MI Survivors

Judy - what is this all about rib pain?

 OK, I can go to UPS or Costco, not a prob (I live like a mile from either) - but I think you need to get on the phone with your onc's office, if there is something going on. Waiting two months is not a good idea!

If you need somebody to go with you, I will be there for you.

 Oh, and this is DH's and my 21 wedding anniversary. I guess I'm planning on keeping him. We went to the Ark and saw Girlyman (a NYC-Atlanta trio) that we saw at the Folk Festival , who are utterly awesome. Last Wednesday, we saw the Flatlanders - our favorite group of all time - we once flew to San Francisco to see them perform at Hardly Strictly Blue Grass (well, them and Gillian Welsh and David Rawlings, and Emmy Lou Harris, and...)

I e-mailed for the free tickets - we'll see if we get them - I'm really excited - this is my stepping out in the world as a survivor. Cancer - screw you - you lose - you didn't get me!

Judy - We are all here for you.  Get your buns over to the doc and get some peace of mind.  Keep us posted.  We are here to hold your hand.

Happy anniversary Sue.  Yep, sounds like a keeper.  Ha, that is an idea to put on a t-shirt "Cancer - screw you.."!

About the race.... A bunch of cars can meet in the Meijer's parking lot just South of 96 off of Middlebelt.  (Thanks for the locale you guys).  Then, we could meet and/or follow to the UPS stuff check site or the Team Meet site.  I'm leaning toward the Team site only because you will want to go back to the UPS site after you visit the survivor cafe to drop off your goodie bags.

I got email today that the t-shirt package pick-up day was wrong at the Komen site.  It's on the 22nd and not the 16th.  I'll figure out a way to get the t-shirts to you guys that week.

Linda should be back from DC, right?  How did it go Linda?

Only 12 days left to sign up for the race.  

xxxooo

Nancy

Check out these wings.....

I didn't realize that was a Friday and went back to read my email.  It says...

The correct dates for Team Packet PickUp are as follows: 

Friday, May 22, 2009
10:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Saturday, May 23, 2009
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM 

 Judy - I don't remember it being on a Friday before.  I'll go on Saturday!  Sorry I didn't read that good.  It may be that it's at a different site on Friday.  I'll send you the info about the location.

Check your email.  I sent a note about anonymous donors.  I believe a generous donation was for your fundraising.

The more the merrier on the Team!  

Editted:

Team volunteer sign-up, look at the page below and/or send email to RaceLadyJan

http://www.doitsports.com/volunteer/info.tcl?job_id=1170583 

 The is the previous page but the date hasn't been updated yet... Look at the 16th.

http://www.doitsports.com/volunteer/jobs-by-date.tcl?event_id=61 

Well, I wrote a whole paragraph and then didn't hit the submit button.  Not too smart.  Anyway,  the Costo and Meijer are both at the SE corner of Middlebelt and I-96.  There is really easy egress and ingress onto I-96.  The UPS site is actually west of Middlebelt on the I-96 service drive, south side.  Eastbound would get off at Merriman then proceed on the service drive.  Westbound would go past Middlebelt, then cross over I-96, then proceed a little way east on service drive.  It may be easier to just meet at Costo.  It's a very large lot.

We have a minivan and I know DH would be happy to drive.  We can take 6 comfortably.  It will seat 7 but 3 would have to be children, not adults.  We come from 6 Mile and I-275 so if anyone would want to meet a little further west, we could meet here at the house.

Spent a wonderful day with DS shopping for some things he is going to need for this summer with the drum corps.  Found him some shoes at Kohls to rehearse in, they had to be really, really flexible and I found a pair for me to.  They are even white w/pink on them!  I had no idea my other shoes were so bad until I put these other ones on.  Oh my gosh.  They felt SO good.  I can walk all day in them.  Also went to Salvation Army to see what we could find.  I was surprised to see how high their prices were.  Hopefully the extra income is going to help people.  We were able to get 5 pr of athletic shorts, 2 flannel pants and a pr of shoes for under $20.00.  The corps only has 4-5 laundry days the whole summer so I suppose I need to teach him how to wash stuff in the sink.  They rehearse for 8-10 hours each day so stuff can get pretty icky.  I'm going to try not to think about it.

Have a great evening everyone.  Going to hunt tomorrow for my 'bopper' I got at the picnic.  I know I just saw it recently, but where?  Hitting the submit button this time.

Blessings,

Wendy

Wow, looks like a ride is definitely available. I'm with Wendy about the Costco parking - it is really convenient (we live at Middlebelt and 6 Mile)

 I am getting so excited!

Several co-workers have promised to bring in some money for a pledge - I have to be more organized about this.

 Incidentally, that morning is my 25th AA Anniversary, and I'm postponing celebrating with my home group for a week so I can do this walk. So, I'll likely be incredibly high.

Wendy- the UPS site is actually AT the race site. UPS brings a bunch of trucks in and use them for "stuff" check (like a coat check but for your stuff- coat, purchases, etc). They do this every year for the race. It was just a thought as to where to meet once we're there.  I don't know if I've ever even made it to the "team meet" area ?? Last year I met WIngs at the survivor cafe.

