Why are you proud of yourself today?

Me, it's because I haven't gone into any of the Super Bowl threads and said "Who cares?"

Woke up to get to work at 7:30-9:30AM, had classes from noon-9PM.

All downhill from here. :)

10 more to go!

in the place we're living.

it's also rather alarming how much stuff we have accumulated since we had a kid...

:patriot:

That is the first thing I'm proud of

Second thing is that I cleaned the house under an hour before my daughter's speech teacher came...all with a fever while cursing my so called husband for leaving it a mess knowing full well that I may have the flu. Ass. :grr:

Three opportunities so far to be a snot. Haven't taken the bait yet. But the day is young. :evilgrin:

I'm already up to 1,785 of my 2,000 words/day goal. And I finished the section of the sweater that I'm working on. And I haven't mentioned that there are only 22 more days until pitchers and catchers report.

Oops. Scratch that last one.

:eyes:

:P

in a sweater shape and knotted it together with snipped pieces of yarn.

What does your 2,000 words per day goal entail? Is it just writing, or writing as part of a coherent whole?

My goal is to have something approaching book-length and ready for rewrite by March 1. We're not talking "War and Peace" here, but for what I have in mind, shorter is sweeter anyway.

I finished crocheting a blanket before my granddaughter was born. Kinda-sorta...I finished it that night (but in my defense, I only had three days to work on it) and now I'm knitting a sweater.

I had to tear it all out and start again on Sunday morning. Third time's the charm, right?

:eyes:

:hi:

you have to?

I transferred all my favorite songs from all my CD's and downloaded a bunch more. I travel a lot for my job so it's going to be really nice not fumbling with CD's in the car anymore.
I never thought I'd want to have one, but now I'm thinking 'how in the hell did I live this long without it?'

I'm totally clueless!!! :shrug:

a nasty, sudden high BG with ketones. Ah, the thrills of dealing with diabetes...

week, and I have no idea why.

Just kidding, it's something I need to work on myself -- nice work with your daughter though!

We just might be ahead of this! Sorry to hear you're dealing with highs too

I wanted very much to call in to work today and go paddling instead. All weekend was so windy and today the ocean is like glass. Grr. But here I am at work. So I should feel proud, right?

Hmm, now that I think about it, I don't feel too proud. Just depressed.

anyway, you might as well feel proud about having made it :hi:

woOt

home systems & set the stations. Now, I almost never listen to the radio, for some reason.

I'm CrAzY for it.
After all these years i'm the picture of what too much news does to a person :freak:

got tired of the radio. Even public radio seemed ultra-conservative.

and true to myself, despite the best efforts of some to bend me to their will.

it's always better to be true to yourself.

Instead of going out and buying junk which is what I wanted to do.

Small victories...they add up.

It is SO tempting to just order out isn't it?

:hug:

aA
k.

The bane of working on a college campus....it's just too darn handy. :hi:

...at least, I hope so.

to keep from blasting people who get in my way!

:rofl:

it's gotten me in more trouble than I care to even imagine it has!

I'm happy for it. It was up studying all night! :P

back and I can't get a new inspection sticker until I replace it.

Congratulations. With that 'studying all night" bit, I'm trying really hard not to make a 'nocturnal emissions' joke. :hi:

:rofl: That's a good one though!

way too many years on IRC ... using /me

about men and their games. I'm proud because I decided not to take a leave of absence from school but instead will try to do some ot the work at home.

and forgot. :hi:

Both of those times were during a showing of An Inconvenient Truth, so they don't really count.

Sometimes you simply have too much going on :hi:

Only two hours of it.

thumb for a while as I contemplate that :hi:

:hi:

when I used to smoke, I'd go through 3 packs of Kools a day - many of them were wasted while I was concentrating on something. That would be expensive these days....

:scared:

the 70's.

night last night?

But that's nothing out of the ordinary.......

I normally go every other day, and today was it..........

:shrug:

it kind of hard to work out :hi:

do you want me to do it again??? :7

:hi:

;)

is pretty clean, but then, Mrs R is more than half responsible for that, so...I dunno. Maybe nothing.

Redstone

(you are dressed...right? :yoiks:)

of a shared accomplishment. In many ways, that's even better.

but tonight I made a fantastic dinner. Pork tenderloins sauteed with caramelized onion and baby bella peppers, wine sauce, homemade stuffing with some of the onion and baby bella's mixed in, and broccoli, cauliflower, carrot medley...oh and applesauce. It was really yummy.

:hi:

Today is his birthday and we are pretty darn broke. However, I was able to muster up some funds to get him a little teddy bear and a rose and snuck it into his truck at work before he got out on lunch. He thought that it was the most wonderful thing.

:hi:

I'd feel kind of guilty seeing it if others couldn't

i can only do it in real email. if you pm me i'll give you my email. if you want to see. over 200 people worked on this example which is 1/4 of the size of the real thing. I am happy with it.

the Miserable Failure leading us all of the cliff.

:hi:

And that was a major challenge.

Well, still an hour to go, so ya never know. :-)

won't consider it a yell.

might have an impact on system performance, so I raised a concern.

Isn't that EXCITING?????

:hi:

That makes 2 of us. :D

I made people feel better today. I try to every day. Some days are better than others.

Thanks. :pals:

....I just had my 1000th post here on DU about 10 minutes ago. :woohoo:

made earlier. Kind of milestone amnesty.

Just kidding. We weren't going to forgive you!

But we'll only see when they start production tomorrow. BTW, I'll have to fly there.

there are a lot of nights when it would be just too tempting.

surrounded by boorish coworkers/supervisors?

I work in a newly-opened italian restaurant (open less than 6 months), and there have been certain problems in the kitchen that, although management and the workers TALK about how to fix them, never get fixed.

I'm a back-line production backup person, meaning that i run stuff to the line cooks all night, or, if we run out of pre-made stuff (we have a staff of 8 day-shift production people every day who make things to be used for the whole day's business), i have to scramble and make it, so that the customers don't have to unduly wait.

The things i have to rush together can be as obscure as a bruchetta blend without a specific herb (for a specific customer's request) to 40 lbs of fettuccine or a 10 gallon pot of marinara (because it wasn't on the day-shift "list")!

The small things i can understand not having... the staples i simply cannot, and the idiocy of things like that has me wanting to go into the walk-in cooler and scream my head off, especially on the weekends, when our wait for a table can be 1 1/2 hours.

The kitchen manager and i talk about this EVERY SINGLE SHIFT that i work, it seems, but there's never anything DONE to correct the problem.

Not even once. So proud.

:hi: :rofl:

Thank you illness, whatever the hell you were, for almost killing me.

Trust me, that's an accomplishment.

Although, there's a distinct possibility of that occurring in the near future x(

I am proud of myself because I actually managed to run a 12 minute mile last night (that's pretty darn good for me)!

I'm about to put 25 miles in on my bike (on a mag resistance trainer, too icy outside right now)

I was trying to talk myself out of doing it, but I sucked it up and did it any way. I feel much better for it too.

Kidding.












Maybe.

that's a good thing :bounce:

:) :party: :toast:

and thinking about possibly maybe starting to get ready to go to work. Three cheers for me! :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

I'm confident my list of admirable accomplishments will greatly increase in number as the day wears on.

I learned to make homemade soft taco shells last night :D

pride is fleeting, shame can last a lifetime

:-)