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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing that you've accomplished in the past twenty-four hours. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you’re feeling accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange, or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened.

Go!

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From:

randomling

Got through a meeting at the jobcentre. Yay!

From:

cadenzamuse

Woo! XP in surviving boring meetings! I always hope that XP will eventually cause me to level up in "running practical, swift, and not boring meetings someday". Or alternatively "not ever having to go to a stupid meeting again."

From:

magistrate

Yay! Meetings in general are trying times.

From:

pretty_panther

I went to the cinema again!

From:

kaberett

Well done!

From:

alexseanchai

Told an online community I've been part of for six or seven years that I'm taking a break due to toxicity. It's not the fault of the familiar faces (excepting a couple faces who are familiar but unwelcome), it's the fault of the persistently appearing people who are there only to stir shit, and also the moderation (or, more precisely, general lack thereof) there.

From:

cadenzamuse

Good for you. It's always hard to step away, so well done you.

From:

shanaqui

Have not panicked, despite Grandma being decidedly unwell. Have not let her getting annoyed with me get in the way of me nursing her, either. And I haven't ripped off the head of any doctor or family member that doubts my judgement without even seeing Grandma.

I have even reminded myself that my judgement is usually held to be good in medical matters: I notice the right things and can describe a situation to a doctor accurately enough for them to get a diagnosis, seven times out of ten, and can often hazard my own diagnosis. And the eighth and ninth time out of ten, the doctor ignores me and says that the person is fine to go home. This once resulted in someone being dead* and once in my best friend nearly needing a blood transfusion. It's also resulted in unnecessary x-rays, stupid prescriptions that don't help, and generally a good portion of wasted time. I don't blame them, since I have no medical training beyond life experience, but it's reassuring to me to know that I'm not often wrong.

And I haven't beaten myself up today about going for English Lit and not using these instincts for the medical profession.

*It is a super fun story about how a seventeen year old brat of a girl could describe her teacher's symptoms so perfectly that her doctor mother could pinpoint exactly what was wrong. I knew from looking at him that it was his heart: my mother knew from my description alone that it was an aneurism in the ascending aorta. And so it proved to have been. The doctors at the hospital said it was indigestion when he went there, just hours before he died.

Sorry, comm, I needed to ramble. Suffice it to say, I have dealt with this awesomely, I have been doing self-care like a boss, and if I tell you to go to the hospital, you should probably trust me.

From:

kaberett

You are proper badass.

From:

shanaqui

I try!

From:

cadenzamuse

You are badass. Especially for keeping the brainweasels at bay.

From:

shanaqui

Thank you. They are pretty rabid weasels given that my mother seems to believe that I have an obligation to use my instincts for the medical profession, but I am rather used to deal with weasels originating from her.

From:

magistrate

Yow. Nice job on keeping things on an even keel, and general kudos for having an awesome life talent.

From:

shanaqui

Thank you. It's a talent that gives me much grief, I'm afraid -- I'm both afraid that it'll fail when I need it, and that it won't.

From:

alwayswondered

That's an incredible superpower. Go you for looking after yourself, and I hope your Grandma is okay.

From:

shanaqui

If I could transfer it to someone else, I would! But thank you. My grandma's much better today, it was exactly what I thought it was and all's well.

From:

fyreharper

That is good to hear! :)

From:

kaberett

Survived dealing with phones, including booking another house viewing.

From:

monksandbones

Yesss, go you! Phones are terrible (I've been procrastinating terribly at calling to book a dental appointment, myself).

From:

cadenzamuse

I have been having totally reasonable but misdirected rage since Monday morning (the orthodontist is a TERRIBLE PERSON WHOM I DO NOT WANT AS A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER) which has been mostly directed towards Partner, who is not terribly fond of getting into screaming arguments over whether or not to eventually buy end tables for a couch that we may get in the future, especially when he knows that it is all the orthodontist's fault. It is 21:14. I have been in Partner's presence since he picked me up from work at 17:45. We have not yet had a screaming argument. Victory.

Edited Date: 2013-08-09 01:17 am (UTC)

From:

monksandbones

Impressive forebearance! And swift retribution for your orthodontist if you find wishing for that kind of thing appropriate...

From:

monksandbones

I took screencaps of the life of the eleventh century saint Gilduin of Dol from the online Acta Sanctorum, because the downloadable .pdfs were illegible, and then spent several hours transcribing them. It turned out to be a little light on miracles for a respectable saint's life (although it had a fun exorcism scene when a bunch of mysterious food showed up, which turned out to be frogs, toads, and serpents diabolically made to look like food, the true nature of which our saintly hero revealed), but it did have a fairly respectable amount of not-inaccurate historical information about Gelduin's family. Nerdy glee!

(icon super-appropriate, given that it's a doodle from a manuscript page detailing Gilduin's family's relationship with the abbey of Saint-Florent de Saumur)

Edited (modern usage dictates consistency in spelling personal names) Date: 2013-08-09 01:34 am (UTC)

From:

sylvaine

Wow, that's really cool!

From:

ashkitty

I maintain that's still a better miracle than St David. I mean, our patron saint made a hill. In Wales. 'Cause we needed more of those. :P

From:

magistrate

Had an interview in the city.

From:

alwayswondered

Ooh, good luck! I hope it went well.

From:

forestofglory

I found out that there aren't any useful things in archives near me, which means I can stop feeling bad about not visiting them.

From:

ninetydegrees

Letting go of guilt is the hardest thing sometimes. Go you for doing it and being awesome!

Edited (Gramaaaaarrrr!!!) Date: 2013-08-09 12:21 pm (UTC)

From:

untonuggan

survived a day where if I didn't concentrate on a task, I had a seizure.

(video games are an excellent thing)

From:

alwayswondered

Video games have kept me sane some days. I hope you feel better. <3

From:

jb_slasher

I survived the disappointment of the open house. Pictures lie so much. (As if this knowledge was anything new, right?)

From:

alwayswondered

That is so frustrating. Good on you for dealing with the let-down.

From:

sylvaine

Got up at 4:30 to catch the train.

From:

ninetydegrees

You rock!

From:

ashkitty

Went up to the eisteddfod for my society's launch and did pretty much everything in Welsh all day. :) (Except the part where we were chatting with the Gaelic speakers, because then we needed English as a trade language.)

From:

alwayswondered

I didn't have a complete breakdown when I locked myself out of my flat for the THIRD time this year.

I opened my front door myself in the end because the person trying to drill through my doorframe and pop the lock was incompetent (I nicked his hammer and used it to lever the door open through the letterbox).

After this debacle I met up with my friends for dinner and had a nice time, even though I felt crap about missing the pre-dinner film we had arranged to see.

Bonus! I gave a spare set of keys to a friend to prevent future occurrences.

Edited Date: 2013-08-09 10:32 am (UTC)