A semi-scientific account of what makes me happy and/or what happiness makes me do, etc

I like to record what happens. It feels wrong that life goes on in all its concrete splendor, and there’s nowhere I can get an official record of what it was. It feels crazy that it might just not be knowable what happened on a particular evening in 2016. I want to be able to know, at least a bit. Relatedly, before bed I do ‘logging’: I write down what happened in brief, my mood on a 1-9 scale, details of drugs I took, afflictions that beset me, and a few other things. Elsewhere I record how much productive stuff and work on my literal job I get done. An upshot is that I can empirically check how my mood relates to various things, such as the mention of different words in the day. Some things that seem to go with being happier: Mentioning my boyfriend (conditioned on the period we have been dating) Taking vitamin D Taking ibuprofen Basically doing work is better, except 1-5 poms of work is worse than none Antibiotics (this is the best ‘drug’ according to my records, in spite of my felt experience that it is entirely neutral - I wonder if the end to wondering if I’m about to die of a UTI and/or feeling like I’m maybe about to die of a UTI is cheering) Having a migraine (!) (they ten