Happiness...

Loveabull · Post by **Loveabull** » 15 Jan 2014, 14:03

Okay let's update the above to "Happiness is a Warm Companion Critter"...a big snoring canine with their head on your chest, a fat kitty purring and making muffins in your lap...even a friendly rat licking your ear...for those of you with rodent issues that last one probably sounds like a nightmare...

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 15 Jan 2014, 14:06

Loveabull wrote:Okay let's update the above to "Happiness is a Warm Companion Critter"...a big snoring canine with their head on your chest, a fat kitty purring and making muffins in your lap...even a friendly rat licking your ear...for those of you with rodent issues that last one probably sounds like a nightmare...

To be quite honest Loveabull, any of the three would be Hell for me.

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 15 Jan 2014, 17:31

i'm hardly ever rendered Speechless!...take a bow L.B., you did it!...all that i can manage is ONE BIG UUUUUUUUUUUGGGGHHH!

.................i'm truly nauseated...

( well, you certainly got our attention )

laci_baby · Post by **laci_baby** » 20 Jan 2014, 23:28

Strange things make me happy.
When I was a smoker and working seven days a week I had a happy routine of going outside at three in the morning and lighting up while looking at the stars and listening to Van Morrison's Beside You.
It was my one time during the day that I looked forward to because it was the one time I got to just relax and be myself.

Now since I've quit not only smoking but my job and become much healthier I find happiness by meditating, going for walks and still, on occasion, listening to great music and looking at the skies.
But I'm a scary health freak now. I binge eat on fruit (no more junk food),do yoga every day, read and get lots of sleep.
Who wouldn't be happy?

Carla Hurst-Chandler · Post by **Carla Hurst-Chandler** » 21 Jan 2014, 05:20

A warm bubble bath...a cup of hot tea...a bit of dark chocolate and a warm fluffy bath sheet (towel warmers are amazing)

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 21 Jan 2014, 06:37

" is a thing called love "

needcowbell · Post by **needcowbell** » 21 Jan 2014, 07:04

Finding the new phone book in the outhouse(where it has a purpose) instead of finding it in the library between "Phantom" and
"Photos of Naked Girls"(where it has no purpose). There must be order to the Universe.

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 21 Jan 2014, 07:37

Kudos to you Laci! way to go............right on!...

from an ex-smoker, 2 packs a day...they say that " nicotine " is harder to give up than Heroine!

laci_baby · Post by **laci_baby** » 21 Jan 2014, 09:21

suzy1124 wrote: ...they say that " nicotine " is harder to give up than Heroine!

I believe it..
I was mentally clawing up the walls for months when I quit.
I still can't stand to watch other people smoke. I just really want one all of the time. It's terrible.

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 21 Jan 2014, 10:09

I STILL WANT ONE after 4 yrs.!...i've read that the insane craving never lasts more than 10 minutes, i've found that to be true....IT WORKS!...IF ya can get thru those 10 minutes, which feels like 10 YRS...many a time i " gave in " didn't wait the 10 minutes and RUINED yet another quit...

Now, when i want one, it's akin to craving ice cream , or mushrooms, lasagna, chinese food, etc...although you're " hankering " for a particular thing, you're not about to be climbing up walls for it...a few moments and the desire passes.................Thank God!

As an aside, my mother in her 80's then, asked me to pls mail her 1 of my ciggies, she had quit yrs. ago, i couldn't believe it

Carla Hurst-Chandler · Post by **Carla Hurst-Chandler** » 26 Jan 2014, 11:20

Loveabull wrote:Okay let's update the above to "Happiness is a Warm Companion Critter"...a big snoring canine with their head on your chest, a fat kitty purring and making muffins in your lap...even a friendly rat licking your ear...for those of you with rodent issues that last one probably sounds like a nightmare...

Yes...to the kitty "making muffins in your lap"

I don't think there is anything more relaxing than a happy cat!

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 26 Jan 2014, 11:37

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA thanks for the laugh!...and the RAT?...

poor RAT, you've given him/her " short shrift ".................not very nice....no fair...let's hear a round of applause for the RAT...............poor baby...

Carla Hurst-Chandler · Post by **Carla Hurst-Chandler** » 26 Jan 2014, 12:26

suzy1124 wrote:HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA thanks for the laugh!...and the RAT?...

poor RAT, you've given him/her " short shrift ".................not very nice....no fair...let's hear a round of applause for the RAT...............poor baby...

Actually, when the boys were young we had a couple of them. Rats, amazingly, have very distinctive personalities and can be quite charming. Cavaet: I don't recall one ever licking my ear...but they will run across the floor, hop up in your lap and curl up on your shoulder as you read.

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 28 Jan 2014, 03:34

Happiness is to be able to take a nap when i wake up too early, as was the case this morning...

Carla Hurst-Chandler · Post by **Carla Hurst-Chandler** » 28 Jan 2014, 07:21

Happiness is a warm home...stocked larder...bills paid...cinnamon rolls baking in the oven...a mug of coffee beside me and my cat...and catching up with the e-mail and news du jour