As usual this Thanksgiving I have so much to be thankful for, in particular all of my friends and family. You all have been so generous and supportive that I can not even begin to thank you! I could have not reached the 75% bench mark to $3,600 without your help. I also am so lucky to have gotten such generosity from the community, that has blown me away by how caring the Arlington community is. I know that in the near future I will reach my goal and at that point we are going to have to have a huge celebration!
Until then, I am looking forward to my happy hour next Thursday, December 4th at Front Page in Ballston. We are going to have some great prizes that have been donated by some fabulous restaurants and my favorite nail salon. The prizes so far are as follows:
- $100 Gift Certificate to Sette Bello in Clarendon
- $75 Gift Certificate to Harry's Tap Room (two locations in Arlington)
- $50 Gift Card to Hard Time Cafe (locations throughout metro area)
- $35 Gift card to Crystal City Sports Pub
- Several Free Manicures to Mystique Nails in Falls Church
I will also have gift cards to AMC theaters that I am donating as well as a few more gift certificates. I again would like to thank these companies for helping me make my raffle happen! I hope to see everyone at my happy hour next week!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
New Milestone
Tonight Chris, Cindy and I ran the furthest we have ever run, 8.5 miles! We managed to do it keep a pretty good pace and brave the darkness of the evening, even with my glass of wine at a gallery opening earlier that evening! Now after two hours from being back from the run, I think my body is in shock. Every part of my legs hurts! I can only imagine how the marathoners feel when I feel this sore after over eight miles. I am glad we ran tonight because it would have been pretty hard to go into work after running this far. Hopefully, I will not be so sore in the morning.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Going to Miami!
After running in the 30 degree weather tonight and not being able to feel my legs, I have booked my trip to Miami! I have extended my trip by one day to see my sister and to get more acclimated to the weather once I get down there. Now I just have to raise another $1,000 and I am ready to go!
I am having a harder time getting my runs in now that I am gone for the next few weekends. I managed to run over 7 miles on Friday in the ran to the Key Bridge from our house. This is the furthest I have ever run and I felt great!
Tomorrow is the last day on my steroid so I will keep you all posted on how my diet does on its own with just my maintenance drugs. I hope everyone is doing well and is looking forward to the happy hour fund raiser!
I am having a harder time getting my runs in now that I am gone for the next few weekends. I managed to run over 7 miles on Friday in the ran to the Key Bridge from our house. This is the furthest I have ever run and I felt great!
Tomorrow is the last day on my steroid so I will keep you all posted on how my diet does on its own with just my maintenance drugs. I hope everyone is doing well and is looking forward to the happy hour fund raiser!
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Feeling Great
Despite having a nasty head cold this week, I am feeling so great! It is almost as if I have forgotten I have Crohn's Disease...gasp! The new diet must be working and while it is not very easy to be on a grain-free, sugar-free and lactose-free diet, I am making it through and only miss the guilty foods a few times a day.
Today we had our weekly group run along the canal and met with a nutritionist afterward which was very helpful. I took it easy this past week but am hoping as my cold leaves I will be able to increase the mileage.
In fund raising news, I will be having a Happy Hour at Front Page on December 4th, I am still waiting on the drink specials but then I will send out an evite. I am happy to report, the bake sale ended up raising a total of $200 after a few more donations trickled in, which I am very happy about!
Today we had our weekly group run along the canal and met with a nutritionist afterward which was very helpful. I took it easy this past week but am hoping as my cold leaves I will be able to increase the mileage.
In fund raising news, I will be having a Happy Hour at Front Page on December 4th, I am still waiting on the drink specials but then I will send out an evite. I am happy to report, the bake sale ended up raising a total of $200 after a few more donations trickled in, which I am very happy about!
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Election Bake Sale Results
While I did get off to a very rough start for the bake sale yesterday I did manage to pay back all my debts and walk away with a surplus of $110 dollars! I had been hoping to make more than that, but things just didn't go as planned. In the end, however, I got to meet so many wonderful people in my community that were interested in learning about Crohn's and Colitis or that knew someone who had it or had it themselves. I heard so many stories and got so much encouragement for my race and dealing with my disease, which is an experience that money can not buy.
I would like to thank my mom and Chris for all of the hours that they spent baking and wrapping baked goods. There is no way I could have done this without my parents and Chris. Also, I want to thank my boss for baking as well and my friend Jane for helping me set up my tent in the rain. I also wanted to thank all of the strangers that helped me through donations and those that helped me set up and take down my station. In particular the one kind stranger who seeing that the bake sale had not gone as planned gave me a huge donation, which without his donation I would have barely broken even! Yesterday truly made me believe that humanity does still exist in more ways than one. As for the 150+ baked goods I still had left over, they have been donated to Arlington homeless shelter so more people can enjoy all of the hard work that went into making the desserts.
I would like to thank my mom and Chris for all of the hours that they spent baking and wrapping baked goods. There is no way I could have done this without my parents and Chris. Also, I want to thank my boss for baking as well and my friend Jane for helping me set up my tent in the rain. I also wanted to thank all of the strangers that helped me through donations and those that helped me set up and take down my station. In particular the one kind stranger who seeing that the bake sale had not gone as planned gave me a huge donation, which without his donation I would have barely broken even! Yesterday truly made me believe that humanity does still exist in more ways than one. As for the 150+ baked goods I still had left over, they have been donated to Arlington homeless shelter so more people can enjoy all of the hard work that went into making the desserts.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Ramping up...
Today we met at the tidal basin to do our run along the mall and by the monuments. After getting a little lost I finally made it just in time to start our 65 minute run. We ran over 6 miles today and I felt pretty good considering the fact that I have a cold coming on. I was a little annoyed that in the 20 minutes I left my gloves and water unattended that someone stole them, but I am guessing that person needed my sweaty gloves more than me so that is okay. I won $25 today after our run to go towards my fundraiser, so that was exciting since I never win anything! I had been the one that kept reminding everyone we had to do the drawings so people were joking how I had rigged it.
In other news, I have my election bake sale fundraiser coming up on Tuesday and will be baking ALL WEEKEND in preparation for the big day. If you are going to be in the north Arlington area on election day, please stop by as I will be pretty lonely! I am going to be at Nottingham Elementary from 6am to 10am and then at Madison Community Center from 4:30pm to 7pm.
With my new diet I can not eat any of these lovely treats, so I need someone to take them off of my hands! I will have Starbucks in the morning and pastries and baked goods all day! Speaking of diet, I am pretty proud of myself as I have not really cheated at all on the diet yet and didn't have one single piece of candy for Halloween, that has to be a first in 25 years! I sometimes think about wanting a carb or something sweet but so far I am just taking the diet on day at a time and it seems to be working as I have actually felt "normal" these last few weeks.
In other news, I have my election bake sale fundraiser coming up on Tuesday and will be baking ALL WEEKEND in preparation for the big day. If you are going to be in the north Arlington area on election day, please stop by as I will be pretty lonely! I am going to be at Nottingham Elementary from 6am to 10am and then at Madison Community Center from 4:30pm to 7pm.
With my new diet I can not eat any of these lovely treats, so I need someone to take them off of my hands! I will have Starbucks in the morning and pastries and baked goods all day! Speaking of diet, I am pretty proud of myself as I have not really cheated at all on the diet yet and didn't have one single piece of candy for Halloween, that has to be a first in 25 years! I sometimes think about wanting a carb or something sweet but so far I am just taking the diet on day at a time and it seems to be working as I have actually felt "normal" these last few weeks.
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