Weekly Achievement Thread! How have you kicked this week’s ass? Let us know! We want to tell you how awesome you are!

Good lord that is ADORABLE.

My parents’ birthdays are after July 4, so that sounds like a perfect gift for them. I said to Mr.TARDIS yesterday that my goal was to turn my parents into leftie shitass radicals before I have to pay for the undertaker for them! The hilarious thing is that my dad’s parents were glassy-eyed Clintonistas and even had a…

What a wonderful new tradition you’ve made for yourself! I’m inspired to do the same, as I have two office drawers full of the stuff. I’ve had Marie Kondo’s books since they first came out, but I will be moving in the next year to 18 months and REALLY need to get stuff out for donation. Shredding the ephemera sounds…

Awwwwww! I have quite a few Aussie friends and have a (probably low-level) understanding of the political leanings of various groups there. How wonderful that your father came around for the indigenous folks there. Hopefully that trend will continue within him!

Thank you for your encouragement! I agree with you about my mother as well. She’s remarkably pro-military, and the best thing that ever happened to her was when my fuckup of a younger brother got into Special Forces (how that happened is anybody’s guess). Anyway, he shows up in his uniform at any given chance (and for…

We do not have them yet - we are (hopefully) closing on 10 acres this month. We’ll be building a homestead, which is where the goats (and rescue horses, chickens, piggies, and a cow - hopefully some alpacas, sheep, and vicuñas for my knitting hobby) will go. That’s where the YouTube channel will come in - to document…

My dad is fairly loaded, so the sting will just have to be the fact that the orange weasel went away somehow. Thanks for the book rec - I will definitely check it out!

I’m a postdoc as well, and have been told that if I want a job past June 2020 I will need to procure my own funding (even though when I was offered the job, I was “guaranteed” an additional year, no funding required!). Someone is retiring after this semester, so I’m on her job like hair on soap! Good luck to us both!

Oooh - I will keep that in mind. Not sure how well that will go while I’m wrangling baby goats, but hey! Maybe for the talking head portions. Thanks for the rec!

Don’t sell yourself short on the time - those things are a beast! Best of luck with your job talk and let us know how it goes!

I am impressed with your tenacity, and the fact that a simple holiday gift exchange ultimately got you a kitchen remodel AND saved you money. And ... fuck Melvin!!!!

OH, my stars! Thank you for saying that. I try to respond to everyone who comments because that’s the point of sharing! I hope that your upcoming week is as wonderful as your words. <3

Congratulations on surviving the breakup talk with dignity and respect. That’s probably the hardest thing to do. I had to date in my early 30s (during one of my separations from Mr. TARDIS in our 22 years of marriage) and it was a BLAST. I had zero expectations, and just enjoyed the heck out of getting to know new…

My father is a civil engineer and thinks climate change is a hoax. I’m just astounded, really. I’ve purchased “The Last Hours of the Ancient Sunlight” by Thom Hartmann for him, and am going to start with that one. Hopefully I can indoctrinate him fully before I have to put him in the grave!!!

I admire you incredibly for putting up videos! I am about to start a channel for a homestead, and ... OMG. I’m dying already from embarrassment thinking about my voice and my body being on YouTube. Your content is awesome and your little intro is catchy and cute! Congratulations on putting yourself out there and doing…

Wow - that sounds like a process! Glad you only lost a little skin, and here’s hoping you can get some change for it.

Congrats on surviving the holidays, and I’m glad you were responsible for your own happiness. We rely so often on others to boost our mood or to bring us somewhere emotionally, and I admire your reliance on yourself. Happy 2019!

For me, it was more of a surprise (that and seeing a set of InfoWars stickers on their coffee table!). I’m lucky that it’s just my parents; I can’t imagine having a family of them like you do! I commend your sticktuitiveness with them. Like they say, you can choose your friends...

Oh, lord - what a feat! Congratulations on your nice new creamy look.