happy!

Thursday, 17. July 2008, 11:55:13

Don't you just love it when you wake up on a day off feeling unbelievably and completely happy for no particular reason? You go to bed the night before feeling quite normal, but wake up the next day to find everything suddenly beautiful and lovely

Today is one of those days for me, I feel like I haven't a care in the world (i.e. I have temporarily chosen to forget them

) I rolled up the blinds this morning and smiled happily out at the beautiful grey skies and pouring rain, opened the window and took a big sniff, and bounded energetically down the stairs to make myself a hearty breakfast of cheese pudding on toast, and a big mug of earl grey.

I suddenly felt compelled to dance (I haven't danced for ages, not since my belly dance classes finished last xmas!) There was no-one in the house, so I put on my new killbill volume one cd, put on my favourite tracks 10 and 11 nice and loud, and proceeded to dance crazily all over the house until I could dance no longer, collapsing in a happy sweaty heap and laughing to myself in a slightly hysterical manner for a while afterwards as I got my breath back

It felt great! Sometimes it's such a relief to just let out all that extra energy (when it's there!)...
I need to start swimming again I think! That usually has the same effect.

I then went down to the shops and grinned at all the shop assistants, they must have thought I was a bit odd

, everyone else is scuffing around looking grim and grumbling about the weather. But then, I have always preferred a nice cool and cloudy day to hot sunshine! (although it is nice to have some ocassionally)

I could never live somewhere that didn't have cloudy skies for most of the year

There's something calming and soothing about them, they stop me from getting sunburnt for a start! But they make the sky so much more interesting to look at, I love watching them drift past and change colour, and I often stop in the middle of the street to do just that

Everyone rushes around all the time, it seems that a lot of people never take the time to just look at things!

maow...(points at mouth)shortbread sheep! (again)

Comments

Can I have some of what you're taking? I woke up this morning feeling like I'd been asleep for a thousand years, and needed to go back for a thousand more...

By GrantTLC, # 17. July 2008, 12:38:43

hehe, this doesn't happen very often to me either, maybe a couple of times a month do I wake up feeling like this

I just wanted to take the opportunity to write it down in my blog, so that I could remind myself what it feels like, when I wake up feeling like a bleery eyed swamp monster

Normally I just want to crawl back to bed too!

By kirstycat, # 17. July 2008, 13:57:52

Happy happy happy! I get those days and know what you mean

I'm in the same sort of mood! There's someone I'm missing greatly though, but it won't be for long - other than that, it's sunshine and lolipops

Glad you're in a fabulous mood! Keep hold of it, and remember it every time you feel down, then you'll be wondering whatever you were in a bad mood for!

By ngotadoro, # 17. July 2008, 14:16:43

That's great! I woke up and then stayed in my bed forever....

The bit about the shop assistants is funny!

I can imagine you with a huge smile on your face walking in and out of little shops and the shop keepers thinking that they're on some candid camera show haha. Oh and yo'd be walking so your hair swings from side to side like Jan in the Brady Bunch movie hahaha

By galadriel, # 18. July 2008, 02:40:52

Never seen the brady bunch film, but I can imagine what you mean

Rather than swing my hair from side to side (although it is getting to be a satisfyingly swingable length now!) I have a special extra bouncy walk when i'm happy

(or so I have been told

)

Today I am slightly less happy (back to work for the next 4 days! booo)

By kirstycat, # 18. July 2008, 07:14:53

But work = money

(even so, I still hate going to work!)

The bouncy walk is funny. I was doing a very bouncy walk on purpose and my sister didn't want to walk with me

By galadriel, # 18. July 2008, 08:20:41

hehe, good for you! Keep it up!

Think of it as a form of power walking

I try to synchronise my bounces with whoever i'm walking with, so that it minimises the bounciness factor a little. It also helps if the person is as tall or taller than I am!
I have noticed that smaller people don't bounce so much when they walk, as they take smaller strides

By kirstycat, # 18. July 2008, 18:03:46

That's true. I notice a lot of freakily tall people bouncing when they walk.

By galadriel, # 19. July 2008, 01:09:24

I'm not freakily tall! huh.

By kirstycat, # 19. July 2008, 05:44:33

Tall people are better anyway, they can do great things like reach the top shelves, change light bulbs without standing on a chair (haha, short people!) and take long elegant strides as their long brown hair falls gracefully behind them.... aahhh

By ngotadoro, # 19. July 2008, 19:10:59

hehe, can't think who that might be! Certainly not me that's for sure!
I know that I am anything but graceful

By kirstycat, # 19. July 2008, 19:37:21

Tall people are really useful. So are short, skinny people - they can fit into little spaces.

Did you hear about the dolphin with something in its throat? They got the tallest guy in the world to put his arm down it's throat to get whatever was blocking it. I hope he got a certificate of participation!

By galadriel, # 20. July 2008, 02:47:30

no, but I did hear something about someone in Australia putting his arm down a shark's thoat to take out a hook that was stuck there!

By kirstycat, # 20. July 2008, 17:31:52

They obviously don't mind the possibility of losing their arm :|

By galadriel, # 22. July 2008, 09:54:25

They put a plastic tube down its throat first, and put their arm down that to get at the hook (the shark was wide awake at the time!) They saved it too! It was some rare and endangered kind of shark, a nurse shark or something.

By kirstycat, # 22. July 2008, 11:17:14