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Friday, October 06, 2006WAHM Bloggers QOTWIt's time again for a question of the week from my friends at WAHM Bloggers: How are you getting ready for the busy holiday season? This is going to be a very special holiday season for me. For us, actually. You may recall, back in May, my husband was diagnosed with colon cancer. It was a very trying time for us. We were very lucky in that the doctors found it early and were able to remove the entire tumour (along with half of his colon, but he barely even misses it). We were even luckier that there was no trace of infection in any lymph nodes and so there was no need for chemo or radiation therapy. And we were (are) also very lucky to live where we do, so that he was treated at what is quite possibly the best hospital in Canada. The Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie has the most amazing staff you could ever hope to meet. Not only are they extremely talented, they are also caring and compassionate beyond belief. Everyone, from the surgeons to the nurses to the girl who delivered breakfast every day, was nothing but pleasant and patient and understanding. It is for all of these reasons that we decided to sign up with RVH as a registered fundraiser to help raise funds for the new Simcoe-Muskoka Regional Cancer Centre. This is going to be a year-round campaign, beginning just in time for this year's Holiday season, with two different options for contribution:
Our website will be updated with all of the information as soon as I receive the graphics and whatnot from the RVH Foundation. So check back soon and often for your chance to contribute to this very worthy cause! Technorati Tags: WAHM ; QOTW ; Cancer ; Fundraising ; Royal Victoria Hospital ; SMRCC ; Holiday ; Christmas ; Ornaments ; Awareness ; Tags ; Aluminium ; Anodized ; Key Chain ; Zipper Pull ; Scrapbooking ; Personalized ; Engravable Subscribe to my feed!  
Thursday, October 05, 2006Hallowon'tI have a love/hate relationship with the month of October. I start the month off really excited because my youngest son (you remember Trouble?) celebrates his birthday early in the month. What fun! Shopping for presents, baking, planning a party, preparing the house for the out-of-town guests we're expecting...it's just a general party atmosphere for the first couple of weeks. Then it all goes downhill. I've never been a fan of horror flicks. Hate 'em with a passion, actually. They scare the bejeezus outta me. I remember being forced to watch them when I was a teenager - you know, everyone else was watching them and I didn't want to appear the 'wuss'. Unfortunately, those instances of fake bravado cost me several years' worth of lost sleep. Oh, it's not the blood and gore that get to me. No, what really turns my hair white is when dead people don't stay dead. I can handle any bad guy, as long as he gets it in the end. It's the ones who refuse to die (or were never 'alive' in the first place) that give me the willies. And then the geniuses behind these cinematic masterpieces go ahead and add some text to the end of the credits that says, "This film was based on real-life events." Well, that's it. I toss in the towel. No point in even trying to sleep for the next twenty years or so. So why don't I just avoid these movies if I hate them so much? Good question! I do. Or, at least, I try to. The problem lies in the advertising. Even the commercials are too creepy to behold. Who the heck rates these things, anyway? I mean, if I don't want to see the movie, what makes you think I want to have it sneak up on me while I'm watching Everybody Loves Raymond right before going to bed? Have these people never heard of advertising for their target market? Why aren't they running their commercials on the Space channel, or during episodes of Missing? Do they really think that everyone who has opted to watch re-runs of Friends will want to see their blood-curdling, nightmare-inducing waste of celluloid? And there you have it. My scary little secret. I'm a complete 'fraidy cat, and will probably spend the rest of the month cowering beneath my covers. Someone wake me in November. That's when all the Christmas cartoons start airing on TV - that's a little more my speed. Technorati Tags: October ; Halloween ; Hallowe'en ; Horror ; Movies ; Trailers ; Commercials ; Terror ; Scary Subscribe to my feed!
Sunday, October 01, 2006Introducing...... my newest blog endeavour! Mutt Lover - all about my chosen type of dog. Did I not tell you about this already? *Gasp!!* Bad, blogger! Bad! This is a blog dedicated to - well - mutts. You'll find lots of useful dog-related info here, some of which applies to pure-breds as well. But I'm trying to focus more on the mutt-related topics. For example, I plan to highlight mutt-friendly activities, jobs, events, etc... So, pad on over and sniff around for a while. :D Subscribe to my feed!
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