Just One Thing (29 November 2016)

[cosmolinguist]

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly 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. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Comments

[sathari]

PHONECALLS AS FUCK. That is all.

[cosmolinguist]

WOOHOO!

[alatefeline]

Seconded!

[nanila]

Took the cat to the vet for his annual vaccinations.

[cosmolinguist]

Hurrah. Hope he didn't mind them too much.

[nanila]

Ha, no, not much. He knows that a trip to the vet is followed by a packet of gooshy food, so he marched straight back into his carrier and as soon as we got home, marched out and plonked his butt next to his food bowl, looking up expectantly.

[alatefeline]

Ha. Smart cat!

[cosmolinguist]

Spent three hours delivering AGM calling notices, members' surveys, and standing-order forms to my local political-party-of-choice.

[nanila]

YAY. Well done.

Thank you for collecting all the candidate responses for the committee elections, too. That's very helpful.

[cosmolinguist]

Glad it hear it... it's a ton of faff getting the answers formatted properly (as you might have noticed, some of them are a bit wonky!) so it's nice to know it's appreciated. :) Got a few more of those to do this morning, and it's easier knowing people find them helpful. :D

[alatefeline]

<3

[alatefeline]

Made it to, through, and back from work. Given circumstances - involuntary bus ridership plus major stress this week due to car problems - that's pretty good. Especially since I forgot to set my alarm this morning...

[cosmolinguist]

That is good! Go you.

[alatefeline]

Thanks

[azurelunatic]

Communication, with the other party to the Heisendate. Our goals match much better than previously contemplated.

Counseling.

Parenting, a bit.

Housework.

Communication with my partner. And a tiny little bit of togetherness.

[cosmolinguist]

Yay Heisendate developments! Yay everything; all sounds good.

[alatefeline]

Awesome!

[silveradept]

Supply run for big program this Saturday, and successful recognition of the absurdity of a particular brainweasel attack regarding my co-worker's help for the same (and other things).

I suppose I can be okay with having weathered the same, rather than having the absurdity recognition abort the attack.

[azurelunatic]

That sort of thing takes time and practice and help.

It took years for the fear that my bff hated me (because of something I'd said or done) to no longer come up as a brainweasel special or be instantly dismissed. Though in that time, we were able to get it from hours of woe and patient arguments from him to "ah, this thing" and get it able to be dismissed by him affirming that he didn't hate me.

Recognition of "this is a brainweasel attack" is the first step. "This is a brainweasel attack and probably wrong" is next. "This is a brainweasel attack and absolutely ridiculous" follows. "This is a brainweasel attack and utterly ridiculous and $TRUSTED-PERSON can probably talk me down" is somewhere in there. That is followed by the talk-down process getting quicker. And eventually it can dispel upon realizing that it's ridiculous. It just takes a lot of practice.

[silveradept]

Yes, time and practice.