Ten Things that make me HAPPY

7/6/2012 9:12 PM  by rl simpson

My creative writing group has a HAPPY Theme going this week –I am blocked –I have nothing – happiness endearing this is NOT. So I decided to list the things that make me HAPPY in hopes of some good prompts for the future–so here goes:

1/ A good POOP –Americans don’t really talk about poop but every living thing poops and I am happiest when I am regular. Where can we go from here, you wonder –I wonder also?

2/ The smell of pine and woody scents –I know but that and lavender are my ‘happy’ smells. I wonder why?

3/ Loosing weight –even if it is a pound or an oz. I gain weight if I breathe and wonder how people loose and keep weight off and still seem to be nice and normal and not cannibalistic which I seem to become at any given time, during a diet. See number 1 .

4/ Food –I don’t want food to make me Happy and tell myself this is a sick happiness –but I like some food and anything having to do with bread and pasta, makes me happy.

5/ Being retired –this makes me happy –to sleep in and not bother with going to bed at a decent hour –I think I am no longer decent –I do miss the money –but finding free stuff to do is sort of fun / vanity shopping however is not.

Now I am out of ideas except for number 10 –that does not make me Happy and I have to dig a little deeper.

6/ My friends make me Happy. Also my Family, well sometimes.

7/ I make me Happy –I crack myself up all the time with thoughts and crazy ideas.

8/ AFTER going to the gym makes me happy. Not going /getting ready /going there and doing the exercise –that is very difficult –but the endorphins released after a short 30 minutes workout–are ok.

9/ The five Senses make me happy /Hearing =MUSIC =music all kinds makes me very HAPPY even if the music is sad and I cry –I still love the sound of it  /Music makes me Happy// Sight (Vision) = the colors of the Earth and colors people have blended and white clouds against a blue sky or a black dog walking across a green turf farm on a sunny day= makes me Happy/// Touch =I love the feel of a new baby’s skin and whiskers on a mans face and fresh sheets on my bed and silky fabric and leather and my Mothers hands = make me Happy/// /Taste – most are foods –crunchy, smooth, chewy and doughy. I think maybe ALL are food textures –that make me happy.  Smells –ah my favorite sense, bread and coffee and tea and summer and fall and winter and spring smells make me happy.

10/ Knowing and Accepting my belief in GOD, makes me Happy –it is every part of my list, every part of what makes me…….ME.