Tethered! Hooray for Rogers, thanks for doing something right in regards to the iPhone!

I’m thinkin’ these “posts on the road” are going to be pretty short. It’s hard to type in the backseat, I’ve only got so much battery, and if I read too much in a car I get carsick. Ew. I don’t think Gus would like barf in the back of his car (Note to Gus: I don’t generally actually throw up, I just turn a bit green and moan a lot).

Next stop, Squamish for Coffee!

I’m blogging for 24 hours straight to support the BC SPCA

Pledge through the Blogathon Site
or
Directly through the SPCA Paws for a Cause donation portal.

On the road!

Not only am I blogging for 24 hours straight, I’m doing it from Whistler!

I’m heading up to the Chill on the Hill event with Tanya, Gus and Russ. We hit the road in a few minutes, and what’s a drive up the Sea to Sky highway without a roadtrip playlist?

I mentioned a couple months ago that my iTunes Genius put together an amazing playlist for me, so I thought I’d share it with you:

Float On – Modest Mouse
Lights And Sounds – Yellowcard
Sweetness – Jimmy Eat World
The Boys of Summer – The Ataris
Banana Pancakes – Jack Johnson
Banquet – Bloc Party
Rebellion (Lies) – Arcade Fire
The Sound of Settling – Death Cab for Cutie
First Day of My Life – Bright Eyes
Killer Queen – Queen
DOA – Foo Fighters
My Moon My Man – Feist
Love Today – Mika
The World At Large – Modest Mouse
Interstate Love Song – Stone Temple Pilots
Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off – Panic! At the Disco
Be Like That – 3 Doors Down
Good People – Jack Johnson
The Ghost of You – My Chemical Romance
Helicopter – Bloc Party
Hand In My Pocket – Alanis Morissette
Hear You Me – Jimmy Eat World
Fat Bottomed Girls – Queen
Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well – Mike Doughty
Brian Wilson – Barenaked Ladies
Ocean Breathes Salty – Modest Mouse
Wake Up – Arcade Fire
Title and Registration – Death Cab for Cutie
Lollipop – Mika
Vasoline – Stone Temple Pilots
Bohemian Like You – The Dandy Warhols
The Fallen – Franz Ferdinand
I Feel It All – Feist
Never Know – Jack Johnson
This Modern Love – Bloc Party
But Its Better If You Do – Panic! At the Disco
You Oughta Know – Alanis Morissette
A Praise Chorus – Jimmy Eat World
One Year Six Months – Yellowcard
Somebody To Love – Queen
A Lack of Color – Death Cab for Cutie
The View – Modest Mouse
Karma Police – Radiohead
Details In the Fabric (feat. James Morrison) – Jason Mraz
Crack The Shutters – Snow Patrol
In The Back Seat – Arcade Fire
Tomorrow – Silverchair
Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt – We Are Scientists
Head Over Feet – Alanis Morissette

I’m blogging for 24 hours straight to support the BC SPCA

Pledge through the Blogathon Site
or
Directly through the SPCA Paws for a Cause donation portal.

And we’re back!

A little more about the BC SPCA and their Paws for a Cause campaign:

It’s the largest Campaign in Support of Animals in BC

From the event website:

[I]n addition to raising crucial funds to support the BC SPCA’s work, our campaign’s communications program and the media attention that it receives helps adopt animals and raises awareness about animal welfare issues! And don’t forget that this is a campaign for all animals – companion, farm and wild!

We’re looking forward to the opportunity to embark on another successful campaign starting on June 1. Our goal for 2009 is to raise $950,000 for local companion, farm and wild animals. Join us!

Looking at the BC SPCA’s financial statements (which are a great thing to look at for any charity you plan on supporting), the largest category of income they organization has is their fundraising. The amount almost directly correlates to (actually it’s a smidge less than) the cost of sheltering animals throughout the province.

And of course in addition to sheltering costs, there are the low-cost spay and neuter programs for those who can’t afford the procedure, vet care, cruelty investigations and education campaigns to ensure as many people as possible are aware of risks to animals and how to help.

