# What makes you happy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 1, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901 "2009-03-01T19:16:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4491bb/32.png) [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Have_Hippos_In_My_Garden)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/21 "2009-03-02T19:25:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Sunshine. Me too. Feeling the warmth of the sun on my face or back, and seeing a clear blue sky with the sun sprinkled out from leafy trees are two of the greatest things ever. > [@](#): > > The OP’s username. It doesn’t matter what the topic of a thread is, it’s username/topic combo that never fails to entertain me! LOL. I’m so glad my hippos are providing so much pleasure because they are a real devil to clean up after, they really muck my lawn up. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/22 "2009-03-02T19:28:58Z")
Corgi in lap. Other corgi in lap. Repeat. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/23 "2009-03-02T21:03:02Z")
> [@Mahna\_Mahna](#): > > Puttering around the kitchen fixing a nice homemade meal, and then feeding it to people. > > Yeah, I know… how Martha Sodding Stewart of me. 🙂 I’m terminally domestic like that. When can you move in with me? Or when can I move in with you? I’m TIRED of cooking. I like chocolate and cats, but usually not together. The cats get fur in my chocolate, and the chocolate gets in the cats’ fur. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/24 "2009-03-02T21:08:40Z")
Lying in bed with my girlfriend on Sunday morning, drinking coffee, and listening to NPR, waiting for the weekly puzzle. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/25 "2009-03-02T21:15:49Z")
Playing my fiddle and really nailing a tricky run. Editing a page and writing a headline that fills out _perfectly_. Finding a great pair of pumps I can walk and run in comfortably. A full pint of Guinness. Langston Hughes. Trashy historical fiction. Earnest newscasters. Finally finding an antiperspirant that works. The green-and-white dress I got for my cousin’s wedding last year. My cousin being happily married to a great guy and me happily not married to any number of great guys. The unread copy of _The Shadow of the Wind_ which I’m saving to read on my vacation to Spain in two months. Carolina beating Duke. Mojitos. The Chartists. Plays or musicals about putting on plays or musicals. President Barack Hussein Obama. Bringing my own bag to the supermarket and getting 5p off. My foot scrub that smells like grapefruit. Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/26 "2009-03-02T21:25:59Z")
That completely wiped out - have to drag my feet to walk feeling after a really good workout. Covered in sweat and rushing with endorphins. Watching pointlessly bad TV with the **Kid** and making fun of people on the show. Knowing that no matter what kind of day I had, I can come home and know that my boy Cuervo will show me unconditional affection. Cutting the grass on a sunny day. A perfect pizza and a cold beer with friends and family. (and because I am, at the root of things, a dirty old man): Watching a finely shaped woman that knows how to walk in heels as she walks away from me. Unfortunately, walking away from me is more the norm than I’d like, but… ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/27 "2009-03-02T22:16:10Z")
Getting a text from my kid My dog My husband (these are not in any particular order. I do not prefer my dog to my husband. Well not usually. All the time anyway.) A cold beer at the end of the day Walking into the bar and seeing all our friends after work Sleep, when I’m really, really tired Waking up and knowing you can go right back to sleep for as long as you want I’m really pretty easy to please. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/28 "2009-03-02T23:15:36Z")
Sitting on the couch with a new episode of The Soup, and my quilting. A close second, going to sleep Friday night knowing I don’t have to get up in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/29 "2009-03-03T00:35:53Z")
The perfect beer-buzz! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/30 "2009-03-03T02:06:36Z")
- This. 😃 Sitting down for a nice hour or two of surfin’. No matter how things get, I can sit down and amuse myself at my computer. - Four days a week, waking up early and knowing I have a whole day of doing whatever I want to all day, until evening. Clean house, cook something, go for a walk, go shopping, do hobbies, watch TCM, or just go back to sleep. - Go out to eat at a restaurant, have a glass of wine. I’ll go anywhere, it’s all good to me. Those occasions are few and far between. - Driving home Sunday night after visiting with my mother. I feel like I’ve run a marathon, but I feel good because I Did My Duty and don’t have to do it again for a while, and praise the Lord, Mom is currently in good health. - Watching the birds at the feeder. Blue jays, juncos, chickadees, and several cardinals. Pretty soon the goldfinches will arrive. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/31 "2009-03-03T02:09:43Z")
Cuddling up on the couch with DH and the hellhounds. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/32 "2009-03-03T05:18:15Z")
A vodka martini with olives and a really good rare hamburger makes me totally happy. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/33 "2009-03-03T05:24:33Z")
To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women. Well SOMEONE had to. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/34 "2009-03-03T05:32:02Z")
[ul] [li]Being with my friends always makes me happy. I have a few friends that are like rays of sunshine and when we hang out we’re always laughing and having fun. They’re amazing.[/li][li]Spa days (massage, facial, pedicure)[/li][li]My family[/li][li]Good sex (duh!)[/li][li]Sunshine[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/35 "2009-03-03T08:52:22Z")
Making art and making love (is there a difference?). ---
**Author:** ![BACI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@BACI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BACI)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/36 "2009-03-03T10:29:21Z")
Potatoes. Ain’t nothin’ better than potatoes. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/37 "2009-03-03T11:18:59Z")
[ul] [li] Sunshine - the light brings out the best in people![/li][li] Cooking for other people - I just love making good food and eating it with good people![/li][li] A good poker game with friends - really just a reason to talk about everything, nothing and drink a few beers![/li][li] Hiking out in the hinterlands - it’s a pity I don’t do it more though[/li] [li] And [this song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgEJWU0ZB5A) - it just came to mind when I saw the thread title :)[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/38 "2009-03-03T21:47:18Z")
> [@BACI](#): > > Potatoes. > > Ain’t nothin’ better than potatoes. Amen. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/39 "2009-03-03T21:52:12Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Making art and making love (is there a difference?). Disclaimer: You’re not using that paintbrush according to manufacturer’s directions. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-you-happy/487901/40 "2009-03-03T22:01:05Z")
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