diff --git a/sh/.config/sh/alias b/sh/.config/sh/alias
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc6d2a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sh/.config/sh/alias
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+#
+# Global aliases for any shell
+
+# Avoid aliases which I did not create -- unalias EVERYTHING
+unalias -a
+
+# v shorthand for neovim
+alias v="nvim"
+
+# exit shell mimicks vim
+alias :q="exit"
+
+# ls defaults
+if [ "$(uname -s)" = "Linux" ]; then
+  # we're on linux
+  alias l="ls -lhF"
+  alias L="ls -lAhF"
+fi
+
+# cd defaults
+alias ..="cd .."
+alias ...="cd ../.."
+alias ~="cd ~"
+
+# clear my screen
+alias cl="clear"
+
+# Display your current external ip address
+alias myip="curl -s icanhazip.com"
diff --git a/sh/.config/sh/env b/sh/.config/sh/env
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..151fc36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sh/.config/sh/env
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+#
+# Set global environment variables
+
+# Load XDG specifications
+# shellcheck source=xdg
+[ -f ~/.config/sh/xdg ] && . ~/.config/sh/xdg
+
+# anything on BIN_HOME should be executable form anywhere
+export PATH="$PATH:$XDG_BIN_HOME"
+
+###############################
+## BEGIN GLOBAL ENV VARS     ##
+###############################
+
+# if we forgot to set it treat bash as default
+export SHELL=${SHELL:-/bin/bash}
diff --git a/sh/.config/sh/profile b/sh/.config/sh/profile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..afb471a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sh/.config/sh/profile
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+#
+# Is executed for any base sh login-shell
+# Bash only executes when neither bash-profile nor bashrc exist
+# (will only load the first one it finds)
+#
+# see https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv/wiki/unix-shell-initialization
+
+## Load all global environmment variables
+# shellcheck source=env
+[ -f ~/.config/sh/env ] && . ~/.config/sh/env
+# load additional packages
+if [ -d "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/sh/env.d" ]; then
+  for _env in "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/sh/env.d"/*.sh; do
+    . "$_env"
+  done
+  unset _env
+fi
diff --git a/sh/.config/sh/xdg b/sh/.config/sh/xdg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5bb76be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sh/.config/sh/xdg
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+# XDG Base Directory Specification
+#
+# Sets up necessary environment variables for XDG convention,
+# and those that applications obey for their environments.
+#
+# Thank you remeberYou for the idea
+# see: https://github.com/rememberYou/dotfiles/blob/master/sh/.config/sh/xdg
+#
+# Additionally, home directories are set using the XDG specification,
+# if the xdg-user-dirs module is enabled.
+#
+# Shellcheck will complain about setting permissions for the directories
+# unless it is ignored https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/SC2174
+# shellcheck disable=SC2174
+
+
+# http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
+test "$XDG_CACHE_HOME"  || export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.cache"
+test "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" || export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
+test "$XDG_DATA_HOME"   || export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"
+test "$XDG_LIB_HOME"    || export XDG_LIB_HOME="$HOME/.local/lib"
+
+## Non-Standard additions
+# non-standard, is added to path to enable execution of any files herein
+test "$XDG_BIN_HOME"    || export XDG_BIN_HOME="$HOME/.local/bin"
+
+## ensure directories exist
+test -d "$XDG_BIN_HOME"    || mkdir -p -m 0700 "$XDG_BIN_HOME"
+test -d "$XDG_CACHE_HOME"  || mkdir -p -m 0700 "$XDG_CACHE_HOME"
+test -d "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" || mkdir -p -m 0700 "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"
+test -d "$XDG_DATA_HOME"   || mkdir -p -m 0700 "$XDG_DATA_HOME"
+test -d "$XDG_LIB_HOME"    || mkdir -p -m 0700 "$XDG_LIB_HOME"
diff --git a/xdg-user-dirs/.config/user-dirs.dirs b/xdg-user-dirs/.config/user-dirs.dirs
index 0384e6d..e258435 100644
--- a/xdg-user-dirs/.config/user-dirs.dirs
+++ b/xdg-user-dirs/.config/user-dirs.dirs
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@
 # absolute path. No other format is supported.
 #
 XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/desktop"
-XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/downloads"
-XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/templates"
-XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/public"
 XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/documents"
+XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/downloads"
 XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/music"
 XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/pictures"
+XDG_PROJECTS_DIR="$HOME/projects"
+XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/public"
+XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/templates"
 XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/videos"