The simple little things in life that we love... (1 Viewer)

[KerryK]

Nailing a run on my skis or snowboard. Also - at the top of said run, looking around at the mountains.

When you walk down the steps and the subway comes.

When I clean off my desk. I hate doing it, but the results are to be savored.

Oh, yeah: a nice cup of coffee.

 

[Jared_B]

• The view from the top. Of anything.
• Hot-tubbing in the middle of winter, with snow falling.
• A job well done.
• A perfectly rev-matched downshift.

I'll add some more later.

"Nailing a run on my skis or snowboard. Also - at the top of said run, looking around at the mountains."
I'll second this one. Kinda like taking a jump that I actually land!

 

[Zen Butler]

Yay! a positive thread. Good call Eric
My Top 10

1. Being waken by King Kitty Ali at 6:00 a.m. to play. (He'll be 1 yr old on 4/20)
2. Playing guitar.
3. Playing Counter-Strike with my younger brothers and destroying the other team.
4. Discovering a fine film for the first time.
5. Taking a day off way in advance, just to goof around for the day.
6. Reading bedtime stories to my teenage daughter and she actually liking them.
7. Viewing a foreign film to my teenage brothers and after they complain forever, they end up loving the film and forget that they are reading the dialogue.
8. Monica Bellucci.
9. Family gatherings
10. Long Beach, Ca.

 

[Kevin P]

When my wife rests her head in my lap while we watch TV, and I run my fingers through her hair

I have to second that one too. Heck, most anything to do with my wife makes me

Hearing a child laugh, especially if it's a giggle and not a scream.

A warm fire in the fireplace or woodstove on a cold snowy winter's day.

 

[Chris Moe]

The smell of saw dust.

A cold Mountain Dew in the morning.

Researching and learning new things.

Finding a really good web page.

Not waking up to an alarm clock.

Good beer.

Dropping the top in my car and finding a nice twisty road with no one on it.

Driving with the top down in the rain. As long as you don't stop you barely get any water on you, and the looks from other drivers is priceless.

Going to the movies on a Saturday afternoon and sneaking into a second movie.

Getting a movie from Netflix the day before it's released.

My CRT projector.

Walking up some stairs behind a girl with a cute butt

Pizza.

Getting to the movies sitting down and seconds later having the lights dim.

My cat jumping on my lap while I am sitting at the computer (unless I am gaming).

Fishing, I don't even care if I catch anything I just like being out on the water and find the whole process very relaxing.

Building things.

White chocolate.

 

[MarkHastings]

When everyone in your band gets in the same great emotional zone during a song.

and to see everyone in the room dancing to something you are creating.

- When someone tells you you've done a good job.
- When something exceeds your expectations (The 1st cruise I went on, I was a bit apprehensive because I didn't think it was any big deal...Boy was I wrong!)
- When you're in the checkout line with a couple items and the person in front of you (with a FULL shopping carriage) let's you go ahead of them.

 

[Carlo_M]

1. Singing and playing my guitar
2. Singing and playing my guitar for my girlfriend or friends
3. The sound of natural running/moving water (like near the ocean or a waterfall)
4. When I have time to curl up to a good book
5. Being in a traffic node (i.e. lots of cars a ways in front & behind me, but for some reason the immediate area I'm in is devoid of cars)
6. Rainy days (I live in So. Cal.)

I could keep going but I might get all weepy and have to turn in my "man card"

 

[Michael Pineo]

Excellent thread! I'll add a few:

Little Debbie Nutty Bars (I have been known to polish off an entire box of these)

When my 1 1/2 year old son walks up to me while I am sitting down and lays his head down on my knee for absolutely no reason

When a song is so moving it actually gives me chills (ie: Patty LuPone singing "Come to Me" in Les Miserables)

When I decide not to let my 6 year old daughter beat me at Super Smash Bros. Melee, but she does anyway (That's my girl!)

