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have the first club social event of the year and Mrs Womble is out of town
pub crawl where the players (in teams) have to track down the put where the coaches/managers are....looking forward to it
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@booboo Sounds like a great weekend with the highlight obviously being the match.
But, to go all a bit Grumpy Old Man thread, I hate Gold Class, absolute worst way to watch a movie, the first 30 odd minutes it's a restaurant with a big screen, food delivers walking all over the place, people complaining their order is wrong, annoys the fuck out of me. Plus, you could fund the Rebels with a single ticket.
To keep with the happiness theme, I'm going to it on Sunday in Vmax (the best way to watch), and completed my rewatch of part one last night.
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Mrs Womble and I probably only go 4-6 times a year to the cinema...and almost always gold class, Village normally have 30-50% off sales and we'll pick up a few tickets
love getting to sit there and have hot food brought out or an ice creme only come when im ready to eat it
to each their own
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@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
Plans for Saturday.
Leave here shite and briny in the a.m. Head towards the big smoke.
Leave Mrs Boo to guard the cats and sit the house.
Stop in Sunny Coast to collect female offspring.
Proceed to gold class cinema on North side of Brisbane for late morning screening of Dune 2.
Order lunch to have with movie while reclining.
Watch Dune 2 with female offspring, with whom I had watched first instalment (Mrs Boo not fussed).
Proceed to accommodation on South Bank of River mid afternoon.
Have quiet or two with offspring.
Proceed by foot to Suncorp, approx 15mins, late afternoon, early evening for very civilised 6:30 kick off (thanks to Queensland's refusal to join the civilised world in enjoying daylight "savings" (as Qlders know it)).
Watch Chiefs play as well as they did last week (work with me here jinx gods), with likely uninterested offspring who only came because I am old and I'm going to die soon and she should spend more time with me (actual phrasing). Seats somewhere between 10m and 22, broadcasting side of the field*.
Breakfast Sunday somewhere on South Bank.
Return home, dropping offspring on way.
Added bonus of not watching Blackcaps v Aus.
What are you poor people doing?
- bonus points if anyone is old enough to recall who used to use that phrase in commentary ...
Off to Invercargill on Friday night. So that's my weekend ruined.
Not really. Off to the races on Saturday for a great day out at very affordable prices.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Happiness Scale:
Mrs Womble and I probably only go 4-6 times a year to the cinema...and almost always gold class, Village normally have 30-50% off sales and we'll pick up a few tickets
love getting to sit there and have hot food brought out or an ice creme only come when im ready to eat it
to each their own
I basically go weekly, Mad Men style, so I'd burn through cash if I went to Gold Class every week (assuming I liked it).
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@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@nzzp said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
Ear plugs. Incredibly loud.
This place has a bar at the front so I can leave them alone to bowl in the noise. Unfortunately I also have to drop half the fuckers home after dinner so I can't even get on the beers
You poor bastard.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@nzzp said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
What are you poor people doing?
Saturday night I will be taking 10 x 15yr olds to bowling and dinner and ice cream for offsprings birthday party.
Ear plugs. Incredibly loud.
This place has a bar at the front so I can leave them alone to bowl in the noise. Unfortunately I also have to drop half the fuckers home after dinner so I can't even get on the beers
You poor bastard.
Pretty sure that'd be a fair excuse to auto-pass a breathalyzer.
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Just started reading this thread. Thank you. Appreciate it. I must be more thankful for the good in my life. Best wishes to everyone.
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This is quite an odd topic for me as I came from very humble beginnings and at a very ealry age (early 40's) I'd realsied that id achieved or over achieved everything in life I'd ever wanted to get.
So one would think hapines off the scale, sit with your feet back and clap yourself on the back for a job well done and it's all happy days from here on in.
Unfortunately this wasn't my reality, there was a line that hautned me "you will sit their in your comfort and your lesuire and it will drag you down into your grave and kill you". It sounds severe and odd but I understood exactly what it meant.
I'd become demotivated, bored, real lazy, overwieght and barely doing anything at all outside of my own enjoyment. If you looked at my behaviour youd say I was depressed, I mean I didn't feel depressed as I was happy and content but in reality I probably was.
Also though this time I underwnet two courses of conselling, 1 to help me overcome my childhood trauma (an odd way to bond with your sister when you share your experiences, both come to the exact same conlusions and then reach out for help). The second was to help me get through all the poor coping mechanism's I'd developed to deal with that trauma.
It's been a hard road realizing you've been hurt, then realizing that some of your responses to that hurt has been to hurt others, then going back into your past and apologising to try and make things right. Especially hard when you relaise that the poeple you've hurt the most have generraly been the ones that have tried to love and care for you.
Anyway this year I've been making my peace, joined the gym, got a fitness program and started as head coach of my old rugby team.
It's odd because doing all of that takes a lot of energy, but it fills me with so much more enrgy and motivation than sitting at home and taking it easy ever did. I'm helping out a heap more around the house and with the kids as I'm getting enjoyment from setting simpel goals, completing simple tasks and just being active.
