The "I'm Proud of Myself!" Thread!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Cranky, remember the Dopefest at Persephone’s House? That was the FIRST time, in the 15 years that I’ve been living on my own, that I’ve ever hosted a party. I know how you feel. It definitely is a reason to be proud! :smiley:

I know that “Wonder Woman Day” feeling, too. Those are good, in that you erally do accomplish alot, but then they’re weird, in that you wonder why you can’t do that on a more regular basis. :smiley:

Congrats to TroubleAgain and maidenunicorn41 on the weight loss! Losing weight is an extrememly difficult task, and knuckling down and doing it takes a LOT of work! Be very proud of yourselves!

Congrats to everybody that’s accomplished stuff, and keep those small victories coming, folks! I love to hear them! :smiley:

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I am kinda proud that I had the guts to turn down a job- that while it had a very significant payrise and bigger career opportunities, I knew it wouldn’t make me happy at all and involved working with someone I couldn’t respect.

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I stood up for myself and walked into my counselor’s office yesterday and told them that I would drop out of school if they didn’t at least try to give me an education instead of just keeping me there so I could get my graduation requirements. Suddenly they’re willing to work with me, and I can stop being stressed over my school schedule.

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I’ve been making my music again after many years of not doing it. The computer age has made multi-track recording accessible again. I’d be humbled and proud for anyone to check out the sounds at

http://mp3.com/daltonhendrix

The styles include Blues, Country, Western Swing, Country Blues, Jazz…and some stuff that probably can’t be classified. Oh yeah…there are a couple of fingerstyle guitar instrumentals for the x-mass season.

Please drop me a line in the guestbook or the through the ‘contact’ thread and let me know if you like it or think I stink. I can take it…hehehe.

Please don’t think of this as spam. I don’t post much, but have really enjoyed this forum for about a year now. Just saying’ “I’m proud of myself!”…

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I’m proud of myself that despite going through hard times, my grades are excellent. My GPA is 4.3 or so. In Writing class, out of the 7 of us, while 4 failed, one got a C- and another a C, I crawled out of the wreckage with an A. And in Government, I’m getting a 162/160, which is pretty damn good.

I also know that I was one of the girls who could have been Anita in West Side Story, our school musical. However, I was put in another role. The thing I’m proud of is that I made it to begin with; more girls were cut than girls who got in.

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I am graduating on Monday with my master’s degree in history! Woo-hoo!

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I’ve been riding my bike to school everyday since the end of september. This last week and a half it’s been between minus 25 and -35 everyday, but i haven’t stopped. (That’s between -17 to -30 in farenhight sp?)
i intend to ride all winter, that is my goal.

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I let my daughter live.

Yesterday morning, she woke up before everyone else. She got in to my purse, took one of my lipsticks, and proceeded to engage in some high performance art.

Christ. She had lipstick all over herself. On her face, her arms, her stomach, her legs, even her feet.

But that’s not the kicker. She also decided that the living room needed a little color, so the walls got some lipstick, too.

But wait! There’s more! Here’s the real kicker: When she saw what she had done, she proclaimed, “this is not good enough! I must share my art!” Soooooo…she decided that her little brother needed a few makeup tips as well.

We got her school pictures on Friday. What I want to know is just how they made this future Bride of Satan look so sweet and demure. I think they just airbrushed out the horns & cloven hooves.

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You mean that sweet little doll running around in the blue cape when I was there?! They never cease to amaze, do they?

Wow! I am so impressed with everyone’s accomplishments here. I would like to do an individual attaboy for everyone but I think it’d take FOREVER.

Pers, I’ve got a super easy (and cheap!) recipe for bath salts if you want it. I bet they’d sell fast at the craft shows. let me know if you want it.

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I sang for my grandmother.

I know, not really much to be proud of, but, for some reason, she loves it when I sing. Said it made her feel a thousand times better. ((She fell and hurt her hip pretty badly.))

I just sat there and sang all the Christmas carols I knew for an hour.

Thinking about it, this probably isn’t anything to be proud of, but oh well, I am, a little bit.

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Well, naturally, my biggest accomplishment this year is that I finished the Newbie Initiation tasks that Mistress Persephone laid upon me.

Other than that, well, we’ve got a house. After 2 years of cutting corners, struggling to free ourselves from (most of) our debt and draining the wife’s 401k, we’ll move in a few weeks.

huzzah!

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I joined the Board, I think that was an acomplishment/down fall.

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Simetra, that is something to be proud of! You took the time to do something nice for someone who was down!

Welfy, way to go!

Persephone, ya know, not killing your kid can be a HUGE accomplishment…and thanks for the words of encouragement for the weight loss. I’m trying not to let the holidays and PMS do me in with the chocolate cravings… :smiley:

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I got a 93 final average in my Calculus I class at NC State.

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BunnyGirl: yes, the very same “sweet little doll.” I’m thinking of selling her to the circus. Are they still buying?

TroubleAgain: Oooh. Holidays and PMS? Ouch. Just remember, though, that if it comes down to PMS-related Homicidal Mania and eating some candy, take the candy. :smiley:

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I finished some stuff for my college apps. thats good enough for me.

also, i havent done anything bad in a few days…

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I developed a rare, chronic and life-threatening autoimmune disease (no, that’s not what I am proud of!)and got involved with the only and fledgling Foundation addressing this orphan disease. In a few months I built their first website, redesigned their newsletter and two years ago put together an online support group which now has members from around the world.

As this disease is very rare (30 per million tops, we aren’t sure), doctors don’t usually diagnose it quickly (if at all) and current information about treatment, meds etc., is rare as well. The website has 200 pages (50k hits per month) and is used in the classroom by at least one doctor in England and another in India. Some very important doctors in this field have said they were impressed.

I did this with little or no supervision. I worked the first two years free (thanks largely to Sassy’s financial and emotional support) before I started taking a salary of $1,250.00 per month, no benefits. That was two years ago. I have literally worked 16 hours a day, six or seven days a week, to the point that I have developed carpel tunnel syndrome. (That’s when they asked me to write down what I did to make sure I was busy during the 20 hours a week they were paying me for.) They have nearly doubled their income every year I have been here (the visibility of the Net), but they write few grant requests (two this year, both failed) because the Ex Dir says that you have to know someone to get a grant.

Now they want to supervise me and what they want me to do is often crazy. (I was told not to use the word “explained” once because the Ex Dir thinks the word means “they understood” and since there were 80 people in the room, someone probably did not understand the presentation so I shouldn’t use “explained.” I did anyway. I have objected to other lame decisions to the point where I am now called hot-headed and uncooperative. I could go on, but you’d either die laughing or vomit.)

I have complained of the lunacy to the organization’s President, but she is first cousin to the Ex Dir, so I might as well try to sell a mouse pad to Bill Gates.

It is unmeasuably rewarding to read how someone thought they were alone, that they were scared and uninformed until they found my website, newsletter and/or support group; and within weeks they are advising newbies to visit the website, read the newsletter, etc. While most have no idea I was responsible, that is entirely unimportant to me. There is still a great deal to do, but they will have to struggle on without me. The upshot is that I will be looking for work as of the first of the year (not my choice) and I doubt they will give me a positive referral.

Just being,

Myself

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I made all my Christmas presents for “the family” by hand. We always talk about doing it but it never seems to happen and this year I did it! The only exception was for the kids and that was because I couldn’t figure out how to make a Pokemon game or talking firetruck… oh well, maybe next year.