Day nine... thinking alot today about my past.

Today I am at work again....  Seeing a pattern here.  Work, work , work!  I can not wait till Wednesday when my best friend Tiffany and I go to the Lady Gaga concert.  I need some fun in my life!!!!   Well today I had a guest who got sent up here to pick up a stranded truck then found himself stranded with the truck.  He had no money and his company is closed today.  He had money on his T-check card which you can only cash out at Truck stops I guess.  Which I need to look into cause if we could get into business with that we would probably get alot more business from the truck drivers.  But anyways he had no money and no ride.  So I researched the internet for him.  I found the closet truck stop then found a bus route for him to get there.  I am privleged because I have never had to take the bus in Detroit.  In Chicago a couple times but I have no idea how buses work.  So we eventually worked together and I gave him a discount on his room so he would have enough money to get to his money and have money left over to get something to eat later.   I feel real good about it.  He does too.  I really like helping people out.  I always try to put myself in their shoes.  I have been in some tough spots in my life and things have always worked themselves out.  When I first moved to Chicago there were times when I did not have money to eat, my car got impounded and I had no money.  Due to the help of my friends back home and kind random strangers I am alive and well today. 

Alittle random story.  Back when I first moved to Chicago I was in a weird time in my life.  If you read my profile it says I have a spotty past.  Well I left for Chicago on a whim.  Posted a myspace bulletin saying who wants to go to Chicago and a girl I knew back home replied already here staying with a friend come out here.  I did.  Then I did not come home for 9 months.  She was an escort we will name her Jaimie.  The guy she was staying with was  a customer.  A lonely guy who paid her to keep company.  She got kicked out within three days of staying there.  Gordon said I could stay but I felt weird.  So we moved in with these guys Jamie had met at the bar.  Long story short my car got towed.  I had no money.  No idea how to get it out of the impound.  My family would not send me money cause they knew at this time in my life I was a lost cause.  My friend who was like a brother to me Doug from back home knew I was heading in the wrong direction.  We had lost touch but I called him to help me.  I asked him for money and even though it had been a few months since I spoke with him and our last conversation had ended with an arguement about how i needed to get my life together he sent me the $150 to get my car out.  I tryed to call him when I had the money but he never answered his phone for me again.  I never paid him back.  I have not spoke to him since.  So on my journey into 2010 and my nice deeds I plan to achieve one of my top ones is to pay Doug back.  Somehow some way.  I want to let him know that I never forgot our talk that summer night.  Doug and I had a real weird relationship where we argued constantly and while I may have been a mess towards the end I wasn't always like that.  He had hurt me in the past and I had hurt him back. But that last fight he was right and he cared about me more than any of my other guy friends ever had.  He took on a big brother role and I do not know how to repay that back but I can promise that I will find a way somehow. 

9 Days down 356 to go!

Day eight

I finally feel a lot better! Yay!  That was the worst week long cold ever!  My nose is still a little raw but all in all I feel back to normal.   Well yesterday was a good day for me and I got alot accomplished.  I cleaned out my 2 year old daughter's room.  I took all her old toys and clothes that do not fit her anymore and gave them to my co-workers daughter.  I know the economy is horrible in Detroit right now and it's real hard to find jobs.  She had been looking for a job but I do not think she has found anything.  So I gave her everything I had which amounted to two boxes of clothes, a bag of clothes and a bag of old toys.  I hope that they helped her out.  I know I was in her shoes not to long ago when I first had Isabel.  I couldn't find a job and things were really tough for my little family.  Day 8 down.  357 left to go!

Day seven

Today I am still sick.  Will this cold ever go away!?!??!  It better by next week cause Adam bought Tiffany tickets to Lady Gaga and since he is not in the mood to shake his ass he told her she could take a friend and she picked me!!! YAY!   Well I had to work today... there was a huge blizzard today in Michigan.  So today I was overly nice to all the grouchy people that came through the doors.  I smiled at the guy old enough to be my dad who hit on me and politely told him not interested instead of what I was really thinking.  I know thats not a huge task of the day but it was all I could manage.  There was no huge way to help anyone today so I just tried to be nice even though the people were trying to dump there bad mood on me.  So I am going to bed with a glass of red wine.   Day seven down and 368 to go!

Day five and six

I am still sick and really really really miserable.  I am at work and I have not had a whole lot of interaction with people... but when I do I have been really trying to act like I am happy.  So yesterday I prayed.  I prayed for Britney Murphy and Casey Johnson's familes.  I prayed that they get through the tough times and that this loss draws them closer.  I do not know them but I prayed for them.  I prayed for the rest of young hollywood to get their crap together and start living a good drug free life.  I also let a few guest use my cell phone cause they had no money.   I also found the owner of a lost cell phone by calling dad listed in her phone.  I then Fed Exed it back to her in Arizona I think it was.   Then I prayed for warm weather and enough income tax money to send Terry and me to St. Lucas to stay on private island LOL!  LOL.

