Last weekend Woodstock FitBody Bootcamp celebrated it's 2 year anniversary by going up to Ellijay for the weekend and utilized Michelle's father's cabin. We spent Saturday afternoon tubing the Cartecay River, well, actually the river was so low, that we spend 3 hours dragging ass on the Cartecay River, getting bumps and bruises, but a great arm work-out at the same time paddling ourselves because there was NO current. Then we went back to the cabin for some food, spirits, music videos, and karaoke. I can honestly say that it was the first "healthy person" party I've ever been too, and everyone brought a food dish that was healthy… whole wheat pasta salad, green salad, tomato & cucumber salad, fruit platters, veggie platters, hummus, peaches, and the Thai cole slaw that I brought. It was just funny to see no fatty mayo potato salad or pasta salad or the other fattening side dishes that you find at parties. But it was a blast!
I've been pretty darn good at counting all of my calories over the last couple of weeks, with the exception of one night involving a bag of Baked Cheetos - as Mary says "those things are like crack, once you start, it's hard to stop". The crummy thing is that the next morning on the way to bootcamp I realized that I couldn't even hide the evidence cause I had very orange fingertips. Hey… at least they were BAKED Cheetos and not regular ones.
I have been blown away by the amount of support I've been getting for the 5K!!! Courtney's life partner put a link on Support the Almighty Talbot Facebook page and complete strangers, who loved Courtney, have been making donations and I can't help but feel like hopefully I can aid in people's healing by having them know that Courtney is not forgotten. If you haven't been to Courtney's blog page, you should take a minute and go see why she touched so many lives. http://www.thealmightytalbot.com/
If you would like to make a donation, I added a ticker to the right of this blog, so you can easily click on the link and make a donation. My goal is $750 but I'd love to challenge people to help me reach $1000. Every little bit helps. It takes about $100 to process new donors through entering information, running the scientific tests on the swabs, and maintaining the results to find marrow matches. So if 10 people donate $10 that could cover the expense of one person becoming a donor. $10 is not a lot of money… it's skipping your daily Starbucks run twice this week, it's having 2 less cocktails tonight at the bar (or in my case, one cocktail - I have expensive taste), it's brown-bagging your lunch to work one time next week. It's only $10 and that $10 can save someone's life… for me, it's a no-brainer! I would skip Starbucks everyday if it meant saving the life of one person.
I'm also asking EVERYONE reading this blog to pass it along. I've been getting so much feedback and I'm now convinced that I'm reaching more and more people, but I want more - Yeah, I know, I'm greedy. If you like my blog, you read my blog on a regular basis, and want to continue reading my blog then do me a favor… at the bottom of each post there is a series of little buttons… click one of the buttons to share my blog on your favorite social network sight… click on the Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. button and tell the world that you love Operation: Longevity. I had almost 50 hits on my "What's that smell?" post and I want to reach 100 hits!!! So do it. Have you clicked on it yet? No? Ok, I'll give you a second…
Done?
Ok! Thanks!
Goal for the week: Don't buy Baked Cheetos!!!
Hugs XOXOX
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