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Trivial things that make you happy - Part 3 - The Happyning

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  • Posts: 695 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I just booked Friday off to make it an extra long weekend




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,351 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Watching the Olympics the obscure sports that you would not normally see. And quickly becoming an 'expert' 😋

    The gymnastics for example:

    Someone doing a 'double turn half twist'

    Me: (Sitting there munching my Tayto Cheese and Onion on the couch) - Saying 'She will lose points for that landing!'🤓

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 8,810 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    Small things but they were nice, and made me trivially happy. A lady offered that I could go ahead of her last night in Lidl, I only had a few things. I was in no rush, but thanked her kindly and accepted the offer.

    I was in a pay and display carpark today. Someone just leaving hopped out of their car and gave me their ticket, which more than covered the time I needed.

    Went into a coffee shop and found a gorgeous candle, reduced. Coffee and candles, some of my favourite things, all in one shop!😊 I will be back!



  • Posts: 695 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's the weekend for me.

    Also, I don't think there's a child as pleasant as my son. 😆😍



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,926 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    Spike Island have released a limited number to tickets for an exclusive behind the scenes tour which encompasses access for the first time in over a century to the underground tunnels 😁😁😁

    Can't wait to do this tour. Have done multiple day and after dark tours.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 416 ✭✭SaltSweatSugar


    Brought my dad for breakfast in an actual café today. We haven’t been able to sit down and eat together in so long. It felt like such a novelty



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Over two years since I was in a gym *glances at waistline*

    I was quite intimidated my first day going in. I know, I know what is there to worry about but I have no clue how most exercises or machines work. The staff helped me

    My TH is I worked very hard (sore muscles to prove it, ouch!) and people were sound. People saw my unfit self doing my best and asked could they work in, could I spot them or even gave me a thumps up.

    I was expecting regulars to give me scorn and shakes of the head. Nope, people are sound and encouraging to this beginner :)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    Waking up on a Sunday morning with a raging horn. Fun and games to follow.



  • Posts: 132 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The new boards. First time trying it out properly. I like it.



  • Posts: 132 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Having a fry for breakfast this morning makes me TH. It was so good.



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  • Posts: 6,246 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    After 552 days,im going to a waterford hurling match today🤩


    Il never take it for granted again



  • Posts: 132 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I take back what I said. I've had a chance to use it a bit more now. Oh my God the amount of scrolling!



  • Posts: 695 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's Friday. The fifth day of the working week but also the first of the weekend.




  • Posts: 695 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Old episodes of the Simpsons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,214 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I need some slightly unusual batteries (AAAA size) and thought about ordering them on Amazon along with some other stuff. After browsing for a while, however, I realised that there is nothing else I want from there. Nothing I saw impressed me enough to want to buy it. That’s actually a nice feeling, realising that more “things” aren’t wanted at this time

    In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

    ― Wilhelm Reich



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 97,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    AFAIK some alkaline 9V batteries have six of those tiny AAAA cells in them. ( carbon - zinc have flat plates stacked and others have coin cells YMMV ) Check your smoke detector when replacing the batteries. ( Change the detector too after 10 years because it runs out of radiation )



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭Ish66



    I can Annoy my ''Mean'' landlord to replace my smoke thing now,Yea ! If he owned the Artic he wouldn't give you a ''slide'' 😏



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,351 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Hearing a toddler's musings/ponderings -

    'Mermaids don't fart.......

    Because they have no bum'

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    I work part time. The lady for whom I work is usually not there, I just get on with my job. Last week she said she wanted to see me, I thought there was a problem. No, just a chat and a lovely gift in appreciation of my " trustworthiness and reliability". I was on cloud 9.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 8,810 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    That's so lovely.

    I dropped an email recently to a shop to mention the two staff members I had dealt with, and how fantastic they were. I met one of them since and she told me she was delighted to hear it back from her manager.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,611 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    A national online chemist(I assume they are RL as well) selling EC on their website.


    Costly I feel but can be so necessary not to have to explain to a stranger about cycle/circumstances.

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Got a bunch of great news today, all is good in the hood



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,965 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    MoTD is back



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,965 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    That Barrie on Tipping Point got passed out and beat on the last drop ,



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭peek a boo


    The Boards clock is fixed.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 8,810 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    Found two gift cards yesterday when sorting through paperwork.

    Usually if that happens, I am in for disappointment when I check the balance, (having long forgotten that I used them) but there's money left on both of them. Nothing huge, but I'm trivially happy.



  • Posts: 695 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Thanks to the kind lady who was behind me in the queue in dunnes this evening and went out of her way to let me know I had left my kitchen roll behind me at the checkout.

    I was halfway down the aisle towards the door, headphones in, when I heard a faint but urgent sounding excuse me and when I turned around she was nearly caught up with me, running down the aisle to give me my kitchen roll.

    This is a small kindness but sometimes the small ones are the best ones. Some people wouldn't bother their arses but this woman did and it was much appreciated. I love that kind and considerate side in people. It makes such a difference.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,428 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    My brother came to visit today, and he brought cake!



  • Posts: 695 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    My dog chasing after a fly. It's like that episode of breaking bad. 😆



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    I was in a local garden centre recently. At the till, making small talk with the staff member. Suddenly the manager hands me a pretty little dianthus, saying " this is for you". I almost cried. I was having a crap day, but this gesture really lifted my mood.



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