What's something you are proud of doing lately?

I took BFF shopping today and got her some new yoga pants. I am so happy. When I am with her we are always successful so I was really happy I could get her some. We also went out for lunch and it was delicious!

Not me, but my better half has a second interview for a job on Monday morning. It would require us to move, but to an area we like (and could buy a house in!) and it would be a step up the ladder for him. I'm really excited for and proud of him. He was being fussy about it on Monday because he hasn't heard back yet (that was a week to the day he interviewed), and was convinced they didn't like him.

Of course he's now wondering why he worded a few things the way he did on his resume, but we've been talking about them and I think I've eased some of his concerns.

I think he has a very good chance of an offer. Yes, I know I'm biased; no, I don't care. 🥰

On a personal note, I helped one of my supervisors with a report and he was impressed with it. So something small-ish, but made me happy I figured it out.

I just got an unexpected raise during my company's annual review process. Proud that my work was noticed and is valued by others.

I’ve kept a house plant alive for a year. My snake plant even sprouted a “pup” and that been alive for 3 months.

I bought a nice camera about 2 years ago. Several nice lenses. Upgraded my nice camera. I have spent many hours learning to use them all and now am really diving into Lightroom for photo editing. I have nature prints all over my house. I find artwork is challenging for me to purchase, so the photography on the walls makes me smile.

We've taken some great trips so I can practice my skills.

That is very cool - I would be super proud if I changed out my toilet - I’d really like to know how to do all those kind of fix it things around the house.

I’ve been doing a push-up challenge just to see how many I can do so far I can do 15 in a row and then like four sets of 10, which I think is pretty good they are traditional push-ups, not modified like I used to do.

I’ve kept up with running outside 5x/week! It’s so hot where I live so I have to be out the door before 6am.

Some of these remind me about the time last school year I was dropping off my youngest when I noticed a truck behind. He was following me very closely and since I was about to turn into our Elementary school, I just sorta paid attention a bit more than normal and he was on his phone texting. He followed me on my turn and when I pulled up to drop off my child, he got out of his truck while his kids got out. He knocked on my window "you have a brake light out, I almost hit you". "Thanks for telling me." I did not mention he should maybe put down his phone because I was so caught off guard.

I had my daughter, who was riding with me, look up if there was a video online to replace a brake light. I called DH and told him and he said something like "nah, I will just bring it to the mechanic because it's a complicated deal". DD & I went straight to the auto parts store, found the bulbs, and went home. It was easy peasy. I now know how to replace all the lights on the back of our van. I even had her record me putting in the taillight for my One Second Video.

Recently? I have been going back and forth with our HOA Manager (who has changed at least 4 times in this time period) to have our swimming pool rules updated. They had a Board Vote in 2020 to add "no smoking", but they never updated the signs. We currently have 5 different sets of rules, some on display around the pool (the gate and inside) and another set online! I finally got her to put it to the Board again to vote and now all the signage has been agreed upon. She even sent it out to all Homeowners to sign and send back or have their pool cards revoked!

I am super proud of DH and me. Three years ago we bought a small assisted living facility. We knew it was kind of a "fixer upper" situation but had no idea ALL the things that needed to be fixed up. The building was well built and newer and in good repair but *so many* little things needed attention. From things inside the building like water heaters, internet, cable upgrades to bigger business issues like the previous owner's reputation within our community with providers etc, no marketing....SO.MANY.THINGS.

I'm good at loving on people so the resident part was easy peasy. I'm not good at marketing or filling rooms. But we've both put in hundreds and hundreds of hours learning and we've turned the ship around. We're almost at capacity. We just had a grand reopening to showcase all the work we've done to make our living space beautiful (new paint, flooring, lighting, furniture, landscaping) and it was a huge success. It was harder than we could have imagined and it has been far, far more rewarding than we could have imagined.

I struggled with growing plants. We moved a few years ago and have a southern exposure.  Now I have 30+ indoor plants. I'd like to think it was the house... not me.

Congratulations to OP an all the others who have conquered the demons holding you back. It feels so good.

A number of years ago I thought "DH won't always be here, so I need to be able to do things." Just like OP, I changed out those toilet workings.

Sometimes I want something done and DH isn't moving fast enough on it. I start attempting to do the deed and DH hops on it.

Cutting back on screen time during June. It was hard, especially about politics!