Happiness is a warm bun

A generic adult female loves serendipity

Not the movie, mind you, although I did find the kid in the devil costume funny. And that’s about all I can remember of “Serendipity” besides the fact that John Cusack was in it. (He does a good job playing a nerd. My family still quotes lines from “Better Off Dead”—even though, GET THIS, John Cusack HATES that movie.)

SO ANYWAY, back to the topic: Happiness, specifically the happiness that comes from small pieces of luck and happenstance that a girl didn’t expect. The kind of happiness that makes a bad day tolerable. The kind of happiness that is so secret and small that everyone else thinks you’re a silly person for getting so giddy over something so inconsequential.

Happiness is…

• Seeing the jerk who cut me off a mile back get pulled over by a cop. Who knows why he got pulled over, but the reason is immaterial. He got pulled over! I wanted to stop my car, hug the officer and simultaneously stick my tongue out at Mr. Really-Expensive-Car-and-Sunglasses. But I continued on my merrier way.
• Finding a very cute and stylish shirt in my size at Lane Bryant, and when I tried it on, I LOOKED GOOD IN IT!
• Discovering I still know how to knit (and purl) after 25 years. I found some really fun yarn at the craft store and my daughter’s birthday is coming up. I thought I would knit her a scarf. Lo and behold, I can still do it! It took 3 days and the scarf looks FABULOUS. I might borrow it sometime.
• Getting a request from my 9^th grader for 7 empty prescription pill bottles for science class (she will fail the test if she doesn’t have them) and being able to find exactly that many in my medicine cabinet. My compulsive need to keep empty containers for “just in case” paid off! Now if only my son would come home with a request for 45 empty shoe boxes…
• Not getting the cold that went around the family last month.
• Cleaning out my junk drawer and finding 6 uneaten Nestle’s Creamy Caramel Treasures lying in the bottom.
• Finding more “lost” chocolate.  I bought myself some expensive Swiss chocolate to stick in my own Christmas stocking, so it wouldn’t be empty on Christmas morning, but in the hustle and bustle of wrapping 50 presents for the 5 little rugrats (that’s 10 each, not 250 total) in my life, I completely forgot. One week later, I found it in a leftover bag on the floor in my room! And don’t worry about my empty stocking; Mr. Generic Husband Santa filled it with other chocolates, the sweetie! He knew just what a Chubby Girl wanted for Christmas.

Actually, I made one of those up. Bet you can’t tell which one! 

Now, I’m off to clean out underneath my bed to see if I can find more forgotten candy. The poor things, thinking they’ve been left behind with all the dust bunnies and missing socks! Fret not, sweet milk chocolate, I’m coming!

Comments

[Mary Siever]

Right now happiness would be a hot, roaring fire in a fireplace. It's COLD in here (and out side). Warmth is my best friend.

:) I have to agree with your happiness is ideas too! Especially the first one, lol.

[Jerilyn]

I bet the one you lied about was the cold. Everyone knows mom get the cold last.

[Kim Siever]

Eating a bunch of something (cookies, sandwiches, etc) and thinking you only have one more left, looking over and seeing two. It's like getting an extra one for free.

[Kim Siever]

Being married for ten years.

[Mary Siever]

ok, yes, that too :) and being married to Kim.

[Sue]

Happiness is my hubby putting the heating pad on my side of the bed so that when I pulled back the covers on a cold winter's night, I entered snuggly warmness.

Oh, Kim and Mary, you are so sweet to one another.

[lost angel]

your first happiness of seeing a karmic comeuppance is something I dream of more often than a 20% raise.

Anyone seeing my paycheck will know how often I dream of that!

Happiness is seeing a 75% completed Weekly To Do list at 3pm on a thursday afternoon.

[Strude]

I found a five dollar bill in a coat pocket the other day. You would have thought it was $100 with how happy I was upon finding it.

Also, my daughter fell asleep in my lap as I worked on the computer yesterday. I love moments like that.