Things that make you giddy & happy inside

[mac-er]

Ok, Applespider got us all talking (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=122491) about our pet peeves...

So what makes you happy inside, makes your day, calms you down, etc, etc..


Mine:
1. Bodies of water (lakes, oceans, rivers)
2. Apple
3. Bookstores
4. Meeting someone new and finding out we have something in common
5. Late night runs to the border (that's Taco Bell, not Mexico)
6. Pugs
8. British accents (can we get audio on Macrumors and make our English friends speak their posts?) :)

[PlaceofDis]

1. puppies (i'm a dog lover)
2. kiss from my significant other
3. cuddling
4. seeing someone smiling back at me
5. meeting someone cool and bonding
6. those goofy moments that come out of nowhere that just cause you to laugh out loud
7. going back home and seeing my dog for the first time in two weeks (hes so excited its funny)
8. seeing other people happy
9. finishing anything i started

[Blackheart]

8. British accents (can we get audio on Macrumors and make our English friends speak their posts?) :)

I second that. I love British accents. Living in Seattle and all, I don't hear it often. :(

EDIT: Yeah, British members should just post recordings of random talking, or maybe reading something. Now that'd be cool. :)

[Mr. Anderson]

EDIT: Yeah, British members should just post recordings of random talking, or maybe reading something. Not that'd be cool. :)

I had a boss one time who had a British friend come in and do the message for the answering machine for the office....

I imagine that there won't be many Brits saying an American accent makes them giddy, though :D

D

[dotdotdot]

Going to the store to buy something

Buying the something you went to the store for

Opening up the black box that says "Powerbook" on the front

[Nanda Devi]

Well, I just finished my "blood boiling" post, so now I'll try to switch gears and think about whatever good there remains in the world... Shan't be easy, but there are a few things....


1. Campfires. And camping in general.
2. Mountains.
3. My handsome gray cat.
4. Road trips.
5. Sitting down to a good dinner with a nice bottle of red vino.
6. Getting in bed at night and reading a book I've been waiting to read all day.
7. When the weather finally gets warm enough to wear sandals (around late May here in Michigan!)
8. Back to the camping theme, coming off a long backpack and having that first cold drink and good feast.

[mkrishnan]

When little five year olds come up and hug me at the end of a camp weekend because they're too sad to leave. :) And so am I! :(

[obeygiant]

my 4 month old daughter

[Eevee]

My two years old "Eevee" welcoming me home from work shouting "Da..Da.."

[Blue Velvet]

• Unwrapping a new music CD
• The smell of fresh ink when a job come back from press
• The smell of freshly-cut grass
• Summer rain on hot pavements
• Flying
• Buying & wearing a nice piece of clothing that actually fits well
• Good sex
• Ice-creams at the beach
• Forests
• Buying & giving gifts
• MR :)

[broken_keyboard]

Falling in love (the buzz feeling)

Seeing someone who actually deserves it getting a reward.

[clayj]

A first kiss.

That feeling you get when you meet someone that could be "the one".

(I better stop now before I ruin my reputation here. :) )

[PlaceofDis]

A first kiss.

That feeling you get when you meet someone that could be "the one".

(I better stop now before I ruin my reputation here. :) )

haha or is that the liquor in you talking (just read your posts in the Drunk 2.0 thread)

and BV had some ones i agree with
Good Sex and Getting a New CD

[clayj]

haha or is that the liquor in you talking (just read your posts in the Drunk 2.0 thread)

and BV had some ones i agree with
Good Sex and Getting a New CDNo, it's me. Alcohol makes it easier for me to say what I really want to say... I'm pretty much under control most of the time. :)

A lot of people around here who know me ask me all the time, "What do you want from life?" I've achieved most of the material goals I could reasonably expect to achieve, given what I've accomplished so far in life. All I really want right now is to find someone to settle down with... I keep hoping to find that person. Get married, have a child or two, grow old together. Sounds simple, but it really isn't.

