Misha Collins Birthday Appreciation

This blog is strictly to discuss what we, his fans, should do for the wonderful Misha Collins on his birthday, August 20th, 2013. The main idea is for each fan to do one or more random acts that day, those that can donate can also do so, and then we will all write them down in a book, along with what each of us think of Misha, and then send it to him. Sending lots of love and telling him in your own words how wonderful you all think he is on Twitter that day could be a nice addition too, it would let him and everyone know how loved and wonderful he is. MAIN GOAL: Show our dedication and love for him as a person and actor, and also show his fans are the best ones and make him proud of us. Misha LOVES to help and make a difference. It would make him really happy if we did this, we would simultaneously celebrate his birthday and show our appreciation while supporting his charity and helping others. He would be very grateful and proud to have such good and dedicated fans.

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casdreams answered: Why not contact Random Acts—frame it as wanting to do a random act of kindness for Misha to thank him for all that he’s done.

This is idea is so awesome, I didn't even think about that! Thank you so much, casdreams!! I will send them an email, they will surely read it and answer me! Have you sent your birthday message to us? There's still time =DDD

[happybirthdaymisha]

Hello Mishamigos!!!

The holiday season is coming up, is everyone excited?

I want to apologize to all of you!!!

1) For me not giving any news for months now;

2) For still not having sent your kind birthday messages to Misha.

I know it's been months and it's really late, but I didn't have the time until now for it, but what counts is the thought right? I'm sure he'll still love to read all your messages now, he's all for kindness and understanding after all =)

And I need your help now!

The major problem I have right now is how to send the book to Misha. I'm thinking doing it online because it's easier and faster, but I don't know where to sent it. Do you guys know of any e-mail it could be sent where he'll for sure see it?

A friend of mine gave the great idea of making a tumblr post with all the messages and then link him the post on twitter. And although this is great, it's kind of last resort because I want it to be more personal, and a sure way for him to see it, which he may not via twitter...

Please give me any ideas you guys might have, or if you know any contact... Let's work together so this idea can work. Please??

[happybirthdaymisha]

YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!

I have been absent for a week now because I was on vacation, and I come back to 400 "happy birthday Misha" messages??

That is so awesome, thank you so much guys!!! You deserve a big Misha kiss!

KEEP SENDING YOUR MESSAGES! His day has passed, but we still have to organize things so it will take a while, so continue to send your good wishes to [email protected].

And also, did you guys do good on Misha's day? Did you do Random Acts of Kindness and/or donated to it? Did you send Misha a happy birthday on twitter? Tell us all about it, don't be shy! =D

[happybirthdaymisha]

Birthday wishes to Misha

Hello, Misha lovers, how are you today??

As you all know, Misha's birthday is fast approaching, and we think that it's better if we start collecting all of your personal birthday wishes to deliver to him!

Please send your birthday wishes to the following email: [email protected]

We figure that it's easier this way since Tumblr eats a lot of messages sent to the askbox. If, for some reason, you can't send to our email then you can send your wishes to our askbox of course, but if you can the email is preferable.

You can say whatever you want to him: wish him a happy birthday, say why you admire him, wish him the best for his future career, etc. We just ask that you try not to write something too long, be brief but meaningful.

And one last favour, please spread the word! We want for everyone who loves Misha to have their chance at wishing him a Happy Birthday and reblogging is the way to go for that!

Let's make his birthday an excellent one!!

[happybirthdaymisha]

Random Acts Ideas

These random acts ideas are great and a good guidance for those that don't know what they should do on this day. Hope they help all of you!

Credit goes to: http://randomacts4misha.tumblr.com/actsofkindness, thank you for allowing us to post this on our blog!

Acts of Kindness

Here’s a list of ideas for random acts of kindness you can do for the Random Actapocalypse, or even any other day! This is a continuous list, and if you have any ideas you don’t see here, let us know and we’ll add it and give you credit. :)

Buy someone’s food or drink who’s in line behind you at a restaurant, starbucks, etc

Flynndanarra suggested: “We are planning to get tea, the kind that comes with  individually wrapped bags, put in ziplock bags a tea bag and a card with a little note that will include a recipe for home made iced tea (because it will be summer) and a short explanation of the project with the Random Acts website URL. I will be wearing my Random Acts shirt. We will likely have a Happy Birthday, Misha sign with the logo on it and we will hand out as many of these as we can make."

