My Sewing Studio Cat!!

I had to take this picture of Frieda she was just to adorable. She found a small space in the fabric shelves where she could lay!!!

Posted on Monday, September 20th, 2010
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Update to Light the Night

Hello All!

Thanks to all those that donated to my walk. It was an awesome event. Very emotional and I would up with a nasty headache from crying so much but I would not have changed anything!

I was able to complete the 3 miles!!! It was all I could do since in the last 13 months I have not had much activity due to my meningitis but I was able to complete it and it hurt like hell but was fabulous!!!

Hugs to All

Gene

Posted on Sunday, September 12th, 2010
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Light the Night!!!!

Hello Friends and Family,
I am doing well. As most of you know I have been fighting Viral Meningitis for the last 13 months. It has been an adventure!! As of Sept 1st I have been ungrounded cautiosly by the Doctor. He said that I need to be careful not to set off a major event as it could cause me to back slide. So I am going forth. I will let all of you know how my job search and recover continue to go!
 
As some of you know I had 2 very special people in my life. Thier names are Bill Gill and Bryant Ante.
 
Bryant was an amazing 8 year old that battled Lymphoma for 2 years before he unfortunately lost his battle and passed way July of 2009. He will be missed by all who knew him.
 
Bill was a truely awe inspiring 80 year old that managed to turn a 4 month diagnosis of Luekemia into almost 10 years!!!! Bill passed away May of this year.
 
In memory of these 2 amazing people myself and the boys will be participating in the Luekemia and Lymphoma Society Light the night walk this Saturday September 11th in Anchorage. Each of the 3 of us have a goal of raising $100.00 to help fight blood cancers and help current surviors of blood cancers have a better quality of life!! If you can make a donation of any size towards our goals we would really appieciate it!! Thanks!!
 
We are on the Team Bill Says: in honor of Bill and his continuing legacy of Bill says signs that are posted on the different Team in Training marathon corses to help give the participants a boost on thier big day of completing a truely life changing event in thier life. Only 3 percent of the US population and 1% of the world population will ever complete a marathon in thier lifetime.
 
 
Here is some of the things that the donations go towards:
  • A donation of $25 provides patients and their loved ones with FREE booklets that contain up-to-date information on their disease and help them make informed decisions about their treatment options.
  • A donation of $50 makes possible a Family Support group with a trained facilitator where comfort can be found and experiences can be shared among patients and family members.
  • A donation of $100 helps supply laboratory researchers with supplies and materials critical to carrying out their search for cures.
  • A donation of $1,000 makes possible one- on-one conversations with health care specialists who provide patients with information about their disease, treatment options, and helps prepare them with questions for their health care team.
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    For more information about The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society please go to http://lls.org/
     
    For more information about Team in Training please go to http://www.teamintraining.org/
     
     
    Donations are taken below at the secure webpages each of us have our own webpage for donations.
     
    Here are the links to our pages. Any amount donated will go a long way to helping those people that are currently fighting blood cancers.
     
     
     
     
    Sorry for the short notice, with my Meningitis it has been hard to predict what I will be able to do in the future. That should be behind me now!!!
     
    Hugs,
     
    Gene Looman

    Posted on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
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    I have been ungrounded!!!

    Hello All,

    I went to the neurologist yesterday. He has cautiously ungrounded me. He said I still need to be very careful to not trigger any major headache incidences as it could start the whole process over again. And trust me I don’t want that!!!!

    Posted on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
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    Buttons!!!!

    I have finally finished sorting all my buttons so I can better utilized them.

    I got to thinking that when I need buttons in a sewing project, I selected them by color first than size. So I have sorted them all by color. The idea to sort them came to me when I was looking at a bunch of Crystal Light contains that I could not throw away because they had to be useful for something.

    The picture below is my new button shelf in my disaster area of a studio. I took the picture on my cell phone so the quaility is not the best!!!

    Posted on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
    Under: Sewing | 4 Comments »

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