Tweetin' for a good cause

Those of us involved in the world of Twitter love it because we can talk about silly little things like how we spent 2 hours watching Grey's Anatomy episodes and ate massive amounts of chocolate instead of doing the laundry or balancing the checkbook. And people care. They actually have conversations with you about things like that.

It's a fun and easy way to connect with people. We all know about the other fun things Twitter has to offer, like the fact that you can follow celebrities or the fact that you can find out about fun giveaways or online coupon codes. It's more than just a site that allows you to announce to the world that you are about to eat a peanut butter sandwich or that you've got some mad indigestion after the chimichanga you snarfed down at lunchtime.

One thing I LOVE about Twitter is that it's such a social media phenomenon right now that people are realizing we can use it for good. We can spread the word about important causes, and we can make a difference.

Today I found out about one of these great causes, and I hope you'll join me in supporting it, because all you have to do is tweet.

Simple. No money. No time (ok, 5 seconds of your time). Just a simple tweet.

Here's the deal.

There's a little kiddo named Jacob (he's 4) who was born with a life-threatening disease called Atresia, and the Make-a-Wish Foundation and LeapFish have teamed up to grant Jacob's wish of going to Disneyland with his family. The cool part is, they're using Twitter to raise the money.

LeapFish is donating 5 cents - until they reach $10,000 - every time someone tweets this:

Just tweeted 2 grant a childs wish, #leapfish donates to #makeawish foundation for each tweet RT pls http://bit.ly/3KgyQX Please retweet!

How stinking cool is that?!

It's so easy, and it will add up quickly. Head on over to Twitter and send this quick tweet so we can help get this cutie pie to Disneyland okay? Okay. Just copy and paste the tweet in bold above, tweet, and you're good to go.

And click this: tweet-a-cause to see a picture of this little dude. Oh, my goodness - he is absolutely adorable.

In a time where we can't all just whip out the checkbook to donate money, all we've got to do to help this little guy is to send a tweet, and LeapFish provides the moolah. Who says you can't help charities when you're broke?

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About LeapFish
LeapFish is an evolved search engine that captures the traditional, multi-media and real-time Web, through a single, connected search platform for both searching and sharing content. Founded by Ben Behrouzi (co-founder of Reply.com), LeapFish is a privately held, 100-person corporation headquartered out of CARR America Corporate Center in Pleasanton, California. For more information, visit blog.leapfish.com.

About Make-A-Wish
The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants magical wishes for children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich their lives with hope, strength and joy. For more information, visit www.makeawish.org

Really? No, not really.

In regard to a recent post, just so we're clear - and especially for newbies who haven't been with me long and aren't used to my occasional sarcasm, allow me to give you the full scoop.

As funny as I think I am, I honestly don't let Kaylee play in traffic or chew on jalapenos to ease her teething pain.

In my opinion, she should be at least 11.5 months old before being allowed to partake of such risky behaviors, so she's just gonna have to hold out for a few more weeks. It is what it is, people. It is what it is.

I know - I'm a mean mother who deprives her child. Whatever.

Oh, and yes, the sock in her mouth looked clean. It probably was. She does, in fact, romp around the house with dirty socks hanging out of her mouth at times, but that picture (taken a couple months ago), is the only picture I have of her with a sock hanging out of her mouth.

Now for some random thoughts...

I'm hoping to play along for Summer's Blogversations tomorrow. We shall see...I have to work (always a ridiculously fun activity for a Saturday...) and haven't done a video yet. If I don't happen to get in on it, though - go check it out and play along if you want to.

I've joined Twitter. I joined out of pure curiosity, and at first - the concept of Twitter seemed a little ridiculous to me. But, it's actually pretty fun. Several blogging buddies are onTwitter as are several celebrities. I'm currently following The Ellen Show, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey and Taylor Swift. Couldn't bring myself to follow Martha Stewart or P Diddy (although, oddly enough, Martha Stewart follows Diddy). So, if you tweet on twitter, tweet your way on over and follow me on twitter. I need more twitter buddies, and you know you want to read my tweets.

Well, I'm signing off for the night so I can go read me some Twilight and catch some zzzz's.

Nighty, night! ;)