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    Sw has me sad right now.
    The front page of the lounge is just full of sad things that make me hurt.

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    So....what has been your greatest life acomplishment so far?
    What are you the most proud of?

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    Uh, I got into nursing school, although I'm struggling right now and might be flunking nursing management. I don't really know what has been a great accomplishment.

    Actually, gaining independence was my greatest accomplishment. At age 21, almost 22, I started learning the whole employment thing and started supporting myself.
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    Retaining/ re-gaining my optimism and hope about People, even after painful experiences like a weird childhood and falling in love with a Bipolar Mess.

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    Finding my mom's family when I was 21.

    My mom had lost touch with her family in Argentina in the early 1990's. I wanted to meet them, but I didn't speak Spanish. So I learned Spanish in Ecuador, and then got my ass to Argentina and found them. Learning Spanish took a little less than a year, finding my family once I got to Argentina took a few weeks. It was also right in the midst of an economic crisis there. My dad, who had a hell of a time in Argentina (he was arrested there and stuff in the 1970's when he was living there) was PISSED and did not want me to go.

    My mom was soooo grateful, and the next year she went to see them. I saw them this past summer. It was very satisfying because I had wanted to meet them since I was a little kid, and my mom would never speak about her childhood cause it was painful...so when I finally met my family I learned a lot about my mom and that she is a very strong lady.
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    Getting my sh*t together. I am bipolar and it's messed up a large part of my life. I take my pill first thing each morning and I am getting better every day. I am on a mission to be the best daughter of God, Mom and Wifey EVER.
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    Turning my life around positively.
    Being asked to be a Patriots Cheerleader (out of 400 girls!).
    I'm great at Scrabble.
    My health, physical strength and energy.

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    Graduating high school early.
    Being able to work in a number of interesting fields and careers
    Getting an MBA
    Not letting drugs destroy my life
    Playing video poker with Kaylinn

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    I think quitting smoking is one of my greatest accomplishments...it was due to me, and me only.

    Um, I like who I am, so becoming/being myself and making my life what it is, is up there...but a lot of it is due to things beyond my control, so I don't now if 'accomplishment' is really the right word.

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    Finishing up my last year at Austin Community College with joining Phi Theta Kappa- International Honors society for two year colleges if some of you didn't know what that stands for

    Finally passing college algebra with an A after several semesters of repeating remedial math (thank god remedial doesn't count towards gpa)

    Going to a University and having a double major, and almost being finished- having all A's and one c this semester - the c was a B before I took that exam while I had food poisoning (remember my bitching in body buisness?)

    Sponsering all of this on my own, including my car, my apartment, my tuition and books, food, clothing, health care, car insurance, etc etc

    Finally realizing that no matter what happens, I will either be ok eventually, either by habituation or compromise, and if I'm not, then I must have been killed, which if that is the case, I can't think or feel to care.

    Realizing that I have control of my future, and if I make bad descisions or have bad friends, they my screw it up for me if they do something screwy while I'm around. Basically, getting poison people out of my life.


    Developing a relationship with my mother- not that we had a bad one before, we really didn't have one at all since she worked all the time all of my life. (like literally 16 + hours a day)

    Learnign what I want to do with my life- that is a BIG one.
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    Losing THE WEIGHT (and yes, it deserves caps) and taking charge of my life. I coasted for way too long, and now I'm grajimating (and you're all invited to watch me snatch my diploma from a stunned dean).

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    going cold turkey from meth and never going back ok,weird thing to be proud of i know, but ive seen the fate of others who were in the scene when i was, and i feel so damn fortunate to have been able to rise above and pull myself out of it,and stay out.

    im proud of the person ive become,against all odds

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    Default Re: What has been your greatest acomplishment so far?

    I finished undergrad and graduate school with a 4.0 GPA

    I helped my ex be very happy while we were together.

    I've made vast improvements in my shyness compared to 10, or even 5 years ago.
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    *Quitting smoking, drinking and drugs 7 years ago...and staying clean.
    * Leaving my ex /son's father. One of the best things I ever did.
    *Getting my degree in Journalism.
    *Moving to CA to persue my dream in acting/writing/film.

    But most of all, so far it has been bringing a great kid into the world, and falling in love with C, the most amazing man I have ever met.

    I have some amazing plans for 2008. It's going to be a damn good year. I'm gonna make some awesome shit go down! Stay tuned...
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    Greatest accomplishment by standard measure would be when I was still doing shopping center designs.

    There was a gigantic tract of land available for commercial development, in North Carolina I think, maybe New Jersey (fuck I forget I need to find out). The guy I did the work for initially wanted one scheme, but I thought of another that made more effective use of the land, and he said go for it.

    There were several competing bidders on the project, the winner of which stood to make a couple million in profit easy. At least one of the bidders was offering more money--to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars--but the deal went to my client. He was specifically told it was my drawing that landed the deal.

    Naturally he never told me this--I found out from his wife/vice-president of the company, lol. When I told him I knew he tried to make a joke about it, perhaps to make light of the fact that I would wind up making a couple grand tops, by the time the drawings were all done, revisions made, etc. I was charging about 50$ an hour, obviously not enough in this particular case, haha!
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    If I had to pick one? Getting my BA.
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    I'm changing mine. Greatest acomplishment so far is learning control Z. Rozz, you saved my ass!
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    Moving to Albuquerque from NJ.

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    -Surviving the past two years of work + school.
    -Winning an award for my costume design (okay, it was community theatre, but I've got a little statue on a shelf!)
    -Coping with panic attacks & stopping cutting
    -Learning to drive a stick, while driving said stick-having car home from the dealer.
    -Clearing bad people and stuff from my life. I'm not done, but I've made vast improvements.

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    For me, so far, graduating from college, sobriety, and having a great relationship. And I listed those in order of difficulty from most to least.

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    ^^having a great relationship was your least difficult acomplishment?
    Please share a secret.
    I find maintaining a great relationship takes a lot of hard work. Lately, neither of us have been contributing to this task, and our relationship has been suffering.

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    College was harder than sobriety?


    College makes me skirred.

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    ^^^ for me, yes. Oddly I had a harder time dealing with the problems I had with school than I did facing up to the fact that I had become an alcoholic. It was really, really hard for me to finish school. I had lots of anxiety about it and would not go and would stay at home and be horribly depressed and feel trapped, oh, god, it makes me sad just to think about it. Anyhow, being depressed and anxious and, you know, drunk, didn't help, so everything all kind of started resolving around the same time, and I was helped considerably by the help of an amazing therapist.

    Kaylinn, I don't have any secret, I'm just very lucky and very compatible with Mr. W. All I can say is that it helps to want the same things out of life and to enjoy the same way of living.

    Anyhow, those are things that I feel really good about in my life, always.

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    Yeah I've seen people struggling with sobriety, it's about as difficult an issue as any to deal with, for some. I know my stepdad has relapsed after 30 years of sobriety, a year after my mom died. It concerns me, but there's not much I can do down here.

    Having a solid relationship always takes some effort, but with some (well-suited) partners the effort is so obviously worth it that it doesn't seem so daunting as dealing with an addiction, etc. I know a couple of the relationships I had were way harder than the other two, lol.
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    Moving to a country where I knew nobody, didn't speak the local languages, have a reliable income and survived. You can't put a price on true independence.

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    Keeping the family strong and close through the poverty years, student years, business building years, successful years, and tough times. Lots of things have happened, but nothing else matters that much.

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