Your best personal achievement of 2013?

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Maybe you got married (or divorced!), or got a new job, maybe you lost some weight or moved in to your first home.

Not a whole lot major happened in my life, but I did manage to quit smoking which I am delighted with.

Whats yours?

Dean820

I got promoted to manager. The hard work paid off. It's a really nice feeling.

Bring on 2014.

Gongoozler

Besides the losing weight or getting a job, I don't see how the others in your list are achievements.

Can't think of anything I've achieved really, besides getting my new job, but it's so **** I don't know that I'd call it an achievement.

Red Kev

Lost 12 kg - (about 2 stone), in the last 6-7 months, hope to lose 15 kg - ( about 2.5 stone) this year, get down to a decent weight. Slow and steady, no mad rush and not interested in yo-yo diets.

Also got over losing a very good friend to a new mega-possessive boyfriend, we were very close for several years, now I rarely hear or see from her, but she's made her bed and she can lie in it.

Professey Chin

Only thing for me was running my 1st 10k & Half-Marathon which im happy with considering knee trouble stopped me running any kind of distance up until the end of last year.

Besides that screw this year :pac:

Legs.Eleven

Nothing tbh.

LizT

Got a new job - modding AH :pac:

Nah, seriously, got a new job, moved to a new country, made loads of new friends. I'm pretty happy

OldNotWIse

Halfway through my college course.

xzanti

My first full year as a teetotaller.. 16 months in total now..

Never felt better or more motivated in my life.

Well done on the smokes OP.

KKkitty

Got pregnant and didn't lose the baby after the disaster of losing 2 last year.

Ciderswigger

I lost about 2 stone so I've made a good dent in the 6 I want to lose overall. And I finally dealt with my depression, I'm not drowning in a sea of anxiety or sadness anymore.

2014 won't know what hit it.

Duggy747

Not a goddamn thing, utterly bland year for me. If you put Duggy 2012 beside Duggy 2013 you'd tell no difference.

Well......maybe a sneaky grin on Duggy 2013 because he knows how Breaking Bad ends.

Daqster

Hit the 1000 thanks mark few days ago. Didn't go mad though. Just a glass of champagne and some After Eights.

Princess Peach

I got my first real career job, and I'm still working through some tough health issues with a smile on my face as much as I can muster

Mammanabammana

I managed to get through the whole year without having sex. Woohoo! Go me.*




*may not be as happy about this as it appears

manonboard

Took a second job up and put about a 1/3 off my total mortgage balance. (wasnt a large mortgage)
Worked myself to the bone for it, but I'm delighted with it. Going to do similar again this year.

galwayrush

With 2 others, catching 3 scumbag thieves, :cool:

Daveysil15

I gained half a stone (all muscle of course).

Got a promotion in work.

Fornicated with a porn star in a caravan.

smurgen

Cycled Cork to Dublin for charity and got a new job

keith16

Managed to defend myself from an attempted mugging while drunk and wandering the streets of Barcelona at 4am.

dazberry

Finished a college degree that I'd originally started in 1990 :eek:

Gave up a life of contracting to finally move back into a permanent (i.e. salaried) position.

D.

Ponster

Mined my first crypto-coin (dogecoin) !

AndonHandon

Got a permanent contract in a job that I love.

Wompa1

Got a recognition award that only 15 others in my area of expertise have worldwide. I'm also the first Irish person to get it.

Completed a certification exam on something I hadn't even used before last year.

Have been offered a new job with a great salary and the possibility to work part of the year in Ireland and the other part in a Sunny Climate...

Also some personal goals reached. When I was moving to America there were three things I wanted to do. 1.) See Don Rickles perform 2.) See Chuck Berry perform 3.) Visit the Waving Bears....still haven't seen Chuck Berry, but crossed off the other two this year.

Anybody wondering what the Waving Bears are (I saw them on YouTube and was determined to see them in person):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Xo21L0ybE

Can't ask for more really.

Ruu

Completed a 50 mile trail run, 100 mile next April. *gulp*

XxMCRxBabyxX

Managing to get through first semester of final year. I wasn't able to last year so this is a big deal for me.

Ush1

Impregnated a woman.

The Diabolical Monocle

Thats what HE thinks

wretcheddomain

deccurley wrote: »

Maybe you got married (or divorced!), or got a new job, maybe you lost some weight or moved in to your first home.

Whats yours?

Since when did getting divorced constitute an achievement?

mud

Graduated from college and started a post-grad degree. The eternal student!

Nah, not really, it was a huge decision to stay on for the Masters, I'd much prefer to be earning money somewhere nice but then again, that's what 2014 is for!

The Backwards Man

My achievements just went out the window.

I wanna see me a goddamn waving bear!

mackeire

I represented Co. Wicklow at the all irelands in darts.

Oh and got engaged aswel.

Menas

Got something published in the irish times.

Raging_Ninja

Promoted myself to a new job, decided to leave my course early and graduate.

Aidric

Promotion and transfer to another new country.

Frosty McSnowballs

Passed a tough course in work.
Got promoted.
Learned basic Arabic, reading, writing and speaking.
Didn't die.
Benched 112 kg.

Billy86

Got off the smokes and all the better for it.

Mind you, I've slipped again in the last week and a half with all the Christmas drinking, so that's me covered for this thread and the New Year resolution one.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Since when did getting divorced constitute an achievement?

I was being tongue in cheek.

mikom

I’ve managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years, baby.

blueturnip

Got married in Vegas

Kevin McCloud

Restoring an old lime kiln to its former glory.

NegativeCreep

Passed all my college exams. Get in.

dundalkfc10

16 Rides of youing ones ranginf from fat, skinny to dirty dirty biatches, new record Id say

Frosty McSnowballs

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

16 Rides of youing ones ranginf from fat, skinny to dirty dirty biatches, new record Id say

Legend, I wana be you!

emmabrighton

Got my first permanent job in a career I am passionate about working for a boss who respects his employees... looking to work on moving up the totem pole next year... roll on 2014

Mint Sauce

off the top of my head. Full time contract at work, PBs over four different race distances, and a major reduction on my car insurance.

dundalkfc10

Mint Sauce wrote: »

off the top of my head. Full time contract at work, PBs over four different race distances, and a major reduction on my car insurance.

Your biggest personal achievement is "a major reduction on your car insurance" Sure life cant get any better than that

Galadriel

Getting my driving licence, never thought I'd be able to do it as I was such a nervous driver.

SeaFields

Got married to the love of my life.

As an aside I also became the fittest I have ever been and feel so much better for it mentally and physically.

languagenerd

Got a first class honours in my degree (something which had seemed almost impossible based on my previous results) without having to quit my part-time job or Taekwon-do. Now if only I knew what to do with it... :v

Gary ITR

After a lot of hard work I finally raced a car. Much blood sweat and tears


I also had to stand in front of a church and bid farewell to my dad so 2013 can go **** itself :-)