those small accomplishments

This reminded me of this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi9NUoZmulU. I actually heard the intro as I read the thread title.

As to my small victories... I have managed to develop a "real" life. It is still weird, but worth it. I have had people over while while my house wasn't spotless - which is to say I have had people over to my house. On many occasions. That was a major victory.

It might seem strange, but I suppose my small accomplishments were getting my first kiss (despite the circumstances), and slowly but surely coming out of my shell more and more.

I translated two novels this year, one from English to Romanian, and one from English to French.
I've read 167 books, more than in any year since I started keeping a notebook (2003).

I made plans to start reading a book the other day. What I'm saying is, I know how you feel, Irina.

I am afraid of what your big victories are if those are your small ones Irina.

You seriously read 167 books this year? I am jealous and awed. At the pace I went this year that would take me five+ years.

My big accomplishment will be next year if Warwick takes me.

I haven't counted short stories, but they weren't too many, probably couple dozens or so.

Yesterday I bathed myself, dressed, took a bus to the mall, and drank coffee and read from my Kindle for a couple hours while watching people run around in a shopping panic. Then I came home.

This was a huge victory for me.

I started driving again after not driving for three years due to extreme anxiety. My whole world has become so much bigger.

I just repaired my vacuum. This included removing about two and a half kittens-worth of fur.

i finished a bunch of video games this year.

I made three threads yesterday. I usually don't make three a month. I was on fire.

I finished and recorded my rap song about my Thanksgiving vacation. My friends love it. PM me your e-mail if you want to hear it. It's funny and good. I promise.

I put a short, complex book on Amazon, that makes up for having not started a band or made music, so I made music through words. I had three flings this year, which was a lot, considering a wreck of a breakup some years back that slowed my dating desires to one fling a year... next year a big victory will be turning a fling into something more.

i drove through central London alone today and without freaking out.

I cleaned my bedroom. Mostly.

wrapped gifts and made bows with scraps from previous years.

I actually went out and shopped for gifts today. Thats like a whole day earlier than I usually do. I think I'll be able to finish by tomorrow.

I farted.

Haha! You're awesome.

I made my first ever powerpoint presentation for my Action Research and presented it...twice!

i finished an entire tube of chapstick this year without losing it.

Wow. I'm impressed.

Seriously. I always lose those things in or under the couch.

Dude.

You. Are. My. Hero.

yeah, i think it was a combination of the weather being unusually chappy and me making a conscious effort to have it with me at all times.

at all times

the things that tube of chapstick has seen

ಠ_ಠ

I never had to use any chapstick all year.

I blocked someone on FB that I should have a long time ago. We weren't FB friends, but we had a mutual friend, and used to be friends on a different forum, so every now and then my mind would be invaded by the person unexpectedly.

I am very proud of myself.

I made my Mum a cross-stitch bookmark to put in her Christmas stocking.

Thanks for reminding me, Hattie. I've been meaning to buy more threads for an anatomically-correct heart, but I forgot. I totally have to do it after the holidays.

o.O

I don't even know if posting this is a good idea. It might change how you guys see me..

Not to sound like one of Chuck's Guts pervs but I discovered a way to have the best orgasm ever while masturbating. I'm kind of scared to do it again though.

I used to masturbate almost every day. So I started limiting myself to once a week. Problem was I was also kind of addicted to porn. So three days in a row, I watched porn, got naturally hard, but then said to myself "no, once a week." so nothing ever came of these erections. Then I got naturally hard on the fourth day, and had the most intense orgasm of my life.

I will go hide now.

I did that once. It hurt. Fuck that.

You're just discovering this?

Shit man, I should write all you young Cult Dudes an instruction manual.

Here's a freebie:

Hey, guys! Eat a tablespoon of cocoa powder three times a day for two weeks.

Why, you ask?

Did you know that what you eat and drink affects the taste of your semen? It does! Your girl/boy-friends will thank you!

Unless she/he/they don't like chocolate. Try large quantities of strawberries instead.

Check it. Me and Smashwords are in negotiations. They want to see an outline and sample chapters by the New Year. I could have 300 pages complete by Spring. This is a goldmine I tell ya.

Alright then.

I am always happy when I see that someone has discovered these upsides to purposeful denial.

Now try to imagine the energy coursing through you if you denied for a month. Almost better than fasting. And when you stop, far better than ending a fast.

In porn, the men are not supposed to ejaculate for three or four days before a shoot (heh). You didn't think they could do that naturally, did you?

Goldmine of sexual factoids. Right here.

I don't really watch porn. Except every now and then as a sort of train wreck/thing to be awed by, sort of deal.

And reading your above post, I do not think you were talking to me... so, nothing to see here. Nevermind.

I haven't watched porn in years and a while ago, I kinda felt the need to. I couldn't even remember what sites I'd go to, so I gave up and went back to tumblr.

Youngen. What sites?

You go out to the shed and look under the scrap wood behind the camping supplies. Silly.

Ha!

I washed and folded my clothes.

Hahaha.

Or go through my brother's Hustler collection. But the last time I did, I scratched my hand so badly the scar is still TOO visible, many months later.

That's what you get.

Like a paper cut? Are Hustlers pointy??

No. Like skin getting dragged by the underside of the drawer. The scar looks weird, and I hate it because it's on my hand, and the one thing I feel represents a woman most is so fatally flawed in me.

/jeanlucfacepalm

Somehow I managed to divert this thread to being about porn without even being here!

That might be larger than a small accomplishment, tho.

I made pork chops for lunch today without burning or cutting myself. I did get burnt on Christmas morning, though.