Eight Days of Happiness

[fenchurch]

1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing/s.
2. Do this everyday for eight days without fail.

Practically everyone I know has been doing this one, and I kept meaning to start but would get sidetracked (as often seems to happen to stuff I intend to post here). With any luck, this will get me posting at least *something* once a day.

Day 1:
As some of you know, I've been a Cub Scout Den Leader (for the Wolves, who are the 8-year-old boys, aka hyper human versions of mexican jumping beans) for about a month now. Well, today we were scheduled to go sing Christmas carols at a local Assisted Living facility... and I'll admit, I had my doubts as to how well it would go over. I mean, how many people would really want to go see to a bunch of boys they don't know fidgeting and singing off-key? We had a VERY large crowd who appeared to be having a fantastic time, singing along and chatting with the boys. It was such a simple thing we were doing and the people there were absolutely delighted.

And a much smaller thing... during the morning news broadcast, one of our local stations plays holiday greetings from servicemen and women (and their families) who are stationed overseas and have family in the area. Today there was a family on Andersen AFB on Guam... and about partway through I realized I knew where they were standing. I actually recognized the scenery behind them, because they were standing just down the street from where I used to live. I haven't seen that place since I was 10-years-old (which is way more years ago than I'd like to admit), and yet it was still so familiar. One of these days, I really would like to go back to Guam on vacation... especially if I can arrange for permission to visit the Base, since that's the area I'd be most familiar with.

Comments

[bubonicplague.livejournal.com]

I wanna go back to Guam with you.

[hollywdliz.livejournal.com]

An excellent start to an excellent meme! I'm not normally all aboard the Meme Train, but this one has been really good for me and a great opportunity to see in more detail what's going on in my friends' lives that's worth celebrating. It's gotten me to be more conscious of the many, many things for which I can be grateful even on my worst days.

[rosiewook.livejournal.com]

My parents had their day of scout troop singing last Saturday. My dad could only listen to two troops (they had both Boy and Girl Scouts) before having to leave to protect his ears. :)

[pmgoose.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

Yay bringing children and the elderly together!

And yay childhood memories!

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

We seriously considered a stop there when we went to Australia a few years ago... but it ended up simply being too far out of the way (we'd have to fly to Japan then Guam then back to Japan then down to Australia) and too expensive. My mom says the island has had a real boom of hotels since we lived there and that Agaña was practically unrecognizable.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Yes! I totally agree... it's revealing some of the little details in people's lives that we almost never get to see. It's also been making me think about the happy things happening in my life ever since it first cropped up on the flist (so my delay in starting has had absolutely nothing to do with a lack of happy -- in fact, I missed out on sharing some really good stuff).

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Our boys actually did pretty well... but we had some of the typical young boy behavior of goofing off with exagerrated singing and occasional silly voices (although they were good about going back to normal when we caught them at it), which the residents seemed to enjoy almost as much as the regular singing.

[bubonicplague.livejournal.com]

I really think there would be a lot of interest in getting a package put together for us military brat types who want to go back there.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I was one of the Wolves, back in the day!