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

Kitty6277

TH that tonight’s my last night alone, Mam’s coming home tomorrow

quickbeam

Seeing a fox on the way to work today. Cool as a cucumber: standing upright. Thought it was a dog at first. Usually when I see them they're skulking and running for cover.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Blue skies, slack winds and early morning sunshine.

Widdershins

Being offered a job as a paper marbler, ha! Not my usual thing but I can do it and if I ever moved to London it would be a nice job.

New Home

Widdershins wrote: »

Being offered a job as a paper marbler, ha! Not my usual thing but I can do it and if I ever moved to London it would be a nice job.

I'm soooo envious!!!!

SaltSweatSugar

Living with lovely people. Told my housemate about my uncle last night and she insisted on making me tea and feeding me. She sat with me for an hour and let me talk. Then our other housemate came in and the three of us drank more tea and told funny stories about our family members. It gave me a much needed laugh.

RMAOK

TH for the lovely weather today.

The Princess Bride

Out for a walk, Mr Blue Sky comes on ipod, what a lovely sunny day to be alive.

Tis a great day for gettin' the drying done!

branie2

I had a great time in Sligo the past couple of days, and I stopped in Knock on the way home.

black forest

TH for my two DIY fruit drying racks.:D

In my neck of the woods in SW Germany there are literally thousands of different fruit trees along the local and regional roads. Nobody cares about them and the fruits are left rotting. So last Saturday i tested a few apples and they were delicious.

As i can’t eat them all i decided to build a drying rack. The prototype is only one sided and pretty small, but it works. So today it got a bigger brother...double sided. All made from scrap and things lying around anyway. Costs? Nada...;)

Back into the kitchen. Washing and slicing another kilogram of apples. By the way being purely biological nearly all have a resident worm.:D

Ifevera wiztherewas

branie2 wrote:

I had a great time in Sligo the past couple of days, and I stopped in Knock on the way home.

Glad you enjoyed your time in paradise branie. I hope you said a prayer in knock to make it back here again.

Ifevera wiztherewas

My TH is that the most rank day of the week is nearly over.

Mam of 4

TH, Black Forests pics , always love them !

Also , gorgeous day here , and I also done something today that was completely out of my comfort zone and I survived it
(Minds out of the gutter please )

madmaggie

I used to pop in to see an elderly couple now and then, we had the tea and the yarns, they love visitors. Today was the old man's funeral, and and every one of his nine children came and said how much my visits meant to their parents. It was only a small thing to me, but I'm touched that it meant so much to them

Redneck Reject

Was waiting for bloods to be done at the hospital, seated beside a woman in a wheelchair in tears. Asked if she was ok and told me she was there alone and anxious.\so I started talking to her, telling jokes and she was laughing and in better spirits. As she was leaving, she said, "thank you Rico and God bless you". I was so happy and proud of myself. My mama taught me well,heh.

The Princess Bride

I have way too much time on my hands, but these made me laugh and smile.

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1173977242319380480?s=19

https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1173973617312505856?s=19

Ifevera wiztherewas

The stars tonight and the utter tranquility where we now live.

branie2

Watching Extra Ordinary at the cinema last night. It was very good.

iamwhoiam

A huge perfect spiders web across the top of my rotary line .With the sun shining on it it is pure engineering perfection

Kitty6277

TH that I’ve managed to get over my breakup so quickly and easily

honeybear

TH that a neighbour mistook me for my sister who’s 7 years younger than me!

RMAOK

honeybear wrote: »

TH that a neighbour mistook me for my sister who’s 7 years younger than me!

Now that's a compliment.

New Home

Or bad eyesight and senility. :pac:

honeybear

New Home wrote: »

Or bad eyesight and senility. :pac:

Lol! I’m taking it as a compliment (sister is very good looking!)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

TH, good conversation.

Your Face

I found a song on YouTube that was on a compilation album I had years ago.
I have all the bands albums but this song wasn't on any of them.

I'll be playing this until I'm sick of it.

Neames

Finally got a bit of dry weather to mow the lawn.

When I finished and came into the house, I said to my 11 year old daughter I'd love a cup of tea and she put down her Switch and made me one. I was delighted....easily pleased!

cj maxx

Actually did everything on my to-do list for today.

