three.hundred.and.six.

it's finally ten pm.

and i'm finally in bed.

there is something crazy about days when you're awake for almost twenty four hours.

i'm actually not sure how your brain convinces your body to stay awake for as long as you need to. maybe it's the complete rush you get from challenging yourself to think and move and operate on far less sleep that you're used to.

or maybe it's just insanity. i mean we all have a little of that rushing through our bones, right?

yes, yes we do.

tonight my heart feels achey.

i'm not really sure why, it just does.

all i know is that i'm the happiest girl to be crawling into bed with the most adorable dog in the world right now.

that today couldn't end in a better way. at.all.

before i sleep though, i want to ask all of you to help this amazing cause that i've just learned about. it's a youth shelter here in toronto called eva's phoenix. the things they do there are amazing. i spent the morning learning about this place, which is really only a three minute walk from my house, and i was blown away.

it makes me happy to know that there are people that care enough about others to dedicate 24 hours a day to a cause.

it makes me even happier to know that there are people in Canada who are taking a stand against youth homelessness as i can't imagine being eighteen and not having a place to go home to.

can you?

i didn't think so.

(i bet you didn't even try to think about it. it's scary, right?)

so, to all of you loyal readers (i actually think you're slowly growing in number - yip yip!) please help me help eva's. right now they are in a race to be qualified for grant that would allow them to do amazing things at the shelter. amazing "let's go green" things. you know, the kind of things that would make the world a better place for us all.

all they need to be qualified is to be in the top ten per cent of ideas.

the way that will happen is if people vote for them. so please, please, go here to vote.

it takes a second to register but it's totally worth it!

and, while you're all online and interested, please sign this petition created by virgin's Re*Generation movement to push the canadian government toward naming november 17th national youth homelessness awareness day. it also only takes a second but can do SO much.

65,000 kids are homeless in canada.

i don't know about you, but i'd give up my sofa bed to one of them any night.

but seeing as i can't, i have voted and signed the petition.

join me in doing the same.