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

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

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

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)"

51. Taking a spontaneous detour in a less familiar part of town and discovering a nice place to sit and read a book.

52. not having a migraine.

53. autumn

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.

^^^ I love this.

Something similar happened to me on a suburban train years ago. This older gentleman was fast asleep. But as the train sped up he would bow his head down almost to his knees, and then his head would slowly come back up as the train slowed down. It was like watching one of those drinking birds you put on a glass of water.

Two stops in and everyone in the whole carriage was watching, and we tried so hard not to laugh out loud. Everyone was red-faced with tears pouring down as we all stifled our laughter.

When he finally got off at his station the carriage was FULL of belly laughs. It was awesome.

But that apple story is even better because it's so random. Laughter amongst strangers is the best.

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, September 30, 2010 12:29 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark

see also toddlers in snowpants, wiping out, a tense pause, and then just totally losing their shit w/laughter

hahahaha awww

- garden centre

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Peppermint bark!

?

White chocolate with candy cane pieces mixed in, chocolate on the bottom usually. AMAZING

http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/peppermint-bark/

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.

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.

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

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

it just made me stupidly happy to have stuff show up super early for a nicc change

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