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

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

2. Cobwebs covered in dew

3. A sunny morning on a day when I don't owe my time to anyone.

4. Finding money in a jacket I haven't worn for months.

5. The daily paper at my door.

6. Eating an apple, I always forget how nice they are - which is part of the charm, coz if I ate them all the time I wouldn't like them so much.

7. A stack of clean sheets, towels just waiting to be used for something

8. A full pack of cigarettes -- nothing can be too bad if you have enough cigarettes

9. Any excuse to use those correction tape rollers.

10. kids doing that stompy playtime talk to themselves thing that they do when they think no one is paying attention to them.

its like a little glimpse into happy imagination land, plus you know they are plotting something awesome

11. Seeing someone walking a dog, and both person and dog just look like they're having the time of their lives.

12. Posting on ILX when I haven't really posted in forever. It's like an old pair of slippers.

13. An adventure to plan

14. using my envelope opener. such a clean open every time.

15. waking up in the middle of the night and discovering that it's earlier than you thought so you can get more sleep and then remembering that tomorrow is your day off anyway

16. dogs being walked past my front porch when i'm sitting outside that stop and come on over to say hello

17. When the timer on the stove beeps and the meal that I've spent a great deal of time preparing is finally ready!!!

18. using those little blue oil absorbing sheets

19. Someone holding the door for someone else. "Right. At least we haven't lost ALL sense of society."

20. Putting my watch on for the first time each morning, and feeling the cool metal of the bracelet. Ahhhh.....

21. A motherfucking E chord.

22. Getting enough sleep and not waking to an alarm clock!

23. Starting a new Moleskine journal

24. Having my morning coffee in my stainless steel travel mug at work..I can nurse that thing for 3 hours!

25. Starting a new bottle of Hendrick's

26. Eucalyptus trees after it rains

27. Clean sheets on the bed

28. The drive to San Francisco from Sacramento (bc we're always driving there to do something fun)

29. Airports and flying

30. Truckee

31. Warm shower after a long workout

32. Seeing distant snow covered mountains on a clear morning while driving to work

33. When whatever you are listening to on your iPod syncs up EXACTLY to what is going on around you
33a. Walking through a light drizzle on an overcast but bright day listening to Massive Attack's "Teardrop"
33b. Walking down the sidewalk seconds before one of the biggest rainstorms you've ever seen and it's impossibly dark and humid and smells like rain and the sky is black and you can see torrential downpours half a mile down the road and you're listening to Spiritualized's "Electric Mainline" and it feels like you're about to walk into something that will change your life

Rain can be just amazing.

i miss rain tbh

34. Seeing cool classic cars driving on the freeway.

Really really old people holding hands

Hedgehogs

35 old people in love xp!

36. Just one wipe

37. Any type of retriever wagging its tail

38. Any three legged dog

39. Or three-legged cat

40. Dogs trying to bite waves at the beach. UNBELIEEEEVABLE happiness.

40. When you're in the house and you fart really loud and satisfyingly and it smells awful but you feel a liitle proud

41. Bed-hair on men. Adorable.

42 g bale's first touch on the full sprint.

43. Watching snow fall, especially if it's dark, and especially near a streetlight that makes them all glow like you are flying thru STARZ
44. Seeing ducks, squirrels, moorhens, rabbits on the way home
45. Being alone in the house and fixing yourself some favourite comfort food that your partner won't eat

46. Pugs

I decided recently to become more handy by force of will -- will just try things I don't know how to do, look them up on the internet, and not give up when I face setbacks. Today I removed an old shower door from our tile shower stall, and the hardware was really old and rusty and there were a few stripped screws, and I wrestled mightily with them, and I got the motherfuckers out.

When you say hi to a dog you don't know, and it starts wagging its tail so hard you think it might tip over.

^^^that's a good one! Also: street cats, whom you expect to be pretty shy, who actually bound over to you purring when you bend down to call them.

Free tupperware with every takeout soup order.

People who go into Starbucks or Costa and say, in all seriousness, "i'd like a coffee please". Must be infuriating for the baristas but i find it oddly endearing, like they've just stepped out of 1954.

apologies i shd have promoted it more here but i only just discovered i still had a password :D

― mark s, Monday, May 18, 2015 8:47 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha

I've got a new purse (wallet) and it's a big MUM PURSE. I'm sitting watching TV and transferring everything carefully from my old purse to the new one.

18 oz of organic raspberries (fresh, not frozen) for $3.61
I feel I could make it rain raspberries and still have some leftover to eat

when i provide detailed easy-to-follow instructions and someone actually follows them

People who go into Starbucks or Costa and say, in all seriousness, "i'd like a coffee please". Must be infuriating for the baristas but i find it oddly endearing, like they've just stepped out of 1954.

― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Thursday, 7 May 2015 11:31 (3 months ago) Permalink

I similarly feel IA at people who in 2015 are still harping on "OMFG I DON'T UNDERSTAND STARBUCKS ORDERS WHAT'S A GRANDE I JUST SAY LARGE" -- at this point you either know how it works and are being pretend simple or you just never set foot in Starbucks which is completely fine but then why are you commenting on your inability to understand their ordering system?

then take it to the IA thread, megan complainor

haha whoops

read the "endearing" part out of the quote and thought I was in the other thread for a second

surgical adblocking

haha yes

yes! i am a latecomer to adblock and it is amazing. Before my browser would crash or slow down to a crawl anytime I went to an ad-heavy, flash-ridden site

Case in point was the two elements the Washington post adds to obscure its pages when you're using an adblocker. 8)

From there I went on to remove all the comments, the side bar, the social media div, the 'popular articles' div... Element hiding helper ftw

minor social successes
it's like they buoy my spirits just enough to make me want to try to make them happen more often (inertia, etc)

I love old couples holding hands. This week I saw one couple walking with their arms around each other.

Slowly coming to realize that Amory's current mayor is actually a cool guy and not discernably conservative. He doesn't mind when I address him as Illustrious Potentate, he's younger than me, and he's a Ween fan.

Facebook ads where the comment thread is all people taking the piss out of the product

When kittens get crazy eyes and run diagonally.

Walking across a parking lot at sunset and having a 30-foot-long shadow.

On Facebook, seeing my first-grade teacher wishing my kindergarten teacher a happy birthday today.

The morning of a summer day.

half of a leftover birthday cake in my fridge atm

happy birthday!

lol i should clarify, half of *mr veg's* bday cake

that he's kindly sharing with me
so vicariously my birthday

thanks! :D

When ILX maintenance or repairs cause a server restart, because that means Blog View will work for a week or two.

Seeing green shoots from flower bulbs emerge in late January.

Lost my phone on the metro this morning. A couple of hours later call my own phone, somebody answers, we set up a meeting point and I get my phone back.

People, they're the best!

p rational

phones are like wallets these days

Unzipping a zip file, releasing the folder within, then dragging the zip file into the released folder before dropping everything into the garbage can.

Squirrels. Definitely pests, never tire of watching them, wish they knew how much we loved them so they would stop being so squirrelly.

Took my car to the garage because something was faulty in my reversing light. Bear in mind every time I took my car to my old garage it ended up costing £££.
Got the bill at the end - £2.12

Playing "heads will roll" and my 13 yo goes:"oh i know this!"

A handful of things that make me happy:

1. A good cup of English-style tea (PG Tips and Yorkshire Tea especially).
2. Good music that reaches my soul and heals me from within.
3. My friends.
4. When I'm on my medication and I'm thinking clearly and neurotypically.
5. Doggo/pupper posts on the interwebs.

32. Seeing distant snow covered mountains on a clear morning while driving to work

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, September 30, 2010

When a line of distant cumulus clouds hug the horizon and look like impossibly tall snow covered mountains.

^ similarly, seeing a cute dog being walked on morning/evening commute.

Haha I have introduced dog spotting at work. Hey look at that cute dog! Oh wow. Lol. What breed is that?

Living in my town: you discover everyone knows everyone. At a funeral yesterday seeing it again: hey they're friends of my dad and now I'm here saying goodbye to the daughter. That made me unhappy (duh) but you feel a closeness.

The burial made me unhappy I mean. Goes w/o saying. Made me unhappy and exceptionally angry. Fuck drunk drivers. Really.

All doggos are good girls and boys. Their existence is one of the genuinely good things about this world. Drunk drivers are one of the many terrible things. I'm terribly sorry for your/your family friends' loss, Naths.

Not hitting a red light for TWO WHOLE MILES

there should be awards for that
best feeling ever

Dee for real. I was so angry. Still am.

It makes me happy that Thad Cochran died Thursday and didn't merit a mention on the obituary thread. Fuck that guy. Always smiling, always genteel, always a reliable party line vote for shitty policies.

yeah I think sometimes reveling in the indifference towards some low level diabolical politician cunt dying can be more satisfying than one of the big dogs eating it, there is something quite cheap and performative at times about pissing on a big dog's grave.

The second through, say, the 8th or 9th shaves with a new razor cartridge.

When there's a small bit of a song that you can't identify that periodically reappears in your head for years and then suddenly you hear the song.

In my case it was a bit from "Die Wölfe Kommen Zurück" by Coil, a track I probably hadn't listened to in almost 15-20 years.