'happiness is...' - each week
we'll meet two lovely ladies to find out what happiness is to
them.... if you'd like to take part please drop me an email :)
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What makes you happiest?
What makes me happiest is being with my husband,
son and our two kitties. All of our time spent together means the world to me.
I'm certainly happiest when we are all healthy and in good moods. I love
listening to music to get my spirits up. Painting, yoga, reading, meditation,
sketching and being outside on a nice, comfortable day make me so happy as well.
When I really think about it, more in my life makes me happy than makes me sad.
It's hard to remember that sometimes, but I'm so blessed.
Do you have a happy place?
Do you have a happy place?
I do have a happy place... Many, actually. Physically, as I said,
I enjoy being outside on a nice, comfortable day. My husband, son and I like to
go on drives, too. We get to see beautiful new places (we make sure to always
take our camera!) and sometimes end up driving for hours. We've ended up in
other states before. We just have so much fun driving. We can sing loud and be
silly and we can also be super serious and talk about everything. It's just...
It's one of my favourite past times. I'm so glad to have a husband that enjoys
the same things I do. My dad and I used to take drives and talk a lot when I was
younger and it has made our relationship much stronger over the years. I feel
that it definitely does the same for my husband and I and hopefully our son in
the future. What else... Oh, I also have a nice little mama haven that I really
enjoy being in. I have a beautiful, HUGE, maiden, mother and crone tapestry on
the wall and a small altar with various things on it that make me feel great.
And on the other side of the tapestry, I have a little stand with all of our art
supplies. It's such a beautiful, inspirational little area and I adore it!
If we're talking mentally... I do have a happy place. Just letting go and
listening to music and / or meditating and doing yoga make me feel amazing.
Watercolour painting does wonders for me as well. It really is forgiving and I
just feel like I can create without worrying about perfection.
Do you have a favourite happy song?
My absolute, of-all-time favourite
happy song is 'Pocketful Of Sunshine' by Natasha Bedingfield. That song cheers
me up every. single. time. I listen to it. It doesn't matter what mood I am in
or how my day is going. I hope to one day get a tattoo inspired by the song as a
constant reminder of the feeling I get when I listen to it. I've yet to come up
with a proper design but I'm working on it.
What gets you past a bad day?
What gets me past a bad day is being able to
be with my husband, son and our two kitties. I really feel good when we can just
relax and talk things out. Of course, doing any of the things that I have
mentioned help, but nothing can replace time with my family.
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what makes you happiest?
Simple things, like having a 'run
around and play' time with my cats, or writing a chapter of my novel, or seeing
a classical concert. Sometimes I need a hug or nice words from my friends, and
luckily they are usually around to supply me with these demands. :)
do you have a ‘happy place’?
Mentally or physically? haha! I love going to bookstores to journal. I
just feel comfort by being around all of those words on pages. Coffee shops are
fun too, but they can be a little noisier than a library or a Barnes and Noble.
I actually have a "mental" happy place that I go to when I need to relax (I got
the idea from Happy Gilmore, lol.) It's a spot in the forest where there's moss
on the ground, flowers everywhere, huge shady trees completely blocking out the
sunlight, and soft rain with the smell of lilies of the valley.
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you have a favourite happy song?
I very rarely listen to mainstream or any kind of cheesy "happy" music, and
rarely music with lyrics!! Being a writer, I like to have soundtracks on a lot
of the time so I can focus on the emotion of the piece and use it to influence
what I write. So I could sit here and list off music soundtracks or symphonies
that are happy, but if we're just talking about a single song, I'd probably have
to say "Wild Eyes" by Mariee Sioux. It's great acoustic, good for relaxing, and
the Native flute plus her really enchanting lyrics make it almost impossible to
not get a good feeling just by listening. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28yuWPnX33w
what gets you past a bad day?
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