Happiness Hotel

Anybody who is a Muppets fan and who is in my family probably automatically thought something along the lines of this when you read the title of the post:

"You have three payment options: 1. cash 2. check 3. sneak out in the middle of the night.

"We'll take 3."

"Very popular choice!"

Yesterday was one of the happiest days I have had in recent memory. A little poignant at times, but very happy nonetheless. I can't exactly pin it down - the reason(s) why - but I do know it was happy and that I am glad.

Perhaps it was a sequence of events. Or a chemical surge. Or a miracle. Doesn't matter what caused it, just that I felt it, and it made me hopeful that a happy life is not just random incandescent slivers of unmitigated joy amidst sunshine, clouds, and rain, but that there's the possibility of non-random incandescent swaths of unmitigated joy amidst sunshine, clouds and rain. With the occasional snowstorm, ice storm, hail storm, and all other sorts of storm, accounted for by climate, geography, time of year, and other such scientific factors, all of which I cannot be bothered with to think about right now. I am concentrating on my sliver now, and not thinking about the what-ifs and maybes of storms that will inevitably come later.

So. Burst of song. Acceleration on the highway. A weed-free garden. No dirty socks in the laundry pile. All library books returned on time. Waking up without an alarm. Think of whatever it is that makes you happy (all of these things clearly make me happy), and wish, as Ceci and Gabina did in Nine Days to Christmas, and come dance in my sliver of joy with me while it lasts.

Sounds Like...

Who's good at Charades? Who's even /heard/ of the game Charades? Who knows Babette's Feast? (spelling?)

This song kind of hit me out of nowhere. I listened. I thought, hm.. this reminds me of something. It sounds old, but I know it's new. Who sings it?

Challenge you to click the link, close your eyes, and tell me who it reminds you of /without looking/! No cheating. I want to see if your mind is like mine...

the song

Fleetwood Mac

I love Fleetwood Mac.

Perhaps because with this band, more than almost any other, I think, "Hm. This is a good song. I wonder who sings it?" Only to find out....it's FLEETWOOD MAC! Seriously, it's FM a ridiculous amount of the time. I think it's because they had so many songwriters and so many good leads in their group.

I've been on this overtime 70s kick lately. Until I emerge, there will be much fleetwood-ing and not so much fleet fox-ing. Either is good, I'm just in a Mac phase.

On another note, even when life is hard, life is good. I'm going to write this now so that later when I'm not so sure I believe it I will have hardcoded evidence that at one time I thought so, and perhaps re-reading it will remind me of all the reasons why life is good and things will get better almost immediately.

Lastly, I went to the library and checked out Where's Waldo and did it today. I had forgotten how much fun picture finding books are. Everyone, I recommend revisiting this particular avenue of childhood joy. If you never indulged, I encourage you to do so now. Perhaps it will lessen your chances of Alzheimer's by .000001%. And it will be slightly entertaining if you look at the stories between the interaction of people on the page. So just do it.

Okay. I'm done with my two shameless plugs. (They really were shameless, too...)