#12 - When you see a friend or family member you haven't seen in years

There is always that time when you are walking down the street, casually going about your everyday business, when you come across a person, out of all the many faces that you've walked past who you don't have a clue who it is, who you actually know!

It's a great feeling because it's normally someone who you haven't seen in an age, and actually don't mind stopping to talk to.

It could be a family member who you don't see often, even during the holidays they are the one who you just don't get around to seeing, or a friend from your old days, such as a secondary school friend, or even a primary school friend! Now they come once in a blue moon, but when you do see them, it is always gonna be a good day after that, as you feel happy that a blast from your past has been seen.

The chat that you have (unless you are extremely busy, but then you feel downbeat after that) is always a good long chinwag, and normally ends with you retaking their number and trying to set up a time to go out for a drink or something along those lines.

#11 - Finishing the last bit of work before end of term holidays

On the days leading up to the end of term, all that you are thinking about is when it will all be over, but because of the amount of work that you are currently doing, it feels as if it will never be time.

But that day, when you have completed the last bit of work that you have left to do, and it is all handed in, it makes you breathe a huge sigh of relief and makes you feel much happier that at least for a couple of weeks, you can do whatever you want, take your mind off everything, until you get back into school, college or university when it all starts again for another three months.

You know you'd rather sit back and watch classic tv epsiodes of Only Fools and Horses or the Royle Family, or christmas films like Elf or the millions and millions of versions of A Christmas Carol, but until that last piece of work is in, you can't do anything but power through the work.

#10 - Waking up knowing that you're going on holiday today

There's only a few days where you wake up and straight away have a smile on your face. These days include Christmas Day, your birthday (mainly when you're younger) and the morning when you're about to go holiday. For both adults and children, it's time to chill out, catch some rays and not have to think about work or school for a while.

It seems as if you have nothing else to worry about other than what colour swimming trunks or bikini you are going to wear on what day. Breakfast is ate at a rate of knots, and the family are already standing by the door waiting to go to the airport.

The sleep beforehand is a normally not a good one, as you are usually tossing and turning, and keep checking the clock every five minutes to see if it is time to get up yet. But even though when you wake up you've had about 2 hours sleep if that, you're not feeling tired at all, and you know that in just a few hours (or maybe more if you are going to some far away exotic country) you'll be in another country, and can sleep as much, or as little as you want, depending on which generation you are.

#9 - Having one of those sleeps where you wake up feeling so refreshed

Most of the time when you go to sleep you wake up thinking "I feel more tired than when I went to sleep, how can I be more tired now!?"

You spend most of the night actually trying to fall asleep, and when your are asleep you're tossing and turning, or getting up to get a drink, a midnight snack or go for a toilet break, so when you actually do fall back to sleep, it feels as if it's been about 10 minutes before the dredded alarm clock goes off and it's time to start another day, another day in which you go through the whole day half asleep, wondering when it'll be time for you to get back into bed again.

But, there are them odd occasions, which happens once in a blue moon, when you actually go to sleep, whether it be becuase you are so tired that you crash out straight away, or (this is more the time when I have it) that you get in from a night out and fall asleep still fully clothed in the first position you hit the bed (or sometimes not even the bed).

The whole night whisks past and when you wake up it feels as if you have been asleep for a good week, as you're feeling oh so refreshed and you feel like this day is going to be a good day. You feel wide awake and work/school doesn't seem like a chore today and you can't wait to get the day started.

It is one of those sleeps that you know as soon as you wake up that you're not gonna have another one of those for a long long time, but at this moment in time, you don't give a damn.

#8 - Finding money on the floor

There comes a time when you will be walking down the street, and you see something on the floor. You think to yourself what it could be, but are unwilling to bend down and pick it up in case its just a piece of paper and you've made yourself look like a fool.

But you know it's going to be a good day when you bend down, thinking there is no way that what you're to pick up is going to be of any value, and to your surprise, you find money!

You cannot believe your luck, it's like finding money in your own clothes, but this isn't your money, this is someone you don't know and there is no way that you are going to give it back.

This money is now rightfully yours, to spend on whatever you see fit, whether that be a big lunch, a present to someone else, or more often, a present for yourself.

The thought goes through your mind for the person that has lost the money, because you would feel very low if you lost money yourself, even if it's just a small amount, but now it's yours, you are not letting it out your sight unless it is to pay for something.

#7 - When you walk into class and see a substitute teacher

I don't think that there are many better sites when you were at school than walking into a class you really didn't want to be in and seeing a substitute teacher sitting there waiting for you. It just makes the rest of that lesson fly by, because even the sub knows that not much work is going to be done during this lesson.

Normally the teacher would have given the sub a plan of what to do during that lesson, but whether the worksheet is given out or not, all that is going to happen is an hour of catching up with your pals.

But what is even better than that is if the teacher you normally have didn't even provide a plan, and all that means is a film would be put on. Now this is great as for you there are now options, depending on the film put on watch that or have a tactical power nap until the class is over.

Or sometimes the work, normally depending on what class you're in and what time of the year it is, the work that you do could be something festive if it's just before christmas, or something good and enjoyable if it's towards the end of the year.

Substitute teacher's do get it hard, let's not lie. But without them, these lessons would not even happen, and that hope nearly every morning before you get in that you hope a certain teacher you have today isn't in.

