Personal Achievements - Page 4

Now I have to try this... I can't imagine?

I broke my first post-cherry a minute ago.

Well, you've got one up on Ripoll then!

You mean it exploded and took out half a city block like it did on that episode of the Simpsons?

As for me. I took my dad out for a drink and a pizza with money I earned from my first job.

That. Is. Fucking. Awesome.

I'm taking over the world tomorrow.

But seriously.

I'm actually having dinner with a lady on Sunday. Back into the dating world I go!

Sometimes, just sometimes, working for the gov't can be kinda great.

Frank, have you gone under NSPS yet? (I just went through an NSPS for supervisors short course).

A woman who came in at the restaurant said I looked like Leonard Whiting from Romeo and Juliet(1968). Also I picked up the Zodiac one sheet from the theater about an hour ago. Apparently the promotional stuff that the studios don't want back and the staff doesn't get their hands on, they give away. Then again I'm pretty sure they do that everywhere. Don't they?

I had sex.

!!!!

With a girl?

I saw the avatar change and thought "nawww!"

I'm private sector. It's awesome.

He should change it to Chris Elliot in Cabin Boy "These Pipes, are CLEEEEEAAAAAAANN!! Mmm hmm. And how."

Oh hell, gov't contractors have it made. The threat of contracting out my particular line of work has been dangled over our heads from time to time. This only really scares a. people who are emotionally attached to their status in gov't employment and b. the people who are so incompetent they'd never get hired by the contractors.

With Ron Jeremy?

Stumbled upon the sizable remains of one of those large classy spreads they put up for various meetings and receptions for important people at my college in one of the school's buildings today. There was a 30-second gap in which I could act unseen, so I grabbed an empty cardboard box, emptied the contents of the table into it and walked off with all the remaining food. Best eating I've had in a month.

Man, Stormin, as much as I want to call you the college version of Creed Bratton, I cannot, because that brings back fond memories. Scamming great catered food is one of man's simple pleasures.

I finally managed to sit down and really talk with the family about my molestation for the first time since I grew up. You'd think it would get easier with time, but no. Seems some people are a bit less sympathetic after you become an adult.

Wow, that took a lot of courage. Tip o' the hat.

I was gonna try and make a crack about how I've found talking to others about your molestation got easier with each conversation to see if I could get a laugh out of you, but figured I'm not deft enough to pull that off.

Tip o' the hat, Shmun, like Cobretti says.

I discovered a really great new position this past weekend.

Discovery time's over, We've done all the positions. The only left is sex toys and they're overrated.

Depends on the company...

Can we not talk about Shmun's molestation so much? That last post was in particularly poor taste.

I'm laughing my ass off. This reminds me of the time I was at my uncle's house (I was really young) and I found this rubber leg with circles around it and two toes under their bed, so I brought it to the living room to show everyone I'd found BIG BIRD'S FOOT.

Patrick, what are you talking about? Mine was in response to a line of discussion initiated by Quarant.

Yeah, I didn't have any problem with the stuff following Quarant's post. Now, his own could've potentially been taken as being in poor taste.

"I was molested."
"Hey, I fucked a girl hanging off the ceiling!"

But I didn't take it that way, so it's all good.

And thanks for the support, Cobretti and Stormin. I chuckled anyway.

It was a joke.

In hindsight = D'oh.

As in, you flipped to the next page in the Kama Sutra, or you discovered one that no one else has ever done? (I mean, really, aren't there only about 5 positions and the rest are subvariations thereupon?)

As in we were drunk and decided to see how flexible we were. I don't doubt that it's somewhere in the Kama Sutra, under the name of The William Petersen Experience.

I fixed up my first car with my own money. Goddamn it feels good to be independent.

You're funny.

And those positions are fun... until you realize the next day that no, you're not really flexible enough to do the splits.

I finished a nine hour shift, during which I listened to my entire Bob Dylan catalog.

Edit:I know I'm being a dork constantly talking about work shit, sorry.

I have lost 25lbs in the last 6 weeks. Slow and steady. I hope to be at my target weight by fall, Christmas at the latest...

Got out of jury duty and got a oft-rumored but never recieved bonus yesterday. As you can see, I'm trying to be humble.

This year has been very strange for me thus far.

After hitting a career high of 245 pounds in October of last year, I got so disgusted with myself that I was able to change my ways. Drastically enough that today when I weighed in I was 200 pounds. So I've lost 45 pounds since starting in November of last year to eat better and exercise. Not terrible for 4 months worth of effort. The trick was just finding the right way for me to do it so that I could overcome everything that was holding me back during prevous attempts. That 'way' ended up being to leverage the power of the small change. And by small, I mean barely noticeable.

I started off by doing things like switching from using sugar in my coffee to sweetener, and walking the 100 feet out my front door to get to our mailbox rather than hitting it on the way back from work in my car. That led to picking things that were healthier to snack on than chips/junk, which led to walking farther distances, which led to more thought behind what I was eating etc. etc. etc. The small changes all snowballed into one massive change, namely the weight loss and increase in fitness level.

As of last night, I am able to run 3.5 miles on a 2.5% incline at 4.5 mph on a treadmill at our gym (that took about 45 minutes). When I first started, I got winded going up the stairs. I've lost 6 waist sizes so far. My long-term goal is to hit 175 lbs, which for a man of my shortness (5' 5") is what I would consider healthy/normal.

The big reason or motivator behind the weight loss was that I wasn't feeling in control over anything in my life. I have been coming to terms with crap that happened to me in my past, and it all came to a head earlier this year. I wrote about it in my blog, and then was promptly evicerated by some people, propositioned by Scientologists I know in the area to help me "handle" my issues, all manner of stupidity. So I hid the posts for a bit. It's all back up there now though if any of you want to read it (the link to my blog is in my signature). To others who are coping with some of the same demons, all I can say is that my heart is with you and it does get easier the more you talk about it.

