I have been running on fumes of late, with work being so ridiculously busy the past 3 weeks and even more so this week, that I almost missed this wonderful subscription drive going on. I became aware of it a couple of days ago when Triciawyse, aka the Pootie Queen, posted her thank you diary. And then Nurse Kelley posted all Cranky-like about technical issues.
I thought it was perfectly lovely for really deserving people to receive gift subscriptions. $100 isn't anything to sneeze at, not to me anyway, because I had to go very economical this year on my Christmas gifts for my family and friends. Money is always a little tight, and right now I'm scrimping and saving every penny I can, to try to be ready for the big move in April (moving from Florida to Oregon in the hopes of better jobs and lives). $100 is a lot to me. It's a lot to many people. But there are diarists on this site that deserve it and more.
So I innocently posted a comment on nomandate's diary last night, expressing that I was very happy that deserving writers were being gifted by generous Kossacks, and that I wished I had the ability to both subscribe myself and someone else right now. I wasn't fishing, really I wasn't, I am just genuinely happy and amazed by the level of generosity on display right now.
Apparently my comment put me on a list.
I didn't receive an email or a Kosmail or anything telling me about it. The only reason I noticed that some lovely, lovely person out there had gifted me with a sub, was because this morning I was poking around my profile, attaching my Twitter account to my Dkos account. I happened to notice, next to my TU status, a new little golden badge. Weird. What is that, I thought. When I moused over it and it said "Subscriber," my heart skipped a beat.
Whoever my lovely secret santa is, THANK YOU. Truly, you have blown my mind with your act of kindness. I think there are people on this site far more deserving than I on those lists, but man.. I am so unbelievably happy today. So happy that some of my exhaustion from work has faded. I'm walking on air today, and that's because of you, my sweet secret santa.
From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU.
Last week I started writing my first in what I hope to be an ongoing series that discusses the world of gaming, and all about the misogyny, racism, and intolerance rampant in gaming. Not as a criticism, mind you, because I am a gamer girl. But rather as an expose, and to explain that world I willingly belong to (and why) to people who aren't gamers. In essence, gaming made a feminist, and there's some good to find in that environment despite the negative rap gaming gets.
I haven't published the first diary because I've been too tired to edit it. But this gift subscription has made me more determined than ever to start this series.
Secret Santa, you have made me so happy today. May you have a wonderful, wonderful Holiday and New Year.