Random Things That Make You Happy Thread

I want to shop where you shop Merc...what a great deal!!! Hell, that would make me happy.

 

Hahahah! Shopping is FANtastic!

 

Being able to laugh at yourself and know that it's perfectly fine because nobody is going to judge you for it!!

Even if your discussion is concerning a fictitious Vulcan from another time and place.

 

Watching cats and dogs makes me all soft and warm on the inside, much like babies do to 30 year old women.

 

The pitter-patter of the rain against the windowpane. And its smell.

The roller-coaster kinda feeling I get when I'm getting to the end of a piece I'm writing.

Travelling in an empty bus through my beloved city of Buenos Aires.

Reading a good short story in my bed before I fall asleep.

Starbucks caramel macchiato in a cold winter day.

 

Jonas 'The Monster' Gustavsson, and Phil Kessel.

 

I agree, I need to feel more positive.

Autumn days, but then I love snow days too
Family time
A good book
Seeing my kids faces on Christmas
People who take the time to care about others

 

Breaking my length record for word count, which makes my novel a much more publishable length than it was before.

 

My small group of friends. ~ Birthday cards with silly music. ~ Driving to Seattle at night w/a friend when the rain is coming down so hard but you barely notice because the music is playing so loud.

 

Random things that make me happy? Ha...

I'll give it a whirl:

1. Alone in the Dark by DJ Tiesto
2. Encouraging other people to try new and adventurous things
3. Trying new and adventurous things
4. Job Applications
5. The feeling I get when I start my truck
6. Finding dollar bills in my pocket that I forgot I left there for like a week
7. Watching little kids be mean, then watching them realize that they were mean and go about not giving a damn
8. Any Jean Claude van Damme movie
9. The thought of Robert Byrd dying while in the middle of a fillibuster
10. Being able to vote in a month and a half
11. Listening in on random people's conversations
12. Quizno's
13. The words 'Pigeonhole' and 'Cornhole'
14. Running a sub-50 second 400 meter (48.72 is my best so far)
15. Texas BBQ
16. Louisiana Cajun
17. Arakansas Incest
18 ^ jk
19. Making lists
20. Randomly proving people who think they know what they're talking about wrong
21. The ability to snort dental floss and pull it out of my mouth
22. The sound of rainfall and crashing waves
23. Snowcones
24. Sub 28-degree weather
25. Texas Tech University
26. The fact that Penn State has the easiest conference in history and still manages to lose football games (THEY PLAY AKRON FOR CHIRST'S SAKE)
27. Finding old issues of Sports Illustrated and seeing if predictions to Super Bowls/BCS Championships/NBA Playoffs were accurate
28. Ramen Noodles
29. My firearms (yes, I am in the NRA; no I am not a racist)
30. The Jester by James Patterson


Good enough, guys?

 

A ninja eating fairy floss...

 

My music collection

 

when someone congratulates me on the birth of Tobin without touching him. It isn't hard to NOT touch!

 

Little reminders that there are honest people still in the world. One of our local homeless people came in last week asking for some help getting her bike fixed as it was only means of getting around. The pastor gave her $20 to take the bike to the shop to get the chain and tire fixed. She came back in just now to return the $8 change because "it wouldn't be right to keep it if they only charged me 12." This is someone who needs those $8, but returned it because it as the honest, right thing to do. Of course, the pastor let her keep the $8 and sent her on her way with a blessing. I am left feeling blessed too that I got to witness such honesty.

 

People who perform random acts of kindness. There is nothing that makes me feel better than giving it, and it's incredibly nice to be on the receiving end as well.

 

baby coos

solving a problem no one else could

helping someone out...especially those who don't expect it!

my children's giggles

and chocolate!!!

 

This LOL of my cat that my mother made.

 

How cute, Rei!

 

Random things that make me happy?

Kittens and blue skies. Also, I'm always more happy when it's summer time.

 

Hot chocolate.
My daughter said the other day that it was great winter was coming because I always make hot chocolate for myself and the kids when I get in from work. But she said it was better in the 'old days' when we had no money after the bankruptcy, because we used to huddle under a fluffy blanket together (no money for the oil-fired central heating) and drink it, watching a dvd from the library (no money for cable TV then) or talking about what we'd done that day. Funny how my worst nightmare days are their happy childhood memories...

 

Aww, that post of yours made me happy. C:

 

I like. This post made me happy.

 

The smells of rain on asphalt and melting snow.

 

Cloudy days and rain. That's probably why I'm in a good mood right now: it's been raining nonstop all day.

 

That's such a lovely thing. You have wonderful kids