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Things that made me happy this week.

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Taking pics of my pets in the dark with the negative setting.

Gir's thinking, golly, my human gets weirder every day. 

Cookie's ok with the weird; he knows a treat is coming his way any second. He wouldn't look away if a bear came crashing through the window (watch out for the window-crashing-bears-of-Kansas; they break in, delete your dvr recordings, eat all the strawberries you were saving for lunch, and usually don't clean up after themselves).

 

 

This is happy and pretty, a twofer. 

So pretty. I wanted to pet it, but I dug deep, and found a tiny bit of restraint. 

 

 

I can't begin to tell you how happy I was when I heard about this on the news. 

They actually use brooms. 

They have playoffs and finals and a world championship.

They have a magazine called the Monthly Seer. 

 

We're driving to Tennessee for the National Storytelling Festival that same week,

or I would absolutely pull the kids out of school and sit on the sidelines and celebrate 

the fact that sometimes, people are awesome beyond the telling of it. 

This is happy-making at its best. 

 

 

I just found out there's a team in Kansas. 

Just when I thought life couldn't get any better:

 

http://www.kansasquidditch.com/

 

 

 

Here's more people discovering that playing like a kid is the secret to happiness:

 

YUKIGASSEN

 

professional snowball playing

 

http://www.yukigassen.jp/english/index.html

 

It turns out the Quidditch teams aren't the only ones having a blast.

More happymaking.

 

This vid is at the top of the happy list. 

It's not the funniest of the series, but its got the least Jersey Shore type language. 

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KUcMmGMDHE

 

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