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5K Wet Dreams

August 26th, 2007

I don’t even know where to begin.

The last time I blogged, I blogged about my period. That was a long, long time ago. I wish there was a way for me to show you what I’ve been up to since then, like in a comic book or something, I mean, could I really have been too busy for blogging?

Oh my word, yes.

Saturday was the 5K Run and Family Fun Walk that my two amazing friends and myself put on for our local Friends of Heroes Light The Night team, which meant that after Wednesday was crunch time as far as preparation goes. I can only be so grateful that Lynette, Misti and I are very, very organized individuals so there was no last minute craziness going on that we created due to disorganization. Before I go on, the children also started school on Thursday and Friday and I had a migraine on Thursday, which did not stop me from doing anything, it just almost killed me. Thank God for Imotrex.

But something did happen that we could not have planned.

Like rain.

And more rain.

And rain some more.

It rained more this month, than any other month. Ever. Not more rain than any month this year, not a record breaking August. Just more rain ever. Record Wettest Month is what the Weather Channel is calling it. That’s all. So on Friday afternoon when Misti called me to tell me the 5K location (the location name is Coffee Creek, please note the word creek, if you will.) called her to inform her that the trails were "knee deep" in water and getting to the pavilion would be impossible, the pavilion where registration and activity time with Gymboree were to be held, well, it shook me up. We were off to the location to re-route the course. Luck of all Luck, Lynette is the trail Wizard. Wizard I tell you! Because it only took about EIGHT hours to create and measure a new route and make sure it was right. Had it been Misti or myself we would probably would have asked them to run back and forth in front of the pavilion for 3.1 miles. We would have asked nicely.

While we were at the event location on Friday, the sun came out and it was beautiful and gave me hope for a beautiful and dry event. Y’all, in the end, if it were to rain at the event, I thought I was going to die. It didn’t rain all night long and when I woke up on Saturday at 4:35 am, it still hadn’t rained. The race was scheduled for 8 am, certainly it would stay dry until then.

Then I looked at the radar. And it was green, so very green.

And this is what it looked like at 8:01, one minute after we announced our rain delay to the runners.

We had volunteers on the course who yell out times at mile markers and also a volunteer to direct traffic, not to mention volunteers on the course who distribute water to the runners.
They did not have umbrellas in this downpour, so Lynette was running to give them some umbrellas.

Nice girl that she is. And I took pictures of her while under the pavilion, cause pictures are very important, don’t you know?

We began the race shortly after this picture because it let up and everyone there had a "we better go now" type of attitude. So they did. And it was awesome.

See. Runners. Go.

This was a glorious sight to me. Yes, in the rain, runners still came out and family fun walkers still came out. The DJ was still there, we still had great (free!) food and great (free!) drinks, Gymboree still came out and organized activity time with the children and we still raised money. And when I think about all of the volunteers that came out at SIX IN THE MORNING on a Saturday, well, my heart can hardly take it.

I love this event, even with the rain. (but I’m not going to lie to you, I am too often thinking about about many people WOULD have attended had it, you know, NOT RAINED.)

I totally can’t wait until next year.
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By the way, although you weren’t able to attend, you can still support this cause and enter to win a chance to win one of these custom bags, just go here for details. The contest ends on Thursday!

Why women?

August 22nd, 2007

Don’t we have enough on our plates?

Cleaning the house. Bathing the kids. Work. Deadlines. Bills. Buying the groceries. The nutritional content of everything that goes into your children’s mouths. And yours. And maybe your husbands. Doctor’s appointments. Dentist appointments. Cooking dinner (or at least having it delivered at a decent hour.) Sex. School clothes. Homework. Haircuts. Holidays.

Laundry.

and so much more.

All of this and we are supposed to teach our children to be polite, loving and respectful individuals.

All of this on our plate.

And I can accept that. Happily. I love the role of being a mom, a wife, a sister, a daughter.

But I hate my period. Do you hate yours? It just so happens that Aunt Flo and her associates are visiting me RIGHT NOW and I can’t help but feel anger about the fact that we woman do so much as it is, do we really have to have cramps that feel like they are going to rip your uterus apart? Or the aching lower back pain that makes it even more uncomfortable to sit and fold laundry?

The increased fatigued? The water weight?

The moodiness.

I mean, seriously, can’t we work something out that our husbands can take on our periods for say, 3 months of the year?

Can you imagine the drama? The heating pads? The complaining if men were to have a period?

I think I now know why women.

and it sucks.

Wordless Wednesday

August 22nd, 2007

For more Wordless Wednesdays, go here and here.

A Raffle for a great cause!

August 20th, 2007

Since 2004 I have been volunteering for a national team called Friends of Heroes (FOH). FOH raises money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Light The Night Walks, which are held during the fall. FOH is a national friends and family team, we have team captains and teams all across the country. Since 2004, we have raised over $844,000. In 2007, our goal is to reach 1 Million Dollars. In addition to our one million dollar goal, by raising $100,000 this year, we will have the opportunity to name a research grant geared towards pediatric cancers. This would be our fourth year of reaching our goal of naming a research grant in our honor.

You can help me with these goals, right here, right now!

For every dollar you donate to my fundraisin g site, you will be
entered in to win a custom bag by Kimberlee Faith (a $40 value). In addition to your tax deductible donation, if you post on your blog about this fundraiser, directing readers to this post, you will receive an additional entry just for spreading the word! So go now, donate to this awesome cause that I love so much and help to spread the word. Help me to put a face on childhood cancers.

