Relay for Life!

My school has a team entered in Relay for Life a fundraising effort for the American Cancer Society. The event is May 9 and we are trying to raise as much money for ACS as possible. As a cancer survivor myself, I am eager to help. I know first hand how important it is to raise money for research. I am also purchasing luminaries for my father. While he lost his battle, he benefited from the new drugs as the were released to market. It allowed him to be there for my brother's graduation from medical school, my sister's graduation from college and my 30th birthday.

If you want to help and donate please click here http://relay.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RelayForLifeSouthAtlanticDivision?fr_id=8026&pg=entry
Then click on donate to a participant
Then you can type in my name and donate.

In other news I will be cutting my hair for locks of love on April 19 at another school fund raiser.

Easter was great we had friends to celebrate with. Sadly though, both my index fingers became very sore, I have trigger fingers.

Monday I could not bend either of them and made an appt to see a hand dr. I saw the dr. wed and got a cortisone shot in each hand. I really hate getting them because they are less than pleasant so I put it off but I could not use my hands anymore so I had to give up. The shot was not as bad as I remember but right now I have not seen a big improvement. . . last time i got one the hand was perfect the next day. I will give it a week or so before I call the dr.

this weekend I will see my sister and mom in nashville. Yay!

michele

This past week FLEW by. Last weekend we hopped a plane to florida on saturda morning for my cousin John's wedding. It was a small and beautiful event. Tia his bride was radiant. We really enjoyed ourselves as well as getting to see family an activity I am growing more and more appreciative of living in georgia. The only downside was our plane, orginally scheduled to depart at 8:09 pm was delayed and we did not take off until after midnight. Work the next day was a little rough but we both survived.

I planted several hanging baskets with strawberries and other plants during the week and I hope to plant the raspberry, blackberry, blueberry and hydrangea bushes later today. I forgot how much fun it is to dig in the dirt. . .

Tomorrow we will host Easter at our house. It will be Jeff, me, Gregg, Wendy (Gregg's girlfriend), Matt (Jeff's old roomate) and Irene (a friend of Jeff's from HS). It will be nice to have a full house.

Not much else to report. . . next weekend we are heading up to Nashville to see Sr Sophia (AKA Kristen). It should be nice.

The weekend after that I fly to NJ for Grady's first communion (he is my godson) and Jeff goes to California on business. We both get home Tuesday and I have the remainder of my spring break. I hope to start digging up our vegetable beds and make several annual dr appts (podiatrist, eye dr, etc)

I suspect I will be awfully busy until spring break so this ma be my last post for a while.

God Bless and Happy Easter!

Wow! The seeds are taking off. . . I have to transplant several cucumbers and green beans to larger pots out of the seed starter greehouse. I recieved tons of plants I ordered earlier this year but we had a real strong cold snap, even got snow on saturday so I held off planting most. I did get 4 house plants into pots: dwarf lemon, lime, orange and tangerine plants. I hope to get the strawbeey plants into hanging baskets and out on the porch this weekend.

In non-agricultural news. . . Jeff and I bought the tile for the dining room and kitchen on saturday. The store was having a 10% of sale. . . Woo Hoo!

Then after church we went to a young adult event the church was sponsoring. It was a game night with beer and pizza. It was lots of fun and the people there were really nice. . .I hope to attend more events they sponsor.

Saturday Jeff and I went to the Booth Western Art Museum and sunday we went to allatoona dam.

I also started indoor seedling for our vegetable garden: bell peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, green beans, carrots, watermelon and other melons. I hope to transplant them in a month or so.