They were sitting in the sink forever and I kept walking past them. Today I just did them all. Sink is empty and the kitchen looks normal again. Small thing but it feels good.

I'm new at my job, and even though I made a lot of mistakes at first, I'm improving now, and my boss and coworkers have noticed... They told me I'm doing a good job 🥺

A first and it felt damn good!

I am (18) and here the story (kinda)

I have always been a animal lover but my parents aren’t super keen on animals

I do have a pup that I love very much and she is my everything and my baby girl and my parents love her also

My dog has been super antsy and started bothering us more lately, mainly because I’ve gotten busier with community college and a new job

We as a family decided that it might be time to consider a companion for my pup (my pup is honestly pretty chill with other animals, she has doggy friends she loves and has so much fun with! She also met tortoises before somehow , the thing is she is nawt a fan of animals bigger than her so we had to keep it in mind)

Well my parents didn’t want to get another small dog and… decided that getting a kitten would be the next addition to our family

This is not completely out of the blue btw we have been considering cats for at least a couple months now

And yesterday I finally got the go ahead to go to local shelter sites and look at kittens to for us to apply for!

This is will such a fun and interesting ride :)
Already considered a couple of kittens yesterday but all got adopted! (And that’s okay!)

I've bought flowers for my girlfriend before, but this time I wanted to do something a little different. I went to a flower shop and decided to put together a bouquet myself instead of just buying one that was already made. I'd never done anything like that before, so I wasn't sure how it would turn out. Honestly, I was pretty proud of the result, but the best part was seeing my girlfriend's reaction. She absolutely loved it! Never thought I'd be this happy about arranging flowers haha.

The title says it all 😭 I’m sobbing my eyes out…I’ve always wanted to be a consultant at a huge consulting firm and I finally achieved that 😭 my salary is increasing nearly 30% and holy moley I could throw up I’ve worked so extremely hard for this

I had a therapist whose office I bounced in and out of since my parents died 26 years ago. This spring I needed support and called to see if she had availability, only for her to tell me she was no longer see clients.

Great. Starting over seemed so daunting.

It's been a few months, and while I've white knuckled my way through it, I knew it wasn't enough. A couple of weeks ago I made an appointment for after our vacation.

The appointment was this morning. I think it went well. I made another appointment for next week. We'll see how it goes.

Recently I made a YouTube channel to help me deal with my social anxiety. I wanted to speak up and to be brave to use my voice so I posted a video of myself speaking but after 14 hours I took it down because I got so scared... Despite that, I feel like this was a tiny step of pushing myself out of my comfort zone. I will try again. This time I'll make a script and practice trying to sound more confident and less nervous.

This probably sounds like the most normal thing in the world, but I actually did something today that I've been avoiding for a long time.

I went out and had a nice day completely by myself.

Usually, whenever I want to go somewhere, I immediately start thinking about who I could invite. And if nobody's available, I just end up staying home.

It's not even that I'm scared of being alone. I just always feel weird doing things by myself, like everyone is going to notice that I don't have anyone with me.

But today I really wanted to go out, and instead of canceling my plans because nobody was free, I just went.

I grabbed something to eat, walked around a few stores, got myself a coffee, and spent a couple of hours doing whatever I wanted.

And honestly? I had a really good time.

Nobody was staring at me. Nobody cared that I was alone. All those awkward scenarios I'd imagined in my head never happened.

I know people do this every single day without thinking twice about it, but for me it felt like a little breakthrough.

I think I've spent way too much time putting my own happiness on hold just because I didn't have someone to share it with.

Today reminded me that I don't always need company to enjoy my own life.

It's a small thing, but I'm genuinely proud of myself.

It's for an apprenticeship to become a kitchen team leader :)

I love cooking, and I'm excited for this. Hopefully I'll do well in the interview! Will make sure to drink coffee beforehand to be fresh and alert. It's also at a reasonable time of 11:30 am which rocks. And they got back to me in less than a week too!

Can't believe my horrible CV got me the interview. I posted it to reddit and one person genuinely thought it was a joke XD

I'm just so happy. I used to be really sick, and expected to live off benefits for the rest of my life. Now I have a lot of hope for my future.

