Shiny Happy People Meme

My little shiny, happy person

I’ve been tagged…that’s right.  Tagged to take on another challenge.  The Shiny Happy People challenge as originated by Rosie Scribble and handed to me by Insomniac Mummy.  I’m not big on awards or memes (I still don’t understand what a MEME is…someone please tell me!) but this one is FUN!

The challenge:  Name a song that makes you happy – a song you would listen to if you needed a sudden injection of happiness. Post an image that makes you smile, it can be anything – a silly photo, an image taken from the internet, anything at all that puts a smile on your face (and isn’t too rude!)

The picture above of Little Miss was taken recently when we were out as a family in Stamford.  We were reviewing a café for its family-friendliness for an article I was commissioned to write (yes, commissioned = paid!).  We’d tried to get into this café 3 previous times and on the fourth, we were successful.  Little Miss was rather pleased with her full-English breakfast and I snapped a photo…how funny is her grin?  This makes me smile!

Now, as far as the song goes…I have chosen Abba’s “Dancing Queen”.  I love this song in all of its glorious cheesiness.  It brings me back to a time, about 10 years ago when I was working at a Gymnastics Gym in Peoria, Illinois.  We had a staff party with a tropical theme and many tropical drinks were drunk that night.  Pineapples were eaten, dances were danced.  And then, “Dancing Queen” came through the speakers.  One of our lovely coaches was quite the Dancing “Queen” he was (wink) so now, every time I hear “Dancing Queen”, I think of that night and that time and smile a lot.  Have a listen…Abba is always good for putting you in a happy mood!

And just for fun, I will leave you with one more.  My second New Year’s Even here in England, my hubby and I attended a New Year’s Eve party in Peterborough.  You know, the one’s where you get your hotel room and a lovely meal and brekkie in the morning for a nice lump sum?  Yes, those!  One of the popular songs at that time was “Show me the way to Amarillo” by Tony Christie.  The amazingly funny Peter Kay did a hysterical version of the song for Comic Relief and it’s that version that I share with you.  At our New Year’s Eve extravaganza, this song came on and EVERYONE was out on the dance floor jumping and jiving and clapping and running!  It was amazingly funny and I can’t help but get up and clap whenever I hear this song.  Turn up the volume please…

I hope these songs and the Little Miss picture above bring a smile to your face.  As far as tagging…I’m only going to officially TAG one person as I know she wants to be brought into our Meme World:  Kim at Kim Unplugged.   This is a happy challenge and she could use some happy!  As for the rest of you, I openly TAG you all to take up the Shiny Happy People meme to see what sort of happiness you can bring to the blogosphere.  Ready, steady…you’re it!