I guess there's that odd line about happiness is that it doesn't come to you if you just search for happiness, you find it in people that fill their lives with purpose. Happiness then comes as a by product.
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@BerniesCorner said in Happiness Scale:
Just started reading this thread. Thank you. Appreciate it. I must be more thankful for the good in my life. Best wishes to everyone.
It is important, but not always easy, to find joy and satisfaction in the little things
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@canefan said in Happiness Scale:
@BerniesCorner said in Happiness Scale:
Just started reading this thread. Thank you. Appreciate it. I must be more thankful for the good in my life. Best wishes to everyone.
It is important, but not always easy, to find joy and satisfaction in the little things
i say that to my wife all the time
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@Windows97 said in Happiness Scale:
This is quite an odd topic for me as I came from very humble beginnings and at a very ealry age (early 40's) I'd realsied that id achieved or over achieved everything in life I'd ever wanted to get.
So one would think hapines off the scale, sit with your feet back and clap yourself on the back for a job well done and it's all happy days from here on in.
Unfortunately this wasn't my reality, there was a line that hautned me "you will sit their in your comfort and your lesuire and it will drag you down into your grave and kill you". It sounds severe and odd but I understood exactly what it meant.
I'd become demotivated, bored, real lazy, overwieght and barely doing anything at all outside of my own enjoyment. If you looked at my behaviour youd say I was depressed, I mean I didn't feel depressed as I was happy and content but in reality I probably was.
Also though this time I underwnet two courses of conselling, 1 to help me overcome my childhood trauma (an odd way to bond with your sister when you share your experiences, both come to the exact same conlusions and then reach out for help). The second was to help me get through all the poor coping mechanism's I'd developed to deal with that trauma.
It's been a hard road realizing you've been hurt, then realizing that some of your responses to that hurt has been to hurt others, then going back into your past and apologising to try and make things right. Especially hard when you relaise that the poeple you've hurt the most have generraly been the ones that have tried to love and care for you.
Anyway this year I've been making my peace, joined the gym, got a fitness program and started as head coach of my old rugby team.
It's odd because doing all of that takes a lot of energy, but it fills me with so much more enrgy and motivation than sitting at home and taking it easy ever did. I'm helping out a heap more around the house and with the kids as I'm getting enjoyment from setting simpel goals, completing simple tasks and just being active.
I guess there's that odd line about happiness is that it doesn't come to you if you just search for happiness, you find it in people that fill their lives with purpose. Happiness then comes as a by product.
It wasn’t enough for Tony Montana. He still went nuts and shot his sister and his best mate. The World certainly wasn’t enough.
But seriously, this post is terrific and inspiring. Particularly that part about simple tasks. A few weeks back I helped my son’s stepdad and a few other good jokers dig a trench to make a stream at a kindy. The kind of job that would take one bloke several days but we smashed it out in a few hours. So awesome swinging the pickaxe, digging, wheeling the wheelbarrow and enjoying a bbq and a few beers after.
The photos we got a few days later of the kids enjoying the stream were just beautiful
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Great post and you’re right, doing nothing is very tiring.
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@Catogrande there's always the Fern...
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I miss the outdoors of NZ and when I retire plan to visit NZ more.
Catch a kahawai from Himatangi beach, weave a flax basket, float down a river on a tube, visit Mana Is, slow cook a possum, make dutch oven bread over a fire. Endless options. Good for the mind. -
Mrs Meldrew and me have just spent 2 days in Stratford-on-Avon catching up on some culture and generally chilling. Saw a stunning RSC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and caught a back-stage tour of the theatre. Never really got into yer high culture (not that the Bard really is) but I've always liked Shakespeare ever since being introduced by an inspiration teacher in my teens so this was something else.
Adding in a country-house hotel was brilliant and this is the first time we've been able to really relax without family health, death and other issues for several years - it's been a gloriously happy couple of days
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@Victor-Meldrew Really good reminder of the importance of holidays for our mental and physical health!
I spent a quite luxurious week in Moorea last month. Apart from one day touring the island and another swimming with the sharks it is the first time I can remember when I have holidayed at less than 100kph. Normally I'm off all day cramming as much into my holiday as possible. Instead it was just sitting by the pool or diving off the deck into the lagoon, gins and beers and poison cru. Fucking fantastic being forced to slow down. Despite immoderate amounts of booze resting pulse, BP both dropped significantly.
Of course reality bit when I got back to work, but it was a real lesson for me - I'm a slow learner.
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Yep, just getting away and doing something different is so, so important and helps you focus on what really matters. It was actually a pretty full-on couple of days for us activity-wise (probably walked 15 miles) but apart from the play, we just did what we wanted to do without planning anything. So refreshing.
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Just come off two days on the Timber Trail with the better half.
Bloody good fun. Good riding, great to be outside. Hard work beside grey hairs on ebikes, but well worth it. Accommodation in the middle was excellent, and lots of interesting people.
Moderate to strong recommend from me
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