This gets better in college or university,  when instead of a substitute teacher coming in, you normally don't have the lesson at all which means you get an extra long break!

#6 - When you see an old school episode of a TV show you like

Most of the time when watching TV, you watch the same episodes time and time again, whether it be The Simpsons or Scrubs, it is normally the same few episodes played over and over again. But sometimes you do come across an episode you may have seen once, or maybe not even at all!

This makes you listen and watch intensely, as for the first time for as long as you can remember, there is an episode on that you DON'T know most, if not all the words to.

This is a great feeling to have and feels as if the rest of the TV for that night should be good! But it probably never lives up to expectations...

This feeling can also be introduced into films. But with films it is usually the other way round, and you want to see films you've watched before but have never got bored of. Examples being Shaun of the Dead, Step Brothers, Anchorman and so on...TV usually offers the same boring films from before you were born, or films you have seen time and time again, but sometimes you'll be channel flicking, and you come across an absolute classic, but something you would never have thought to put on yourself. An example of this type of film is The Goonies...

#5 - Having a word/quote of the day and hearing someone totally random say it

It gets to that point with your mates when you come across 'Word of the Day'. The rules are simple: find a word, not one of those usual words you hear all the time, but a word, or even a quote from a film, and try and hear it out in the public.

Some of the time, depending on the word, such as "Gazeeboe" or "Vicinity", which have been used on a personal account, never get said and it's just a pointless game, but some of the time, you pull a real cracker out between that when you hear it out, you know it's gonna be a good day.

Again, talking from personal experience, we came up with a word of the day, which was actually a quote from the film White Chicks, in which they use the term "Bitch Fit" or a "BF".

After this was announced as the quote of the day, we went to a party, and without any hinting from us, a person at the party, after knocking a drink over, exclaimed "I'm gonna have a BF!"

Well, the party was only ever gonna get better for us after hearing that, and it did not disappoint!

#4 - Seeing the Coca-Cola christmas advert for the first time this year

As it's getting towards that time of year again, when you start to feel it becoming absolutely freezing and you spend longer and longer in bed in the morning, you may have started seeing certain things that make you realise that christmas is approaching VERY quickly, and soon we'll be woken up by younger siblings wanting to open presents that by New Year's Eve, will be out of fashion already.

But apart from the above, there is also one certain advertisment that always makes you feel christmas is upon us, and no its not XFactor's attempt at a christmas advert (courtesy of John Lewis) or this this one to "pull at the heart strings" but this absolutely classic advert from Coca-Cola.

Once you've seen this advert for the first time, as Perry Como (or Bing Crosby depending on what generation you're from) you know "it's beginning to look a lot like christmas", and you should start counting the coppers in order to buy some presents so you don't look like the modern day Scrooge.

Or you could just spend most of that money on "getting in the christmas spirit", like we seemed to do last year...

#3 - Finding old clothes that still fit

Most people must of had a time where you have gone into your wardrobe at home, and realised that there are no clothes you would normally wear in there, all either screwed up on the floor or in the wash. So here lies the dilemma of what you are going to wear.

But then you see something hidden in the depths, which you believe could be worth trying on as you used to like it and wear it all the time, when you were 16...

So you try it on and, somehow it still fits! So for today and today only, the old piece of clothing, whether it be a t-shirt or pair of trousers will make their comeback!

But after this day of wearing it is over, you feel that it could become, once again, a regular item of clothing, even though it is about four years out of date!

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#2 - Hearing a song whilst driving and knowing ALL the words to it

It's one of them days when you are in your car, casually listening to the radio which is full of songs you either know a bit but don't fancy singing your heart out to, or one's you do not have a clue what they are. But then, whilst flicking through endless dodgy radio stations you come across an absolute classic you haven't heard in a while but know ALL the words to.

So regardless of where you are, whether it be in the middle of nowhere with no one else in sight, or in the middle of a massive traffic jam, you know you're going to turn the radio up so high and belt out every single word!

Even if you are in the middle of a traffic jam, which has gone nowhere for a long time, hearing that song brightens up your day, even if it's just a little bit. But it gets even better when after hearing that song, it's in your head for the rest of the day, so when you're walking round the office/walking to get lunch, you can be heard singing this song you heard, with the odd thought of "Why am I not on XFactor?"

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#1 - Finding money in trouser/coat pockets

Don't you just love it when you put on, for example, a pair of jeans that you haven't worn in a while and find some money. It is definitely a great feeling to have, especially if it's a £10 or even a £20 note!

If this has ever happened to you, you'll know what I mean, it is a great feeling. Especially if you had no money to begin with.

You feel like after this has happened, it is going to be a good day, but the money doesn't normally last that long, and goes on something you really shouldn't, a treat, such as lots of fatty food or a new piece of clothing!

Now this money you have newly obtained, you have no idea where it came from, if it was even yours, and why you didn't spend it before, but now it is in your possession, you have the feeling that it has to spent as soon as possible.

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Welcome to my blog

Evening everybody!

Welcome to my new blog, now I'm new to all of this and it may take a while for it to look half decent, but I'm gonna give it a go anyway.

This blog is about thing that happen in your daily life that makes you feel a bit better inside. There'll be some you havent had had yet and others that will make you think "ah yeah, that has happened to me!"

Hopefully it'll be a good read for you all and you'll want to keep coming back and visiting the blog.

Thanks guys!