Happiness is...

getting home from work on a Friday night, and  managing to get into your snowy driveway FIVE minutes ahead of the town plow, which passes and completely blocks your driveway!

having a new 550 piece puzzle, a good book, Thuyla gin, Netflix and your best companion for company, on a snowy, stormy Friday night.

having a very dear, old friend with whom you can share a good laugh.  I had taken her winter coat and mine, intending to hang them up in a public cloakroom, when it dawned on me that my V-E-R-Y expensive coat could easily be removed by anyone going by.  This same, dear friend was the one who had coaxed me into buying THAT coat four years ago.  What did I do? I put my coat on the hanger first, and then hung her coat on TOP of mine.  When I relayed what I had done, albeit a little sheepishly, she laughed and said, "Your coat cost you over $450.00?  Mine was $10.00!  Go for it!"

knowing that another dear, good friend, road warrior companion and partner in adventures and crime, sailed through two surgeries and God only knows how many invasive procedures during a month long PLUS stay in hospital, all the while admitting she is a" tough old bird!", laughing and keeping a totally positive attitude.

celebrating your mother's eighty-fourth birthday with her, and two of your four siblings.  Que je suis donc chanceuse, de pouvoir réjouir d'une maman toujours resplendissante, et en pleine forme!

hugging your sis-in-law at work, slipping her a Lindt chocolate for Valentine's day, and telling her you love her!

knowing a good friend will drop anything and everything, to come to you in your hour of need, NO MATTER how big or small that need actually is.

getting to know other single women like yourself, with whom to socialize and have fun. It isn't always easy being a "single-ette" in a "couples" world.

seeing Canadian athletes do their VERY best to represent our WONDERFUL country, regardless of whether they earn a medal or NOT.

BLISS?

your investment adviser telling you, YES, you CAN afford to retire at the end of the year!

MORE BLISS?

a little forward thinking, some surfing on the net, a sweet seat sale with AC Rouge; all of which lets me spend a month of winter with family and friends,  in my second favourite country in the world.  Costa Rica, here I come!

PURE BLISS?

getting a text on Valentine's Day that shows the ultra sound of your first unborn grandchild, five months in utero, and clearly seeing a familiar upturned nose!