Archive for the ‘Family’ Category

About a month ago this @silentclark guy caught my eye on Twitter. It seemed as though everyone was @ replying him, adding him to their #ff lists and generally talking about him more than normal. It really wasn’t until this past Friday that I had a moment to really check into what he was up to and all I can say is that I am sad I didn’t look into him sooner.

3 things you need to know about Silent Clark:

1. He’s has only been communicating via social media for the past 90 something days (day 100 will be this Saturday)

2. He is doing this to silence cancer in honor of his family members who have fought the battle

3. His first spoken words will be this Saturday at the Break the Silence party

As you all know the subject of cancer, particularly leukemia has been a subject near and dear to my heart recently. Read the rest of this entry »

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s ABCs of Cancer

By now many of you have seen the sea of encouraging messages on my wall, you’ve seen the 7 inches of hair I cut off and you’ve seen the “such good news today” update from yesterday.

So here’s the deal. In an effort to save myself from explaining 1,000 times what is going on, I am going to update you all at once – via blog. For those super personal people who never tell the world anything, this might seem like I’m putting my business out there in a “needs attention kind of way”. That’s cool, I kind of feel that way too, but for me – it’s the only way I can do this and not cry every time someone asks “what’s wrong.”

Last Saturday my dad was diagnosed with Acute lymphocytic leukemia. It has not been the best week of my life to say the least, but everything has been going really well (as well as things with cancer can go). I’m not going to bore you with all the details, but it looks like we are going to be on an upward climb for the next few months (:) – upward is always better than downward). Read the rest of this entry »

1. “not kevin” not happening

2. New job = in love

3. friends are good, family is good

4. It feels as though I am exactly where I am supposed to be – life is good

5. couponing = epic fail. it’s too easy to just pop into Publix on my way home from work

6. not pleased with the bachelorette… keeping the weatherman and the wrestler? poor life decisions

7. embarrassed that I love the bachelorette

8. I need a new book – any recommendations? preferably something fun and summery

9. Happy birthday baby brother! Your 20s are overwhelming, welcome.

10. I needed to end on an even number and now I need to go to work as a sink hole on centennial has made my 6 minute commute to work probably a 10 minute commute. sad.