What good thing just happened in your life?

Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 95 points –

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Changed my name from what some family's abusive mother gave me, got a job at Amazon, on my way to move out and never see that family again. ✂️👔

I was just about to leave, put my shoes on, and that’s when I remembered that I needed to take out the trash. The good thing is, I remembered that before tying the laces.

Seems like I usually remember everything once the laces have been tied, but this time was different.

Also, setting a pretty low bar for good things, so that anyone can join the conversation. 😀

I remembered to take the reclying to the station when I left the house this morning and I was pretty pleased with myself

Crap, I need to take out the compost. Thanks for the reminder!

I remembered, too! And before I read your comment. Today is going to be a great day!

I just quit my soul-sucking job yesterday. I'm ecstatic to not have to go and sit in that office again.

My parents, in their 70s, started receiving a guaranteed income supplement (they're Canadian). They're still poor, but finally they can afford the basics of survival without having to work full time.

It's such a huge change.

My wife is preggo and the baby looks healthy

Congrats! Remember these years because they'll fly by as you try to keep up.

I like to think that they don't "fly by" as in "pass" because they keep being a part of who we have become, parent and child alike.

We switched my son's Pre-K for a number of reasons. Mostly because they didn't have room for him in the older class (where he belongs), but also because it was kinda trashy, kinda franchisee, and every day we dropped him off he was crying and clinging harder and harder. The new school is just some lady running something out of her house.

A friend asked him what he's thankful for last night and he said, "My new school" 😭😭

That's great! First and foremost, kids need to feel comfortable when they go to school.

I'm finally starting to get my sense of smelling back AND went to see alpacas.

They're so cute!! My DIL doesn't want to see her family for Thanksgiving so we rented a house out of town for the weekend. It has llamas and I'm so excited to just sit and watch them. I hope i get to pet them!

I started a new job I really like, and got offered a promotion at the old job.

That sounds like a possibly difficult decision. Good luck.

He got offered a promotion where leaving, because he decided to leave.

That promotion was always available but only offered when was necessary. They likely were having that labor for free without the promotion and just riding on his goodwill.

That said now the decision is simpler, why would you like to stay where you were not valued for your quality of work?

Yeah the new job can be all kinds of different but is additional experience and OP indicates he loves the move. To me, this is an easy one.

Yeah, unless there was an offer before they quit, it should be an easy choice to go with the one you enjoy more.

I’m sort of dating someone.

2ish weeks ago my parents met another couple at a cocktail party and found out they had a single daughter about my age. In an extremely unsubtle attempt to set us up our families did an escape room together. Honestly, sex and dating have never been important to me. My longest relationship was a couple months long in high school, I went on maybe 3 or 4 dates in college. I went to this escape room thinking I’d make pleasantries for an hour, solve some puzzles and go home. But when I met her she was cute, and smart, and funny, and after we escaped she asked if I wanted to go with her to something else she was doing that day. We ended up spending the whole day together. And again the next weekend. I haven’t “officially” asked her out, or kissed her, or really acknowledged anything about what this is. But I have had so much fun with this badass trapeze-flying, skydiving, engineering, competitive dancing, just-so-cool woman that I can’t stop thinking about when I’ll see her next.

Hard to be mad in the moment when my 9 month old smiles, makes me forget about the mess for a while

Wish I could look my kids in the eyes again when they were that little. Congrats! I hope for many healthy years.

I am traveling through Greece with my girlfriend. After a nice (and exhausting) hiking route we are back in the hotel – one of the best rooms I have ever been to. She is having a shower and I am chilling over the bed. At this very moment everything feels great.

The company that lost my $3500 computer a month ago finally sent off a free replacement and it'll be here next week! Normally, they replace it with a refurbished one but since they don't have any, I'm getting a new one.

my kid slept the whole night last night. first time. I didn't even know what to do when I woke up and no one was crying.

That is just amazing! Been there, felt that! Enjoy!

Apart from my mortgage, I'm finally debt free, and I'm running a surplus every month after all the bills are paid.

Well, except what we jokingly refer to as my "cripling gambling-induced credit card debt"; I returned some bottles while at the store the other day. The payout wasn't a lot, but enough to cover the mundane items I was buying. Instead of dealing with the bottle return receipt I pushed that button where it buys you a small lottery ticket instead and the money is donated to red cross. Not surprisingly, I didn't win. When at the checkout counter I realized that my GF still had my usual card after borrowing it earlier, so I had to use my credit card to pay the laughably small sum.

You essentially used your credit card to donate to the Red Cross. It's not a great financial decision, but it sounds like you can cover that. Nice work getting out of debt!

It was the equivalent of 8 dollars, so I think I'll survive.

Congratulations. That is not easy to do!

My employer offered me a modest severance package, and set my last day to be the first working day of the month, meaning my health care benefits are valid for almost a full month after my last day.

Tell me you're American without telling me you're American

Didn't happen in my life, but in the life of a family member and that makes me very happy as well. My sister got a permanent job at a place she did an internship in last year. It's a job in her career, half the number of hours she is currently doing working at a spa, making more money, and it's a 90% remote role. She gets to be with her 8yo son, my nephew, almost all the time he is at home now. It also means my brother in law can take more hours at his job, thus overall getting to live more comfortably.

