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3 Blessings & A Good Deed
I apologize now, because I know this is going to be a (relatively) short post … at least for me. I’m just not feeling a 100% today and I’m trying to shake off the yuckies.
Yesterday’s good deed was again, nothing that was extraordinarily spectacular. I spent most of the day yesterday at the same Borders I did two Wednesdays back. Hubby again has been networking like crazy (nothing like free-lancing in a “new” area to try to find new contacts) and spent some time with yet another Meetup group. And while he did that, I spent some time catching up on blog reading and writing.
Because all Borders cafes now have free WiFi, there are more people (me included) that tend to stick around and surf the web. However, like most free WiFi coffee houses and bookstores, it also tends to attract those college / grad school students as well. That is one of the reasons why it tends to be difficult finding a table to sit at; lots of group studies apparently meet at this particular Borders on the weekend.
After waiting for a few minutes, I managed to score a nice spacious four-topper where I could camp out. Of course, I was conscientious enough to only take a little space of the table so that others can join me if they want. No sooner than I sat down, I noticed a group of about 5 students looking for a place to sit. And yep, you guessed it: I gave them. And boy, were they grateful … so grateful that when they left a couple hours later, they offered the table back to me.
Good Deed # 3 completed.
AND … well, since I didn’t step out of the house today (seriously, I’m planning on staying in my pajamas until tomorrow morning), I have to admit that I didn’t have an opportunity to do any random kind act. Unless you count cooking “pasta and gravy”* for Hubby for lunch a good deed … but I would have done that anyway.
So instead of another good deed, I think I’ll just add an additional “Gratitude” for the day; making it three things (for yesterday and today) I’d like to show my appreciation for.
- As much as a financial hardship it’s been (at least most recently), I am grateful that Hubby & I have a place to live both here in Chicago and Detroit. I would like nothing more than to sell our home in Detroit so we can use the mortage payment for that house for something else … but for now, it’s nice to have our own place to rest our heads when we’re back in town.
- I’m grateful for Sunday mornings. I can’t stress enough how much I love those mornings where I can wake up at my leisure. Not that every Sunday morning is like that … but when they are, nothing can be more relaxing. Except maybe if I was in Hawaii. Waking up to the sound of the ocean waves. Outside my bedroom window. But hey, I’ll take any lazy Sunday morning anywhere .
- I am so thankful for afternoon naps. Going along with my whole Lazy Sunday theme for the day, I must admit that I fell asleep on the couch trying to watch an episode of “Project Runway” that I DVR’d a couple weeks ago (I’m behind two weeks … eesh). And when I woke up? Yeah, it was just in time to see Capt Jack Sparrow on the USA Network. What a great way to wake up! LOL!
Okay, so that’s all I’ve got for today. I’m hoping that this relaxing day was just what I needed to boost my energy in preparation for another busy week.
Hope you all have a wonderful evening …
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* I’ve been recently schooled that “pasta & gravy” is actually the correct term for “spaghetti” as deemed by many Chicago Italian-Americans … who knew?!
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Good Deed #1
Yesterday started my Lenten journey of paying it forward. And what do you suppose I did for my random act of kindness? Well, it wasn’t anything spectacularly big … but I suppose by being a “random” or unplanned act, it doesn’t have to be anything astounding.
I must say, though … for my first “good deed,” I couldn’t ask for anything more simple and direct. Meaning that I really didn’t have to go so far out of my way to look for something nice to do. In this case, as I was walking into my work area … which just happens to be in a high traffic conference room area … I just happened to look down at a rather important-looking piece of paper that rested on the carpet. I bent down to get a closer look and realized that it happened to be someone’s RN license. And the name on the license didn’t belong to anyone that I knew.
As soon as I settled in to my cubicle, I logged on to my computer and proceeded to email the person whose name was on the license. Within minutes I was handing over the RN license to particularly happy individual; grateful that he didn’t have to spend the time logging on to the State’s website to print up a copy of the original license I just handed to him.
There you go … my first random act of kindness. And now, I get to unveil the first (of many) things that I’m thankful for.
I guess I will go for the most obvious thing (at least for me) that I’m grateful for … and that would be the fact that I married my best friend. Seeing that we first met in high school and have been together as a couple since the summer I graduated from high school … I am thankful that we have grown up and “grown into” the relationship that we have today. In other words, both of us have been very fortunate that we haven’t had any previous “baggage” to bring into our world; that we’ve been able to build our adult relationship from scratch.
And because I know there aren’t that many couples out there that have had this luxury of growing up together into a relationship and having the patience with each other as we’ve fumbled through “rookie” mistakes, I know that we’re lucky. And I am most grateful.
So there you have it … Day 1 of 40 done.