As many people know, today is the Blogathon, where bloggers everywhere commit to updating their blogs every half hour for a 24-hour period, and sponsors agree to donate various sums of money to a specific charity. I did the Blogathon – and perhaps I was crazy, because Hayley was only ten months old at the time – and I did it to raise money for the United Nations High Council for Refugees, a charitable organization that I am overwhelmingly supportive of.
I really wanted to do it this year again, even with Breanna being only eight months old, and I was really excited when the emails started coming around for Blogathon. Unfortunately, when I checked the calendar, I realized that it was going to fall on a Saturday where George’s band would be playing. I knew that if he got in at 3:30 or 4 in the morning, I wasn’t going to have my back-up on Sunday morning when I would be finishing up the ‘thon at 9 am and desperately wanting to get a bit of a snooze in.
It turns out I could have done it after all because the gig got cancelled. Sign-ups for Blogathon finished on the 21st and we only found out he wouldn’t be playing a few days ago so it was too late for me to join up. I’m pretty disappointed this morning that I’m not taking part. It was exhausting but a lot of fun – especially around 4:30 or 5 am when the total loopiness hits. I remember a few years ago that by the time the sun was coming up I was so damn tired that everything was funny.
However, here’s the deal. If you would have sponsored me to do the Blogathon, please consider donating to one of the other bloggers out there. Heather has re-opened Smattering to raise money for the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, and is offering tarot readings to sponsors. Alicia and Melanie are blogging for Full Moon Wolfdog Sanctuary and they have some nice gifts courtesy of Melanie’s artistic prowess for sponsers; as an extra incentive, Alicia is promising to match whatever donations she gets. Also, if she needs me while I’m still up, I may pop over for a guest post! Dreama is blogging for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and has promised amusing photoblog pictures of herself, modelling hats at Walmart until she gets kicked out. And Kathy is blogging for the Innocence Project.
Drop by, support them with your wallet, if you can. Or if you can’t afford it, then at least drop some encouragement on them. It’s a lot of fun but it’s harder than it sounds. Half an hour is not long enough to get out and do much unless you can do some mo’blogging, but at the same time half an hour DRAAAAAGS in the middle of the night when everyone else is asleep. Keep them going!
And in the meantime I’ll figure out what my game plan can be for the UNHCR next year. (And if you think the UNHCR is as important as I do, you can certainly donate to them at any time of year too!)
