{"id":4989,"date":"2013-03-07T21:55:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T05:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=4989"},"modified":"2013-03-07T21:56:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T05:56:43","slug":"7-quick-takes-fundraising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=4989","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: Fundraising, Sergio Romo, and the Lions of Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GoFundMe.<\/strong> I&#8217;ve seen a couple <a href=\"http:\/\/gofundme.com\" title=\"GoFundMe\">GoFundMe<\/a> sites among my blog reads this week.  In the interest of helping everyone out, here are the ones for people I know or follow.<\/p>\n<p>[=] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/334777\" title=\"Help the CDC team go to NYC!\">Help the CDC team go to NYC!<\/a>  (OK&#8230; this is actually IndieGoGo but I&#8217;ll lump them into this category for the moment.)<br \/>\n[=] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/littlebear\" title=\"Little Bear\">Help Little Bear have surgery to fix his paws<\/a>.  Little Bear is an adorable little house panther who was born with deformed legs.  He won a contest to be on the cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moderncat.com\/\" title=\"Modern Cat magazine\">Modern Cat<\/a> magazine and his mommy is trying to raise the money to get his paws fixed.<br \/>\n[=] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/2861ik\" title=\"Anna's transplant meds funding\">Help to pay for Anna&#8217;s transplant meds<\/a>.  Anna <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtransplantjourney.net\" title=\"Our Transplant Journey\">got a new liver<\/a> last fall and the co-pay on her anti-rejection meds jumped up to $300.  She doesn&#8217;t get a choice on whether she takes the meds and her mom started the <a href=\"http:\/\/gofundme.com\" title=\"GoFundMe\">GoFundMe<\/a> to raise some funds so that they can pay for them.<br \/>\n[=] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/aquinasangels\" title=\"Save Aquinas and More\">Save Aquinas and More<\/a>.  Aquinas and More is an online store where you can get a number of Catholic things.  Two things that make them special (and extra cool in my eyes) are the registries for seminarians and the fact that they will not sell anything made in China.  If everyone who liked them on Facebook contributed maybe $10-20, they could re-open and do so better than before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Forty Days to Forever.<\/strong>  <a href=\"http:\/\/reecesrainbow.org\/1581\/brett2601\" title=\"Brett\">Brett<\/a> will be the guest of honor on the blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/fortytoforever.com\" title=\"Forty Days to Forever\">Forty Days to Forever<\/a> on March 13th.  Please share this if you have a blog.  Thanks!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaia&#8217;s Kindergarten Fund.<\/strong>  I&#8217;m doing a fundraiser for <a href=\"http:\/\/reecesrainbow.org\/53777\/sponsorheaton\" title=\"the FSP for Kaia's family\">Kaia<\/a> over on <a href=\"http:\/\/savingkaia.wordpress.com\" title=\"Saving Kaia\">her blog<\/a> called <a href=\"https:\/\/savingkaia.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/25\/kaias-kindergarten-fund\/\" title=\"Kaia's Kindergarten Fund\">Kaia&#8217;s Kindergarten Fund<\/a>.  It&#8217;s super easy &#8212; all you have to do is save your spare change in a jar or bottle and when it&#8217;s full, take it to the bank to count it.  I have all the information you&#8217;ll likely need over at <a href=\"http:\/savingkaia.wordpress.com\" title=\"Saving Kaia\">Saving Kaia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/bottle.JPG\" alt=\"My collection bottle\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He only looks illegal.<\/strong>  Sergio Romo, one of my favorite players on the Giants, is playing for Team Mexico in the World Baseball Classic which is taking place in Arizona.  What else goes on in Arizona?  SB 1070 which lets police pull people over to check their citizenship.  This <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/team-mexico--including-world-series-hero-sergio-romo--feels-hostility-amid-arizona-s-immigration-fight-024742833.html\" title=\"Team Mexico, including Giants star Sergio Romo, feels hostility amid Arizona's immigration battle\">is happening to Team Mexico<\/a> during this tournament.  Guys: read his shirt.  He only looks illegal.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You mean allergies aren&#8217;t made up?<\/strong>  I have a weird egg allergy that Daniel also shares &#8212; shots don&#8217;t do anything bad to us but we break out in a rash if we eat scrambled eggs.  As a result, I can&#8217;t eat most breakfast items and I&#8217;ve managed to piss off at least one person because I can&#8217;t eat whatever they brought to church.  (I barely resisted asking them if they&#8217;d like to pay for my Epi-Pens when they complained.)  For that reason, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehairpin.com\/2013\/03\/food-allergies\/\" title=\"The Comment Section for Every Article Ever Written About Food Allergies\">this<\/a> cracks me up.  True, I don&#8217;t like eggs &#8212; they give me rashes that require Benadryl.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Big Bang Theory.<\/strong>  How completely awkward was the part of tonight&#8217;s episode where Sheldon, Leonard, and Howard were speaking to the middle school girls about science?  I think I probably would have run screaming from the classroom and refused to do anything but be an English major.  Then again, I did end up in the humanities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lent Madness.<\/strong> We&#8217;ve reached the Saintly Sixteen.  Today was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lentmadness.org\/2013\/03\/jonathan-daniels-vs-janani-luwum\/\" title=\"Jonathan Daniels vs. Janani Luwum\">Janani Luwum vs. Jonathan Daniels<\/a>.  I&#8217;m kind of looking forward to the day that Ignatius of Antioch faces Hilda of Whitby so that the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lionsofrome\" title=\"Lions of Rome\">Lions of Rome<\/a> will appear again in my <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\" title=\"Twitter\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Jen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\">ConversionDiary.Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; 1 &#8212; GoFundMe. I&#8217;ve seen a couple GoFundMe sites among my blog reads this week. In the interest of helping everyone out, here are the ones for people I know or follow. 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