Neames

cjmc wrote: »

Actually did everything on my to-do list for today.

Fair play to you and it's still not even 1 am!

madmaggie

The amazing amount of raspberries in my garden this year. They are ripening quicker than I can pick them.

Kitty6277

Sat down and actually did some of my FYP tonight. Feeling slightly more positive about it now, I know what I want to say for the bit that I’m starting to write now, and I re-drafted the part my supervisor said was too long-winded.

cj maxx

Neames wrote: »

Fair play to you and it's still not even 1 am!

I know and my 'sleeping pills' haven't kicked in it .
I'll have tomorrows list done by 4pm !

Bredabe

So glad I put on my bed braces the other day despite it being the last thing I wanted to do!

Lovely flat bottom sheets even after sleeping.

Kintarō Hattori

I don't want this to come across as overly nauseating but I was hesitant about having a child with my partner. 2 years and 4 months later I'm blown away by just how much you can love another person. I never realised it was possible to have such a level of intense love inside you for someone else. It almost moves me to tears on occasion just how wonderful it is. Coming home is the best part of each day.

honeybear

This is a TH but also a VH ... at last my sister’s beautiful good baby news is being announced. I can’t tell you how long I’ve been bursting to share it!!!

Sephiroth_dude

Th tomorrow is Friday and getting paid today.

New Home

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Th tomorrow is Friday and getting paid today.

Make mine a double ginger ale with a slice of lemon, Seph, thank you very much! :cool:

Widdershins

I'd like Crabbie's ginger beer please Seph. The spiced orange one if they have it

Th I cleaned my phone screen. It's lovely and shiny and swipey

SaltSweatSugar

Being able to spend an evening with my extended family with no one arguing or not speaking to someone else.

On Wednesday after my uncles funeral, myself, my cousins and my aunts and uncles went to the pub for food and a few drinks. My family is notorious for rifts and estrangements. But for once, that was all put aside and everyone got on. I’m 31 and never in my life have so many of my aunts and uncles been sat at the same table talking and laughing together. Granted some of the more awkward ones weren’t present but the ones who were sucked it up and got on with it. A tragic event brought us together but I feel like something in the family dynamic changed for the better.

I also heard some stories about my late mother that I never heard before. One of my favourites was how she and her not yet brother in law got drunk on brandy and were line dancing in my granny’s kitchen at 4am.

So, in short, being reminded of how great having a large extended family can be makes me happy.

Kitty6277

Got tickets for the Hella Mega Tour with Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer! Can’t wait

cj maxx

Meeting a ( girlfriend-ish sort of ) blast from the past and it seemed we were genuinely glad to see each other. Still grinning

branie2

Going to see Ad Astra at the cinema this evening. and on Wednesday, I'll be seeing a performance of the Michael Collins musical

madmaggie

Sharing some of my large crop of apples with the neighbours. Straight off the tree they are juicy and delicious. It shows the children that things don't come out of plastic bags in the supermarket, they actually grow.

cj maxx

madmaggie wrote: »

Sharing some of my large crop of apples with the neighbours. Straight off the tree they are juicy and delicious. It shows the children that things don't come out of plastic bags in the supermarket, they actually grow.

Th remembering robbing orchards as a kid

The Princess Bride

This is dedicated to New Home!
Out for a walk on another beautiful afternoon, and lots of dry, crunchy leaves on the ground under my feet.
I feel like I'm eleventy seven all over again.:D

Kitty6277

I have a date on Sunday. Excited but really nervous, I’ve never been taken on a proper first date before

Widdershins

Finding cinnamon leaf oil that does not smell like cloves. Very uplifting smell.

Also TH, predictive text. I find it very handy & timesaving as long as you keep an eye on it or it misbehaves

Graces7

still shak
y when I think of it but happy that I saved the life of a dragonfly yesterday. After a terrifying early childhood encounter with these.... things.. I am still traumatised by them. shudders! but it was in danger and I rescued it. did the right thing rather than gve in to my fear

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

The wind may be rough and the leaves may be falling but the wind direction blew them all into the wooded area of the garden, rather than the lawn where they usually end up.

One less job today.

madmaggie

TH with the rain, my garden needed it. Also got a load of baking done this wet day.