I can name a few, one is when me and my friend had spent six months repairing and ultimately reviving a 1998 BMW 740iL. This car had been idle for over five years, the process was dirty, frustrating and we determined the engine wasn't severely damaged. The evening we turned the ignition, and it ran was a monumental point.

Another is from 2016, I was cited for speeding in a school zone. But that had been the spur I needed to make efforts to get my driver's license after 16 years of not having one. I passed the exams over the weekend.

[edit] I finished the semester with an overall average of 98.6 for classroom and a similar grade for shop. I won't know for certain until final grades are sent out.

I just finished my last class for my master's in special education. I still need to do my student teaching in the spring, but once that's done, I'll finally be a teacher. I've been a paraeducator in an elementary school for the last three and a half years.

I have a hard time with self-confidence and loving myself but lately I've been making a real effort to work on both and it's going pretty well. :) My 12-year relationship ended in September and I've felt really unlovable but I decided to change myself a lot. I started a new job and I've chosen to be much more outgoing and bubbly. My coworkers and our customers seem to like the new me and I'm feeling a lot better about myself. I've been losing weight by eating healthier so I'm starting to appreciate how I look physically. The main part was working on my mental/emotional health, though. I have bad days of course (I just had a rough few days where I had a lot of anxiety and cried) but overall I'm doing better than I ever have.

I'm determined to at least like myself and have a better personality and stop being so angry and depressed. I'm on medication for depression (I was hesitant to take any because I've tried many over the years and they all had terrible side effects) and it's helped a lot but I've done a lot of work myself. I'm glad I was able to get the help I needed by finally feeling up to reaching out and I'm proud of what I've done myself.

Sorry this is a long answer but to sum it up I've worked hard to improve myself the past few months and I'm feeling pretty proud of myself for it. :)

I am proud of how far I have gotten with my doctorate so far. I've not finished, but I'm getting there :) I'm in my final year now and it has not been an easy ride. Not that I expected it would be, but I've been really feeling the strain over the last few months so I've been trying to focus on how far I've come, how much I've learned, and how close I am to the finish line!

It sounds like you are quite critical of yourself sometimes. As Minty says though, I think there is a lot to be said for taking inventory of the things you feel proud of and acknowledging even the smallest of successes (no matter how small) to learn how to be kinder to ourselves. Sometimes I am probably more proud of myself for choosing to make a proper meal for myself than I am of anything else I've done, because sometimes that can be the hardest thing to do and is actually really important.

I'm doing a doctorate in counselling psychology at the moment and my thesis is about the role of wakeful rest in memory processes :) It probably sounds really boring, but I've quite enjoyed the learning experience so far. It's just getting a bit exhausting now having been working on it for two years D:

Today's question:

How do you sleep?

[I]My personal answer: [/i] I can sleep anywhere and I fall asleep really quickly. I am a blessed sleeper. However, I sleep so well that I tend to oversleep by completely blocking out the alarm. But I wake up right away when someone says my name (even though I don't really like it). I usually fall asleep facing the closest wall on my side but I always wake up on my back. When sharing the bed with someone I will 100% steal the blanket and make sure the other person doesn't even have a teeny tiny corner. No matter how big the blanket is. Oh just one thing makes it difficult for me to fall asleep: when the TV is on. Because then I always want to know what happens next which prevents me from falling asleep 😂

I've been watching my portions better and not over eating at every meal. I'm trying to watch my calorie intake but I'm really struggling with it on the days I cook because I have to add up all the ingredients and do math things and I hate it lol I'm definitely being careful to not get exhausted, it doesn't take much still but I'm getting there!

As for my proud achievement I'm going to go with a work related one. I'm the Director of Implementation at my place of work and I'm responsible for all things related to a new system we just transitioned in to in 2019. Recently we implemented an enhancement that will help our teams automatically assign a technician to a case (we are a computer repair company). It was one of the smoothest rollouts we've done, no escalations after go live and its working at 83% accuracy. I'm pretty dang proud of that as I worked really close with my boss and our teams to set everything up and test it beforehand. :)

Edit: I missed the new question!

I sleep terribly lol I am a super light sleeper...like I wake up to smells like when a skunk sprays in our neighborhood. I even take sleeping pills at night and it still sucks. Funny thing is, my FitBit tells me my sleep score is like 87-91 most nights!

I had my sleep cycle under control for a good 2 months... but now it's all out of whack.

Yes, in few words. When I appeared to process the citations, I was given the opportunity to have the no license portion dismissed by obtaining one. Which I did, so only speeding portion was paid. And as I mentiomed earlier in some questions, I also spent three years working to regain eligibility for another.