Volunteer to wash cars for an individual, or maybe even get some friends together to do a ‘big’ car wash with optional donations to Random Acts

An anon suggested that if you know someone who has young kids who might need a break, volunteer to babysit/entertain them for the day or for a few hours. Maybe you can even do other acts of kindness with the kids, letting them help and have fun

Buy someone flowers, or hand out flowers to people. Make someone smile :)

Write encouraging notes and hang them up all over the place or hand them out directly to people. This would work great in school or in a busy sidewalk/city or maybe even in a store

Volunteer to clean someone’s house/yard

Volunteer at an animal shelter

Volunteer to help out or clean a place such as a soup kitchen. Or, where I (Sarah) live, there is the Ronald McDonald house that I once cleaned a lot of the things with my youth group before. Also there’s a monthly soup kitchen kind of thing that I’ve volunteered at, as well as a place in my county that sells clothes for cheap, and I volunteered with my youth group to help organize once. Things like that would be great

Go into a hospital and visit with people, bring flowers and gifts and encouraging cards and words. If it’s children you visit, maybe you can put on a puppet show or read books or color with them

If you want to do something on your computer, you could send anons to a bunch of different blogs. Be encouraging, nice, uplifting. Make people smile

Charliefishxd suggested: “Standing in a city (maybe at a train station) and giving free hugs, giving people on the streets roses, asking at an elderly home if you can help there and spend some time with the seniors there, or at an orphanage, maybe like giving old toys of yours to children who don’t have ‘em, helping at an animal home, going into an elementary school or primary school or kindergarten and read stories to them

Sirgaysalot said that they were thinking about buying a ton of tacos from Taco Bell and giving them out to homeless people

On the topic of helping homeless people, you can watch THIS video for inspiration 

Basically the same as above, give care packages to the homeless

Send care packages to deployed soliders

Write a letter to a deployed solider

Perform music or some other talent at a nursing/retirement home, children’s hospital, or something like that

Tutor someone for free

Volunteer your own self work for free. For example, if someone needs yard work, house work, ect, volunteer yourself for that

Let someone go in line in front of you

Hold doors open for people (even though this should be a thing you do anyways)

SMILE. Never underestimate the power of a smile.

Make blankets for the homeless and hand them out or donate them somewhere

Read to a child or an elderly

Do something nice for your local fire or police department, or if you live nearby a military base. Maybe you could go there and give them cookies or something else you’ve cooked. Something along those lines?

If you see construction workers nearby, make them some lemonade and take it to them for free. Bring up the topic of Random Acts while you’re at it

Pick up trash

"Adopt" a soldier, or a child, or an animal. Here’s two links on adopting a soldier: |1|2|

Buy a pizza for someone and have it delivered to their house

Or take that pizza and go find someone you don’t know and offer to share it with them. Make a new friend

Collect canned for for a local food bank

Donate blood

Donate used clothing, books, ect

Donate your hair to children who need it. |x|

Have a charity day at work or at school

Have a charity event for a local charity or for one you feel passionate about. Whether it’s Random Acts or not. If you do this, make sure you have permission from the organization to do a fundraiser. Random Acts requires one

Help someone load or unload their groceries

If you ride a bus or a taxi, do something nice for them. Or at the least, thank them for what they do

If you see a soldier, thank him or her for their service

Put gas in someone’s car

Plant a tree or garden

Make people laugh and smile

Write a thank you note. Maybe to someone who’s made a huge difference in your life

Forgive someone

Be spontaneous and do something for someone that they’ve always wanted or that you know they would love

Have a lemonade stand and give the lemonade away free. Maybe have a can for donations to Random Acts or any other charity

Ask if you can help

Hand out “help coupons"

Be honest, return lost belongings to the owner

Spend time with someone

Eat lunch with someone new

I just saw an idea on a random acts of kindness website, and it said “make a birdfeeder" and that gave me the idea to set up a booth some where and have kids come and for free, let them make and paint birdhouses/feeders or something like that. 

Here are two links to help find charities and homeless shelters near you 

Adopt a pet

Leave a generous tip - in America, waiters are usually paid very very low hourly and basically their entire income is based off of tips. I’m a waitress, and I live off tips. Love it when people live a nice one c:

Talk with a homeless person

Pick up someone’s groceries for them

Mow someone’s yard

Drive someone somewhere

Welcome a new neighbor to the neighborhood. Bring them something

Bring your co-workers or classmates something special, such as doughnuts or cookies

Help build a home. |x|

Become an organ donor

Treat someone to the movies

Leave change in vending machine for the next person

Buy desert for a stranger

Make a wish come true. Whether it’s something for a friend, or through Make A Wish Foundation. |x|

Make dinner for firefighters

Leave quarters at laundromat

Help someone find a job

Surprise your coach/pastor/teacher/instructor with something special to show appreciation

