fullygoldy | Entries tagged with gifts

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abdc - 9 uses
bad stuff - 18 uses
bday - 36 uses
beer - 17 uses
books - 35 uses
con - 10 uses
crack - 13 uses
dh - 41 uses
due south - 23 uses
family - 24 uses
fandom - 48 uses
food - 19 uses
geek - 10 uses
good stuff - 39 uses
health - 8 uses
house - 14 uses
icons - 13 uses
job hunt - 15 uses
kitchen - 11 uses
lambert - 12 uses
lunacy - 11 uses
mds - 10 uses
meme - 97 uses
menu - 39 uses
misc - 21 uses
more joy - 9 uses
movies - 25 uses
music - 16 uses
politics - 14 uses
post every day - 27 uses
quote - 8 uses
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rec - 71 uses
recipe - 19 uses
restaurant - 13 uses
sga - 10 uses
slash - 35 uses
sports night - 9 uses
stargate - 33 uses
the boy - 25 uses
the car - 12 uses
the girl - 35 uses
tmi - 11 uses
w2b - 10 uses
weight - 18 uses
wine - 11 uses
wiscon - 8 uses
work - 37 uses
writing - 13 uses
xmas - 8 uses

This year, I was more specific with my contributions. In addition to the regulars: Habitat for Humanity, Planned Parenthood and the Wheelchair Recycling folks, I added Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation, Second Harvest Foodbank, and was delighted to find Be the Match (the bone marrow registry). I don't know how I missed them before - maybe they're new, or maybe I hadn't looked in awhile because I haven't specified more than 3 organizations before.

I also love that my employer matches my contribution. It makes it possible for me to direct more money to the campaigns I care about most, and to spread it around a bit further. I couldn't contribute meaningfully to 6 orgs on my own.

The breakdown: Food, Shelter, Mobility, Women's Health & Reproductive Rights, and something personal - Bone Marrow Donors. All of these are near and dear to me, and I've directly benefitted from a couple of them. 50% Healthcare, 30% Home/shelter, 20% Mobility. I'm breaking out Mobility for the first time because it's not totally healthcare, and it's not totally home, but it's also critical to a happy, healthy lifestyle.

It's a painless way to contribute and it feels good to do so. And almost every organization I've named in the past has send a thank you card or newsletter at some point in the following year. It's a nice reminder on a rainy day that I took 10 minutes to do a good thing.

Finally, last week is actually in the past. Just in time for February's More Joy Day.

Since the week was so crazy, I didn't spend any time working on what I'd do, but I woke up this morning determined to DO something. So here are some icons. First, those wot I made:

a   b    c    d
e     f    g
although, I'd like to know why my animations are so fuzzy. They're fine in my program. I need to fix that before I post DH's cool new icon. B, c & f are gifts. G was my first successful animation, but I'm still not happy with it.

I thought I might change my default to one of these: (what do you think?)

1    2    3    4

I found these and thought of