Category: General

Open Your Book of Good

I’d like to ask my friends to help me with a serious cause. I’ve lost several important people in my life in the last year because of cancer. It pisses me off because they’ve been taken from this earth before their time was up. I started working with the American Cancer Society with their Relay for Life about five years ago as a “preventative maintenance” thing. At that point, no one I knew, much less was close to, and had died from cancer. In fact, skin cancer was the only thing I’d ever heard anyone I know talk about. Since then, I’ve learned of many women I’ve worked with have told me about their scares with different cancers. Then, it happened. I lost 3 friends in one week because of cancer. Needless to say, it was not a good week. Then, a student was diagnosed and had to have her leg amputated. Another friend died. Another student’s dad is badly suffering but fighting the fight with his family and friends. This has all been since January 2004. I was glad that I had decided to do whatever it took to help fight this ugly disease.

Relay for Life is more than an event that happens one night. Every spring, we work to raise money and awareness in fighting cancer. On April 16, the community of Round Rock gets together to celebrate. We celebrate the lives of our friends lost, we celebrate the fact that others are still surviving. We also celebrate our success as a community in raising money to support the American Cancer Society’s fight against cancer.

This year, as a community, we are trying to raise $300,000. As a team, the band kids are trying to raise $5,000 towards the bigger goal. It can happen but only with your help. If you’d like to help me raise money in the fight, you can do it easily below. The great thing is if you’d like to your donation to honor someone you love that is fighting cancer or in someone’s memory, you can right there!

Thanks for your help. It means a positive future for many people!
~Cathy

Here’s the Link!

SEX

1. Sex is a beauty treatment. Scientific tests find that when women make love they produce amounts of the hormone estrogen, which makes hair shine and skin smooth.
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2. Gentle, relaxed lovemaking reduces your chances of suffering dermatitis, skin rashes and blemishes. The sweat produced cleanses the pores and makes your skin glow.
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3. Lovemaking can burn up those calories you piled on during that romantic dinner.
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4. Sex is one of the safest sports you can take up. It stretches and tones up just about every muscle in the body. It’s more enjoyable than swimming 20 laps, and you don’t need special sneakers!
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5. Sex is an instant cure for mild depression. It releases endorphins into the bloodstream, producing a sense of euphoria and leaving you with a feeling of well-being.
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6. The more sex you have, the more you will be offered. The sexually active body gives off greater quantities of chemicals called pheromones. These subtle sex perfumes drive the opposite sex crazy!
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7. Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. IT IS 10 TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE THAN VALIUM.
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8. Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourages saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up.
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9. Sex actually relieves headaches. A lovemaking session can release the tension that restricts blood vessels in the brain.
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10. A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.

Another birthday

Last night, I met my family at Gumbo’s for my mom’s birthday. She’s 29! 😉 We had a lot of fun. We started out drinking delicious champagne and eating spicy crab cakes. We moved to a wonderful red wine (no, I can’t remember brands or wine types) and ordered dinner. I had the Tenderloin George cooked medium with steamed asparagus. It was a bit peppery (but the place is creole cuisine) but it did melt in my mouth.

The one (and only) thing that we didn’t like about Gumbos was that it was noisy and they didn’t have round tables so it was hard for the 6 of us to talk together. So for dessert, we went to the Hyatt. After another hour of delicious desserts and great conversation, it was after 11:00 and we were all tired. Mom and her friend Jane (who was the 6th in our group — Len had to work that day so he couldn’t make it) had gone to an all day massage therapy course, my sister worked all day, Keith drove up from Houston (I told him he should have stopped at Whole Earth and kidnapped Len on his way) and I spent the day cleaning house. Yes, I watched Spider-Man 2 as well yesterday but that was after I was done cleaning and while I was waiting to go meet my family.

Happy Birthday Mom! May you have another wonderful year!