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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:

inkstone

I put together a 4-hr long playlist for my bookclub's picnic on Saturday!

From:

ashkitty

That is impressive!

From:

stormerider

Went and got my Botox treatment today. 30 different injections... mostly felt like mosquito bites, but I have to resist the urge to scratch the itches.

From:

monksandbones

Yay! And good luck with your continued resistance to scratching! That's super-hard!

From:

ashkitty

Ooh, brave! Is it scary? I think I would find it scary.

From:

stormerider

Not really scary. The hardest part was a) going in when I had a migraine in the first place and didn't have my sunglasses, and b) remembering not to scratch the injection sites when they itch.

From:

serpentine

Moved a bookcase up to my room and started putting away more books!

From:

ashkitty

Go you! Books totally take over if you don't keep a close eye on them.

From:

killing_rose

I did not actually visit violence on anyone.

I did scream, but by that point, I think everyone agreed I was well within my rights to lose my temper, and I didn't do it in the office. Hell, no one was even out on the balcony when I did it.

From:

fyreharper

Congrats on your self-restraint!

From:

shehasathree

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fyreharper

aww :)

From:

lilysea

Got cat down from top of cat tree, washed her eyes, applied antibiotic ointment. Fed her tinned peoplegrade tuna to cheer her up afterwards.

From:

monksandbones

Yay for looking after your cat and giving her nice things to eat!

From:

ashkitty

Poor kitty! Except the tuna. You're a good cat-minion. :)

From:

blossomdreams

My heir finally grew up so now Gen 4 in my Sims legacy can finally start!

Edited Date: 2013-07-24 02:30 am (UTC)

From:

ashkitty

You don't even know how much I like that someone else spends so much of their free time on the Sims. :)

From:

blossomdreams

^_^ Between Sims and writing my free time goes out the window. I'm determined to get to gen 10. It's always awesome to meet more Sim fans!

From:

ashkitty

I love them, I cannot help it! I haven't gone on to Sims 3 yet because I like having control of a whole town, so am on Sims 2. I get so caught up in their little lives and stories. It's probably sad, but also awesome.

From:

blossomdreams

I have my favorite family in Sims 2 that lives in Strangetown. :) In Sims 3 it's funny seeing what happens around the town. I have mods so I can see what's happening around town and I get some funny updates. lol

From:

pebblerocker

Washed my bike. It's nice and clean for a ride through the mud and dirt tomorrow!

From:

fyreharper

Yay! Have fun tomorrow!

From:

monksandbones

I replied to yesterday's daunting email, reworked the first paragraph of the article I'm revising (it's way better and more relevant now), and had lunch with my dad and sister!

From:

ashkitty

Brave! And hard! Go you. :)

From:

syntaxofthings

Oh my gosh, I drafted a cover letter today. First in AGES. I'm getting back on that wagon.

From:

untonuggan

Oh, WOW. Go YOU. *\o/*

From:

syntaxofthings

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ashkitty

Ugh, ugh, cover letters! Go you!

From:

fyreharper

Made mango sticky rice and emptied the dishwasher.

From:

untonuggan

That's it, I'm coming to your house for dessert. :P

Congrats! That's a great accomplishment. \o/

From:

fyreharper

I'll have to get more mangoes! ;)

I'm really quite pleased at how this batch of sticky rice came out ^^

From:

untonuggan

I made All The Things!

(Finished knitting a shawl; done except for weaving in ends/blocking;
almost done with a baby sweater I'm co-knitting;
started a small ART QUILT OMG;
plying some yarn for my fiber arts guild spinning thing)

From:

fyreharper

ART QUILT!!

Also, because I am curious - how does one co-knit a thing?

From:

syntaxofthings

Yay!

From:

ninetydegrees

Laundry 1 was launched and has safely returned. Laundry 2 is ready for take off.

Moved and reorganized my two bookcases.

Still sticking to my healthier diet.

From:

syntaxofthings

Oh man, all of that sounds hard. Congrats!

From:

fyreharper

:mental image of a flock of laundry flying around:

:giggles:

From:

jb_slasher

I decided to enjoy the rest of my holiday and continued watching SG-1 and SGA.

From:

kaberett

I started harvesting and processing the redcurrants.

From:

killing_rose

Om nom nom. (I am now curious as to what type of currant you're harvesting, as red currant could apply to two types in the Pacific Northwest alone, and what type of processing. Forgive me, I miss berrying.)

From:

kaberett

This badger :-)

We've got five bushes (of which one is tiny and small and doesn't crop much; it's still settling in). I pull ripe clusters off still attached to their stems until I've got about a full colander (colander because it means at least some of the caterpillars and spiders find their way back out of the harvest at this stage in the process...). Then I go find somewhere sunny to sit, and I work through the colander, removing individual berries from the stems, dropping the berries onto trays (single-layer) and the stems into the compost; and _then_ the trays go into the freezer, to be bagged up once frozen & pulled out as needed. (My grandmother, Grossmutti, separated berries from stems by combing a fork along them, but I get distressed about the extent to which this causes tearing/juice-leakage and makes freezing messier, so I tend to do it all by hand.)

If there isn't space in the freezer for all the trays, a bowl gets set aside to be turned into cake (basic white sponge; spread batter in a deep roasting tin; scatter redcurrants liberally over the top; bake; sprinkle with vanilla sugar on serving -- Ribiselkuchen, food of my ancestors, etc).

This process is repeated Several Times -- typically about twice per bush (excepting the tiny bush as above).

... in which I worddump, sorry, but you DID ask ;)

From:

ashkitty

MOAR WORDS. And then I braved the post office!

OH AND. I think I might have learned to crochet?

Edited Date: 2013-07-24 12:21 pm (UTC)

From:

kyrielle

I found and fixed an obscure bug in the code at work. And I was smart enough, when I found the weird thing, to discuss it with our system architect, which means that I fixed it *right* with his input, rather than halfway.