 

[Eric_E]

Mike, thanks for the heads-up on the John Connor quote - I knew I should have said "paraphrase" instead of "quote" since it's been a while since I saw T2. :b

- Sitting in the swimming pool after playing a round of golf in 100 degree heat

Whew, I can relate to that. I lived in Tucson last summer while I was doing an internship for the Arizona Daily Star - I couldn't believe it was still 90 degrees out at midnight. Yikes.

 

[Craig S]

Great thread! Here's mine:

• A hot plate of TexMex and a cold Dos Equiis Amber
• Sitting in darkened movie theater with a big bag of popcorn and a large coke, watching those magic images on the big screen
• Pulling the shrink wrap off of a new CD or DVD
• The way my cats come running up to me when I get home and "talk" to me about their day
• McDonald's fries when they're hot out of the fryer
• Any Beatles song from the first couple of years
• Spending an entire rainy Sunday reading a novel
• Sitting on a boulder, eating some jerky & fruit, and enjoying the scenery after having reached the objective (mountain top or whatever) of a long, strenuous hike
• Double-double, protein style

 

[KerryK]

Walking out of the gym after a good workout.

When the cute guy picks the bike in front of me in spin class. (Talk about carrot and stick! No matter how fast I cycle, I can't catch up! )

When I'm having a bad day and I remind myself that it's a new Buffy or Angel or Alias that night!

Sitting down to a nice cold pint with a good friend on the other side of the table. (Bonus points if it's on a patio on a sunny day or a dark corner on a snowy day.)

 

[Shane Bos]

Great Thread

• a cold beer
• a cold beer with friends
• a steak cooked to perfection
• cruising in my truck on a spring day with the windows down and the music up.
• getting a real e-mail, not spam or just jokes forwarded by people but a real e-mail that I have to read.
• playing a good round of Counter-Strike
• Quading in the rockies and finding a killer trail full of water and mud, then coming to the top of a hill and enjoying the wonderful view
• going camping
• camping and listening to the rain fall on my tent trailer juast as I'm drifting off to sleep

There are so many more...

 

[Walt N]

A dog in the lap and taking a killer dump. But never at the same time!

 

[Angelo.M]

• My daughter, with a chocolate-pudding moustache
• Crossing the finish line in a 10K race
• A Fender Rhodes
• Kung-fu films from the '70s (I'll never forget you, Channel 5)
• Having a job that lets me help people, every day

 

[MikeFR]

The sound of opening that first beer afterwork.

The smell of a bbq

 

[Danny Tse]

- having a good waiter
- tearing open a fresh bag of potato chips
- receiving the pay stub of my paycheck (have direct deposit)
- freshly made pizza
- a girl actually agreeing to go out with me
- a good haircut
- good Chinese food
- three (or four) day weekends
- company of good friends
- a great cup of coffee

 

[Cam S]

6. farting in my cubicle with no one knowing

HAHAHA, that is funny!

 

[Craig Robertson]

a really hoppy IPA, just below room temp

the peaceful expression on my kids faces while they sleep

the feeling when you drive a car when it feels like an extension of you and you can make it do anything you want

my two year old's excitement when i come home from work

 

[SteveMc]

The smell of a new house or freshly cut lumber

I tell ya if there was an air freshener with that scent.

Starting to fill a new shelf on my DVD rack
Buying new tools

 

[Edwin-S]

• Warm, sunny days
  Grooving a precision aerobatics pattern at the local R/C field
  Greasing a landing at that same field
  Holding a straight, vertical in a 20 km/h crosswind
  Performing a perfect stall turn into a slow roll
  Going to a friend's house and BS'ing about planes (model and fullsize)
  One putting a twenty footer or better
  A long, straight tee shot
  Chipping a shot in and having your friends say...great shot
  Watching a friend sink one with a good shot and telling them so
  Going golfing with friends on a warm day
  Having dinner and a gaming night at my sister's house
  Having family and friends over for dinner and a movie
  Going for a bike ride