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

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