the countdown is on

As most of you know if you bother to read(yes both of you and u know who u r), it is National MS Awareness Week.
I am finding the daily emails inspiring and hopefully they have helped others.

The countdown to our Walk is on. We will meet at the zoo Saturday afternoon for the first evening walk in Tpa. I have MORE than enough volunteers for the event, I have achieved one of my goals as Team Captain this year and hope to achieve the other before the deadline in April.

I wanted to grow my walk team to be MORE than just my closest friends and family supporting me and I am proud to say that Ihave people registered to walk on TEAM DURNING that I do not even know!! Goal #1-acheived.
Goal #2 was to take Team Durning to a $10,000 goal and we are sitting at just over $7,000 right now. I am fairly confident that we will more than surpass my goal as many have not turned in their pledges yet. For those of you who would like to donate, please visit the website and help us to create a world free of MS.

I went to see my neuro yesterday and I am thrilled to report that I LUV HER!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so fortunate to have such a wonderfully caring physician. She changed one of my meds and I will hopefully do well on the new one and start feeling less fatigued. Keep ya posted.

FCAT will be over for my 3rd graders today for the week and Team Durnicchi won the first round of the infamous Kickball Tournament at school. We outscored the other team by 15 runs and this was achieved by students that had never even played kickball before. They are such adorble lil teammates. So, next round is today after lunch. Go TEAM DURNICCHI.

Off to be creative. I haven't done anything this week creatively and I am missing it. Happy Thursday.

chipboard chipboard chipboard

I have/had it everywhere. It was making me looney to try to keep it all together. it is a newer obsession of mine to buy it in every color..........but it was spilling outta every container, shelf etc.

So, I am proud to say it is ALL completely organized right now. I decided to go with color. I like the idea of organizing it by letter of the alpha, BUT, I am not one to mix it up . So I figured if they are all together by color and font, I have got a better shot at finding what I need.

Now I struggled with where to put it, what to buy to organize it and then it hit me like a $1750 DUH.
The ScrapBox in my room has NUMEROUS empty bins that I had yet to fill. Well, I am proud to say that fifteen of them are now filled with chipboard and bling and I still have plenty of empties.

As Joshy would say, "Mommy, you are a genius".

Tagged by Ginni

Tagged by Ginni
A- Attached or single: Attached to John
B- Best Friend: Helen
C- Cake or Pie: ice cream cake
D- Day of Choice: Saturday
E- Essential Item (s): cell phone, computer and iced tea
F-Favorite type of music: Billy Joel, Elton John, Barry Manilow
G- Gummy Bears or Worms: Hate all gummy things.
H- Hometown: Born and raised in Northern NJ, but FL is truly my home now
I- Indulgence(s): collecting unused scrapbooking supplies
J- January or July: January
K- Kids: one son, Joshua Daniel
L- Last movie: could NOT even begin to tell you it has been THAT long
M- Marriage Date: October 4th
N- Number of Siblings: 1 brother, and one sister. there are also steps but no contact there ever
O- Oranges or Apples: Apples, Granny Smith the best
P- Phobias or Fears: Cotton Balls and PEAS
Q- Quote(s): You can't be both pitiful and powerful
R- Reason To Smile: Life is good
S- Season: Fall
T- Tag Four: Amanda, Jules, Miami Dawn and Stacey
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I used to collect "stuff" cause my house burned down when I was a kid and I lost all my stuff...........
V- vegetarian or meat eater: Carnivore -- and make it medium rare
W- Worst Habit: smoking and accepting the fact that I can NOT do it all anymore.
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: I am a Brain MRI all the way HA HA
Y- Your Favorite Food: Lobster
Z- Zodiac: I am TRULY a Cancer all the way

the WIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG for those of you NOT living in the Tpa Bay area, let me just tell you what kind of crazy weather we are having.
It was almost 80 degrees yesterday and BLAH .....the skies opened up like you would NOT believe last night. Not sure what the rain total was, but it was ALOT. The pool is emptying and wow. Now this morning, the wind is howling and although the sun is shining we have dropped about 20+ degrees.

Just to give you some idea of how windy it is: DH opened the front door to go outside for a minute and we heard a huge CRASH!! the wind blew the dooor out of his hand and then blew an 8x10 picture off the wall upstairs. Can u imagine.?

Thankfully, it was a cheap-o frame and no doggies, people or kiddos were injured in this wind blast. Driving in it is going to be fun later.

Off to do some laundry for a change. Happy Saturday.

NMS Awareness Week

What will you do to move us closer to a world free of MS?
Join the movement during MS Awareness Week, March 10 – 17!
Whether you are already a part of the movement, or looking to get involved for the first time, MS Awareness Week is the time to show your commitment to ending MS. Every person and every action makes a difference!
Throughout the week look for simple actions you can take. Please also contact your chapter to find out what local activities are taking place near you during MS Awareness Week.
Some MS Awareness Week activities include:
Monday
Commit to seven days of action and take simple daily actions throughout the week that make a difference
Tuesday
Send an action alert to your federal representative asking for an increase in MS research
Wednesday
Watch the Moving Forward film festival debut on Second Life
Thursday
If you haven’t committed to seven days of action, there is still time to get involved
Friday
Check out what our corporate partners are doing to support the MS movement through our new Movement Marketplace
Saturday
Sign up for a Bike MS or Walk MS event – if you already have, ask two friends or family members to join you!
Sunday
Thank you for moving us closer to a world free of MS


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Feeling

Kinda BLAH. The weather this week has been bleak and it has put me in a dreary mood as well. I "can't like it one bit".

So, that explains why I have not been posting........feeling to icky. I have also been feeling VERY overwhelmed with life in general and even broke down and called my neuro today. Of course, won't hear anything back til Monday, but I called.

MS fatigue is like no other I can explain.........worse than being 38 weeks pg and my meds do NOT seem to be working at all the last few weeks. Oh well. There are far worse things than feeling tired, so I am not going to complain.

I am happy that the weekend has arrived. I have a baby shower to attend for one of my teammates tomorrow and some more Volunteer assignments for the WALK next Saturday. It is all falling into place though. YEAH.

I will be quite happy when it is over though.

Monday begins NATIONAL MS AWARENESS WEEK. So all of you out there, be aware!! LOL. and do something nice to help those of us out that suffer from this silly disease!!

Have a great weekend. FCAT is coming.

productive

So far, it has been a productive day!! I have been working for weeks on packaging and organizing "stuff" to take to and sell at the Whim-so-Doodle scrappin yard sale.
Let me tell you, it was WELL worth the efforts.

I made $171.50-$10 fee for the table/booth rental and I am one VERY happy scrapper!! In addition, I have sold a bunch of stuff on Ebay in the last few weeks and I have managed to scrape together enough $$ to go on the WSD choo choo excursion to St. Augustine. I am very xcited.

BIG thanks to Amanda for sharing the space and her efforts while we tag teamed the table. I didn't spend much at all, cept for the $2 Jules wiggled outta my pocket.

Now to put the left overs away :(
Happy Saturday all,