My mother finished her last bout with chemo last Thursday, 3/29/07.

After almost a year and way too much work, I finally have a close approximation of Lionel Luthor's hair from the early years of Smallville as my haircut. That's incredibly nerdy, but I love it. I feel like I should be accusing some kid of murdering his brother or investigating Kryptonian artifacts or something. Not.

Last weekend I was finally able to have a pretty candid conversation with my father about his drug addiction and his frustrating tendency to fall off the map when he falls off the wagon. I told him that he needs to stay in touch with me because I love him no matter what he does, which actually made him cry a little and honestly, apart from his mother's funeral, I can't remember the last time he's cried in front of me.

In happier news, I finally have a job that I don't mind getting up at the crack of dawn to commute to because I actually enjoy it (most of the time anyway), and I even like all my fellow employees. Also, the bennies are fantastic.

Sarah that is great that you were able to talk to your father like that. Me myself, I am scared shitless of conflict with my family no matter what it concerns. The mere fact that you are able to confront your father about something like this speaks volumes about your character and fortitude. Also love your sig, if I knew or was able to give you reputation, I would. As for me, well I am dating the sweetest and adorable girl on the face of the planet(of course I might be biased in this assertion.) Also I payed about a few hundred dollars on the 2400 dollar debt I owe to my college. Once I have that sucker payed off I'll be able to get back into said school.

Thanks Whirlybird. It's only taken me about ten years to have that conversation, which was the very tiniest first step of many more that need to come, so it's an ongoing process.

I was dumped. Yes, I'm gonna go on about it forever.

And congrats SarahLynne. I realise how much courage it must have taken to do what you did.

Congrats to you. Glad he took it reasonably well. Sadly, not all parents would.

This is a great thread. I read through it this morning and you are all to be commended.

I thought I’d share, but apologies in advance for it reading like a blog. I don’t partake in MySpace; though you’ll probably banish me to a hidden corner, thinking man, that woman can yap when she wants to.

2007 is a milestone year for me. I love the number 7 and always felt that this particular year would be something special. It’s been great, so far. As far as achievements go, there’s the standard minimal “we’re getting out of debt” which is always a good thing for anyone; and I am, in fact, nearing the payoff of my very own first new car. Made a little trickier due to the fact that my husband suffered a stroke within a week of being given a clean bill of health from his cancer; rendering him disabled and unable to work anymore. Thus, another reason I’m not around as much as I used to be. Sure miss the place, though.

I have a great job at a major corporation. The division I work at is close to home, with many varied perks, but I don’t know if that would be considered an achievement inasmuch a needed lucky break. I’ll be with the company 2 years in July and if the overtime doesn’t kill me, I don’t foresee me leaving it anytime soon.

Let’s see. Um…I permanently stopped biting my nails 3 years ago. Does that count?

I turned 50 this year, and as much as I thought I might dread the days leading up to the “big one”, I was pleasantly surprised to find it isn’t so bad after all. In fact, the day itself turned out to be my best birthday ever. I remember when I was young, always saying that I wanted to be dead by the time I was 50 because to me that was old and who wants to be around that long? I now realize how foolish that way of thinking was. I’m still young. I’m still young at heart and I am (if I may continue to toot my own horn a little further) still in better shape than most women half my age. I’m in good health and I’m comfortable with who I am, my surroundings - my station in life as it were. I’ve made some lifelong friends on this journey and I have a great, supportive family. I look forward to the future as there’s still a lot of things I want to experience; yet I’ve taken a liking to a “one day at a time” approach as it makes my personal goals more attainable and realistic.

But the real reason I’m in this thread today is because “our” biggest milestone, and “our” greatest achievement, is that my husband and I will be married 25 years on June 5th. YAY David! We did it!!!

To us, in this day and age, that’s a major achievement. One, that both my husband and I are very proud of. Through ups and downs, good times and bad, in sickness and in health, ‘til death do us part.

Our wish for all of you that have chosen to take the plunge is that you, too, can one day celebrate such a milestone.

I completed my first ever 5km road race! I lasted the whole distance despite having massive pains in my calf muscles. Didn't help that my iPod started fucking up about halfway through. I'll probably be doing a 10km in August and October and then it's on to Vegas in December for the marathon!

Yay! Although, quite frankly, it sounds like you need a good training and conditioning program if you're going to be a rock star in that marathon. Let me know if you need to be connected to resources for endurance atheletes. My little triathlete self would never do a marathon but I can point you to people who do/would and their advice on how to train for it.

The program I'm part of hooks you up with a trainer. They say you need 20 weeks or something to train for a marathon. They don't want you to "peak" to early or else you'll hinder your performance. My goal for the marathon is to finish. And by finish I mean running across the finish line. The boxing coach at the gym (and my Joints in Motion "teammate") finished the NYC marathon in a little under five hours last year. So I figure if I can hit for 4-4.5 hours I'll be happy. Triathlons seems like they could be a blast. My swimming abilities suck though.

After an epic 11-year college career, I finally got around to graduating with a B.A. in Political Science.

Next stop - Law School!

You certainly don't need to peak too early, but you can move up to being fit at 5-10 miles and stay there and then ramp up to the marathon. If 3.1 miles hurts, that's not a good thing. Most 18-20 week programs for beginners start with a 6 mile run in the first week. Marathontraining.com has a good non-runner's way to warm up into running:
http://www.marathontraining.com/faq/faq_br.html
Once you're comfortable at 5 or 6 miles you'd be in a better place to start a 20 week program.