I posted this yesterday in response to a challenge on a fitness site I frequent, but I thought it was a good post for here. I know, I know … I have been quite absent from this place for a long time. But I’m posting today, so you all may rejoice.
Anywho, here is my list of 50 things that make me happy:
- A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones (even when the show deviates from the books and annoys me)
- Mad Men
- Getting lost in a good book (noticing a theme …)
- Rolling green fields
- Large bodies of water
- Swimming
- Finding clothes that look super cute on me
- That awesome pair (or 50) of shoes
- Cuddling
- Finding long-lost friends online
- Writing
- Listening to music I love at full volume and singing along
- Dancing
Center Stage screen shot.
- Long walks and talks with good friends
- Alone time
- Yoga
- Animals
- Mike Rowe (hee hee hee)
- Introducing people to things I love and seeing them love those things, too (i.e. yesterday I told my daughter’s boyfriend all about Top Secret! and insisted he watch it or he isn’t allowed to date her anymore — I know he’ll love it. Who doesn’t? But anyway, I’ve turned many people on to that movie and also Real Genius and none have been sorry.)
- Natalie Merchant live
- Sarah McLachlan live
- Editing
- A cheese plate and chocolate mousse from France at EPCOT
- The county fair
2013 North Florida Fair. Photo by Renée M. Liss (c) 2014
- Cherry candy-dipped soft serve chocolate ice cream
- Shirley Temples (the drink)
- Waterfalls
Ithaca, NY. Photo by Renée M. Liss (c) 2014
- Sitting outside reading a book
- Discussions with intelligent people
- Pretty language
- British sitcoms
- A dark, clear night looking at the stars
- Beautiful art
- Getting so lost in a movie that you wish it wouldn’t end
- Monty Python
- Anything John Cleese
- Visiting old friends I haven’t seen in years and feeling like I just saw them yesterday
- Halloween
- Baseball (live!)
- Boston
- A northeast autumn
- Snow during the winter holidays
- Throwing parties
- Realizing I have a wonderful group of friends where I live, even though I moved here as an adult and it’s difficut to meet people and make close friends once you’re out of school, especially if you move away from home
- Flowers
- A drama-free life
- Bookstores
- Caramel hot apple cider
- English breakfast tea with honey and cream
An Unexplored Wilderness 
Mike Rowe makes me happy too!
Great list! I love Mad Men. I just started watching it a few months ago and I’m hooked. I watch one season at a time to stretch it out a little…
You have a lot more patience than I! I found it after season 4 was already on streaming and 5 wasn’t out yet. I watched all four seasons in four days.
I love your list, esp. the parts about books and friends.