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Hotelscombined.com contacted me this past weekend. They like to give money to charities and saw my posts about Compassion International. So, with this post, they will give $20 to them…or any charity I select.

You can become a Facebook fan and earn $5 to any charity you want

You can Twitter about them and earn $10 to any charity you want

Or if you have a blog, you can blog it and earn $20 to any charity you want.

This time, though, I am going to have this $20 go toward my friend, Haven, and her marathon in January. She is running for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society which means a lot to us since her sister, Jinna (my super dear friend and matron of honor), battled Lymphoma 3 years ago. We are happy it’s gone, and we want to raise money for blood cancer research so that we can get rid of it for good. For everyone.

Facebook, Twitter, Blog it for a charity…spend their money…it’s too easy!

Water

I got my Coffee Cozy from Water4Christmas this weekend

It’s cute and I love it and it works perfectly.

The coffee shop lady got mad at me for having it- not sure why she took it personally that I was not using one of their sleeves.

Whatevskis.

I also love that the $6 I spent on it went toward giving people in Africa some clean water to drink.

I love the quote on their etsy page:

There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

–Denis Waitley

I don’t love how I couldn’t get the shine off of the table, but ‘tis the nature of an iPhone photo.

Check out Water4Christmas’ etsy shop and get some stocking stuffers.

I think I may snag me one of those water drop ornaments.

Happy Monday!

A Post of Randoms

I added some pictures to my Friday post below…we had a beautiful weekend in Houston only to be followed by a Monday full of rain and gloom. Womp womp.

Whatever has a link to the Etsy shop for Water4Christmas. Everything purchased from that shop goes to give clean water to the people in Liberia. Check it out, get some good stuff for Christmas. I got the coffee cozy. So cute. So cheap. You can afford it. They also have super cute kids tshirts with an outline of Africa on it- I love them, so there’s somethin’ for all you baby mamas.

Star of Hope needs some moolah to feed the homeless this Thanksgiving. $16.55 can feed FIVE people some turkey and goods where they would normally eat garbage...not like bad for you McDonalds garbage, but like seriously garbage. I am pretty sure Devin and I spent more than $16.55 on 4 pieces of pie when we treated our friends at House of Pies on Saturday night. You can feed 5 people. Or more. Check out the different donation options. Do it to it!

Devin’s coworker sent Devin home with some eggs on Friday.

I just thought they were really fun…pink, brown, blue…all different colors, some with freckles, straight from the coop. As we informed my friend from the northeast this weekend, eggs do not come out of the chicken stark white.

I told you it was all random.

Computer, Coffee, and He Just Wants a Dollar

Z to the man emailed me this picture this morning. After a long night shift at his unpaid internship, enjoying a g-chat with sister and some hot brew...he stops to notice the man who isn't quite as fortunate.

I just think my brothers and I are really lucky to have parents who instilled in the 3 of us the ability to see others' needs before our inconveniences; to have generous hearts and wallets without judgment or assumptions.

Today I hope that, in spite of the way your life is going, you will find someone to give a little (time, money, ears) to.

If you can't find someone/something to give anything to, let me know. I'm full of ideas, or check out the links on the left side of the blog.

I have GOT to write a light funny post a la the scooter post before people start hating on the blog.