Post your Best/Latest Accomplishment - In RL

[Jarre]

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Getting back into the fireservice as a driver. Going to start my Hydraulic platform training on this:-

[Takelli]

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Getting yet another job after 5 months!

Its only going to be part time, and retail, but a job is a job!

[Gobo]

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Proposal for summer research approved! Oh happy day!

[NightShayde]

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Swam 2.27 miles (4000 yards) on Saturday & 2.38 miles (4200 yards) yesterday. Swimming makes me happy.

[Yellow Mage]

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Had an amazing weekend in Virginia.

Also, as a byproduct of the above, about a year from now I will be able to add the title of "Game Developer" to my resume.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Haven't said much here lately, or maybe ever, but my diet has lowered my weight by 30 pounds. I'm looking to ramp things up with some new diet and exercise routines in the next week to hit my target within the next eight months or so. Nothing comes quickly but I feel I can stick with this and keep myself from see-sawing back and forth like the diet has been so far.

I'm just sort of tired of looking like "the gamer" I'd at least like to move up to "the gamer that looks healthy."

My new job could go a long way toward that, but I do have to prevent myself from eating at this job. Its not sit-down and I'm on my feet pretty much the whole time, but there are the vending machines. Thankfully there's been free cider/cocoa/coffee and the usual water options around the workplace for free. I feel cocoa and cider are something I can compromise diet-wise on.

If I do go to the vending machine, its usually just for a granola bar. This being a second shift job I don't really need to have dinner there as I'm mostly a night owl anyway and can eat when I get back home.

I do get about 4-5 miles of walking just at work right, and decent cardio out of the stuff I have to do, but I need to start targeting the trouble spots and acquiring a taste for foods healthier for me. Its not a total sin for me to do burgers a couple times a week but I have to train my mind to stop looking for easy ways out. If I can do that on the job, I can do it elsewhere.

[Satori]

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The past year or so I've been eating healthier. I was one of those "chicken nugget" children that I despise so many modern parents for. Basically I didn't like it/everyone else said it was horrible I wouldnt eat it and my parents just let it slide.

I started to teach myself to cook properly and developed an unhealthy obsession with baking.
A little while back I phoned my mother and she nearly had a stroke when I told her I had just eaten broccolli with my dinner, She was even more amazed that I had actually bought it and cooked it myself.
You just have to take it slowly find something you'd like to try and then find a recipe/dish where that ingredient is present among other things you like. Try not to push yourself too hard with it.
I find recipes by Nigella Lawson, Jamie Oliver and Gizzi Erskin are quite simple to do and not too much of a challenge to eat if you are trying something new.
I still won't touch prawns though.

My latest achievement is I'm being considered as a permanent scrub nurse. I got to put my hand into a mans chest cavity and felt his heart beat, Whilst plugging a bleed with my finger. It was a mixture of amazement and disgust I felt. I actually couldnt believe I was doing it.
I'd definately like to assist with surgery more often but from my previous experiences I know it won't be as hands on as it will today.
Either way no matter if I get chosen I still had a great day.

[Neverslip]

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I got to put my hand into a mans chest cavity and felt his heart beat, Whilst plugging a bleed with my finger.

Good job!! ... a noble profession, indeed.

My achievement is less heroic. I got into and have been performing with a Improv troupe at the WA Midsummer Renaissance Faire called No Parchment Needed. We do 2 shows a day and between the shows just mill about and act all 'period'. Been really fun and we seem to have a pretty popular act. We are looking into the possibility of touring to other RenFaires here on the West Coast eventually.

After watching the demonstrations and combative shows, I'm thinking I really need to get back into stage combat. I really need to get recertified. I'd also really like to start setting aside money to buy my own hand and a half stage-combat bastard sword. A nice one... not one of the humdrum ones you can get anywhere... seriously thinking of getting a custom made one based upon the description of Longclaw from A Song of Fire and Ice books (the official one looks pretty but I'm not spending that much on something bereft of functionality).

[NightShayde]

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Nothing earth-shattering, but I just got back to my desk after swimming 2.5 miles.

[Neverslip]

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after swimming

<-------- jealous.

I really miss swimming... I've checked the gym's in my area for pools and had no luck.

[NightShayde]

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Do you have a Parks & Recreation program in your area? Perhaps a city-run or county-run pool? The Aquatic Center near me is run by the city's Parks & Recreation department. There are a number of other pools, too, but they're nowhere near as nice as the Aquatic Center (built in 2003 before the economy went south).

ETA: Perhaps there's a community college with a pool in your area? Perhaps a university? A YMCA?

[Neverslip]

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It's Seattle... I could swim in the Puget Sound ... I'm just never around there for that ... I d k if I'd wanna swim in a public pool round here =/

[Gobo]

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Just gave the presentation for my summer research. It went over really well. I had some cadence and speaking tone issues, but my committee thought it was very good overall.

More importantly, HURRRFUCKINGRRAYY I am done!

[Yygdrasil]

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Congrats, Gobo! Go celebrate by leveling SMN to 95 and telling me how cool Shock Squall is.

[Gobo]

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Congrats, Gobo! Go celebrate by leveling SMN to 95 and telling me how cool Shock Squall is.

Thank you. But, that sounds more torturous than celebratory to me....