I can't speak for Ireland, but someone posted on my FB page that there is a village in the Scottish Highlands for sale (houses, grocery, the whole kit and kaboodle).
You know what, Jade? The Cantina is a safe space full of awesomesauce people (I'm including the lurkers here! ), it's okay to get personal if you think doing so will help another person here. And while I agree with your sentiments in the above, I would like to clarify that smiling - whether 'fake' or 'real' - does make one happier, if on a neurochemical/hormonal level, because the physical act, the actual movement of the muscles required to bare one's teeth, releases all them various happifying chemicals in the brain.
Smiling when you're in distress will not make the distress go away, it won't get rid of outside stimulus if that's what's causing the problem. But internalising the act of being happy through smiling or any other means, by Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, say, definitely does have long-term benefits. There's a funky-fresh diagram I keep seeing about the interconnectedness of CBT (possibly because I'm undergoing such therapy rn), and by that diagram I have come to the understanding that just as thoughts and feelings influence behaviour, so too does behaviour (like smiling when you don't really want to) influence thoughts and feelings. (There was also a whole bunch of stuff about environment and exercise, but like, meh!)
So if you or anyone else gets out of bed on the wrong side, consider smiling at yosizzelf in whatever reflecty-thing you use, not because it will make your problems go away, but because your problems might smile back atcha! And who doesn't love a good smile??
I've seen that, as well as a full island with lighthouse and living house. Just £325,000, too!
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Actually, my stupid-rich-won-the-lottery dream is to build or restore a castle, have a working medieval village for the tourists.
I've seen that, as well as a full island with lighthouse and living house. Just £325,000, too!
I like the version that goes, "Aim for the moon because if you miss, you'll just hit the stars."I had a teacher who used to say "aim for the stars and you might only touch the tree tops, but at least you'll have left the ground"
Geez. All I want is an Internet connection with unlimited bandwidth and a couple of extra speakers for the home theater. Maybe I should be aiming higher...
Niiiiiice. I feel like it needs to be purtyfied a little more, though. Plant a garden and maybe a nice little grove of fruit trees for food, scatter some wild flowers. Oh, and I'd want to paint a pretty design on the lighthouse. Wait a minute...It says the lighthouse is not included in the sale. Well, harumph.
Niiiiiice. I feel like it needs to be purtyfied a little more, though. Plant a garden and maybe a nice little grove of fruit trees for food, scatter some wild flowers. Oh, and I'd want to paint a pretty design on the lighthouse. Wait a minute...It says the lighthouse is not included in the sale. Well, harumph.
Cable does have advantages, though -- the motion is smoother. With streaming you get that strange, almost invisible stop-motion jerking every once in a while. If you do something else while you watch, it probably doesn't matter though. I used to watch and do quilting or other arts and crafts all the time.
Geez. All I want is an Internet connection with unlimited bandwidth and a couple of extra speakers for the home theater. Maybe I should be aiming higher...
Scottish island with lighthouse for sale: £325,000
Who's in?
And to tie it into writing - the person who built the lighthouse was Robert Louis Stevenson's uncle. Also, the scene of an infamous murder.
that's actually a lot cheaper than places in Toronto. someone I knew sold her house for $1mil and it was just a normal house. I've got to move to Scotland! or at least out of Toronto
Geez. All I want is an Internet connection with unlimited bandwidth and a couple of extra speakers for the home theater. Maybe I should be aiming higher...
All I want is an internet connection that isn't dialup.
(And chocolate and more sleep, but those go without saying.)
My sales goals are to sell 100,000 copies and the movie rights. Now, you didn't say REALISTIC goals, eh?
No joke, you're on dial up? In 2017?
I need to hear this story.
It's a problem in rural areas, because the big cable companies have to run the same amount of cable for far fewer houses, so it's less profitable and they often won't bother. And then will fight any town trying to do it themselves, because they don't want the precedent of non-profit internet providers. We're trying anyway, and slowly winning, but it's an uphill battle.
Satellite is 10x the price as dialup, works terribly when you're deep in a mountainous forest, stops working anytime it rains or snows, and if you hit their inadequate data cap they throttle you down to dialup speeds anyway. So I've stuck with the ol' phone line. Fortunately I have great connectivity at work.
We're headed to Toronto in 2.5 weeks for a week-long vacay
It's weird. I love my country, and am extremely proud of our accomplishments culturally, politically and especially creatively. Yet at the same time, maybe it's because I'm Generation X, and remember the USA in the 80s, my emotional reflex is to always be a little baffled when Americans want to visit HERE. Like my brain is permanently trapped in the Reagan era, thinking, "But... you guys have Hollywood, and Disneyland and Star Wars and Manhattan! Why would would you want to come here when you've got so much stuff going down in your own country?!? We're just nice, pleasant people, that's all we've got."