Zip, zip zippy....

Zap zap zappy...
H-a-p-p-y, we're happy!*

Stole this from Dzer, who makes an exellent point about the nature of happiness.

So here, in no particular order, are some of the little things that make me happy...

Chocolate

The sound of a cocktail shaker

Hearing a friend laugh

Unintentionally hearing a favorite song... especially when I'm stressed out at work, and go out into the hallway, and our sister station is playing something I love


Freshly-laundered sheets


A smile from a cute, random guy


The second kiss


Holding hands


Snow, particularly if I get to see it fall


Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert


A great meal


My mom's annual day-before-my-birthday phone message, describing how she was on her hands and knees, scrubbing the kitchen floor in 102 degree heat the day before I was born


Amusement parks


Dancing


Pulling my Entertainment Weekly out of my mailbox on Fridays


Going to bed without setting my alarm


Browsing endlessly in a good bookstore, especially this one


Flowers


Wine country in the spring. Or the fall. Hell, winter's nice too...as long as there's no flooding


The ocean



What about you? What makes you happy?


*this one's for you, Gup!