[PlaceofDis]

No, it's me. Alcohol makes it easier for me to say what I really want to say... I'm pretty much under control most of the time. :)

A lot of people around here who know me ask me all the time, "What do you want from life?" I've achieved most of the material goals I could reasonably expect to achieve, given what I've accomplished so far in life. All I really want right now is to find someone to settle down with... I keep hoping to find that person. Get married, have a child or two, grow old together. Sounds simple, but it really isn't.

oh i know it isnt simple (living with an ex-fiance right now) and while its a goal that a lot of us share i do wish you the best of luck, im still searching for my other half, but i think i might have found her at last! good to know that it wasnt just your BAC talking

[sorryiwasdreami]

Drumming

Grilling

Evening summer air

Sunsets

Stargazing

Adolescent music

Skateboarding

Driving at night

[Jaffa Cake]

Dipping my hand in grain/rice/similar small stuff. It just feels lovely.

[Applespider]

Smell of damp earth after a thunderstorm
Smell of cut grass too
Walking along a pebble beach on a somewhat stormy day watching the waves roll in.
Watching it snow heavily at Christmas (it doesn't do it enough in the UK that it's commonplace)

The glorious glossiness of a fresh horse chestnut conker as it peeks out of its shell. Within minutes, it dulls down to blandness.

Hugging my Mum

Sharing/teaching something I love or enjoy with someone else.

EDIT: Yeah, British members should just post recordings of random talking, or maybe reading something. Now that'd be cool. :)

Tee hee! Perhaps once we all get our iSights and Tiger working, we can all try multiway chatting and you'd get to hear us. ;) I wonder what you mean by a British accent though. It would be interesting to see if your favourites matched the ones that the UK public generally vote as being most trustworthy, most pleasant, least pleasant which are often based on prejudices.

[Savage Henry]

Simplicity
Beauty in the natural randomness of nature
The Karmic sense of wellbeing
Being told by my lady that she feels really happy

[angelneo]

Chilling out on a picture-perfect beach, basking in the sun, with little people around and nothing to do.....

[MacRy]

You guys.......ahhhhh...the trite answer, I couldn't resist :)

My fiance's smile
My cat Chewy when she gambols for my attention
The sea
The smell after it rains
The look on someone's face when you give them an unexpected gift

By the way, on the accents front - we don't all sound like Hugh Grant you know. We do all live in castles though :)

[EJBasile]

Puppies

Beautiful Views

Buying Something Nice (pbook)

Giving Xmas and B-day Presents

[stubeeef]

Watching anyone of my three girls giggle as they get excited from learning or doing something new. I bust a big smile everytime.

Making a perfect approach and landing in god awful weather.

realizing a mistake in the checkbook that is in my favor!

Watching my wife sing.

falling asleep with my family, when we are one big pile on our bed.

Watching the grass I planted (major yard overhaul) actually come up.

Having my team win the championship. Go Tarheels.

Watching anyone who deserves it get recognition (said before but very true).

Random hugs and kisses from and to my daughters.

Finding out I don't owe MORE taxes.

A million other very little tiny insignificant things that are so cool.

[mad jew]

Well in the theme of my username - money! And lots of it! ;)



On a less materialistic note; I love personal achievement such as running a PB for the 100m or something.

[stoid]

(Tiger)
Apr 28, 2005 7:39 am

On FedEx vehicle for delivery

ST. JOSEPH MO


And being done with Finals today. Together, it's going to be one of the best days of my life. I get to enjoy Tiger in the evenings after 8-5 with a moving crew each day next week, my only week off before my summer classes begin. But if I'm to graduate in four years, it's got to happen.

[anonymous161]

1.a blank canvas
2. as in the number 2, I really don't think it can be as bad as 1
3.when someone quotes one of my posts
4.making shameless pleas for attention
5.really blowing situational humor

[mad jew]

3.when someone quotes one of my posts


;)






I've gotta admit, it does make me feel a bit special when someone quotes me. Especially if it's someone pretty senior in the Macrumors community like a mod or one of the old regulars.

[makisushi]

-my daughters
-my wife
-sailing
-fly fishing

[mac-er]

Tee hee! Perhaps once we all get our iSights and Tiger working, we can all try multiway chatting and you'd get to hear us. ;) I wonder what you mean by a British accent though. It would be interesting to see if your favourites matched the ones that the UK public generally vote as being most trustworthy, most pleasant, least pleasant which are often based on prejudices.

That is interesting.

Which accents do you folk trust the most? Have the most prejudices about?

[yippy]

-Liz ;)

-Flying

[clayj]

Which accents do you folk trust the most? Have the most prejudices about?Well, we all know the British aren't to be trusted because they played all of the villains in the Star Wars movies.

