*reposted from my other blog, SARcasm.

Hey all, so thanks to stumbling across a Facebook note written by an old friend of mine, Tatiana Warkentin-Hamill, I was introduced today to an event known as Blogathon. What is Blogathon? Well, much like Wake-A-Thons or 30-Hour Famines we all might have done in school or church groups, it's literally a 'blog' marathon. Myself and other bloggers (including Tatiana) have to write blogs every 30 minutes for 24 hours. It's from 6 am on July 28, until 6 am the next day. But this is crazy blogging with a difference ...

Namely; it's for charity. The charity I've chosen to blog, right here, for is Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region. I chose this particular type of charity as a wrestling fan, in light of the recent murder of Nancy Benoit by her husband, WWE wrestler Chris Benoit, to bring light to the problems women face in abusive or violent situations.

The specific services WCSWR provides are as follows:

1. Emergency shelters and services for abused women and their children
2. 24 hour emergency shelter
3. referrals, legal and court support, advocacy
4. crisis line support
5. outreach program
6. groups and one-on-one support
7. housing support.

These are all important services to those getting out of abusive home situations. You can find out more about WCSWR at their website, http://www.wcswr.org.

Now how do you donate, you ask? Easy! You go to the list of blogs (link provided below), and you find mine, the one labeled SARcasm. There, you can click 'donate now'. It's as easy as that, and if I don't keep up my blogging for the 24 hours, you are under no obligation to donate. Also, for those of you with no computer or pesky dialup access for which this is too difficult - I can make a proxy donation in your name!

Don't have a whole lot of money of your own to donate right now? That's fine. Some other ways you can help - pass the word along to friends, for one. Or pick your own charity, and blogathon yourself!

Now you might be wondering ... donations? Reading her blog updates that day? Blogathoning myself? How might I do these things. Well! It is now time for ...

A few other important links!

To find out about Blogathon itself, go to blogathon.org. There you can find out more about how it works. You can also sign up to Blogathon yourself.

To find a list of involved blogs (and the charities they're donating to), check out http://www.blogathon.org/list.php. There you can also donate to any of the charities - they're all great picks so don't be shy if there's one you feel more strongly about. Particularly check out "Deadly Waves of Stupidness" - Tatiania's blog, who got me started on this whole thing - and "SARcasm" - mine. :)

For that matter, continue to check out my blog at sarcasm.blogdrive.com and go check out hers, http://www.xanga.com/Luv_Monkee

Thanks for your support guys, and check blogathon.org out on the 28th - it sounds like an experience! :)