Okay, after today, I'm officially two-thirds of the way to being a much better person! I feel like it's starting to stick, quite honestly, as these tips are getting absorbed sort of automatically into my day. I paid for another person behind me in the drive-up lane at Starbucks a few days ago, and gave a coworker a bottle of wine, just for the hell of it. Another coworker actually asked why I was sucking up to someone who was several paygrades under myself, and I shrugged and said that it was Christmas and I am trying to be a better person. And I didn't even say it sarcastically! This is a win, right? Onto day 20:

Dial a smile: A weekly call to an older relative can help assuage her loneliness. You may even get some sage advice! Got more time? Volunteer to record a senior's life story: Visit StoryCorps.net for conversation starters.

Aw, fuck.

This means I need to call my grandmother (pictured here) more often, and have a conversation that somehow skirts around the political issues in my family (which is structured a lot like a Mafia family, with my grandmother seated as the matriarch) and simultaneously avoids her accusations or my getting pissed off about the boiling dysfunction? Right. I can do this.

Will report back on Monday. Wish me luck! —Weetabix