So I decided what my nice thing for saturday would be Friday night as I was trying (unsuccessfully) to fall alseep. My sister was going to the Marquette game in downtown Milwaukee and my mom was very nervous about her driving downtown. For the rest of us, we realize that most people would not even call the Marquette campus downtown, but it's a useless argument with my mother. Anyway, I decided I would drive her down as my nice thing. This also involved me revealing my secret plan: the nice plan. See, up until this point I hadn't decided whether or not these would be unknown to the people that they were the recipient of my nice action. But of course, my sister questioned right away why I would want to drive her when for the last few days I had refused when my parents asked me too. Thus, I had to reveal to my sister that she was my Saturday. ( for some reason, I just really like the ring of this. You know, telling people they are my ____day)
Which brings me to the bulk of my Saturday. I drove her down, leaving my house at about 1:15. I then proceded to drive around for about two hours looking for a certain sewing store in a nearby suburb. (you know when you swear you know where something is, and then somehow can't find the exact street it's on. This was me) This is when I realized the good coming from my nice act. When I was in high school, I commuted an hour round trip. Driving around Brookfield for two hours, I realized how much I missed just being in the car by myself, music playing, free to just think, sometimes aloud, usually just in my head. I had two hours to think and reflect on my life and came out of it a lot more collected. I realized that while I'm away at school, I don't get that same time in my life to just sit and think like I did on my long drives.
So thanks Maggie for being my Saturday and reminding me why I love long drives to clear my head.
PS We lost the game in the last 2 seconds because of terrible refs, but we can't all be taking the nice challenge I guess
Be Nice :)
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