Good News

[ysabetwordsmith]

Good news includes all the things which make us happy or otherwise feel good. It can be personal or public. We never know when something wonderful will happen, and when it does, most people want to share it with someone. It's disappointing when nobody is there to appreciate it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our joys and pat each other on the back.

What good news have you had recently? Are you anticipating any more?

Comments

[mdlbear]

My older daughter got engaged over the weekend! (The younger has been engaged for a couple of months now.) As of Monday no date had been set.

Congratulations

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's good to hear! :D

Oh! Congratulations!

[dialecticdreamer]

It sounds as if your family is growing fast!

[mashfanficchick]

Congratulations!

[pronker]

Wonderful! :)

[mashfanficchick]

I did something hard for me, instead of yelling and threatening impotently or curling up in a ball and doing nothing.

Go you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's something to be proud of.

[we_are_spc]

Dat's worth a *fanfare, confeti* Good on ya. :)

-Jay~

[mdlbear]

Go you!

[callibr8]

WOW! That is *huge*!!! Go you!!

[pronker]

Stepping out sounds worthwhile, especially versus the doing nothing part. Glad to hear it.

[pocketnaomi]

I successfully dealt with my daughter's English class, which has been a thorn in our family's side since September. The instructor considered it a personal insult that we wanted her to give my daughter work on a level which would challenge her, and told me in no uncertain terms that she refused flatly to "do extra work" just so one child could actually learn something.

The school had agreed in October to put her in the 9th grade English class (a year ahead of her current age group) at the beginning of the winter semester, which was yesterday. I went in with her to see that it happened, and we were told that whoops, they didn't have space for her in either of the 9th grade English sections. They agreed to take her out of the class she was in, but had no better solution than to sit her in the library that period and do nothing.

I escalated it to the district superintendent, who has agreed to get her set up with an online English course at the 9th grade level. If she passes it, she'll go automatically into the regular 10th grade class next year. It's not an ideal solution, but it is the best one which is realistically available at this point, and I'm very pleased to have it settled so quickly and effectively.

Go you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm impressed you got even that much out of them. Children are routinely denied an education just because what they need isn't convenient for adults.

[mama_kestrel]

>>I went in with her to see that it happened, and we were told that whoops, they didn't have space for her in either of the 9th grade English sections.<<

One wonders what they would have done had a 9th grader transferred in? Made room, of course...so they could, and should, have made room for the Duchess. That was a power war, pure and simple. Well done, finding a way to go around them.

[pronker]

I am glad for you and for her. She has a superb advocate in you! :)

[we_are_spc]

We were able to go to Conflikt an' be part of a truly magical concert an' late night filks.

Fallon been trusted wi'some info that not everyone gets, an' we all still feel special for dat.
We'll be gettin' more music because one of our dear friends managed to deal out a bettah thin' than we had wi'said artist, 'cause she good that way, an' we now excited about dat shit.

Able to reschedule a job imnterview 'cause we forgot to set up rides for it without much fus, an' goin' in on the same day our friend got somethin' else to do.

Life's pretty good right now. Now if only we can stop procrastinatin' an' get the rest of our hous in order...

-Jay~

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>We were able to go to Conflikt an' be part of a truly magical concert an' late night filks.<<

That's good to hear.

>> Life's pretty good right now. Now if only we can stop procrastinatin' an' get the rest of our hous in order... <<

Things that helped me overcome my tendency to procrastinate:

1) I hate doing things at the last minute, so I learned to do them early when possible.

2) I plan rewards for completing projects, or steps within a larger project.

[mdlbear]

Yay!! Good seeing you there.

Procrastination is one of my problems, too. Lately I've tried doing small things as soon as they turn up, if I have time. This rarely works, but I've been getting a little better at recognizing when it's going to take less time to do something than to make a note to do it later.

[pronker]

The concert sounds like such darn fun. Lucky you to experience filks.

vindication

[oldtoadwoman]

Last week I did a stupid thing at work that I was really upset about. The boss at least wasn't angry, but I got that general "disappointed in you" vibe as he asked how I could make such a mistake.

