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#PrayForOklahoma — How You Can Help

by Elizabeth Posted on May 21, 2013

Further updates on how you can help will be posted on my Facebook page.

Damage video

I want to thank everyone that checked on me and my family yesterday. We are fine. People in Oklahoma need your help. I’m putting some information together for anyone who would like to help those who lost homes and loved ones yesterday. Many of them lost all that they have. I’ll be updating this as I get more information.

To donate $10 via text:

Text STORM to 80888 for Salvation Army
Text REDCROSS to 90999 for Red Cross (Please be aware that funds donated to the Red Cross in this way go to national relief efforts and are not guaranteed to help Oklahomans. Seek out a local chapter of the Red Cross to help Oklahomans.)
Text FOOD to 32333 for Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma

There is a comprehensive list of places you can donate over at NewsOK.com.

Donations to Southern Baptist Disaster Relief are currently being routed to Oklahoma and the needs here.

Give blood — Oklahoma Blood Institute currently has an adequate supply, but there is always a need for blood. If you can, especially if you have O- or other Rh- blood types, please make an appointment to give blood or stop by one of the many blood drives going on around local casinos this week.

Norman residents — LOCAL will be taking food to volunteers and will accept and deliver your donations. I’m thinking water bottles and such, but I would call the restaurant before you bring anything by – (405) 928-5600 — 2262 West Main Street, Norman, OK.

The Pet Food Pantry of Oklahoma is in need of donations:

Items needed at the Animal Resource Center – 7949 S I-35 Service Rd, Oklahoma City, OK 73149:

Gallons of Water

Paper Towels

Toilet Paper

People Snacks – Bread, Peanut Butter, Crackers, Cereal Bars – anything non-perishable and easy.

Blankets/Sheets/Pillows

These items are for those coming in with injured or animals that are in need – we have plenty of supplies for animals, with vet care on site but need supplies for owners that would like to stay with their animals – again please email Tami at info@petfoodpantryokc.org for more details

Dropoff/donation information from KFOR

Current needs:

If you live south of Moore, donate items to @journeychurchtv. Here’ s a list of items needed: journeychurch.tv/may-20-relief/ #prayforOklahoma

— Wendy Johnson (@wen1027) May 21, 2013

Taking donations for needed supplies today at both @peopleschurchtv locations – OKC and MWC.

— Mike Koehler (@mkokc) May 21, 2013

Those looking to support Oklahoma can donate blood for patients still in the hospital. Find a location near you ow.ly/lf2e8

— OK Blood Institute (@okblood) May 21, 2013

Please stay tuned here & on Facebook throughout the day for specific needs! Right now we’re needing volunteers here at 9am! #journeyrelief

— JourneyChurch.tv (@journeychurchtv) May 21, 2013

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For those who suffered loss yesterday - FEMA has a website and phone lines for those who sustained losses: DisasterAssistance.gov and 1-800-621-FEMA(3362).

Tornado document and photo recovery – Facebook group

Pray.

Posted in Daily, Oklahoma, Weather | Tagged donate, moore, Oklahoma, tornado, weather | 5 Comments

My Favorite Songs From Musicals — Part 4

by Elizabeth Posted on May 20, 2013

I’m back. Let’s skip the excuses and get to the music.

53. All That Jazz — Chicago
Another one that’s just fun to sing. I’m probably in the minority here, but I don’t care for the show all that much. Just a few select songs. The version I picked to share is from Glee (FYI, I haven’t been a fan of this show since the first season) just because I think it’s fun.

Continue reading →

Posted in Daily, Music, Videos | Tagged Music, musicals | 3 Comments

Sunday Morning Coffee

by Elizabeth Posted on May 19, 2013

YAWN. We didn’t get in until super late last night from a fabulous wedding (my cousin got married! photos later), had to drive through a raging thunder storm with some scary greenish/bluish glow in the air (looked like hail), an enormous lowering that thankfully did nothing more than sit there and glare at us while I prayed that it would stay in the sky, and a bag full of York Pieces got me through the whole thing.

SPRING IN OKLAHOMA, you are not good for my nerves. I don’t care that I’ve lived here forever. White knuckling a steering wheel in the middle of the night, going 20 miles per hour on the interstate while the car is pounded with heavy rain is NOT my idea of a good time. (Luckily, I did not have to drive.)

Looks like we have another interesting afternoon ahead of us. I was supposed to do a family photo shoot today, but I’m already thinking that will be rescheduled.

I Believe In Story’s Writing Advice from the Spice Girls
I’d never heard of the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry until I saw this photo from THIS LAND and now I want to go. Go with me?
The most incongruous book covers of all time — Everyone has seen that Anne of Green Gables cover (which has since been pulled from Amazon), but my favorite is definitely Wuthering Heights
“…the impulse to connect the dots and to share what you’ve connected, this urge is what makes you an artist and a writer and the formats are infinite.” — this talk by Amanda Palmer is fabulous
The Challenge of Friendship (for the Highly Sensitive Person)
I love stamps and this (not so) little project makes me giddy. It also makes me want to buy chunks of whatever you carve stamps out of and an exacto knife.

Posted in Daily, Friends & Family, Oklahoma, Sunday Morning Coffee, Weather, Writing | Tagged Books, friendship, hsp, Oklahoma, weather, wedding, writing | Leave a comment

Sunday Morning Coffee

by Elizabeth Posted on May 12, 2013

Happy Mother’s Day to my mama. I’ll be seeing her later this morning. A few days ago I wrote a really, really long post about motherhood and blogging culture and where I am in life and I sidelined it — because even though no offense was meant, it’s guaranteed to be taken by some. If I’m going to share my feelings on all that, I’ll wait until after today.

Just…love your mom today. Or a mother figure in your life. If we all just focused on that, I think things would be better.

A strong cup of Tribute Blend has me sort of awake this morning. Yikes. And we’re leaving soon. I need to wake up.

A Million Ways to ‘Lean In’ — a great piece on work (writing) and motherhood
“I take comfort in knowing that, despite how things seem at present, goodbyes were never meant to be, and are, in fact, on the way out.”
Something to try! — “Stormwriting is essentially a heartbrainstorm, a process by which you open your heartbrain and provoke it to not merely dump stuff out, but generate new questions and ideas that lead you to more good stuff: The stuff that becomes building blocks for your book.”
ASMR, the Good Feeling No One Can Explain — I’ll come back to this later. Right now I’ll tell you that I’ve experienced this since I was at least 4-years-old. If you don’t understand it, you don’t and that’s fine. People who do…do. (h/t Misti who brought my attention to this. I didn’t even know it had a name.)