Extra Life + Bob Ross

This past weekend was Extra Life, the annual video game marathon I have been participating in for the past three years to help raise money for Miami Children's Hospital. This year has been amazing though, I made well over my goal amount of money, $182! I couldn't have done it without all of the lovely support from those who donated.

I wasn't able to make my giveaway goal amount though, which was $200, so sadly I won't be hosting the giveaway, but I would love to send small thank you notes to those who have donated to me, so if you are interested and have donated to the cause, let me know on my Facebook or Tumblr and I can send you a little care package in thanks. =) You're welcome to leave a comment here as well and I will leave it screened if it has your personal information.

I ended up helping my friend do his speed run of Tales of Symphonia 2, and then afterwards we played Trauma Team and seriously got waaay too into it. We ended up sounding like actual surgeons screaming; "scalpel!" "suture!" at each other, haha~ I can't wait until next year's already! Hopefully I'll be able to continue to beat my fundraising record.

Today is also Bob Ross' birthday, he's been a great inspiration to me since I was a child. I ended up looking up a bunch of my favourite quotes from him, and titled the look I posted today after one of them.

Here are some of my favourite quotes from him:

• "People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different."
• "The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe."
• "There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend."
• "We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents."

Extra Life 2012!

Some of you may have noticed that there are a lot of new widgets and stuff popping up on my Blogspot, but I just added the most important one of all.

See the one that looks like a thermometer? That's my fundraising widget for an awesome event called "Extra Life."

Just in case, here's a photo of it anyways (it looks so depressing at $0!!):

For those of you who are not familiar with it, it is a gaming marathon event where awesome volunteers sit down and play video games for 24 hours straight and try and get people to sponsor them. Please take some time out to read about my pledge and even donate a couple dollars. Every cent helps children with life-threatening illnesses!

I'm hoping to broadcast my marathon on Livestream and get to know some other bloggers better through the whole process. Hope you all join me!

Right now I'm thinking of doing a speedrun of Kingdom Hearts (featuring my half-awake uncanny English Dub Sanji impersonations) and goofing off on Trauma Team. I also may play some Tabletop RPG's with some friends as well.

I've done a horrible job raising money in the past mainly because I focused on collecting cash donations versus donations that can be seen through the website, so I want to change that this year!

Here is a link to my donation page as well!

Also, if people start donating money, I will host a giveaway if I meet double my goal amount. Right now my goal is $100, but if you help me get to $200, a great surprise is in store! I'm hoping to post more details once I get my hands on the merchandise soon enough. =)