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

If I had more time, I'd take a train again from here to home as long as I could reasonably expect it to keep to schedule. The only time I did that trip, we were massively delayed and missed our assigned track er crossings/sharings with the freight schedule and had to wait on sidings for HOURS to get back into traffic.

(Likewise, I can't help but humming "Coming Into Los Angeles" when landing at LAX. Arlo wrote some good travelin' tunes.)

I took a train from Colorado to Delaware in my more robust youth - in coach! It was epic and awesome and exhausting and I'm pretty sure I could not do that again.

Watching WWE videos on youtube.

The second, not the first, shave from a razor cartridge. It's always the smoothest and closest.

store yoru razons in mineral oil they say - and smooth shaving all the day

Getting people who are personal heroes popping up in my FB people-you-may-know, even if I am too chicken to friend them.

People who say "Thank you driver" when they get off the bus.

everyone does that, though, right?

hell naw

The right to withhold thanking a driver due to arseholeness makes me irrationally happy. It annoys me* in London that so few buses have single-door entry/exit, so 99% of the time I'll thank the driver on the W5 or whatever, but not thanking is just normal London behaviour anyway, so it's not like he'd know he wasn't being thanked on purpose.

*It's outweighed by the speediness of 2-door simultaneous entry and exit.

I don't say "Thank you driver" any more than I'd say "Thank you butcher" were I to pick up some sausages. Who says "Thank you driver"?

i say that too. well, just 'thanks.'

i deliver hm a hand printed card that says 'very notably discharged'

i always say thanks or thank you. the "driver" bit is unnecessary.

most ppl in glasgow say 'thanks driver' ime

the 'driver' part hardly the core of the issue tbf

Because he's not just a driver. Then again, reading his namebadge and saying "Thank you Clive" would be wrong.

* Being cold.

I like putting the new water container on top of the cooler in the office and watching the bubbles go from the nozzle to the top of the bottle. AND THEN, I press down on the valve to fill my 32 oz cup and THE BUBBLES KEEP GOING. WHAT'S THE WATER COOLER THINKING, "WILL I BUBBLE FOREVER?"

butterflies from meeting someone new

pissing into a bottle on a plane

Isn't there a convention of 'drive'/'driver' address amongst people who have regular contact with professional drivers tho? Delivery vans and stuff. London buses I hold my hand up in a wave as I depart the bus occasionally, two-fingered salute if they've missed the stop or made old people fall over by starting suddenly sort of thing xpost.

1. A few days ago, I borrowed a coworkers umbrella to run an errand only to find that it was a clear bubble umbrella and it made walking through the rain so much more fun.

2. A coworker at my other job just emailed me to tell me she bought me a pumpkin pie from a delicious local bakery and put it in the staff fridge for me to pick up after class tomorrow. <3<3<3

Listening to my old tapes on an old portable cassette player at my dad's...Impact is Imminent by Exodus sounds great!

50% off organic strawberries...and eating some for breakfast. Sooo ripe and lovely.

to balance out my post on the other thread:

having a completely random amount of change in my pocket and finding it exactly totals the same amount as a purchase. i figure this to be the consumerist equivalent of a solar eclipse.

Bacon.

my new lady

Missing the bus by about a block this morning, but having a friend drive by mere minutes later and giving me a ride to the train station!

dressing up as a zombie for work

pics or it didn't happen, etc

Makeup is kinda mild atm...fake blood to be added later

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/20e71cfe.jpg

Oh that's GOOD!

Nice!

Products that far outlast any reasonable expectation of durability. I love my 20-year-old umbrella.

When handwritten ampersands come off.

How much everyone else hates the cold. :D

Ha! The cold itself makes me irrationally happy.

Yes! me too! i walked 2 miles to school in –14C weather, and I was all invigorated and joyful when I arrived to see the hunkered-down masses bitchin' about a 30 second walk from the car to the faculty lounge.

"invigorated and joyful" <--- that is exactly it.

Before I lived in DC I was really looking forward to a properly freezing winter, and experiencing the - indeed - invigoratingly joyful bite of cold air on my face. And then it turned out to be one of those really mild winters and only snowed a bit.

The type of salt packets with two tubes of salt in, as opposed to one. These are the best!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Salt-packet.jpg

Putting on clean socks in the evening and getting in a comfy chair. Bliss.

The check engine light in the car disappearing as mysteriously as it appeared.

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