Day Four

I am late posting this because yesterday I was bed ridden most of the day with a cold.  I did not forget about my resolution though.  I worried alot because I thought now can I help someone when I do not plan on leaving the house and I feel like crap.  Then my fiance Terry called me.   Last summer we gave our full breed English Bulldog to one of his friends.  We loved the dog very much but he was alot to handle and needed constant grooming and attention that we just did not have the time for.  So after discussing it for a while we decided to ask around about who would like to have him.  We were not worried about selling him we just wanted him to have a good home.  So one of Terry's friends and his wife took him.  I think his name was Jason.... if it isn't, it is now.  Well Jason called yesterday and Chunk, the dog, got away.   We were very worried but because he is an expensive dog and some people can be shady.  Well the pound down in monroe found him.  Thank you God.  The only problem was he has a chip in him still registered to Terry and Terry was out of town.   So I helped "Jason" out by calling my work where I have a copy of Terry's ID and asking my boss to fax it over to the pound so they would release him.  It may not be something super heroic but it was the best I could do given the circumstances of this horrible cold that won't go away.  So day four down.  361 more to go!

Day Three

You will might not believe the power of God, but I do. Ok so I do not go to church every Sunday. I believe in God completely though. I pray.... I pray all the time. I pray every time I see an ambulence, I pray when I see an accident, I pray when I see someone struggling, I pray when I am struggling. My New Years resolution was to help people out no matter how small or big. If it came to me I would do what I could do to help. I believe in Miricles and I truely believe that God is working with me on my New Years Resolution. I think God is guiding me to help people. Now I am not claiming I am an angel or a saint of sorts. I am just saying some crazy things have happened in the past three days that I can not ignore. So yesterday I was on my way home from work at midnight when oddly enough I seen a car with the emergency lights on. I had stalled in this exact location with a dead car battery when I was 8 months pregnant two years earlier. A young girl about the same age as me pulled over and helped me push my car out of the way of traffic and let me use her phone to call for help. I did not catch her name but I was so thankful she was there. I had no money to offer her but she was my angel that day. So I seen that the person was alone and it was below freezing last night and I pulled over. It was a young girl about my age. She asked me for a jump and I gladly gave her a jump and then offered to follow her home. She made it home and thanked me. I felt good. Good deed acommplished.

Today I am at work and we had canceled flights yet again. We get this girl here for the second night in a row... she made friends with that kid from yesterday who I helped him and his mom out. They are staying right next door to each other again tonight. So anywho this girl calls down and asks me about cab services around here because she needs to go to an AA meeting. I give her my cab guys number and hang up. I start thinking and I'm like I wonder if my grandma will take her. My grandma is a recovered alcoholic for thirty something years and goes to meeting all the time. I used to go with her back when I got a dui three years ago. So I call her back and say don't call a cab I think I can get you a ride to a meeting with the coolest lady you will ever meet. I call grandma and she says of course she will take her to one. So I get them two talking and a half hour later grandma is here to pick up this girl and take her to an AA meeting. How weird is that!?!?!?!? So grandma and young lady are currently at an AA meeting together today and I helped to make it happen!

So day three is down. I think I might be ahead of myself in my New Years Resolution but I feel totally grateful for these opportunities to help someone I don't know out. This is the best New Years Resolution I have ever made! Everyday feels like an adventure! Day three complete! 362 more days to go!

Day Two

Today is a sleepy day for me. BIIIIG YAWWWN. I came into work two hours early cause my co worker Uzma was feeling sick. Eww. I feel over worked today but I am getting over time and I am happy to just have a job with the economy in Michigan right now. My nice deed for the day was another small one that has to do with my job. Today we had a canceled flight from Spirit Airlines. One of the passengers was a young kid just turned 18 and he did not have a credit card or money for a room. So I spoke with his mother before he arrived and calmed her down. Told her I would look out for her son and gave her some options to get him a room. The results were a calmed down mother and son and a hotel room. I feel very accomplished with all of this. Little things and favors can go a long way and I really hope that maybe these good deeds are carrying on to more good deeds with the people I help. Day two over 363 more to go!

Day one

Today in the first day in my quest to do something nice once a day for a stranger. I slept in today pretty much all day. New years eve was uneventful as Terry and me watch fast and furious 4 and wrapped ourselves in our new heated blanket compliments of my mom for Christmas. So I woke up today at.... are you ready for this..... 6:38pm. Holy Cow!!!! I have to work the 9pm-2am shift so my co-worker Michael can sleep in after his 12 hour shift. That was nice I guess but I know him so that doesn't count. So today a couple I do not know walked into the hotel and asked me about room rates. They looked tired and ready to relax. I told them it was slow and upgraded their room to a business class suite at no additional charge. This little gesture made them really happy and they said Thank You alot. And guess what.... it made me really happy too. I know that it wasn't something huge but if someone offered me a free upgrade it would of been super cool and I would have been like wow that was awesome and I would have called my mom and told her about it. So day one down 364 more to go!