Why are you proud of yourself today?

[qnr]

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

[barb162]

1. Oh where were these threads? In the Lounge?

[qnr]

2. Yup n/t

[deadparrot]

3. I got through my longest day of the week.

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

All downhill from here. :)

[qnr]

4. All right, congratulations :) n/t

[tigereye]

5. one more closet down

10 more to go!

[qnr]

16. It's great making progress. That's a lot of closets, we don't even have one

in the place we're living.

[tigereye]

100. it's rather alarming the number of closets that we had

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

[jpgray]

6. Because I've done nothing to be proud of

:patriot:

[qnr]

20. Sounds like me, on most days! n/t

[BarenakedLady]

7. I woke up this morning

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:

[qnr]

19. Ugh. Sounds like you could use some recuperative sleep :( n/t

[InternalDialogue]

8. I have refrained from becoming petty with any of my clients.

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

[qnr]

17. Nice! I had a bad weekend that way, I told a number of people off :/ n/t

[reyd reid reed]

9. Me, it's because

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

[qnr]

21. I crocheted a sweater one. Well, kinda, it was a long rope, and then I laid it out

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?

[reyd reid reed]

98. It's 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:

[youthere]

10. I finally figured out how to use the MP3 player my kids got me for Christmas.

[qnr]

24. heheheh, good for you! Are you enjoying it, or just using it because you think

you have to?

[youthere]

42. I'm actually really enjoying it...

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?'

[qnr]

43. yeah, I know what you mean, though I just use my PDA n/t

[Debi]

56. Can I send you the one my brother gave my son?

I'm totally clueless!!! :shrug:

[youthere]

59. It took me almost a month to figure this one out!

[av8rdave]

11. Because I've been successfully (I think) helping my daughter with

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

[qnr]

25. Spread some of it this way. For some reason I've been in the 200+ range all

week, and I have no idea why.

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

[av8rdave]

36. well, I spoke too soon...she's a little higher now

[qnr]

37. I'm sure it will get better with both of you working on it n/t

[av8rdave]

41. Thanks...she just retested and it's down slightly, with only trace ketones

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

[cwydro]

12. Well,

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.

[qnr]

26. Hmmm, well, I figure that since you've made the decision and you are there

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

[stuntcat]

13. I learned how to set my favorite stations on my radio

woOt

[qnr]

27. Ah. My first thought was a car radio, but I remember when I used to have

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

[stuntcat]

35. it's the NPR's

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

[qnr]

38. Yeah, I always liked it. Then we lived in some pretty red areas for a while, and I just

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

[redqueen]

14. Beause I'm staying strong...

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

[qnr]

23. Very nice. Occasionally you have to bend on some matters, I suppose, but

it's always better to be true to yourself.

[1gobluedem]

15. Because I ate the healthy lunch I brought to work

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

Small victories...they add up.

[qnr]

28. Yay! They do. I know exactly how you feel :) n/t

[auntAgonist]

30. good for you!

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

:hug:

aA
k.

[1gobluedem]

31. Student Union food court

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

[Haole Girl]

18. I think I helped my younger sister...

...at least, I hope so.

[qnr]

22. :) Yay you!!! n/t

[SPKrazy]

29. I've Bit My Tongue, And Held My E-Mail At Work

to keep from blasting people who get in my way!

:rofl:

[qnr]

32. Congratulations! It's hard sometimes, isn't it? :) n/t

[SPKrazy]

39. Hell Yes!

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

[azmouse]

33. My car passed its emissions test.

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

[qnr]

34. Yeah, I'm bound to get ticketed soon. My drivers window shattered a while

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:

[azmouse]

40. Dang, I thought I had all the snarky joke bases covered.

:rofl: That's a good one though!

[qnr]

86. /me whistles innocently

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

[crim son]

44. I could be proud of that, except I did send a message to RetroLounge

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.

[qnr]

51. Yeah, I was going to look at that thread earlier, but had to answer the door

and forgot. :hi:

[LeftyMom]

45. I only fell asleep twice today at school

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

[qnr]

52. I remember times when I was proud to actually be able to sneak a few winks in :)

Sometimes you simply have too much going on :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

46. I am proud I did not nap the entire afternoon away.

Only two hours of it.

[qnr]

53. mmmmm naps! You're my hero! :) n/t

[distantearlywarning]

47. I finished my Master's Degree last week. n/t

[qnr]

55. Whoa. Congratulations! I think I'll take my GED, climb under the table & suck my

thumb for a while as I contemplate that :hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

48. I only smoked 7 cigarettes today.

[qnr]

57. Nice. Deliberately, or were you just busy busy busy?

:hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

60. Little of both.

[qnr]

63. Well, for whatever reason, it's a good thing. Physically and fiscally. I remember

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....

