Hello out there, internet-land! Sorry for my frequent delays. Here's what's new for me:
GISHWHES, the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt The World Has Ever Seen was AMAZING! I have been considering making a video of my comments and tips for future Gishers since the end of this year's wild rompus back at the beginning of August. This will be done shortly, but probably not today.
I strongly recommend GISHWHES to anyone. Really anyone. If you have a little spark of madness and a little bit of time/money to spare, this is for you. I am still in shock as to how 1 week of craziness transformed how I feel about life so completely. I'll explain more in the video, when that happens.
GISHWHES benefits Random Acts, and charity founded by Misha Collins in support of making the world a better place through Random Acts of kindness. The kindness need to be entirely random. If you have an idea for something really nice you'd like to do or have done in your community, write them a proposal on their website here and if they like it, they may choose to fund it, at which point you would put it into motion and make things happen. Real change in small steps.
Now the question is, where does this funding come from? GISHWHES participants each pay $18.99 to be a part of the scavenger hunt, and this goes straight to running costs for GISHWHES and Random Acts. Random Acts is a charity and does accept donations. They encourage donations. And now here's something even more fun.
Endure for Kindness, E4K, is a fundraiser for Random Acts. Traditionally, a charity might hold a marathon and have each runner work to get sponsors who would pay a certain amount of money per mile to the charity. The last time I did something like this, it was the Math-a-thon in sixth grade, in which people (my parents mostly) pledged a certain amount of money per math problem I got correct and proceeds went to St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
Today I heard about E4K in this silly video and decided to check it out. I'm not a runner and would not have the ability to put my baby aside for a day of running. Nor would I have the time for swimming, jogging, dancing, or many other of the continuous, hours-based marathon exercises. What I do have is a bunch of worn out socks, and an idea.
I know how to make sock monkeys. I can push myself to make as many sock monkeys as possible in the time provided (a 24 hour period of my choosing between October 18th and October 19th) and ask my sponsors to pay per monkey completed. That would mean if I really work hard and make 15 monkeys and one of my friends pledged $1 per monkey, they would then give Random Acts $15.
In appreciation for their contribution, I shall send them one of the completed monkeys. Choices for specific monkey should be on a first come, first serve basis.
In other news, my serial Vampire novel Strange Fangs is back up and running at Jukepop. Check out Chapter 8.
Also,this week I burned my leg. It was a cooking accident, as most of my burns are, caused in no small part by exhaustion. I now have a personal rule concerning the number of pans or pots that I can have in usage for dinner preparation with fewer than 5 hours of sleep.
The last time I burned my leg, it was much worse. It was also caused by exhaustion, and the naive notion that if I didn't provide complete and absolute sustenance for my then boyfriend, he would inevitably leave me. Of course, that never happened. We're married now. He did prove his worth even then by rushing me to the hospital, getting me meds, and being mad at our mutual employers for not actually providing me with insurance so much as a promise of eventual reimbursement perhaps. We worked everything out and I actually didn't even wind up with any scarring, which was great.
This burn is a lot less severe, but I am keeping it lubricated and under wraps nonetheless.
After burning my leg, the previous Halloween costume idea I had been working on (weaving can tabs into a mermaid tale) seemed rather ludicrous, so instead I have opted to change gears and create a Mantis Shrimp costume. They are amazing creatures, praised by both Ze Frank and the Oatmeal, and are pretty freaking colorful.This should be fun.
I have a feeling that I will be able to find a way to use a Mantis Shrimp costume next GISHWHES. Hehehehe.
Onward and upward!
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