It Doesn't Take Much Sometimes...
 

Sometimes it's the little things...

1. I'm happy that Google made a link to my Gmail somehow after I downloaded something to my computer. Now when I see someone's hyperlinked email address, I can click that and it goes to my Gmail account and not Outlook.

2. This retro ashtray (which happens to use the same colors as LoT) that I bought from Disneyland sits on my desk and makes me smile.

3. This makes me smile:
:argghh:
:decap:

4. In a couple of weeks the leaves are going to change on the East Coast to reds and oranges... Can't wait. :)

What's on your happy little things list?

Tomorrow I go home!

I didn't soil myself today when handed several thousand dollars in cash...





unfortunately, it ain't mine to keep, either :(

Think lovely thoughts...

My happy thought this week has been that the kids at the school seem to genuinely like me. They run up to me during recess just to say "I remember you, you're the library teacher!" I get kids knocking on the door asking if I need help. It really warms my heart.

1. Pumpkin soy latte for breakfast.

2. Crisp cold clear morning.

3. No cat barf anywhere.

4. Lost on TV tonight.

5. Leftover Pizza Schmizza in the fridge.

6. Brand new InStyle on the coffee table.

7. I'm wearing a green turtleneck. I love ribbed turtleneck sweaters!

8. It's BOOT time! I bought some new knee high boots the other day.

9. New school clothes. I love kids in new school clothes.

10. Home brew in the extra fridge. It's a blonde ale that drinks like a red.

10.5 Did I mention that Lost is on tonight?

Owning a bike again
Weekly pool league
Feeling confident that I've got some job security
Finally having ordered the last piece of our massive Shag print framing project
The beginning of the new TV season
Netflix. Thank God for Netflix
Logic puzzles

Grande one-shot pumpkin spice latte... so good it's indecent.

Little compliments at work that tell me I'm not sucking as bad as I fear, and despite feeling like a complete slacker, am apparently doing a good job.

Maintaining a balance (however small) in my savings account, and actually adding to it for once.

The sight of those little mini pumpkins in the supermarket

Rainy days :)

Real Peets Coffee in my cup
Pookie on my lap
Nice chill in the air
New fall clothes in my luggage
Being home
Laughing over how I parked my car last night
Jack's Giant purrs
Brown Braided Cable Turtleneck
Chris arriving tonight.

coller days
the rain
thunder storms 9as long as I'm not tryign to sleep)
my daughter (most days)
candles
my cats..:)
the little mickey ball on the abck of my car (it makes so easy to find my car in a parking lot)
quilts
finishing a project..:)
my new make-up. it stays on OMG!!...LOL

Spring weather - sunshine!

Texts from friends

Such a cool thread!

For me, one word: coffee! :coffee:

Today, it was seeing the big green Waste Managment truck on my street, and knowing all the junk from my garage that got wet was not going to be in front of my house any more! I NEVER thought I'd be that happy to see the garbage men! (And the stuff hasn't even been out there all that long.)

Tonight, when I get home, I'm going to watch some more "Lost" on DVD. :)

Mmmmm yes, now that I'm home I can make my own again....:coffee: :cool:

Cannolis from the Boston's North End.

Iced Green Tea

Reruns of 'The Golden Girls'

Disneyland music CDs

Realizing how wonderful a dog thinks you are.

:)

Super big gulps and rubber pants....

Sometimes it's just the kudos in passing. From today's email (from my primary editor):

"On an aside, I was talking to Rebekah the other day and she said you'd done a really outstanding job on the sub edit. Nice work!"

On Wednesday, a guest told me "Son, You could sell ice to an Eskimo"

:)

I'm going to Disneyland.

I have a lovely weekend planned.
Laundry is all done
I have new puppies to care for
It's almost payday
The cats are being cute again - only two, but cuddling with my large Jiji backpack.
The weather couldn't be better.

What a nice thread.

Just when I need to remember what makes me happy....

Okay, I have to agree with some things people mentioned:

coffee!!! :snap:

crazy loving little kitty :p

My son asking me to take him lunch when his dad said he was too old for it.

The new fall clothes.

My chickie started at a new Starbucks today and I went to see her and she looked soooo happy it made me happy. :)

When I sit here at the computer, I see this cute little Tinkerbelle pin that I FOUND at Disneyland on our ditch day last week. "small pixie~ big attitude"
{and sorry if it was yours anyone :blush: }

Amen to that!!

* B's company

* Seattle's Best Coffee near my house

* Hand Shaken Soy Iced Mochas from SBC

* being recognized at work for a job well done (go Prudence!!)

