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It’s the day after Christmas and the mailman was nice enough to bring me two more Christmas cards.

The first card is from BON’s favorite author Margaret Feinberg who now resides in Colorado.  If you take the time to visit her blog, you will see just about the cutest masthead for a blog that an author can have – truly.   It makes me smile every time I see it because I just think it’s so gosh darn clever.

The second card comes from the Sadler family who is also from the DFW area.  They were a little creative in their card as it wasn’t a Christmas card, but a get-well card for SisterGeeding who is now fully recovered from her tonsillectomy.  The Sadler family was even nice enough to include a donation to help fight lupus.

Many thanks to the Sadler Family and Margaret for the cards and helping to fight lupus!

So that’s 12 cards from Texas, two cards from NY, and one from North Carolina, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana, New Mexico, Colorado, and Canada.  

With a total of 22 cards, that’s $20 I’ll donate to help fight lupus.

With the holiday season coming to a close and all, I don’t expect anyone to mail me a card at this point, so I won’t bother posting the address anymore and will continue posting updates.  I plan on totally everything up with a final post a little after the first of the year.

This week I was 12/16, which puts me 157/240 or 65%, the same percentage I was at last week. 

Steelers at Rams – Correct
Cowboys at Panthers – Correct
Eagles at Saints – Correct
Giants at Bills – Correct
Browns at Bengals – Incorrect
Texans at Colts – Correct
Raiders at Jaguars – Correct
Chiefs at Lions – Correct
Packers at Bears – Incorrect
Falcons at Cardinals – Correct
Buccaneers at 49ers – Incorrect
Ravens at Seahawks – Correct
Dolphins at Patriots – Correct
Jets at Titans – Correct
Redskins at Vikings – Incorrect
Broncos at Chargers – Correct

ASHLAND, Ore. – Even in death, Chet Fitch is a card. Fitch, known for his sense of humor, died in October at age 88 but gave his friends and family a start recently: Christmas cards, 34 of them, began arriving — written in his hand with a return address of “Heaven.” The greeting read: “I asked Big Guy if I could sneak back and send some cards. At first he said no; but at my insistence he finally said, ‘Oh well, what the heaven, go ahead but don’t (tarry) there.’ Wish I could tell you about things here but words cannot explain.

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Several weeks ago I made a post about how I think Sonic car hops don’t like the debit/credit card machines because if customers don’t pay with cash but with a credit/debit card, the likelyhood that they would receive a tip from the change is greatly diminished.

I thought of this again as I was leaving Wal-Mart and walked past the Salvation Army bell ringer with no change or bills to donate.  I can’t recall the last time I paid for something with cash at Wal-Mart or the grocery store, which makes me wonder if donations for the Salvation Army are going to be down if more folks start to pay with plastic? 

Here’s another thought for ya . . . if paying with plastic just gets to become the norm, I wonder if eventually the Salvation Army will arrange something with Wal-Mart to allow an oportunity for the customer to donate at the end of the debit/credit card transaction?  So if your total is $9.25, you can have the option of rounding your transaction to the nearest dollar  ($10.00) and the change ($0.75) going to charity. 

Update:  I decided to email the Salvation Army about this idea.