Happiness Meme!

[hummingwolf]

kaukomieli tagged me for this one, and something tells me that I may have been tagged by someone else earlier and then forgotten it, so I guess I'd better do the meme now! For those who do not know what this Happiness Meme is, the standard version is as follows:

The rules are that for 8 days
you have to post something
that made you happy that day.

Tag 8 people to do the same.

Well, I'm exceedingly bad at doing things when tagged (there's a list of abandoned memes languishing somewhere on this computer, wondering what they ever did wrong to make me go away), so probably should not tag anyone else. But if you want to do this exercise, then please consider yourself tagged now!

Anyway, since I saw kaukomieli's post yesterday, I'll do two days' worth of happiness in this post. Yesterday's happy thing: Going to the Ethiopian restaurant for the third time. It was a pleasantly warm and busy place on a chilly afternoon, with Americans and African immigrants sitting around enjoying their lunch specials and ignoring the smooth jazz muzak. The food was spicier this time, which was a pleasant surprise. The female half of the husband-and-wife team who owns the place spent her time alternating between making sure the customers had plenty of water and listening to a spiel about some company that supplies soap, paper towels, toilet paper, and such to restaurants (the company representative was sitting at the table behind me, so the conversation was hard not to overhear). It was good to have comfort food in a warm and friendly environment yesterday.

Today's happy thing: My space heater still works! While those of you from colder climes might laugh at our version of early winter weather (the temperature did make it above freezing, after all), this room is one of the coldest in the house and feeling a constant chill was getting old. So, warmth is good. Also, I did find enough energy to push myself out the door and do a little shopping, and serendipity rewarded me with the Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World soundtrack. Never saw the movie, but any soundtrack with pieces by both J.S. Bach and Iva Davies is okay with me.

Comments

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

The film of Master and Commander is pretty good and the music works *really* well in it.. its quite enthralling for something which involves a lot of sailing around doing not much and then some bloody battles. And groovy tunes :)

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I've heard some of the soundtrack on my personal, soon-to-disappear Launchcast station and liked it very much. For some reason nearly all the soundtracks I own are for films I've never seen!

[pnksaph.livejournal.com]

It's wonderful to be warm. Yay for the space heater.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yes it is! I don't usually mind the temperature in my room too much; but when I'm tired and achy as I was last night and this afternoon, the warmth is very much appreciated.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

i like reading about people's happy things. thanks for reporting yours!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas Eve, Vicki!

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

thanks, cb! likewise!

[kaukomieli.livejournal.com]

Yay for the working heater :)
It's strangely cold at my place, even though the radiators are quite hot. So I have to use a heater, too (except it's a fan heater).

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

The house I live in is an old one and can get a bit drafty on windy days. Is your home like that too? Which part of the room you're in can make a big difference here.

[kaukomieli.livejournal.com]

No, it's not that old, it's a panel house built at the end of the eighties. Of course, the window frames are old, so it sometimes gets drafty in here.