Contributing to the commercialization of Valentine’s Day will not be a problem for me this year. I have .69cents left.
My card challenge today-I got 5 free boxes of Kraft Dinner. Brand name stuff, lucky guy. I wasn't exactly looking forward to a romantic boiled potato for dinner. But, some KD and a potato! Ill shape it into a heart or something and eat my fill.
My challenge card "friend" that has borrowed 4bucks from me better start some kind of payment plan soon. I could use that money.
Even with no ketchup with my Kraft dinner, today is a good day.
Yesterday I missed a blog, it was a full day. My challenge was to volunteer for an hour. Instead I signed up for a volunteer committee at work. I'll end up doing more than an hour but should be fun anyways.
The best part of yesterday were two simple acts of kindness and the realization this challenge is getting some attention:
While on lunch break at work yesterday I was wandering the store looking for food. Affordable food. Soup was almost as much as the small meat option, so I did meat. Cost about 5bucks. Now I’m broke. I’m don't even have bus fare broke. Thats broke.
So there I am in the store looking for food based on price not taste or want. I had 5bucks and needed a change from potatoes and eggs so I didn’t pack a lunch. I was walking around the store holding the food I WANTED. Knowing I couldn't have it. Much like a child in the cereal aisle or me in the pudding aisle on a normal day. I put it back it back, twice. It smelled too good to only put back once.
A staff member, the baker, at the store recognized me from the paper. We chatted a little about the cause. Then she pulled fresh chocolate kiss cookies from the oven...It was a big ol’ cookie with a chocolate kiss in the middle and smelled like it was worth a million dollars. She offered me one! For free!
If I lived off the food people have offered me all week I would be eating better than I do on a normal day, so I had to no thank you. It was very nice of her.
As I walking towards the food I had just put back, for the third time, my partner offered to buy me lunch. My mouth started to water like a Saint Bernard. There was no way I could pay her back so again I stuck to my budget. I have lost four pounds since the start of this challenge. That's not cool.
I had a dream last night my little dog turned into a roast chicken, maybe more of a Cornish hen. I think about food a lot. I read a cook book for fun last night? I’m really looking forward to my no limits food binge after this challenge is over.
