Unique Ideas

Anyone who has done fundraising for the 3 Day for the Cure events knows that sometimes you have to get a little… creative to reach your goal.  It is common to see restaurant nights, scrapbooking weekends, car washes, garage sales, canning, letters, and items for sale of every shape and size!  Its those who find something really creative to do or sell that can really stick with you.

Take for example, the 60 Mile Men. Every year, a group of 12 men are chosen for a very special fundraising calendar.  While claiming to be “average” men they agree to pose semi-clad in various situations and are all dedicated to helping find a cure for cancer.  If you read the bios of these guys you realize they are much more than the “average” man.  They are passionate about the cause for various reasons, many of them with personal connections to cancer. 

So visit the site and check out the goods!  Or, sign up for the 3 Day and get a chance to meet one of these handsome hunks!  I can tell you, these guys are anything but “average.”

New Week Please!

So I'm thinking the week has officially ended, right?

Apparently I needed one last thing to be the icing on the cake.  After being at my parent’s all day I arrived home just after 10:30 pm to find that one of my tiny hairballs has puked all over my bed… and not only has it soaked through the duvet cover, it has completely soaked through the down comforter… and my last set of clean sheets… and the mattress pad…

Sigh… its back to the parent’s house tomorrow to do some laundry and in the meantime I'm using my radioactive isolation comforter to sleep tonight. Hopefully it is no longer emitting radiation…

I Spoke Too Soon

Just as I thought the week was turning around, more stuff hit the fan.

**warning for those with a weak tummy**

My sister had a tonsillectomy on Thursday and by Thursday night she was back to the doctor because she was throwing up blood and they needed to cauterize her throat.  She went to bed bed then as my mom headed over to watch her on Friday she got a call saying she was throwing up blood again.  So my mom called the doctor on the way to my sisters house and the doctor called my sister and told her that a little bit of blood was ok… forward to my mom’s arrival at my sister’s house where she was greeted by a nonstop stream of bright red blood coming from my sister’s mouth accompanied by the occasional vomiting episodes. It was at that point my mom put her in the car and started speeding to the hospital.  On the way my sister makes comments such as “I can’t see…” and “I feel like I'm not here anymore..” and starts slumping in the seat so my mom pulls off the highway into her office so the Drs there can assess her and give her life saving measures if needed. 

After a quick check of oxygen levels and a few other things they get back into the car and speed to the hospital only to find the lineup to the ER is 5 cars deep… apparently they can’t get the patient out of car no 1 so security is coming to the cars on the road and seeing if they need assistance.  The guard grabs a chair for Kate and speeds her into the ER as my mom tries to find parking.  Once in ER she got pain meds, anti nausea meds, and 2 liters of fluids while waiting for the ENT. The ENT never showed.  Apparently he was too busy throwing a fit because he wasn’t supposed to be on call so they discharged my sister and told my mom to bring her to the ENT office! Seriously?! They get there and they cauterize anything and everything they can and then tried to charge her for a copay – excuse me, someone from your office was supposed to be on call for ER but instead you made them drive to the office and you have the gall to try to charge extra?!  My mom said no way! She also got the Dr to give my sister a different pain script because the one she had was basically liquid Vicodin. If you remember, I had a really bad reaction to Vicodin after my first surgery… Apparently we can’t hold our pain meds.  After all that she finally stopped bleeding and fell into an exhausted sleep and she seems to be feeling much better today.

Lookin’ Up!

Today was a MUCH better day than the last two.  Thank goodness!! Actually I think it started looking up last night because the team made some decisions, I got our logo designed for Rockers for Knockers, I vented to an old friend and drank a glass of wine…or two!  Then today I sent in over $900 in donations to the 3 Day, was productive at work and then managed to clean my whole house (minus the bathroom…yuck!). 

Tomorrow I have meetings all over the place so I will be in my car a good chunk of time but that means I get to see the sun if it happens to peek through the clouds and can sing at the top of my lungs for approximately 3 hours while I'm commuting! YAY!  Then its on to cleaning the bathroom and making some goodies for my Tastefully Simple Fundraiser on Friday and possibly designing invites to my dinner party fundraiser and flyers for Rockers for Knockers…

Its definitely a packed week but I wouldn’t change it for the world!

Do-Over

Its only Tuesday and i'm sitting here wanting to start the week over. Sunday was great so we can go right back to that day and continue that feeling the rest of the week ok?

Monday I knew would be packed because I had meetings from 9a-5pm straight through...although I did manage to find 10mins to scarf down my leftovers. But of course being a Monday in healthcare everything was just NUTS. People were bombarding me with questions and yelling at me for doing something one way when they wanted it another... uhm here's a tip: if you have clear expectations of what needs to be done then TELL THAT PERSON what you expect! It makes everyone's lives much easier, ok? Then I ended my day with a meeting 40miles to the north of my office which is 30 miles north of my home making for a very long commute.

When I finally got home, I found some papers duct taped to my door. It was an eviction notice - uhm WHAT?!? I looked closer and found it wasn't my name but was my apartment number... then I looked even closer and saw that the building number was wrong too. So it isn't for me BUT these papers from the court were taped to my door (not in an envelope) for God knows how long for all my neighbors to see!! I was embarrased and upset to say the least because you had to look really close to realize it was the wrong apartment so now my neighbors think i'm a deadbeat who doesn't pay my bills. This makes me so angry because I have NEVER - not even when going through cancer and on a reduced income - I repeat NEVER been delinquent with my rent. Then I start thinking, ok this is a court summons so the district court has idiots working for them that can't read an address... what if this happens when they come to get rid of this other lady's stuff?!  She has to appear in court on Feb 16th and if she doesn't and they come to throw her possesions in the dumpster... are they going to come to MY apartment?!  Of course this has me freaking out - especially because I won't be there the 18th-22nd to stop them from being complete idiots!  I'm seriously considering putting a post it note on my door clearly defining my full address to make them pause before destroying my home.

And here we are at Tuesday 10am... I was late for work because I thought the apartment office opened at 8am...nope doesn't until 8:30a so i'm going after work now... then I spun out on a very busy road on the icy drive to work... our major program to work out of has gone down twice already for a total of 2hrs work lost... and the entire hospital lost power for a bit - and I work in the basement with absolutely NO windows!  Thank goodness the generators finally kicked in...

So yes, I would like a do over starting back at Sunday please!