Off-topic: Happy things

[Captain LeBubbles]

Tomorrow, I re-take my A+ certification exam. This time, I've gotten in more studying than I did last time. However, I also can't sleep yet, so this is a bit of column A, column B, with A barely winning out. XD;

Yeah, whooo~ *cheers you on*

[sgtrock]

Tomorrow, I re-take my A+ certification exam. This time, I've gotten in more studying than I did last time. However, I also can't sleep yet, so this is a bit of column A, column B, with A barely winning out. XD;

Good luck!

(P.S. Which A+ cert are we talking about here? I can think of a couple that are referred to that way.)

[Lia S]

Tomorrow, I re-take my A+ certification exam. This time, I've gotten in more studying than I did last time. However, I also can't sleep yet, so this is a bit of column A, column B, with A barely winning out. XD;

Good luck! (or by now I should probably say I hope you had good luck?)

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My apologies for this happy thing starting a bit materialistic, the core isn't materialistic at all though...

There is one shop (let's call them Environmentalist Hippies) that sells a conditioner that works much better than anything else I've tried, I'm a bit proud of my hair so you can imagine I'm not happy when I run out of it at a time I won't be near that shop for a long time. So I ordered from them online and decided to try a few other things they make. The package arrived today (small happy thing but not the point) and along with the stuff I ordered they sent me two testers (is that the right word in English?). One I recognized (another conditioner), the other...

"Huh, what's this?" *looks up product name on website* "Make-up remover??? Why would they send that to someone who didn't tell them her gender or even her first name?" *looks at list of things I ordered* (lots of conditioner, two different shampoos one of which contains henna, soap that THEY think smells girlish (I disagree), ...) "Oh. Right! LOLSquee!"

Of course it might just have been because at least 70% of their customers must be female, but I like the idea that there was that small amount of thought behind it. In any case it was fun to be assumed to be female for a change.

[Captain LeBubbles]

@Lia: *throws confetti*

Whereas I would be annoyed by that (how dare you assume my gender based on trivial things), I can see how that would be awesome from your standpoint. Go you! *throws more confetti* Now if we can contrive a way for that to happen all the time. *puts on thinking cap*

[Lia S]

@Lia: *throws confetti*

Whereas I would be annoyed by that (how dare you assume my gender based on trivial things), I can see how that would be awesome from your standpoint. Go you! *throws more confetti* Now if we can contrive a way for that to happen all the time. *puts on thinking cap*

Well, I have trouble imagining a guy wanting to even be near something that contains henna (except perhaps the hair of his female SO), so if I were you being in my place I wouldn't be annoyed... though maybe I would have thought "how dare you assume I use make-up!".

[Captain LeBubbles]

@Lia: *throws confetti*

Whereas I would be annoyed by that (how dare you assume my gender based on trivial things), I can see how that would be awesome from your standpoint. Go you! *throws more confetti* Now if we can contrive a way for that to happen all the time. *puts on thinking cap*

Well, I have trouble imagining a guy wanting to even be near something that contains henna (except perhaps the hair of his female SO), so if I were you being in my place I wouldn't be annoyed... though maybe I would have thought "how dare you assume I use make-up!".

Well there is that, though it's a place that sells cosmetics so I'd probably be forgiving about it (and give the samples to my mom). I just don't like people assuming my gender based on trivial things, because it implies I only do them because I'm a girl. BUT. Doing a flip perspective, I CAN see how it'd be awesome on your part, for which I throw confetti. And glitter.

[Zanosuke Kurosaki]

@LeBubbles: Awwww, thank you! *hug!* (And that image is getting added to my screensaver. <3 )

@sgtrock: Thanks! I'm taking the 220-701, under CompTIA. This one's the "Essentials", apparently. (going by the print-out from when I took it in January, anyway.)

@Lia: Thank you! Haven't taken it yet, but I will be in four hours. And this time, I'm passing. Even if I have to bribe the examiner to change my score (joke, I'm too broke to bribe anyone XD)

[NobodySpecial]

@Lia: *throws confetti*

Whereas I would be annoyed by that (how dare you assume my gender based on trivial things), I can see how that would be awesome from your standpoint. Go you! *throws more confetti* Now if we can contrive a way for that to happen all the time. *puts on thinking cap*

Well, I have trouble imagining a guy wanting to even be near something that contains henna (except perhaps the hair of his female SO), so if I were you being in my place I wouldn't be annoyed... though maybe I would have thought "how dare you assume I use make-up!".