Help change a tire

Host a toy drive

Collect coats to donate

Take all your spare change and donate it to something

Put change in a parking meter

Someone made a list of fifty or more ideas for random acts of kindness for the Random Actapocalypse, so here guys, check it out! http://ahoycastiel.tumblr.com/post/49722029800

KEEP IN MIND THAT ANY KIND OF THING YOU OR YOUR FRIENDS DO TO RAISE MONEY FOR RANDOM ACTS MUST BE PUT IN A FORM THAT YOU FILL OUT ON THE RANDOM ACTS WEBSITE. ANYONE FUNDRAISING UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST HAVE A PARENT OR GUARDIAN FILL OUT A FORM ALSO. I WILL LINK THESE TO YOU BELOW. PLEASE PLEASE PLESAE DO THIS. WE WERE TOLD DIRECTLY FROM THE RANDOM ACTS ORGANIZATION THAT THIS IS A MUST.

For fundraising: https://podio.com/webforms/901747/38411

For fundraisers under the age of 18: https://podio.com/webforms/944968/41076

Also, we were told this, and I quote, "Please note that it’s helpful if you set some restrictions and parameters around your fundraiser. Please limit the ways in which people will raise money to two or three different fundraisers maximum and encourage your supporters to act only in these ways." 

So it is very highly recommended that we keep the ways we all raise money to a very, very minimum. Selling things on Etsy.com is one (I think that’s how it works), IF anyone does something like a car wash please let us know so that can be two, and if you are planning on doing anything else, please please let us know. We’d like to keep this limited, but the random acts of kindness that you do are limitless.

[happybirthdaymisha]

Announcement

Hello, Misha fans! How are you doing today??

I just want to suggest to you guys that if you have sent or are planning to send an ask, don't hesitate to send it again if we don't answer to you in 24h, because it's most likely that tumblr ate the ask. It has been doing that a lot lately and I have talked with some people who have sent an ask but it never arrived to the askbox.

Any suggestions/ideas/etc you have are welcome! Come help us in making Misha's day a good one! Have a good day everybody ;)

[happybirthdaymisha]

Hi There! Excellent Idea!! :D i had asked the fandom 'what to do for misha's birthday this year' and almost no one replied... gladly I found you guys and this is IT. As for making the book part, you should create a tag here on tumblr or twitter and copy/paste them on the book format you guys are doing! (for example: Misha's39thBday or smthng) it should be very brief so everyone can be included and it should have a personal birthday wish for him :3 also have our names and countries in it

its me again :p one thing i dont get is how are you going to do the book? (also you should set a date to visit and copy/paste the stories/Bday wishes from the tag) so yeah :D (I TALK TO MUCH BUT ITS FOR MISHA)

Hi! Thanks for the interest and participation! You don’t talk too much, that’s what we want the most, people’s input on the idea, their suggestions and help =)

The tag is a good idea, thanks. And yes, that is what we’re gonna do, every person that donated/performed random acts will put their name and country, and will then write down their donation/random acts and then a personal birthday wish to Misha (and if they want what Misha means to them and why they did this in his birthday in a few words).

About the book, personally we still don’t know HOW we’re going to make it, it’s still a rough idea, I’m still thinking of what is the best way to do it and deliver it to him. Do you have any suggestions?

Our followers may know more about this than us, please everyone!! Give us your ideas about the book and the best way to make it!

[happybirthdaymisha]

I'm going to do my best to help you ! This plan is basically awesome, I think Misha's amazing and I'd be glad to participate from France :) (He has fans from everywhere !) I'd LOVE to write a little something in the book you want to send to him !

Thank you for your support, we’re very happy to have you participating with us =D

Yes, he DOES have fans everywhere in the world and that is amazing! In fact, I think it would also be good to put in the book, in front of the name of each person, their nationality because I think he would love to know that his fans are from all over the world and all admire him and are affected by him, no matter the distance =)

I hope this all goes great! With all of your help and participation, I’m sure we can make Misha’s birthday very memorable =D

[happybirthdaymisha]

this is such a great idea! I will be sure to donate, perform plenty of kind acts and wish misha a happy birthday! thank you!

I am so glad! Thank you for standing with us to congratulate Misha in the best way!

[happybirthdaymisha]

Yes, I'm in! Check out the randomacts4misha blog if you haven't already. You two are on exactly the same page. :)

Glad to have you with us on this, thank you so much!

And thanks for the suggestion, I didn’t know that blog even existed, we’re definitely going to check it out!