[edit] How droll of me, I've worked of mostly on family cars. My outstanding achievements include a 1998 BMW 740iL and a replica 2000 Lamborghini Diablo Roadster. I'm unsure if its my own budding skill or simple delegation that gets me my tasks.

For this question, I have to be put to sleep. My schizophrenia comes with chronic insomnia, so I take pretty heavy meds. This knocks me out profoundly, enough to sleep without dreams. I've said on other threads I sleep with a plush, for the last 25 years. I see no reason to stop, they don't complain... I usually sleep on my left side, usually in accommodation with the plush I have at the time. I go to bed at 22:00 and awaken at 05:00, without any alarm.

I'm another one who can fall asleep anywhere. I tend to fall asleep on the couch watching youtube controted into a strange position. I used to fall asleep on the breakroom table at work with all my loud coworkers talking around me. I also like to squash myself into corners and small spaces like a cat. I'm a fairly heavy sleeper... can and have slept through literal earthquakes... but it's fairly easy to wake me up. I actually sleep better when there's talking, because then I have something to focus on... if it's quiet, my brain never stops talking and I can't get to sleep.

I always have to listen to an audiobook or read before bed because it takes my mind away from its normal loops and into a more relaxed state. It’s also gotta be dark completely and no sounds. Not a fan sleeper lol

Thank you!! I'm glad to be here in this thread! You ask some great questions and it's cool to read everyone's answers. Hope you're having a lovely holiday season!

As for today's question, I generally sleep pretty well. It doesn't take me long to fall asleep, but once I wake up around 7 in the morning, I usually can't get back to sleep. Some weird dreams sometimes. Overall, can't complain

i sleep really well most nights. as long as I'm at a good temp i will fall asleep pretty quickly. i also adjust to schedule changes well. i am v blessed

So lala :-)

Thank you! I can't give a detailed reply today as I have a migraine but I'll try.

I sleep either incredibly well or incredibly poorly. No middle ground. My pain issues make it hard for me to rest in general.

I have not been sleeping very well lately. It's weird because I feel like I could sleep during the day no problem, but at night when I finally lay down I just can't fall asleep or I wake up constantly.

Thank you. ❤ I always apologize if I feel like my posts are long, aha. It's a habit I've yet to break.

How do you sleep?

I get insomnia sometimes but I usually sleep okay. Lately I've been waking up every 30 mins or so, though. :( It's been rough. I also can't sleep with too much noise but I do like having wave or rain noises or light jazz.

I usually sleep wrapped in my blankets like a burrito and I sleep on my stomach. Lately however I've been sleeping in a very cursed way lmao My pillows are in the corner (my bed is in the corner of my room) and I sleep diagonally or across the bed with my feet hanging off. It's super comfy but it's really weird lmao

I sleep pretty well most of the time, so I am quite lucky. I can't easily fall asleep on my back, but will be out fairly quickly when I lay on my side. I also quite enjoy falling asleep with the TV on, as long as it's not something super gripping! If it's too good, it will keep me awake so I'll usually fall asleep to something really trashy haha.

Basically it's investigating whether sitting quietly in a darkened room after learning new information can help you to remember it more easily :) After I'm finished, I'll be able to practice as a Psychologist working in mental health, but I'm not sure which area I'd like to specialise in yet.

Today's question:

Do you have pets?

[I]My personal answer: [/i] Will reply to your answers in a couple of hours since my alarm goes of in 4.5 hours so I should probably go to sleep soon...

I have a bunny called Molly. She is 11.5 years old and still the cutest little rascal ever. There is actually a funny story about how I got her. When I "graduated" from elementary school and got into the higest level of secondary education (the German school system is really hard to explain, sorry), I was rewarded with a gift. I was given the choice between a mobile phone and a bunny. My parents thought they were being really smart about this because it was 2009, I was 10 and all my cool friends already had a phone so naturally they thought I would go for the phone and finally get out of the discussion about me getting a bunny (wanted and begged for one for as long as I can remember. It was always my number 1 wish on all my wishlists). Well I guess you can imagine which choice I made. Now the whole family is in love with my bunny and my sister regularly facetimes with Molly. Molly is quite the phenomenon. She survived a crazy sickness which was so horrible that the whole pet shop we got her from had to close down because all their pets were dying from it, she survived a uterus tumor, she was outside for a single night and returned pregnant and now she is blind and deaf but she is still the cutest little darling ever who would do literally anything for aher favourite snack: dried dandelion leaves.