Happy & Healthy
17 (OH SUDDENLY 20) FREE HAPPY MOMENTS
by May
Simone wrote last week about her 15 free happy moments, and although there is great happiness in a visit to Shoebaloo, Chanel or a fresh Diptyque candle, you can also be unexpectedly overwhelmed by happiness for free. Really, truly and indeed.
1. That you open a jar of Nutella and hear a crack. That crack that tells you that you are opening a new jar and that you get to remove the golden wrapper and be the first to dip your knife into the jar. Divine.
2. That the cleaner has changed the vacuum cleaner bag. After you have done it a hundred times. Or I mean: three hundred times.
3. That you have been looking for an exclusive perfume for years and suddenly find it in a messy perfumery in Milan. Oops. Sorry. Two hundred lines of punishment. It was about free happy moments, May, FREE.
4. Going on a press trip with your favorite colleague.
5. Going on a press trip with your favorite colleague and finding out at Schiphol that the third person is unavailable, so you just have a sort of paid girls' trip.
6. Going to Paris for a day with a friend (yes, yes, that costs money, I know, I'm not done yet) and she is standing on platform 5 with two tall skimmed lattes for you.
7. Your daughter who finally is old enough to walk back and forth to the fridge to refill your glasses.
8. A gas tank that is just full enough to get you home.
9. When your daily lenses are actually completely out but you have no time/interest/whatever to go to the optician and then suddenly find a strip of lenses.
“It was about free happy moments, May, FREE.”
10. The same goes for tampons.
11. Finding matching socks for all your children.
12. Those jeans that suddenly hang around your butt.
13. Waking up and realizing you can sleep for another two hours.
14. Chris Rea on December 6.
15. Hearing a good joke from Edwin Evers while you are stuck in traffic and then seeing that your neighbor next to you is also laughing really hard.
16. Sleeping through the night undisturbed.
17. Being on a work trip and being able to take a bath at 5 PM because there is a gap between the day and evening program. A moment when you would otherwise be juggling plates while Albert.nl was coming in and you were on the phone with your colleague. Wonderful. Maybe a very careful glass from the minibar too, but oh dear oh no, that costs money.
18. Being abroad and finding out that friends of yours happen to be in that same place.
19. A Facebook message from someone from the past that you really think about very often, but with whom daily contact has somewhat faded.
20. A crashed website due to an insane number of visitors. Stress moment, but also happiness.
