Innocuous things that make you irrationally happy (a list thread)

Not sure where to put this. Geir just said this in another thread:

They are, I would think, rare indeed.

Avenues. Love 'em. There's the one I cycle down through Hyde Park on the way to work, iridescent leaves lit by the morning sun, and a lime one through the grounds of Chiswick House, shady and cool and very green.

Oh, and while we're at it, and similarly, sunken lanes.

Trolling this thread for ideas right now, iirc, could use some irrationally happy time today.

go rub your wifes stomach jon

(lol at this out of context)

Definitely part of the plan, but have to wait until way later tonight.

hey have you done the whole headphones on the stomach thing? that was my favorite part of my wifes pregnancy.

played beach boys to him all the time.

Also squeezing a good pimple makes me happy. This has nothing to do with pregnant wives

Haha, yes we have. We received those "Belly Buds" as a gift and we have a six-song playlist that gets played quite often. There is a Beach Boys song on there!

Pet Sounds, man. The whole thing. Do it! :)

Actually I was going to say ILXORs having babbys, like Mordy's little Dalia, and jjjusten getting married and ppl doing v cool things make me happy...and jon anticipating a babby even though I know he has the weight of the world atm <3 <3

I played my kid pet sounds, smile and simon and garfunkel. recently he told me fleet foxes are his favorite.

simon & garfunkel was my favorite as a kid

Getting a really good set of letters in Scrabble, and having two spots available to play the bingo so you know you can't be blocked.

scrabble makes me irrationally angry.

ooh, we have a thread for that too

groups of people of different nationalities where none of them from the country they are in.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ac-M0_bqRHU/TBTf7dKfjDI/AAAAAAAAA6E/8qW_ndTVKMU/s1600/World+Cup+US+UK+flag+fans.jpg

:D

Ahm, no you're right PP - I didn't think that one through. I was more on a international bonding, with an aura of shared enjoyment at culture they find themselves in, the IH stemming from the general aura of eagerness to find out about each other, all of which seems embodied in those groups. But now I realise there is a dark side.

a international bonding, mind.

sunny complaining about innocuous shit makes me irrationally happy

^^^^

there was just a sudden, very brief downpour as the sun was going down.

groups of people of different nationalities where none of them from the country they are in.

that is a really good one. this only half-qualifies, but last night i was interacting with these young-ish guys from manchester, and they just seemed so happy to be hanging out and traveling around america, and they were super-friendly in a way that so many tourists from europe seem to be. it was just nice; like they didn't have an agenda or whatever, they just seemed really happy to be here.

A picture of my brother holding a tamed fox in Mexico.

He says the fox licked him & it had "the softest little tongue."
<3!!

1st night in my own bed after a weekend camping, who knew clean sheets were so amazing.

Part of my job today involved sourcing images for a resource for sex workers. this means I have been given permission to spend several hours looking at stock images of naked women.

I have recently discovered that I love love love being able to navigate my way through unfamiliar bits of London on my bike.

Going to cafe for full English breakfast in the afternoon.

Yeah, that's awesome. Good man.

Yes! I love English breakfast.

I just found out I can buy BBQ pork by the pound at my local cheap-&-greasy Chinese takeaway - was p obvious but I was always too scared to ask the grumpy serving lady. Made singapore noodles last night and considering how often I crave char siu I will be making all things BBQ porky over the next months!

When newspapers/magazines have stories about animal pals - like this story I saw in the fortean times about cat and owl buddies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqmba7npY8g

Got the perfect balance of sweet and creaminess with a little vanilla extract in my morning coffee today, and I am seriously enjoying this. Yay.

Big clouds coming in from the west. The sky the same weird blue of the Seattle Seahawks uniforms. The sun only coming in from unpatched holes.

For June 24 in the mid-south, I'll take it.

Trains. I'm on an Amtrak train and it is making me irrationally happy to look out the window and watch the landscape go by.

Also trestle bridges!!!! :D

OH oh I like train travel!

I've never ridden anything bigger than commuter rail. I'd probably lose it and start singing "City of New Orleans" every ten minutes.

Laurel, me, too. My enthusiasm on this trip is slightly hampered by the fact that track work requires us to take a bus partway, but I'm digging the train in the meantime and it definitely beats the hell out of driving.

PP, the conductor leads everybody in a verse when s/he comes through to take tickets.

If I had more time, I'd take a train again from here to home as long as I could reasonably expect it to keep to schedule. The only time I did that trip, we were massively delayed and missed our assigned track er crossings/sharings with the freight schedule and had to wait on sidings for HOURS to get back into traffic.

(Likewise, I can't help but humming "Coming Into Los Angeles" when landing at LAX. Arlo wrote some good travelin' tunes.)

I took a train from Colorado to Delaware in my more robust youth - in coach! It was epic and awesome and exhausting and I'm pretty sure I could not do that again.

Watching WWE videos on youtube.

The second, not the first, shave from a razor cartridge. It's always the smoothest and closest.

store yoru razons in mineral oil they say - and smooth shaving all the day

Getting people who are personal heroes popping up in my FB people-you-may-know, even if I am too chicken to friend them.

People who say "Thank you driver" when they get off the bus.

everyone does that, though, right?

hell naw