Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand

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Postby Young Val » Mon Apr 19, 2010 2:08 pm

Could a mod please split off the financial aid talk into a new topic? Thanks!
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Postby Eaquae Legit » Mon Apr 19, 2010 5:42 pm

Done and done. I hadn't realised how long the conversation had gotten.
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Postby human. » Mon Apr 19, 2010 7:32 pm

I got an internship for the summer!

On top of that, I payed my enrollment deposit for NC State, and I have this internship to add to my application for Duke!

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Postby Confessions » Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:06 pm

I made an appointment with a sex therapist to try to overcome my sexual aversion.
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Postby locke » Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:03 pm

it took me about 6 tries but I finally won freecell game 28894, officially the hardest freecell game I've played.

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Postby Jeesh_girl15 » Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:46 pm

I actually lost something that I was trying to win. I'm so glad that people realized I'm not perfect at everything.
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Postby CezeN » Sun Apr 25, 2010 8:59 pm

Yes! I can walk normal again.
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Postby starlooker » Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:06 am

I dried my hair and put on my makeup in my apartment this morning, rather than in the car. (It's a 30 minute commute. Putting the AC or the heater on high and brushing my hair in the car usually results in reasonably dry hair by the time I get to work.)

This made me quite happy. In particular because this means I'm wearing eyeshadow and mascara today -- fancy eyeshadow, applied with a makeup brush, not just one shade quickly smeared on as I rush out the door. (I do not put on eye makeup while driving, if it's any consolation.) And my hair looks way better than it usually does.

Yes, yes. I know putting on makeup while driving is not the brightest thing I could do and plays into annoying stereotypes of female drivers. I'm really wanting to stop.
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Postby Mich » Mon Apr 26, 2010 12:23 pm

Yes! I can walk normal again.
I'm pretty sure that qualifies as something all males can understand. Buhhhhhh.

But grats!
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Postby Petra456 » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:07 pm


Yes, yes. I know putting on makeup while driving is not the brightest thing I could do and plays into annoying stereotypes of female drivers. I'm really wanting to stop.
I put my makeup on in the car :oops: About %80 of the time I know i'll be early for work, so i'll put it on while i'm waiting to go in, but every now and then something makes me late and I end up up putting it on while driving.

I know it's really bad, but for some reason I always go back to doing it instead of just putting it on at home.
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Postby CezeN » Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:08 am

:lol: Thanks Mich
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Postby BonitoDeMadrid » Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:43 am

1430 out of 1600 on my SAT's.

(I'm sure pretty much everyone here can understand that)
Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robs cavefish of their sight? Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do, we do!

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Postby CezeN » Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:45 am

Congrats!

They still have SAT's out of 1600?
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Postby BonitoDeMadrid » Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:49 pm

Here they do, apparently.
Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robs cavefish of their sight? Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do, we do!

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Postby human. » Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:40 pm

Nice!

Today, I was throwing a football around with my friend at Senior Wellness. And a group of athletic guys, some of which I played knock out with earlier in the day, walked by and stopped and talked about how well I was throwing and catching and one guy said "damn, she can throw better than I can." And that absolutely made my day. I love throwing a football!

Also, my little computer tech geeks won the tug-of-war competition over the most athletic guys in school. I was so proud of them, even if they did beat my bus for first..

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Postby LilBee91 » Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:31 pm

I got an A in my chem lab. Considering I went into the final with a B+ and maybe got a 70% on that, all I have to say is I love curves.
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Postby Syphon the Sun » Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:58 am

I just received interim acceptance for admission to the bar. F*ck yeah.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:31 am

I woke up early enough to make my mom breakfast before she had to go to work, to walk, feed and water the dogs, to shower and feed myself, and still have 40 minutes to lounge before heading off to work.

I didn't even have to pack my lunch because I did the whole week's on Monday night and took it in on Tuesday. 2-3 servings of fruit each day, walnuts and almonds each day, yogurt every day, and then a different small something or other. And I've been making myself drink 40-60oz of water a day, which is more than I had been since I stopped going to the exercise class.
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Postby Haven » Thu Apr 29, 2010 3:18 pm

Congratz! thats awesome

Ive made myself lunch for the past week, and have gotten up and ready for work BEFORE leaving... instead of doing my make up in the car... Which is one of my worst habbits though i am pretty good at it...

Ive been really good this week! yay!


other random tidbit/ accomplishment: I ran through all of my jumps at skating, and did them well... accept for my lutz... which is the devil.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Thu Apr 29, 2010 3:31 pm

for my lutz... which is the devil.
A sign I've been hanging around the wrong people too much: I read that as "my lulz," which I am irrationally irritated by; I left the rest of the quote up to sum up my feelings.
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Postby locke » Sun May 02, 2010 12:18 am

I finally did my dishes.

and I did laundry

and I finished watching that old movie I started two weeks ago.

