Poll

[EDIT: Finca it is! Thanks, all.]

Pretty much every day in the mail, I get a few letters from various charities asking for donations. At the moment, Rob and I are unable to donate any money, but we do when we can. There are about a dozen charities that we try to support each year (not including my Monthly Meeting, or my St. John's alumni dues). I realize that our money would go ( Read more... )

Some of you know that I support various charities as best I can. For most, this means being on their email lists and signing petitions or emailing Congress when they ask. And I don't mind, really, sorting through the 15+ emails or so I get daily asking me to do things like this. What I do mind is getting bombarded by multiple emails as the year ( Read more... )

Rob and I paid $998 to pick up my Enbrel last week. That's the normal amount (actually lower than normal) that I can expect to pay for Enbrel after falling in to the "coverage gap" in prescription drug insurance, which will happen after $2,500 next year (which is slightly less than 2 months' worth of Enbrel). To get out of the coverage gap, I have ( Read more... )

I resolve to call members of my immediate family at least once a week, especially my Grandmère and Grandma. Likewise, I resolve to pick up my cell phone when Grandmère calls instead of vowing to "call her back later" because I'm too lazy to want to speak French at that particular moment ( Read more... )

I know I've promised a Christmas update, but I'm lazy and don't feel like typing up all the details. Here's the jist of it ( Read more... )

Rob okayed the $7.50/month to Medecins sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders. So, I've done that, and it provides "Two nourishing meals every day for a month to a child threatened by famine ( Read more... )

Social Security has given me an $8 monthly raise (woohoo! :P). So, with this raise, Rob's agreed that I can donate $5 monthly. I'd like to set up monthly giving with a charity, but I'm having trouble narrowing it down. Here are the 4 I'm considering, partially because these 4 allow monthly giving of either unspecified amounts or $5 ( Read more... )

With just ten shopping days until Christmas, The Humane Society of the United States today revealed that Macy's is selling a coat advertised as containing faux fur that contains real fur that is visually similar to that of raccoon dogs killed inhumanely in China. The news comes just days after other fur garments were discovered falsely advertised ( Read more... )

I donated my Cashback bonus award of $20 to the American Red Cross, in memory of Katrina.