Happy things

Good morning.

Tomorrow I'm doing a half an hour live radio broadcast on the university radio. I'm doing it about happy things.
For that broadcast I asked people to list me some happy things, so I can play them on the show.
And, because happy things are happy, I wanted to give you a that list of happy things already today.
So here:

- waking up in the morning and realising you can keep sleeping
- when it's warm outside your blanket but nice and cool underneath
- good music after a bad day
- morning cappuccino
- your boss telling a co-worker not to take their lap top home so they can have a proper vacation
- when George RR Martin doesn't kill a Stark
- weekends
- terrible music in good enough company that the music starts to actually sound good
- waking up to your kitten purring in your ear
- watching Eurovision in good company
- a cold shower after a long bike ride
- a cool drink in a sauna
- well-written books
- getting an actual card or a letter from a friend
- tickling your friends
- that the ice cream stalls are open
- mud cake ice cream
- nice hobbies in good company
- books you sink so deep into you don't hear someone repeating your name
- walking barefoot after a winter
- sauna
- laundry someone else has done for you
- swimming naked
- summer and winter
- when the train is on time
- when the bus driver greets you cheerfully
- riding a bike on clean, dry asphalt after a winter
- so terrible plot twists in TV series that they're starting to actually be good
- skirts and summer dresses
- the smell of grass that hasn't been just cut
- and the smell of grass that has been just cut
- being able to hang out with your friends and having a home an enough food, and generally not having to really worry about anything
- minecraft
- snow on tree branches
- weekly anime-nights with friends
- not needing alcohol to have fun
- but being able to legally buy alcohol anyway
- youtube-evenings where everyone wants to show the next video
- internet memes
- feminism
- human rights
- modern medicine
- little fluffy creatures
- Tim Minchin (who someone then said is a little fluffy creature)
- feeling smart every once in a while
- Protu
- watching a series through in one sitting
- capoeira
- having people you can go live with whole having the pipes in your apartment repaired
- being able to avoid being tickled
- love
- friendship
- aphorisms
- having enough money to live
- jokes
- philosophy just for fun
- being able to study, change the thing that you're studying and that your studying is supported by the government
- paradoxes
- long walks on summer nights
- kid's tattoos you glue to your skin with water
- when your vacation begins
- small kids who fall and then their parents lift them back on their feet from their hoods

Ok, this isn't actually all of them, because the complete list would've been even longer. But happy things are still happy.

I'll hear from you... I don't even know when, because you're still planning on writing the two last bits that you had to write on Sunday(?) but didn't. But I'll hear from you latest on Friday.

~matu