Today, the boss called me into his office (ack! what now?!) to tell me that he had just made the exact same mistake last night. He now knows precisely how the mistake could so easily happen and has taken steps to prevent it from happening again. (As of last week, the "fix" was just "be more careful".)

I feel so much better now.

Re: vindication

[ysabetwordsmith]

Changes in process or equipment are much more likely to prevent a recurrence than "Be more careful" unless the latter is expressed in concrete terms such as "Stand behind the red line while operating this machine" or "Turn ice cream maker ON before pouring in the batter."

[antisocialite_forum]

Probably more than I can think of right now, but there's two:

Sg and an old classfriend talked about starting some kind of Pride alliance ages ago. Classfriend has been working on that and seems to be gaining momentum. Amir was talking to thon earlier about it.

One more data point indicating that it's possible the body *might* react to different people using it in significant ways. Merle sucks at cold climates and he keeps getting sick whenever he comes here, and he landed on flu season his last session. He sulked through it for a few days before finally asking me here. I stomp on illness, and *now* it gets better. Healing time is still a variable since that's a reasonable course, but Alecto's had similar experiences when splitting a healing period with a slow healer, so it's worth measuring. The reason why that's important is more complicated, so I'll leave it at that.

- KJ

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>Sg and an old classfriend talked about starting some kind of Pride alliance ages ago. Classfriend has been working on that and seems to be gaining momentum. Amir was talking to thon earlier about it.<<

Yay!

>>I stomp on illness, and *now* it gets better.<<

Use what you have. Part of maintaining a healthy multiplicity is learning who does what better, who can do it if they have to, and when to switch because one person sucks at something important going on right then. It's a huge advantage over singletons who only get one set of strengths and weaknesses.

[callibr8]

The concert over which I labored for months, was a - dare I say it? - resounding success, even though my voice was cr@p. Fortunately, since *my* voice was not the foundation of the set, the impact of this problem was minimized.

I hate bronchitis.

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm glad the concert went well. I hope you feel better soon.

finished the first draft of a fanfic

[kaixo]

I mean, in the space of these comments, it is small beer, but since I'm wrestling with matters on my own mat, it's grand because I've never written anything over 20k before and this draft is now 30k! By the time I get to revisions, it will be 50k. So I'm excited to the point of being sick about it, tbh.

But I'm holding off on revisions until Chinese New Year because I need distance at the minute.

Re: finished the first draft of a fanfic

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's not small, that is awesome. \o/

[mama_kestrel]

I have been looking at kitchen reorganization for greater functionality for at least a year and a half, but have lacked the spoons to actually do anything besides look at it. But now that I'm done with my mom's house, I can deal with my own.

Over the past couple of weeks I've actually cleared a couple of feet of previously unusable counter, moved an entire shelf of cans to the pantry, gone shopping for a more practical refrigerator, and arranged for a carpenter to come out and trim the bottom of some cabinets so a current model will actually fit. (They're all 5/8" too tall, unless I want another side-by-side. When hell freezes over, thank you!) Next up will be putting light-weight metal baking pans on the high shelves, and the heavy glass ones in the low cabinets. That will also be an opportunity to weed out pans I no longer use and send them off to Goodwill. (Yes, I have the requisite pans to make an ice cream cake. No, I haven't done so since my son was 10. He's in college now.)

It's a relief to see this aspect of myself again. It's been awhile.

[filkferengi]

That's an awesome amount, especially on top of all that time dealing with your mom's house.

Yay for reclaiming pieces of yourself!

[pronker]

Good news is that the Japanese exchange student with little English living with us successfully endured a trial: he got out of his nighttime college class, went to his car and the battery was dead. At that time of night, security was few and far between, he didn't know what to do, so he called me. I called the local police for him because his college is one hour commute away, they fixed his car and he came back home. Poor kid had only moved into the rental room the day before! He's only 19.

I anticipate that he'll be a steady person living here, and I sure am looking forward to having one of those.

Other good news to anticipate is that I will visit Youngest Brother overnight on Friday and wow, a break. Lucky me.

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Good problem solving. \o/