The Happy News thread

[Distracted]

Australia!! I'm SO jealous.

[Asso]

Yes! Aren't they adorable?

They are!

[Emberchyld]

My happy news is that my knee surgery went well. And now I'll have two weeks off work to read and play online while my family waits on me. This is great. And here I was thinking I'd have to have another baby to get some time off.

That's great, Distracted! Enjoy your breather! (I learned that I could get a lot done-- and enjoy the guilty pleasure of daytime tv and cheezy fashion magazines-- when I was confined to a sofa for 1.5 months) Quick and easy healing vibes are being sent your way.

Hey, Emberchyld, less knitting, more stories!

Yup, I've sadly found that knitting has replaced some of my best story-writing time. Some of my better stories were started/finished on airplanes, but I've found that people staring at me knitting is less irksome than someone reading over my shoulder and then giving me wierd "Oh, a Trekkie person" looks.

But Valentine's Day is coming up... and the T/T fanfic machine will probably start picking up again...

[Asso]

I don't knit and when someone is reading over my shoulder and then giving me weird "Oh, a Trekkie person" looks, as you say... Well! I'm proud!

[Linda]

Tell the person reading over your shoulder to "Get a life".

[Navigator]

My happy news: My Fulbright travel funds came in so I booked my flight to Australia! I leave Feb. 18th and come back Nov. 17th.

I hear Oceanic has good discounts. Seriously, this is a wonderful opportunity!!

[evcake]

Z'Val should like the Outback - it looks like Vulcan to me.
(hint hint)
Maybe you'll get to Cape York?

[JadziaKathryn]

Z'Val should like the Outback - it looks like Vulcan to me.
(hint hint)
Maybe you'll get to Cape York?

Z'Val is going to be finished before I leave, I'm almost certain. Maybe a sequel will come out, with a trip to Australia.
I don't think I'll get to Cape York, but I don't really want to so much. Other places are more appealing to me.

[Emberchyld]

One word: pro-mo-ted.

Wooo! (Now I have more $$ to pay for all the crazy things I do on my ever-shrinking free time)

And congrats, JadziaKathryn! enjoy Australia for the rest of us envious people living vicariously through you!

[evcake]

Z'Val should like the Outback - it looks like Vulcan to me.
(hint hint)
Maybe you'll get to Cape York?

Z'Val is going to be finished before I leave, I'm almost certain. Maybe a sequel will come out, with a trip to Australia.
I don't think I'll get to Cape York, but I don't really want to so much. Other places are more appealing to me.

Not see the rat-eating plant? Aww...

[JadziaKathryn]

Thanks, Emberchyld - congratulations are in order for you too! Now you just need to keep some free time to enjoy the raise.

I'll skip the rat-eating plant, along with the human-eating saltwater crocs. That northern area also has dengue fever now and again (2 cases in 2006, but I worry a lot) and the CDC recommends a vaccine for something else if you're going to Cape York. Japanese enciphilitus or something like that.

[Mitchell]

Congrats to both ya.

JadziaKathryn watch out for the Crock Crap.

[justTripn]

Congratulations Jadziakathyrn. Don't worry about the dengue fever. I've had that. It just makes you very, very tired for a week.You'll be fine. ENJOY YOUR sojourn in Australia. Sounds like the opportunity of a lifetime.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Have fun down under, JzK!

And congrats on your promotion, Emberchyld!

[JadziaKathryn]

Thanks, all.

And, jT, that's good to know about surviving dengue. Just in case.