The Prophet Muhammad dyed his beard with henna, and many Muslims still do it. Just saying.

[Bo Lindbergh]

The package arrived today (small happy thing but not the point) and along with the stuff I ordered they sent me two testers (is that the right word in English?).

"sampler" (says another non-native English speaker)

[Lia S]

@LeBubbles & Bo: Aha! Samples! That was the word I was looking for. I only know "sampler" as something similar to a synthesizer, though.

@LeBubbles: I sort of half-agree with you about the "only because I'm a girl" thing in this case. If, say, a pink scarf had led someone to think I'd like to try on a skirt, I would agree with you entirely.

@NobodySpecial: I learned something today. I'll add that to my list of happy things!

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Another happy thing: the weather is nice and warm, blue sky, the streets are dry and clean and not slippery at all, this means I could run in my running shoes and a t-shirt instead of heavier but grippier hiking shoes and a warm coat for the first time this year. I felt a bit silly so I listened to this while running, the quiet parts weren't very suitable for that purpose.

[Captain LeBubbles]

@LeBubbles & Bo: Aha! Samples! That was the word I was looking for. I only know "sampler" as something similar to a synthesizer, though.

@LeBubbles: I sort of half-agree with you about the "only because I'm a girl" thing in this case. If, say, a pink scarf had led someone to think I'd like to try on a skirt, I would agree with you entirely.

Fair does. I have bad experiences with people assuming "girl = X" on me, so it's something that makes me cross. (Example: When I was eight, I was obsessed with Pokemon and Harry Potter- I even had a Pokemon theme for my ninth birthday party. More people, people who knew me got me make-up, hair stuff, and dolls than anything to do with either of the things that I never shut up about. Actually, come to that, I don't think I got anything to do with Pokemon or Harry Potter for that birthday. And that's not even getting into all the times when I was a teenager that people assumed I should like X instead of Y because I was a girl and Y wasn't what girls liked.) I've mostly dealt with it and moved on, but people trying to define me by my gender still gets on my nerves.

[Lia S]

I have bad experiences with people assuming "girl = X" on me, so it's something that makes me cross. (Example: When I was eight, I was obsessed with Pokemon and Harry Potter- I even had a Pokemon theme for my ninth birthday party. More people, people who knew me got me make-up, hair stuff, and dolls than anything to do with either of the things that I never shut up about. Actually, come to that, I don't think I got anything to do with Pokemon or Harry Potter for that birthday. And that's not even getting into all the times when I was a teenager that people assumed I should like X instead of Y because I was a girl and Y wasn't what girls liked.)

Gods yes that is annoying. But "is a girl -> must like X" is subtly different from "likes A -> probably is a girl -> probably likes B, which is similar to A". Which can still be annoying, of course.

[Captain LeBubbles]

I have bad experiences with people assuming "girl = X" on me, so it's something that makes me cross. (Example: When I was eight, I was obsessed with Pokemon and Harry Potter- I even had a Pokemon theme for my ninth birthday party. More people, people who knew me got me make-up, hair stuff, and dolls than anything to do with either of the things that I never shut up about. Actually, come to that, I don't think I got anything to do with Pokemon or Harry Potter for that birthday. And that's not even getting into all the times when I was a teenager that people assumed I should like X instead of Y because I was a girl and Y wasn't what girls liked.)

Gods yes that is annoying. But "is a girl -> must like X" is subtly different from "likes A -> probably is a girl -> probably likes B, which is similar to A". Which can still be annoying, of course.

Yeah, I get that. And I'm bringing negative onto the happy thread, oh noes! D: I'll stop now.

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*throws confetti*

[Lia S]

And I'm bringing negative onto the happy thread, oh noes! D: I'll stop now.

Maybe there should be a separate Cuddles for Captain LeBubbles thread.

[Captain LeBubbles]

And I'm bringing negative onto the happy thread, oh noes! D: I'll stop now.

Maybe there should be a separate Cuddles for Captain LeBubbles thread.

That's what my LJ is for.