* crisp mornings

* awe inspiring lighting show on Tuesday

* sitting with B for 4 hours in the bookstore reading our seperate books

I'm setting up a new aquarium in my living room today. It's so much fun. Every time I do it, always makes me happy....
:)

My back - after two long years of pain - is now strong enough for me to work out with vigor again.

The summer heat is gone.

Friday night is only hours away.

I often get some thrown my way on Friday nights.

Oh Ally the words right out my mouth. :)

For me...
Five minutes to call my own.

Snuggling with my cat

Looking forward to a delicious glass of retsina tonight. Mmmmmmm.

Finally kicked the auto-felation habit?

Finally perfected it. :evil:

The Weekend!

Movies in a cemetary

Sleeping in

The anticipation of coffee

Jack Johnson's cover of Sublime's Badfish/Boss DJ.

The shot of tequila currently warming my chest.

The auto-felation habit I never knew I had. (Every night can be Friday!)

The Chemical Brothers

Subwoofers

No shared walls

Dinner with friends in a Bulgarian restaurant -- particularly if you bring along an actual Bulgarian who starts telling you what you can have that's not on the menu.

While driving to work today - a banner was spanning the roadway before my workplace. it said,

To Enlighten Sentient Beings

Such an odd affirmation to start the day, but it did make me smile...

Getting $60 for looking at car paint colors.

Batch programming for fun and profit (okay, maybe not profit)

Antique shopping in Ipswich and Essex in MA.

Lobster rolls.

Chewy brownies.

Picking fancy guppies to put into your new aquarium...

:)

No work for four days.:D

Roof is finished- no more waking up to guys tromping on the roof at dawn.

Painting commences next week, then house reburb is finished!

Going to the Harvest Festival on Greenbluff the next few weekends- fresh cider, apples, squash and pie!:snap:

Living in a relatively safe (albeit boring) city that I only occasionally get lost in.

The LoT.:cool:

Buying umbrellas that fold up to pocket-size from Sharper Image for our Paris trip (courtesy Discover Card cash back)

Buying Paris guidebooks

Eating cold pineapple slices straight from the can.

Watching a squirrel outside my window gathering acorns. (That's very Disney, folks. Snow White watching a woodland creature grab nuts.) :D

Counting the days until we pick up our Corgi from the inlaws...
:)

Buying 5 red hooks that look like cat butts at Ikea.

Coming home to 5 large, real cat butts

Well. I am very happy to say that we are all caught up on 'Lost'. We rented the discs, one by one, from Blockbuster and sat our butts down to watch all of the shows, only since Sunday {I believe} to be caught up for last nights two shows. Today I feel like a burden has been lifted off of my shoulders.

And, again, my kids are the bright lights of my day. My little guy smiling and cheerful heading off to school. My daughter happy in her life and got a new Robert Smith tattoo, it looks pretty damn cool. And, my older son is getting into his two classes that we made him take at the community college. He didn't want to but he is happy now that he did. He is going to be 18 soon and he is like a flower about to bloom. I can't wait to see what he does.

And, last but not least, I am trying to get the hubster to agree on a ditch day to Disneyland in October.

Two shows? There were two shows last night?!?!?! I think we only recorded one!!!! :eek:

We've got about 10 more episodes of season 1 to get through, then we can start watching season 2. We recorded both episodes last week...but were there two last night also?

EDIT: Oh, okay, the first one was a repeat from last week. I can stop freaking out now.

Oooh, sorry Chief. :blush:

We had caught up on season one and then kicked off season two last night with the two first episodes. We were lucky that they showed the first one again as I missed it on Sunday {?}.

The Hubster is off of work so we have been sitting here hour after hour, inbetween our responsibilities, watching. Watching.

Now we are watching the bonus disc that comes after the last shows.

Did you see the trivia page about Lost? I can try and find it.

Happiness is being able to record all of the shows you want to and watch them at your leisure. :snap:

I am pissed. I missed last night's new Lost because I forgot to set up a season pass on my DVR. I watched old episodes of Super sweet 16 and then went looking for lost and invasion and nooooooo... it wasn't set to record. I was so angry. Yesterday sucked, fire in the hills, I spent almost 5 hours driving around the valley trying to get things done before our out of town guests arrived and then NO Lost.

Oh wait this thread is supposed to be about good things isn't it???? Whoops.

Ah, those things do suck but on the bright side....

You were still able to post!!! :D


lost trivia

Not a lot of things but interesting still.

