http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RelayForLifeHighPlainsDivision?px=4521073&pg=personal&fr_id=5634

Maddie and I have our own personal page set up for Relay for Life. Please look, donate, and forward. If you feel you cannot donate, that's okay, but maybe you'll think of someone that fought cancer, or was a caretaker, and forward it to them.

Thanks.

Relay for Life

This evening I spoke to the Relay for Life coordinator for Arnold, MO. Looks like I am putting some of my brain back to use and working on one of the commitees. Woohoo! The best part is that Madeleine and I are working on this together.

I will be fundraising, but I completely understand if you do not want to give cash. I have become a big charity supporter in the last year, but not everyone is the same....The American Cancer Society is holding several fundraisers for the event. The first one is easy- CAN YOU EAT ICE CREAM????

Maggie Moo's fund-raiser, Thursday 3/13, all day. A % of the proceeds from that day's sales will be donated to RFL-Arnold. Stop by from 5-9 p.m. to see Relay 'celebrities' scooping up ice cream and cleaning the seating area.
http://www.maggiemoos.com/visit_a_treatery/StoreWebSite.cfm?SID=25206

I'll probably work the event, but I am doing some other volunteer and charity work, so it's still too early to commit.

Ring Bling Cha-Ching!

I found my ring!!!! It was in the bottom of a knitting basket. I had taken it off before a shower and wanted to keep it out of the kids' reach, so there it was.

And there it is. Right where it belongs, on my left hand.

The pic is bad, because I am a bit shaky with my CFS, but I am getting better, so why complain???? They were just about to deliver the new one, so I am just giving hub all that money to do whatever he wants.

I am uber-happy.

steppin' out

the hub and i were caught smooching by our daughter-

..a pic of the hub and I going out tonight....(this is rare)

Why He's The One

Today, my husband and I celebrate precisely four years of wedded bliss. Well, it hasn't been all easy bliss, but that's just called marriage.

It's utter romance at my house. Candlelight and nighties last night (me, not him) , and dinner tonight. I gave him his mushy card and two gifts last night.

So, here's my gift. For my birthday, he "upgraded" my engagement ring. Money was tight when we married. This year, I received a huge marquise with emerald sides and baguettes. It's almost three carats in all. It was stunning. Well, while taking my mother to chemo a couple of months ago, I slipped my rings off so that I could protect it while washing and cleaning up.....and I lost it. I cried my eyes out. He never got mad at me.

And, on Tuesday, my new identical ring is due to be delivered. He bought me the ring I loved so much- again.

Another reason- as my husband was breezing through the kitchen, he says, "Did you hear about these twins in the news? They were adopted by different families and married, and now find out yers later they are actually brother and sister!"

I said, " Goodness. Does that mean if we discover we are related we can't have sex anymore?!?"

His reply was "No, we just can't tell anyone!"

Perfect.

Hosting a Party?

CandleLite, Mary Kaye, Simply Fun, Silpada, Lia Sophia, Pampered Chef, whatever......

I do not need an $80 pizza stone, or a $15 necklace that is priced at $98. I do not want your bonus gifts, and I do not want a hostess discount. Most importantly, I do not want to drag my family and friends into my home so that I may plow them with food and drink, and then stir the silent tension with, "What are you thinking of buying? Oh, that's lovely." You cannot turn me down face-to-face, you see. After all, I came to your party. And the rep is here. She's a friend of mine, and she is spending a Friday night trying to breathe life into a "Passion Party". Oh, fuck me! I do not want to invite my mother in law to a dildo party. The rep herself has spent twenty hours or so planning this shin-dig, making sure I have enough warm bodies with checkbooks to make it all worth her while, but guess what- it's not.

When will women wake up to this direct marketing? Oh, the part I love the most is how these pathetic women look forward to taking a few other women under her wing, so she can make a cut of their action, too.

He-looo?!? Pyrimid Scheme? Anyone? I have yet to see a Pampered Chef rep paying off her mortgage early. I don't want your email specials or your invitations for pizza rolls or mini-quiches.

I went to a "bring a friend" Mary Kaye crapmeeting, as a favor to the friend that drug me. This was four years ago. Never bought anything. Do you know I am still on the hostess's mailing list? I think the bitch sent me some Mary-Kaye Christmas card!!! Wow. These women do not get it.

(For the record- Avon does not do this. And, they will continue to receive my money occasionally.)

The Deluxe

....It's even got "glow in the dark miracle hands"!!!!

http://www.mcphee.com/items/11537.html