35 Gifts: Days 23-25

Trying to remember all the gifty things at 12:07am is perhaps not the smartest thing, but I have missed 3 days of journalling and I'm afraid if I put it off another day I'll forget more.

Dear readers: Here's a gift just for you:

I have (finally!) finished the Small Actions For Charity list!

There are a few other things as well as the click-to-give sites, and all are current as of now. I looked up for each one where the money raised is directed to, so you know, and also the ones which are only for one specific country or area are marked as such. There's a description for each one too. I'm rather proud of it now!

I hope you find it useful. The list's pretty long and overwhelming - how about picking one or two each day? I tried to load every link on that page into Firefox at once and Bad Things happened because there were so many links, so I might suggest not trying that :).

What else have I been up to?

• I gave away my last finished keyring! I have one which is currently in progress and nearly done, but I don't have any which are finished. I'm proud of this. Sometimes it's hard to give away the ones I like, but seriously I don't even have housekeys - I don't need 50 keyrings :)


• I have finished folding the 35 origami hearts for my Operation Beautiful project, actually I think I have about 40 as my slight obsessiveness wanted me to fold an equal number of each colour of paper. I also have a list of things to write on them and I have a pen ... so that's the next step!


• I have been dropping little notes to people via email, phone messages, or SMS (as appropriate) just saying I'm thinking of them and sending love/hugs. It always buoys my mood to find somebody's thinking of me out of the blue and, from the responses, I'm not the only one.


• I have told a bunch more people about my 35 Gifts project, and about Operation Beautiful as that's essential to understand the final gifts (origami hearts) and their meaning. Responses were very positive!

I'm having dramas with my current flatmate, who's going to be given her 4 weeks notice on Monday unfortunately. I'm stressed about this but dealing with it pretty well so far ... not sure if this is because it hasn't sunk in or because I actually am dealing with it well, though!

Three Good Things

• Anekin is still going great on his arthritis meds with no signs of pain and no issues with him having all the liquid each morning. Yay modern medicine!


• I'm mega proud of folding 35+ origami hearts. It was a pretty big effort for me and seemed to take a really long time and I persisted and now they look so beautiful!


• It's nearly the end of January and I've been journalling here heaps and I am proud of that too, in terms of sticking at things but also pleased because it keeps me more in touch with my wonderful friends (yes, this means YOU are wonderful!) and makes me be more self-reflective which is generally a good thing.

Thank you for being such brilliant friends and a great cheer squad and I love you all!

Remember: YOU are gorgeous and amazing. Yes, I really do mean YOU. Thank you for being here, and thank you for being you.


Cheers,
Ricky