Are you more awesome than you were yesterday?

FedoraNinja
FedoraNinja Posts: 45
in Introduce Yourself
Are you more awesome than you were yesterday? If so, I want to be your friend.

My name is Rebecca and I'm a professional game designer. I like playing and making video games, riding motorcycles, and occasionally blowing things up.

All that said, I'm still not NEARLY as awesome as I want to be: I'm shy, I'm too round and rolly, I haven't made the game of my dreams yet, and my current haircut looks dumb.

I know who I am and I know who I want to be. There's a gap there, and I aim to fix it.

I've decided to make it my mission to become at least a little more awesome every day. For the next year, I'm going to take at least one step every single day to better myself. I'm going to craft a more awesome me.

I'm looking for partners in awesome. For friends and fans and rivals who are also all trying to make their future selves fitter, smarter or funnier.

I think, working together, we can start our own little awesome revolution. That we can help each other become a league of extraordinarily awesome individuals.

So tell me, right now - what have you done today to make yourself a more awesome person? What will you do tomorrow?

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  • hzliiz
    hzliiz Posts: 166 Member
    This post made me laugh, thereby making you awesome!

    I am now considering changing my diary settings to track daily units of awesomeness :tongue: FR sent!
  • dessertlover27
    dessertlover27 Posts: 385 Member
    I surprise myself with my own awesomeness everyday. ;)
  • yaseyuku
    yaseyuku Posts: 871 Member
    Today I took a last minute trip to another part of the country to see a band I love.

    So yes, naturally.
  • susanhiding
    susanhiding Posts: 88 Member
    Yesterday I taught my niece how to play Carcassonne. Today, I made it to my goal of 45 minutes on the elliptical. Tomorrow, we'll see! I don't like to plan things, it makes me procrastinate.
  • cnr0905
    cnr0905 Posts: 167 Member
    im not sure i can be more awsome-er then i am. im actually off the charts
  • themedalist
    themedalist Posts: 3,218 Member
    I went out to breakfast this morning. Asked for dry wheat toast and lemon in my water. Water arrived with no lemon. Rye toast arrived instead of wheat. I had to ask for the lemon twice and send the replacement buttered wheat toast back for dry. Normally, it's those kinds of things that knock my tip percentage way down...it's just annoying. But today, recognizing that we all have off days, I still tipped 25%.

    OP, I really like your awesome attitude!
  • cnr0905
    cnr0905 Posts: 167 Member
    thats pretty awsome for the waiter/waitress to still get a good tip. i usually get preety upset when my orders wrong too tho. you are hereby granted AWESOMENESS for leaving a good tip for bad servicxe.
  • FedoraNinja
    FedoraNinja Posts: 45
    I went out to breakfast this morning. Asked for dry wheat toast and lemon in my water. Water arrived with no lemon. Rye toast arrived instead of wheat. I had to ask for the lemon twice and send the replacement buttered wheat toast back for dry. Normally, it's those kinds of things that knock my tip percentage way down...it's just annoying. But today, recognizing that we all have off days, I still tipped 25%.

    OP, I really like your awesome attitude!

    Thanks for the compliment, and good for you for resisting the urge to let a mistake drag you down! I like to think that, since we're all trying to change our bodies for the better, we're too damn busy to sweat the small stuff. :smokin:
    Yesterday I taught my niece how to play Carcassonne. Today, I made it to my goal of 45 minutes on the elliptical. Tomorrow, we'll see! I don't like to plan things, it makes me procrastinate.

    Carcassone is a very awesome game. Kudos on spreading the board game love to the next generation.
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    Yes, because boobs. <--
  • BenchPressingCats
    BenchPressingCats Posts: 1,826 Member
    Yes, because boobs. <--

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  • tehboxingkitteh
    tehboxingkitteh Posts: 1,574 Member
    <--- this is what I was doing yesterday, and today I'm recovering from a hangover. So, no. I was more awesome yesterday, unless posting this picture makes me more awesome. Then yes.
  • FedoraNinja
    FedoraNinja Posts: 45
    Today I bought some real running shoes from a real running shop. For realz.

    Previous to now, I'd been too skittish to go to a proper running shop. In my mind, running shops were some sort of sacred ground, where only "real runners" ordained by the High Church of Running were allowed to go.

    Needless to say, that's totally not the case. The employees there were super nice, and after getting fitted, I walked out with a great pair of shoes. I was so excited, I went out for a quick run even though it was my rest day. :bigsmile:

    Tomorrow I'm going to try to run a 10 minute mile in my new shoes.
  • BenchPressingCats
    BenchPressingCats Posts: 1,826 Member
    <--- this is what I was doing yesterday, and today I'm recovering from a hangover. So, no. I was more awesome yesterday, unless posting this picture makes me more awesome. Then yes.

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  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    <--- this is what I was doing yesterday, and today I'm recovering from a hangover. So, no. I was more awesome yesterday, unless posting this picture makes me more awesome. Then yes.

    To quote BCP:

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  • USMCnetty90
    USMCnetty90 Posts: 277 Member
    Yesterday I took a girlfriend out to buy her wedding dress and shoes -
    Today we celebrated my youngest son's 15th birthday...
    Feels good to do for others...

