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

Graces7

Mam of 4 wrote: »

A surprise package in the post , thoughtful beyond words , sometimes thanks aren't enough

Hmmmmm.. Back at thee !!! Surprise is the word!!!!!!!THANKYOU

Graces7

small hot water bottle makes me happy this chilly morning.... snug as the wind howls and the rain batters..

theoldbreed

I've made a new friend, doesn't happen all that often when you're in your 30s/40s. Feel like we've known each other forever, we just clicked and have such fun.
Happened at a time when I really needed it and was starting to question certain things about friendship after a bad experience with one of my close friends this year after which that friendship is all but over.
Sometimes people come into your life when you need them.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

A early morning walk in air freshened after overnight showers, bright light, calm winds and nature at it's best.

Cleopatra_

Starting to feel human again and it makes all the difference both mentally and physically

Graces7

My flowers make me constantly happy with their bright faces and graceful ways.

First year in a new place where there is no garden can be odd, but I decided early on daffs, and then containers.

Chose two packets of seeds; poached egg plant and trailing nasturtiums @E1 each; thank you Mr Price and LIDL, one sack of compost, thank you LIDL,, total cost E4.. sowed them individually in yog pots etc.. then into five large pots.

They are magnificent...cheer the soul every day... One of the pots lives atop the gate post when wind allows and smiles at folk on the road..

Miracle of seeds..

ginandtonicsky

A work contact told me he fancied me last night. We've been at a conference together for the past week and there's been vibes.We live in different countries so it's unlikely anything major will happen between us. But it's nice to be fancied. I feel like Beyonce

New Home

No, Beyonce wishes she was you.

ginandtonicsky

New Home wrote: »

No, Beyonce wishes she was you.

:pac::pac::pac:

So....we're going to fly to Paris to meet for dinner in two weeks. This will be interesting... :):D

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Watching Robins, Blue Tits and House Sparrows feeding newly fledged youngsters in the garden and knowing they were all the product of nests within the garden.

New Home

ginandtonicsky wrote: »

:pac::pac::pac:

So....we're going to fly to Paris to meet for dinner in two weeks. This will be interesting... :):D

*Runs to the shops to buy hat for the wedding*

madmaggie

Cleopatra_ wrote: »

Starting to feel human again and it makes all the difference both mentally and physically

To feel your strength returning and your mood lifting each day, that's about the only upside of being unwell.

Kitty6277

ginandtonicsky wrote: »

:pac::pac::pac:

So....we're going to fly to Paris to meet for dinner in two weeks. This will be interesting... :):D

Sounds very fancy

Graces7

Seeing rose hips formed already on the hedge, solid green and huge, makes me happy with the promise of wayside fruit in the autumn on this unspoiled island

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Mrs S dolled up for a choir concert. She looks smashing.

New Home

Hope you told her!

Rows Grower

Just checked the shrubs and young trees that I watered for hours during the hot spell and they are after having a savage spurt of growth.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

New Home wrote: »

Hope you told her!

Absolutely!

TH that I can do so.

Sephiroth_dude

Sasha Thoughtless Bayou wrote: »

Absolutely!

TH that I can do so.

G'wan Sasha Thoughtless Bayou ya charmer ya :pac:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

G'wan Srameen ya charmer ya :pac:

Oh, it's easy with her. 💘

SirChenjin

A good book and a cup of tea!

KatW4

Sephiroth_dude wrote:

I bet you're like this kind of witch though

Hahaha I'm more of the green sort

Had a great night out at our staff party and a brilliant chat with one of the girls I work with. Going to miss her terribly next year!

Sephiroth_dude

KatW4 wrote: »

Hahaha I'm more of the green sort

You can't fool us :pac:

Graces7

Too many to list... which is a happiness in itself..

Here is one!

Watching the interplay with the critters...

Cat decides the part-cooked carrot in the dog's food dish( working to get her to eat more and raw) is a wonderful toy.

So he snags it out and starts a wonderful game of "mouse" with it.

Dog of course is not happy. The carrot after all is hers.

She lears menacingly at the cat and reclaims the carrot.

Takes it to her bed and hides it. No intention of eating it; just possession. If she does not eat it, no one else is going to!

Which of course is where the expression, "Dog in the manger" comes from . But you all know that
PS the carrot has since become smaller and smaller and finally vanished so all is well and my plot is working..

Graces7

No wind.... quiet early day...

TG1

Lying in bed, with nothing to worry about. No work to stress about (unemployed for a week before I start my new job!!):, no commitments made to see anyone, just lying in bed watching old episodes of Brooklyn 99. first time in a long time I've been genuinely relaxed.

Graces7

Picking flowers on the lane and seeing all the rose buds etc getting bigger..Home safe and work for my hands...and feeling better for a few days of decent pain relief and sleep ..

KERSPLAT!

Things aren't great in general but today I get to spend Father's Day with the little fella. Perfect.

Trigger Happy

Enjoying a fathers day breakfast in bed and having the whole day planned out for me by a seven year old. Including a trip for a 'sunday pint'!

iamwhoiam

Had a lovely deep sleep and slept well .

New Home

SIX, yes SIX swallow fledglings landing on the phone wire over the garden, two of them trying to get the sibling beside them to feed them, their parents swooping about. And all that chattering!!! Adorable, made me sooo happy to see them!

