It's "The Little Things That Make Us Happy" Thread

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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What little things have happened to you, or that you’ve seen that just really tickles you or amuses you, maybe even far more than it should have?
Recent example from me that happened just about 30 minutes ago:

I wanted a drink of water here at work, but we had no paper cups. So I grabbed a translucent white plastic cup that has “Mobi” on the side (given to us by the Mobi celphone company that we’re selling phones for, we had a few of these cups around that we kept pens in), and when I start filling the cup, I look inside and thought I saw purple. :confused: When I was done I lifted it up to find that the white had changed to purple where the cold water had touched.
This absolutely, positively tickled me for some reason. I went and told my other 3 coworkers here in the office about it, and two of them just took a cup on their way out. :smiley:
Didn’t help that I was giggling like Betty Rubble on crack for about six minutes after the fact of my little ‘discovery’. I’m just very easily amused.

So what little things or discoveries have you had in the past, recent or otherwise, that just hit you in that certain way to make you much more pleased than you had any right to be?

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My dog, Auggie, The Cutest Dog on the Planet ™, has a bunch of toys, and a couple are obviously his favorites. Anytime someone comes over, or one of us comes home, he’ll grab a toy and run up to us with it. I took him to one of the pet supply places recently (I always take him there after a vet visit), and we ran into a friend of ours who has a dog that Auggie loves. She didn’t have the dog with her, but he recognized her immediately and grabbed a toy off of a display rack and took it to her. I had to buy it, because it was covered with dog spit. It cracked me up, though.

 It snowed a little here last night, and neither of my cats has ever seen snow before.  I let them both outside (fenced yard), and one of them wandered around for a few minutes and came right back in.  The other one took one step outside, and a few flakes fell on her.  She darted back in and started frantically licking her fur like she ws saying, "GET THIS STUFF OFF ME!!".  

 Actually, my pets give me the giggles on a daily basis.
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Life is so good right now it might be illegal for it to be any better.

  1. I’m going to Vegas for 3 whole days in February. I never go anywhere. All I ever do is work work work work work, and the last “vacation” I had was when I had surgery 4 years ago. I’m looking forward to this.

  2. I filed my tax return and my refund is due next week. Woo hoo!

  3. I’m moving from my horrible, terrible, sucky-ass apartment where my upstairs neighbors bounce medicine balls all night (it sounds like) and sleep during the day while I’m at work trying not to fall asleep because I don’t get any sleep at night, into a HOUSE! With a huge backyard! ::angels sing::

  4. I won Foo Fighters tickets for March 2 in Phoenix. I’m taking my 17 year-old son and we’re taking the next day off and getting a hotel room and it’s going to be awesome.

They’re all essentially little things, but put them all together and life totally rocks for me right now.

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There were a couple of baby hedgehogs in the garden last week. We’ve fed them and they’re now tame enough to run up to greet us. “Hello food things!”
I’m feeding them enough prime mince to ensure they don’t care about ridding my garden of snails.

But they make me smile.

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I got my Christmas present from my kids today. They ordered it well in advance, but it just didn’t come in time. It’s a necklace with my birthstone at the top of a heart, and theirs in dangles at the bottom. It’s very pretty and very sweet.

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I have two of those little plastic cups that do that. One is pink and turns blue and the other is blue and turns purple. The yellow one that turns green was given to my 7YO neighbor boy, because I <3 him.

My happiness right now? My critters make me smile/laugh on a daily basis. I’ve finished writing annual performance reviews and they’re mostly good (still gotta deliver 'em.) My husband loves me and makes me laugh. And my plants are growing like nobody’s business!

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I love the Internet. The Internet makes me happy.

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My husband’s hair.

No, really. His hair is really unique, dark, and curly. He’s 3rd gen Italian, so when his hair grows out he rocks this incredible white boy 'fro.

Anyways, right now it is at the perfect length–just long enough to show its unique curly properties, but still really classic and clean cut. Whenever I look at him, I feel like I’m married to some kind of Mediterranean god. He is so beautiful. It blows my mind that women don’t just throw themselves down at his feet as he’s strolling through the office or whatever.

Also, I’m quite happy about the octopus blanket my teenage sister-in-law made me last Christmas. I like tentacled creatures, particularly octopuses. There are some strange hieroglyphics on the blanket and she told me repeatedly she couldn’t figure out what they said. I didn’t have the heart to tell her she tied the fabric together inside out–the strange hieroglyphics are remarkably similar to what the word ‘‘octopus’’ looks like when it’s written backward. I can’t help but smile–I loves me my backwards octopuses. Thanks, sis.

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miss speck, the hell kitten on wheels, runs to greet me when i get home from work.

she hops up on the kitchen bar and sits there, studying me with that tiny, so-serious face of hers.

if i don’t move quickly enough to return the greeting to suit her, she miaows at me as if to say, ‘well? i’m waiting, here.’

makes me smile every night. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I just tackled my mum and made her dance the foxtrot with me in my kitchen - that made us both laugh quite a bit.