[veddy British accents]
"What is it, LEFtenant Sebastian?"
"It's the rebels, sir. They're here."
"Good God, man! Do they want tea?"
"No, sir, I think they're after rather more than that. I'm not sure what it is, but they've brought a flag."

:)

[iKwick7]

-seeing a little kid smile
-puppies (who doesn't like puppies.... I mean really)
-camping
-bbq's
-going to play baseball
-snowboarding (and not breaking anything)
-finishing a big ass project
-opening a new, kick ass electronics product
-the thought of actually playing the game Spore (if it ever does come out)

[Applespider]

That is interesting.

Which accents do you folk trust the most? Have the most prejudices about?

Apparently we like Sean Connery's soft Scottish (read Edinburgh) accent most along with Irish brogues and 'standard BBC English' but we don't like Glaswegian, Welsh, Birmingham or Liverpool ones much.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4180373.stm

You can go to this BBC research project (http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/) to listen to a few of them if you're not sure what you're used to hearing. Most of those put on in US sitcoms/movies etc are appalling although Johnny Depp's in Finding Neverland was pretty impressively Scottish.

[ziwi]

anything to do with My Kids
seeing my wife happy
planting a tree
writing
playing a song
any creative result from a difficult process

[sushi]

Making a perfect approach and landing in god awful weather.
I'm with ya on this one!

What a wonderful feeling.

Edit: Reference flying, I would like to add:
- Flying on a crystal clear blue day.
- To help saving a life while flying a MEDEVAC mission.
- Giving someone their first flight (hopefully not fright!) in a little airplane.

Sushi

[sushi]

My wife, when she gives me one of her smiles.

It makes everything else seem insignificant.

Sushi

[Blackheart]

Tee hee! Perhaps once we all get our iSights and Tiger working, we can all try multiway chatting and you'd get to hear us. ;) I wonder what you mean by a British accent though. It would be interesting to see if your favourites matched the ones that the UK public generally vote as being most trustworthy, most pleasant, least pleasant which are often based on prejudices.

They're all the same to me. I'll take what I can get. ;)

[Doctor Q]

I've gotta admit, it does make me feel a bit special when someone quotes me. Especially if it's someone pretty senior in the Macrumors community like a mod or one of the old regulars.Here ya' go, mad jew!

I like helping people and I especially like surprising them with a favor or gift. I plan elaborate ways to give people gifts and I enjoy it as much as they do. It's not always for family members, but here is one example where it was. One of my next projects is putting together a fancy lemonade stand for the kids across the street who sell homemade lemonade every summer. It'll be a surprise and they will get a big thrill from having something better than a card table.

I also love being a dad, my Mac hobby, and of course geeky math projects, as you know from my various threads around here. I know that anybody who smiles about math homework needs to find a cure before its too late, but until I do I'll go on being happy.

[mac-er]

Apparently we like Sean Connery's soft Scottish (read Edinburgh) accent most along with Irish brogues and 'standard BBC English' but we don't like Glaswegian, Welsh, Birmingham or Liverpool ones much.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4180373.stm

You can go to this BBC research project (http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/) to listen to a few of them if you're not sure what you're used to hearing. Most of those put on in US sitcoms/movies etc are appalling although Johnny Depp's in Finding Neverland was pretty impressively Scottish.

I really like the accents of the people that say "bloke" a lot. There seems to be a common accent of the people that use that word in the UK.

[rainman::|:|]

-hanging out with friends, laughing like hell
-talking a walk through busy downtown, especially on a warm breezy day, the commotion and noise actually makes me feel calmer usually
-laying down in an old, quiet cemetery and staring into the sky
-reading random crap on the net (case in point...)
-sparking one
-turning off all the tvs in the house, when no one is here, and having silence
-getting my cat to calm down enough to be petted (he likes to tapdance uncontrollably when you get near him)
-singing along to a great song in the car, over and over, getting louder and louder, until people in the next car probably think i'm having a fit

this thread is so much nicer than the other one, i can't think about blood-boiling crap without getting hot under the collar :)

[PlaceofDis]

-singing along to a great song in the car, over and over, getting louder and louder, until people in the next car probably think i'm having a fit

i have to agree with this, not only does it give me energy, but calms and relaxes me as well.... its a great feeling

[skunk]

Getting Tiger loaded without any problems :D

Oh, and great sex.

