Woo hoo!
O happy day: Kenley didn’t win, and we’ve hit $60,000! $60,570 at this writing, actually.
That is some excellent work right there, my friends. Thank you all so much. And extra-special tangoing-tomato thanks to the TN Challenge Cheerleading Squad, including Wing, Glark, Omar, terror on wheels Pam, Joe R, A. Cams, Heather, and Linda (who is really really into that headphones project, so hook her up).
Anyone I have not mentioned here who has flogged the Challenge on their sites, it’s not because I don’t love you. It’s because I’m overextended and senile. Feel free to email me to complain.
And now…an exciting announcement.
A very generous donor has offered to contribute a $10,000 match starting at 75K. All we have to do is get to $75,000; another ten grand is waiting there for us, so then it’s 85K. And it’s not much further from there to 100K. And then we dance.
More details when I get them, but the details you should focus on now are these: 1) Very Generous Donor has every faith in your ability to reach 75K; 2) her faith is absolutely not misplaced. If you haven’t donated yet, it’s time to do it now. Fifty dollars, five dollars, even one dollar will help. The Hemingway mini-prize is still accepting receipts.
It’s October 16th. Halfway there; don’t stop now.
Tags: contests shut up Kenley
Headphones are yesterday’s news. Now I’m obsessed with folding tables:
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=212333&challengeid=18975&zone=
FOOOOOOLDING TABLES!
Not the folding tables!
I’m in.
I like that you tagged it with “Shut up, Kenley.” Well said, Sars.
Dewd. Kenley was such a crybaby and SO nasally up in her nasal. The combination of the two was almost a change-the-channelable offense. Yay to her being pushed out first. Yay, I say.
Go, team folding tables!
Oh, I want to know who this awesome donor is! My first gues is… Gwyneth Paltrow!
HAHAHA
“Electronic Writing Portfolios” needs $402 and has a mere 12 days left.
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=186246&challengeid=18975&zone=0
This teacher just wants 30 USB flash drives so these students can save their work. I have probably LOST over 30 flash drives by now.
Folding Tables and Flash Drives!
tables! tables, plus… books in Spanish!
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=204947&challengeid=18975&zone=0
I lurve Blogger Challenge time.
Also, Sars, have you seen this tomato dress: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=273821.0
So I’m avoiding what I’m staying late at work to do, and spent some time with the projects Sars has tagged…
As of 6:42 PM EDT, we need $41,499 to completely fund all of the unfunded projects, which would also ensure a dancing tomato in Washington.
The pizza I was going to order for dinner is now going to be supporting Designing Low Income Housing: http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=197804&challengeid=18975&zone=0.
Several projects now have day alerts with them:
Electronic Writing Portfolios! 12 Days
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=186246&challengeid=18975&zone=0
It is the Journey, Not the Destination… 36 Days
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=189508&challengeid=18975&zone=0
4th Grade Newsies: 39 Days
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=190000&challengeid=18975&zone=0
On Broadway Mural 43 Days
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=189482&challengeid=18975&zone=0
Keeping Connected 43 Days
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=190530&challengeid=18975&zone=0
I’m the world’s biggest Kenley apologist (I can’t help it, I like her for some reason!), but the tag cracked me up. Also, she really needs to get her adenoids removed – she’s a step below Fran Drescher in OH MY GOD STOP TALKING.
Folding tables are DONE. You guys are *good.*
Yay us! And yay that Whinely didn’t win!
I’m not sure whether to be pleased or embarrassed that I have no earthly clue who or what a Kenley is. I live under a rock. But hey, the money I’m not paying in cable bills goes to the Donors Choose kiddies!
Dudes…boy with heart condition and a pace maker. Teacher wants a defibrilator and walkie talkies for her classroom so she can have the office call 911 ASAP…this one could save a life.
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=205962&challengeid=18975&zone=
Re: Kenley, I really liked her early in the show but she just got worse over time. And oy, the little leaves sticking out of her head? I felt really bad for her when Tim went to visit everyone’s families and Korto and Leanne both had big fun parties with family and friends but Kenley was like “Yep, this is my apartment… where I live… alone… by myself.”
Ahem. Runway aside… YAY FOR TEAM AWESOME! We are gonna do this thang, and I am gonna help some more although I don’t get paid again ’til the end of the month.
Okay, I actually donated this year! And it was easy!
Sars, I think Tomato Nation is serious about you doing some sightseeing in DC. Dare I ask what happens if they blow the target 100,000 out of the water? Already at $66,233! GO GO GO!