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[livejournal.com profile] synecdochic has a Monday pride time.  The main text:

Mondays, every week, let's celebrate ourselves, to start the week right. Tell me what you're proud of. Tell me what you accomplished last week, something -- at least one thing -- that you can turn around and point at and say: I did this. Me. It was tough, but I did it, and I did it well, and I am proud of it, and it makes me feel good to see what I accomplished. Could be anything -- something you made, something you did, something you got through. Just take a minute and celebrate yourself. Either here, or in your journal, but somewhere.

Here's mine.

I like those posts a lot, even though I don't always comment.  Oddly, I don't feel inadequate when I read others' comments.  I feel pleased for them, or sometimes inspired (if something they're doing resonates with things I could want to do).  Neat.

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Date: 2008-09-22 07:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] naamah-darling.livejournal.com
I like this idea!

On three separate days, I helped a friend inventory and pack and move stuff for the library where he works without asking for anything in return, or expecting it, and I packed almost half the boxes that were packed.

This is a big deal because I was horribly intimidated by the whole thing (unfamiliar task + unfamiliar people + unfamiliar house + get up early + Gave My Word = no love) and because I'm selfish on the best of days. But I really love this friend, and I wound up having . . . well, it's not FUN, but it was a productive and satisfying thing to do, and will benefit the library and thus my friend immensely.

I wrote a check for $70k, and did not need to change my pants afterward, nor did I have a nervous breakdown.

I finished carving a dog skull and have started on a second.

I have made several deliberately ugly display boxes for my cabinet of curiosities.

I haven't killed anyone.

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Date: 2008-09-22 07:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-xtina.livejournal.com
I don't know if I'm just having a good day or what, but today this "let's be proud of our accomplishments" thing is so full of win.

I wrote a check for $70k, and did not need to change my pants afterward, nor did I have a nervous breakdown.

I'm fairly certain this is on Maslow's hierarchy of needs somewhere.

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Date: 2008-09-22 07:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] naamah-darling.livejournal.com
I had a moment of "AAAAAAAHHH!!!" but only a moment, and then I was just really happy that I have enough money to put half down on a house that won't spend every moment pissing me off in some major way.

Our kitchen faucet, by the way, has started to scream. Oh my god, this house is cursed.

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Date: 2008-09-22 07:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-xtina.livejournal.com
You should put those screaming ants in it.  Then train it all to do O Fortuna from Carmen.

I... may be tired and loopy.

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Date: 2008-09-22 08:19 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] rosefox
I spent three hours on a project and then realized that it's due Tuesday, and isn't the one due Monday noon.

So instead of cringing or sinking into deadline anxiety, I sighed and opened up the other project and did that one too--fortunately it only took 45 minutes--and turned them both in early. Even better, it's for a company that's very very serious about deadlines and got really twitchy the last time I was a day late on something. Now they know that I can buckle down and get shit done. And now I know it too. I'm probably more surprised than they are.

Of course, thanks to spending the evening doing more socializing than writing, I still have a possibly massive project to do in the next twelve hours, but I'm tremendously pleased with myself for correctly time-estimating and completing every other thing on this weekend's task list.

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Date: 2008-09-23 04:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-xtina.livejournal.com
Fantastic!  That is awesome.
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