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

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 25-03-2018 9:46pm

wheresmahbombs wrote: »

ARMS on the Switch had me hooked today.

I had to google to find out what that meant.

Sephiroth_dude · 25-03-2018 11:25pm

This beautiful version of stand by me by Florence and the machine which was in Final Fantasy XV, very apt for that game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv2DSmy3Tro

25-03-2018 11:50pm

The 3-year-old was marshalling the 1-year-old into her latest role play this morning at about 8am in the kitchen. She "phoned" him and he was supposed to be the doctor and come to help her. He waddled over to her in his usual giggle-filled persona and she hands him, in complete seriousness, a stethoscope giving him a wide array of instructions on what he should do with it as the doctor.

He giggles, and fascinated by this new thing he does what he does with every single new thing, and starts eating it (in this case, the two rubber earpieces) She goes into overdrive in the despairing bossy sister role - she's a born teacher! - and tells him he's ruining her game and storms off. He waddles after her with his two little hands out wanting to hug her as she runs away from him but he keeps waddling with his arms in front of him, giggling in between the energy he's using to follow her. She finally succumbs to him, and they have a brilliant barróg together. She's his hero, but 3-year-old girls are tough!
He adores his food, and would currently win an All-Ireland eater competition for 3-year-olds. This evening I called out from the kitchen to everybody 'Tá bhur ndinnéar ullmhaithe!' and he dropped everything and waddled ar nós na gaoithe to the kitchen before everybody else, arriving with a brilliant dimple-filled smile to book his place! Overcoming his enormous teething pain, he always manages this amazing positivity and resilience.

Graces7 · 26-03-2018 8:50am

Happiness is a sunny Sunday after a long . cold winter and it was enjoyed and used to the full here..

YAY!

Even ate my hot dinner outside avidly watched by dog and cats in case i dropped some,, the way their eyes followed every morsel ... Delicious cabbage and ham dinner courtesy of dunne's ..

Sat out in the sun watching the blue rippling of the ocean... did some light gardening and tidying up, pottering and puttering

Cleared space for the Easter Garden

Set seeds in small pots.. the daffs are a rich golden glory.

Watched dog interplay with cats...

Blissfully relaxing day .

May there be many many more such

Graces7 · 26-03-2018 10:29am

AAAAAAAAAAND! Just gets better and better... Was tidying the kitchen while the water heated for coffee and found in date seeds in a big bag I thought was lost in the move.....YAY! Several packets, mostly perennial flowers which I love.

SimonTemplar · 26-03-2018 1:06pm

I don't think there is a more euphoric song than Dancing Queen

KatW4 · 26-03-2018 1:21pm

2 weeks with no school so now I am being super productive.

Boom_Bap · 26-03-2018 1:33pm

My family, they are pretty awesome. They makes me happy.

northgirl · 26-03-2018 2:03pm

Listening to the CHOONS on Play FM and Klub FM every morning on the way to work :pac:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 26-03-2018 3:20pm

An unexpected royalties cheque in the post. Something from years back was added to the reading list for a college course in the UK, apparently.
I love pleasant surprises in the post.

Graces7 · 26-03-2018 7:59pm

Watching the big cat who has just come in from the rain assiduously washing, or rather drying himself off... Now his sister has joined in....so there is now a great furry heap of cats ,,

Boom_Bap · 27-03-2018 3:32pm

huhuhuhuhuhu
a colleague sent me an image file today called DoubleEntryShots.jpg
it's totally related to work, but I'm surprised that alarms haven't gone off in IT and my machine confiscated.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 27-03-2018 4:01pm

The smile a little note of thanks gives.

Mrs S sometimes knits little hats for premature babies, for use in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Dublin and Belfast. A 'wee note' came today with a photo of a baby wearing one of her hats. Nice thought and I'll benefit from the smile it brought.

We should all make an effort to thank people. It so often is an intention that goes unfulfilled.

Sephiroth_dude · 27-03-2018 4:41pm

Just in the door and my mam told me my sister is gone into labour since mid night last night :eek:

Jack Kanoff · 27-03-2018 4:51pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Just in the door and my mam told me my sister is gone into labour since mid night last night :eek:

Have you got a Pussycat gif for this?

