In the meantime, here are some suggestions for ways to commemorate Frozen Pea Friday besides monetary contributions:

1. Mike Gunderloy (@MikeG1) is donating platelets to his local Red Cross today. This is an excellent suggestion for any day of the week, but it’s especially meaningful to those of us at Frozen Pea Fund because chemo patients often need blood or platelets. Check out this post by Kate, who is battling pancreatic cancer and just received two units of blood and additional platelets.

2. Blog about the Frozen Pea Fund or tell your friends about it. Our donation widget is down temporarily, but we’re not going anywhere.

3. Change your avatar on Twitter, Facebook, or other social networking site to a peavatar. Don’t know what that is? Check out the Frozen Pea Friday group on Flickr. And if you haven’t uploaded your peavatar to Flickr, please do so.

4. Add your name to the Frappr map for the Frozen Pea Fund.

5. Check out SharingHope.tv, a new video project by the American Cancer Society that allows people to share their cancer stories in their own way. Here’s what Susan Reynolds had to say about SharingHope.

– Connie Reece

1. Susan’s 2 surgeries (mastectomy and reconstruction) went well and report on lymph nodes came back negative, an encouraging sign. She’s resting well in a private room (finally!) and it’s possible she may be released on Saturday.

2. In the first 15 hours after launch, we raised $3,493 for the Frozen Pea Fund. Cathleen Rittereiser rounded it off to $3,500 and, as promised, is kicking in an additional amount because we met her challenge goal of exceeding a certain amount by a certain time. (Sorry, the exact amount is lost in a mountain of emails and tweets.)

3. Donations came from 118 peaple on 3 continents. While the money will fund research and programs in the U.S., generous-hearted souls from other countries are able to give to the Frozen Pea Fund using the ACS donation form.

3. 272 members of the Frozen Pea Friday group on Flickr have uploaded 262 peavatars. For most of the day, Twitter was awash in green.

4. Susan Reynolds hit the #1 spot on the Tweeterboard. Most of the top 10 most popular today and this week were sporting peavatars!

5. Duncan Riley’s post on TechCrunch was a highlight of a wave of blog coverage; it also was mentioned on the official Twitter blog and was picked up on the front page of the technology section of BBC News online.