Free Happy
Okay, grouch-break! Free happy:
- toddler giggles
- grey rainy days in october when the woods glow with yellow maple leaves above wet, black tree trunks
- waking up early and realizing it’s saturday and rolling over to go back to sleep
- getting into a warm sunny car on a cool day
- hot showers
- full-body hugs
- warm brownies with vanilla ice cream (okay, that’s not free but it’s accessible)
- watching my dog play with a stick the way a cat would, tossing it and barking at it
- sitting down to dinner with my family every night
- using a big word like flaneur or schadenfreude accurately in a sentence
- someone else emptying the clean dishwasher
- the sun-sparkles on freshly fallen snow
- my boys being old enough to play a board game for 2 hours without parental intervention
- four words: nap on the beach
- youtube
- how quiet it is during a snowstorm
- hanging with friends that really get me
- diving in and swimming underwater from one end of the pool to the other
- The Daily Show
- new magazines (again, not free, but close)
- human-free inter-species friendships:
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- seeing plants starting to push up out of the ground in my garden in the spring
- re-reading a childhood favorite book with my kids
- personal snail mail
- cicadas and owls in my woods at night
- did I mention brownies?
Have any of your own to share?
I'm a two-and-a-half time ovarian cancer survivor who is not only determined to make it to sixty but also to look damn good while getting there. My two boys, husband, and dog are counting on me to get out of bed every day, so I might as well wear something cute and make each one COUNT. I'd love to hear from you about your odyssey - sharing makes it all easier to take. And laugh at.
The Carcinista 