I did a housecleaning job on the weekend for a ‘lady’ who has been blackbanned by every potential housecleaner in the town where she lives. Not only does she live in abject squalor, she’s got a reputation for being a particularly nasty auld bitch to boot!
In three hours, I managed to clear a whole four square feet of benchtops of rubbish and mouldy dishes and pots, scrape the accumulated foodscraps off the carpet around the chair in which she lives (she eats and tosses the remains onto the floor). I also managed to remove a recycle-bin worth of empty lemonade cans and bottles from her bedroom…fished out from under skanky old-lady knickers and doggie blankets and shit. :eek:
I didn’t tell her she was a filthy old fucker, and I didn’t vomit…therefore I deserve the right to pat myself on the back, yeah?
I ran 9 miles on Saturday (and 9 on the Saturday before). I’m training for a half marathon in November and I’m running better than I have in over a decade. I’m starting week 13 of the below training schedule and because of the running I’m no longer in the 2 and a Quarter Club, I’m hovering around 210 lbs. I’d probably lose more if I watched what I ate better, but food is so good.
One of the metal sections of heater hose in my wife’s car developed a pin hole leak. Instead of mindlessly spending $70 - $100 buying the part, I made my own inflow and outflow assembly out of rubber heater hose. Took most of Saturday morning and several trips to the parts store (why do the engineers insist on alternating between 3/4 and 5/8 hose?), but it works fine! I saved a minimum of $50+ in parts and $200 in labor.
Some girl at work with big ones squealed with delight when I walked in, and practically jumped my bones. She calmed down when others arrived, almost immediately. And, this was yesterday!
I usually save at least one idiot’s life every day, often two or three. Most common is people who cross the street without looking (closest call came when I managed to stop within 3 feet at 30 mph,) people who run red lights, and old people. I remember this one old lady who started drifting during a left turn at an intersection, and she kept drifting all the way until she hit one of the stop lights.
Anyone ever play with a Perplexus Twist? I got one for my birthday a few weeks ago, and I completed it start-to-finish for the first time today. Hurrah!
I recently completed my third marathon . . . and felt like it was no big deal. But considering I weighed about 230 pounds five years ago, it IS a big deal. Though I feel more impressed by the 22 half marathons I’ve also completed.
I’m a freelance copyeditor, and a client recently asked me to edit a book by the offspring of a Very Famous Person. They said it’s a high-profile book for them, and so they wanted somebody really really good. Pretty cool.
I successfully cloned and swapped out my dieing hard drive the other day :). Not exactly rocket science, but I was very mildly pleased to not fuck it up - despite decades on a computer this is officially the first time I have ever had a hard drive start to fail on me. I’ve always replaced machines before the old drive died or I ran out of capacity.
Considering I’ve had a large plumbing project dragging on for weeks now with minimal resolution, it was exasperating for yet another thing in my life to go south suddenly. But gratifying to have an issue I could actually deal with myself.
I did 100 push-ups! Like real, chest-to-deck push-ups. It took me about sixteen minutes. That is a personal record for me. About ten months ago when I started doing push-ups, I managed a total of 13 hand-release push-ups. I don’t even know if I could have done one regular one. So I am pretty proud of how far I have come.
I am divorced (2.5 years now) and while I have a boyfriend, I pride myself on being able to do things myself and not rely on other people to do things, even traditionally “man things”. Last week I bought myself a pop up camper, got it all ready to go and today just packed my things so my friend and I can go camping for 3 days! I am about to hook it all up and drive to the campsite, all by myself and I’m confident in my ability to do it. And SO EXCITED. Whatever I couldn’t figure out I just asked and got it figured out. I can even pop/undo the camper by myself if I need to (but it’s easier with 2).
