Dreams Come True/Success List

I've had a huge amount of trouble with this list -- mostly because if an achievement was someone else's goal for me, I don't feel it belongs on this list.  Since I'm someone with a big people pleasing problem, that makes a HUGE dent in the potential list.

Anyway,  here is what I have so far:

• I survived my childhood.
• I kept the real me alive by hiding her away until I could create a safe environment for her to begin to emerge.
• Even though I was steamrolled into going to college, I did at least have the courage to major in literature and the self-knowledge to stay out of pre-med, like my mom was pushing hard for.
• I married the man my mother warned me about (still happily married almost 20 years later AND she finally admitted that I did the right thing)
• I got that crazy spiky haircut in jr high and didn't let all the shocked expressions and comments stop me from gelling it into a porcupine every day.
• I got the wrinkled, asymmetrical jacket and kept wearing it despite all the offers to teach me how to iron.
• I am following my instincts and working toward healing my thyroid naturally rather than agreeing to treatment that feels wrong to me.
• Step One -- I'm past the physical addiction stage of kicking my Mountain Dew habit ( 2-3 20oz bottles a day).  And I've stopped drinking orange soda.  (both contain brominated vegetable oil)
• I've built a good basic library of herb books.
• Attempted a container garden this past spring.
• Had great luck growing garlic at mom's house.
• Created Penelope (a piece of art -- I'll post her picture.  I'll have to take one first.  The only one I have is on my phone.)

• Had several of my own photos printed, framed them, and hung them in the living room.
• Got out of a job that was destructive for me.
• Got out of a spiritual community that was destructive for me.
• Stopped letting social norms dictate my decorating (gargoyles.  not just for halloween anymore. also using a black halloween tree as a "happy everything" tree.  when i put up christmas decorations, i took off some --not all-- of the halloween ornaments and added some silver christmas tree balls along with the skeletons.  now the skeletons have been joined by hearts for valentine's day.  i hope to find shamrocks for st. patrick's day.)

Half of these have been in the past year.