I've been focusing hard on my job, and received feedback from a C Suite Exec this week that he is impressed with my professionalism and interpersonal abilities, especially when meeting with other execs or company lawyers. He even has started coming directly to me because, quote, "Shit gets done when you're involved." This is huge to me because I'm impossibly awkward in social circles and mostly a shut-in neckbeard, but somehow it works for me at my job.

I also received recognition in the form of a beautiful glass plaque from the CEO this year, and it feels amazing.

I crawled my way up from homelessness to stability and now I'm rocking it at my job. Feels good man.

I know it's a bit taboo and perhaps unwise to put so much emphasis on your job, but it's what brings me happiness because I've struggled and fought to get to where I am now. My success has afforded me a comfortable upper-middle-class life and I'm still kind of shocked that it all came to fruition. Went from sleeping under the underpass to a penthouse condo in less than two decades.

A "good" thing from a bad thing: my 6 year old computer monitor decided to croak today. As it's currently black friday deals, I managed to order a new one fairly cheap-o.

I got stoned in VRChat for the first time, not too long after getting my first VR headset. As a furry who's very interested in screwing with my sense of self, this was a really big deal to me in a way I can't easily explain.

I went to the zoo today! Didn't get very good quality pics, but putting them here anyway.

Fuck yeah, the zoo is awesome. Thanks for the neat pics.

Eh, who needs quality? I took this a little over ten years ago and it still makes me laugh for some reason.

I left a company after getting laid off and surprisingly found a job before the 60-day warn notice expired.

Second day, the new company announced layoffs. Luckily, I wasn't part of it, but that has been a wild ride.

Went to visit my elderly aunt, she's the oldest one in our immediate family at this point. We went out to eat at a local pizza place too, Don't think I've ever been to a restaurant with her before

I ordered more edibles for tomorrow which means I have an extra one for today and I won't run out like I thought I would.

My mom sent me a Weckmann for the St Martins feast because we don't have those here.

It's fat and ugly and missing an eye (ugh, raisins, don't like them anyways) and I love it!

Cool. Can you explain what that is, please? And what's the white stick thing?

A sweet bread figure. The white thing is a pipe. Sometimes it's substituted with a lollypop. I have no idea why they are sold for this feast.

They are supposed to look more like this:

Although I've never seen them with nuts.

I started my own business where I get to take advantage of landlords 🥲 it's pretty much my dream

Where the hell do I sign up

If you can do stuff, literally just on the Thumbtack app lmfao landlords get on there when they need repairs done, so I do them and they pay whatever I want. I fleeced landlords to the tune of like $2000 last week, only worked 3 days.

Then when I get honest hardworking customers, I cut them a break. The landlords subsidize the regular people.

....then next year pass on the costs to their tenants

Bravo

Rent has actually been going down in my area for the last few years, and they pay me enough that I can do stuff for like the elderly or the impoverished for drastically reduced rates. So I'm good with it.

Leave it to lemmings to make even Robin Hood-ing landlords into something bad 😂

I don't usually like to use clichés, but that definitely seems to be God's work. Keep it up!

The other day I made butter chicken and it was one of the best butter chickens I'd had, at least as good as restaurant quality. Can't wait to make it again and it was my 2nd try ever so I think I nailed it pretty quick. Wicked proud of that.

I just wrapped up a delightful trip with my bride of 20 something years and got a job offer for a different position in my company during the trip.

It was a practically perfect trip, but I'm also very excited to go home because I have 4 more days of vacation left and I can't wait go be reunited with my cats, and relax around the house for a few days.

Finally hearing back from jobs couch that specialise in mental health.

Became branch secretary. (Political party)

End of life hardware replacement at work. Deadline for the project is in a few weeks. Our engineering team just sent out a new BIOS upgrade for devices that get them up to TPM 2.0 which is the main requirement for the project. We went from ~5 completions a week to under one now to stay on track. Wasn't really too worried about it but it will make work a piece of cake for a little.

Nice, it feels great to get ahead of shit!

It really does lol. I wasn't too concerned about this project and have been focusing on the next phase plus a few other projects in the pipeline, but knowing this really helped. My mom is having surgery tomorrow so I'll have to take care of her for the next few days, plus my wife's car was throwing some nasty codes that had me stressed. At least now I know work is in a good place as I take a few days off to take care of my mom and tinker with a car.

Edit: If anyone has any tips for doing a piston soak on a KIA 1.6L engine please let me know. I am not the most mechanically inclined but can follow instructions from repair docs and YouTube videos. My friend who usually helps with my repairs is busy this weekend, but has confidence in me to do this after watching/helping him with DIY repairs over the years. Plus I can justify buying tools lol

As my mom would say- I woke up on the right side of the dirt.

I took all my meds on time, and so did my dog.

Oh! I also baked a pizza and it was really tasty. Pup didn't get pizza, but did get oven-dried fish skins and he's really happy about that.

thats a tall order.

Nah, it’s a low bar to clear. Was something good today? Could be small, tiny, infinitesimal, anything really. If things are bad today, but they were horrible before, that counts too.

oh things have been horrible. I think the cobra has fixed its eff up and we have insurance but it won't show on the portal for another day or two and we already had to cancel the near term appoinments. will see if I can get glasses this weekend.