Now that the excitement of voting for me in the Neil Gaiman Audio Contest is over (thank you! still waiting for the final winner!!), I'd like to ask people to turn their attention to another thing they can help with - donating time, money, items, or even just spreading the word to help with relief efforts in the South after the devastation caused ( Read more... )

First off, I have my 3-month check-up for my right eye, and 1-month for my left, tomorrow. Am looking forward to seeing how my vision is doing (well, I hope)!

And speaking of my eye surgeries, as you may have seen, thanks to so many wonderful people donating items and money and helping to get the word out, I am *very close* to having the full ( Read more... )

First, because we here at Foresthouse Central can't bear to leave you hanging...

( Part III: CLEO DID NOT FREEZE OMG...AT LEAST I DON'T THINK SO. )

So, hey, let's have some non-keratoconus things on this here journal, eh?

But of course, before we do, the newest donation to the auctions for my eye surgery costs is a handmade Wizard of Oz plush monkey, and it sounds adorable. So go check it (and the other stuff) out ( Read more... )

If you haven't gone and checked it out yet, you really should: the charity auction that doctoraicha started for my surgery expenses (and here's a quick way to see what's listed). Not even because it is an auction to help me, but just because it is amazing and wonderful and lovely, and every time I turn around, someone else has put something awesome up for ( Read more... )

OK, before I reach the Ranty part of my post, I shall share with you the Awesomeness parts.

1. My lovely friend John K. Snyder III (he of the Sirius Black prison mug shot sketch that was donated for fundraising to Help Haiti Heal (which, btw, raised over $120,000, y'all! Three planes of medical supplies! WOO!)), has sent me his last two A-Team ( Read more... )

Don't forget, everyone! Today is the last day to donate to Helping Haiti Heal (donations go to Partners in Health, a great organization on the ground in Haiti) and to be eligible to win neat prizes, as summarized here.

So hurry on over there before midnight to donate!

In other news, it's snowing here. Pretty!

I've been saving a few of these up for awhile (read: I forgot about them) but for most, it just seems to have been a day in which a lot of interesting links appeared (mainly from my Twitter peeps (thanks!). So...

Fundraising

First off, don't forget the Help Haiti Heal fundraiser is still going until January 30. Last I heard, they were over $40K ( Read more... )

I inadvertently ended up pretty much liveTweeting the live webcast of Help Haiti Heal and now I feel compelled to share some of it with everyone JUST BECAUSE. It was pretty fun.

Don't forget, you can donate all week until the evening of January 30, and they are going to be adding SEVERAL more big prizes tonight (things offered during the webcast ( Read more... )

The Help Haiti Heal webcast fundraiser is going on live right now! Currently Mugglecast is podcasting live for it.

Click the link to see & hear the video, and/or to participate in the chat.

Click HERE to donate and thus enter the drawings for fabulous prizes ( Read more... )