...to start a boasting thread?

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Just a thread for anyone to boast or brag, because if we did it in real life it would be rude and uncouth!

This is mine... I got an overall 91% and 93% on my first semester modules in a uni course - haven;t done a proper exam for around 15 years! :D

what's your boast?

That's wonderful RabbityMcRabbit.

@2isabella2 any tips? My ds loves the pool we tend to go often so might aswell give it a go while there anyway.

Don't want to do lessons as he has autism and lessons wouldn't be suitable for him x

Thank you Isntitsolovely xx

Very well done, RabbityMcRabbit. May I ask you if you did any kind of therapy?

This has absolutely made my day. You wonderful people!

Flyingfish2019 yes I had high-impact CBT straight after which helped a bit but EMDR was my saviour! Just finished the course in December and it has helped massively xx

Thanks . Is high impact CBT like normal CBT?
Dh has ptsd and CBT has he,led him a lot but did not cure him do far.

I just landed a job where I work 5 and a half hours a day Mon-fri but 45 mins of that is lunch and a break 😂 and pays 180 a day. And I only wanted a job to get me out of house 😂😂

I was told by my boss and HR director that I am the best person at my company of around 100 people by a mile. I have pre school kids and work part time whilst the vast majority of my colleagues work full time. I manage to earn almost 6 figures on my hours.

Flyingfish2019 yes that was exactly my experience. CBT helped a bit but I was still getting anxiety attacks all the time. I was referred to occ health by my work and they referred me to a psychiatrist who recommended EMDR. I had 16 sessions and it has helped hugely. I got the treatment via the NHS, can"t fault it xx

I lost 4 stone last year and hope to lose more. I feel sooo much better and fitter. I look better too! Yay me

I managed not to go back over 10 stone over Christmas and lost another pound last week. I gave £10 to a charity I love.

Rules wow well done! What job is it if you don't mind me asking?x

It’s a teaching position (not UK) but it’s a resource position so a lot of 1-1 and small group work. Yes there is some planning involved but to be honest I came from the UK where I was super stressed with teaching so this planning is minimal compared to what I had and a walk the park!! I am LOVING it, 😁👌

lovely, lovely thread.

My boss gave me big kudos (in writing, so I can reread it at will): 'Well we could not have done it without our resident mad scientist, genius and perpetual optimist - 2018SoFarSoGreat'

I feel strangely proud, and awfully smart. It really was a big deal, financially, so I'm glad he knew how much effort I put into getting it done.

This is great, enjoying reading these and here goes.....

My mum gifted me half of the required deposit so my OH and I could buy our first property, we've had our flat nearly a month now and I feel on top of the world about it.

Since getting extremely ill about a decade ago, and then experiencing child loss, separation, single motherhood and domestic violence, I've been called a superwoman/ superhero/ insert various awesome names, for forcing myself to carry on and put my kids first, and fontinue to fight to keep them not just safe and fed/watered/housed etc but we were always at the beach or park or woods or doing activities through various schemes I discovered.

My youngest has profound dyslexia but every night she and I take turns reading alternate pages of a particular set of kids books. She is very difficult and has huge behaviour problems, but she works some very hard, goes above and beyond with her work and gets angry if we miss reading. She is seven.

There's more but I'm tired.

I live in the house I used to look at on rightmove and think, if I won the lottery, I’d live there.

It was on the market for ages, over priced. The sellers dropped the price, our circumstances changed dramatically and we bought for cash. 18 months later and I still walk round the house and look out at the view and still can’t quite believe that I can live here forever.

I made lamb chops in the slow cooker today and I served them with packet rice and tinned sweet corn.

Zero effort, tasty as fuck. I’m so proud

It's not exactly an achievement, but something that makes me feel happy and proud is the response I've had from friends and near-strangers to my finding out a few weeks ago that I've got incurable advanced breast cancer. I guess I can take some credit for having excellent taste in people (), but they've really blown me away by their kindness, generosity and compassion. It's made me feel so loved and cared for, and what could easily be the worst thing I've ever been through has actually made me feel that I've had a life well-lived, and it's given me so much strength going forward. It's been a revelation.

@BitOfFun sorry for your diagnosis. I've had a similar experience with people while I was treated for leukaemia. Parents at the school who barely knew me taking turns to have my children over. My son's class organising his birthday party (including his teacher baking a beautiful cake for him) neighbours, friends, family colleagues. I'm still overwhelmed with all the kindness and support I've received

Isn't it amazing? People can be so bloody lovely.

I have no problem bragging about my exam results, professional qualification around work and kids. Each time I get my result I send messages to half a dozen people or more. So far 93, 82, 78 and 86%. Next result due soon and over half of students will fail but I know I passed well. The difference...I worked bloody hard for it. Same for you OP.

I’m much more conscientious a student now than university days aged 18 plus. Still proud of my 2.1 from an RG uni but the idea of “putting in the effort” hadn’t clicked then.

My dad was more proud of me passing my driving test first time than my degree (first to graduate in the family). And only two minors on the driving test.

Also feel some pride/shock at breastfeeding for a year twice and giving birth second time round with no pain relief - not intentionally. First year with DC1 was the hardest thing I’ve ever done and a huge achievement to still be breastfeeding. But years later it means much less. No one really cares.

@ScienceIsTruth just wanted to say that your dd is a complete star. My DS is the sort of kid that it sounds as though she invited. Someone doing this, for him, would be a huge thing. You are so right to be proud

So true @BitOfFun

I teach adults and they have to do an end of year assessment and I was the teacher with the best feedback by far.