[happybirthdaymisha]

I have a question, do I just do nice things and send them to you so you can write them in that book? :)

We’re still not exactly sure how we’re going to fulfil that part of the plan. It’s just a rough idea we came up because we want Misha to know all the good things we did and how he inspired us to do it.

I don’t know if the best way to do it is for people to send us asks with what they did, along with what they want to say to Misha, and then we’ll create the book here..? I don’t know the easier way to do this….

Does anyone have any idea? Please don’t hesitate to send your ideas and suggestions about the project, your input is always welcome!

[happybirthdaymisha]

Hi there! I just wanted to say that I LOVE the idea of this blog and how we could show Misha how much we all love him!!! I just hope he will hear about it so he can be proud of us. One question: does it matter where you come from? I live in Germany and I would love to take part at it and even include my friends. But anyway: THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR WONDEFUL IDEA! <3

Of course it doesn’t matter, we’re all people! The world is vast and there are people needing help everywhere. I’m from Portugal, the other person running this blog along with me is from Argentina and we’re going to participate. It doesn’t matter what part of the world we live in, all it matters is that on Misha’s day specially (but on other days too, it’s always good to help people in need whenever you can) we help others with acts of kindness from wherever we are.

You’re quite welcome! I just admire this man so much and wanted to make him so proud of us as much as we’re proud of him, so I thought this would be a great idea =D

Thank you for wanting to participate, the more the better =D

[happybirthdaymisha]

Just wanted to say, LOVE this idea/collaboration. I am actually working on collecting money to donate to Random Acts at New Jersey con next year. I'm hoping to have close to a $1,000 but whatever I end up getting saved I will be happy with. I have a barista job and I save as much of my tips as I can which is mostly $1's and change. I have $34 as of now and I have only been there a few weeks (: So I guess this also could count as an idea to help/donate? Haha. Thanks!! (:

That is a great idea!!! The fact that you’re saving so much money ahead of time and coming from tips, that is amazing, thank you so much! Misha would certainly praise you for your kindness and thoughtfulness =D Keep going with that idea and don’t give up ;)

[happybirthdaymisha]

Hello, Misha lovers!

This blog was created for the sole purpose to share a certain special day with Misha. We all know what a wonderful person he is and how much he cares about us fans, how much he appreciates our support and how much he gives himself to us.

Well, we can show our appreciation back on his birthday: August 20th, 2013 (Tuesday). Misha is turning 39 years-old this year and we should make it really special for him.

But how can we achieve this? We can:

Donate to his charity Random Acts (those that can, no matter the amount, every cent helps);

Perform one or more random acts of kindness (it can be anything, small or big: help an old lady cross the street, give some food or drink to a homeless person, give old clothes to the poor, spend some hours in a home giving company to the elderly, help a disabled person get to a place they want to go, etc. Remember: any gesture, no matter how small you think it is, might make another person very happy and improve their day);

Tweet Misha, wish him a happy birthday and say what he means to you, spread love all around the internet by acknowledging the good impact Misha has on our lives just by existing and being his amazing self (add @mishacollins to your tweet so that he can see your post). By doing this, not only will he see but others will too and more people will know how wonderful he is and become fans and so increase the number of his twitter followers and admirers.

After doing all of this on his birthday, we will then transcribe all of the random acts each performed to a book (or something similar and easy to read), where we can add some words of love for Misha too (why we did the acts of kindness on his birthday and his influence, for example), and then when it's finished, we will send it to him. I'm sure he will be very moved by it (and us).

Although we know the people who are wanting to have a 2nd Mishapocalypse on his birthday have good intentions, the reason we think it is not a good idea is because:

Misha got hate for it the first time and he doesn't deserve it at /all/, much less on his birthday which should be a happy day all around;

The novelty has worn off and so it wouldn't be much fun this time, and it would just spam everyone’s dashes and upset even more people than last time (which will lead to him receiving hate, as I've pointed out);

Having his face all over the internet won't accomplish anything and won't help anyone (which is what Misha wants and does most: help people, no matter how small the gesture is. Misha quoted some years ago: ”There’s all this energy that goes into being fans of the show, I started thinking maybe we can channel some of that energy into doing something good for the world.”  Let's honour his wishes and do some good in the world in his name).

So we think that we can fulfill the main purpose the mishapocalypse had, show our devotion to Misha Collins, by instead supporting his charity and help people everywhere while also showing our respect and love for him.

Let's make Misha proud to have us as his fans and make him have the best birthday ever!

PS: Feel free to add suggestions/constructive criticisms on our askbox and submit things! Or just ask us anything you wish, it's open for everyone (except for hate, that is never okay).