Reasons to be cheerful

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A lovely idea from sharelle: 101 things that make my life brilliant right now.

1 - My children
2 - My husband
3 - My family
4 - My friends
5 - My health
6 - My freedom of political, social, sexual & religious conscience
7 - Being British
8 - this delicious bowl of Cheerios I'm eating right now.
9 - The Rescheduled 30th Birthday Party that I get to have in less than two weeks time, baby!
10 - Cider (apple or pear)
11 - Rosé wine
12 - Coffee
13 - Bon Maman black cherry jam on white toast
14 - sexytimes
15 - Making people laugh
16 - Twitter and its power to make me laugh no matter when I look at it
17 - Getting sweet, unexpected, unsolicited DMs, PMs or emails.
18 - Getting nice reviews for my writing
19 - Getting a big kiss from my daughter for no apparent reason
20 - My son's sleepy-breath
21 - My daughter's singing
22 - My daughter's dancing
23 - My daughter's stories
24 - My daughter's art work
25 - My son's cry of 'egg!' whenever something excites or interests him
26 - My husband's sense of humour
27 - Watching The Wire or Mad Men with Husband
28 - My Saturday night ritual of wine & Lost
29 - Benry Knows Best, and everything relating to the continued hilarity that is the cult of Benjamin Horatio Huffnagel Linus.
30 - Sex dreams
31 - Hot showers
32 - Weekend lie-ins
33 - The Sims
34 - Pepsi Max
35 - Futurama
36 - Friday night pizzas
37 - Thorntons chocolate
38 - Rice Krispie cakes
39 - Sunny days and the general approach of summer
40 - A brisk walk with my MP3 Player on at full volume
41 - Discovering new songs, or songs I haven't heard in decades, on Spotify
42 - Forty Two
43 - Father Ted
44 - Frasier
45 - Laughing at very old injokes with old Uni or work friends
46 - Laughing about newer injokes with online friends
47 - The Beatles
48 - The Beach Boys
49 - Britpop
50 - Watching old musicals with my daughter
51 - Watching Disney films with my daughter
52 - Watching Warner Bros cartoons with my daughter
53 - Reading the new Charlie Brooker column on a Monday and a Saturday
54 - Flight of the Conchords
55 - Daydreaming
56 - 'Writing' new scenes of Rollercoaster or scenes of future scripts in my head as a I walk
57 - Mama Cass
59 - Tortillas
60 - Buying new clothes for the kids
61 - Buying new clothes for me
62 - The ten minutes as Hubs is Top & Tailing Alex when me & Vi play on the bed
63 - Bedtime stories
64 - Kissing the kids goodnight
65 - Mums & Toddlers group
67 - Firefly
68 - Reading
69 - The feeling of satisfaction at posting a new chapter of a story
70 - The feeling of satisfaction at coming up with a really good joke
71 - Tiffin (best shared with Missy C)
72 - Productive days
73 - The Fresh Laundry smell
74 - They Might Be Giants
75 - Kurt Vonnegut
76 - Listening to Jeff Waynes' War Of The Worlds and thinking about scenes from that TNG/WotW Crossover I'll never write
77 - Vimto
78 - Canterbury Cathedral
79 - Frappucinos
80 - Yellow TShirts
81 - The BBC
82 - The Goodies
83 - ISIHAC
84 - Graeme Garden in general
85 - Random La Reynolds Spottings
86 - Links to weird and wonderful videos & blogs
87 - Singing along in the car with Hubs to 'Octopus' Garden' as Worf
88 - Bill Bailey's 'Unisex Chip Shop' song
89 - Vi's 'Ally Ally Ally Pop, Bee-doo-bee-doo' song and its ability to make Alex laugh no matter how bad his mood was
90 - Laughing so hard that I feel like I can't get up.
91 - Mozart
92 - Picking Vi up from Nursery & Alex's excitement at seeing his sister again.
93 - Chinese takeaways
94 - The combination of peanut & chocolate
95 - Friend Kitty's chocolate pudding (I am apparently receiving some at the Birthday Reloaded!)
96 - Roast chicken dinner
97 - Cold roast chicken & stuffing sarnies after said roast dinner
98 - Jalapino peppers
99 - Fresh black pepper
100 - Cuddles
101 - Jaffa Cakes