In no particular order:

Skee ball and pinball

Seeing preschoolers out in a group attached to a rope - bonus if they’re waving or giving a stop traffic sign

Irises

Sticking my nose in blooming lilacs

An ocean breeze

Bright sun in a blue sky in winter

Whoopie pies

Over the top Halloween and Christmas decorations

A really good fountain coke over ice

Live music

The organ at a hockey game (shame on the Caps for letting their organist go)

Anonymous wrote:Hearing the foxes and owls in the woods behind my house.

Oh, me too!

Also...I love the birds on my feeder. Love them bathing in the heated birdbaths after a winter storm.

something in my bedside drawer that uses d batteries

My Labradors

Being immersed in a great book or TV show

Good food (good to me, it doesn't have to be high quality - could be a burger from Five Guys)

Being on/near the water (i.e. on a boat or a beach) in beautiful warm weather

Being on a ski slope with good snow

Laughing so hard it hurts

Really comfortable clothes

A really good massage

Singing
Seeing a plant growing from seed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG, you people & your pets are pathetic.

Well they are better than the people who answered “my kids” after OP explicitly said excluding kids and partner! They didn’t even read!

Well I mentioned my kid and my pet, I guess I misread. But there are few other things that bring me "immense" joy, so whatever.

I don't think loving somebody is ever pathetic.

Mine is skiing. When I'm in powder in a bowl that's close to empty. That is the closest I can get to heaven.

I love cats, too. Doesn’t even have to be mine but I just get amused looking at them and watching them be cats.

Other stuff: doing art, hot coffee, putting on slippers, fresh sheets, taking a walk w headphones on, standing at the ocean, flowers of all kinds, a good haircut, reading, finding a perfect sea shell, sleeping in, hearing other people laugh really hard…probably much much more but that’s a start.

Ugh typos^^^

And I didn’t read close enough to see no kid stories.

Oh well.

I’m a very measured and content person so I don’t have lots of joys/dips.

But I life kids and it brings me joy to watch a child overcome something.

My nephew is afraid of everything and I took him to the aquarium and it took a good hour of watching others touch a starfish before he touched it.

I took him to a park and it took him an hour to get the courage to go find the big slide, but he did, he hit his head, got over it and kept going.

The stuff makes me happy.

Anonymous wrote:OMG, you people & your pets are pathetic.

Well they are better than the people who answered “my kids” after OP explicitly said excluding kids and partner! They didn’t even read!

OMG, you people & your pets are pathetic.

My ritual of having my morning cup of coffee on the couch, nobody talking to me, mindlessly scrolling for 1/2 hour before the crap of the day starts.

That feeling when all the clothes are washed.

Doing a thing that has been on my to-do list for too long, either because I’m overwhelmed by the thought of it or it’s so tedious.

Waking up on a Saturday morning, knowing I’ve got nothing planned for the weekend.

Right now, a weather forecast with temperatures above freezing brings me joy. The seven day forecast is bringing me the opposite of joy so I'm trying to hold on to the positive while it lasts.

my two dogs, especially the people dog.