What makes you happy?

Really. Have you ever given that any thought? How high have you set that bar? Does it take riches? "True love"? A "perfect" day at work? What exactly "blows your skirt up" (in the immortal words of my Nana!)...? Maybe you don't really know. Maybe you have never really BEEN happy, so you don't know what to look for. Or maybe - just maybe - you are like me... and you find your happiness in the smallest things... I actually got a little buzz a few days ago simply because I found myself on the very last seat of the very last car on the train. Weird? Well, I just thought it was cool to be able to look out the back window of the train for the first time. When I first arrived in the D.C. area, I went roaming around pretty aimlessy and wound up smack in front of the White House... THE White House! I felt a little surge of happiness, accidently sitting there and gazing upon the "seat of power" as it were... Yesterday, I was speaking to my son via Skype and the connection froze for what seemed like the zillionth time. Ordinarily, that would be really annoying, except for the fact that the screen froze my son's image in an angelic smile that reminded me yet again that he is my reason for living. That made me happy.... There is a fast food commercial that has a line where a lady is thinking "Go, go Katie, go, go, Katie" and finds herself saying it out loud... I'm always happy when I hear that commercial, because I have a good friend named Katie and I can just picture her doing something silly like that. I know some people might think my definitions (and there are many) of happiness don't quite "measure up", but maybe that means those people have set their bar too high.... as for me, I'm going to go snuggle in my nice comfy chair (called "the cuddler" at the store... I am NOT kidding!!) with my nice comfy kitty (she was my "first baby", after all!) and enjoy another moment of MY definition of happiness!