Reasons to be Happy

[Jennie]

 Aloha everyone, I wanted to take this time to tell everyone some of the things that I am happy for, in times like these there is a lot of negative things not to mention that we have to deal with our special hell reserved for us on top of all the other things that come natural like work and paying bills getting the flu, you know things like that.
So for that reason I decide it would be good to try to find some good things, try to focus on the good things in your life (even if things are not so good), I am sure that if you all try hard enough that you can find at least one thing that you can say you are happy for, one thing that you can hold on to and stay anchored to happiness.

I will try to start things off and please feel free to expand or add your 2 pennies.
#1 I am happy to be alive
#2 I am happy that I have food for me and my family and a job in a world that so many people do not.
#3 I am happy that I have good health, it can change at any time and there are a lot of people that have health problems, life seems so fragile sometimes.
#4 I am happy to be the person that I am, I can honestly say I could not do the things I do (unique and special things that most people cant door find it hard and I would not be be the person I am if I were not a MTF, I have a better understanding than just a male would have and I think this gives me and others like me better insight to many things. There are a lot of people with narrow minds and that are uneducated about people like me and other people like me (people with what ever kind of gender issues) (trying to be politically correct, or not offensive and to include everyone)
#5 I have a loving wife, some say SO significant other, I like to say Significant Only, she is my only one my one and only that gives me her full support in all I do, this to me is a blessing, I do not know what I would do if I did not have her.
#6 I have a place like Susan's to come to to get answers, support, new friends, hugs

Well I don't want to keep going on and on and make this one big long boring post so I will stop for now and I will see what the rest of you have to say.
Aloha.

Jennie

[Pica Pica]

of course.

[Jennie]

Hey Pica Pica, that looks like one happy cat, I only have dial up so I did not watch the vidio but the cat does seem happy in the picture, I have a spoiled cat that seems to love everything.  Aloha.

Jennie

[seanstartrunning]

Haha, that video is genius~

Reasons for me to be happy:
1. My family and friends who are always there for me
2. Music and performance - they keep me above
3. Going to university soon
4. Being alive and having good health

[Pica Pica]

Didn't realise people still had dialup (I never have done, we were late to the internet and my dad decided to go on ISDN - now that was a fun system).

The video was one made to the song 'reasons to be cheerful (part 3) but the magnificent Ian Dury.

These are the reasons he gives....

Reasons to be cheerful part 3

1 2 3

Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good golly Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley and nanny goats

18-wheeler Scammels, Domenecker camels
All other mammals plus equal votes
Seeing Piccadilly, Fanny Smith and Willy
Being rather silly, and porridge oats

A bit of grin and bear it, a bit of come and share it
You're welcome, we can spare it - yellow socks
Too short to be haughty, too nutty to be naughty
Going on 40 - no electric shocks

The juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot
A little drop of claret - anything that rocks
Elvis and Scotty, days when I aint spotty,
Sitting on the potty - curing smallpox


Health service glasses
Gigolos and brasses
round or skinny bottoms

Take your mum to Paris
lighting up the chalice
Wee Willy Harris

Bantu Stephen Biko, listening to Rico
Harpo, Groucho, Chico

Cheddar cheese and pickle, the Vincent motorsickle
Slap and tickle
Woody Allen, Dali, Dimitri and Pasquale
balabalabala and Volare

Something nice to study, phoning up a buddy
Being in my nuddy
Saying hokey-dokey, Sing Along With Smokey
Coming out of chokey

John Coltrane's soprano, Adi Celentano
Bonar Colleano

[Constance]

1. I'm happy to be alive.

2. I'm happy to have a job to hate, because there are many who are out of work.

3. I'm happy that I'm reasonably healthy, even if I am in the wrong body.

4. I'm happy that my kids have accepted that "Dad" is becoming "Connie."

5. I'm happy that my soon-to-be-ex-wife doesn't hate me and wants to continue being friends and family with me. I'm also happy that, as an ordained Christian minister, she'll baptize me when I legally become Constance Anne (as opposed to the David William I am now).

6. I'm happy that I, too, have Susans and groups like Trans Parents in San Francisco.

[El]

I am happy i havent smoked any weed in 5 days (most of you wont be able to appreciate hoe long 5 days is for me not to have smoked)

I am happy i have the fortune to be born in a country where my health problems are not a death sentance

I am happy i have found a job after a year and 2 months of searching

I am happy i have the love of my parents even after the difficulties i have caused for them

[Jennie]

Hi everyone, that is great to hear all that your happy about, it is the blessings and the happy things we need to keep in our mind so we dont let the rest of the world make us feel like this--
We can devise plans for our future and think of solutions to our problems much better if we are feeling like this--
@ El that is a good thing to stop smoking MJ for 5 days, it must be hard, I know because I have gone through it too, after 20 years on weed I needed to stop, it is hard but it is not imposible, keep at it and let me know if you need help, I can give you some ideas that helped me.

@ ShadesO'Gray- I can echo the feeling of being reasonably healthy, even if I am in the wrong body, it is nice to know that we can do things, small or big that can help unill we can reach our goals.

@ Pica Pica, thanks for letting me know about the video and writing the lyrics, that was great.  I hate dial up, I think it is time to move down the road where they have some high speed access

@ seanstartrunning, family that supports you is the best and I am glad you have a good family.  And music, that is great too, I write my own music, I write words too but I cant put the words to music so I just write music, music is healing keep it up.

Keep posting all the good things and live life happy, aloha nui loa.

Jennie

[BillieTex]

   i'm happy i get to know you all, even if only a little