Today is Tragic Tuesday. I hate Tuesdays because they have none of the excitement of Monday (all the work that built up over the weekend, w00t!) but none of the hope for the weekend. To remedy Tragic Tuesday, I am putting out a call for the happiest damn picture you can find.
This is my happy picture. It makes me think of European vacations that, frustratingly, no one will pay for me to take. It looks like early morning or late afternoon, both of which are my most favorite times of day for exploration. I like the pretty flowers and the clean, wide streets. I imagine walking to and fro with a basket on my arm that is filled to the brim with unprocessed European market treats that probably don’t exist except in my dreams. Also chocolate. Lots of chocolate. And wine and cheese. Maybe some bread for good measure.
What about you? What’s your happy picture to offset Tragic Tuesday?
39 replies on “Lunchtime Poll: Happy Pictures”
I’m going to brag now, OK? Here’s a screenshot of what made me happy today! This is an editor tweeting about my haunted house romance! I found out about it after the fact.
THAT IS SO AWESOME! Well done, lady!
Thank you! She called me later that day. I can’t stop smiling!!
Holy crap congrats! That’s so awesome!
Thank you!! I had gotten a really unpleasant rejection just the day before, so it was especially nice.
I’ve never been able to find information to confirm that this picture is authentic, but I like to think it is.
This was taken on February 3, 2011 in Tahrir Square, Cairo. The caption read: Christians protecting Muslims during evening prayer. Just the idea of members of one faith protecting and respecting another makes me so incredibly happy. Gives me a little hope for humanity.
I love that picture. It’s nice to think of Christians acting like Christians.
. . . and because I can’t be serious for too very long, I saw Paul Kidby’s finalized cover art for Dodger and it makes me all kinds of happy.
Oh, I love this.
if you look toward the background you can see people standing (in what looks like) chest to back making a solid wall. I love the look on the man’s face on the left making sure that everyone is in place. everything about this picture makes me happy.
Oh, wow, I didn’t notice that. What an amazing picture.
Yes, I love the expression of the guy on the left! And the guy on the right is like, “Fuck yeah, humanity!” which is great too.
YES! and neither of them – no one for that matter – is looking at the camera. no one is trying to be seen being good.
This is the promo image an upcoming game, Me and My Dinosaur 2, by Canned Meat Studios. Lovely, eh? The game itself is adorabubble as well.
FOLLOW THAT CAR!
Other than pictures of my adorable baby niece (who’s six months old today!), pictures of my two year old but still a puppy Bichon make me so happy:
Ooh, ooh! This is her doing her pin-up pose:
Oh my Lord how adorable.
I only wish I could take genetic credit for it.
omgggggggg
Awwwwwwwwww I’m might be squeaking right now.
lambs are so freaking cute.
AND THIS ONE IS WEARING A SWEATER.
Lamb. In a Sweater. = Dead from Cuteness.
I had to look twice at that picture because it looks so much like Turckheim, the town where I spent seven months living in Alsace, France:
Weirdly, I guess that my happy picture would be the view from the Vosges mountains, which surrounded this town.
A quick Google and I found a good picture of the view I’m talking about :)
I’m not going to post it because it has my face, but there’s a picture of me at 221B Baker Street wearing a deerstalker with a pipe in my mouth that the Mister took when we went on our whirlwind London long weekend that was planned with the express purpose of going to see David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Much Ado About Nothing, and it was the greatest vacation and so much fun and I got to also do Sherlock Holmes-y things and so that picture wins everything.
Runner up is this picture I took that time I got to feed a giraffe.
Oops, that was really big for a minute. Sorry.
A fancy rat playing the flute! I had pet rats during my master’s degree (I had to give them away to a friend when I moved back to Canada because rats aren’t allowed to immigrate-they are happy in their new digs though) I miss those little guys.
Oh my goooood. I LOVE THAT PICTURE.
…My mind. It has been blown.
aaah so cute!
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! SO MUCH ADORABLENESS.
The Red Crater in Tongariro National Park, NZ . SO LONG AGO, GAHH.
But it was a super happy day for me.Â
I can’t pick! But I can get it down to two.
The Doctor checking the script with a yeti. Hilarious, adorable, and nerdy all in one
Or
My boy kitties hugging each other. This one is a little bitter sweet though as orange kitty passed on a few years back. (He was 18, and had a good life and all, but I kinda miss him, mostly a happy nostalgia kind of miss though)
I’m not a cat person (or any kind of animal person, really) but your orange kitty had the cutest face. It’s like cartoon-cat perfect.
Thanks. He had the biggest eyes ever. And he meowed a lot in this little squeaky voice.
I’m totally going to fly in one some day and I will be decked out in a Steam Punkish outfit and we will eat loads of scones. (although my first association was a picture of an afternoon tea but I need to think a little bit less about food right now, not more).
I’m inviting myself along on that journey. I’ll bring the lemon curd for the scones . . . and a kick ass clockwork gun.