Silence

So I am almost done my silence spree. 18 hours almost done. Short one or four slips. I found that when I got really irritated or surprised or wasn't really thinking about it (ie. when I'd been reading and my mom asked me a simple question) that I would slip a couple of words out and then catch myself and mentally swear a couple times then go back to the silence.

I found that it was easy to keep the silence up when I was alone, but when my parents came home and brother, they didn't really get it, so they kept asking me questions or trying to get me to reply to them, but not understanding why I was doing this. I've found it both easy and hard, satisfying and yes irritating at the same time. I feel like Emma and I connected being home and both not speaking today. Though after a couple hours she started barking at me, actually it could've been the dancing around like a weirdo while no one was home, but mostly the not speaking to her even the little thoughts I would usually just "think out loud" about, like calling her from outside to come in, or to not run off before I got to wipe her feet. It was kind of silly, but nice too. She's probably the only one who understood me without my having to write out what I was trying to get across on paper.

So, just a little under an hour left of this, so I'm going to go do some meditation and get ready for dinner.

Blessed Be.