marsden_online | 15 Happy Things (Reply)

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Tagged by ellipsisobsessed. Not tagging anyone because that's not how I roll.

I'm not actually sure whether this meme is about things which are likely to make you happy based on past correlation or times you have been happy in the past. Finding 15 of either could be a struggle.

Possible TMI behind the cut.

Having/petting a furbaby; recently LBTC Gytha, makes me more happy than not. At least when she is not determinedly interposing herself between myself and the keyboard while I am really trying to get something done.
Walking away from running a game feeling that it produced something amazing and I maybe levelled up in GM
Playing in a game (roleplaying or boardgaming) with a bunch of people who are mostly on the same wavelength, and all there to focus on the game (happens a lot less than I would like)
Solving a coding problem with time to put in the finishing touches and edge cases rather than doing a "near enough" job.
Any day where I manage to get out of bed early, put in a full day productively doing stuff, and still have the spoons left in the evening to enjoy winding down
Sometimes even just a short spurts which results in actually getting a job done/completed / feeling accomplished.
Conversely any day where I have my life in such order that I don't need to get out of bed / there is nothing I need to be or should be getting out of bed to attend to.
Having a clean house (happens rarely :( )
Hosting or organising an event which goes well and that a minority of the people who take significant of my energy to deal with attended. (Sad that I have to put that caveat.)
Enabling people to have (safe) fun; in the same vein enabling people to be awesome/make cool stuff/follow their dreams; easing peoples worries and troubles and burdens. Up to a point.
Sex, when I don't exhaust my spoon-count in the process. If memory serves :-/
- actually it's more complicated than that. I've never had 'just sex' and if someone were to offer me some out of the blue I just don't know how likely I would be to take them up on it. So I have no "control sample" for that. From my side at least even with brief trysts there has always felt some level of intimacy (for lack of a better word) which I have simply never developed anything like with platonic friends. Not that there haven't been some that I wanted to take that extra step with.
so 11a really, cuddling up with / hanging out with a friend/love that I'm also in a sexual relationship with.
Those rare occasions when I actually feel completely included in a social occasion rather than the perpetual outsider, drifting around the edges of conversations and activities consisting of little groups of other people and which while I might be welcome to join I'm not wanted enough to be invited or desired.
Being able to spend / give away money without breaking the budget. Which this month has failed at spectacularly.
A bit of a struggle but I'm going to put here the exercise high I sometime get from dancing. I'm not sure if it actually counts as "happy" but it certainly does feel good and make me act as if I were a little inebriated.