Happiness is

- A warm bed
- Someone to come home to at the end of a long day
- Letting go of a grudge
- Having homemade pizza in a hot bath drawn by your sweetheart after getting caught in the rain and then enduring a one hour train ride home with a runny nose and you’re down to your last napkin from Noodle Box
- Thinking of a smart comeback to a stinging comment (something I have yet to achieve)
- Getting an unexpected compliment
- Having long drawn nonsensical conversations with close friends
- Finding an awesome dress for AUD10
- Finding a dead pufferfish on the beach and wondering how to bring it home (I’m afraid of getting stung!) and then relating the incident to your boyfriend who asks quizzically, “Why would you bring it home?” “Um… for dinner?”
- Mucking around with happy dogs (even if you end up spilling water on your boss’ carpet)
- Not missing the half hourly trains
- Buying UGG boots that are supposed to cost $59.99 and having the cashier ring them up for $44.99
- Anticipating your family’s visit next year
- Taking a long walk on the beach and realising there’s no other place you’d rather be
- Having a colleague feed you chocolate because you were so busy you couldn’t get out for lunch
- Getting on the wrong bus and have a nice driver elaborate exactly how to reach your destination, complete with lots of hand signals
- Doing an Irish jig to We Are Scientists' After Hours
- Leaving work at 5pm sharp