Today was a good recovery day. I could have used a day like today yesterday. Spent time cleaning up the house and doing laundry and trying to stay warm inside. The outdoors is entirely covered in ice and I really didn't want to leave the house. I did need to leave the house for a couple things though and I was able to sneak in an unexpected act of kindness.
I left to go with my brother to get some Subway before he had to leave. I am not normally a fan of Subway but I did have a coupon and I am poor. The lady at the counter looked pissed. She clearly didn't want to be working. I offered a smile and was as pleasant as I could possibly be. I think I actually forced her to smile. I normally wouldn't have given a shit about a woman being pissed to be at work. But since I've been trying to be a nicer person I now take it as a personal challenge to make a random stranger smile. It doesn't always work out as well as it did with the Subway lady. It's also neat to see an ugly person with a frown become an attractive person with a smile.
During my drunken debacle on Friday I managed to leave my phone at a friend's house. I had to leave in a hurry on Saturday so I didn't get a chance to pick it up until today. I thought that I may have overstepped my bounds and been too loud, too grabby, too drunk, too insane on Friday so I wanted to do something nice for her and her family. While I was running some errands I picked up a Marvel Superheroes coloring book ($1) and Spider Man fake tattoos ($1) for her little boy that is obsessed with super heroes.
When I got to her house she said that she hadn't even known anything was going on and I didn't disturb anyone. She may have just been being nice and not wanting me to feel like a dick. I gave her the gifts to give to her son. She said he is really into coloring right now so he will love them.
I also was able to deliver some chocolate peanut butter pie and banana cream pie to my wife. Very important husbandly duty, not really an act of kindness though because I got to eat some of it.
Money spent so far: $77.63
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