KnitChick's Crafty Ramblings

I'm taking time from your regularly scheduled nerdy journal to make a serious plea.

Do you know someone who's had to deal with that worst scourge of the universe, cancer? Do you never want to hear that filthy word again? Well the American Cancer Society sure wants to eradicate cancer from this universe and the next, but they can't do it without help!

This year my friends and I are fundraising for the Norridge/Harwood Heights Relay for Life, and we are Team GEEK! Because, we're all geeks about something. If you've read my journal I think you can kind of guess what I'm really geeky about ;)

Our Relay is August 13th/14th this year, in Norridge Park. We need donations! We could also use more team members if you want to help us out (if you join as a team member you're not obligated to be there on the night of the event, though we'd love to have you walking the track and hanging out at our campsite).

Check out the Norridge/Harwood Heights Relay for Life event information.

Visit Team GEEK team page!

Donate to my personal page!

If you want to buy a luminaria (they're these little paper bags that we fill with sand and put a candle in; they light the track we walk on), they're $10 and you can buy them online or message me (or comment here) and let me know you want an offline form, I'll get them from our coordinator and get it to you! Luminaria are great to honor someone lost to cancer or still fighting it, the name of who they're purchased in honor of is written on the bag and they read off the names off during the luminaria ceremony.

There's also a survivor lap for cancer survivors (and that includes those fighting now).

If you want to make an offline donation, let me know. There's a few ways to do it.


Help us work toward seeing the end of cancer!!!!

Since this has appeared across my flist, I thought I'd give this a shot.

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Day 23 – A Who-Related YouTube Video

Ooooo there's so many out there....

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Day 21 – Your Doctor Who OTP

Hmm... guess I don't have an icon of it, but Jack/Ten/Donna/Ten.5.

Yes I'm weird. :)


(Canon OTP? I'm a total slobbering Janto fangirl, plus I adore Amy/Rory and I do enjoy Four/Romana)


ETA: I was so tired when I wrote this I totally forgot my favourite crack pairing: Jack's Coat/Ten's Coat! (yes I found a fanfic that had them making out and fell in love with that pairing)

Now that I'm back... time to return to this!

Day 16 – Your Favorite Who-Related FanFic

Oooh that's a tough one. I have to give two and they're really series rather than single stories.

faithharkness has a whole AU, the Hannah-verse, that I adore. Grace is the main story (which is long but OMG so worth the read! Trust me!!!), but it was the list fics of everything Hannah learned working at Torchwood that hooked me initially. I don't even remember how I stumbled on them but I just remember reading the list going "Who is this Hannah character? I love her, but seriously why do they let her answer the phones?" :) Read anything by faithharkness, you'll not regret it!

My other pick is Children in Time by huskyfriends. And the sequel Children Through Time that's still in progress. Yeah I'm a bit biased considering Lynnae is totally based on me and I also have helped brainstorm a lot of what's in that series but it's still an awesome book. The first book was written for last year's TARDIS Big Bang, the first part of the sequel for Scifi Big Bang, the second part for this year's TARDIS Big Bang, and she's doing the rest for Torchwood Big Bang. It's again a very long story (the first book is over the 80K mark) but SOOOOO worth it!

Perfect timing, I hit the halfway mark before going offline for five days! :D

Day 15 – Favorite Who-Related Tumblr

I really haven't spent much..okay, ANY, time on Tumblr but I stumbled on this the other day and it's great!

Stupid Faces of Doctor Who

It's all goofy pictures of the Doctor (in all his incarnations) and companions. :) Wonderful time waster!

Donna Noble
Take Which Doctor Who companion are you? (girls) today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Personality Test Generator.

Day 12 – Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

Hmm... I think I'll point to a couple of my favourite internet places to talk Who :)

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