* Dusting off my coding skills to create a damned good little batch program to automate some testing. This thing is bullet proof, runs completely unattended, does error checking, completely user configurable. Not bad for 300 lines of code. I find I like programming much better when I don't have to argue with a compiler.

* Eating lunch outdoors on a sunny day with a good book

* Making a perfect defensive shot in pool, leaving the cue ball in the one and only spot on the table that would give me a chance to win, thus securing the match for my team.

Tito's Kitten: I recorded Lost last night, and I think you live near me (I'm in Studio City). You're welcome to borrow it sometime this weekend if you like!

There now, bad thing becomes good thing, just like that! :)

The Man Who Wears Grey Neckties and is Kind to Mice
Not living near a gigantic brush fire.
Having a job I love and working with people I really enjoy.
The Corpse Bride.
Everwood starts tonight!
LOST featured a dripping wet Sawyer last night.
www.librarything.com
www.boingboing.net
Battlecat He-man toy.
Street Angel (a new comic book I adore)
Charlie Chaplin's The Kid
Cat snuggles first thing in the morning.

Why thank you all.... I just got side tracked when I read Lost....(grrrr...) BUT
I am happy that I made plans to go to DL on Saturday and Sunday with my friend Ms. Tina. Yeah!!

Speaking of interesting sites.....

http://www.rtm86.com/

Wow! Creatively done, I'm really impressed!

I like that it's eternally March.

The Donald cartoons on 'Chronological Donald'. He makes me laugh so much. He's such a grouch and does mean things and then laughs about it. Love him.

Wow. Nifty. Do you know this person?

Pumpkin soy lattes

Pumpkin bagels from Noah's

Pumpkin schmear

Getting lost in Lost lately....finally found a TV show that makes me think.

Three author visits this week!

I won $30 at Bunko the other day! :p

OSU football game tomorrow with friends and the kids

It's raining....perfect excuse for buying winter clothing.

Chloe's gymnastics coach wants her to compete someday!

Auction crap is all caught up.

Berry drop martini at happy hour tonight! Mmmmm!

Seeing Claire back here :)

Feeling really good for the first time in a month.

Realizing the end of the fiscal year is almost over

Fall weather and that special crispness it brings to the air

Waiting to see "Capote" at the theater and remembering it won't be too much longer

Enjoying my changing yard; the tree cutting and wall building and dirt moving and planting and edging and trimming and all the other work is finally paying off

Watching some of my friends go back to their homes in New Orleans. It's a little prickly sad too, but I know how much they want to go back, and I'm happy for them.

Friday

Watching the 'Brokeback Mountain' trailer. :sigh:

The nice Italian/Portuguese lady that cut my hair today. She reminded me of my grandma.

Listening to Disneyland retro tunes. The vocals are sooo late 50's/early 60's. "Hello, friends." :D

I wish... I found this through another board I visit....

By the way, I am now a regular visitor to post secrets thanks to you! (I have even thought of sending in my own......)

ordering my son's halloween/play costumes (Hercules, a new Mickey costume and Prince Phillip)

Ordering myself the Nightmare Before Christmas pumpkin carving kit. (my hands are hurting already at the thought of making my usual 6 pumpkins...but it is a satisfying pain....)

Having french martinis tonight while watching Lost. (yippeeee)

Knowing this weekend will be spent at DL.

Not that I really wanted to post three times in a row but I have to tell gemini that I LOVE the avatar.... Jake Gyllenhaal hot,hot,hot. Gay cowboy, hot, hot, hot. Sad and beautiful looking movie...

:) Can't wait for that movie...

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More good things:

Looking at MouseAdventure pictures of all the crazy MAers I know. Love it.

Movie trailers. Sometimes they're more fun than the movie that follows.

The bunnies in the 'Wallace and Gromit' movie.

The Japanese market we went to yesterday that sold dim sum called 'Longevity Buns'. :D

Pizza with thin crust.

:)

Getting 'Brokeback' on DVD.

Mochi from the Japanese Market.

The really nice lady I met on the subway the other day.

Kingdom Hearts 2

:)

I was enjoying a wonderful walk in the rain listening to my Audioslave 'Out Of Exile' cd....even a beautiful rainbow came out for my walk.

Then the clouds burst open and it started to POUR and the wind picked up.

The next rainbow came in the figure of my friend in her van with the duckie on the antennae picking me up to go to Starbucks to warm me up. :snap:

We then sat in Starbucks admiring this humungous and beautiful rainbow. I thought of a certain someone and wondered if he had gotten a rainbow in Boston yet.....