#61

I am doing these "healthy habits" to see what works and what doesn't work for me.

I took out my contacts and it was annoying to remember every night. Now my eyes feel dry more often. Blah. It's healthy, but blah.

Oh, and one night I fell asleep with them in but I took them out for a minute in the morning, so I'm counting it!

#7

Donating books to local book drive. I tried to find quotes within the book that I loved and wrote them at the beginning of the book.

One quote I love from Dean Koontz "Fear Nothing":

"Is this really a wise strategy for living? Insisting that most of life isn't to be taken seriously. Relentlessly viewing it as a cosmic joke. Having only four guiding principles: one, do as little harm to others as possible, two, be there always for your friends; three, be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others, four, grab all the fun you can. Put no stock in the opinions of anyone but those closest to you. Forget about leaving a mark on the world. Ignore the great issues of your time and thereby improve your digestion. Don't dwell in the past. Don't worry about the future. Live in the moment. Trust in the purpose of your existence and let meaning come to you instead of straining to discover it. ...Sometimes I thrash when I should float. I spend too much time anticipating and too little time letting life surprise me. ...Maybe I try too hard."

(I am not donating this book because it belongs to my sister-in-law Sara.)

Anita Shreve's "Testimony":

"...and though I love my family, I am homesick for [boy's name]. I think that must be what happens when you fall in love. The boy is home now; the family is away. I am so homesick."

Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns":

"...she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last."

Kate Maloy's "Every Last Cuckoo"

"How can you believe in peace?" "By choosing to. By needing to. We all have to choose, minute by minute. Hatred is a reflex. Peace is a choice. It's intentional. It takes constant thought and work."

"I promise you will survive this. Not only that, you will be glad to survive. You will love him forever, but you will learn things you could never have learned when you shared your life with him. You will become yourself."

Lee Woodruff's "Perfectly Imperfect"

"I say that all of this collective suffering exists on the same frequency of human emotions. Grief is not a competition. Sorrow is sorrow and fear is fear and loss is loss and we humans are all traveling on the same bandwidth in life."

Janet Evanovich's "Twelve Sharp"

"Sometimes people are a big surprise...sometimes the surprise is just friggin' confusing."

Alice Sebold's "The Almost Moon"

"I knew what held me."

And in one of the romance, chic-lit books I read I included one of my favorite quotes from the movie, "The Holiday"

"I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by it's sheer power to alter and define lives."