Friday, December 7, 2012

RAK'd and other musings..

Time flies when you're surfing the web ...

I swear it is way more fun to do flying leap into infinity when you simply find a link.. then another.. and then another and before you know what you've done you are reading about butt acorns used to smuggle information from the Confederacy to its soldiers in the Civil War (why yes, I HEART you Smithsonian magazine)

So the bullet points -

I rang in my birthday at 218 pounds... translation?  If I stop working out and continue eating muffins and drinking beer for a year I will gain 15 pounds.  Sounds about right.  (I really like beer.... and muffins)

I ran for school board.  I find out in a few days if I got the gig.  I better have got the gig.  They need me.

I wrapped up Thanksgiving with an end zone run on Black Friday.  I dig on BF.   It's competitive shopping and (as with most things) I'm a bit competitive.  If it's easy - I probably will get bored.  Black Friday ups the ante a bit.  You gotta want to save $25 bitches...

Which brings me to Christmas.  I may suck at a lot of things all year but when it comes to Christmas, I got game.  Seriously.  Decorating, cooking, gifting... I love it all.  I love the music, and the sentiment and the colors and the lights.  Secular (maybe) but I think we can all agree that it is a GOOD thing to be nice to one another.   So... I'm trying something new this year.

Every day for the month of December I am doing one Random Act of Kindness.  So far, so good.  It can be a small thing but I am trying to make sure that the person I help is not someone I know.  I thought about making a list of the things I was doing but that seemingly violates the whole "random" thing from a different angle.    So...

I'm still big (my fat pants are tight)
I've offered to help in my community
I'm RAK'ing (random act of kindness) people daily

Christmas is about more than what can I get... it's about what you can give.

Do something nice out there - pay it forward...