Stuff that makes you disproportionately happy

I am an awful electrician and solderer and have always resisted anything that might make me better at it …so I just made up a new wiring harness for a car stereo (rather than spending like £8 for an ebay one) and it works and it means that having a stereo that works which would make me happy anyway is multiplied by the fact that it’s basically a miracle.

Competent people don’t get to feel this joy, what a waste.

My facebook feed is full of posts of former colleagues and friends sharing news of their promotions to Warrant Officer Class 1.

Incredibly proud of them for their achievement and the hard work and commitment it has taken to wear that rank.

Even  better when I mentored  few of them. some good hands to steer the officers into making sound decisions.

Competent people don’t get to feel this joy, what a waste.

I’m sure they do, but when they accomplish far more.

My things that bring far more joy then makes sense? Touching a warm dry stone wall. Seeing more than one robin on a windowsill. A cup of hot bovril on a cold day. A smile from a driver. Peanuts. Finding the dishwasher empty.

Watching Canal Boat Diaries on the telly box

Literally nothing

@tom83 mostly, yeah. Though there’s a few 3rd party models and some models for other games too. My efforts are largely documented here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkingengine/collections/72157718889203854/

Seeing a grey wagtail.  Walking through a twitten.

@ChrisL very cool! I’ve not painted for about 2 years now. The plan is to pick up the brush again soon!

Going to a Madness concert – yes we were that close.

Thank you! It really started clicking with me during lockdown I think. I like having a physical, finished thing at the end of the process (and something I can play games with), it’s displaced video games and watching TV as an evening activity and I think that’s part of the reason.

We’re fostering a guide dog. When I come downstairs in the morning, she wags her tail so forcefully that she actually twerks.

We’re fostering a guide dog. When I come downstairs in the morning, she wags her tail so forcefully that she actually twerks.

That is wholesome as hell.

Sitting down to drink an oat flat white that I just made with my 24 year old Gaggia Classic, with a croissant I just bought from the market.

Found my old i-pod nano .

Plugged it in to the car and was instantly ambushed by all my fav playlists from years ago.

Closed thing to time travel 🙂

Being at a conference in a massive conference centre that is also hosting a Supernova Cosplay “thing”. So funny watching the different groups of people.

watching nature especially little owl streams on yt.

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the smell of my dogs paws.

Biscuits!

Getting to the top of a climb somewhere and having a few moments to myself

Beagleboy seems the easy winner of this thread 🙂

That one beer while cooking dinner.

The leaves kicked up by the dog, as he bolts after squirrels in the woods.

They are like a leafy wake 🙂

Bikes. For any amount of time. With anyone.

The Memory Palace

Music, headphones, and a big chunk of volume.

Paddling a sea kayak on glassy water with a gentle swell under tall cliffs.

1 minute sprints on flat flowy singletrack

Simple trail building, scoping a trail, then a kick and a stamp type of thing

Fixing very simple things

Watching a dementia patient feed themselves or master their drinking cup

Not logged in to post for ages, logged in especially just to reply to this because it is a great thread!

Coming home to my dog who is just so happy to see me is number 1!

These just creep up at random times and depends on the situation but sometimes just being out in the woods or mountains and the weather is great, the view is great and I just suddenly totally overwhelmed by how fantastic life is and sit and watch for a while in a happy mode. *usually involved a good sunset

When a top song comes on on shuffle from my teenage years that I’ve forgotten about

Sometimes just seeing random people happy in the street

Doing a thing I didn’t know I could do and it working! For example, fixing my car (I’m definitely not a mechanic), tiling my bathroom (I’m definitely not a tiler) etc.

Tickling Hatter’s wife.

The “oh for god’s sake” look on my partner’s face when I come up with jokes like “I just made a heavily-decorated custard tart float! It was flanboyant.”

Fridays, especially a day off work Friday (like today). Planning on retiring from work in a few months, nothing wrong with my job or anything but like most sane people think I’ll prefer not working over working. Will miss the Friday day off work feeling though when every day is a day off work 🙂

I’m in almost exactly the same situation as @Feed above. Fridays are great and make me happy anyway, but every day being a Friday will be greater. I’ve even posted the forms off today to the pension company, so there’s no going back now.
Also – waggy-tailed dogs always make me grin a bit.

Listening to my late teenage daughters giggle and squeal in the lounge whilst playing mario kart on the new to me Switch. So much better than sat in their bedrooms.

Seeing a rare bird eg hen harrier out in the wild, or any wild creature in its proper habitat. We’ve seen otters a few times, but once, an animal came quite close and stared for a few seconds in my direction, then gone back to water. Wonderful.

When the clocks change near the end of March even though an hour is lost in my bed, it’s still cold outside but the daffodil is everywhere

This thread.

My 6yo son having just learned to read sitting and reading comics to his little brother.

I think the best description  is being part of the community. Saturday morning routine involves grocery stall and butchers. Just chatting to the staff and other shoppers gives me, as that guy from Quadrophenia would say, an enormous sense of wellbeing.

And dogs vigorously wagging their tails. I don’t even have a dog.

And dogs vigorously wagging their tails. I don’t even have a dog.

Me too. The dog thread on here and at work give me a daily fix. Was round at a friend’s house yesterday and their labrador got a lot of fuss and belly rubs

I went for a trail run last night with the dogs we all had fun.

But the thing that made me weirdly happy was being able to stand in the buff to cool down.

Checking a chronically shabby ambulance at the start of my shift, only to find that a mystery colleague has folded and stacked the blanket store perfectly.

Shopping for a new bike. The perusing of the images and then trying to imagine the ride and what it will look like in the collection. Oh, and the three year old telling Mrs BB that “Daddy has to get a green bike”. How can I possibly let her down, that would be bad parenting.

But the thing that made me weirdly happy was being able to stand in the buff to cool down.

Whereabouts was the buff positioned?