Minor victory thread

Cajungal

Cajungal

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Had a great night with some friends I hadn't seen in a while. They'd both hit a rough patch that they seem to be getting over, and that makes me happy. :) It was wonderful catching up.

And this is just funny... I felt "old" (not physically but I guess mentally) for the first time in my life this past weekend. I went to a party at a friend's house. She's a bit younger than me, but we love to cook and talk books/movies together. So I get to her house and it's all these 20-22 year-olds. One-on-one, that makes almost no difference, but when it's a room full of them.... wow. I'm very much past having that kind of fun. I didn't want to spoil anyone else's, so I excused myself a little early. Made me laugh when I left, though. It was an interesting night. And MAN can her roommate bullshit with the best of them.
 
Hylian

Hylian

Woo hoo! I am having a influence on my 8 year old niece! Often times when I am teasing my niece about something. Like when she comments on a scratch she got on her arm I will make a joke saying we will need to amputate it and than I will do an evil laugh (bwa ha ha ha) So anyways just recently I was over visiting and I heard her doing the evil laugh! :biggrin:
 
Morphine

Morphine

I started going to the gym again. Today instead of taking a bellydance lesson that I like taking once a week I decided to go to another one that was supposedly very good... oh my freaking Jesus. I am beaten up like an egg in an omelette.
It's a class that combines kick boxing, pilates and cardio. We were sweating like the bitches we all are. Every inch of my body hurts... I love it.
I made it not only through the whole week but through that whole class. One minor victory for me, please.
 
Null

Null

Morphine - You making it through that class is a victory for you. You doing a bellydance for halforums is a victory for all of us. Either way, congratulations. :)

My minor victory: Lulu.com has made one of the books I worked on, Paths of Power, available in epub format.
 
Gusto

Gusto

Minor victory on the precipice of THE STORM OF RANTS*:

My managers at work apparently pulled their heads out of each other's asses long enough to give me the time off that I am entitled to.





*Working there is only going to go further downhill, and it all starts on Saturday. The silver lining is that I have enough money right now that I can quit and be jobless for the year between now and graduation. I can quit if shit gets real bad.
 
Rob King

Rob King

This might be the most unforgivably nerdy thing I've admitted to in recent history, but I'm sitting at my desk at 2:30 in the morning boxing up my book ... and making note of what books are in what boxes in my journal using a series of tables: Titles in one column, Authors in the next, ISBN in the last.

These boxes will be going into storage soon while I move into my friend's house (who has no room for my stuff) for two months. Then I'll be in Nepal for 4 months (hopefully), but I still want to know where my books are as precisely as possible.
 
Krisken

Krisken

Rob King said:
This might be the most unforgivably nerdy thing I've admitted to in recent history, but I'm sitting at my desk at 2:30 in the morning boxing up my book ... and making note of what books are in what boxes in my journal using a series of tables: Titles in one column, Authors in the next, ISBN in the last.

These boxes will be going into storage soon while I move into my friend's house (who has no room for my stuff) for two months. Then I'll be in Nepal for 4 months (hopefully), but I still want to know where my books are as precisely as possible.
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Are you using an Excel Spreadsheet?
 
Rob King

Rob King

... No. I'm actually using a pen in my notebook (like a bound series of paper pages, not a type of portable computer).
 
W

Wasabi Poptart

We're letting our son watch Star Wars for the first time. He's running around with a piece of foam like it's a blaster and pretending he's a Storm Trooper. I am so proud it's bringing tears to my eyes.
 
Krisken

Krisken

Wasabi Poptart said:
We're letting our son watch Star Wars for the first time. He's running around with a piece of foam like it's a blaster and pretending he's a Storm Trooper. I am so proud it's bringing tears to my eyes.
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My buddy Mic's kid Mikey got a light saber that makes noise and glows. For a 2 year old, he finds it to be the best present ever. We were quite pleased.
 
W

Wasabi Poptart

I wish I still had my lightsaber, one of the original 1977-78 toys that had a blow up light beam attached to a flash light. I'd give it to my son right now to play with.
 
Gusto

Gusto

I found out that if I do my weekly shave on a Wednesday I'll ave the perfect amount of stubble on the weekends for lookin' like a cool guy. :)
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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My mentor teacher called me "gifted" and "competent." After telling me that, she said she was going to bump me up to 3 lessons a day next week. That puts me about 2 hours ahead per day of my minimum! I'm happy and a bit surprised that she's relinquishing so much control after so little time. She just keeps telling me "just use your imagination; it'll be good." I got to teach every day this week too; not everyone does their first week. :D

What a great time so far.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

I got to pick my electives for my final year. I'm taking Troy in Literature and Film, and Mafias: A Global History. Considering that none of the elective choices are at al related to animation, and are only there to give us busy work so we can get our degrees, I'm glad I got two that I actually find interesting.


Gusto said:
I found out that if I do my weekly shave on a Wednesday I'll ave the perfect amount of stubble on the weekends for lookin' like a cool guy. :)
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Man, I'm jealous. I have to shave every other day. Not because I get a beard, mind you, but because my facial hair is very red, and other than the sideburns only seems to grow on my neck, so I get disgusting pube 'stache and neck beard otherwise. This, the ladies do not like.
 
fade

fade

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Gusto said:
I found out that if I do my weekly shave on a Wednesday I'll ave the perfect amount of stubble on the weekends for lookin' like a cool guy. :)
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Saturday is mine. It grows fairly slow, so that gives me one day before Monday morning to grow out that disgusting fresh-shaved skin.

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Of course, I also have been made fun of in at least 3 jobs now for my complete lack of desire to shave.
 
Gusto

Gusto

fade said:
my complete lack of desire to shave.
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Yeah I get that too. Sometimes I get busy or lazy or whatever, and can allllllmost grow a goatee.

People are like "Are you trying to grow a beard there?" and I'm like "I don't know, I guess."
 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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Heh, I'm trying to get used to shaving daily again. I decided to nix the beard last Friday, and I think I look rather okay without one. Plus, I don't have to worry about having half a mouthful of hair everytime I eat spaghetti ;)

Also... first chance substituting tomorrow. Three classes of sixth grade English as a foreign language, for classes of 15-27 pupils. Luckily the teacher's been running them parallel each other, so basically I just needed to plan one class for three classes. Plus, these pupils are apparently actually interested in learning English, so I'm looking forward to the classes tomorrow. Wish me luck :)
 
Hylian

Hylian

I hate shaving and so I usually only shave once every couple of weeks but I end up getting teased by people cause my facial hair grows in patchy
 
Piotyr

Piotyr

As of this morning, I am finally out of the Morbidly Obese weight category, and am down to the Greatly Obese category. So...minor yay? At least I'm in a place where major surgery is no longer necessary. Now to continue the downward trend.
 
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fade

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Piotyr said:
As of this morning, I am finally out of the Morbidly Obese weight category, and am down to the Greatly Obese category. So...minor yay? At least I'm in a place where major surgery is no longer necessary. Now to continue the downward trend.
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That really does deserve a congrats. Good work on the willpower and all that.
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

Last week, I replaced the float system in the master bathroom toilet. I got tired of it stuttering as it filled the tank.

Tonight, I replaced leaking plumbing under the kitchen sink.

I knew those years of developing my plumber's crack would come in handy some day.
 
Null

Null

Tinwhistler said:
Last week, I replaced the float system in the master bathroom toilet. I got tired of it stuttering as it filled the tank.

Tonight, I replaced leaking plumbing under the kitchen sink.

I knew those years of developing my plumber's crack would come in handy some day.
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Doing that (fixing the leaky plumbing under the sink) is my birthday gift for my mom.
 
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