Darn, darn, darn

Well, now we have the new stove, but no hot water. I am beginning to think that we were not supposed to redo this kitchen. What with my car going the same day we ordered the counter tops and now the new stove came today and the hot water tank quit. We just heated a few pots of hot water to wash up in, but its going to be a real pain come morning trying to get ready for work. Not to sure if we should be calling a plumber to come look at it or Lowe's to bring us a new one. this water heater is only about 2 years old, we bought it shortly after buying the house. What a pain.

RELAY BRACELETS

Sharan and I both ordered these bracelets. They should hopefuly be here in a few days. Sharan is wearing hers in memory of her deceased husband. I am wearing mine in honor of my ex husband and the reason for this relay.

We are doing a fudge fundraiser right now. The sign up sheet will be going up at work tomorrow and Betty is making 4 different kinds of fudge for $6.00 a pound. The fudge will be ready to be picked up on March 19.

This coming Monday, Pam is cooking hot sausage sandwiches for our Lunch for the relay. Everyone is doing great.

Therapy this morning and my arm again went numb. Next week is my last one. It is feeling somewhat better and I just am tired of this, there is really nothing else that they can do. I can do the stretches at home and lets just see if that helps.

John is baking a cake in the new stove. 52 years old and I have never had a new stove. This is the first time. What a sheltered life I have lived. LOL

Therapy

Therapy is scheduled for early this morning. I am going to be done with this shortly. The script runs out next week and I am not going to see the doctor or get another one. I really think that we have done everything that can be done and this is as good as its going to get. It's good to know that they cannot find anything seriously wrong and I do believe its just going to take time. The therapist can show me the different exercises that may help and I will do them at home. the new stove should be here today and I am anxious to see how it looks, the big test will be in a few weeks when the counter tops are in though. the guys from there come in Friday to do the template. I am getting so excited about having this all done.

LOOK WHAT CAME FOR BREAKFAST

What a nice surprise to look out the window and see these deer this morning. John says there were 6 here last night but only 4 of them this morning. We know that at least one of them was a buck. We caught him being a "bit randy" but missed the picture. This one single one was quite a bit braver, he came closer and stayed longer than the others. Then had to run to catch up with them. It is a beautiful sunny day here as you can tell from the pictures and the snow even looks gorgeous, but wish it would go away, get green and be spring.

Money Bucket

I forgot to mention that we dropped off a money bucket at Brenda's today. She is going to be collecting donations there for us. How awesome these people are. It just seems to be getting better and better. Everyone just seems to be so helpful and everyone wants to do whatever they can to help. I have noticed that at the store everyone seems to be working together and its great.

Lunch and competition

We earned $30.00 for the relay today at the store. Laura cooked meatball sandwiches and we have $30 profit we are turning in. On the way home from work tonight, I stopped at the little pharmacy. I needed a gift for a co worker who has a birthday tomorrow. I had forgotten about the pharmacy selling the die cut relay cards. There they were on the counter. They had quite a few hanging on their coolers and the girl working there told me they were having a competition to see which area would sell the most, either the front registers or the back pharmacy counter. I bought one card in Mike's honor from the front and will stop tomorrow and buy one from the back just to keep it fair. I am wondering how many people work there, I would like to do some little thing for them. I am figuring for the pharmacy itself possibly advertisement hanging on our campsite at the relay. I really need to talk to Scott and Cheri, they are the both creative with signs and such.

Next relay meeting is march 8, and the money will be turned in then. so far, so good. this takes us to $429 not counting the money from the pharmacy.

Ice storm

We were supposed to get a bad storm today. It did storm for a while but I think its been done and not as bad as expected. I was kind of hoping it would be so bad that I'd have to call off work tomorrow, I could really use an extra day off. these days off go by so fast. It's already time to get ready for bed and get thinking about tomorrow and I'm just not ready to have this day be over with yet. It seems the older you get the faster they go to. My neck is a bit sore tonight and I think driving to and from Dubois today did that. I should have left John drive one way or the other, but he is still not feeling real well from the cold. I have therapy again on Wed and this will be almost the last one. I am not going back to the pain doctor either, figure there is nothing else they can do and most of the time it feels okay. Not good, not normal but okay. I can live with it, and have gone through enough testing to know that there is nothing they can do about it. They cannot find anything except for inflammation. So it just my hope that with time it will get better. I keep trying to stretch it out a bit and do the exercises from therapy but it doesn't seem to help much. Hopefully with time it will. Tomorrow is our first lunch for the relay, Laura is doing the meatball sandwiches. Hope this goes over well and hope that we make enough to make it worth while. i guess we will figure it out as we go. I want to get down to the pharmacy one day this week too and see how they are doing with the cards. Hopefully they are doing something with them.

Turkey come to visit

These turkeys came to visit early this morning. They came all the way down to the bird feeders by the house. About 10 of them. Nice to see them and then enjoyed brunch of bird seed fora while before something scared them and they took off. this is only the second time we've seen them here, and more of them this time. Hope they stick around.

