And we’re back! It’s been a bit of a week, so we’re a day or two behind on getting these blogs up, I am very sorry for that, but we’ll get caught up as quick as we can! We’ve raised $105 of our $600 goal in support of CAMH. If you’d like to donate you can do so here. Let’s get right into it. The Choice Rachel pulled off a bit of an unexpected win in night 1 of this…
Welcome to week 2 of the Charity Challenge where Rachel and I are playing board games every day for a month to raise funds for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. To date we’ve raised $105 of our $600 goal! Thank you Aunt Barbara and Grandma for being our latest donors. If you’d like to donate (thank you!) you can do so here. The Aside Before we get started I just wanted to say that my thoughts and support…
We’ve reached the end of the first week of the Charity challenge in support of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. We’ve already raised $70 of our $600 goal – thank you to my parents for being the most recent donation. If you’d like to donate, you can do so here. We appreciate you donating, cheering us on and following along with this process every year. Thank you all so much. The Choice Week 1 is already wrapped up…
Another day, another Charity Challenge game night! Rachel and I are playing board games every night for 5 weeks to raise funds in support of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. We’ve raised $35 of our $600 of our goal for this year, if you’d like to donate you can do so here. The Choice Rachel lost last night and the result is she’s in a bit of a corner – she’s 1-2 down on the week and if…
Welcome back and thank you for joining us for Night 3 of the 2021 O’Sullivan charity challenge in support of CAMH. We’ve raised $35 of our $600 goal so far and we appreciate everyone’s continued support! If you would like to donate you can do so here. The Choice The week is tied 1-1 and because I won on Night 2 Rachel gets the choice this time around. Our moods are both basically the same at the moment, we’re having…
And we’re back for night 2 of the month long challenge raising funds and awareness for CAMH, the Center for Addiction and Mental Health. Thank you to Benjamin for his donation to get us started! We’ve now raised $35 of our $600 goal. If you’d like to donate you can do so here. The Choice Since I was a big fat night 1 loser I get to pick our game to kick off night 2. I’m feeling good at this…
And we’re back for another year! Thank you for joining us as we raise a little money and hopefully some awareness for mental health this month. If you’re not sure what we’re doing here, I just put up a little explainer here. This is the first night of the challenge and Rachel and I are chomping at the bit to get going, so let’s go! The Choice Since I’m the reigning champion (did I mention I won last year?) Rachel…
Hurray! Guys! It’s time! The time has finally come for the 2021 O’Sullivan Charity Challenge! This year we’re raising money for CAMH, supporting mental health research and care. If you’d like to donate, you can do so here. As you may (or may not) know, I’ve been openly confronting anxiety and depression in the last few years and this is a cause that’s near and dear to my heart. Throughout the month I plan to share more about my story (I…
2020 has been a strange year in terms of board gaming. I’ve played more games than ever (I’ll have a post soon with my 2020 playing stats) but most of it was done online and that’s created a strange dynamic – some games I haven’t been able to play (Clank Legacy moving up into the #2 spot is an example of a game that the pandemic has killed for me, and my score more or less is because I’m excited…
And with that, the Charity Challenge is complete for another year! Thank you all so much for following along. This year was different in a couple of ways – COVID meant that mental health was more important than ever. It also meant that our lives were disrupted and nothing seemed normal. We also have a baby coming at the end of November meaning we had to do the charity challenge a month early this year. So in a year where…