A couple of things have happened via this blog nonesense in the past couple of weeks and I felt I should send out thanks.

First off, last week I had a real issue with depression.  I handled it and am fine now, but I got SO MANY notes and phone calls!  I hadn't mentioned it anywhere but here--this is my place to vent and post my opinions without too much fear of reprisal--so I didn't really think more than my husband would notice.

But the phone calls and emails came.  Thank you all so much for the support during that time and always!  I'm not the world's best at friendship but I sure have the world's best friends.

Another blog related incident involves the money that was being raise for another blogger.  The donation opportunity is passed, and the money has been sent on to the fellow who lost his son.  The internet is often trashed and called an evil place and you hear so many bad things.  Not this time.  This time it raised $3500 for a stranger.

From Avitable's blog (Avitable is the person who was doing the fund raising)

We reached $3500! That's an average of $350 per day, and $14.58 per hour! We received 275 donations from almost every state in the country plus Canada, Australia, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Now, I'm just waiting for some pending check payments through Paypal to officially clear, and a check will be sent to NYCWD to help alleviate any of his costs, personal or otherwise.

Thank you to everyone for your generosity. I was completely amazed at the outpouring of support from the blogging community. It was absolutely tremendous. And thank you to Amy for creating these great graphics that have circled the globe and been downloaded 700 times!
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I say again, thank you if you donated and THE INTERNET IT BEAUTIFUL BABY!