Last night the elk was here. Just one and a big bull. We are hoping he sticks around also, would like to get one of those antlers and its about time they should be losing them.

We are supposed to get an ice storm today and it was sleeting, and hailing a while ago, but now looks like it has stopped. Maybe the worst of it is over with already. we went this morning and ordered our new stove, which will be delivered Wed and the guys come on Friday to do the template on the new counter tops. We even stopped and looked at our granite today while we were out doing some running around. it is absolutely gorgeous and I cannot wait to get it all done.

A much needed day off.

Ok, I reinstalled this program to give it one more try. Can't help it, I loved these backgrounds on the blog and can't find them anywhere else. this looks like my backyard today..

Getting it together

I am so proud of our team. We are getting it all together now to do lunches to benefit the Relay. Laura is cooking lunch this Monday, Pam next week and Janice the following. We will sell lunch for $3.00 a plate, proceeds to go to the relay.

One of the girls that I talk to on Sparkpeople.com donated to the team on line today. That took us to $399 for donations. thank you Cheryl! Took me a while to figure out who it was from.

The sales staff have all been wearing their buttons and I'm tracking that daily for Jess. Also, I took the money buckets in and someone actually had put some change in one of them today.

ONE MORE MEMBER

We have added one more member to the team yesterday. Janice from the store joined us also, which puts us back to 15 members. I do not want anymore and hope no one else asks to join us. If we have 15 or below we are eligible for recognition prizes through the relay. Most of it just consists of being recognised verbally at the Relay, signage for our campground, and lapel pins for each team member. If we have over 15 we are not eligible. Of course, it all depends on us hitting special goals also. but I have no doubts that we can do that. I want this team to receive the recognition and don't want to disqualify us with too many members. I just received a new handbook yesterday and everything is spelled out in this one.

New Program

I have spent hours tonight trying to find and install hotbar again. I am not having any luck, so am trying new programs for backgrounds. Not having much luck as you can see but I do like some of the pictures on this one free site. It may do for a bit.

We havea new fund raiser started at work. On Mondays we are going to take turns cooking lunch and selling it for either 2 or 3 dollars a plate. Proceeds to benefit the Relay, and the dollars are going to count towards the goal for the person who cooked that day. Laura is going to be the first and cook on Monday

COPY OF LETTER

February 21, 2007

Dear Friend,
We all know of someone who has been touched by cancer. Each year the American Cancer Society holds a Relay for Life. This is a 24 hour event which takes place locally. All monies collected and donated go towards fighting cancer. Together our dollars can eradicate this terrible disease.
I am asking local businesses for their help. We have available die cut cards, two different styles. One honoring survivors and one in memory of those deceased. We are asking businesses to offer these cards for donations of $1.00 to their customers. These cards are then signed, and hung in the windows of the local businesses to show their support for the Relay for Life and the victims and survivors of cancer.
I would like to ask you to participate in the sale of these cards to benefit the Relay for Life.
However, if you do not feel that this is possible for your business, I would also like to ask for any cash donations to the Relay or any donation of a product that could be chanced off in a gift basket. I am thanking you in advance for any help you can give us.
Relay for Life is scheduled from 8 am July 14 to 8 am July 15 in DuBois. If you’d like to attend or have any questions you can contact me at the above phone number, or email.
Sincerely,

Peggi Yeager

This is a copy of the letter I took around with me this morning. My dentist decided not to sell the die cut cards but gave me a $100.00 donation. the little pharmacy down the street from me is going to sell the die cut cards, and the jewelry store where I used to work is deciding what they want to do, but will definately do something. Aprofitable day off today.

RELAY SHIRTS

Jess is buying us Relay shirts. He will have them all imprinted with the team name. I just need to get sizes to him so that he has time to get them ordered. I thought that was great of him. also, I had asked if we could do a dress down day weekly and pay a dollar each to go to the Relay. He came back with a different idea, he will pay $1.00 per salesperson at the two stores per week if we wear our Reward Card buttons, or a similar pin or button campaining for the store or product. Also, he will pay an additional dollar per week per salesperson if we wear our name tags. Most of us do not have name tags and he approved that we can print our name on our reward card buttons and that will count for $2.00 There are 8 sales people at my store and 4 at the other store. I doubt that the other store will do this, however their manager is working on it. I'll be happy if I can get most of them at my store to do this. Today, 4 of us did. I'm hoping to be able to motivate and lead these people to do this willingly and earn these $$$ for our relay team.

Also, tonight in the mail I received an invitation to the regional relay university in State College. Unfortunately, I cannot attend this due to work, but I did already email the girl here in Dubois about it, and asked her to get me any information I need.

I really miss the hotbar and the different backgrounds that I had on here and may try again to install it and hope not to have any problems. I am off tomorrow and may take time and try it.