There is a $3 minimum donation requirement, but if you choose to donate more, feel free, if you donate $20, that’s 20 entries in this contest. And add one more entry just for telling people about this fundraiser on your blog!

My personal fundraising goal is $1500, by making your donation and entering this awesome raffle, you will be helping me to reach my goal. Thank you!

Ever wanted to make a difference? Join me by becoming a team captain in your area! Click here for more information.

The drawing for the bag will be held on Thursday, August 30th at 9:00 CST. If you post on your blog regarding this fundraiser, please send me an e-mail to me foldinglaundry@gmail.com and I will add your extra entry to the raffle!

Good luck and thank you for your support!

To learn more about Light The Night, watch this video, be sure to have a tissue nearby. Also, you will see my dear friend, Jenn, she speaks after Cynthia Nixon, she is my national co-captain with me and I just love her!

Kimberlee Faith is offering a $40 credit toward any of her bags, the picture shown above is a personal bag of mine made by Kimberlee! I love it!

I hope you have had some coffee before reading this.

August 19th, 2007

This has been quite the weekend, it started off with me giving all of my pet fishies to my Mom on Friday. Which wouldn’t be a big deal, except that we have had a fish tank in our home for six years and also it’s a big deal because fish scare the living crap out of me. You just can’t trust them, those fishies. They jump, they flop, they’re crazy without water.

I’ve had little experience with handling fish and I like it that way. Once, we were sold an algae eater that was Super Powered. We did not know this until he was about five inches long and I was beginning to wonder how much bigger this mug was going to get. Then he grew more and more. I went to the friendly fish loving folks at Petsmart and they told me that I was a proud owner of a pleco. And that he could grow to be over 12 inches long. Not in my tank, thank you very much. I think they sensed by fear and let me know that I could bring this massive thing into their store and they would give it away to someone looking for a large algae eater.

Which meant I had to catch it. And if I didn’t, it would die in my measly 20 gallon tank. Which would leave me with a corpse.

I lost sleep over this decision. This thing was awful to look at, you can go here to view a picture of it, I would have posted it directly to my blog, but I’m telling you, I could not because it creeps me out THAT much.

So one Sunday afternoon. I got a bucket and a pitcher and I caught it and I thought I was going to die from a heart attack. My pulse was a good 300 and my breathing was fast and then I had to travel in the car with it. It was an ordeal, let me tell you.

Back to my point…I was tired of having a fish tank. So, I asked my Mom if my fishies could move in with her fishies and she said yes, which meant I had to transport them, I did this on Friday afternoon. And once again my pulse and my breathing and the sweat were record breaking, I am sure of it. Fish are fast, y’all. I even used rubber gloves. just in case.

It went well. They are gone. And now I have a space to move my desk that has been in my bedroom for way too long.

This weekend has been a weekend of many projects at home. It helped that our weather was rainy and cold. COLD, like sixty degrees.

This morning I woke up and made the kids pancakes. Before I even had a lick of coffee I had put on some running shoes, put on a bra and pulled back my hair, because it was declared by me that TODAY WOULD BE THE DAY TO CLEAN OUR ENTIRE HOUSE, EVERY INCH. And I did.

I told Brian at 9:45 this morning that if I completed this plan of mine, that he was going to take us out to dinner.

Let’s just say, we went out to dinner. Oh yes we did.

And now, I’m tired, so very tired, but at least I can go to bed in my clean bedroom, which is located next to my clean living room.

I’m very excited to start out this week with my house looking and feeling this good. (Doesn’t it feel good to have a clean home?) The kids start school this week AND my 5K fundraiser is on Saturday, can you believe it’s almost here? I can’t. Which by the way, I sent in a press release that was picked up by the newspaper, feel free to read about it here.

Tonight at dinner we saw many interesting things while we were away from home. I’m not going to tell you about it, I’ll just show you the pictures. I was sneaky with how I was able to capture these shots. Thank goodness for my magnificent zoom. I did it for you, you know. Just for you.

First let me begin by telling you that on Friday I was mowing the lawn when I rammed my thigh into the lawn mower, I hit it in such a way that it caused great pain. It’s a good thing lawn mowers are so loud because the expletives, people, the expletives were severe. Within minutes there was a very large lump coming from my leg and by Saturday morning the bruise on my leg resembled Lake Michigan, but not in the pretty Lake Michigan sort of way, just the blue and green and brown sort of way. A picture. (which does not do it justice.)

And now some dinner pictures for your viewing pleasure. Notice the toilet paper on this guy’s shoe. He walked around for quite awhile with his new found tail. And that is Ariel staring at him the whole time. (see the jeans? I’m telling you, it was cold!)

We couldn’t help but love this tattoo. I asked Brian to get one. He said he would think about it. I mean, of all the words to choose, wouldn’t you have picked something like Studly or Really Smart or Macho Man?
Cocky? Really?

This is the bottom of a Corvette, which was directly on top of my family of four when we were eating dinner. Like six feet above our heads. I was a little nervous.

We totally caught this dog trying to escape.

We went to Wal-Mart Supercenter after dinner and apparently Racecar did not eat enough while at dinner. That crazy Racecar.

And finally, who says boys don’t need a little pampering? This picture could also be called "the picture Brian said nobody but us should see." whatever.

That’s all for now folks, I do apologize for the Longest Blog Post in the History of the Blogging.
I’ll never do it again.

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