Reasons to be cheerful

**Moi** · 20th December 2015, 18:57

Originally Posted by Oakie

Yep ... Little Miss 9 wore the big smile at the end and Grandma even got a lovely photo of it.
I stopped after about 4 minutes at an intersection after a couple of long sweepers and asked if she was OK. "Yeah" (in a tone of why the hell wouldn't I be). "This is FUN!"

So cool (but still quite nerve racking for the pilot).

That must have been worth a few brownie points...

perhaps a-day's-riding-over-the-holidays worth...

**mashman** · 26th December 2015, 08:59

The first summer I've had off in decades is here

**Laava** · 26th December 2015, 10:16

Originally Posted by 98tls

Mrs wont cook em...something to do with the eyes she reckons,she wont eat them either which is a plus.

What about those other tiny swimmers? Bwahaha!

**ellipsis** · 26th December 2015, 10:19

...I have no work lined up for the new year and have been aiming at this scenario for a long while now...my 'builders' house is going to get the treatment that I have been providing for other peoples houses for the last 30-40 years...I will be very broke and wont be able to race bikes or do the frivolous things like , spend, and when I have got our house up to the point where the promises made to my wife and myself over those years are fulfilled, I am semi retiring to my shed and helping my wife in her business...this makes me feel a little more than cheerful, more like ecstatic...

**98tls** · 26th December 2015, 20:10

Originally Posted by Laava

What about those other tiny swimmers? Bwahaha!

Mate shes my Mrs has been for years so what chance i would know the answer to that?

**oldrider** · 27th December 2015, 09:03

Originally Posted by ellipsis

...I have no work lined up for the new year and have been aiming at this scenario for a long while now...my 'builders' house is going to get the treatment that I have been providing for other peoples houses for the last 30-40 years...I will be very broke and wont be able to race bikes or do the frivolous things like , spend, and when I have got our house up to the point where the promises made to my wife and myself over those years are fulfilled, I am semi retiring to my shed and helping my wife in her business...this makes me feel a little more than cheerful, more like ecstatic...

The great dream that all colonists have when they set out - "The American dream!" (aka The Kiwi Dream) - See what happened to it right here!

So there's still HOPE! - A reason to be cheerful? - You betcha!

Happy New Year!

**Moi** · 27th December 2015, 17:47

Beautiful day, went for a stroll this afternoon... saw what I believe to be one of these...

nice to see, nice to hear... nice to see someone enjoying their bike...

**caseye** · 27th December 2015, 18:14

That is beautiful!
Hope it was being ridden by someone with a mile wide smile.

**mashman** · 2nd February 2016, 10:26

300 Union Plumbers Spent The Weekend Installing Water Filters For Flint Residents For Free

**MIXONE** · 2nd February 2016, 11:48

The best reason of all!
I am buying a new bike in the next few weeks.

**unstuck** · 2nd February 2016, 17:07

Feeling good feels sooooooo good. What more of a reason do you need.

If you are waiting for something to feel cheerful about, the conditional nature of that vibration will fade once the reason you found to be cheerful about subsides.
Make the " feeling cheerful" the goal, and the rest will fall into place naturally. You will then begin to see a whole lot more to be cheerful about.

Today I decide to feel good, no matter what.........

**sidecar bob** · 2nd February 2016, 17:39

Originally Posted by MIXONE

The best reason of all!
I am buying a new bike in the next few weeks.

More info required

**ellipsis** · 2nd February 2016, 19:07

...retirement, even with a probing, 'semi' prefixing it, was a nightmare...my wife does not need a hand in her biz, so I'm back where I was prior to even contemplating life without other cunts in it...it was a totally illusory assumption on my part to think that I could get away from life as we know it by withdrawing my presence...they don't go away, they just change their appearance...my 350/F is two hours away from being ready, the Velo is at the clinicians and I suddenly got the urge to get my T20 up to scratch...it's amazing what a bit of bullshit, family and a continuous reign of fucking about at home does for the soul...I'm also very broke and need to play with my bikes...Alex Macdonald and Dave Gorst also made me feel like a soft cunt when I watched the three rounds of the Nationals down here...I've got the urge to keep on rockin...

**Ocean1** · 2nd February 2016, 19:26

Originally Posted by ellipsis

...retirement, even with a probing, 'semi' prefixing it, was a nightmare...my wife does not need a hand in her biz, so I'm back where I was prior to even contemplating life without other cunts in it...it was a totally illusory assumption on my part to think that I could get away from life as we know it by withdrawing my presence...they don't go away, they just change their appearance...my 350/F is two hours away from being ready, the Velo is at the clinicians and I suddenly got the urge to get my T20 up to scratch...it's amazing what a bit of bullshit, family and a continuous reign of fucking about at home does for the soul...I'm also very broke and need to play with my bikes...Alex Macdonald and Dave Gorst also made me feel like a soft cunt when I watched the three rounds of the Nationals down here...I've got the urge to keep on rockin...

In short: you get to do whatever you want.

So you changed what you wanted, still sounds like retirement to me.