Tiny Victories

got into the popular spin instructor’s class tomorrow morning (he doesn’t usually teach on Fridays, but all the classes are different because of the holidays)

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i got a $500 spot bonus for compiling, editing, and beautifying a 711 page document and 132 slides earlier this month!

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That’s awesome! I remember how hard you worked on that project.

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thanks babe! i did work really hard and i had no idea my workplace did spot bonuses so it was a lovely surprise :smiling_face:

and now i can buy this jolene jolene beauty bush i have had my eye on. Beautybush | Jolene Jolene® | Proven Winners® Shrubs – Proven Winners Direct™

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The start of the last week of classes is on the extended forecast.

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Successful dinner party for 7 last night. Tossed salad, seafood Alfredo, Chicken Alfredo and a Peach/blueberry/raspberry pavlova with a lemon cream filling.

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Oh that sounds delicious

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It was!

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It’s so beautiful :heart_eyes:

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Thank-you!:blush: I was pretty careful baking the meringue portion. I thought it would flop in our humid climate, but I had all the fans going in the house to get our humidity as close to 50% as possible…which is the highest they recommend for baking one. We were at 51%.

Plus I was fighting with a hand mixer that wouldn’t give me stiff peaks, despite 10 to 15 minutes on burst speed! Thankfully, “almost stiff” peaks were good enough. In fact, one person commented on a YouTube video that not beating to stiff peaks actually helped prevent the meringue from cracking?

However it worked, it looked and tasted great!

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I did a hair mask for possibly the first time ever at my advanced age! My hair feels really nice! Who knew?

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When I drive past a Trump sign I flip it off. It makes me feel better.

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I like to practice my sneer of disgust as I remember Nanny’s words ‘Some people, are just a special breed of stupid.’

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we gave BIL the first Murderbot book in December as part of the family holiday swap, and they have purchased the rest of the series and are up to book 5 now.

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Got the Wordle in two!

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@diapasoun was it you whomst recommended the yasso yogurt pops? I am in love

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Two days ago the high was 103 and now we’re back to reasonable temperatures for the foreseeable future :raised_hands:

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On the phone with a customer service person, I managed to avoid the “you too!” at the end of the conversation when it wouldn’t have made sense with what they just said.

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I remembered the existence of our work rewards system before ordering lunch out and got my little treat for free!

Looks like I have $150 worth of points in there so that takes stress off the increase in meals out since RTO.

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I think so! They’re so delicious

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