In less than two weeks I made my five dollars, now I can hibernate. Day two of giving up my addiction and cactus.

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I made my five dollars For the first time ever I made five dollars before the month is over. I did get a good head start being close before last month ended and carrying it over, but I've been here before and still barely squeezed the pennies in under the wire. Often I'd have to wait another month to see the results. I don't know whether the dollar sign has shown up in mylot yet for January and I'm not talking about that as I Did not make it then. I will be fine for the coming month though. Usually, it takes me until the last week at least to get this far. And I attribute this to the help of every one of you along with... Day two of giving up my addiction I gave up something that I spend way too much time on and I think I'm doing fairly well so far although today was a bit harder than yesterday. I gave up playing my games. I mostly played gummy drop, constantly on my phone. I also played two puzzles and a solitaire game found on Facebook on my desktop. I almost always had either my phone handy or one of my games open on the desktop and after mylotting for a bit or doing some other task I would play a game or more for too long. That is the main reason I can't get caught up in the winter months because I'm playing games for far too many hours at a time. In the summer I am busier working the second job but I still find time to play at least on my phone. Yesterday I found myself going for my phone in the morning and then remembering I'd uninstalled my game. Today I had a harder time later in the day not opening Facebook and doing a puzzle or something. I spent the better part of the morning shoveling and using the snow blower so I wasn't drawn to play games until later. I got a bunch of stuff done and whittled my notifs down to 19 the second day in a row. Tomorrow I will try to visit my mom and do some book work. I have years of filing waiting for my help but I expect to mylot in between more than before instead of playing the games. My reasoning behind giving this up is because: 1. it is an addiction for me 2. I feel called to give it up 3. I want to do and go where God leads me 4. I need time to pray for the calming of various weather systems by giving God my permission to help 5. And I needed time to read and study scripture more and more 6. Get some extra cleaning done and stay in touch if it for a change at least until summer. There are probably a multitude of other reasons too like finishing last years bookkeeping especially what's due by months end, and I may have less time next week if I still have to do jury duty. My cactus My cactus is blooming once again a bit early for Easter and again after being neglected. But it brightens my day so all is good