Going to make some more boppers for anyone who needs/wanst one

You guys are cracking me up!  UPS and now where to get the T-shirts!  Wendy, there will be a bunch of us going to volunteer on t-shirt day to pack up the shirts but, I usually make arrangements with everyone the week before to distribute them.  No need to make the drive to Sterling Hts. I think we Westsiders think Telegraph is the other side of the world.  

So, let's talk about how to get the shirts.  We could meet on Sunday the 24th at Panera bread in Livonia.  I mean, all this talk about Panera bread has me hungry.  There is one on Haggerty just South of 8 Mile.  It's just a hop from the 275 expressway.

20140 Haggerty Road, Livonia, 48152
(734) 464-2138 | phone 

I've been to that one before and it is nice.  We have met at the Novi one before but I think most of you are around Livonia.  Where has Chris been?  She is awfully quiet.  She is on the Eastside.

T-shirt pack up doesn't last all day either. We could meet at Panera later in the afternoon on that Saturday, the 23rd. I think it would have to be after 3pm.  I'm open for suggestions.

Nancy

Oops, just looked back and saw that it could be the 24th also.  I'll have to check the calendar.  We don't get home from church until 12:30 or so and could have lunch there at Panara instead of Wendy's as usual.  I'm not sure if we have a car show that day or not.  I'll take a look at the schedule when I get downstairs.  We are going to a movie tonight so I'm going to start and get ready.  Just let me know what's up.  Later.

Wendy

A Sunday pickup for our tee shirts works really well for me. I'm sorry if you feel like you are herding cats long distance, Nancy. I can work around whatever works for the majority of us.

I should mention that my husband works at the Panera next to the Costco and Meiers at Middlebelt and I96 on weekends.

Should point out that Costco and Meiers are just different corners of the same big parking lot (more or less), so we are all talking about the same spot.

Judy, I could use new boppers too - DD wore them for Halloween. Enough said.

Will e-mail my cell phone number to our offline group. Today's been an interesting day - I accepted some linkedin invitations, accepted a facebook invite. Do you think I'm too old to be wired?

Hi Nancy,

Costo or Meijers, whatever is best for everyone is fine w/me.  They are basically in the same place.  Meijers is just one giant parking lot further south.  As far as meeting, if we do carpool, or I suppose even if we don't, what time do you suggest getting down there?  Since DH is doing the driving, he works back from meeting time and we go from there.  I'm guessing it will be pretty early since opening ceremonies are at 8:00 am I think.

The other thing is how do I get to the offline site?  I am just not real computer literate and frankly, don't wish to be.  As long as I can get my mail, I'm happy.  Although I would like to figure out how to post some of my crafts on that site. Need DH for that.

Either Panera is fine w/me as is either the 22 or 23.  On Sunday, I just couldn't get there until after 12:30 pm.  I'd probably walk to the one on 6 Mile since it's only a mile down the road and drive to the other.  Whichever is easiest for the person dropping off the packets.

I've spent the early afternoon looking for my bopper and can't seem to locate it.  I guess I'll need a new one.  I'm really sorry.  If I find it between now and the race, I'll be sure to bring it in case someone just shows up.  I KNOW I just saw it somewhere!  I probably put it away somewhere where it would be safe.  Haha.  I know I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone.  Will look for all details as we get closer to the race.

Blessings,

Wendy

HAHAHAHAHA Neesei- yep, I'm in fine form---NOT. I told myself last year that this year I was going to be in good enough shape to RUN the 5k HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Now I'm thinking maybe the one mile walk.

I meant 'mine' not 'mile'.  Bad input in - bad input out.

Nancy- LOVE the team page. I looked at every single picture. The video was awesome!

I have about $250 so far from people at work, haven't posted it in yet. Paula and Jackie have been doing a bit of fundraising too- I know because some of the people I asked said they had given to them!!

I may have one more person joining the team, will get the info to her tomorrow.

Hoping for beautiful weather - like we had today- for the walk.

(((((Neesie)))))

Thanks you guys - you have been fund-raising like crazy and getting your families to sign up!  NotMe's family signed-up to bring us up to 29 members.  They have been team members since the beginning. 

About Mary's (kats) video - I know the first time I saw it I was teary.  This time, it gave me shivers seeing Kay.  May is so talented. Thanks kats!!

About the Team page - I actually bought the domain for TeamWingsOfHope and started to create the website from there.   The tool I was using limited the amount of pictures you can have where shutterfly doesn't.  Once I saw how much they let you customize your page, it looks like we have everything we need.  I will continue the website but I'd like to add more about our angels.  I have already lost the information about Sprite (Kathy Frago).  I'd like to gather more about AlaskaDeb before that is lost forever.  Let me know if you have links and pictures.

About the pictures - I'm still adding them since I have them on CD's all over the place.  I have a bunch of the 2008 at work.  I think that in 2007 I mostly viewed Irene's since she is a great photographer. I'll see if I can get her to add them to the album.  I still need to look at Mary & Bob's albums.

Less than a week to join the team.  

xxxooo

Nancy

I didn't even realize that t-shirt pack-up day is Memorial weekend! 

Not-Me, we can meet up at a gas station, coffee shop or whatever works with the time you have.  I hope this month gets better for you - both work and personal.  

Talk about time-line, I am looking at pictures I couldn't bear to see, like my few bald pics.  No, I'm not posting them!

Nancy