Thanks for reading. Take care and make yourself a hot beverage if you're in the mood for one! :D

I've bitten my nails since I was 4 (20 yrs)

I’ve never been a fan of blocking people. I’ve also ended up attracting a certain type of person romantically. After some events in the last year, I have realized that my connection with my ex is unhealthy, I realized that I yet again attracted another person who very much fit the type I attract, I managed to hurt someone by not giving them the benefit of the doubt (this one in particular was very bad - I lost my hobby, friends, and I hurt someone to the degree where they will never forgive me and I understand why. It sucks) and I realized I need therapy to deal with all of this.

After days/weeks/months of this person who was “in love with me” (they weren’t) talking at me, writing letters, messaging me, saying the same things over and over, not listening when I outright told them I didn’t want to talk to them, after being a creep towards me, kept asking for another chance, and even kept considering still coming up to help my parents after I thought I made it very clear I was not okay with being around them.

I got tired of it all. The last straw was “can you teach me all about what I did wrong?”

No. I was not placed on this earth to teach you how to be a functioning human with emotions. (If I’m going to do that, let me go into psychology and at least get paid to do that!) This has been my life for the last decade. I’m done. Sorry about the saltiness, but it’s been a long time I’ve been dealing with this same type of person.

So I blocked them. I feel so free. I’ve been celebrating! Listening to music, doing some hobbies I haven’t in a while, playing video games, just enjoying not being the teacher for lonely desperate people who want to be taught how to be a human being.

I have a passion for GIS and mapmaking but I've been working in dairy/ag manufacturing the last couple years. My new job search was mostly applying in my current industry. I applied for a GIS tech position with the city as one of those dream on, buddy situations since my only relevant experience is an internship GIS role from several years ago. Somehow I got a call back.

Had the interview today and got an offer same-day just a few hours later. I am OVER THE MOON!!! Fingers crossed it all works out. This is a foot in the door to my dream career.

I just accepted a contract role for a research assistant position for a research lab about virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality at a big tech company. I'm so excited to finally start next month. 🤩

That's all, I ate and I'm proud of taking care of myself.

I will go out and finally buy the new stove/oven that i have needed for 5 month! i have the money. i can afford it. it is something necessary i need and my savings are exactly for these kind of things! fuck decision paralysis!

I finally did it. Despite trying not to be conflict person, they was screaming almost whole night and listening loud music. They also abusive towards others neighbors

Hard work finally paying off. Promotion and one step closer to being who I wanna be! Im so happy right now!

Tour included in the comments🤩

I’m generally oblivious to things like this but I believe I might have been very lowkey flirted with and I want to share it:

Am studying at university at the moment and I was at the club with two of my friends. At first, the vibe was more like a bar so we were sitting down talking to people who study the same program as us but are further ahead. We started talking to a few people for a while and one of them was a guy we joked around with a little bit. When my friend was leaving to look for something, we talked a bit one on one but it was interrupted rather quickly because the dance floor opened!

So, my friends and I first went to order a new drink and then dance. They started dancing with each other, and I was hyping them up yet standing next to them a bit awkwardly with my cocktail in my hand. The guy I previously mentioned was dancing next to us with another girl (who I honestly assumed was his girlfriend or someone he dated) but when he saw me standing next to me friends, this guy said “do you want to dance, too?” and grabbed my drink to place it at the closest table so he could grab my hands. We then danced around for a bit, and then Lush Life came on so I taught him THE dance. And then I needed to get water and got back to my friends so this guy said “The name was X, right?” to which I said “yes” and then he said “I enjoyed dancing with you, X” and left.

We stumbled upon each other on the dance floor again a little later and then my friends were dancing with his friends and it was a blast. (I also think around this time he wanted to get closer to me but didn’t want to be too obvious because I think I could feel his hand on my back/waist part) Then he went home a little early cause he had something the next day and we didn’t interact much more.

I might be completely delusional and he might’ve just been friendly BUT needless to say I enjoyed that he took commando and danced with me. Thought it was hot. And it doesn’t hurt that he was cute.

Anyways, just thought I’d share this cute story although I don’t think we’ll ever meet again hehe!

So my parents never taught me how to cook a meal. I can make toast and like simple microwave shit but I could never make a meal.

However my roommate taught me how to cook over the past few months and I made brownies and burgers by myself.

I have ed and its really hard for me to eat, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME I WANTED TO EAT SOMETHING AND CRAVED SOMETHING SOO I MADE MYSELF YUMMY BULDAKK YAYY

Hello guys , i hope you are fine

I have been suffering from binge eating and compulsive eating for a long time due to depression and adhd , so i decided thst i must share my progress with other people as a type of accountability each day for 30 days here in the comments

Wish me luck!