[mkrishnan]

Getting Tiger loaded without any problems :D

Oh, and great sex.

Hehehe, but your SO really is a geek if you can get celebratory great sex tomorrow night *because* of the great Tiger install! :D

[PlaceofDis]

Hehehe, but your SO really is a geek if you can get celebratory great sex tomorrow night *because* of the great Tiger install! :D

aren't you even more geek for just thinking that up? http://www3.telus.net/poojja/s/thumbsup.gif

[mkrishnan]

aren't you even more geek for just thinking that up? http://www3.telus.net/poojja/s/thumbsup.gif

Well, it's not like *I* have an SO. Or, at the moment, a copy of Tiger. :D

I need to live vicariously.

http://www3.telus.net/poojja/s/kissing2.gif

[PlaceofDis]

Well, it's not like *I* have an SO. Or, at the moment, a copy of Tiger. :D

I need to live vicariously.

http://www3.telus.net/poojja/s/kissing2.gif


living vicariously through forums, smilies = happiness and being giddy? haha

[wdlove]

I know that it won't be popular, but I have to be honest. First of all it my relationship with Jesus Christ. Second my wife, also enjoy her smile. Can't forget my loving dogs. Relationship with friends, neighbors, church, and here on MacRumors.

[cheekyspanky]

The feeling of sand running through my fingers,
The smell of rain in summer,
Buying things I know I will enjoy,
Learning something new,
Seeing someone I have given advice to actually follow it (My sis just got a Powerbook for example from my recommendations),
Lying in bed and waking up feeling the sun shine through the window onto me.
Getting in a bed with freshly washed and outdoor dried bedsheets which smell nice and feel all cool.

Kittens, Puppies and any other furry animal - it's so calming to stroke a little animal.

[840quadra]

1. My family and friends
2. Volkswagen Rabbits
3. 68k Apple computers
4. My Volkswagen Rabbit GTI

[PlaceofDis]

some more:

when someone plays with my hair
sand in my toes and the sun on my body
waking up and being energetic!

[mc68k]

bootleg software
bootleg music
bootleg movies
cutting off SUVs
tekken 5
[adult swim]
getting 20 tetrises in 3 minutes
a huge rc5-72 dump
jessica albas body :D

i'm simple to please

[5300cs]

• The smell of freshly-cut grass
• Summer rain on hot pavements
I agree with these :)

Also Broken_Keyboard had the one about falling in love, that one DEFINITELY. :) :) That indescribable buzz you get when you know that person likes you and you like them - it's great :cool:

Others I can think of:
- Good house/jazz/trance/ambient/chill-out music
- That first sip of beer
- the tropics (specifically the south Pacific)
- waking up early, then going right back to sleep
- hot showers
- the shutter buttons on my cameras
- the 'thock' of a perfect masse shot, or 'plick' of a perfect draw shot (pool)
- Summer evenings/nights with cool breezes
- more that I can't think of right now

[iSaint]

- my kids
- my wife
- my youth group (i'm a youth minister)
- my cats
- warm summer days
- that thing my wife does
- first cup of coffee in the morning
- my iBook
- my iPod
- warm bed

[MacRy]

Well, we all know the British aren't to be trusted because they played all of the villains in the Star Wars movies.

[veddy British accents]
"What is it, LEFtenant Sebastian?"
"It's the rebels, sir. They're here."
"Good God, man! Do they want tea?"
"No, sir, I think they're after rather more than that. I'm not sure what it is, but they've brought a flag."

:)

Thank you Mr Izzard
;)

[cr2sh]

-a rainy day
-chipotle
-flying into dallas, getting a rental car, and knowing i get to spend a few nights in a strange new town
-my gf picking me up at the airport and the subtle way she looks different after a week

[mac-er]

I think it is a sad day for a society when several people on here say they take pleasure in being thiefs.

If I was a thief, I certainly wouldn't admit it.

[skunk]

I know that it won't be popular, but I have to be honest. First of all it my relationship with Jesus Christ. Second my wife, also enjoy her smile. Can't forget my loving dogs. Relationship with friends, neighbors, church, and here on MacRumors.You mean we're last on the list? Talk about being unpopular!
:rolleyes:

[mkrishnan]

If I was a thief, I certainly wouldn't admit it.

I only steal hearts and kisses. ;)