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

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

The right to withhold thanking a driver due to arseholeness makes me irrationally happy. It annoys me* in London that so few buses have single-door entry/exit, so 99% of the time I'll thank the driver on the W5 or whatever, but not thanking is just normal London behaviour anyway, so it's not like he'd know he wasn't being thanked on purpose.

*It's outweighed by the speediness of 2-door simultaneous entry and exit.

I don't say "Thank you driver" any more than I'd say "Thank you butcher" were I to pick up some sausages. Who says "Thank you driver"?

i say that too. well, just 'thanks.'

i deliver hm a hand printed card that says 'very notably discharged'

i always say thanks or thank you. the "driver" bit is unnecessary.

most ppl in glasgow say 'thanks driver' ime

the 'driver' part hardly the core of the issue tbf

Because he's not just a driver. Then again, reading his namebadge and saying "Thank you Clive" would be wrong.

* Being cold.

I like putting the new water container on top of the cooler in the office and watching the bubbles go from the nozzle to the top of the bottle. AND THEN, I press down on the valve to fill my 32 oz cup and THE BUBBLES KEEP GOING. WHAT'S THE WATER COOLER THINKING, "WILL I BUBBLE FOREVER?"

butterflies from meeting someone new

pissing into a bottle on a plane

Isn't there a convention of 'drive'/'driver' address amongst people who have regular contact with professional drivers tho? Delivery vans and stuff. London buses I hold my hand up in a wave as I depart the bus occasionally, two-fingered salute if they've missed the stop or made old people fall over by starting suddenly sort of thing xpost.

1. A few days ago, I borrowed a coworkers umbrella to run an errand only to find that it was a clear bubble umbrella and it made walking through the rain so much more fun.

2. A coworker at my other job just emailed me to tell me she bought me a pumpkin pie from a delicious local bakery and put it in the staff fridge for me to pick up after class tomorrow. <3<3<3

Listening to my old tapes on an old portable cassette player at my dad's...Impact is Imminent by Exodus sounds great!

50% off organic strawberries...and eating some for breakfast. Sooo ripe and lovely.

to balance out my post on the other thread:

having a completely random amount of change in my pocket and finding it exactly totals the same amount as a purchase. i figure this to be the consumerist equivalent of a solar eclipse.

Bacon.

my new lady

Missing the bus by about a block this morning, but having a friend drive by mere minutes later and giving me a ride to the train station!

dressing up as a zombie for work

pics or it didn't happen, etc

Makeup is kinda mild atm...fake blood to be added later

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/20e71cfe.jpg

Oh that's GOOD!

Nice!