Kudos on persevering through the year with just you and your guy, as even healthy steps can be difficult. Glad you have a place to call your own, and are looking to expanding that joy in 2018.

Kudos on persevering through the year with just you and your guy, as even healthy steps can be difficult. Glad you have a place to call your own, and are looking to expanding that joy in 2018.

Retail can be terribly draining for introverts, so it’s a testament that you made it through the year without a homicidal incident! Thanks for the link to your blog - will have to check it out in the new year.

That is a LOT of transition for you - congratulations! Five years of sobriety is fucking AMAZING. I know that it’s a struggle every single day, and you are incredible for succeeding.

In addition to my family member, I also hit my limit with a toxic friend (well, this person became someone I didn’t recognize anymore, or perhaps they were always like this and I wasn’t able to see it before? Hindsight, and all that). Isn’t the sense of peace wonderful? It sounds like you’re heading into 2018 with…

Those are absolutely NOT “small steps” - they are so much more than many have done this year! And a big THANK YOU from all of us for making your district a better place.

Her being a loving child is a testament to not only your parenting, but the goodness of your soul - way to rock the parent thing!

WOW on all fronts! Being free of panic attacks and regaining your fertility are incredible - congratulations on the sweet babe!

Amen, Goddess! Here’s to not killing anyone in 2017!

After all of that physical mess, you got back on that bike AND lost the 15lbs? Incredible! 
/bows to you

Been there - what a monumental task. Kudos to you and to your nubbin.

That is quite a long time - but you persevered! Congratulations!

2017 Achievement Thread!

Eeeeeeeee! Look at you - how awesome is that? They say that leaving a program, even with the best of intentions to return, is the kiss of death for your degree. Congratulations on finishing, AND not becoming a statistic! Way to go!

Thanks!
I’m seriously impressed with your restraint NOT walking off with that bottle of vodka. Heh heh.

Thank you! And way to go - finishing finals without either a shitty immuno response or a mini-breakdown AND good grades? That is quite the accomplishment!

Sweet! Many congrats on that! I am the managing editor of a peer-reviewed journal in my field, and that’s a huge deal. I’m chunking my dissertation down now to see which areas I can write a suitable-length article on.

Thank you! Mr.TARDIS now refers to me as “Doctor Wife.”
And no, nothing so grand as time travel - just university faculty preparedness and agency. Heh.

Thank you - it has been an interesting 3 years + 3 months for sure!

Thank you! I’ve had it for a few years (but just added the letters last week). Hee!