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Due to day four's gift to myself, I decided that I wanted to take a road trip. Now the only question was where exactly was I going to go? I could just head home to see my mom but then I thought of something else. My friend, we'll call her The Cheerleader, was married over a year ago. Because of work schedules and being from the south all of a sudden relocated to the big city (D.C.), new friendships have been hard to come by. We all know this is true....it's not the same as trying to make… Continue

Yesterday I let go of something i've been holding on to for a long time. Yesterday my gift was to myself. That's all i'm really going to say about that.

Today, however, my gift was to the 29 Gifts Book Club. Being laid off over the summer has given me a lot of extra time to rebuild my love for reading. I got myself a library card (which is how I found Cami's book) and am really quite excited about the prospects of all the books left to read in the world! The reason today is…

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So today I had lunch with a friend. We'll call him Spoon...which is actually what his name is in my phone :)

A little background...Spoon and I were in the Navy together. Our friendship was an unorthodox, though condoned, one as he is enlisted and I was an officer. We worked for a shore detail that got underway once a year for a deployment with a strike group. We ended up being short manned at our land detachment in Bahrain so I transfered from the carrier to the shore…

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An update from Day 1. My girlfriend got home a little after midnight after texting to extend her time out and about. I remained calm and even though I was discouraged that she had chosen to stay out, I maintained composure even when she got home, remaining true to my gift. Man, that took a lot. I do still feel good about it though. This story will probably give you a clue why...

I'm broke. We all say that and for most of us it's probably pretty true. I was laid off recently…

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