After you register your Care2 account, you may want to set up some information, just like any other social networking site. But unlike other social networking sites, you can list what global issues you care about the most. You can join groups that include people that share your interests and make friends among the other members. And if you think someone is doing a real good job at Care2, send them a green star or eCard to thank him/her for making a difference!

By making a Care2 account, you get your own Care2 email address, which is your username followed by @care2.com. Care2 has a click-to-donate section, where you can click to help save the rainforests, stop global warming, find a cure for breast cancer, help children in need, save baby seals, etc. once a day. This may sound too good to be true, and that’s what I thought at first. But I soon discovered that foundations such as Children International, The Nature Conservatory, Carbonfund.org, the Jane Goodall Institute, etc. These sponsors make your clicks worthwhile by offsetting a day of computer use, providing three days of wolf adoption, ending violence against women, helping the world out.

Care2 also includes the Petitionsite, where you can make petitions to groups or individuals in order to help the planet. Maybe a coal company is destroying all the land it mines at. Make a petition to that company to knock it off! You can sign others’ petitions as well.

Finally, you can earn rewards called “butterfly credits.” Butterfly credits are rewards that you get for doing things good at Care2. They are really easy to earn. You can earn credits for logging in every day, commenting on a Care2 article, signing or making a petition, sending another Care2 member an eCard or email via Care2, and more! You can redeem butterfly credits and help the earth even more! You can spend 50 butterfly credits to have Carbonfund.org offset a pound of carbon, 500 to have Trees for the Future plant a tree, 1,000 to have Population Services International give life saving rehydration salts, etc. There are 18 ways to redeem your credits!

As of the time of this writing, there are 15,132,644 Care2 members, with new ones joining every minute! Be a part of this great website that has been around since 1998, because it feels good to do good!

Just go to www.Care2.com to join me at Care2!

Signing a birthday card in a funny way can lead to peals and peals of laughter in the office or at a birthday party. Find out how to be funny in a birthday card at the drop of a hat.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need

A funny Birthday card

A casual atmosphere

An easygoing friend who won’t make a big deal out of things with HR if you are at work.

A smile on your face

A pen

Step One

Pick up the pen and the birthday card.

Step Two

Write one of these three phrases on the birthday card with the pen:

“Shine on, you crazy diamond!”

or

“Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight!” or

This is the day that you were “Born to Be Alive.”

If you have a friend from the island of Jamaica say: “One love, one heart, have a nice birthday and feel all right.”

Step Three

If you have a friend that is African-American you can sing Stevie Wonder’s song, “Happy Birthday To Ya, Happy Birthday” to them and they will appreciate it more.

Step Four

Put a smile on your face and hand your friend the card and you will surely get a smile or a chuckle in return.

Overall Tips & Warnings

Only do this for a real friend. This is not something that you would do for someone who is an adult but has not yet learned how to stop being a tattletale and go run stuff into the supervisor’s office or even worse Human Resources.

Laugh with your friend and not at your friend to make the cake, icing and milk go down more smoothly. Also laughter burns off a little bit of calories from the cake you just ate.

“Happy Birthday to Ya, Happy Birthday” by Stevie Wonder is a great song to sing at a house party for a friend.

“One love, one heart, have a nice birthday and feel all right.” Is a nice thing to say to a Jamaican and even better try to get them to talk about their country a little bit and your listening to them talk will be your “gift” to them. Happy Birthday All!

“Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight!” is from KC & Sunshine band and is a little more mainstream to use if you are not sure that they like Pink Floyd or not.

“Shine on you crazy diamond!” is for someone who is wild or a stoner or a slacker and knows Pink Floyd music very well.

Now if the person is not a good friend or is a tattletale or likes to spread gossip about you that could hurt your career just write “Best Wishes” in the card and sign your name beneath that and then hand the office card to the next prat who has to sign it. This way, you have covered your own ass, you know?

Other points to consider:

I love “shine on you crazy diamond.” I’ll have to use that next time I need to sign a b-day card at work. I can never think of anything good to say. Thanks!

LOL!

I thought ’shine on you crazy diamond’ was for someone older than dirt! Silly me! Nice article – thank you.