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I don’t know…

After a while of being on the medication I’m starting to think its making me super tired during the day, but I don’t know if that’s because I’m so used to staying up for days at a time or with minimal sleep or if its because the medicine is just making me too tired during the day.

In other news~  I have a fish   She’s a Betta fish and I’ve named her Delilah, my brother bought a male betta but didn’t buy food or a tank, thankfully he ended up buying some food but had no intentions of buying a tank so I did that today, picking up the girly while I was at the pet store.

The cat’s want, and want nao…

Xmas Presents

I decided to make a majority of my families Christmas presents mostly because I’m cheap and I have yarn and fabric in my stash that’s just sitting there all by their lonesome.  I’m going to try to make a scarfette for my mommeh if I can, along with some house slippers and a chicken gourd figurine I forgot to give her last year lol.  For the bro I’m going to try to make a robot softie, the pattern I’m getting off of my Softies book by Theresa Laskey.  If I can I’ll add a scarf to that but the yarn I have right now leans towered the itchy side, I’m not exactly sure how he’d appreciate that but I secretly want to make it out of spite lol.  I’m not sure what to get for dad though, he’s always so hard to buy for.

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Manila Under Water

So my mom woke me up sometime on Saturday, she was watching Manila flooding.  Mom was trying to get her sister on the phone making sure she was in Baguio and not still in Manila.  Typhoon Ketsana, aka Ondoy, swept over the Philippines and dropped over 455 millimeter into the Manila area, 341 millimeters of that rainfall fell in only 6 hours, to put that in perspective Katrina had 350 millimeters fall in a 24 hour period.  The flooding as of today has left over 240 dead and thousands other homeless.

 

Here are some articles:

• Typhoon Wreaks Havoc on the Philippines
• Escaping Manila’s Floodwaters, Only to Find Fire
• Social Media Keeps Flood Victims Connected
• Philippines Storm Toll Rises; Government Criticized

Donation info outside of Philippines:

• BayanUSA
• Philippine Aid
• Pnoy Apparel – buy a any Sammy t-shirt and they’ll donate another to a child, plus $5 of your purchase
  • Men’s – Eggplant & Black; Women’s – Teal & Purple

Donation info within Philippines (you can use this if you live outside of the country as well)

• Philippine National Red Cross
• Kabataan Partylist
• Ondoy, You Fucking Asshole
• ABS-CBN Foundation more info here

For those of you in the Philippines they still need volunteers, and if you can’t donate money you can donate other goods.  via Philippine National Red Cross website:

 

Most urgent needs

Food items: Rice, noodles, canned goods, sugar, iodized salt, cooking oil, monggo beans and portable water
Medicines: Paracetamol, antibiotics, analgesic, oral rehydration salts, multivitamins and medications to treat diarrheal diseases
Non-food items: Bath soaps, face towels, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, plastic mats, blankets, mosquito nets, jerry cans, water containers, water purification tablets, plastic sheetings, and Laundry soap
Rehabilitation Programs: Shelter materials for house repair

 

If you’re someone who makes a concious effort to know where your money is going with regards to charity’s you might want to reconsider donating to the American Red Cross, here’s some reads.

And although I really don’t want to go there, I believe its worth mentioning, every countries leader(s) is(are) going to have to face some kind of disaster, its how you prepare before hand and how you react afterward that really measures your worth.  The Bush Administrations and Louisiana’s local government failed in the later during Katrina, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo failed in both, 800 million Pesos (almost $17 mill. US) in emergency money is meant for actual emergencies, not pocket money to gallivant across the globe.

 

If you live in the US and can’t donate there’s always people in need here in our own country.  You can donate blood to the American Red Cross, volunteer at your local shelter (women’s, animal, homeless, etc…), donate home goods to your local shelter (women’s, animal, homeless, etc…), donate or volunteer with The Salvation Army, help out the old lady who lives down the street from you, or just do something good today.