Carrying on with my previous "having a great day" thread... I give you the thread of otherwise insignificant things that just make your day... Doesn't even need to make sense to anyone else... just some ridiculous thing that makes you happy. This will all but certainly piss all the/my haters off too... which brings me to my #1 actually (of course I'll start this off).
1. Living my "best life" and knowing it aggravates others for no reason other than my mood is not being dictated by what they want. Truth be told "best life" is a ridiculous phrase (at least in my opinion) that's a "hashtag" now. All I'm saying is haters are going to hate but they'll never hate harder than they will when they realize you just frankly don't care what they think. Something magical about feeling good & knowing that it's pissing the haters off even more am I right?
2. Moving back to more mundane things- for the life of me one of my most absolute favorite things is going to bed when the sheets have been freshly washed. I've struggled with sleep issues for many years but that first night in clean sheets... I can't explain it but it just hits harder than any Ambien I've taken.
3. That "new gun day" feeling. Not sure how others operate but for me I've always been one to analyze the crap out of various models to pick the one specific configuration I want & then to chase it with trying to find a good deal. If you're anything like me, you have a list of guns you want & a price tag you've mentally allocated to spend and it's awesome when the stars line up and you got that new chunk of steel in your collection.
4. This might be oddly specific to me but I've shared here my exploration in automatic watches over the past year. I've been evaluating a half dozen or so lately and I've gotten great satisfaction out of wearing 'em & learning their accuracy. I thought I was having an issue with a Seiko diver I recently purchased and was concerned that I somehow screwed up the date/day mechanism because it's apparently a "thing" to set it during a certain window of time (which I didn't) but I spent the past week not being able to sync the current time with the day & date. Whelp- the past two days (I'm not even sure what I did 'right') my one diver is now running accurate (+8-10 seconds a day) but more importantly the day of the week and the actual date are now synchronized and that has me much happier than it rightfully should.
5. On the way to work yesterday there was a trivia question on the radio on what hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia was and I knew (not guessed) but actually knew it was the fear of long words. The look my wife gave me when I said that was priceless and made me feel... well young again, almost like when we first started dating and everything was new & you were impressive in what you knew & could do.
6. Wrapping up for at least the first post- but as an example of thins that don't cost a thing- when your spouse gives you that look of surprise (I almost think it gets better the older you get because you see it less & less) but "that" look of when you both surprise & impress them... damn if that doesn't make my day.
-LD
1. Living my "best life" and knowing it aggravates others for no reason other than my mood is not being dictated by what they want. Truth be told "best life" is a ridiculous phrase (at least in my opinion) that's a "hashtag" now. All I'm saying is haters are going to hate but they'll never hate harder than they will when they realize you just frankly don't care what they think. Something magical about feeling good & knowing that it's pissing the haters off even more am I right?
2. Moving back to more mundane things- for the life of me one of my most absolute favorite things is going to bed when the sheets have been freshly washed. I've struggled with sleep issues for many years but that first night in clean sheets... I can't explain it but it just hits harder than any Ambien I've taken.
3. That "new gun day" feeling. Not sure how others operate but for me I've always been one to analyze the crap out of various models to pick the one specific configuration I want & then to chase it with trying to find a good deal. If you're anything like me, you have a list of guns you want & a price tag you've mentally allocated to spend and it's awesome when the stars line up and you got that new chunk of steel in your collection.
4. This might be oddly specific to me but I've shared here my exploration in automatic watches over the past year. I've been evaluating a half dozen or so lately and I've gotten great satisfaction out of wearing 'em & learning their accuracy. I thought I was having an issue with a Seiko diver I recently purchased and was concerned that I somehow screwed up the date/day mechanism because it's apparently a "thing" to set it during a certain window of time (which I didn't) but I spent the past week not being able to sync the current time with the day & date. Whelp- the past two days (I'm not even sure what I did 'right') my one diver is now running accurate (+8-10 seconds a day) but more importantly the day of the week and the actual date are now synchronized and that has me much happier than it rightfully should.
5. On the way to work yesterday there was a trivia question on the radio on what hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia was and I knew (not guessed) but actually knew it was the fear of long words. The look my wife gave me when I said that was priceless and made me feel... well young again, almost like when we first started dating and everything was new & you were impressive in what you knew & could do.
6. Wrapping up for at least the first post- but as an example of thins that don't cost a thing- when your spouse gives you that look of surprise (I almost think it gets better the older you get because you see it less & less) but "that" look of when you both surprise & impress them... damn if that doesn't make my day.
-LD
