Just One Thing! (23 January 2017)

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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

[alatefeline]

Made food. Found my misplaced glasses.

[azurelunatic]

Togetherness with my partner.

Saw a movie I've been wanting to see, which required getting out the door in a timely fashion.

Went to a medical education class (part 1 of 4) that had the strong possibility of setting off screaming issues. Maintained a veneer of reasonableness over the snarling and snapping defensive reactions that happen every time people make literally life-threatening medical recommendations to me. Was up-front that any plan that had me getting less than 5 hours of sleep in any given night could realistically literally kill me.

Quality time with my partner again: late commute phone call, and Skype for a quick goodnight. This thing where we can just choose to spend our free and interstitial time with each other, or can choose to be alone/doing other things because there will be other viable opportunities soon, is a luxurious delight. Perhaps someday we'll start being able to take this time and choice for granted, but I hope we'll always retain some sense of the shimmering wonder and delight in our active and deliberate turning-towards. (And the other activities aren't a turning-away, the way they could have been and were in the face of demands and entitlement. They're the respect-for-self that is so foundational to a viable and healthy relationship. Introvert time. A caring partner can hold space to make sure it's okay for an injured partner to have that time, but it's so much better when the partner who needs the space can just take it and make a scheduling note for the other.)

[alatefeline]

I am so impressed with your social-emotional labor today, and angry on your behalf that people lightly give out such terrible advice, and pleased to read about this shiny experience of balancing together-time and apart-time you are having with your partner. <3

[silveradept]

I did a lot of programming things at work.

I survived taking some mental damage that I wasn't expecting to, and used my support network to try and minimize it as best I could.

[alatefeline]

Well done. I am sorry that you took some damage, and glad you are taking care of yourself.

[nanila]

Made it through a very challenging day. Accepted having to sign off work halfway through in order to deal with it.

[alatefeline]

I am glad you survived.