The Holiday Period

[demishock]

Today I wrapped the presents I do have; waiting for some others to come in the mail. We decorated the tree today, too. Progress.

Other than that, I participated in the Project for Awesome, a youtube fundraising campaign, hosted by the vlogbrothers (Hank Green, who you may have seen on TV advertising SciShow, and John Green, author of "The Fault in Our Stars", or if you've seen Crash Course in school, they're in that, too), for a variety of charities. The fundraising on their indiegogo page is still going until Dec. 16th, even though the live youtube stream and video voting ended today.

The coolest thing I discovered from the event this year was a browser add-on you can get called "Tab for a Cause" that lets you rack up "hearts" that you can then spend on charities. The money is raised by little banner advertisements - but you ONLY have to disable adblock for the "Tab for a Cause" site, not your whole browser. Basically what it does is that instead of a blank page when you open a new tab, you get a little landing page with a background image of your choosing and a little banner ad in the corner. I'm very excited about it; the holiday season puts me in a giving mood. If you're interested, check it out: Tab for a Cause.

If any of you spend time on Twitter and were wondering why #kittytime, #butfart, #fartmas, or #bananaeyes were trending over the last couple of days... Project for Awesome is why. >__>; (And yet somehow #P4A never trended... wtf internet.)

Tonight I'm going to ANOTHER party; board game party with friends from out of town that are visiting. \o/