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I have a lot. After almost 2 years of being very unhappy with my life, the last two weeks have been wonderful (other than the constant injuries at work - 'cause I’m a klutz)

The other day, my sister and I rented a George Carlin DVD. He mentioned cornholing. I love this word. I don’t know why. It just strikes me as funny. Well anyway, the next day at work, one of my sister’s bosses was talking about the game Cornhole. So, my sister was confused. I looked it up on Urban Dictionary to show her the differences between the two.

The first time I looked, I totally missed the first definition. The one with almost 1200 positive votes. The next most popular definition has 25 positive votes. When I finally saw it (not the bit in italics), I laughed like a maniac on crack for about 10 minutes. My sister and her boyfriend now think I’m totally deranged. I was on the phone with my ex boyfriend at the time. Luckily, he lived with me for 8 years so he understands my brain and he laughed too.

cornhole

On a less childish note, after 9 months in this hellhole state, working a series of shitty jobs which made me completely miserable, I finally got the job I really wanted. I interviewed for it back in October. The first step was a test, which I aced. The next step was an interview with HR, then with the plant manager. Then a drug test. Then a background check. After all of this, I got a letter telling me that I had been accepted into the hiring pool and that they had decided not to hire at that point. Being the cynical person I can be, I automatically assumed they didn’t like me and were just making me feel better about being rejected.
Well, a week before Christmas, they called back. It was perfect timing. It was the morning after my boss made me cry for the third time in less than 2 weeks. They offered me the job, making $4 per hour more than any other factory job in this area would pay. I’m now making only $2 per hour less than I was before I left MA.
Anyway, I started working there on the 7th. I finished my training this Monday. I started on overnights on Tuesday. I love it. I’m actually happy to go to work. I love my coworkers. I love my two bosses. Everyone is so nice to me. I actually feel productive when I’m at work (because I’m actually making something) unlike my last job where I just put shit in boxes. There’s definitely something to be said for liking your job.

And finally, my birthday was this past Sunday. I was depressed. This was my first birthday since my ex and I broke up. I wasn’t very happy with life in general, except for my job. My wonderful sister did everything she could to make it special for me. She made me some excellent chili, bought IBC root beer (my favorite), Bostom Creme Pie, and italian bread. She also bought me some scratch tickets. She put an over the hill tombstone candle on my pie (even though I’m only 28). And the best thing she did for me - she let me take a really long bath, in her tub. I love baths. I hate being cramped. She and her boyfriend have a huge tub. No one is allowed to use it except them. I keep offering to pay to use it. It never occurred to me that she was saving it for a special occasion. She even bought some Calgon for me to use. I waited until everyone was gone and then took a book and spent almost 2 hours in the bath. It was pure heaven. Tomorrow morning, the two of us are leaving her boyfriend and their kids at the house and we’re going to the casino. Her birthday is in two weeks so it’s our way to celebrate both together. I love my sister.

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I’m pretty sure a post like this requires pix.
Little things that make us happy? I get to go play Scrabble with my best friend tonight and visit with his puggle puppy (oops, I probably need to find a pic) Cooper who I call Pooper Scooper. Then I get to leave and not have to take care of Pooper Scooper all the time.

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I got a Thank You email from my boss. I was quite taken back and did not really know how to respond or if I even should respond.

We have taken on a responsibility from another division. She actually started training someone else on it and my training was supposed to be strickly back up but I took right to it. I improved the documentation, asked questions and trained a new person to it.

So she sent me an email to thank me for my initative and that I made her and the other division feel more confident about the task being switched to us.

It made me happy. I am not used to that sort of thing. My old boss was all about her and how your contribution could make her look better.

Oh and I got one of the monthy “Note of Excellence” awards that gets me $50. :slight_smile:

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I worked a 6 hour shift (in the dining hall) last night and am a half hour away from the start of another one. I’m looking forward to seeing some coworkers who I haven’t seen since before Christmas break.

It’s Saturday Morning so I’ll be getting stock which means I’ll be in the stock room while several of the less enjoyable tasks of opening are doled out.

After work, I’m going to the mall to finally get my cell phone’s faulty battery replaced.

I have two homework assignments due next week. One is tough enough to be interesting, the other is easy enough for me to zone out while doing it. (Seriously, who starts a 4000 level college statistics class by spending a week on means, medians, ranges and modes? I learned those in middle school.)

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Obliged. I even found one that was taken in the Mediterranean.
Adonis is so fired. :smiley:

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The sigh of a sleeping dog.

Or lazin’ on a Sunday morning.

We rescued our critters from a non profit private shelter. They use to sleep in a barn in the cold.

I guess they are done with that.