Ten Things For a Tuesday Morning

+ I did not get to participate in the panic presale madness last night because I am currently broke, which is boo.

+ I AM SO EXCITED FOR ANYONE GOING TO SEE PANIC TONIGHT! (danacias and harriet_vane, I'm looking at the two of you!)

+ Amy and I decided my headache-nausea-tiredness is sympathy morning sickness, since it started about the time she found out she was pregnant and she hasn't had any.

+ I'm gonna drive down to see Amy Friday. We're gonna have dinner (so she can bitch about her hubby and I can bitch about uhg) and go to a movie or go shopping or something. And I have to drive back that same night. 10 hour round-trip for a dinner date with the bestie? I guess she's worth it. ;)

+ The boys lost their game last night, 24 to 8. But they seriously couldn't get it together - they were having such a hard time making good passes, idek. And I think that the actual regulation height goal is a different height then the goal in our driveway, which was throwing Davey off. But we're halfway through our season now, so yay? Next month starts karate meets plus practice for soccer (Davey) and baseball (Ronnie). They keep me so busy!

+ I'm hoping February realizes it's 2011 and that it's supposed to be a better year than 2010.

+ Gathering donations for our RFL silent auction has been easier than I expected already! I'm excited! And I love that I know such good people that they're willing to donate these things.

+ Speaking of RFL, be sure to check out this post I made yesterday. Please?

+ Everyone being affected by this crazy winter weathery stuff going on, please be careful and stay warm!

+ Jay went to Taco Bell on his lunch break yesterday and passed out in the bathroom and ended up having to be taken by ambulance to the ER. He's okay, and they're letting him come home this morning, but it's still scary. This is the 3rd time something like this has happened (the other two. times happened while he was at work) and the other incidents were ruled as stress-related. He has a 5 month old baby at home, works full time, goes to school full time, and is putting in hours student teaching. I can see where stress may be an issue there! I know money is a big issue for them, and it makes me wanna consider the home daycare idea even more. Pam and I could totally do that, if I can talk mom into giving her approval.

Relay for Life

I know that several of you are participating in a Relay for Life event this year. If you are not, but are interested, I encourage you to go to this link and find an event in your area. If you're not interested in participating in an actual event but would like to make a donation, I'm here to ask for your help.

(or even if you are participating; if you have a donor page set up, please link me to it so that I can donate to your fundraising total!)

There are currently 137 days left until my Relay event, which is taking place on Friday June 17 and Saturday June 18. We have several fundraisers lined up for my team, but we each have personal fundraising goals as well.

MY DONATION PAGE

One of things that we will have at our relay event and on our parade float is a donor banner. Since this year's Relay for Life event theme is Toon Out Cancer, our team is based around Care Bears and Care Bear Cousins (our team name is Cousins for a Cure), this banner will probably be a cloud shape (or more than one, depending on the number of names we need to put on it. We have relay donation cards that are cupcakes, sunshines, and foot prints (like the sneakers or balloons you can buy at certain stores to support jdrf or children's miracle network) that we're going to sell for $1 and put on the donor banner, along with the names/logos of our business sponsors (American Freestyle Karate is donating a pass for on month of classes, the car dealership is donating an oil change, etc, for us to raffle off at the event). So, I know that donations are voluntary and that money paid for exchange of goods or services aren't actually a donation, but we're gonna pretend like they are.

I'm going to leave this post up on my LJ until Relay. If you make an online donation to my fundraising campaign (you can mail me a check donation if you'd rather), leave me a comment or send me an email and you will get the following:

$1.00 donation - name on our donor banner
$5.00 donation - name on our donor banner, thank you postcard from our team, 500 word ficlet* or 20-30 picture picspam**
$10.00 donation - name on our donor banner, thank you postcard from our team, 1000 word fic* or 30-50 picture picspam**
$20.00 donation - name on our donor banner, thank you postcard from our team, 1000 word fic* or 30-50 picture picspam**, music mix***
> $20.00 donation - whatever you want We'll work out something. ;)

* fics/ficlets are based on your prompt, but obviously need to be in a fandom that I am familiar with and can write in
** picspams are based on a theme of your choosing
*** music mix can be sent to you on an actual cd or uploaded in a zip file, or both, whatever your preference

There is a possibility that the kids will be making beaded bracelets and keychains (pink/purple/white beads with the words "love" and "hope" on them), and if so then I'll add them to the thank you cards when we send them out.

Thank yall! <3