Donating & Crazy Fucks at My Apartment Complex

I'm so addicted to Kiva.org. I got into it a few weeks ago. A few days ago, it was featured on Oprah, and now they are having a difficult time actually keeping loan requests up on the website for long. People donate so fast that my head spins. It's great.

Anyway, I just sent in another $25 to my second borrower. Her name is Sarah Nsangi, and she lives in Uganda. I contributed to her loan request because she plans on buying yarn to make sweaters with it. A fellow knitter (and cross stitcher) from Uganda! I hope she does well.

My first loan was to Mok Sokhoan in Cambodia. I got a notice this morning that she's received the loan she requested. I cannot wait for another update on how she and her husband are doing in a month or two.

( and now for some serious drama with the neighbors )

Celebration!

I've been living in the dark ages all this time. My desktop at work has cable internet, but I've been dealing with dial-up at home since I moved in with Jason. I never pushed for faster internet because I knew his computer couldn't handle it. Recently, he got a new desktop, and we investigated the choices. I contacted the phone company on Monday to sign up for DSL with them. They sent us the modem via UPS. Both our computers are online now. Seven megs per second, baby. It's so freakin' amazing. It took me a little under two hours to get them both up and running, but mine is running wirelessly, so it was a bit of trouble at first.

Anyway, yay! I can watch YouTube videos at home now. To celebrate, I give to you my three favorite men in video. Oooh...

( i drool... )