Middle of the Night Walk Report

  • May. 14th, 2008 at 8:28 PM
Bulldog, Black Rose, Tummy Kill!, Yay!, Horny Lizard, Arizona, Goblin, Goblin Upside Down, Pool, BTAM!, Evil Skeleton, Books Not Bombs, AfterAge, Lambwitches, Pink Nails, Typewriter, Snoopy Types, Med. Salad, Sunset, Yvonne, Destroy!, Dusty Stacks, Final Impact, Ghost, Frank, BabyVon, Oranges!, Smile, Peppers, deadrush, Lily Tap Out, Ocotillo Cacti, Lily's Pretty Pink Nose, Elektra, Goblin's Eye, Yellow Rose, Purple Cactus, Computer Crazy!, rainbow.jpg, Buffy, Ultraviolet
So it was actually kind of fun, although I was rather taken aback by the poop-out-ness of my team mates. MK, who talked me into this to begin with, got up out of his lawn chair and walked with me for about 20 minutes, then bombed out and went home. EE walked with me for about a half hour after that, then collapsed with her husband and twins in an RV. Incredibly, I was actually kind of energized, so I walked the rest of it by myself, be-booping around the track and singing along with the music coming out of the Kareoke (I have no idea how to spell that) machine on the stage... and doing a better job matching the words than the teenagers there, if I do say so myself. I said I'd do two hours, and by gawds, that's what I did. I took a 5 minute break to eat potato chips (for some reason I got ravenously hungry at about 4:10 a.m.) and let myself go home when I saw the sun come up at 5 a.m.

I managed to raise $370.00 for the American Cancer Society. Thank you to all my wonderful contributors-- you know who you are. Also thank you to all the wonderful people who donated on your own, bought luminaries, or donate a few dollars throughout the year. It all counts, and you all rock.

:-)
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Last Chance !!!

  • May. 9th, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Bulldog, Black Rose, Tummy Kill!, Yay!, Horny Lizard, Arizona, Goblin, Goblin Upside Down, Pool, BTAM!, Evil Skeleton, Books Not Bombs, AfterAge, Lambwitches, Pink Nails, Typewriter, Snoopy Types, Med. Salad, Sunset, Yvonne, Destroy!, Dusty Stacks, Final Impact, Ghost, Frank, BabyVon, Oranges!, Smile, Peppers, deadrush, Lily Tap Out, Ocotillo Cacti, Lily's Pretty Pink Nose, Elektra, Goblin's Eye, Yellow Rose, Purple Cactus, Computer Crazy!, rainbow.jpg, Buffy, Ultraviolet
Yes, I am repeating myself: In only a few hours, I will get my sorry buns up in the middle of the night (2:30 ayam, to be exact) and go walk around Veterans' Memorial Park for two hours as part of the American Cancer Society Relay. If you can spare even a dollar or two, please sponsor me on my ACS Relay Page. Every dollar helps to fund research to conquer the cancer demon that wants to be in all of us. Thanks!

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A Very Important Thing: Cancer

  • May. 4th, 2008 at 5:13 PM
Bulldog, Black Rose, Tummy Kill!, Yay!, Horny Lizard, Arizona, Goblin, Goblin Upside Down, Pool, BTAM!, Evil Skeleton, Books Not Bombs, AfterAge, Lambwitches, Pink Nails, Typewriter, Snoopy Types, Med. Salad, Sunset, Yvonne, Destroy!, Dusty Stacks, Final Impact, Ghost, Frank, BabyVon, Oranges!, Smile, Peppers, deadrush, Lily Tap Out, Ocotillo Cacti, Lily's Pretty Pink Nose, Elektra, Goblin's Eye, Yellow Rose, Purple Cactus, Computer Crazy!, rainbow.jpg, Buffy, Ultraviolet
In a bit under a week, on May 9th (technically May 10th, but let's not get lost in the details), I'm going to get up at 2:30 in the morning, go to the center of my little town, and walk with a bunch of other people as part of the American Cancer Society Relay.  I can't think of anyone who hasn't been touched by cancer, either by personal experience with the disease or by losing someone who has.  Over the course of my life, cancer has taken my Uncle Garlon, my LJ friend Richard ([info]armoire_man), acquaintances Al and Cookie VanderSluis (husband and wife, who died from different types of cancer only a few years apart), and my very good friend from Rudnick & Wolfe, Dorothy Harrington.  My grandmother fought off cervical cancer before chemo was ever invented, and here and there in my family tree the disease pops its despicable head up before being, thankfully, beaten down.  My beloved Chanci, a Great Dane/Lab mix I had for 10 years, succumbed in 1991, after being whittled down in a single month to little more than a bag of bones that I had to carry up and down the stairs.

That's the bad news.  The good news is that we are constantly searching for and finding ways to combat all the forms of this horrible disease, and we will not stop.  Not now.  Not tomorrow.  Not ever.  So if you can spare a few dollars-- literally, ANY amount-- please sponsor me on my ACS Relay Page here:

http://main.acsevents.org/goto/yvonnenavarro

Thank you... and thank you, again, to the people who have already been so generous!
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