I keep a record of my stays (how sad is that?) and I knew that a stay last week put me onto 75 nights on a rolling 12 month basis. I know the program really runs on a calendar year basis, but the advice on this forum is that MRW sometimes use a rolling year to encourage members to chose Marriott, so I was maybe hoping that I'd get upgraded in a month or two.

My stay was updated at the weekend. I logged in this morning and, lo and behold, my status is upgraded to Platinum. How efficient is that?

My real reason for posting is to ask other members if they also feel an almost irrational pleasure at achieving a status level? The difference between MRW Gold and Plat isn't massive - so why am I so damned pleased about it? I mean, the first thing I did was to double check the Plat benefits. The second thing I did was to update my profile here. Is this truly sad?

Any psychologists out there?