Things that make me happy

I keep meaning to blog more; I have many ideas for what I want to write about in my head, but when I sit down to write I can't seem to get the words right. Actually, what I'm striving for is perfect - a bad ED trait and something that is impossible to reach. I need to learn to write from my heart and be happy with my words however they come out - they don't need to be perfect.

Before I get back to blogging about some of the issues I want to talk about, I thought I'd just blog about anything! So, to start the day off well, have a list of 20 random things that make me happy and that I must learn to fully appreciate more:

1. Opening a new box of Bran Flakes with big flakes.
2. Realising that I remembered to make up a new bucket of sugar beet for the horses the day before, so I don't need to do it today.
3. Reading an academic paper the whole way through and being able to concentrate on it all.
4. The beautiful red sky this morning.
5. Shiny new coins.
6. When I am giving the horses new straw bedding and it is easy to pull the straw off the bale.
7. Getting a piece published in The Racing Post newspaper and being contacted by the thrilled connections of the horse I wrote about.
8. Watching the puppy stretch.
9. Freshly baked scones.
10. Browsing ski brochures.
11. Macintosh red apples.
12. Cinnamon.
13. Bunches of flowers.
14. My Lumie alarm clock which is transforming my sleep.
15. Buying Lottery scratch cards now and again.
16. Mini Eggs.
17. Starting off with a bomb-site living room, and tidying until it is back to normal.
18. My new Espa bath oil that mum kindly bought me.
19. Eye-lash tinting.
20. Feeling, for a moment at least, content.