Well, I was sitting here looking at the Things You're Ashamed Of thread, and like many others, after a quick search, it inspired me to make an opposing topic! This one is less depressing, though, I think, should the other one be depressing to anyone.

• I'm a very optimisitic person, it's hard to bring me down.
  
• The first A I got ever, in 4th grade (When the grading system changed from "Satisfactory" to "A+")
  
• Knowing lots of random little useless facts
  
• Being a rather good SMAW and GMAW welder

Now someone else! :laugh:

Edit: Derp, I just now noticed I messed up the title. If an admin sees this and would be kind enough to take out that apostrophe, I'd appreciate it. Typing at like 3 AM isn't that great for my typing skills

My unbroken streak of 10s in mathematics and chemistry, and soon to be laudatur in mathematics and physics. Not to mention E in Swedish, English and chemistry.

EDIT: So much for the use of Latin... <_< E: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudatur#Gymnasium.

The size of my [censored]. I like to call it my Collins class submersible.

"Is it in yet?"
"Babe, I've finished."
:D

But really, I like music by the Scissor Sisters.

Getting drunk at ceol sessions, and singing 'All I want for christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit', by Half Man Half Biscuit.

Oh, and doing really well at school and not doing anything generally considered 'useful' ( i.e. highly paid ) with my life. It's my life, the only one I get, and I will live it the way I want to.

I can play AC/DC riffs on the electric guitar extremely well.

And my english skills are very good for a foreigner, so much that I've managed to fool a lot of people into thinking that I was american, british or australian.

And as with the op I also know a bunch of useless random facts.

Attaining the A+ and Microsoft Office Specialist Certifications. Working on CCNA.

I'm rather good at telling someone they are wrong, without acctually saying it.

In some perverted way, I love to manipulate my fellow man.

Following Leeds United through all our ups and downs.

Now this is more like it, thanks for this thread OP, I'm generally a positive and optimistic guy too.

Anyway, some stuff I'm proud of:

- I was very active in my school as a prefect, working as an anti-bullying prefect for a year before getting promoted to Vice Head of Discipline (Indoor Branch) and finally to Vice Head of Administration. (It's a pretty big school and politics is prevalent.)

- I used to be about 20 or so kg overweight. I started exercising, and cutting down on carbs, and a year later I was fit as a fiddle and participating in a national MMA tournament in which I made it to the final round.

- I wasn't a very outstanding student in some subjects, subjects my parents wanted me to excel in, one of them being French Language. I was so disheartened after the teacher told me not to bother doing the O level because I would "fail anyway". But luckily for me I had a tutor that believed in me and told me to give it a go, for the experience if not anything else. I got an A.

- I was very friendly to people in school, and helped a lot of my friends who were depressed to get back up on their feet and lead happier lives.

- I'm also really proud of my family members for what they have achieved in their lives.

:)

When I was at school, I never capitalised on the opportunities for advancement that were offered to those with the best grades. All my friends were heads of debating societies, prefects, student representatives, all that stuff. But I turned down every offer for such things. Putting people in positions of elitist authority just never sat well with me. I don't trust the cultlike way these things are run.

Teachers would occasionally complain that I had no desire to lead. But I was never there to improve the school or make a difference. I was there for my education, nothing more. It confuses people even now, when I have no desire to take part in surveys or token democratic processes at university, because it makes no difference to my life.

One student expressed surprise recently that in three years they had never met me. Probably because I didn't sign up for anything that they were chairman of.

So yes, I'm proud of my complete lack of loyalty to any institution for mere loyalty's sake. :hehe:

My Life

Myself.

I have social independence, which is to say I can be perfectly happy alone and in fact am more happy alone than any other time while still being capable of functioning normally in any social situation. This is something I worked hard to attain, so I am proud of it.

I have no shame for, and indeed sometimes like to show off a little, my http://www.hongfire.com/cg/data/25/caramelldansen.swf.

I have a really cool hat. If you saw it you would know, because you'd probably be one of the people saying "Hey nice hat."

I enjoy the music of Enya, and I am proud of that.

Serving my country as a Information systems technician/anolyst.

I'm proud of myself losing over 50 pounds last summer. Also proud of the 25 pound turkey I shot 2 days ago when I was hunting, wild turkey tastes like crap but you do not know true victory until you track down, shoot, skin, cook, and, eat your prey.

I'm also proud of the fact that I dated the number 1 girl on the top of my list of "girls I'd like to date". Although it only lasted 3 months and it absolutley destroyed me when she dumped me I do not regret a single thing. And we're still best friends...which is kinda awkward....but I dont like to burn bridges

That i can be a very social person
My speaking english is very good (just got a 9.8 for a test YAY)
I barely use my mobile phone.
I have a group of really nice friends.
That i can put annoying people in a group in there place, and that the other people thank me later when i do this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jItz-uNjoZA

I'm a pretty kick ass baker...

Also I've lost about 50lbs since I started WW.

Congratulations! Its always a wonderful feeling when something like that is accomplished.

-Going from being a depressed, negative person to a happy, upbeat, outgoing person in about 6 months through my own doing and a bit of therapy
-Gaining 30 pounds of muscle (I was really skinny before)
-Finishing my first semester at uni with a 3.88 (I haven't finished the spring one yet) while still keeping a fun social life
-Stopped being a socially awkward penguin

"Self improvement is mastvrbation. Now, self destruction. . ." - Tyler Durden.

I don't know why, I just thought that would fit in here.

I'm a really good cook.

I'm good in school without even really having to try. I excel in pretty much all the courses I take, even though it's not always easy.

I've "gotten over" my old bulimic tendencies (and before that my orthorexia).

Getting a painful head ache after watching both AVP and AVP2.

Grats! those are my goals pretty much.

Im proud of my improvement thus far, though not quite there yet, still not as socially apt as i'd like.