What makes you happy?

Animals!! Oh, and cheesecake!! lol

Learning

dogs

cats

coffee

warm weather

a good discussion

being healthy

friends

My wife

Our two crazy dogs

Our home. . . (Admittedly, it can also cause stress. But the contentment outweighs the stress.)

Composing music

Listening to the music that I compose

Taping and editing video (currently doing a lot of work-related educational videos)

Sitting outside on our front porch during the warm summer evenings and watching the sun set

Walking along an ocean beach and listening to the waves

Spending time with my mother and my father

Spending time with my nieces

Taking care of my patients

Being the keyboardist and choir-director for my church (although that role can be quite stressful sometimes!)

Laughing! Love to laugh! Humor is good for the soul!!!

By the way. . . this is a nice thread that was started. I don't believe that anyone will actually read my list of "what makes me happy". That's o.k.! But it was very nice to type and share my these thoughts. . .

Cheers. . . :-)

Hi E! How's it goin'? Here is my list for you, and thanks for this nice thread!

My nieces and my nephew, my crazy sisters and brother - they make me laugh my ass off, my puppies and mah kitteh, my friends, God, being in bed with fresh sheets during a thunderstorm, a good book, spring time, you know...stuff...

Oh, and ICU Nurse, I read your list and I loved it. So there! :~p

Having a good laugh with old friends

Having interesting dreams

Watching old black and white movies

Sewing (when I have time)

Dining out

Having a date with my husband when he is in drag (he is my best girlfriend)

Having time to sit and talk to my patients (I am a nurse)

Saving a life

My nieces. We paint and sew together. They are so much fun. I also have a wonderful godchild who is coming to spend a week with me in April.

Going back to Texas to visit my friends.

My in laws. I have a very funny, loud family. They are a hoot.

Spending time in Yellowstone and in the Tetons.

Loving my animals.

Donating to favoriate charities.

Shopping

Reading

Surfing the web

Target practice at the gun range

The first coffee of the day

Washing my face

Chocolate

Listening to my Ipod

Comedians: blue collar comedy tour, Lewis Black, Chris Rock, Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, Ralphie May, many others. Love to watch stand up comedy and go to their concerts.

Going to the Pike Market in Seattle

Going to the annual Edmonds Art Festival in Edmonds Washington

Craft fairs and the markets on Saturdays in the summer

Sunny days

Laughing

The smell of rain

The smell of babies

Animals

Books

Friends

Family

Very concisely: "Seeing someone else "in the flesh" who is really, honestly happy".

Just yesterday, I finally installed the new kitchen faucet that my wife has wanted for so long. In my mind, as the old one didn't leak and didn't "look that bad", it just wasn't a priority. To see the look on my wife's face when she came home to "her new faucet", I can tell I should have done this sooner.

This is just one example of many which I realize makes me a "person pleaser" of all things, as I seem happier if the people I care about in my life are happier. And, to be around me just a little, as I'm really not a "smiley" person, that might come as a shock. One of the Ladies who I worked with long ago learned how to "figure me out" and told me "I can tell when you're happy...because you're smiling inside...". She could tell my moods too...which to this day I can't figure out. Oh well, I won't go further off topic than this....

My family, every day that my parents are still with me, music and it makes me happy to know that everybody else out there who pretends to be happy struggle with the same things we're struggling with ;-)

She does.

Here is something that is off the beaten track.

A friend of mine has a T-shirt that say: "I won't be happy till I kill again."

Hmm, I like that. I like that so much I'm gonna say

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY KILL KILL KILL!

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Malcolm The >:}

I feel happiest, when I know I'm loved and appreciated, that makes me feel safe, which makes me really happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around me, even sorrow, but if I'm loved, it makes all the difference. Hek;)

Having lunch with my mom and dad....playing Beatles Rock Band with my 30 year old brother and 18 year old sister (I'm always Ringo).....ballet (dancing, teaching, watching).......Christmas Eve when it is late and cold and the fireplace is going and everyone is excited even though we're grown........hot baths.......and ordering pizza out as a special treat!

What makes you happy?

Being bad...

Nice article, it is cool to read all the many things that make people happy. My list is so long that I daren't (love that non-word) try to enumerate all them here, but I will name my two favorite. My wife's laughter when I make a funny and the giggles of my favorite great niece and nephew when we get into a tickle fight. It is not much of a fight cause I get to do all of the tickling. Happiness IMO is something you choose to be, so make someone happy by showing them how.

A Small Town, Country Boy