I was just about to leave, put my shoes on, and that’s when I remembered that I needed to take out the trash. The good thing is, I remembered that before tying the laces.
Seems like I usually remember everything once the laces have been tied, but this time was different.
Also, setting a pretty low bar for good things, so that anyone can join the conversation. 😀
I’m sort of dating someone.
2ish weeks ago my parents met another couple at a cocktail party and found out they had a single daughter about my age. In an extremely unsubtle attempt to set us up our families did an escape room together. Honestly, sex and dating have never been important to me. My longest relationship was a couple months long in high school, I went on maybe 3 or 4 dates in college. I went to this escape room thinking I’d make pleasantries for an hour, solve some puzzles and go home. But when I met her she was cute, and smart, and funny, and after we escaped she asked if I wanted to go with her to something else she was doing that day. We ended up spending the whole day together. And again the next weekend. I haven’t “officially” asked her out, or kissed her, or really acknowledged anything about what this is. But I have had so much fun with this badass trapeze-flying, skydiving, engineering, competitive dancing, just-so-cool woman that I can’t stop thinking about when I’ll see her next.
I've been focusing hard on my job, and received feedback from a C Suite Exec this week that he is impressed with my professionalism and interpersonal abilities, especially when meeting with other execs or company lawyers. He even has started coming directly to me because, quote, "Shit gets done when you're involved." This is huge to me because I'm impossibly awkward in social circles and mostly a shut-in neckbeard, but somehow it works for me at my job.
I also received recognition in the form of a beautiful glass plaque from the CEO this year, and it feels amazing.
I crawled my way up from homelessness to stability and now I'm rocking it at my job. Feels good man.
I know it's a bit taboo and perhaps unwise to put so much emphasis on your job, but it's what brings me happiness because I've struggled and fought to get to where I am now. My success has afforded me a comfortable upper-middle-class life and I'm still kind of shocked that it all came to fruition. Went from sleeping under the underpass to a penthouse condo in less than two decades.
We switched my son's Pre-K for a number of reasons. Mostly because they didn't have room for him in the older class (where he belongs), but also because it was kinda trashy, kinda franchisee, and every day we dropped him off he was crying and clinging harder and harder. The new school is just some lady running something out of her house.
A friend asked him what he's thankful for last night and he said, "My new school" 😭😭
If you ever want good news these are some good places to start:
- https://www.goodgoodgood.co/
- https://www.positive.news/
- https://fixthenews.com/
- https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
Stay positive, friend!
Apart from my mortgage, I'm finally debt free, and I'm running a surplus every month after all the bills are paid.
Well, except what we jokingly refer to as my "cripling gambling-induced credit card debt"; I returned some bottles while at the store the other day. The payout wasn't a lot, but enough to cover the mundane items I was buying. Instead of dealing with the bottle return receipt I pushed that button where it buys you a small lottery ticket instead and the money is donated to red cross. Not surprisingly, I didn't win. When at the checkout counter I realized that my GF still had my usual card after borrowing it earlier, so I had to use my credit card to pay the laughably small sum.
Didn't happen in my life, but in the life of a family member and that makes me very happy as well. My sister got a permanent job at a place she did an internship in last year. It's a job in her career, half the number of hours she is currently doing working at a spa, making more money, and it's a 90% remote role. She gets to be with her 8yo son, my nephew, almost all the time he is at home now. It also means my brother in law can take more hours at his job, thus overall getting to live more comfortably.
I just wrapped up a delightful trip with my bride of 20 something years and got a job offer for a different position in my company during the trip.
It was a practically perfect trip, but I'm also very excited to go home because I have 4 more days of vacation left and I can't wait go be reunited with my cats, and relax around the house for a few days.
Feel free to throw out any level of flex you want.
End of life hardware replacement at work. Deadline for the project is in a few weeks. Our engineering team just sent out a new BIOS upgrade for devices that get them up to TPM 2.0 which is the main requirement for the project. We went from ~5 completions a week to under one now to stay on track. Wasn't really too worried about it but it will make work a piece of cake for a little.
After coming back from a year of parental leave I didn't lose my job.
My previous project came to an end just before I went on parental leave and the company couldn't secure new projects locally.
But because I was involved ipartially in a different department before, that department secured a internal budget for me as a Subject Matter Expert.
Now I'm advising on that topic and was also brought in to a big internal project, so my job is secured for some time now.
For me it's extra difficult because I moved to a different country and have a really hard time learning the language, which is a must to get a different job here.
As my mom would say- I woke up on the right side of the dirt.
Congrats!
