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This was not my most stellar giving day. Or any kind of stellar day. I was irritated, annoyed and grumpy. There were opportunities I didn't take - the buskers who (in my grumpiness) were making too much noise for me to sit and read, the tourists taking pictures who were (in my grumpiness) blocking the path, the elderly people and young kids moving (in my grumpiness) too slowly, the young man sitting with a cardboard sign... all my judginess came out. 

Eventually I came home…

So I did go to Victoria (the provincial capital) last night, and I stayed in a hostel, ate some really good take-out and generally just called it "Project Distraction." I'm definitely not a city person, and it didn't solve anything, but it was a pretty good...distraction.

On the way down, my neighbour wanted to get a frozen cappuccino, and though I don't drink it - pure chemicals - normally, I'd offer to pay. She wouldn't let me, though she did ask me to buy it for her while…

Round 11. Wow. I started last August, so it's about ten months total of giving. And I love it. I thought about taking a day off between rounds, as I've done occasionally, but I want to keep the momentum going (and at this point, the day just doesn't feel right if I haven't given something). 

By late afternoon, no opportunities had come up, so I went to the grocery store and saw that a woman was returning juice bottles. I was able to slip a gift card to the cashier and ask her…

This round has flown by (I think I've said that about the past several rounds, but this one really feels like it). Giving is so ingrained in me now that I can't imagine NOT doing it, albeit sometimes to greater or lesser extents, depending on the day and opportunities.

Today was a pretty good round-finale: I took bread to the soup kitchen, left a toonie ($2 coin) at the top of a structure on the playground, for a kid to find, made a small donation to the food bank and bought a…