The Small Things In Life. What Makes You Happy?

[Srain]

My silly birds that come EVERY morning looking for breakfast HA!

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[Sandra]

Is that a great blue heron Srain?

 

[Deaf Global Nomad]

Sad that nobody likes winter... I was going to invite everyone over for a wonderful winter camping trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness this winter... It becomes really warm and cuddly around the campfire as well as in the winter camping sleeping bags...

Keep us updated if anyone is interested!

 

[Deaf Global Nomad]

Cuddling with furry golden retriever, Bright, while we both fall asleep.

 

[AngelKeeperJ]

... I was going to invite everyone over for a wonderful winter camping trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness this winter...

I think it sounds like a lovely trip, DGN! I'll bring the graham crackers, chocolate, and marshmallows for S'mores. YUM!

 

[KP the nut]

Keep us updated if anyone is interested!

I could do the campfire, marshmallow, watching the stars bit. However I would then need a proper brick bedroom with a bathroom attached - because I am worth it :roflmao::inlove:

 

[Sammy]

I'd be game for trying some winter camping... If anyone else could stand my snoring!

What makes me happy is watching my puppy learn new skills, seeing his pure joy on living, his happiness at seeing me, snuggling with him.

Conversations with good friends. Phone calls with my sister. Birds at my bird feeder.

Unlike many here, I do like winter - even with an under active thyroid and arthritis. I love a fire in the wood stove, wrapping in a soft, fleecy blanket and watching it snow. Shoveling... I can pass on that.

 

[Grace Hope]

I have a lot going on in my life at the moment and I`m finding it so difficult to sleep during "decent hours " and because of that I get angry and upset when I struggle to surface into the world in the late afternoon. Yesterday when I awoke one of my cats had brought me one of their favorite toys and left it on my pillow for me to find. Which just goes to show sometimes animals are often better than people.

 

[AngelaMarie]

Getting up in the morning while everyone is still in bed and posting on the forum!!:)
Cooking with my son! We are making pizza today!:D
Cuddling under warm blankets when it's cold.
Waking up and feeling positive about life for the first time in a VERY long time.:whistling:

 

[gigi2690]

Things that make me smile, or basically help me keep from spiraling into a dark depression given that I'm on medical leave from college with no form of real life.
1. writing poetry
2. talking to my best friend
3. playing with my little sisters
4. my two black cats :)
5. living vicariously through strong female tv and book characters
6. Going more than three days without a migraine
7. Listening to music - especially Alexi Murdoch, Peter Bradley Adams and Nick Drake. I swear they calm me down during stressful moments and panic attacks better than the xanax my psychiatrist prescribed. :)
8. dancing stupidly in the moonlight listening to my headphones because I just got out of a migraine and I'm wide awake and it's 3am.
9. figuring out my mood, usually done by listening to different music genres until one clicks. I have certain tastes depending on my mood. It gets pretty specific, but it works - I know, for instance, that if I'm in the mood for Johnny Cash I'm feeling like I need someone who's experienced pain but still saw beauty in the world to relate to.
10. A really good meal - and I'm not nauseous - nothing better than that :)

 

[Deleted member 10686]

Makes me happy when my son gets super excited about a blank sheet of paper and a pencil. Sits down on the floor and very seriously scribbles and draws, marches around with it, glares down at the paper again with a new artistic idea, sits somewhere else, repeat. I love that he draws now. without eating the drawing utensils.

 

[CraftyCath]

My silly birds that come EVERY morning looking for breakfast HA!

Fantastic picture Rain! Is it a heron?