a moment of happpiness
Today I had a moment of happiness... one of those that catches you off guard and you just have to laugh to yourself -- one of those really deep down can't contain it cuz you're just so happy laughs.
I'd spent the day with my parents, road tripping to Santa Barbara (all the way up PCH, stopping at Point Mugu, which we used to go to when I was a really really little kid, then taking silly pictures at some sand dunes ... just to eat at this indian restaurant on State St. for lunch), and we were driving back home. I was messing with my iPhone and put on some YouTube and my dad asked me to put on Terry Fator, so I did -- that one final performance with his impersonating turtle singing "Crying" impersonating Roy Orbison.
After that I said "Hey you want to hear the real song?" and I put it on my iPhone and we were listening to it... then I popped on some Turtles "So Happy Together", then some "Wooly Booly", then I put on "Dreamer" by Supertramp because I love that song (when I was 5 years old and my mom was going to this night school for some accounting certificate, my dad would stay with me at home, turn out all the lights, all you could see were the lights of the equalizer of the stereo, and he'd blast classic rock and dance around with me, and one song that we would sing along to and dance a lot to was "Dreamer", so it always makes me feel happy).
Well then I realized Hey don't you have this song on CD so we can blast it on the car stereo instead of listening to the puny iPhone speaker.
So there we were, blasting "Dreamer" (and I said as I put it on that we all had to sing along LOUDLY!), and we're flying down the 101 fwy, blasting "Dreamer" singing all loud, harmonizing the parts (I was doing the really high parts, my dad the low, my mom the regular middle), dancing around and being silly, and it just hit me.
I felt REALLY happy. Like seriously living in the moment happy. There I was with my mom and dad, after a nice long road trip day up to SB for no particular reason (other than my trip to SF getting canceled possibly), BLASTING this classic rock song in the car, singing along, being silly, and I just felt soooooooooo lucky and sooooooooooooo happy.
Like wow I can actually do this, I actually have awesome parents that I feel HAPPY spending time with, and not just cuz I live away from home and I get to see them every so often, no I live with them and we hang out all the time, and even then I'd much rather spend the day and take a road trip with them than do much of anything else, and we end up doing this silly stuff.
It was just wow. I was laughing and singing and just, I really really don't know how to describe it, it really just was like I was living in the absolute and wonderful present, living in the moment, and it was fun, and happy, and silly, and just perfect.
(I knew then that this would for sure be one of those moments I think of fondly when I'm old ... er, older)
I'd spent the day with my parents, road tripping to Santa Barbara (all the way up PCH, stopping at Point Mugu, which we used to go to when I was a really really little kid, then taking silly pictures at some sand dunes ... just to eat at this indian restaurant on State St. for lunch), and we were driving back home. I was messing with my iPhone and put on some YouTube and my dad asked me to put on Terry Fator, so I did -- that one final performance with his impersonating turtle singing "Crying" impersonating Roy Orbison.
After that I said "Hey you want to hear the real song?" and I put it on my iPhone and we were listening to it... then I popped on some Turtles "So Happy Together", then some "Wooly Booly", then I put on "Dreamer" by Supertramp because I love that song (when I was 5 years old and my mom was going to this night school for some accounting certificate, my dad would stay with me at home, turn out all the lights, all you could see were the lights of the equalizer of the stereo, and he'd blast classic rock and dance around with me, and one song that we would sing along to and dance a lot to was "Dreamer", so it always makes me feel happy).
Well then I realized Hey don't you have this song on CD so we can blast it on the car stereo instead of listening to the puny iPhone speaker.
So there we were, blasting "Dreamer" (and I said as I put it on that we all had to sing along LOUDLY!), and we're flying down the 101 fwy, blasting "Dreamer" singing all loud, harmonizing the parts (I was doing the really high parts, my dad the low, my mom the regular middle), dancing around and being silly, and it just hit me.
I felt REALLY happy. Like seriously living in the moment happy. There I was with my mom and dad, after a nice long road trip day up to SB for no particular reason (other than my trip to SF getting canceled possibly), BLASTING this classic rock song in the car, singing along, being silly, and I just felt soooooooooo lucky and sooooooooooooo happy.
Like wow I can actually do this, I actually have awesome parents that I feel HAPPY spending time with, and not just cuz I live away from home and I get to see them every so often, no I live with them and we hang out all the time, and even then I'd much rather spend the day and take a road trip with them than do much of anything else, and we end up doing this silly stuff.
It was just wow. I was laughing and singing and just, I really really don't know how to describe it, it really just was like I was living in the absolute and wonderful present, living in the moment, and it was fun, and happy, and silly, and just perfect.
(I knew then that this would for sure be one of those moments I think of fondly when I'm old ... er, older)