Trivial things that make you happy - Part 2 - The Happyning

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Blue skies and sunshine.

SaltSweatSugar

Spending quality time with friends. Had a lovely weekend away and caught up with people I haven’t seen in ages. I helped organise my friends baby shower, got balloons, decorations and treats and everyone had a great time. Most importantly, the mama to be had a great day

Now I’m having a cup of tea and a millionaire shortcake I ‘liberated’ from said baby shower yesterday. Chocolate and caramel, get in my belly.

voldejoie

Spending time hanging out with my family today. On the couch with my sister and my niece watching Harry Potter, dad has a big pot of stew on and the smell is divine. Love those simple moments where contentment just hits you out of nowhere in the chest!

Kitty6277

TH I made it through my shift without dying and that my hangover is lifting

Widdershins

Discovering strange creatures. Someone just introduced me to Axolotls. So cute and so strange.

KatW4

My cat is asleep on my chest. His little furry face is squashed up against my cheek. He is so warm!! This is the nicest feeling ever

ToddyDoody

A thread called 'Life Hacks: The Arse edition'

Sephiroth_dude

Widdershins wrote: »

Discovering strange creatures. Someone just introduced me to Axolotls. So cute and so strange.

Smiling mad :pac:

Purple Mountain

Found an Instagram account today called Word Porn.
It has some great sayings and words of wisdom so started following it.

'Solve the problem or leave the problem.
Do not live with the problem.'

Widdershins

A few I liked from a similar site ( grandiloquent word of the day) : cornigerous
eldritch
dwizzen
crepuscle

Widdershins

Going to a play next weekend. Very excited as I haven't been for years...somehow its the perfect Autumn activity.

Wayne Jarvis

Widdershins wrote: »

A few I liked from a similar site ( grandiloquent word of the day) : cornigerous
eldritch
dwizzen
crepuscle

Thanks for this recommendation Widdershins. I am a word nerd so love this kind of stuff. I am prinkled and a little bit metagrobolized right now with all these new words. I am ramfeezled form work so I am!

Kitty6277

For one of my modules we have to take these little online quizzes each week based on the readings for that week. When I first heard about them I thought it was going to be awful and I’d do really bad in all of them. Just did the one for this week and I got 10/10 and the ones for the last two weeks I got 9/10 in both

I saw a shooting star tonight. No matter how many I see, they never stop feeling magical!

Capt. Autumn

After much consideration, here's me top 5;

1. Hot Bath.

Yeah, it's more hassle than a shower, waiting for all that water to fill the tub, but you know that feeling when the water is just warm enough to tingle your skin but not too hot to burn the bollox off you? Just you and your thoughts floating in a cloud of suds......bliss


2. A good ****e

It's never really talked about but a good ****e can feel amazing. Bring some reading material with you and sit back and let nature take it's course, absolving your body of all it's solid waste. You can feel surprisingly lighter afterwards.....way underrated.


3. Picking your nose

You know when there's a booglie up there in the nether regions of your nostrils and it's driving you mad? When you get time on your own to coax out the little ba$tard and sqeeze your nose to confirm all is good again in the world. Nice.


4. Quenching your thirst

The first couple of seconds when you quench your thirst after a workout or if you are just plain thirsty is indescribably beautiful. Extra marks if the drink is ice cold and carbonated, straight from a can and the CO2 bubbles tickle your eyes as you drain the can......heaven


5. That trippy flying feeling you get just before you fall asleep..

You can feel your body giving in to the need for sweet slumber, your limbs relax, your mind races in a deliciously psychedelic way......you are perceptively tripping to another dimension where nobody can touch you and nothing is expected of you for the next few hours......underrated experience.

castletownman

Your first sleep back in your own bed after a spell away.

Leg End Reject

Your first sleep in freshly changed bedclothes.
Warm towels.

SlowBlowin

PJs from the tumble dryer

Coffee bubbling on stove at first light, pleasant aroma fills the room. Day off to a flier.

Outlaw Pete

I drink tea with cream in it.

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SlowBlowin wrote: »

PJs from the tumble dryer

Static electric shocks :pac:

BDI

Cycling home from work on a nice sunny afternoon, in a t shirt with a big rucksack on your back with work boots and hard hat and gloves and protective glasses in it. All the things that have been roasting you all day cast into the bag. Overtaking the bus with all the sweaty roasted people squashed into it like sardines and seeing people in cars grabbing the steering wheel and shaking it stuck at lights.

How more people don’t do it amazes me. People who go the gym after work wouldn’t dream of cycling 5 or 6 k to it.

freshpopcorn

Taking my shoes/boots/etc off after a long day!

Tell me how

Don't do it any more.
But, a cigarette outside on a clear crisp night was an extremely mentally cathartic experience for me.

I know about the ancillary negative effects (hence I don't do it anymore), but that certainly was something which I enjoyed immensely after a long day.

TheFortField

Early Saturday morning coffee date and walk by the coast.

Lady Haywire

Having an animals trust. Be it cat, dog, llama, whatever (cows & cats in my case)
Just having them come up to you for a daycent auld scratch and they close their eyes with contentment

Lesalare

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Taking my shoes/boots/etc off after a long day!

I just did that exact thing and God it felt good. My feet are slowly unthrobbing...

jiltloop

That feeling when you connect to a song or a piece of music, it might be something you've listened to before but you weren't quite in the right frame of mind or the sun wasn't shining.

I really love the feeling of that connection, from that moment on its irreversibly a different song and is permanently elevated.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Meditation.

There's a certain amount of cynicism about mindfulness and other forms of meditation, but I cannot speak highly enough about it. It takes 10 minutes in the morning, and 10 minutes in the evening, and the benefits are manifold. It's also a highly enjoyable activity once you get over the initial frustration with the lack of progress you appear to be making. That's part of the unlearning process of expecting immediate responses to everything we do.

petros1980

A hangover ****

The first few chips from the bag as you walk home from the chipper

Fresh bed sheets

Settling in on the sofa with a pizza, beer, and most importantly no missus, for a night of watching absolute ****e on netflix