EDIT: THERE'S EIGHT OF THEM!!!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Father's Day hugs and kisses....they keep coming.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

There’s an old old lady on my ward, she’s 90 if she’s a day and as sharp as a knife. I’m in my 20s in my pjs, feeling awful sorry for myself when she commands the help of a healthcare assistant, and got out of her nightwear, into her day clothes. She’s sitting on the chair across from me looking very put together, making me feel like a slob but it’s making me smile old person goals

New Home

That reminds me of a very, very elderly lady who was in the same nursing home as my grandmother. I think she had been an opera singer, or some such, in her youth. One day, after her bath, she was sitting on her wheelchair, all dressed, including her stockings and proper shoes. She turned to a relative of hers (a niece, I think) who was visiting her, and asked her to bring her her pearls. Once she had the necklace on, she patted the pearls and said, "There! I feel dressed, now!".

gifted

That I'm a man.....in liffey valley shopping centre and the queues for the ladies toilets is out the door......the men's on the other side is walk-in..no waiting...lol lol

Poochie05

Kinslee Important Saber wrote: »

There’s an old old lady on my ward, she’s 90 if she’s a day and as sharp as a knife. I’m in my 20s in my pjs, feeling awful sorry for myself when she commands the help of a healthcare assistant, and got out of her nightwear, into her day clothes. She’s sitting on the chair across from me looking very put together, making me feel like a slob but it’s making me smile old person goals

Well it is Sunday! Gotta look your best

TG1

Kinslee Important Saber wrote: »

There’s an old old lady on my ward, she’s 90 if she’s a day and as sharp as a knife. I’m in my 20s in my pjs, feeling awful sorry for myself when she commands the help of a healthcare assistant, and got out of her nightwear, into her day clothes. She’s sitting on the chair across from me looking very put together, making me feel like a slob but it’s making me smile old person goals

I spent 3 weeks in an orthopedic ward a few years ago, and most of the other patients were older ladies with broken hips. One in particular was amazing, used to insist on being fully dressed every day etc. I was slobbing round in tracksuits and hoodies as they were less complicated to put on and she was in full skirt suits and blouses every day.
She obviously had a huge family as loads of them used to come and visit her every day. There was one day I had one visiting hours session with no one, and she insisted the nurse get me out of my bed, into a wheelchair And over to her to talk horses and eat chocolate with one of her grandchildren who had ponies (I was there after a fall from a horse). To say I was in awe was an understatement!!!

Cleopatra_

Kinslee Important Saber wrote: »

There’s an old old lady on my ward, she’s 90 if she’s a day and as sharp as a knife. I’m in my 20s in my pjs, feeling awful sorry for myself when she commands the help of a healthcare assistant, and got out of her nightwear, into her day clothes. She’s sitting on the chair across from me looking very put together, making me feel like a slob but it’s making me smile old person goals

Sorry to hear you're in again Shoesday and I hope you get out soon. You've been in a lot lately so I hope they can get to the bottom of it. On the odd occasion that I'm admitted to a non-CF ward the staff soon realise it's a CF patient they have because I'm about 50 years younger than everyone else and I'm up, showered, dressed and blow drying my hair without any aid

umop episdn

Cleopatra_ wrote: »

Sorry to hear you're in again Shoesday and I hope you get out soon. You've been in a lot lately so I hope they can get to the bottom of it. On the odd occasion that I'm admitted to a non-CF ward the staff soon realise it's a CF patient they have because I'm about 50 years younger than everyone else and I'm up, showered, dressed and blow drying my hair without any aid

Says the woman who earlier admitted to not having left the house since Monday!!

Cleopatra_

umop episdn wrote: »

Says the woman who earlier admitted to not having left the house since Monday!!

Keeping up appearances my dear

Graces7

Happy with a quiet day, full of good food, with the wind shouting outside. Happy at the art of improvisation we are blessed with... My tape measure is temporarily MIA but I have paper that is 10 by 8 inches .. Working a 90 inch cabled scarf again....

Neames

My 10 year old daughter giving me a homemade card and lots of homemade vouchers for Father's day....20 in all with tea, coffee, hugs, days of relaxation all yet to be availed of. And no expiry date either. Delighted!

Mam of 4

Finding my Andreas Bocelli cd and driving with my favourite song , Canto Della Terra at high volume , on repeat

Mountainsandh

TH at the sense of relief once a splinter is gone !

Maaann...
I'm just so happy.

Mr M is getting an ice cream out of it since he's the hero who took it out.

TH too at the particular ice-creams, they're the oranges full of sorbet that you can get in Lidl on Spanish week, I used to have them every time we went out to the restaurant in France, as a kid, and haven't had them since ! (I'm having one for the trauma )

madmaggie

My laptop has given up on Windows Media Player, so I headed to the loft to find the DVD player. I cleared the thick layer of dust and cobwebs, and off it went, first go. Now I can watch my library DVD's.

Also managed to play the music on my phone through the Bluetooth in the car. OK, that's probably baby stuff to a lot of people, but I thought I was Stephen Hawking when I got it to work.

misstearheus

I didn't bother closing Blinds or Curtains when I got in a couple of hours ago. And could see the Clouds moving. I know they're not really moving! But I'm odd and easily amused and I think this is awesome! They have slightly changed in formation right now and are dead still.

Graces7

The big elderberry shrub by the door now has pinhead sized green berries...Delight! The gale zapped some blossom but berries there are

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

A long full night's sleep and wakening to a sunny pleasant day.

iamwhoiam

A goldfinch mammy and two babies are on my feeder .Babies are well able to feed by now but still begging mammy to be fed .LOL at mammy finch turning her back and pretending she cant hear or see them !!

Boom_Bap

I let my kids decide what we do this weekend.
Went swimming twice, ate Pizza and McDonalds, watched football, went to Smyths, palyed video games...

It was awesome.