I provided the voice of the plant in a local production of Little Shop of Horrors. It was really cool, though my throat was not happy with me at the end of each week.
Awesome!
Didn’t he have to be a first officer, first, though?
Well, I did manage some snark awesome this year.
Took Dad for an eye appointment. We are shown to a room and waited and waited and waited. We finally figured out this Dr had EVERYONE show up for say a 9am appointment and then he went through the list (which deserves a pit thread of its own).
Anyway, time kept dragging by. An assistant poked her head in and asked if the Doctor had seen us? No. More time dragged by. Has the Doctor seen you yet? No.
Dad was getting a bit peeved. I wasn’t terribly happy either once I had figured out how they ran this operation.
So, assistant pops in for a third time.
Has the Doctor seen you yet?
No.
Are you sure?
Well, I guess if he was really really fast he might have been in here but I don’t think so.
Okay.
About a minute goes by and the assistant pops her head back in and says “that was pretty good”.
About two months ago my eldest called me up and thanked me for not giving up on him when he was going through adolescence, owned his behavior at the time and admitted that, while he really didn’t want it to be seen as bringing up the past or avoiding responsibility, his mom’s behavior helped enable his aggression against me. It’s still hard for me to believe that he said it.
Trust me, his mom and I worked long and hard on a very dysfunctional relationship that helped him get where he was, but after working for years and spending God knows how much to make things better this goes well beyond being a pretty sweet reward. And yes, after a rough time after leaving the nest, he seems be doing very well.
I also lived half a continent away from home for 2-3 months, acting as a caregiver so that my sister could have a transplant. I’d rather not own that though. Honestly, it just taught me that I’d make a really crappy nurse.
I entered two paintings in an exhibition. Took them in and went home. A few hours later the phone rang and when I answered a woman yelled “You sold a painting!”
It was a picture of a sunset in Elkhorn KY and as it was being hung someone saw it and bought it on the spot. I also sold a painting of bison to my brother-in-law and put two other paintings on display in an art cafe.
Thank you! (And to **Congodwarf **too)
Yes, he’s been an FO for 3 years.
Giving a reading of my fantasy story “George Washington and the Dragon” at a library in NH.
My story had been accepted for publication (but not until the end of next year! grumble grumble) and the publisher invited a bunch of us up to a reading. I was invited, but not to read – only for moral support. Fortunately for me, not everyone showed up that night, so I got a reading spot. I read half the story (always leave them wantin’ more) more as a dramatic performance piece than a straight reading. as I left the podium, one of the other writers said “You didn’t have to show us up.” Wonderful, that was.
I’m sorry for your loss, faithfool. I can’t imagine losing my wife, and I doubt I would be able to keep it together for even a minute to speak on the occasion of her death. I loved my dad and all, but the loss of a spouse… I don’t know how I’d handle it. It definitely counts as awesome that you were able to do speak at his memorial, and I’m sure it meant a lot to everyone.
More of an ongoing one I guess: now down 50kg (110lbs) on my pre-surgery weight.
3 weeks into a ‘Couch-to-5k’ program (using the Zombies Run! app) and actually looking forward to getting out for some exercise.
I had virtually nothing to do with this event, other than contributing some DNA 33 years ago, but it was most definitely the most awesome moment of the year for me. My first grandchild, a boy, was born in January.
Is that the same DoperSon who once wasn’t allowed to rent a car on account of being too young, and it was in a location to which he’d flown the plane?
Same one, Nava. He’d arranged for his GF to ride as passenger to Durango while he was FO (Copilot). After arrival, the Hertz folks wouldn’t rent him a car because he was under 25. 
OMG, I so wanted to see that! and now I’m kicking myself again for not going. That is so cool.
I’m actually smiling for real after reading this one. You brightened my day pullin, thank you.
Mine:
In January I completed the inaugural Star Wars Rebel Challenge (10K Saturday, Half-marathon Sunday) at Disneyland. I took my next-door neighbour with me for company, thereby making her dream of seeing Beverly Hills and Hollywood Boulevard come true.
Last Friday my buddy and I went to a concert of our favourite band together. He won the Meet & Greet so we got an awesome photo with the band and I totally got to hug the lead singer.
I’m not much of a traveler and large-scale undertakings make me very nervous, so I’m proud that my husband and I managed to move our family of four cross-country for his fall semester sabbatical at a New England University. This included a three-week cross-country trip during prime tourist season. The planning/execution was painful but the overall experience has been wonderful and I’m really glad we did it, even though it would have been so much easier just to stay put for his sabbatical.
My husband accepted a job in a different state, so I submitted my resignation.
It was not accepted. My great-grandboss suggested that I be asked to telecommute, because I was too valuable to lose.
Even though I am around 300 pounds, I trained for and completed two half marathons each in a little over 3 hours.
…aaaaannnndddd in today’s mail, I got a letter from the President, as in the President of the United States.
I’m on the listserv for emails from the White House and awhile back, one of the emails was about college school loan debt where the President talked about his school debt and how long it took him to pay it off. Having school loan debt myself, I responded to that knowing of his situation made me feel not so alone. I sent the email and pretty much forgot about it, until today, when I came home and there was an overnight envelope from the White House containing his signed letter. Very awesome.