What's the HAPPIEST part of your life?

[arwalden]

Mine? Knowing I'm loved by a wonderful man... having our cozy home, enjoying the time we spend together.

It makes me happy to cuddle up on the sofa and watch movies with him. We'll snuggle under a blanket and our little dog will jump up there with us and wiggle-out a place of her own.

[miss_american_pie]

1. My kids

There's nothing like the way a toddler will hunt you down and hug your legs.

[Burma Jones]

2. This

So, pretty much the same as you, Amigo......

[Blue-Jay]

3. Right now is the happiest part of my life.

I have a wife that I adore, an exciting job that pays well, a nice lawnmower, and most of my family are democrats.

Pretty sweet, if you ask me.

[Sanity Claws]

25. A nice lawnmower?

You made me laugh.

[prolesunited]

27. Don't underestimate the joy of a nice lawnmower.

I'm going to fire mine up in a few minutes.

[Sanity Claws]

29. I have to ask you something

I saw that you're female, as am I. I hate lawnmowers because I'm too short to operate them properly. I bought this really neat Sears self-propelled lawnowner but I absolutely hated it because I couldn't get it started. I just couldn't pull the cord fast or hard enough to get it to go. I was reduced to tears a few time.
I eventually sold it to an acquaintance for a token amount. I just use electric mowers because they don't have ignition cords. I hate them. I've had three die on me in the last eleven years.
So, are you a tall woman? Or have you found a female-friendly lawnmower?

[maveric]

4. When I was younger, married and having kids.

I was the "Rock". Always there for my kids and wife. Worked hard at my marraige and on my career. Kept my nose clean and actually had a sense of hope, dreams and the feeling that the person who was my wife was there for me and sincere about our relationship. I felt great! Like a Superman!
That was by far the happiest part of my life. Then reality kicked in and has been festering inside me for 10 years now.

You asked...

[redqueen]

5. my kids... good friends

that's pretty much it!

[grace0418]

6. My husband, my friends and family, my cat and my neighborhood.

My job, not so much.

[arwalden]

7. But... As Long As There's Love At Home...

... the other annoyances are tolerable (even if you're not crazy about your job).

[grace0418]

8. So true.

Things could be far worse. And have been. :hi:

[Deja Q]

20. Agreed.

I know firsthand of what y'all speak.

Definitely not pleasant and I wouldn't wish it on even the most arrogant nasty snottyfarts of people. Not even Bush.

They need all the affection they can get.

[Deja Q]

19. Mind if I PM you?

I first thought you had me on ignore, but maybe you just don't want to receive PMs in general...

[Redstone]

9. Pretty much everything. You, and many other DUers know what the

unhappy part is. But if the bad part is the price I have to pay in order to have the good parts (because, after all, you can't have everything), well, then I think it's a fair deal.

Redstone

[leftofthedial]

10. my daughters

and my dog

and music

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Right now.

My beloved was in the hospital with congestive heart failure this weekend and he is going to be fine.

I don't know what I would do if I lost him. He is my soul. My life.

[Deja Q]

12. Knowing that God loves me.

It's love that's ageless and transcends corporeal frivolity.

God doesn't cheat either.

[matcom]

13. my pants

:hide:

[hunter]

21. Your avatars are not wearing any pants...

Did you take their pants?

[matcom]

28. why do you think they are so happy?

:spray:

[terrya]

14. Meeting the most beautiful man in the world.

Both physically and inside. And being honored with his love. This is the happiest part of my life.

[Deja Q]

15. It's good to see a flipside of my pessimistic post.

I was going to do the same at some point; after all, life is a balance.

[Xipe Totec]

16. Tomorrow!

I don't just mean it metaphysically, although I hope all our tomorrows are better than our yesterdays.

I mean it literally. Tomorrow is triple witching Friday.

1).- It is a Friday; always good!
2).- It is payday; happens every other Friday.
3).- It is Siam Lotus Day; the day we order take out Thai food at work, and congregate in the skylight area of the building and have a communal lunch (about 12-18 of us).

Rituals are so important, and this has become a tradition for our merry little band of techies!



:bounce:

[hatredisnotavalue]

17. Everything is wonderful in my life.

I truly love my husband now, probably more than when I met him 28 years ago. I love my kids, they are everything I wished them to be and more. And of course, I love my pets, I have the best dog in the world and three great cats. .... The dog just told me to delete that about the cats.

[hunter]

18. In the present I'm generally a curmudgeon, but my past is always happy.

I'm not sure how that works. I remember when my kids were small and how joyful I felt. I know I was tired all of the time -- my wife was going to school, and I was working nights and weekends when she wasn't at school so our kids could always have a parent home, and we had no money at all, and a pile of medical bills we could never ever hope to pay, and collection agencies calling us, and always final notices from the water and power companies, but I was happy.

Now my kids are teenagers, and are much more stress and trouble than they ever were before, and I'm always cranky and irritable, and oh my, you should have seen their bathroom when I walked in yesterday, it was a pit of filth, damp clothes were on the floor actually growing mold you could see, there was a red scum growing in the shower and we have guests coming tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure this too will be a happy memory pretty soon now.

Looking back further, before I met my wife, my life in college was hell, I got kicked out twice, mostly for mental health issues, once after a friend attempted suicide in my apartment, and I wrecked my car, etc., etc., but my bright moments in college were really, really bright, and even my no good abusive girlfriend who thought Eraserhead was a good date movie had her shiny moments.

Whenever I manage to see the happiness in each moment, my life is very good.

[retrospective66]

22. Mine was in childhood

Up until the age of 5 or so my dad was "normal" I know now that he was a Manic-Depressive and sort of 'lost it' when I was about age 5. But before then life was fun. There weren't many kids on our side of "the circle" who were my age, so I made friends with the many elderly. One liked me so much he left me money in his will. The modeling thing sucked...I was a child model w/a contract and HAD to do this crap- money which my parents kept along with the will money. But otherwise things were great.

Yup, sounds sad, but that was the "good" part. :crazy:

[Just Me]

23. My front porch swing (my son temporarily falls second to that).

:7 He's fifteen,...what else can I say? :shrug:

When I go out, anytime, on my porch swing, one of my dogs lays next to me, the other licks my ankles and feet. Right now, there's a storm brewin',...that's when I especially enjoy watching the powers beyond all of us.

I also love birds. I paint them, I've created a "birds commune" with a feeder, I've hung a feeder in front of my kitchen window (and tried like hell to get a picture of a young yellow warbler in the middle of that feeder, darn! it!).

I love engaging others, even if in just a moment.

I love flowers.

I love writing.

There's so many things that bring me happiness. Then, there's the pressures and difficulties LIFE IS.

At least I have somewhere to post that shit. :rofl:

[arwalden]

24. Sounds WON-DER-FULLLLL

As long as I know I'm going to be safe and dry... I really enjoy watching the clouds get darker, anticipating the arrival of a thunderstorm, and then watching the light show, and listening to the rain and thunder.

Rain storms are great NAP enhancers too.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

26. Writing, listening to jazz, and playing the piano.

Were it that I had another soul with whom to share the wonders of my ivories and my pen, my soul and my jazz, I would be a little too lucky for a mere 14-year-old.

;)

:hi:

[ronnykmarshall]

30. If I wasn't married ...

I'd be throwing up right now.

Who would have thunk Allen was Doris Day?

[arwalden]

31. In Which Movie?