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Hello and happy Friday to you!! Thank you all so much for your sweet anniversary wishes! The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of family, friends, parties and miles on the Mini! After it is all said and done, I have a new Godson (Jack!), my cousin has a new husband (Bob!), I have been a bridesmaid, a florist, a stylist, a wiffle ball champion and a Sunday driver. The Mini has its first two thousand miles on it, and those miles have brought me QT with my whole family, and my two college besties. We have seen sunsets on a farm in central New York, and on the beautiful coast of Maine. If I could stitch all that into a quilt I would wear it around my shoulders everyday.
I will fill you in on all of those adventures with about one million photos over the next few weeks, but today I wanted to pause because I noticed something.
I am happy.
This is not a rare occurrence at all. Not in the slightest. It's just that yesterday, as I was walking to work, that actual thought went through my head. I AM SO HAPPY. The thought said. It has been ringing in my ears ever since and making me notice the things that are making me happy. Simple things that are making me unreasonably happy (such a funny term…when is happiness unreasonable?…but I like it.)
It's not that I have never noticed this before, or had the realization that I am, in fact, happy, it's that I don't very often write about it. Even to myself. My journal pages are filled with lists and conversations with myself about things that are wrong, or that I want to change or do better. I very seldom write when I feel awesome. I guess I don't need to or something…am I alone here? Anyone else leaf through their journals to find mostly 'work'?
SO, for the record, my few truths today are 6 things that make me unreasonably happy:
1.) Wearing tank tops on warm summer days and feeling the sun on my shoulders.
2.)Naps. Not because I have necessarily been able to take that many recently, but just the idea of them and the fact that they are at our disposal to recharge our bodies makes me feel good.
3.)Beautiful Food. Summer is a free-for-all of fruits and vegetables that come in so many brilliant colors and shapes. When I bring them home I am always amazed that we get to have things that beautiful. That we get to *EAT* things that beautiful. It seems so luxurious.
4.)Possibility. I love the possibility of things and when I start planning things and trying to make things work and fit together, I get all hopped up and happy.
5.)Vacation. For-real vacation. Not work-a-little-play-a-little vacation, but shutting off, shutting down, shorts and flip flops (maaaaaybe a shirt, but probably just a bathing suit) kind of vacation. It actually adds years to your life.
6.) Sparkling Shiraz. I'm not kidding. This kind in particular is one of the things that makes me unreasonably happy. Not because I drink too much of it, but because it is delicious, served chilled and makes that magnificent *POP* sound when you open it. Joy all around.
There you go. I wrote down a little happy. Take that journal!
What makes you unreasonably happy?? Can you pick just 6?
xoxo
totally looking for that sparkling shiraz!
1. books
2. lipstick
3. dessert (!)
4. cool fall days (c’mon FALL)
5. quiet days at home with my boys
6. yellow
THANK YOU!!! This post totally made my day!! Been in a rut lately with starting a new job at a new school after being in the same one for 10 years! Looked at my journal and I’m right there with you on seeing endless entries of work and pleas for answers to stresses. Am sitting right now cranking out some things that make me unreasonably happy! Can’t thank you enough!
‘happy’ is so hard for me! i usually have a niggling of guilt that follows behind it, but i sure fight hard against it!
1. adventures with my bff, a.k.a. husband
2. gastro EXPLOSIONS. and by that, i mean utterly amazing food
3. farmer’s markets/bazaar’s
4. runny egg yolks and almond butter toast for breakfast
5. vibrant flowers (sunflowers, gerber’s, Xenia’s, etc.)
6. being outside!
Thanks for inspiring me today, I haven’t done a list in a while. Let’s see, six things that make me happy –
1. reading on the beach
2. great girlfriends
3. hot fudge cakes
4. when it’s sunny and 72
5. laughing with my family
6. dining under the stars
6 Unreasonably Happy Things ~
1. Being a late bloomer (just like my mom used to tell her disbelieving teenage daughter).
2. Dark chocolate, good cheese and perfectly ripe fruit.
3. The ability to live life to the fullest. every. single. day.
4. Taking 1 hour every morning to work out, for me. Just for me.
5. Sharing something that makes someone else’s day better, brighter, warmer and full of hope.
6. The moments that I remember to be thankful, grateful and humble for all that I am and have in this life.
1) green bay packers. Yeah, fall!
2) chilled exquisite Chardonnay
3) smiling people
4) my daughter and son becoming wonderful people
5) beautiful weather; soaking in the sun and wind
6) the ocean
I am having this same feeling lately …..so happy at this point in life!
Love 52 so far…things finally seem aligned! A great feeling and to be able to acknowledge it too.
So great to meet you and the besties at Jo Ellen’s Designs in Camden,Me.!! The very best to you all!
love,
Cate
1. Lazy days at the pool (with a stack of magazines and a pom peach tea)
2. Chilly fall days
3. Stargazing
4. happy, smiling, positive people
5. Late night conversations with amazing friends
6. Painting with mom
Leigh, have you ever done one of those ‘life wheel’ exercises? I always hated them – a few years ago I realized it is because their pie slices don’t match mine AND mine aren’t all the same size… so I created my own! One slice is JOYFULNESS (and it is the biggest slice of my life pie – see I don’t even look at is as a wheel anymore, pie is way more fun). Here is my JOYFULNESS list 🙂 Lynn
* purring cats
* walking Fred, the dog
* sitting on my deck watching the shadows change on the mountain as the sun goes down
* cuddled up under the blankets on a chilly night
* a book so good I loose myself in the story
* reading everyone’s happiness lists!