Please help.

I’m blogging for 24 hours straight to support the BC SPCA

Pledge through the Blogathon Site
or
Directly through the SPCA Paws for a Cause donation portal.

Welcome! Hello! Hooray! Here we go!

It’s blogathon time!

Reminder:

First some terminology: “blog” is a shortened version of “weblog” which is a frequently updated personal website. Most blogs have date stamps on the entries, and consist of links and commentary.

Now, remember when you were in school and you would bowl for charity? And for every pin you knocked down you got, say, ten cents? Or run for a dollar a mile? During the Blogathon, people update their websites every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. For this, they collect sponsorships. Pledges can be a flat donation, or a certain amount for every hour the blogger manages to stay awake.

I’m collecting sponsorships for the BC SPCA, specifically their Paws for a Cause campaign. Not only am I fundraising over the next 24 hours, my pooch and I will be walking with hundreds of other animals and their people on September 13th.

Thank you for supporting us! See you again in 30!

I’m blogging for 24 hours straight to support the BC SPCA

Pledge through the Blogathon Site
or
Directly through the SPCA Paws for a Cause donation portal.

As I’ve mentioned a few times before, I’m embarking on the madness that is Blogathon 2009 tomorrow.

My charity of choice is the BC SPCA

And this face is Sasha, imploring you to donate.

I start at 6:00am tomorrow, and don’t stop blogging for 24 hours! And then I nap for most of a day, and then I turn 29. If that is not trauma worthy of a donation, I don’t know what is.

If you won’t do it for me, or Sasha, do it for the kittens, or the thousands of other Animals the SPCA works to save and protect.

Of course a few of my posts will be sharing some of the good work the SPCA does. Others will be live-blogging the goings on at the Chill on the Hill event at Whistler. And I’m also taking requests from sponsors for wacky things to photoblog. Leave a comment on that entry with your creative ideas!

Pledge through the Blogathon Site
or
Directly through the SPCA Paws for a Cause donation portal.

Wet noses everywhere thank you.

Because blogging for 24h straight (all to raise money for the BC SPCA! Donate!) isn’t zany enough, I’m going to be doing it from Whistler. Specifically, from the Nestea Chill on the Hill Event.

I’ll be heading up first thing Saturday morning with Tanya to party and play in the sand & snow. And I’m taking requests!*

Since you’re forking out your hard-earned dollars for the cause, I’ll take pictures of myself doing any number of things in Whistler at the event. You want toes in the sand? You got it! Snow angels? Sure! Hugging a random stranger? Heck yes!

Comment with your crazy capers, then click to donate through Blogathon.org or the BC SPCA Paws for a Cause site.

_{*No nudity and nothing illegal. This here’s a family show!}

It is slightly less than one month until my 29th birthday!

And while there are a few people out there who think I’ve already crossed the 30-threshold, I assure you I plan on bemoaning the end of my prime and impending 1/3-life-crisis to the fullest for the 365 days preceding the momentous occasion. That leaves me with a mere 28 days left to be jolly and cheerful and youthful. And I plan to make the most of them.

In addition to the typical fun summer birthdays bring, I thought I might take on something more significant than usual on the eve of the last year of my 20′s, and sign up for the birthday edition of the Vancouver Blogathon!

From the official blogathon.org:

Now, remember when you were in school and you would bowl for charity? And for every pin you knocked down you got, say, ten cents? Or run for a dollar a mile? During the Blogathon, people update their websites every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. For this, they collect sponsorships. Pledges can be a flat donation, or a certain amount for every hour the blogger manages to stay awake.

My charity of choice is going to be the BC SPCA, and funds collected will be included as part of my fundraising efforts for the Paws for a Cause walk in September.

So, there you have it. Blogathon, July 25/26 (my last few hours of age 29), Paws for a Cause September 13th (six weeks into the countdown to 30).

If I can’t avoid aging entirely, at least I can channel my angst into something positive!