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

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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3-way text between new boss, co-worker, and me: "[Co-worker], please make sure all know [ilx user get bent] is in charge. I will reinforce." AW YEAH.

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

any kind of card approval makes me IH (irrationally happy). even if i know i have money in my account, i still sweat a little when i'm waiting for the process to finish.

This evening I was listening to WKCR and they were playing outtakes of John Coltrane playing Like Sonny, and on a couple of them he actually fucked up the melody, bad, like came in in the wrong key, and somehow this made me ecstatically happy.

Like "holy shit, John Coltrane actually fucked up sometimes"

that was why all the practice

The high-pitched little squeaks and whistles that come from my sinuses after a big wet sneeze.

This has been going on for like a week. Pure joy.

Agreed.

Came here to post this

1. strangers who smile at me and say "hello", sometimes it's a pick me up on a bad day!

― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Thursday, September 30, 2010 12:22 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thunderstorms first thing in the morning!

joyful dancing to pop music

joyful dancing, joyful music in general

salad spinners.

in particular plying this one to the tune of yoo doo right.

The generic international chain hotel I'm staying in is decorated almost entirely with stills from films made by the golden generation of graduates from the Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa im. Leona Schillera (Wajda, Munk, etc). There's a poster for Camera Buff in my room.

listening to people reading a braille test at work yesterday was v. placid and quietly happy

So I've been struggling and feeling like I'm drowning all week at work because I've been having to deal with all this complex financial analysis at a very high rate of speed and I barely understand any of it (I'm working with more senior people who have a better grasp of it), and just been feeling pretty overwhelmed and bummed out, like I'm just not cut out for my job. And all these e-mails are going around and I can barely keep up with what's going on.

So tonight an e-mail from my co-worker went out that basically said "I'm looking at page x of document y, and it looks like the banker used the wrong values for the low end of the range" etc. So I open up the document and suddenly I see it -- my co-worker is misreading the chart, because the low end of the range should be the value with the highest discount rate and the lowest multiple instead of the lowest discount rate and the lowest multiple. So I called him up and let him know, and he sent out an e-mail crediting me with catching his mistake.

I didn't want to pwn the guy or anything, I just felt fantastic that I actually managed to understand and contribute something and even see something he missed - he's an intimidatingly intelligent guy.

On our new toilet, the seat cover is light and attaches tightly to the seat, so I can give it a little push and it lowers gently into place instead of slamming down.

Open parking spot right in front of supermarket

New pen!

stuff made out of crocheted granny squares