8. A full pack of cigarettes -- nothing can be too bad if you have enough cigarettes
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
9. Any excuse to use those correction tape rollers.
― franny glass, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
10. kids doing that stompy playtime talk to themselves thing that they do when they think no one is paying attention to them.
― the great aussie ballkicking vids (jjjusten), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― a seminar on ass play for kids or something (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
12. Posting on ILX when I haven't really posted in forever. It's like an old pair of slippers.
― hey it's (jel --), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
13. An adventure to plan
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
14. using my envelope opener. such a clean open every time.
― MAX NOT FOR MOD (Roberto Spiralli), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
16. dogs being walked past my front porch when i'm sitting outside that stop and come on over to say hello
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
17. When the timer on the stove beeps and the meal that I've spent a great deal of time preparing is finally ready!!!
― (Simple) (Elegant) (Stevie D), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
18. using those little blue oil absorbing sheets
― MAX NOT FOR MOD (Roberto Spiralli), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
19. Someone holding the door for someone else. "Right. At least we haven't lost ALL sense of society."
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
20. Putting my watch on for the first time each morning, and feeling the cool metal of the bracelet. Ahhhh.....
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
21. A motherfucking E chord.
22. Getting enough sleep and not waking to an alarm clock!
― Aimless, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
23. Starting a new Moleskine journal
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
24. Having my morning coffee in my stainless steel travel mug at work..I can nurse that thing for 3 hours!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
25. Starting a new bottle of Hendrick's
― (Simple) (Elegant) (Stevie D), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
26. Eucalyptus trees after it rains
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
27. Clean sheets on the bed
28. The drive to San Francisco from Sacramento (bc we're always driving there to do something fun)
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
29. Airports and flying
30. Truckee
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
31. Warm shower after a long workout
― officer i didn't know it was a penguin (San Te), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
32. Seeing distant snow covered mountains on a clear morning while driving to work
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
33. When whatever you are listening to on your iPod syncs up EXACTLY to what is going on around you33a. 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
― (Simple) (Elegant) (Stevie D), Thursday, 30 September 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Rain can be just amazing.
― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i miss rain tbh
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
34. Seeing cool classic cars driving on the freeway.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Really really old people holding hands
― Bougre de crème d'emplâtre à la graisse de hérisson (remy bean), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Hedgehogs
35 old people in love xp!
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
36. Just one wipe
― some o))) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
37. Any type of retriever wagging its tail
― Bougre de crème d'emplâtre à la graisse de hérisson (remy bean), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
38. Any three legged dog
― Bougre de crème d'emplâtre à la graisse de hérisson (remy bean), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
39. Or three-legged cat
― kate78, Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
40. Dogs trying to bite waves at the beach. UNBELIEEEEVABLE happiness.
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
40. When you're in the house and you fart really loud and satisfyingly and it smells awful but you feel a liitle proud
― Bougre de crème d'emplâtre à la graisse de hérisson (remy bean), Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
41. Bed-hair on men. Adorable.
― franny glass, Thursday, 30 September 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
42 g bale's first touch on the full sprint.
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 September 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
43. Watching snow fall, especially if it's dark, and especially near a streetlight that makes them all glow like you are flying thru STARZ44. Seeing ducks, squirrels, moorhens, rabbits on the way home45. Being alone in the house and fixing yourself some favourite comfort food that your partner won't eat
― patapon pataphysics (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 30 September 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
46. Pugs
― Darin, Thursday, 30 September 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
cosign on three-legged dogs. i love all of them, especially my friend's dog Rhonda.
47. Bicycling around to Italo.
48. People asking me for directions as if I am a font of knowledge on such matters.
49. Young pitbulls.
50. http://www.animalsites.net/news/gallery/chow-chow-dog/chow-chow-dog-4.jpg
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Thursday, 30 September 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh I love when ppl ask me for directions and I'm all like "Yeah! You're on X st now, you just hang a left and (etc etc)"
― (Simple) (Elegant) (Stevie D), Friday, 1 October 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
51. Taking a spontaneous detour in a less familiar part of town and discovering a nice place to sit and read a book.
― ↱HEAVEN↗ (CONGO, M.D.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
52. not having a migraine.
― that's so percussion (get bent), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
53. autumn
― definatelypoopsmcgee (chrisv2010), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
54. I was sitting on the train (first time in 18 years, car trouble) on Christmas day and there were about 20 people in my compartiment - some couples and mostly single passengers who didn't know each other. Nobody was talking, it was very very quiet apart from the train noise. Suddenly, an old woman behind me started eating an apple. In the course of the next ten minutes, this (very normal apple eating) isolated sound she made somehow turned everyone behind her (me & everyone in front of me) into silently crying our eyes out - belly hurting giggling fools. I don't know who started it, but it spread like wildfire and EVERYONE lost it. After a while, the apple was all gone, everyone turned back into quiet strangers until she got off the train (passed by us all and looked at us, clearly wondering why our eyes were red) - then we all started laughing again.
