you shed a little light
First things first: remember that list I sent out with the good charities versus the evil dominionist ones? Add these to the list:
Top is Crafters' United, sort of an eBay for crafters who sell yarn, finished knitted and crocheted projects, jewelry and other items. Well, right now, they've raised over $15,000 in donations due to the knitting brigades alone, and there's also direct donation links on-site. Anything you feel like buying on that link has been donated by crafters all over, and all proceeds go towards disaster relief.
Next is Great Harvest Bread Company, where some local branches in the South are donating all of Saturday's proceeds to disaster relief. Call your local branch if you want to join in, see if they're participating or want to. They make fantastic bread anyway, they're always worth a trip.
Whole Foods Market, Best Buy, CostCo and Peet Coffee & Tea are allowing customers to donate--in some cases, online, in other cases, in-store--in a couple of ways. They're matching the donations dollar for dollar through the end of September. Also, Office Max is taking register-side donations--they'll just add it onto the end of your receipt, so you have a record, and everything donated goes straight to relief efforts. And Amoeba Records--a three-store independent record chain in the Bay Area--has donation bins in all their stores, and they're also matching donations dollar for dollar.
All links come, btw, from Go Fug Yourself. They've got more on their list, but some are groups like Operation Blessing and Mercy Corps, and we know what they do.
Okay, I didn't tell anyone, because it just seemed surreal, but right before I left my aunt's house, she told me to log into Roaman's and pick out (exclusive of shipping) $100 in whatever.
Y'know, for kicking around that week, helping her in and out of bed, lifting the heavy-as-hell torture device that automatically flexed her leg a certain number of times eight hours a day...dumping out urine from the little bucket...you know, normal bedside care stuph...she bought me clothes.
To be specific, she bought me a green plaid lounger that goes to the floor, two pairs of pants (one advertised as olive, but it's actually sort of a dark lime, and one chocolate-brown), two t-shirts (one black, one heather grey) and a new bra. In navy. :) Regular slouchy stuph, for the most part.
Didn't expect it. But it's terribly cool to have new clothes. Don't expect it to happen again...but they've got this big sale going on that might still be going on in six weeks, so...I'm going through the catalog they sent along with the order. Just in case. :)
I don't have xeroderma pigmentosum--I just can't go out in the sun easily--but I got this list of sunsafe tips from the folks that do. I think some of the names on that list are going to be very helpful.
The folks around the house are pressing me to game again. I'm still refusing to game in any setting that involves La Roommate, but so far I haven't had to directly say it. I can't believe the rest of the house forgot why I stopped gaming.
I can't believe that this may be the rest of my life--saying no to anything resembling roleplaying, if La R is involved. Argh.
Top is Crafters' United, sort of an eBay for crafters who sell yarn, finished knitted and crocheted projects, jewelry and other items. Well, right now, they've raised over $15,000 in donations due to the knitting brigades alone, and there's also direct donation links on-site. Anything you feel like buying on that link has been donated by crafters all over, and all proceeds go towards disaster relief.
Next is Great Harvest Bread Company, where some local branches in the South are donating all of Saturday's proceeds to disaster relief. Call your local branch if you want to join in, see if they're participating or want to. They make fantastic bread anyway, they're always worth a trip.
Whole Foods Market, Best Buy, CostCo and Peet Coffee & Tea are allowing customers to donate--in some cases, online, in other cases, in-store--in a couple of ways. They're matching the donations dollar for dollar through the end of September. Also, Office Max is taking register-side donations--they'll just add it onto the end of your receipt, so you have a record, and everything donated goes straight to relief efforts. And Amoeba Records--a three-store independent record chain in the Bay Area--has donation bins in all their stores, and they're also matching donations dollar for dollar.
All links come, btw, from Go Fug Yourself. They've got more on their list, but some are groups like Operation Blessing and Mercy Corps, and we know what they do.
Okay, I didn't tell anyone, because it just seemed surreal, but right before I left my aunt's house, she told me to log into Roaman's and pick out (exclusive of shipping) $100 in whatever.
Y'know, for kicking around that week, helping her in and out of bed, lifting the heavy-as-hell torture device that automatically flexed her leg a certain number of times eight hours a day...dumping out urine from the little bucket...you know, normal bedside care stuph...she bought me clothes.
To be specific, she bought me a green plaid lounger that goes to the floor, two pairs of pants (one advertised as olive, but it's actually sort of a dark lime, and one chocolate-brown), two t-shirts (one black, one heather grey) and a new bra. In navy. :) Regular slouchy stuph, for the most part.
Didn't expect it. But it's terribly cool to have new clothes. Don't expect it to happen again...but they've got this big sale going on that might still be going on in six weeks, so...I'm going through the catalog they sent along with the order. Just in case. :)
I don't have xeroderma pigmentosum--I just can't go out in the sun easily--but I got this list of sunsafe tips from the folks that do. I think some of the names on that list are going to be very helpful.
The folks around the house are pressing me to game again. I'm still refusing to game in any setting that involves La Roommate, but so far I haven't had to directly say it. I can't believe the rest of the house forgot why I stopped gaming.
I can't believe that this may be the rest of my life--saying no to anything resembling roleplaying, if La R is involved. Argh.