Please Help Paladin and Paladinwife...Award winners listed!

[Protean]

It may have taken me awhile, but I sent what I could your way Paladin Folk. I hope I wasn't too late to help.

 

[Paladin]

It may have taken me awhile, but I sent what I could your way Paladin Folk. I hope I wasn't too late to help.

Thank you! and no, it wasn't too late. In fact our total right now is..........(drum roll please)..............$3012.32!!!! Hooray, we did it! Thanks to our family here at EN World getting the word out and donating like crazy. I'll be working out the figures of how many donators and such a little later. If anyone wants to keep donating, we still have a lot of stock bags left and of course this would only serve to help us even more. You can also just order a custom bag...we are still making them to order folks!

Paladin and I will be drawing names and such for the donated prizes to be given away a little later also! Right now we need to pay a few bills. I know there are some of you who said you would be getting your donations in this week and we will wait until this weekend to do the drawings. A few questions though: #1-Do we want to do the drawings live? Maybe everone get online at 7:00pm Sunday. We can e-mail everyone who donated a number and then do a live online drawing. Or we could just draw and let the winners know who they are. #2-We don't want any donators to miss out on the drawings because we don't have their money yet due to mail time, etc. What should we do about these people?

Let us know your thoughts. You will never know how overjoyed we are to have gotten the kind of response we received and the help that we have gotten. I would have never believed that my small pray and plea to you all would have been answered in such a huge way! Paladin and I are flabbergasted. We have had many blessings bestowed upon us these last several days, but the best one is the knowledge that we have more friends out there than we could ever count! We think you are all truely great!!! Paladinwife

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Hi Paladins! I'm really glad you have enough to help cover everything. I'd suggest just doing the drawing and telling who won, because getting so many people together would be an exercise in patience. And the boards might overload or something.

My other question is (and pardon if I'm being too forward, please ignore if I overstep my bounds) how are you fixed for the future? Were there any job possibilities in the offing? I think everyone here wants to make sure you guys are not only doing well now but will continue to do so for the forseeable future. Because we all care about your family.

 

[bloodymage]

Hiya guys! There were a lot more prayers for you than just your own, dear. And sometimes God listens to the little ones best, eh?
I'm so glad. Now I won't lose my job!

Actually, I'm posting to let you know that I'm hoping you hear from Brad of Gamer's Keepe. I kind o' prodded him on putting in an order.

 

[Paladin]

Hi Paladins! I'm really glad you have enough to help cover everything. I'd suggest just doing the drawing and telling who won, because getting so many people together would be an exercise in patience. And the boards might overload or something.

Good thinking.

My other question is (and pardon if I'm being too forward, please ignore if I overstep my bounds) how are you fixed for the future? Were there any job possibilities in the offing? I think everyone here wants to make sure you guys are not only doing well now but will continue to do so for the forseeable future. Because we all care about your family.

I did get one job lead, no Project Management potential right now, but I've been scouring the company's job postings for something else I might be able to do. A lot of folks are checking around their companies for openings, and passing my resume around. Hopefully something will happen in that arena. In the mean time I'm still looking, of course, on my own and hoping that this economy will really start taking off again. The really bad part has been that there are so many people applying for the same jobs I am with a LOT more experience. Talk about an employer's market! Some job postings down here are calling for 10-15 years experience and a Bachelor's degree, I've only got 5 years and I spent my "college years" jumping out of airplanes for Uncle Sam. I've got valuable experience from MCI WorldCom handling tens of millions of dollars of projects, but sometimes employer's don't take that into account, they just look for the little paper diploma on the wall.

 

[William Ronald]

Paladin and Paladinwife,

First, CONGRATULATIONS!!! You were in my thoughts and in my prayers this weekend. I am glad that you have reached and surpassed your goal.

I received my bag and was very pleased with it. I plan to show it to my friend who owns a local comic/gaming shop.

Good luck in the job hunt!

 

[Bloodroot]

Where would you be if someone had donated condoms to your parents?
Karma has a bad way of coming back on you.

I'm a few days late in reply. I got to this thread via the link on Sean's board. I already sent my donation, because I love-love-love the bag you guys made for me.

That having been said, I would simply like to note that that my parents did have birth control and I exist because they wanted me. I am an only child mostly by their choice(my mother did become pregnant a second time, but miscarried and decided against trying again). Given the incomes of my parents and their subsequent divorce and assorted financial hardships I think I can say things would have been much worse with more expenses from more children.

So, in short, if someone had donated condoms to my parents I'd be where I am today. If someone had donated anti-condoms, however, my life might have been a lot worse.

Now, THAT having been said I would like the call the original poster an ass. Even if you hated Paladin and Paladinswife and wanted to do them ill, it would still be inappropriate to say those sort things now.

 

[Shade1]

Congrats on meeting your goal!. I meant to get this to ya earlier, alas I still hope it helps some.

I also posted your story last week on PLanetADnD.com and MassPBem. I also have a few gaming stored around here that Ill mention your store too.

I hope everything gets better and its wonderful to see the gaming community pulling together. Our prayers are with you.

Shade

 

[Paladin]

Congrats on meeting your goal!. I meant to get this to ya earlier, alas I still hope it helps some.

I also posted your story last week on PLanetADnD.com and MassPBem. I also have a few gaming stored around here that Ill mention your store too.

I hope everything gets better and its wonderful to see the gaming community pulling together. Our prayers are with you.

Shade

Thanks for that Shade1, we really appreciate it!
And, Bloodroot, thanks for that response. 2 of our children were unplanned, 1 while using birth control, the other after they told us we couldn't have anymore at all without medical intervention. I think God put in his two cents on these two and I'd never give any of them back even if I could. And up until this job layoff, we were able to support them all just fine. We may be struggling, but the children are not at fault here. They've helped to make us who we are and they keep us grounded, besides someone has to create the next generations of gamers, and we'll have at least three generations covered!

 

[Mark]

Thank you! and no, it wasn't too late. In fact our total right now is..........(drum roll please)..............$3012.32!!!! Hooray, we did it!

HUZZAH!!!



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