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

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!

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

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

My bff/housemate singing xmas carols, Bing Crosby-style. Esp when it isnt xmas, but he just bloody well feels like crooning "Jingle Bells" while doing the dishes, dammit.

Oh shit I put this in the wrong thread. I HATE garden centres.

lol i thought that was enthusiasm out of character.

I like garden centres! All those plants and decorative doodads for the garden.

Wait, I have to contribute to the anger thread.

-smell of tea

First couple of brushes with a new toothbrush.

oh on a similar note, new pair of socks...feels so right.

27. Clean sheets on the bed

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, September 30, 2010 5:44 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

animals on trains are also guarantee for endless lolz and aws, an old man man with a dog, both licking/kissing each other. (seriously)
or a girl with a little kitten in a cage, very early morning, kitten going 'meow meow' very softly (and a little scared) and the entire silent train wagon goin' AWWWW.

a few weeks ago, i was driving home from work and my car died in the middle of a three-way intersection. i didn't really know what to do. within a couple of minutes, a random guy stopped and offered to give me a jump. when that didn't work, he pulled his car around behind mine also used it to push me through the intersection to the side of the road. overall he spent about 10 minutes of his day helping a stranger in need. then a friend (who posts on ilx) drove out to where i was and let me sit in his heated car (it was very cold out) while waiting for the tow truck, then gave me a ride home. just two things that made a shitty situation a little less shitty.

boss wanted to change my schedule for next quarter. i try to be flexible but they've been changing my schedule every 10 weeks and i didn't really want to adopt the new schedule, so I was kind of passive-aggressive about it and blamed my other job, saying they didn't like me changing my schedule with them, but ultimately i left it open and said I would think about it. today my boss said that due to other issues, they now want me to keep my current schedule. so i got what i wanted without having to look like i'm "not a team player."

my daughter smiling and laughing all the time now, happy babies are a+++

boss for my newer job giving me a totally positive review, even though i feel like i slack off a lot and am still figuring lots of things out

going to parties and knowing lots of people there and feeling like i've now lived in chicago long enough to have a social circle or even multiple interlocking social circles

long enough to have a social circle or even multiple interlocking social circles

If we're discussing innocuous things that I wish were a reality for me in LA, and would therefore make me insanely happy, this would be one of them. Getting there, but damn if work don't get in the way.

it took a long time. but i've been here seven years now.

I'm moving to the 4th floor instead of the top in a little under a month. thank God.

a rare instance where I get to post in both innocuous threads simultaneously.

went to the mall (which I usually hate) to pick up a few rap albums with my gambling winnings, and stopped for lunch. ran into a friend of mine who I haven't seen in a while, who stopped me and we had a nice quick 5 min chat.

her sunny demeanor and the friendly conversation was a big lift for me and put me in a good mood.

The tick-tick of a nicely working derailleur when you're freewheeling along.

Sun is shining, nearly a weekend, and I was just briefly delighted by the sound of a (male, not particularly camp) coworker tittering like a naughty little schoolgirl.

(trying to make the most of being irrationally happy as my most irrationally-angry-making coworker has just got back from lunch, bah)

- hearing YMO (Technopolis iirc) in tacky chain sushi bar

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 (5 months ago) Bookmark

came here to post about this!

55. manic phase

56. making a St Patrick's Day playlist, Mr Veg and began dicussing the finer points over dinner. Mr Veg adamant that I should include Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar On Me. Me going WTF? then reminding me that they recorded it while they were holed up in Dublin, Rick lost his arm etc etc...and then I lol'd and lol'd and lol'd

57. Youtube videos of babies laughing uncontrollably at dogs doing dog things.
58. Hockey hugs after a goal. And the handshake-line after a playoff series is won.

59. on the way home y/day, a boy of about 7 or 8 sat on a riverbank, staring contemplatively at a pair of swans right in front of him, staring peacefully back at him

(this would not be so <3 if I were not so distrustful of both children and swans)

60. My dentist is like a dude straight out of Mayberry, sweet and lovely and quaint, the whole office feels like a delightful time machine. Today, greatest thing ever. As I'm having work done, my Mayberry-esque dentist begins describing a scene from Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke to his wonderfully square assistant. I had tears rolling out of my eyes as he describes in great detail the scene where the stoned motorcycle cop pulls the van over after it has caught on fire, his assistant looking on wide-eyed and not laughing really at all. It was all so surreal and hilarious and I have NO idea how my dentist even got onto the subject of weed or where Cheech and Chong fit in.

But it was great and made me happy despite being trapped in a dentist chair

61. Weaving through stopped bumper-to-bumper traffic on my bike
62. Secret passages and underground tunnels

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