Happiness is Where've You Been?, Kathy Mattea, 1990

 

Happiness is Michael Martin Murphey, Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo, 1990

 

Happiness is the temperate feast of life

 Calmly he look'd on either life, and here

Saw nothing to regret, and there to fear;

From nature's temp'rate feast rose satisfy'd,

Thank'd heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd.

 

-- Alexander Pope

Happiness is a lazy man's raised-bed-garden planter

 

To the aliens we're basically West Garfield Park in Chicago

 

Memorial Day 2024: Lee Brice, I Drive Your Truck, 2012

 

Happiness is the voice of Steve Perry of Journey in 1979's Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'

 

Happiness is global warming

 

 

 The Thames frozen twice in one year, so as men to walk on it, is a very signal accident.

-- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

Happiness is Sunday morning baking two dozen triple wheat muffins

 OK I ate two.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Triple Wheat Muffins

1.5 cups wheat germ

1.5 cups all purpose wheat flour

3.0 cups wheat bran

1 T baking powder

1 t baking soda

1 t ground cinnamon

 

2.5 cups milk

2/3 cup brown sugar

2 eggs beaten

1 cup apple sauce

 

Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees F.

Mix dry ingredients in one bowl, wet in another.

Whisk dry into wet gradually.

Add 24 baking papers to tins.

Use a 1/3 cup measure to scoop batter into the liners.

Bake about 20-22 minutes.

Cool in the pans on the counter for 20 minutes.

Serve with butter and jam. And coffee. 

Happiness is Sebn-Up

 

Happiness is taking one day at a time

 

  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. 

-- Matthew 6:34

Happiness is . . . Neil Sedaka - Laughter in the Rain (1974)

 I remember.

Happiness is not taking your tax return too seriously

 It's for the government after all, so just make sure it's . . .

 

 

Dublin Ireland is a pretty cool place

 

Those old Germanic month names can really play havoc with your poetry

 

Eosturmonath showers bring Thrimilchi flowers.

Happiness is The Tide is High, Blondie 1980

 

Happiness is Mr. Richard Feder from Fort Lee, New Jersey, who quit smoking according to Roseanne Roseannadanna, SNL Nov 18, 1978

Last Thursday I quit smoking

Now . . .

I'm depressed

I gained weight

My face broke out

I'm nauseous

I'm constipated 

My feet swelled

My gums are bleeding

My sinuses are clogged

I got heartburn

I'm cranky and I have GAS.

-- Mr. Richard Feder, Fort Lee, New Jersey, who declined precipitously

 

Mr. Feder lived somehow to write another letter in Roseanne Roseannadanna's King Tut routine:

 

 

Happiness is the original survivalist's song A Country Boy Can Survive, Hank Williams Jr, 1982, 2007

 

Happiness is the Richard Lewis and Larry David mantra shtick

 The conclusion is very naughty, but the heart of gold starts at 1:58:

He's had a few . . .

 . . . bottles.