to want to think about happy things

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Thought it might be nice to think about the little things that make us happy/laugh/feel like it's going to be a good day....instead of what people do to annoy us/why we hate them etc. Not really big, important things, but silly little ones...'odd likes' if you will.

Here are mine;

1. Pic n Mix - because it's as much fun to buy as it is to eat.

1. People who say 'the old days' when they mean 6 months ago.

1. When someone runs for the bus and the bus driver waits.

1. When something that you needed to buy anyway is on BOGOF

1. The word 'chillax'...I don't know why as everyone else hates it and I don't use it, but when someone else says it, it makes me smile, which in turn makes me 'chillax'!

What are yours?

Good thread nanny! Here are mine:

1. Being in when the delivery driver calls.
2. My favourite wine on special offer.
3. Turning on the radio just as a brilliant track starts.
4. Having a good hair day.
5. Opening the post and finding my magazine subscription has been delivered.

Oooh the radio one is so true def! Dya think it's just us that want to think of happy things?

I wouldn't recommend AIBU if you're looking for happiness!

Gin and tonic, with a slice of lime.

Men in tight trousers with riding boots (there's a thread in chat)

Making sarcastic comments (sorry, it makes me happy if I can come up with a good one)

1. Coming home from work and realising there is a bottle of Pinot in the fridge
2. The kids excited faces the night before their birthday
3. Getting a takeaway delivered when it's pouring with rain
4. Waking up to deep snow on a Saturday when we don't need to go anywhere
5. Opening a brand new hardback by one of my favourite authors

i went to get some berry canes (raspberries, blackcurrants etc) from the pound shop today. i picked up three and went to pay, no cash and cards over a fiver. so i left stuff on till and went to et two more to make £5. when i got to the till, she said they are bogof so actually i'd need 10! i had to go to the cash point.

it was a pita traipsing around that awful shop poundland with the kids but was bargainous in the end :o

i like it when:

1 - people eye you up
2 - when you want to buy something but don't because it is too expensive and then you see something even better for half the price
3 - when you find some cash in a handbag you haven't used for a while

(mine make me sound really shallow )

Here's mine

1. I'm the first person to walk on fresh snow.

1. Getting into a clean fresh bed.

1. Opening a new packet of coffee.

1. Having 5 minutes to myself after work, before the DC's come home.

5.When it's freezing cold getting into bed with a hot water bottle, and a good book.

What a nice thread!

1. clean sheets and an early night
2. Someone else having done the washing up without being asked
3. finding something in a charity shop for a couple of quid that you were planning to buy new
4. friends visiting for the weekend :)

and my absolute favourite...

1. Cuddling with DH in front of telly!

What a lovely thread.

Here are mine:

1. The laughter and smiles my 2DDs (aged 4 and 1) greet me with each day when I collect them from the childminder.

2. DP catching an earlier boat (we live on an island and he works on the mainland) so getting home earlier in the evening.

3. Having the time to read once everyone else is asleep.

4. A tidy, laundry/toy free bedroom (ours, not the DD's).

5. All the lovely texts and phone calls I have had this week from people saying their DC wants to come to DD1's party next weekend - looking forward to meeting her friends and their parents.

Oh how refreshing is this AIBU.

and heres my first YANBU for while

1. clean sheets on the bed

1. DS laughing

1. Cup of coffee and a good book

1. Snow - especially when my prints are first

1. Seeing a show in the WEST END.

OK the last one is really random but me and best friend try and do it once a year and we always have a fab time.

ooh these are good....I'me feeling very upbeat already and i've thought of a couple more;

1. When I glance at the clock and the time is 12:34 or 11:11...I don't why.

1. Children's books that have a heartbreakingly sweet moral/message..particular favourites include 'The Smartest Giant in Town', 'The Snail and the Whale', 'Dogger' and 'Annie Rose is my little sister'.

Oh, this is fun! Okay, here goes:

1. waking up and thinking it is Friday, only to realise it is Saturday

2. getting back into clothing that was too tight last time I tried it on

3. DS saying a word I've never heard him say before (he is nearly 2)

4. doing that "after you, no, after you" dance in the street with strangers when you both keep going the same way to get round each other. It cracks me up

5. finding a tenner, earring I thought was lost or similar in a bag I haven't used for a while

@ your no. 4 openerofjars

This is going to be the last thread I read before going to bed, nice to have a happy thought to go to sleep on. I love that dance too openerofjars! So;

1.The smell after it rains when it's been hot for a few days.

1. Waking up and looking at the clock to find it's only 4 o'clock and you can go back to sleep again.

1. An empty ironing basket.

1. Cuddling up with all the DC's to watch a film and eat chocolate.

1. Having my friends round for a glass of wine and a moan.

1. The smell of real coffee. Don't drink it, just like to smell it.

1. Getting something in the post with a handwritten envelope.

1. Cuddling (anyone)

1. A parking space right next to the door.

1. Friends.

Night night.

(Actually, might stay up for a bit longer judging on this forum, but thanks for the happiness!)

1. purring cat
2. messing about on the river
3. flirting with someone attractive on the train, purely through glances
4. cake at work
5. finding a really great book that you can't put down, but is also so brilliant that when you finish you have to save it for a couple of years before you re-read it, so it will be like new BECAUSE IT'S SO GOOD [geek]
6. new clothes

My 22m old dd telling me she loves my ds
Laughing out loud at ds sulky face and making him laugh too.

1. My DH asleep in bed next to me
2. My DS and his smile first thing in the morning
3. being on maternity leave with first child
4. Buying an expensive iem of makeup as a treat when you have bought nothing for ages
5. Coffee and 30 mins to read sunday papers when DS is sleeping
6. DS sleeping
7. Doing the last item of ironing after not having done any for a week.
8. This thread
9. Getting back into pre pregnancy skinny jeans!!