I feel very accepted by them.

* K is brilliant as well and looking forward to starting school in September.

* We go to Euro Disney early June, K doesn't know and I can't WAIT to see his face.

I'm feeling happy and content at the moment.

• My Mum is experiencing better health at the moment, and if she's happy i'm always happier.
• Both H and I are fortunate to have decent, secure (as you can get) jobs.
• Some of my best friends are my workmates which makes going into work bearable.
• I can almost guarantee that I get a full belly laugh everyday.
• My H is making progress clearing out our house (was his parents house), so now after 5 years of living here its starting to feel more like my home.
• We're selling loads on ebay (clearing out the house!) at the moment so have our summer holiday and spending money paid for.
• I have a lovely husband.

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A lovely happy thread. So pleased for everyone who has good things happening.

Well this afternoon, after 6 months of auditions and interviews, I finally got an offer of a place on a Performing Arts Degree course. Out of 3,000 applicants, there were only 90 places. And I got in. ? I'm going to be a mature drama student. Waaaaah!

I am dangerously close to using the bouncy nobber.

Ooh, congrats Katchoo. Well done you ?

Massive congratulations!

Glad lots of people are happy - Sophie, fab news about your mum. ?

I'm happy because my back is on the mend, R's ears seem to be healing and tomorrow is Friday. ? H has been fab the past week while I've been hobbling and my employer has been very understanding which is a real help.

Aww thanks ladies. It hasn't sunk in yet - I'd prepared myself to fail (a woman over 30 being accepted on a performing arts course is rare) and had started working on my plan B, so I am just gobsmacked.

Congratulations everyone! this is great stuff. useful to redirect one's thoughts if life is crappy in parts - other parts can be fab...

my h is fabulous, unendingly kind, constantly affectionate, will make me a brew at the slightest provocation. he is also fit. ?

my mum is incredibly lovely, supportive and kind, and knows exactly what i'm going through, which is really helpful.

my grandparents live round the corner, and are cosy and friendly. i would like to be more settled and feel i had more chance to pop round and say hello.

Well done. i'm seriously impressed, you must be the business!

Oooh I love this kind of thread! Let's see...

I've just come back from our annual work conference at the Pudding Club, so have eaten lots of gorgeous food. I also felt vaguely efficient, networky and generally like a professional person whilst there which was excellent - as the admin person in a group of teachers talking about teaching things I've previously felt like a spare part, but this time I got myself into working groups which I could actually contribute to.

We're going on holiday to the Dominican Republic in July and I can't wait, it will be fabulous!

MrSC's paycut gave us a bit of a wobble but I'm back on form and have worked out that we won't be that much worse off and that we can cover it without much difficulty. Add to that that we paid off the wedding credit card the other month and we actually have a fair bit of money to save each month, so that combined with the scrappage grant will mean I can almost certainly have a brand new car in the next year (as opposed to the used one I would have had otherwise).

I am flying high on my OU course, recently got another 98% on an assignment and am averaging 95% across the 6 so far which means I only need to scrape a pass in the final one to be in the distinction range for that part of the course. Only the exam to worry about and after the revision session I attended at the weekend I even feel like I might be able to do that!

The sun has been shining and that always makes for happiness

Glad to feel everyone has something good in their lives, you all deserve it so much you fab people ?