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I was reading  niassa's blog about soldiers and what people can do to help out the wounded soldiers and their families. I have something additional to add to that, She had great ideas for giving, but this one is soooo easy. You don't even have to leave your house if your a freakin' hermit.

A HUGE help is Operation Hero Miles Basically, it's a place you can go to and donate your unused frequent flier miles (that no one needs!) and they use them for injured soldiers and their families to fly and visit their loved ones. I wish everyone would donate. It costs people nothing. It's a simple act of giving that can change someone's life.

If you can't donate, at least check out the site, and tell people about it! SPREAD THE WORD.

Pleaseeeee. That's all I ask, inform people.

Thanks,

Gwen

. . . because you've got nothing better to do than to help feed the poor. Pass it on. =) "A food-linked word game put on the Internet a month ago has proved a runaway success and has already generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people, the United Nations World Food Program said Friday. FreeRice offers participants multiple-choice definitions to the meaning of a word, with each correct click generating 10 grains of rice for the WFP. The brainchild of American online fund-raising pioneer John Breen, the Web site FreeRice.com relies on advertising revenue to underwrite its rice campaign. "The site is a viral marketing success story with more than 1 billion grains of rice donated in just one month to help tackle hunger worldwide," said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the Rome-based WFP. On October 7, the day it was launched, just 830 grains of rice were donated. But the Internet community quickly caught on, and on November 8 alone 77 million grains were donated--equivalent to more than 7 million correct clicks."

http://www.freerice.com/

So last Friday night, Alicia walked out and quit, leaving Toni alone with a new guy who hadn't worked more than three shifts. At the time, I will admit that I was pissed....but now--I just laugh at everything she's doing to try making me "more" pissed off. I laugh at every email she sends back to me, and she doesn't even know it. Oh well....I don't need her anyways.

Yesterday I was signed up to donate a pint (or whatever size those bags are), of blood. Everything was going fine....UNTIL I got in there and was layed down on the bed and the nurse that was going to be doing mine, and was taking the kid next to my bed's blood forgot to put a clamp on the end of the tube that connects the IV to the bag (she DID put one by the bag though), soooo all the extra blood that was in the IV tube spilled out all over the floor. Then she came to do mine...she marked where she was supposed to put the needle in....it was too far down my arm. So she shoves the needle in, as I'm watching her, and is moving it around...like she can't find my vein. Then, the blood is going in fine...so she walks away. When she came back, she looked at it, and saw that there was beginning to have a bruise forming on my arm and got kind of panick-y. So she tells me that she has to take the needle out, even though there was only a half bag of blood....oh well, at least I donated that much. BUT still, I would've liked it if someone knew what the hell they were doing. Now I have this huge bruise on my arm..and it kind of hurts. Eugh!

As of right now--I'm still going to prom solo.......maybe.

BUT I'm gonna go.

Have a nice day (even though it's raining here!!).....and for those of you on spring break like me--have a good week!!

<3

So, it's painfully obvious no one reads this... but I have to post this anyway:

Relay for Life

*That's a link to my donation page... you don't have to know me to support my cause.  I don't have to know you to appreciate your help in the fight against cancer. 

I would be eternally grateful if you would just take a second, look, and see if you can  help the world out.