I've decided to write this post in tabular.
-Partially because I am thinking in disjointed spurts.
-Partially because I randomly felt like it.
-And partially because I wanted to write about happy things!

I keep a notebook entirely dedicated to things that make me happy.
1.1 Watching someone laugh
1.4 Being told you were essential
1.10 Watching someone overcome difficulties and come out on top
1.14 Receiving a hug
1.15 Giving a hug
1.21 Being hungry because you earned it
2.3 Finishing an afghan
2.5 Laughing at an inside joke with yourself
2.10 Realizing it's good to be yourself
2.17 Appreciating background work
2.18 Receiving a round compliment -from someone to someone to you
2.19 Knowing you were missed
2.23 Winning a 'random song contest'
3.1 Having the confidence to wear braids in public
3.6 Watching and recognizing someone's mannerisms
3.9 Having someone ask what you wrote on your hand :D
3.10 Laughing when someone doesn't understand what "rock of a fence" means
3.14 Eating honeysuckle
3.15 Opening your windows in the winter
4.1 Remembering an inside joke at the exact same moment someone else does
4.4 Knowing your boundaries
4.5 Helping someone
4.7 Daydreaming
4.16 Buying Spree from a quarter machine
5.1 Making a new friend
5.3 Being told you're unique
5.7 Swinging your head to make your earrings jingle
5.28 Making a cool card
6.8 Smelling dried roses
6.9 Squishing PlayDoh
6.10 Looking across the room at someone and knowing exactly what they're thinking
6.15 Laughing at funny typos
6.17 Showing someone a friend's hard work
6.19 Smelling something that "takes you back"
6.21 Eating chocolate chip cookie dough
6.23 Seeing ginni smile
7.1 Reading my LJ
7.5 Freehanding a crochet project
7.6 Wearing a cape
7.8 Having a family dinner
7.9 Making dinner for someone(s)
7.14 Being moved to tears at something happy
7.20 Having a lollipop
7.24 Fondling soft rocks
8.10 Imagining something that isn't there
8.11 Feeling wanted
8.21 Watching Bee pound Chris (in a good way!)
8.22 Eating popcorn
8.23 Getting a high-five with-the-Force
9.5 The coming of Winter
9.6 Playing Canasta
9.7 Quoting a movie
9.9 Watching someone's face light up
9.17 Playing with your reflection
9.23 Writing an entire lesson on a sticky note
10.7 Having a happiness notebook!
10.14 Wearing something symbolic
10.21 Finding someone who believes the same things you do
10.22 Watching a leaf shower
11.1 Being loved
11.2 and loving back
11.3 Getting a high score on Bejeweled
11.4 Using colored pens
11.17 Making a great pass in soccer
11.20 Creative solutioning
11.22 Hearing a dog's collar before you can see him
11.23 Solid steel
11.24 The smell of flowers
12.1 Making abbreviations for your favorite sayings
12.9 Trekkie Time!
12.11 Quoting Dilbert
12.18 Having random quotes pop into your head
12.19 Big thick road bumps
12.20 Teaching someone a song
12.21 Playing with magnets
13.2 Seeing a whole page covered in your handwriting
13.7 Writing in Gothic Blackletter
13.8 Hearing the Star Trek themesong
13.9 and watching Bee and Chris squawk and dance along
14.1 Writing with light-up pens
14.2 Giving away afghans
14.3 Colorful shadows
14.4 Someone recognizing your obscure quote
14.15 Talking yourself out of a bad mood
14.18 Squeezing the squeezy-grapes at Hobby Lobby
14.22 Quoting what only you recognize
15.1 Knowing that you contribute to someone's happiness
15.17 Writing the most-voted-for definition in Balderdash
15.18 Looking up neologisms
15.20 Winning in the State Fair
15.22 Running long distances and being proud that you're sore afterward
15.25 When obscure book quotes pop into your head because they apply to your situation
16.1 Prewittedgeness
16.5 Eating the shells of M&Ms
16.7 Getting a stack of library books that is so tall your center-of-gravity is displaced
16.8 Learning something that you may or may not ever need to know by your own motivation
16.9 Singing loudly in the car when driving alone
16.14 Being unfazed when you're mocked
16.21 Realizing that you have portions of a book memorized because you've read it so often
16.22 Watching "How it Should've Ended"'s Spider-man 3 video
17.5 Sharpie on skin
17.8 Ascetic sacrifices for someone else
17.10 The grateful look a driver gives you when you let them in front of you
17.13 When your team at soccer is horrible, knows it, and has fun playing hard anyway
17.18 Someone who randomly hugs you for no reason or throws your name into a sentence just because they know you love it
17.20 Sweet little kids who are your friends even if you don't know what to say
18.1 Someone who remembers what your acronyms mean
18.4 Wearing mismatched shoes
18.6 Saved voicemails
18.11 Paying for someone's dinner
18.19 Being blessed to bless again
18.22 Someone smiling
18.24 Long trench coats
19.1 Swinging on playground swings!
19.2 When random snippets of quotes make you sound smarter
19.11 Randomly roasting s'mores in the back yard
19.14 Playing RISK
19.15 Rolling snake eyes
19.16 Speaking in a fake British accent while driving
19.17 Listening to the Sparrow Song
19.18 Going to the prom
19.26 Surprise hugs from behind
19.27 Eating carrots straight from the can
19.28 Helping others


...and the last line of every page sums it up by saying "[Happiness is] being with you."


I took only my very favorite ones and there are still lots of really good ones that I didn't include. I love reading through this notebook because it always makes me happy. Every now and then I exploit that fact and pull it out to coax myself out of a bad mood (see 14.15! haha). By the time I've read to the end I'm in a good enough mood to add at least another half-page of things that make me happy. Quite fascinating, really. :p

Of course I like mine better, but because it's so applicable, I wanted to quote this song.
HAPPINESS IS HAVING A SISTER.
SHARING A SANDWICH.
GETTING ALONG.
HAPPINESS IS SINGING TOGETHER WHEN DAY IS THROUGH,
AND HAPPINESS IS THOSE WHO SING WITH YOU.
HAPPINESS IS MORNING AND EVENING,
DAYTIME AND NIGHTTIME TOO.
FOR HAPPINESS IS ANYONE AND ANYTHING AT ALL
THAT'S LOVED BY YOU.
-"Happiness (is)" from You're a Good Man Charlie Brown