29 Gifts, Day 5 - Facebook

This morning I came home from 1 1/2 hours of Zumba with Ali (totally awesome teacher!!) and I went to Facebook to add her as a friend.  While I was there I saw an ad for Pedigree dog food - for each person who became a fan of their Facebook page, they would donate a bowl of dog food for shelter dogs.  So I joined the group and donated bowl #336,745.  That was easy.  I also saw an ad for fake vomit (right) which was just strange enough that I clicked on it.  Sucka!

The dog food donation made me wonder about other Facebook fan pages where I could give a gift just by joining.  Little did I know that there are tens of thousands of Facebook charity groups, fan pages, and causes...too many to digest.  Here are a few of the popular ones in case you want to give a gift too:

Pedigree Adoption Drive - 1 bowl of dog food will be donated to shelter dogs per fan.
American Cancer Society - For every 5,000 fans, $500 will be donated to fight cancer.
Donate Life America - Spread the word about organ and tissue donation.

I spent most of today working on work, working on trying to clean up the pigsty we live in, working on the laundry mountain, and working on the teachers' wish list board for preschool (the gift for Day 6).  Ben took the kids to see his mom, which has become a very welcome weekly habit.  I'm sure she's wondering why I never come along, but hopefully she understands.  I've got to start being more selfish with my time because I feel like every minute is double-booked.  When I hostessed my Partylite show, the candle lady asked everyone at the party to say something about me.  When it was Aliya's turn she said, "My mom does a lot with a little bit of time."  That's the story of my life.  Maybe after I'm done giving 29 gifts, I'll try 29 days of exerting the bare minimum effort necessary.
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