It was a gloriously absurd and irrationally happy moment. You should have been there, I guess.
― StanM, Monday, 27 December 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ I love this.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Monday, 27 December 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
haha whoops
― five six and (man alive), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
read the "endearing" part out of the quote and thought I was in the other thread for a second
surgical adblocking
― koogs, Thursday, 10 September 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
haha yes
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 September 2015 22:00 (eight years ago) link
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
― marcos, Friday, 11 September 2015 00:06 (eight years ago) link
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
― koogs, Friday, 11 September 2015 04:59 (eight years ago) link
minor social successesit's like they buoy my spirits just enough to make me want to try to make them happen more often (inertia, etc)
― La Lechera, Friday, 25 September 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
I love old couples holding hands. This week I saw one couple walking with their arms around each other.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 25 September 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
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.
― defibrillate after opening (WilliamC), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 15:02 (eight years ago) link
Facebook ads where the comment thread is all people taking the piss out of the product
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 9 June 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
When kittens get crazy eyes and run diagonally.
Walking across a parking lot at sunset and having a 30-foot-long shadow.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 10 June 2016 03:34 (seven years ago) link
On Facebook, seeing my first-grade teacher wishing my kindergarten teacher a happy birthday today.
― pplains, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
The morning of a summer day.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
half of a leftover birthday cake in my fridge atm
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
happy birthday!
― oh, amazonaws (wins), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
lol i should clarify, half of *mr veg's* bday cake
that he's kindly sharing with meso vicariously my birthday
thanks! :D
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
When ILX maintenance or repairs cause a server restart, because that means Blog View will work for a week or two.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Sunday, 29 January 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
Seeing green shoots from flower bulbs emerge in late January.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 29 January 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
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!
― silverfish, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 17:42 (seven years ago) link
p rational
phones are like wallets these days
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
Unzipping a zip file, releasing the folder within, then dragging the zip file into the released folder before dropping everything into the garbage can.
― pplains, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
Squirrels. Definitely pests, never tire of watching them, wish they knew how much we loved them so they would stop being so squirrelly.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 September 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
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
― kinder, Sunday, 3 March 2019 11:53 (five years ago) link
Playing "heads will roll" and my 13 yo goes:"oh i know this!"
― nathom, Sunday, 3 March 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
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.
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 23 March 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, September 30, 2010
When a line of distant cumulus clouds hug the horizon and look like impossibly tall snow covered mountains.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 24 March 2019 07:12 (five years ago) link
^ similarly, seeing a cute dog being walked on morning/evening commute.
― D. Joe, Sunday, 24 March 2019 07:28 (five years ago) link
Haha I have introduced dog spotting at work. Hey look at that cute dog! Oh wow. Lol. What breed is that?
― nathom, Sunday, 24 March 2019 08:56 (five years ago) link
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.
― nathom, Sunday, 24 March 2019 08:59 (five years ago) link
The burial made me unhappy I mean. Goes w/o saying. Made me unhappy and exceptionally angry. Fuck drunk drivers. Really.
― nathom, Sunday, 24 March 2019 09:00 (five years ago) link
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.
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Monday, 25 March 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
Not hitting a red light for TWO WHOLE MILES
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 25 March 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
there should be awards for thatbest feeling ever
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 March 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
Dee for real. I was so angry. Still am.
― nathom, Monday, 25 March 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
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.
― The Bite Game with Jim Lamprey (WmC), Sunday, 2 June 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 2 June 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
The second through, say, the 8th or 9th shaves with a new razor cartridge.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
Not innocuous. Nocuous, in fact!
But I was driving down the road and someone flicked their cigarette butt out the window and it exploded in a shower of sparks on the asphalt. I hate smoking, and I really hate littering, but it was pretty in the twilight! You never see that anymore and it brought back old memories.
― peace, man, Thursday, 10 February 2022 01:04 (two years ago) link
I’m definitely glad people smoke so much less these days, and that I quit myself, but god damn if some of the little rituals and aesthetic hallmarks of the Smoking Section Years don’t hit me hard
― nicole, Thursday, 10 February 2022 04:49 (two years ago) link
last week i ordered online gifts from different sellers, for two family members in diff parts of Australia, *hoping* they’d arrive early march but unsure due to covidity & postal service etc both orders arrived today! ..and one of them never even gave me a shipping notification! i was messaging them yesterday asking to confirm they even ~got~ my order lmao
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 04:26 (two years ago) link
it just made me stupidly happy to have stuff show up super early for a nicc change
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 04:27 (two years ago) link
Dude upstairs and a buddy are playing keyboard and guitar and it's so soothing and I'm not feeling well and it's cheering me up immensely
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 January 2023 00:00 (one year ago) link