Snowflake Challenge 2020: Challenge 12
Challenge #12
Commit an Act of Kindness (or two or three ♥).
Today started out awful for me. I have a sinus infection and was unbearably nauseous, and I've had pain in my right wrist for days that's steadily getting worse (I know my body well enough to know those two are connected and nothing to worry about, but it still sucks).
So when I saw what today's challenge was I decided to throw all my limited energy today into making the world a little brighter. I might be miserable, but that's no reason not to make someone else smile!
I'm in a penpal group where lots of members send RAKs to each other. Just small things to cheer someone up. A year and a half ago I was having a rough time weathering a bad fibro flare and a few members sent me random gifts to cheer me up. Ever since I have been meaning to pay it forward but I am way too good at procrastinating. So today I finally did it, I picked two members to send little gifts to. Looking forward to them receiving their gifts. :D
I also went and dug for fics without comments in a couple of my smaller fandoms, so I could leave comments on a few I enjoyed. (Though I only read a few short ones, I bookmarked a few more to read and comment on some day when I have more energy.) I saw a challenge for people to do this a while back, and at the time I was swamped with other things, but I kept meaning to do it eventually. So I grabbed the excuse to make a start at it!
And I treated myself to the pretty yarn I have been eyeing for a few months! Which is definitely an act of kindness for myself, because I needed yarn to make myself some wrist warmers. Our house gets too chilly when it's cold and windy. I'm so bad at making stuff for myself though. I'll happily spend 20 euro on yarn to make a blanket for a gift, but spending the same amount on yarn to make myself things suddenly seems too pricey...
Anyway, this is the yarn I ordered:
I'm using the plain green one to make myself dragonscale fingerless gloves (providing it's soft enough, at least). Haven't decided on patterns for the others, we'll see when I get them.
I had planned to go back to the wishlist challenge when/if this one came around, but I didn't really have enough mental energy to sort through wishlists today. So I am making a note to myself here to go back to read more of them before this challenge is over. Because acts of kindness brighten everyone's day!
I definitey managed to make myself smile today, so I hope I made some other people smile too! And now I am going to curl up with a cup of sleepytime tea and hope for a good nights sleep for myself. :)