What are you proud of this year? I don’t wanna hear i ran 3 marathons.

I want to hear the crazy awards stuff like…I drove the same road 438 times and exclusively listened to Fleetwood Mac.

Common share your special skill or unique achievement this year.

  • sireuz@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    2 months ago

    Bought an apartment with a mortgage with support of the state (they paid the half of a price) for my family. Not the greatest, but the cheapest out there, so there’s many caveats, but we’re finally home 🏠

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    Rescued a whimpering puppy from a metre depth, straight down in a narrow drainpipe.

    When we got the callout for an animal rescue, I had forgot that the cat-in-a-tree type incidents are stereotypical for firefighters.

    Was a unique achievement for me.

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      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 months ago

        The pup was initially fully stuck, head first in the horizontal pipe at bottom. Coaxed it to turn around head-up, with some gentle words and tapping the top of the pipe.

        It would not bite onto a strap covered in wet catfood. One person with the skinniest arms reached down and grabbed him out.

        We had a pole-and-loop snare en route but didn’t use it.

        Good result.

  • Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 months ago

    After many years of trying and failing, I finally convinced my friends to try a TTRPG (Dungeons & Dragons). This is my first time ever playing a TTRPG as it is for most of my friends. We are having an absolute blast. The general consensus is that we should have started doing this years ago (which I always pipe in with a “yeah, that’s why I first brought it up in like 2021”)

  • ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    2 months ago

    I am on a 6834 game win streak in spider solitaire. This wasn’t all this year, but this is where I am now. Out of 9215 games I’ve lost 3 times, twice at the beginning when I didn’t realize you could undo the whole game and start again, and one when my phone glitched. It’s a small easily achievable goal when my life/brain is too much. I don’t think I’ll make 10k games before new years, but that’s ok. Shout out to Digital Smoke for making a solitaire app that doesn’t track you.

  • v_krishna@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Won’t necessarily go over well on Lemmy but still want to brag a bit. My company got bought by salesforce, life changing for my kids’ kids (let alone me and my wife). Had a meeting this week with Marx Benioff and he said “I dont care about that i want to hear that v_krishna thinks” and then spent 15 minutes on the spot answering his questions.

    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 months ago

      Good for you. IMO, nobody’s allowed to hate on this, if they haven’t declined a life changing buy out offer themself.

      • Magnum, P.I.@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        2 months ago

        I got multiple offers from big corpos and the death industry itself. Lockheed Martin wanted to pay me a high triple digit yearly salary, pay for my moving costs etc. I turned them down because I have actual morals.

        • Today@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          My husband’s company (where he works, not owns) is giving bids for an AI facility. They’ve been told that they can set any price if they can produce on time. As we near retirement the likely bonus from this project would be great but it makes me sad.

        • Oaksey@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          Rock solid morals for triple digit, seven figures and people are likely to start to try to justify what they are being asked to do.

      • Jackie's Fridge@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        A couple years ago I grabbed a 55" LG tv from a curb dump. Owner said the screen would flash briefly, then turn off. Found out that’s typical when one of the backlight LEDs dies (resistance is screwed up). Got all new LED backlight strips for the price of a decent dinner and spent an afternoon switching them out. It’s been our primary TV since and I’m stupid proud about keeping it from the landfill. 100% recommend repairing stuff like this.

      • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Go for it. It’s already broke, even if you make the problem worse, it won’t functionally change what you are planning to do with it (throw it away). Do be careful around any capacitors, @Nollij@sopuli.xyz made a very good point about discharging them carefully. I took a hit off a capacitor for the flash in a disposable camera some years ago and was certainly shocking.

  • jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    I’ve found a giant chicken of the woods polypore on an oak while hiking with three cats. A week later the oak broke apart and was blocking the street for me on my bike.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    Wish I had the exact number (my brain likes to count everything), but I’ve done like 100 flip turns at the pool this year. Back in high school I’d do over 100 a day. I’ve been telling myself for a decade “this is the year I’ll do flip turns every lap by x-date”, of course I set off this year with the same lie. And of course I’m not doing them on every lap, but at one point I did my first in over 20 years, and then I did a couple in a row, and then I realized how much less time I have to focus on such a trivial thing, but it was the act of exercising itself that I was benefiting from, not perfectly recreating who I was half a lifetime ago.

    I’ve kept going to the pool this year, and I’ve improved myself by doing that, I’m not going to be as fast or skilled or fluid as I used to be, I’m probably never going to flip turn every turn again, but I’m not going to get discouraged by not meeting my own goals that I’d set while looking in a rose tinted mirror.

    Could also phrase it as “swam over 100 km (really a bit impressive amount of distance, 1.5-2.5 km per day one of two days a week) listening to the same 4"the dollop”, “god awful movies” “citation needed” and “no such thing as a fish” episodes on repeat (because I kept forgetting to bring my swim headphones and their transfer cable to the same place at the same time)

    • xorollo@leminal.space
      1·
      2 months ago

      but it was the act of exercising itself that I was benefiting from, not perfectly recreating who I was half a lifetime ago.

      ❣️

  • zerozaku@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Reading this title, I was like as the doomer guy myself, “hah nothing achieved this year” and it then clicked in my head that I was actually doing some pushups and squats in my home on consistent basis.

    I am very lean guy with my weight usually hanging around the underweight to healthy weight but I’ve started to develop some belly which is very noticeably to the people around me. So I decided to do some very basic body weight exercises -pushups and squats.

    I started with not being able to do 2-3 pushups a day to current personal best of 12 pushups in one go! I have visible enough biceps and triceps now too :P (highlighted as a tldr answer)

    I still haven’t figured out the right way to go about my calisthenics journey with proper plans and programs, it feels kinda tough to find proper resources for a complete beginner, so if you know a really good resource do share it with me! I’d would’ve have a calisthenics focused community on lemmy too.

  • ptc075@lemmy.zip
    3·
    2 months ago

    Couple years ago, I finally got off my ass & started making time to actually fix the stuff I said I would fix. It’s been transformational. This year, I made time for the ‘good’ car. I replaced the transmission along with a lot of other little bits that had been bothering me. Took close to 5 months in total, but I’m at the point now where both the good car & the beater truck are both reliable runners. It’s a good feeling.

  • tacosomuch@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    Managed to make two cats tolerate each other - one is keen on chasing, one is shy and coward. They are bad at signalling play - so sometimes they go too rough, but now they coexist mostly in peace.