ANYWAY, you should totally do something awesome for someone else. I will even tell you two awesome things you can do without even getting off your computer.

1. My ladyblogging Kelly who works in education (not to be confused with my other ladyblogging friend Kelly who works in education) is asking folks to throw a little support to Mr. C, a special education teacher looking to make a difference in his classroom by using iPods and iPads as a replacement for his busted computer situation. I’ve written before about how great Donors Choose is, and if you are looking for a way to give a small amount of money to a very worthy cause, this is your chance. Please think about helping out Mr. C and his classroom. If you can’t donate, you can vote for Mr. C and his project to get funding through Limeaids for Learning.

2. Another blogging friend, Jason, from Outnumbered, just wrote a children’s book. If you were at BlogHer, you would remember Jason as the lone dude who spoke at the Community Keynote. He also let me ride a scooter in his office, because that’s the kind of guy he is and the kind of office he’s got. Not relevant. He wrote a children’s book, called Do Witches Make Fishes? and Jason is donating all the proceeds from the sale of the book to the Garden of Dreams Foundation. About the book:

Do Witches Make Fishes? is the moral tale of a young boy who favors candy over his mother’s outlandish but healthy dishes. When faced with an ultimatum from his mother, the boy has to make a difficult choice. What ensues is a series of extraordinary and fantastical events that will take the reader on a magical journey through the imagination of a child. In the end, you will find yourself asking, Do Witches Make Fishes?

So, yeah, if you have a kid in your life, you should probably buy them this book and then read it to them and feel warm and snuggly all over.

Other awesome things you could do would be come over and patch up the giant hole in the drywall that Neko scratched or bring me a grape snocone. Just suggestions.

The mad bummer right now is that our internet at home just flat-out quit working this weekend. Of course, Chris had to spend a ton of time on the phone with people in India who refused to believe that our connection  just quit working and the Chris hadn’t hatched a nefarious plan to siphon their time and energy into fixing his own grievous errors. A dude came out yesterday and said it’s not the outside connection so it must be the modem. Joy. Our normal neighbors-from-whom-we-steal-internet when ours goes down apparently learned about passwords (none of them being “password”. I tried) and the faint open connection only works with Chris’s computer from one couch. This does not bode well for my productivity on various projects/posts I hoped to get off the ground ASAP.

Don’t forget to donate to DonorsChoose projects in your area. Every little bit counts! My grandma Marilyn sent me a check in the mail to donate to Donors Choose because she didn’t know how to do it online. Then she went to Branson. True story.

Also, check out The Novice Foodie later this afternoon. I’m talking about Monarch and why it’s the best place to spend your money for a fancy dinner. I was fortunate enough to dine at the Chef’s Table there on Friday, which I will be (hopefully) blogging about tomorrow or Thursday. If you live in St Louis, GO THERE. You will not regret it.

More posts to come this week which may or may not involve the following things: Hoarders, food, my anniversary, terrible movie trailers, a goodbye to my job, and a garden update.  Ooh!  Thrilling!