    Good luck on your run!!!
  • TonicSapphire
    TonicSapphire Posts: 24
    I was awesome 40 years ago. Now, not so much.....
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    This has got to be one of the best Intro posts ever...lol.
  • glennstoudt
    glennstoudt Posts: 403 Member
    At some point when you have achieved awesomeness, it is pretty difficult to keep raising the bar, particularly every day.
    Happy to continue to pursue excellence but can't commit to increasing awesome every day going forward and be disappointed about not accomplishing a pretty good standard. If I misunderstood your idea, sorry about that.
  • Iron_Lotus
    Iron_Lotus Posts: 2,295 Member
    Love it!

    I upped my weights today
  • zombiesama
    zombiesama Posts: 755 Member
    If I were any more awesome this world would cease to exist.
  • 2013_a_new_me
    2013_a_new_me Posts: 17
    So love this! I am making the month of July a bad habit free month ;)
  • FedoraNinja
    FedoraNinja Posts: 45
    At some point when you have achieved awesomeness, it is pretty difficult to keep raising the bar, particularly every day.
    Happy to continue to pursue excellence but can't commit to increasing awesome every day going forward and be disappointed about not accomplishing a pretty good standard. If I misunderstood your idea, sorry about that.

    Critical Awesome Density... achieved?

    So, there's a very specific reason I picked the word awesome: it's a bastardized word, open to interpretation. Every single person has a different definition of the word, an ideal to which they'd like to live up to:

    Living a clean, fit life is awesome.
    Buying a motorcycle and touring Europe is awesome.
    Loving and supporting your family is awesome.
    Mastering writing, painting, dancing, programming or any creative art is awesome.

    I agree with you that most times the road to becoming a better person is paved by itty-bitty-teeny-tiny successes. Someone seeking to advance leaps and bounds every single day is ultimately destined to failure, because learning or training is never a linear progression.

    I'd call it the endless pursuit of perfection, but that's an awful scary phrase. So that, in essence, is why I'm asking myself and others if they're more awesome than they were yesterday. It's about always trying to take a step forward, no matter how small.

    So... have you taken another step towards your big life goals today?
  • norahwynn
    norahwynn Posts: 862 Member
    I'm not sure if it's possible to be more awesome today than I was yesterday. Seriously, yesterday is pretty hard to top... :wink:

    Feel free to add me!! And here's a flower for you... :flowerforyou:
  • weevil66
    weevil66 Posts: 600 Member
    You are uber-awesome.

    I made myself more awesome today by starting week 6 of the Zombie 5k training app in the morning and then going out and shooting (photography) with my brother in the afternoon. I am trying to get back into photography. So, I guess it was a double-whammy of awesomeness for me today. Not sure how I am going to top today tomorrow but I am sure it involves coffee.

    ETA: Please feel free to add me if you want. One can never have enough awesome awesomeness around.
  • xX_PhoenixRising_Xx
    xX_PhoenixRising_Xx Posts: 623 Member
    There is no limit to awesome! I'd probably even be awesomer if I took the bit about being more awesome every day from the bottom of my profile blurb and put it near the top. But to answer your question - yes I am already more awesome today than I was yesterday but it's work related and I don't put that on here. But never fear, I'll be even more awesome later when I get to the gym after work :D
  • TheGoktor
    TheGoktor Posts: 1,138 Member
    Another games person here; have designed a few, QA-ed loads, released a few of my own iOS Apps... but mainly do editing, and occasionally, a little production work here and there (freelance).
    Yesterday I taught my niece how to play Carcassonne.
    Carcassone is a very awesome game. Kudos on spreading the board game love to the next generation.

    Agreed! I love Carcassonne - both the board and videogame (the iPad version is particularly useful while waiting to board 'planes, and waiting for food in restaurants!). I just wish Hunters and Gatherers was digitally available - it's my favourite version!

    I am definitely more awesome today than yesterday (when I got back on track with my food diary): today I got over my fear of the dreadmill - although, admittedly, I haven't mastered it yet... I cling on for dear life! But here in Thailand, it's too hot to run outside once it gets past 6am-ish, and besides, it's too dangerous to run along the road (not just traffic but loads of potholes, low-hanging partially-naked electricity cables etc.). On Friday we moved into a condo with its own gym and pool, so today, I bit the bullet and ventured in, and ran on the treadmill.... much faster than I run outside... which half-killed me! :bigsmile: I haven't run for a couple of months, since I was living in India, so it almost feels like I am starting from scratch... but that's OK, in a week or so, it won't hurt so much!

    Tomorrow I shall be even more awesome!
  • susanhiding
    susanhiding Posts: 88 Member

    Agreed! I love Carcassonne - both the board and videogame (the iPad version is particularly useful while waiting to board 'planes, and waiting for food in restaurants!). I just wish Hunters and Gatherers was digitally available - it's my favourite version!

    I just played a new version the other day, Discovery, I think. It was fun, a bit more stratagy involved. I do not own the iOS version, I keep waiting for it go on sale. If H&G came out, I think I would give in...

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