Meme - Happy

[nia_kantorka]

I was tagged by shiftylinguini and am happy to oblige in this meme. ;p


Here are five things that make me happy:

1. Summer sun: It's currently summer here and I love all the sun we get. Yes, it gets pretty fast too hot in our flat, but all in all summer is just the best season. Blue sky, sun, being outside, varnished toe nails (I'm too lazy to do that when nobody is going to see it), ice cream, open air swimming pools, riding the bike all the time - yes, I definitely love summer.


2. Reading: This month is a reading blast. I've taken a break from writing and am just enjoying all the things that have been popping up (on my dashboard, my mobile, via AO3notifications and on tumblr). I read a lot of holmestice, all the hd_smoochfest fics so far and a lot of hprarefest too. And I even managed to read a book in-between all the fics. Happy times, indeed!


3. Music: In a way music is much more important than reading to me. I'd go barmy without it. Music helps me to concentrate, to do all the deeds I hate (vacuum cleaning or cleaning the bathrooms without music is unbearable) and is always able to lighten my mood.


4. My family: I love them with all my heart, even though they can get terribly on my nerves. :D


5. Fandom/Talking to people around the world: It's not that I don't love my rl friends, on the contrary I love them to pieces. Yet, I love that blogging, fanfictions and fandom coaxed me into talking to people from all over the world. It's so much fun to learn about all your lives, your surroundings, to get insight into your culture. It's awesome to make friends; no matter where they are, what they look like, whom they love and what they do outside of fandom.

My turn to tag some friends (who like to do memes or talk about their lives and haven't been tagged so far [?], so only six instead of ten):
my_thestral, candamira, anemonen, isinuyasha, lokifan and huldrejenta

Comments

[shiftylinguini.livejournal.com]

Oooh such a great list! Thanks for sharing itt!!!

I love painted toenails too, it feels so decadent and indulgent. I feel the same about music too...I would go mad without it, very quickly!

I'm so jealous of your summer happiness too! It sounds lovely, and bike riding is amazing, on a pleasant day :)

[nia_kantorka]

Ah, thank you for tagging me! It was fun to think about happy things and chose the 'right' ones. :D

It's funny because can't remember the last time I painted my finger nails (black for a concert? my wedding?), but I do varnish my toe nails the whole summer- nearly every week in another colour.

It's a shame we all can't have summer at the same time and suffer through winter all at once. But thinking about the last winter, I know it'll lighten my mood to read about your summer during next winter too. <3

[shiftylinguini.livejournal.com]

Ohh, that's so lovely! There's something really special about painted toes, I think. I love that you do your toenails more than fingernails. I do love black nail polish too.

Yes, that's a lovely positive way of looking at it - we can trade Summer/Winter stories all year, and somewhere someone is having a picnic at the beach, and someone else is snuggled up with hot chocolate in their warm pj's :D

[besamislabios]

I love summer too! I think you know that. ;)

I'm impressed with all your reading, I love reading too, but I'm a slow reader. I've read plenty of smoochfest fics but definitely not all, I'm so behind.

I spend my time at home, so I'm so grateful for the internet and you guys! ♥

[nia_kantorka]

I'd send you some sun if I could. *warm hugs*

Tbh, I'm quite impressed with myself. But I had some holidays. And those are always good reading times. :D

♥ *more hugs*

[capitu]

Such a lovely list! And we share all of them!

Damn, I need to make mine. Why am I so behind on life, damnit? :D

[nia_kantorka]

Angel, good to see you! ♥

I'm behind on things too. For example writing messages, a plotline, a whole fic. But sooner or later we'll manage to do some of all planned things. :D

[idikehaine.livejournal.com]

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[nia_kantorka]

♥

I thanked you for the v-gift, didn't I? Please tell me, I haven't forget to do that.
Hope you're well! *hugs*

[candamira.livejournal.com]

Somehow the LJ app doesn't show your post in my feed, strange! Great happiness post, I very much agree on the point about family. Such a fast emotional rollercoaster of very good and very demanding moments. I guess living and maintaining an in general harmonious family life is the biggest challenge in life.

Yay for all the fests and fics and music! Finally downloaded Imagine Dragons, both albums, so I'll be well prepared for the concert. :-)

[nia_kantorka]

Tsk, tsk, LJ, that's not ok.

Ah, you downloaded both their albums. That's great. You won't find today's/tonight's Smooch fic song on both of them though. That's an older song. You'd find it on youtube and it's awesome (my second favourite). Just so you know. :D

[carowren.livejournal.com]

What a great list! I've been meaning to make one of my own... maybe tomorrow.
I'm almost always too lazy to bother with nail polish even though I have some great colours ;) Do you even listen to podcasts or podfics, as well as music? I find them really engaging - especially if the chore/task I'm doing is pretty mindless.

[nia_kantorka]

Thank you! :D

Podfics/podcasts. I love them but can't listen while doing something else. It's very strange, because I can read and listen to music, but not the other way round. Don't ask me why, but when I try to listen to a story I need to concentrate (especially in English but in German nearly as much). So, it's always a real task for me to listen to podcasts. Works best when I'm ill or travelling and have hours to spend.

[huldrejenta.livejournal.com]

Oh what a lovely, lovely list! They could all of them be on my list as well ♥
Thanks for tagging me, I'll definitely get around to doing it! :D

[nia_kantorka]

Thank you! And I can see us having a very similar taste in happy things. :D

Don't stress yourself. It's fun thought to see all the lists popping up. :)

*hugs*