Hope all goes well Uncle Seph

Sephiroth_dude · 27-03-2018 7:45pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Just in the door and my mam told me my sister is gone into labour since mid night last night :eek:

Just became an uncle again for the second time in almost a month

Beautiful little boy

, so happy for them.

Rubberlegs · 27-03-2018 7:58pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Just became an uncle again for the second time in almost a month Beautiful little boy , so happy for them.

Congratulations!!

TH that my nearest and dearest drive me up the walls a lot of the time, but when I really need them they are there

Bambi985 · 27-03-2018 10:51pm

There's this lovely new girl at work who compliments me every day, whether it's my hair or a skirt I'm wearing or my eyelashes or whatever. Today she told me my skin was fabulous and we girly-chatted about our favourite skincare products for about an hour.

I was glowing leaving the office and it made me realise how much of a lovely, selfless and totally effortless thing it is to be that person that pays compliments to the people around them every chance they get. It's like injecting a little ray of sunshine into someone's day. I'm going to try to do that more

branie2 · 27-03-2018 11:42pm

Watching Game Night at the cinema this evening. It was very funny.

Graces7 · 28-03-2018 8:36am

Bambi985 wrote: »

There's this lovely new girl at work who compliments me every day, whether it's my hair or a skirt I'm wearing or my eyelashes or whatever. Today she told me my skin was fabulous and we girly-chatted about our favourite skincare products for about an hour.

I was glowing leaving the office and it made me realise how much of a lovely, selfless and totally effortless thing it is to be that person that pays compliments to the people around them every chance they get. It's like injecting a little ray of sunshine into someone's day. I'm going to try to do that more

Lovely post to start the day; thank you.

Happy to be here with so many lovely folk. Missed all this so much when I had no electricity etc. THANK YOU!

rainbow kirby · 28-03-2018 9:27am

Exactly 2 years ago I was cuddling my firstborn son for the first time in the birth centre after he became the best Easter egg ever! Happy birthday little dude

Graces7 · 28-03-2018 10:34am

Happy and relieved that when I steeled myself to call a garage re the car , the man was kindness itself and so helpful.

Had got very complicated here on the island so am happy indeed.

Happy i can thus rest today as I seem to be "bugged"... nasty! But snug now. Listening to occasional hail showers ..

Graces7 · 28-03-2018 10:35am

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Exactly 2 years ago I was cuddling my firstborn son for the first time in the birth centre after he became the best Easter egg ever! Happy birthday little dude

If there is an award for the happiest post;YOU WON! Tears in my eyes

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 28-03-2018 11:10am

It just gets better...I'm on roll.
Did Tax returns online Monday night just out of habit, as we had no addition medical or such to claim for 2017.
This morning I'm informed that a refund of €2004 is on its way to the bank account.

And found €40 in the pocket of a coat I put on this morning.

Drinks are on me.

Sephiroth_dude · 28-03-2018 11:59am

Sasha Thoughtless Bayou wrote: »

Drinks are on me.

^^^ Happy about this

A pint of the finest golden ale so please

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erica74 · 28-03-2018 12:11pm

The smell of fresh cut grass, and I say that as someone with chronic asthma and bad hay-fever. It just makes me so happy! However, the thought of cutting my own grass does not make me happy.

Bambi985 · 28-03-2018 12:12pm

Sasha Thoughtless Bayou wrote: »

It just gets better...I'm on roll.
Did Tax returns online Monday night just out of habit, as we had no addition medical or such to claim for 2017.
This morning I'm informed that a refund of €2004 is on its way to the bank account.

And found €40 in the pocket of a coat I put on this morning.

Drinks are on me.

Unexpected money is the best thing ever.

Reminds me of two years ago when I decided to open one of those dreaded HMRC letters that had been sitting on the hall table for weeks on end. A cheque for £1200 was sitting inside it! Best feeling ever :pac:

ohnonotgmail · 28-03-2018 12:17pm

erica74 wrote: »

The smell of fresh cut grass, and I say that as someone with chronic asthma and bad hay-fever. It just makes me so happy! However, the thought of cutting my own grass does not make me happy.

Is it filling up your senses?

wheresmahbombs · 28-03-2018 12:28pm

Bambi985 wrote: »

Unexpected money is the best thing ever.

