hello, lovely

$300 away from my fundraising goal!!!! I am overwhelmed by all of the support, and I couldn’t have done this without you.

Thank you to everyone who has donated and supported me. I can almost stop stressing & I can start having fun!

*happy dance*!!!!

BTW, I apologize for the severe absence as of late. Literally all I’ve been doing is walking and working and napping and knitting and just trying to get through the training. We have 3 more training walks scheduled (5-6 mile walk on Wednesday, a 10-12 mile walk on Saturday, then a 4-5 miler next Tuesday, and we’re done until two days later when we start the event) plus a Team bbq, and then we’re done for two days until we start the event next Friday. NEXT FRIDAY! I can’t freaking believe it.

We’re having a fundraiser today at Chevy’s in Pleasanton, so if you’re in the area come eat some great Mexican food. You need a flier for it to count towards us, but if you need one, let me know.

Here is where we think we’ll be calling home for two nights in a couple of weeks:

Just picture it filled with pink tents.

And because I can, here is a picture of two of my teammates, who we jokingly call Heather and Heather:

This is a picture of them on the rare occasion that they are NOT dressed exactly alike.

for the record, it is 12:33am pdt on monday august 4th. i SHOULD be asleep, but thankfully i get to sleep in on mondays.

what am i doing? listening to bowling for soup and knitting on a present for someone.

i do have some exciting news - I’ve made it to the halfway point in my 3-day fundraising!!! please make a donation! there’s still time left, and every little bit helps. also, if you knit (or if you just want to win some yarn?), i’m having a contest. check out the details on my knitting blog.

also, i apologize for the lack of being around. any free time i have seems to be taken up by walking, especially on the weekends. all i do, it seems, is walk anymore. i’m looking forward to the event, but i’m REALLY looking forward to the day when we all get our lives back. i will miss getting to see parts of the city that i wouldn’t normally get to see though.

(First off, a very happy (belated) anniversary to Mellypie & Joshypie!)

So, I’m FREE!!
I’m taking off work today, and we’re going to take the ferry into San Francisco and spend the day there. Then tomorrow? I get to sort of do the whole thing all over again for a training walk. 20 miles tomorrow, from somewhere in SF to Tiburon. Can you even imagine? I believe I’m going to die. But this will at least give us an idea of what one of the days is going to be like. LOL

Last weekend was a short weekend. The girls and I took Saturday off and headed up to Dixon to go to Lambtown, which is a fiber festival (think yarn and spinning fiber, not like.. Metamucil, which is what one of the ladies at work thought when I told her about it. ahah) that’s held every year in July.

I didn’t get very many good pics, but here’s one of a very huge bunny:

I also learned how to spin my own yarn on a spindle. It’s very… beginner-y, but I like it.

I want a spinning wheel now, but that won’t be happening anytime soon.

Whoa, for some reason all my comment emails were going to my spam filter. If you commented on the last couple entries and did not get a response from me, that’s why! I replied in the comments before I realized what happened.

I got the order confirmation for my iPhone. I thought it was the shipping confirmation, and I was like, “DUDE! THAT WAS FAST!” lol. Oh well. I. Can’t. Wait!

MY BOYS!!!!!

This is my pal Damian Giglio, and he has a video. I guess it’s a promo video, but it made me smile… and if you figure in the fact that I walked 26 miles this weekend & can barely move a muscle, I have to share it with you. I LOVE THIS GUY!! And if you’re ever in Dallas or Denton or wherever else he may be playing, check him out, and tell him Manda said hi!!!

I miss you, hun!!!!!!!

I GOT AN iPHONE!!!!

Okay, sort of. The line was still really long at lunchtime, and I knew I would like, get to the beginning and have to go back to work and lose my place in line. Sucky, that, so I ended up eating at Baja Fresh next door (yum). Anyway, not about to give up on it, even though I was 99.9999% sure they’d be sold out, I went back to the AT&T store (Like I’m going to an Apple store yesterday. HA!), and they were sold out! Surprise! BUT, they were sort of “pre-selling” them where you could buy them, they’d ship to the store, and then they’d call and/or email you when they show up. So that’s what I did. I feel 100x better knowing it’s at least “on the way”, even if it takes a week or two.

In a walking/3-Day update, I walked 15ish miles today!!! I veered off for an unexpected potty break, and then I ended up having to get picked up early (about .5 miles from the end of our walk!) cuz I ran out of water & it’d started getting hot. My going off-track ended up being about 0.5 miles so it really evened out.

There’s still time to make a donation!! If you haven’t yet (or even if you have, but are still feeling generous! lol), please visit my 3-Day page!

Soo… the new iPhone comes out tomorrow. I SO want one, but not enough to stand in line for hours and hours and hours. I’m probably not going to be lucky enough to get one tomorrow, so I will wait patiently for a few more days.

I’m hoping that after the weekend, the major rush will be over, and I might be able to score one on Monday or Tuesday. I so hope so.

I don’t want to wait TOO long, because I want one NOWNOWNOW. Actually, I wanted one in OCTOBER, but then I figured I’d wait until Christmas. I didn’t get one for Christmas (not that I expected anybody to spend that much money on me - I was going to buy it for myself) after Joe talked me down from the ledge, promising that the “newer, faster, better” one would be out in “a few months.” Well, it’s been a few months, and I WANT ONE!!

My Razr died (the charger won’t charge my phone anymore. not a battery issue, but the actual port the charger goes in is broken), so I’ve been borrowing one of Joe’s old phones, but I want my own. My very own shiny new toy. EEK! Wish me luck in getting one fairly soon….

wow, I don’t post for weeks, and all of a sudden, like 4 posts in two days. i’m bored, and in the mood to do memes. i found this over at mub.net a while ago, and it just was too much effort to do it then, but now i’m ready. hehe

Answer every question with only one word. I think I’ve done something similar to this before, but whatever. It’s my blog, and I’ll repeat memes if I want to.

1. Where is your cell phone? nightstand
2. Your significant other? awesome
3. Your hair? long
4. Your mother? far-away (heh)
5. Your father? dead
6. Your favorite thing? yarn
7. Your dream last night? none
8. Your favorite drink? soda
9. Your dream/goal? happiness
10. The room you’re in? living
11. Your ex? nice
12. Your fear? loss
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? happy
14. Where were you last night? Chevy’s
15. What you’re not? extroverted
16. Muffins? blueberry
17. One of your wish list items? yarn
18. Where you grew up? Wisconsin
19. The last thing you did? blog
20. What are you wearing? pajamas
21. Your TV? off
22. Your pets? none
23. Your computer? Dell
24. Your life? happy
25. Your mood? grumblecakes
26. Missing someone? friends
29. Favorite store? LYS
30. Your summer? smokey!
31. Like someone? yes
32. Your favorite color? purple
33. When is the last time you laughed? yesterday
34. Last time you cried? Saturday

Happy Birthday, Gavin!!!! I’m glad you loved your birthday present!!

… to all the mothers out there! I happen to know a bunch of pretty good ones.

hugs!!