What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Czernobog]

That's awesome, Cz. It is always great to see someone excited and passionate about their work and possibilities for the future. Congrats!

Thanks Dsh! I haven't been both this excited and nervous at once in quite a while!

[BoneSnapDeez]

Good luck with everything, Czernobog. I work with special needs kids myself in case you didn't know.

[Czernobog]

Good luck with everything, Czernobog. I work with special needs kids myself in case you didn't know.

Thanks! I remembered someone here did, but I couldn't remember who.

[Luke]

Good luck with everything, Czernobog. I work with special needs kids myself in case you didn't know.

Thanks! I remembered someone here did, but I couldn't remember who.

Could be me.

I volunteer my time for severely mentally and physically disabled kids as well as seniors with Alzheimers.

Suffice to say I don't know you and probably never will, but that won't stop me from saying you are making a lot of people proud of you. Include me in that lot.

Hard to offer advice on this as every case is different. If my advice is worth anything, whenever I start to reach a boiling point as a caregiver, I sing. No joke.

Seems to always calm down any "patient" and also diffuses any tension. But maybe I'm just lucky with my tactic. My go to is always "Would you like to swing on a star? Carry Moon beams home in a jar...."

I'm rambling. In short, give yourself a pat on the back.

[cookie monster]

I think you all deserve a pat on the back for what you do for a living.

[Luke]

I think you all deserve a pat on the back for what you do for a living.

Director of e-commerce for a textile company? Not sure why that deserves a pat on the back, put I'll take it.

[cookie monster]

I think you all deserve a pat on the back for what you do for a living.

Director of e-commerce for a textile company? Not sure why that deserves a pat on the back, put I'll take it.

And also your volunteering time.

[Czernobog]

Yeah, you were the one I was thinking of Luke. I remember someone here mentioned they do volunteer work with kids and seniors. That's really awesome of you! Thanks for the advice, I totally get the singing thing, sometimes you have to try all sorts of things to bring things to a calm.

and thanks for the kind words Cookie Monster!

[Luke]

Yeah, you were the one I was thinking of Luke.

From one (former) Chicagoian to another, thanks. Working with kids an seniors has been some of the most rewarding work I've ever had the pleasure of doing.

Smile: Movie Day starts in less than two hours. After around 6 hours in the theater, it's board game night with friends. May sound lame, but my friends + drinks/party favors + music + Operation = Awesome times.

Frown: The $75 dollars I'll probably drop on movie tickets. I'd love to just buy tickets for my lady and I and theater jump throughout the day, and I'd love to talk myself out of thinking that it wouldn't be stealing, but it is. Damn you conscience.

That won't stop me from bringing my own Junior Mints though.

[Stark]

Yeah, you were the one I was thinking of Luke.

From one (former) Chicagoian to another, thanks. Working with kids an seniors has been some of the most rewarding work I've ever had the pleasure of doing.

Smile: Movie Day starts in less than two hours. After around 6 hours in the theater, it's board game night with friends. May sound lame, but my friends + drinks/party favors + music + Operation = Awesome times.

Frown: The $75 dollars I'll probably drop on movie tickets. I'd love to just buy tickets for my lady and I and theater jump throughout the day, and I'd love to talk myself out of thinking that it wouldn't be stealing, but it is. Damn you conscience.

That won't stop me from bringing my own Junior Mints though.

I assume that 2 of those movie hours ^ are being spent on Lockout?

A smile for me is, I get to go see a movie, in the theater tonight, for the first time in I don't know how long. Having kids sometimes messes with your ability to just drop everything and go to a movie. So excited.

EDIT: My guesses for Luke are A Cabin in the Woods, Lockout, and Bully. How close am I?