#3.22.17

I’ve been committed to recovery for 875 days.

EIGHT-HUNDRED-AND-SEVENTY-FIVE !!!!!

"Words: Chocolate Shop Windows"

March 22nd, 2017: Today Harry Styles posted a tweet in support of @drop4drop “clean water for all” project. Last year Harry showed his support by posting an IG picture (see below).  Later today band mate Niall Horan showed also support of @drop4drop by posting the IG picture shown below. Drop4drop is an organization that promotes and raises funds to bring clean and safe water to all the communities in need around the world.

Harry for drop4drop 2016

Clean water is not a guarantee everywhere in the world. In fact, one in 9 people (663 million people) in the world does not have access to safe water. Not having access to clean and safe water causes illnesses that are preventable resulting in hospitalizations for many and lives lost, including 1.5 million children. An astounding half of the hospital beds in the world are occupied by people suffering from water related diseases.

In communities without safe water, women and children are often in charge of collecting it. It is calculated that to collect water, women and children around the world collectively walk 200 million miles a day. That equates to more than 443 million school days are lost each year for this activity.  If all the communities of the world had access to safe water, the women could invest that time working to better their family’s lives and contributing to their communities. Children would not lose school days and could focus on education. Clean and safe water helps communities stay healthy and thrive.

  HDrop4drop is committed to bring safe water to communities in a sustainable way by involving local labourers that help build wells and are trained to maintain them. You can donate either to a well being built or you can be the sole donor of a well that will have a plaque with your name. If you are the sole donor of a well, Drop4drop will send you pictures of the well, GPS of the site, and case study from a member of the community. To donate to drop4drop go to this page on their website.

For once, the cat didn’t wake me up at 4am. I was already awake at 4am, & had been awake for almost an hour with excruciating cramps. 

I made Thomas late for work because of a menstruation related bathroom emergency.

Some old dude almost t-boned my car on the drive home because he failed to look both ways at a stop sign.

A lady in an over-sized jeep pulled up over the white line at a stop light, completely blocking my view of oncoming traffic, so I was stuck slowly inching out at a “right turn on red” situation, risking getting the front of my car clipped as I tried to make my way into traffic.

At this same stop light where I was stuck because I couldn’t see, an angry, impatient, middle-aged guy in a minivan behind me decided I was taking too long & honked at me while pulling up next to me & then gave me the finger before peeling out into traffic & cutting off multiple cars. The light turned green a second after he did this.

Because I have my period & my emotions are a mess; I cried about being honked at & flipped off.

I over-steeped my tea for the 3rd morning in a row.

My work email is dangerously empty & I have maybe 2 hours worth of backlogged work to be done, so I’ll basically be making no money today.

It’s only 9:30am & I’ve already soaked through 2 overnight pads.