tiggerprr’s scratching post

I don’t have much of a readership out there anymore since I’ve all but stopped writing original material. I keep hoping to do that, but that’s another post for another day.

I’m writing this original post (hehe Desert Songbird) to tell you about a Act of Selflessness Project that my classmate from Yokota High School in Japan is doing. She’s waiting with her kids to move back to Hawaii and while at her parent’s she drove by an orphanage. She tells the story best at her blog, Mama’s a Mess!, so I won’t go into great detail here. But it touched her heart and called her to start a project where she wants to present the orphanage with 1,000 Bibs and Blankets by July (her target date for relocation to Hawaii).

Obviously, 1,000 in that amount of time will be hard for one person to craft by hand so she’s called out to the blogosphere to help her in this endeavor, if you’re so inclined. I’d love to help, but since I can’t sew to save my life, I’m going to hope that some of you out there are still reading, and more importantly can sew and feel like giving up some of your fabric and your time. If you can’t sew, maybe could you pimp this project on your sites? Please read read her story, and help out if you can.

Thanks!

OK this isn’t a big post, yet…I’ll come back and post again after the show…but my daughters and I were all…ECSTATIC (!!!!) to see the dancers from So You Think You Can Dance on the show! It’s like the best of both worlds! Yay!

My hardened heart…has cried a few times already….

Clicky the picture if you want to learn more, or even better donate what you can. If everyone gave a buck…what a difference it could make. It’s very easy to think that we maybe should help those at home in the US first, I am not exempt from those feelings myself. But you cannoy deny the help that’s needed globally and after all, we are one humanity, eh?

Our adventure has been well…eventful for the last few months.

First, Ashlyn turned 18 on October 2. She informed me she was going to “ride that ass!” then she giggled as I picked my heart & jaw up off the floor. She was of course, referring to the donkey at the Fiesta del Burro Loco. Ai yi yi.

Then on October 5, she wrecked our Cadillac…

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My bloggy friend, Slacker-Moms-R-Us wrote about this poor puppy Reign. He is only 18 months old and was hit by a car when he was 3 months old. His owner never got him the medical attention he desperately needed so his badly broken leg, is STILL broken and never healed properly. The shelter he is in is raising funds for the $4500 surgery that will likely save his leg and end the pain and suffering he’s endured for the last 15 months.

Kristie has a Chip-In widget on her site and has graciously offered to match the funds that her readers donate for Reign’s surgery.

If you find it in your heart to do so, please go to Slacker-Moms-R-Us and give even a dollar towards this poor furbaby’s surgery. Show him some of the love that he’s sorely lacked during his short lifetime.

For this month’s Perfect Post Award, sponsored by Lindsay at Suburban Turmoil and Kimberly at Petroville, I chose HK Muse’s post about the roller coaster that is life. It touched me to read about her “most important days”. It’s always good to take an inventory of one’s life and remember all the good, the bad and the downright awful. The latter two, make you appreciate all the good in your life.

I’ve actually known HK Muse IRL for a few years now, since she started dating Cybrpunk. I remember thinking she was pretty cool and I hoped that Cybr wouldn’t screw things up! LOL Apparently, he’s pretty smart, since he married her and my first impression of her must have been right. Take a moment and go check her out! She helps homeless kitties in Hong Kong too, she can’t be all bad, eh?

Hi all, Yoshi here, hijacking the blog and giving myself some shameless self promotion.

This year, on 7/28/07, I’ll be participating in the annual Blogathon. For those of you not familiar with this, it’s a worldwide thing where participants will blog every half hour for 24 hours. Yes, basically I’m staying up 24 hours to write about something on my website. This is my second year doing the blogathon, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be better prepared for this!

Why do this, you ask? By all means, it’s for a great cause. This year, I will be raising money for The Susan G. Komen for the Cure. As you all may or may not know, this is a really great cause, and I’m sure you’ve all seen the pink ribbons everywhere. For more information, please visit http://www.komen.org/

How does this work? Basically, it’s simple. You will become my sponsor by signing up on the Blogathon website and say you will donate a lump sum of however much you want to donate, and that’s it. When the blogathon is over, you will receive an email telling you where to go to donate.

Key point: you don’t give money to the blogathon people, only directly to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure directly, and only AFTER the blogathon ends. I have to post for 24 hours for you to make your pledge! make me work for the money folks!

To get more details and my progress, visit hello! yoshi.

Enter a pledge and become my sponsor!

Please feel free to spread the news!

tiggerprr edit: Hi folks! Yoshi didn’t mention one thing, your donation/pledges are tax deductible. I sponsored Yoshi last year donating to the same, very worthy cause. Not only did I get to help my friend support a cause near and dear to his heart, but I also got to deduct my donation at the end of the year! It’s a win-win!