Well, it's officially day 5 of Good Deed December. You'd think it would be easy to do one nice thing for someone a day, but when you work from home and don't see that many people unless you make it a point to go out of the house, sometimes the opportunity to do something nice just doesn't come up!
So that's what I did. I sought out nice things to do, either online or for people I live with or who live close to me, so that I wouldn't go a whole day without completing my mission.
So here's the update.
December 2: I can't tell you what I did because the person I did this for reads this blog and I don't want them to know about it yet. It's a surprise!
December 3: I left the house this day, so it was easy to find nice things to do. 1) I let a friend borrow two shirts after she overslept and didn't have time to go home before work. 2) I donated my loose change, about $1.50 to the Salvation Army bell ringer outside of Jewel. 3) I brought the movie Gran Torino over to my cousin who stayed home sick from work. Well, actually Dan brought it over since he was already dressed for winter, but it was my idea and my movie!
December 4: I held the door for someone at the bank. I also signed up for the Letters to Santa program through the Chicago Sun Times, in which you get a letter from a child addressed to Santa, and then you buy them one or more of the gifts on their list! I did this last year and it was stressful (only because I made it so), but fun. You can read ALL about my Secret Santa FAIL here. If you want to request a letter too, it's not too late. You have until December 16th!
Here are the other 20-something bloggers who are doing this challenge, or some other version of it:
Paige from Little Miss Paige
Liv from Semi Settled
Emily Jane from Emily Jane
Nicole from Miss Career Girl
If all five of us do one good deed a day for 31 days, that's 155 nice things that will happen to others in just one month! HOLY CRAP!
If there's anyone who's participating that I missed, let me know and I'll be sure to link to you in my next update.
Thanks for having big hearts girls. :)
-Leah
3 comments:
I love this idea! I am trying to be nicer toward tourists in December because they're all over and I run into them all the time and they drive me nuts. But I'm trying to be more patient
I already feel more cheerful after only a few days of the challenge! Maybe this is a good strategy for beating crabiness?
Thanks for the mention!
That Santa program sounds awesome - I don't know if I'd be able to do it from Canada though :(
Looking forward to reading more of your good deeds, and thank you for *your* big heart!
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