Before I start this post, let me start by telling Dena to shut up now and also tell her to consider comments closed on this post for her!  Love you Dena.

Okay, on with the post. I have mentioned before that the charity that I choose to support every year is the Surfrider Foundation. So, I thought that I would pass along a couple gift ideas that also help to support Surfrider and their efforts. First up is Project Blue. Several companies have teamed up with Surfrider and are offering special “Project Blue” merchandise. When you buy those items, a percentage of the proceeds are donated to Surfrider. Just go to the Project Blue website and create a cute little Holiday card that you can send to friends and family telling them which items you would like to have for Christmas or Hanukkah. You can see a copy of one I made here.

Next up is a Surfrider Holiday Gift Membership - which is an AWESOME gift idea. You pay for a membership in the recipients name, and the recipient receives a one-year membership, a Limited Edition Surfrider Foundation/The Ryde t-shirt, a box of 10 Surfrider post cards, a subscription to “Making Waves” and stickers to show their support of Surfrider Foundation. All this for the low low price of $44 and it is 100% tax-deducible. That is a pretty sweet gift and you would be helping a great cause!

Lastly, If you do not want to give the gift of Surfrider, but DO still want to help, and are planning to buy some of your gifts from Amazon dot Com, please do so through the Five Percent Blue website. Visit the website and click the link for Amazon

, and 5% of all your total purchases on Amazon will be donated directly to the Surfrider Foundation. That’s all you have to do! How easy is that?

Okay, I am done.  I hope these ideas are helpful, they sure would help a good cause.  Oh and just in case you are wondering, this is not some type of paid advertisement or pay per post thingy, just something I care about.

I have a headache tonight thanks to yet another abrupt change in the weather.  Going to bed.

Today was one of those days that you just don’t get out of your pajamas.  You get housework done, do six loads of laundry, change all the sheets on the beds, clean the little fish tank, catch up on all your recorded shows, then change out of your dirty pajamas into clean pajamas and go to bed…but not before you quickly get your daily post in.  Good Night.

I feel like I have nothing wonderful to talk about lately.  Nothing very exciting to say.  I hate when I feel like that and I hate even more that I have to blog when there is nothing to blog about, since I have committed to post every day for 365 days.  I have to get my Christmas cards ordered.  The big Holiday Parade down at the oceanfront is this weekend, so Dena and I will be taking the kids down there for that.  The kids and I watched Shrek the Halls tonight.  Very cute.  Did you watch it?  Alright, that is all I got.  I need to get my kids to sleep and The Grinch is almost over, so they will be ready to run around like wild animals after that and we cannot have that!

Hope everyone has a very Happy Thanksgiving filled with lots of turkey, stuffing and pie - definitely lots of pie!