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Postby Sonikku13 » Sun May 02, 2010 8:59 pm

On Saturday, my mom got a letter in the mail saying that I will be recognized by my school as Student of the Year in mathematics and science on May 11th. I think my morale has recovered. :)
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Postby megxers » Mon May 03, 2010 8:59 pm

I'm making plans to do my first official college visit for grad school. *does excited dance* Now, it will probably fall through but whatevs. I'm very familiar with 3 of my top 10ish choices, now to actually see the rest of them!! This one, though, I've been to before, but back when I was 16 and had very different priorities.
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Postby Eaquae Legit » Sat May 08, 2010 1:50 am

I got my commercial driver learner's permit today. It was shockingly easy, but I guess I'm used to studying for tests. At least I didn't have to think about stupid air brakes.

Also, that was the last pre-req, so in a triumph I'm sure pretty much everyone can understand, I am once again employed. Woot!
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Postby Gravity Defier » Sat May 08, 2010 11:25 am

I am once again employed. Woot!
Aaah! Congratulations!!
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Postby starlooker » Sat May 08, 2010 11:49 am

Shot a pistol for the first time yesterday on a shooting range. I did not shoot myself in the foot. Moreover, I actually did a decent job at hitting close to where I aimed for the vast majority of the time. Stayed in the nine ring for all but one shot.

This is more of a triumph because one of the things I hate most in the world is anticipating being startled. Hate it. Hate it hate it hate it. (Not quite as much as I hate Kit-Kat commercials, but close.) Wouldn't go near the Van de Graff generator in high school due to the anticipation of being shocked. The major reason I hate stupid horror movies is that I can't stand the feeling that something's about to jump out at me. The blood and guts or the plots themselves don't bother me, it's the scary music and the idea that I am about to be startled. And I literally cannot sit still for the glaucoma test where they puff air into your eye. I mean, I have tried and tried to force myself, have tried to relax, but I've only managed it once over the past several years. I just cannot do it. Whenever the eye doctor disappears behind her part of the machine, I involuntarily move away from it. So, you know, squeezing a trigger and knowing that something is about to make a very loud noise was not an easy task. I did have a minor freeze-up at one point, where I just got a little overwhelmed by the noise of people shooting around me in combination with the fact that I knew I was about to be startled by my own pistol, so I stopped and had my fiance shoot for awhile, and just watched him, and then I went back to it. All the work on mindfulness and focusing on my breathing and trying to stay in the present moment that I've had to do over the past year and a half has paid off somewhat, I think.

Fiance was the one who was teaching me, by the way. He loves shooting and just knowing about guns, even though he much prefers rifles to pistols -- he was a rifle expert in the Marines. He's ridiculously proud. He's hanging my target on our bedroom door.
There's another home somewhere,
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
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There's another life out there...

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Postby Syphon the Sun » Sat May 08, 2010 12:16 pm

Shot a pistol for the first time yesterday on a shooting range.
Like.
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Postby Luet » Sat May 08, 2010 12:28 pm

And I literally cannot sit still for the glaucoma test where they puff air into your eye. I mean, I have tried and tried to force myself, have tried to relax, but I've only managed it once over the past several years. I just cannot do it. Whenever the eye doctor disappears behind her part of the machine, I involuntarily move away from it.
I can sit there but I cannot keep my eye open voluntarily for it, so I have to forcibly hold my eye open with my fingers. I'm not sure if that skews the results but they let me do it. I like the version of the test where they use numbing drops and touch a sensor to your eye much better.
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Postby starlooker » Sat May 08, 2010 5:44 pm

I like the version of the test where they use numbing drops and touch a sensor to your eye much better.
Oh, definitely. That's what they have to do for me. Except for a couple of years I couldn't do that, either, because I didn't have glasses and you can't put contacts back in for a few hours after, and that means I can't drive (and I was never motivated enough to bring a friend). But I have glasses now, and a family history of glaucoma which I didn't know about before, so I get that done instead.
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There's another life out there...

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Postby Jayelle » Tue May 11, 2010 4:55 pm

I got a midwife!
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Postby steph » Fri May 14, 2010 7:42 pm

Grocery trip today:

27 boxes of Post, General Mills and Kelloggs Cereals
1 bag of Nature's Valley Nut Clusters
4 jars of Classico Pasta Sauce
6 boxes of pasta
1 gallon of milk

Total: $114.51

Invisi-text to see what I paid: $15.28
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Postby Petra456 » Fri May 14, 2010 9:07 pm

1 bag of Nature's Valley Nut Clusters
Those are AMAZING!
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Postby Gravity Defier » Fri May 14, 2010 9:52 pm

1 bag of Nature's Valley Nut Clusters
Those are AMAZING!
Hell yes, they are.


That's seriously impressive, Steph. Is it rude to ask what your secret was?
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Postby Jayelle » Fri May 14, 2010 10:06 pm

I assumed she just stuffed them all down her shirt and ran. :P
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Postby steph » Sat May 15, 2010 4:38 pm

27 boxes of cereal sure wouldn't be very comfortable in my shirt!

It was matching a sale with a manufacturer's promotion with coupons. I'm really trying to dive into this coupon world. It took a couple of hours to figure out what to buy, which coupons to use and how to break up the transactions to maximize my savings (I had to do it in 6 transactions), but I saved almost $100! With my time at the store and time after I got home to go over my list for accuracy added into my prep time, it was like "making" $25 an hour!
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