[Starbucks Anarchist]

64. And I'm in NYC, where it's $7/pack.

:scared:

[qnr]

65. yipes ... yeah, that's my "home town" too, though I haven't lived there since

the 70's.

[Crabby Appleton]

49. stayed awake all day at work!

[qnr]

58. An especially good thing for those among us who are long-haul drivers. Rough

night last night?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

50. I went to the gym!

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

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

:shrug:

[qnr]

61. Congratulations! I could never do that, I'd be catatonic near other people, making

it kind of hard to work out :hi:

[Debi]

54. I just got a thread locked for posting a 'forbidden' name!!

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

[qnr]

62. Well, actually, that would keep me from making any more stupid replies here :)

:hi:

[Debi]

68. Then I'll keep it on the DL

;)

[Redstone]

66. Well, that's certainly worth being proud of. Me? Not much, actually, though my office

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

Redstone

[Debi]

67. Hey, you're up, you're dressed, you're here posting...

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

[qnr]

69. Yeah, well, it's significant for me, I detest sports. And nothing wrong being proud

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

[GenDem]

70. I don't do it very often, now that my kids are grown,

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.

[qnr]

73. mmmmm it sounds it. Great work!

:hi:

[raptor_rider]

71. Me, made my husband happy

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.

[qnr]

75. well, that certainly made me smile :) n/t

[babydollhead]

72. offered a commision to mosaic our Airport

[qnr]

76. wow. Is it a big job?

:hi:

[babydollhead]

79. two 4'x12' glass mosaics of Pittsburgh, old and new

[qnr]

80. Very nice. Congratulations. Are we going to see photos of the finished product? n/t

[babydollhead]

83. I can pm you a picture of the design but I don't think I can post it here.

[qnr]

85. Ah... that's a shame :/

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

[babydollhead]

90. I don't know how.

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.

[samplegirl]

74. Because I'm not responsible for

the Miserable Failure leading us all of the cliff.

[qnr]

77. For which we all thank you

:hi:

[RoyGBiv]

78. I managed not to yell at anyone today ...

And that was a major challenge.

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

[qnr]

82. Good work. OK, if you feel the need, yell at me instead of someone else, and I

won't consider it a yell.

[Ellen Forradalom]

81. I noticed that certain operational requests

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

Isn't that EXCITING?????

[qnr]

84. Yes. You were alert. If there is one thing this country needs, it's more lerts!

:hi:

[Ellen Forradalom]

96. We could use some round tuits, too

[NC_Nurse]

87. I'm with you on the Super Bowl...

That makes 2 of us. :D

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

[qnr]

88. :) Any day you can make someone feel better is certainly a good day! n/t

[NC_Nurse]

89. Aren't you sweet!

Thanks. :pals:

[qnr]

95. Not really, but I pay my ghostwriters well to make me appear so :) n/t

[ThatsMyBarack]

91. If anyone cares....

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

[qnr]

93. We care, a few of us were just talking about forgiving you that horrible typo you

made earlier. Kind of milestone amnesty.

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

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

92. Because I (hope) I fixed a nasty bug on a customer.

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

[qnr]

94. Nice. I'm sure it will be fine, and have fun! n/t

[Rhythm]

97. because i didn't quit my job tonight...

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

[qnr]

108. Ugh. That must be really bad. Is it because it is physically demanding? Boring? You are

surrounded by boorish coworkers/supervisors?

[Rhythm]

113. it's the incompetence level...

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.

[BlueIris]

99. I didn't spit in anyone's eye.

Not even once. So proud.

[NewWaveChick1981]

101. Because I still came into work today after the day I had yesterday.

:hi: :rofl:

[sakabatou]

102. I'm alive

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

[Ariana Celeste]

103. I didn't drink last night.

Trust me, that's an accomplishment.

[bicentennial_baby]

104. I haven't exploded with rage....yet

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

[qnr]

112. Hmmmm ... hopefully things are a little bit better now :/ n/t

[Shananigans]

105. Super Bowl? Is it that time of the year already?

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

[qnr]

111. Nice. I haven't been able to do that in years (screwed up knee) --- but

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

[Lumily]

106. I exercised.

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.

[graywarrior]

107. I didn't shit my pants today.

Kidding.












Maybe.

[NMDemDist2]

109. I got a job today

that's a good thing :bounce:

[qnr]

110. Al right! Congratulations, it is a good thing

:) :party: :toast:

[Okiojira]

114. I'm out of bed, drinking coffee

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.

[stuntcat]

115. yah, since it's a whole new day!

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

[JVS]

116. I don't think it would be a good idea to be proud of myself

pride is fleeting, shame can last a lifetime

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

117. I haven't thrown a sharp object at my boss. Yet.

:-)