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

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

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Oh that's GOOD!

Nice!

Products that far outlast any reasonable expectation of durability. I love my 20-year-old umbrella.

When handwritten ampersands come off.

How much everyone else hates the cold. :D

Ha! The cold itself makes me irrationally happy.

Yes! me too! i walked 2 miles to school in –14C weather, and I was all invigorated and joyful when I arrived to see the hunkered-down masses bitchin' about a 30 second walk from the car to the faculty lounge.

"invigorated and joyful" <--- that is exactly it.

Before I lived in DC I was really looking forward to a properly freezing winter, and experiencing the - indeed - invigoratingly joyful bite of cold air on my face. And then it turned out to be one of those really mild winters and only snowed a bit.

The type of salt packets with two tubes of salt in, as opposed to one. These are the best!

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Putting on clean socks in the evening and getting in a comfy chair. Bliss.

The check engine light in the car disappearing as mysteriously as it appeared.

glass block windows

The first sip of coffee, every morning, just barely cool enough not to burn myself.

Coming into work in the morning and finding that the day before I got a head start on some work that needs to completed that day. Especially nice on a Monday morning, e.g., today when I had to look up a bunch of cases and remembered I had stayed late on Friday to prepare a list of the ones I needed.

Tomorrow I will find a bunch of crap done so I can just proof it, add a thing or two and send it out the door. Hooray for head-starting me!

Another litter of PUPPIES!

desk fan I love you <3

standing up on the pedals of your pike while its moving is soooo underrated

dogs in cars

ehh dogs in general, really

yeah

standing up on the pedals of your pike while its moving is soooo underrated

yes!

I actually still do the same thing I did as a kid, which is that when I get near to my house I start pedalling really fast and then stop pedalling and try to time the whole thing so that I come to a complete stop right in front of my house.

I feel irrationally tickled reading and using archaic and overly serious language in legal documents. For example:

NOW COMES the Petitioner, Je55e, and states....

Know all persons by these presents that on this 28th day of June, 2012, Je55e posted on ILX. ("Know all men" still gets used a lot)

and my favorite is on subpoenas it says YOU ARE COMMANDED [to appear, to produce, etc].

getting home from work on a really hot day and taking my pants off

co-sign

there are days when this feels like the best thing ever

Brand new athletic socks.

Brand new underwear.

Both at the same time = day-long sense of great wellbeing.

At lunchtime a car with a rooftop bikerack passed me on the freeway. It had 3 bikes ontop, and there was one bike that was broken down to just the wheel, placed in the center of the rack, slightly lower than the other upside down bikes.

The oncoming wind made that one wheel spin and it kinda looked like the spinning wheel was powering the car.

It made me giggle for a good 10 minutes.

having recently been on a camping trip, I'd like to add:

playing with fire

cup of decent coffee
piece of homemade chocolate cake

goddamn my tastebuds are happy

The little flower/star shaped device on fire sprinkler heads.

having recently been on a camping trip, I'd like to add:

playing with fire

! I thought I was on the Irrationally Angry thread and I was like WTF, playing with fire is great, and even if somebody didn't like it, getting IA at others doing it would be pretty touchy.

- the smell of weed coming from at least one car at an intersection in my neighborhood

- golden fall sunsets

The feeling of being freshly showered. Especially in the evening.

elderly gentlemen shopping at the salvation army thrift store, whistling along to "like a virgin" or "i melt with you" or whatever bouncy pop thing is playing on the store pa system.

people who confuse "roadie" with "groupie".

I wonder if you meant to post that in the angry thread.

Ibuprofen. Sometimes you have an inflammation that is actually self-perpetuating, and the ibuprofen basically reduced the tightness/inflammation so that the problem can heal more easily. I had this back pain from a minor injury, and the advil didn't just temporarily relieve it but actually helped it get better.

jury duty today, about to run out of the house, check the website, my # ain't needed, i'm going back to bed!

when you have that tiny little, thin piece of food stuck in your teeth, and you spend like ten minutes trying to get it out with your tongue, and then it finally comes loose and you are actually able to salvage it, and it's like "Bring the rogue before me!" and you can just stare it down before you sentence it to die.

Drumline practice at the middle school half a block away.

when you pay for something with credit card at the grocery store and you have to sign the electronic credit card pad and it says SIGNATURE APPROVED like it ran a detailed handwriting analysis to make sure it's your credit card

makes me feel like i'm in mission: impossible

On a hot day, walking into a store or other public building where the A/C feels like

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