Day 134: I'm Not a Baker

There are somethings I know I am just not very good at.  Baking is one of those things.  It is too bad because I work in an office where people always bring in delicious baked goods and I feel like I do not contribute in the baked goods department.  Well today I decided that even though I personally can't make donuts that doesn't mean I can't bring some in.  So, on my way to work, I picked up some donuts to share with my coworkers for my act of kindness today.

Day 133: American Cancer Society

On my way home for work I had to stop at Walgreens to pick up a few things.  When I was checking out I was asked if I wanted to donate to the American Cancer Society.  I was pretty happy they asked because up until this point in the day I had not done an act of kindness yet so it was perfect timing.  So today for my act of kindness that is what I did, I donated a few dollars to the American Cancer Society.

Day 132: Mother's Day

Well I didn't help any strangers today and I didn't have my act of kindness benefit any friends....today's act was to sure my wife had the best day possible.  Today was Gina's first Mother's Day and I wanted to make sure she had a good one for my act of kindness today. Our daughter had been going through a little bit of a rough patch recently sleeping, so I had originally planned that when she woke up crying in the middle of the night I was going to make sure Gina didn't need to get out of bed.  Well, that plan didn't turn out because Emma sleep completely through the night.  I am thinking it was her gift to Gina for Mother's Day.

The first thing I was able to do for Gina was make her breakfast.  After that I had her open a present I made her and cards from both Emma and myself. The rest of the day consisted of cleaning up the house, doing yard work and giving Gina a massage.  Basically whatever I need to do to make this day as relaxing as possible.  I hope I was able to make this day a special one for her.

Day 131: An Honest Mistake

When I was in high school I had a job as a cashier at Best Buy.  At the end of each day we had to balance out our register to make sure our amounts were correct.  I was one of those people who if the change came out to 99 or 98 cents I would always give the customer those cents so they could get a bill back instead of a handful of change.  Because of this my drawer was usually off a few cents which wasn't a big deal.  However if it was off much more than that it would have been an issue.

Today I went out to the lunch with my family.  When the bill came we split it up by paying with two debit cards and a $20 bill. I told the waitress to use the cash and then split the rest between the two cards.  When she came back I discovered that she did all this correctly but there was one thing incorrect....although she deducted the $20 from the bill, she didn't take it.  So now I had a decision to make...do I overlook it and pocket the cash making me $20 richer and her drawer $20 off, or do I let the waitress know about the money?  To be honest, there wasn't really a decision to be made in my mind...for my act of kindness today I returned the money to the waitress to make sure it didn't mess up her balance.

Day 130: Sympathy Card

As I stated earlier in this year, I am a huge dog person.  We have a three year-old boxer named Paisley and she is a huge part of our family.  My wife never had a pet before we got Paisley so she was a little leery of getting a big dog however if you ask her today about how she feels about having a dog she would tell you that she could't imagine not having Paisley in her life.  That brings me to the one negative about having a dog....the inevitable day that always arrives too soon; the day you need to say good-bye.  Wether it is old age, illness or an accident...it is always very difficult.  Our friends, a few days ago, went though this with their dog.  Our thoughts are definitely with them so for my act of kindness we sent them a sympathy card today telling them how sorry we were to hear of their loss.

Day 129: Be Positive

So I have tried to do this act a few times already this year however I wasn't able to complete it any of those times.  Today I was able to complete it.  My act of kindness for today was to not say or think one negative thing for the entire day.  I even had my carpool friends hold me accountable.  On the ride in this morning I told them that if they heard me say anything negative today that they should call me out on it and I would not use it as my act for the day.  Yesterday when I tried this, I didn't even make it through my ride to work.  This was definitely a difficult act to follow through on.  There were a few times throughout the day where I had to catch myself before saying something negative.  I must say though, because of my mindset, I was in a pretty good mood all day long.

Day 128: Care Package for a Soldier

A couple of months ago a person reading my blog wrote me a message telling me about a really cool website, anysoldier.com. This is a site where you can send letters/care packages to soldiers.  I thought this was awesome.  I think a lot of times people want to do stuff like this but don't know where to start. Well, this site makes it very easy to give a little something to a member of our armed services.  So today, for my act of kindness, I sent a care package of beef jerky to a random soldier overseas along with a little note expressing my gratitude for all that they sacrifice to protect this country.  I hope they enjoy it!

I also wanted to add on here that if anyone reading this have some act of kindness ideas please send them my way.  I love reading the suggestions and plus I have over 200 days left to go!!  Please help if you can :)