I still remember the moment I discovered that 7 months of my allowance was backdated to my bank account.

SusieBlue · 28-03-2018 12:58pm

wheresmahbombs wrote: »

I still remember the moment I discovered that 7 months of my allowance was backdated to my bank account.

Allowance? As in, an allowance from your parents?

Graces7 · 28-03-2018 1:33pm

wheresmahbombs wrote: »

I still remember the moment I discovered that 7 months of my allowance was backdated to my bank account.

TX for this. Been trying to get DSP to catch with payments they owe me . There is hope!

AND I got the news re my small annual UK pension increase

wheresmahbombs · 28-03-2018 2:11pm

SusieBlue wrote: »

Allowance? As in, an allowance from your parents?

Disability allowance. I don't have any severe disability, but since I have ASD, I was able to get the DA.

Sephiroth_dude · 28-03-2018 4:33pm

Holding my little nephew, hes tiny and would nearly fit into the palm of your hand, he grabbed hold of one of my fingers

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ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 28-03-2018 8:11pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Holding my little nephew, hes tiny and would nearly fit into the palm of your hand, he grabbed hold of one of my fingers .

It's something very special, isn't it?
Congratulations.

That pint was getting warm, so I had to drink it for you.
🍺

northgirl · 28-03-2018 8:56pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Holding my little nephew, hes tiny and would nearly fit into the palm of your hand, he grabbed hold of one of my fingers .

Congrats !!

:)

Graces7 · 29-03-2018 5:18am

wheresmahbombs wrote: »

Disability allowance. I don't have any severe disability, but since I have ASD, I was able to get the DA.

Well, extra thanks to you.. Reminded me I can now email them so when I checked the account on the phone just now an extra payment is in that bears no resemblance to usual amount...

Graces7 · 29-03-2018 5:21am

All the so called small things that are great.. bed, hwb, food,a bright moon riding high in a cloud dappled sky.... Toast!

Ilovethe bonesofyou · 29-03-2018 10:03am

Having Gladys Knight and the Pips song midnight train to Georgia stuck in my head in work for the second day in a row. Singing it away to myself in my head and letting out the odd choo choo!

ohnonotgmail · 29-03-2018 10:36am

came in to work to find an easter egg on my desk.

Dial Hard · 29-03-2018 11:22am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

came in to work to find an easter egg on my desk.

I have 95 Lindt bunnies in the boot of my car to go on people's desks this evening.

Asked my boss (joking) could I have a bottle of wine instead as I don't like chocolate and he told me to buy a bottle this evening and expense it

KatW4 · 29-03-2018 11:24am

Two nights away with my bf. I love staying in hotels!

Aglomerado · 29-03-2018 11:49am

KatW4 wrote: »

Two nights away with my bf. I love staying in hotels!

Me too! My desk drawer is full of coffee sachets liberated from my frequent hotel stays! (I go away a lot for one-night stays).

I'm staying in one tonight, as I'm going out with two of my silliest friends and it's worth it to be safe afterwards. Can't wait, I will be sore from laughter tomorrow. And a lovely big Full Irish in the morning.

Sephiroth_dude · 29-03-2018 12:03pm

Four day weekend

northgirl · 29-03-2018 12:13pm

I've put on 5lbs in 2 weeks

everlast75 · 29-03-2018 12:44pm

My motor sailing through its NCT - have 2 full years now

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 29-03-2018 1:27pm

Invited to a birthday drinks party, next week, for an old friend - nobody under 73 invited. Should be wild!

Trigger Happy · 29-03-2018 1:34pm

Got a new toastie maker.
Man I love toasties and am currently in toastie heaven.

wheresmahbombs · 29-03-2018 1:36pm

I have 2 Easter eggs for next Sunday - a Rolo and an orange chocolate Lindt.

bonzodog2 · 29-03-2018 2:17pm

I just fixed a 26" LCD TV I got for free. 1 40cent component.

Graces7 · 29-03-2018 2:42pm

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Got a new toastie maker.
Man I love toasties and am currently in toastie heaven.

You mean toasted sandwich maker? Yum.. I never had used mine until I got the power back in January but since then a total craze for them...Just cheese is all...

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

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