This past week, two former co-workers contacted me to recruit me to their agencies. Nothing like peer recognition!
An outside regulatory agency examined the charts of 3 of my patients with a fine tooth comb and complimented my documentation.
I registered to participate as a fine artist in a big con for the first time! Here goes nothing…
Hey, there’s always next year. May the best man win…
I’m getting married and close to raising almost $1MM in venture capital. Life is good!! (except for this UTI)
I hope to have something to post in this thread in a few weeks. 
Damn, I was hoping for a threadful of jokes about stealth bragging. Ah well.
This will probably not be very impressive without a lot of background info but sod it. I am in treatment for PTSD and getting steadily better without meds. I’ve managed to remain a functional adult despite everything and things keep looking up. Yay!
Even though things have been rough since the recent death of my husband…
I found a full time job after being wrongfully terminated while on maternity leave. I love my new job, new coworkers, and my new boss. Above all, I LOVE the work I do. Community mental health while actually being out and about in the community. Healing, in so many ways.
Just got temporary guardianship of my oldest daughter few days ago. The hearing for permanent guardianship is set for next month but I am not so scared about it anymore.
My kids are healthy and so am I.
My six month old is sprouting her first tooth.
I also managed to find low cost health insurance for both of them because it was going to cost me $1300 a month to insure them under my employer and there is no way I can afford that.
So yeah…totally awesome!
I also am slowly realizing that we’ll be okay. No matter what, we’ll be ok.
I got straight As in six classes last semester, in addition to straight As the semester before that, and the semester before that one. And I recently got an e-mail from Columbia asking me if I would be interested in a new program they have for alternative students (old farts) who have high GPAs and are interested in early childhood education. There’s no way I can afford the tuition, or for that matter even afford to live in New York for two years, but it pumped my ego nonetheless.
Great thread. Congrats to all who have posted.
I’m celebrating my eighteenth wedding anniversary this week. My first book (authored with fellow doper) is coming out next month.
That is just asking for trouble! And when your wife had triplets, she’d blame it ALL on YOU! 
And congratulations, Maggie!
I, um…just got lucky. <no, not the way Ambivalid did, lol> We have permission from the owner to start moving our things into our new place as soon as tomorrow, which will be a huge help. Sure beats moving things into storage and then moving everything all at once over one weekend! So I am Lucky Girl.
My husband and I just celebrated our 24th wedding anniversary, and I have finished converting our daughter’s former basement apartment into a sewing/weaving space Just For Me.
What a good thread idea!
Two things from today:
1)A former coworker is in town for a visit and she let me know she is ready to buy several artworks from me - she had looked over some of my prints a few years back and we started talking prices, but never really finalized anything and I figured she just decided not to buy for whatever reason. It happens and I never had any hard feelings about it at all. Today she let me know that she had run into some hard financial times and that’s why the deal never went through but now she’s all set. It’s super touching and flattering that this woman of great taste and wisdom is actually excited about owning my stuff and giving some to a loved one too! Plus the prospect of a bit of cash isn’t too shabby either.
- My sister spontaneously told me that I am “a good sister.” Nuff said.
Yes. Yes we do.
That’s fabulous! New humans are great.
Interesting. I found out from my son yesterday that I am the Most Beautiful Mom of all the Moms in the World. Like you, I did not know there was even a competition, but I am flattered beyond words to have won it. I kind of thought Elle MacPherson would edge me out, based on a picture of her I saw online the other day but…sorry, Elle. Maybe next year.
I** loved** reading this. I’ve been quietly following your posts and I really love reading those last 2 sentences.
As for me…well, there is that Most Beautiful Mom thing. But also, I had hip surgery in December and was out of commission exercise-wise for a while. When I got the OK to start running again in March, it was 1 or 2 miles at a time. Now I’ve reached a point where I’m running anywhere from 4 to 8 miles when I go, and am between 20 and 25 miles per week and increasing. I feel fantastic.
Yesterday my wife and I competed in the Spartan Race, and this morning she still had enough energy to wake me with a BJ. Life is good.
Good, good, good! As a fellow community engagement type of person, I am so happy for you! And proud. Can I say proud? I’m glad things are getting better.
Haven’t we been telling you that for years?
Glad to hear it. (Well, not the surgery part.) Rock on!
My 15 yr old daughter and I caught just a mess o’ trout this weekend in the Sierras.
After smoking a pack a day for the last 20 years, I have been smoke free for the last 3 weeks!
After weathering several difficult years financially, my husband and I have finally gotten caught up, we’re back on our feet, and this week, we’re actually taking a vacation together.
A vacation without the kids. Just the two of us. The first time we’ve been away together since the honeymoon.
SpouseO and I are closing on a refi tonight - going from a 30-year at 6.125 to a 15-year at 3.5, so that’s nice. I also pay an extra mortgage payment every year, and have been doing so for years, so with luck we’ll get out of this in even less time. I still can’t believe we’ve been in our house 10 years (in September!) already, though. We just moved in! Honest!