The sidequests for this week included writing down my favorite quote backwards and looking at it in the mirror, making a list of five important people in my life and what I love about them, and to do a random act of kindness.

I didn’t really plan out any of my acts of kindness, I’m mostly just attempting to harvest my memory for them from the past week. Sometimes it can get busy when you work in a customer service oriented job, and there’s not enough help and the lines get backed up, but I still do my best to take the time to help everyone, even with things not necessarily related to my job. I had a customer approach who was confused by the new back to school supplies lists because the place where I work has made them digital – you have to scan a QR code, which takes you to the app for our store chain, and from there do a search for the town and school. I took the time to go out and try to help her figure out how to do that on her phone – it turned out she didn’t have the app though. Instead, I pulled the info up on my phone to verify for her that the list wasn’t available for her grandson’s school.

It took a little extra time, but she didn’t have to struggle trying to find it later on her own, only to see that there was nothing for her to find.

Let’s see. The five important people in my life and what I love about them:

1. My childhood best friend: I love having the one person in my life that knows probably literally everything that goes on in it and shows a genuine interest.
2. My OK bestie: I love that we have so many common interests and get each other’s jokes (and torture).
3. My mom: I love that she is always willing to immediately offer help, even when I don’t really need it or ask for it.
4. My online bestie: I have always loved how easy he is to get along with. And torture.
5. My boyfriend: The relationship is still kind of new so I feel like this could age poorly if things go downhill. But so far, I love how comfortable he makes me feel.

Hmm. It was a little hard to list what I specifically loved about each of them in that way. It makes it sound like I use them and torture them to some extend. Maybe I should try a different way of listing things I appreciate about them? Though if I do, it honestly feels way more private and like less of something I would stick on a blog. So maybe I will elaborate the list in my journal tonight, and consider that sidequest done.

A favorite quote is hard to choose for me because there are very few things I’ve had lingering in my head verbatim. Favorites tend to come and go for me, and can change over time. There’s not really any quote that’s been so significant it ever felt like it changed my life. So what quote do I choose?

It’s a Simpson’s quote. It is strangely the only quote I have memorized verbatim since my childhood. It may not even be verbatim.

I did pretty good but fucked up one of the s’s. Alas. Helps that half the letters I use look the same no matter which way I write it. (t’s, i’s, l’s, o’s)

Anyhow, with that we’re finishing out week 31! These are getting a little harder to do because there have been so many distractions lately, and so a little more shifting around has occurred. Of course, there is a pretty major reason I shifted one card a week later from this week – as a spoiler, I pulled a card saying to visit a Farmer’s Market. The local Farmer’s Market is only open on Saturdays year round, and I happened to work this Saturday, so initially shifted it because of that.

But then I found out afterwards that this week (8/3 to 8/10) is Farmer’s Market week! So it’s a perfect opportunity to visit one if you never have.