Bras & Birthdays

A coworker of mine spent this past weekend in Vegas as the kick off to her 40th birthday year. That's right, year. When I asked how she was going to continue the celebration, she told me with a whole year of fundraisers. Be still my heart for yes, this woman truly is all you aspire to be.

As a kid I wasn't allowed to start talking about my birthday until the first of April (however I feel strongly that if Mom knew I was planning a whole year of charitable celebrations, I could have started talking about it April 26 of the year before).

Old habits die hard and it wasn't until early April that I really started thinking about my birthday, though admittedly I came to no conclusions for the celebration.

But today when my very charitable coworker shared her plan and then mere hours later led a webinar for the BCRC on launching personal fundraising pages, I had my answer. Birthday fundraiser part two: the shamelessly committed and enthusiastic edition! (See birthday fundraiser part one, the 2011 starter edition.)

This year's birthday fundraiser is called Bras & Birthdays in honor of BCRC's Art Bra Austin, for which I am the communications chair, and of course, for my 27th birthday. And because let's be honest, the name got your attention.

Because the need is so important, I have set the lofty goal of a LOT. I would love to see my fundraising go, in the words of Buzz Lightyear, "to infinity and beyond."

As of right now, at 9:25 p.m. I'm sitting pretty at $80 in donations. Pretty damn good for only having the page live for 7 hours.

Thanks in advance for considering my alliteration of a fundraiser and I promise to keep y'all updated on the progress and what that progress means to breast cancer patients in Central Texas.

31 Days of Fun

The only thing as good as the actual fun is looking forward to the fun. The next 31 days are going to be pretty awesome around here.

April 12: TriDelta happy hour
April 13: Ross' 31st birthday
April 15-16: Zach & Mandi visit
April 16: Brittany's baby! Lil man KC is expected to arrive
April 20: Birthdays with Ross' family
April 21: Birthday with my family
April 25: My birthday
April 28: Art Bra Austin pre-event
May 5: Cinco de Mayo
May 11: EUROTRIP!


And the 12 days after that will be enormously fun in Italy and Austria!

California Recap

I'm home from California, catching up on all y'all's blogs and realizing I like the ones with pics best. So I'll eat my own dog food and give you my week in Cali in images.

Spent time on day 1 with Kev, including lunch at this cute waterside restaurant and later that night, dinner with Carly & her sister & brother-in-law
 

On Day 2 we went to the San Diego Zoo (check that off the bucket list!) where I discovered my love of baby giraffes. How cute are they!


 Then we went to the Flower Fields in Carlsbad, CA
 

Then admired the ocean which exponentially increased my determination to get a beach condo one day


The next day Mom & I flew to San Francisco. We wandered and eventually ended up in Macy's which was advertising their flower show. It was CRAZY. We also met Carly's parents and other sister and brother-in-law that day.
 

On Monday I had to start working again but Mom & I took a cable car down to dinner at Fisherman's Wharf and I saw the Golden Gate Bridge (though with the distance, fog and setting sun, didn't get much in the way of pictures)
 

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were a blur of work which included attending a conference, conducting more than 50 video interviews, entertaining clients and giving a presentation.

Whew.

Go home

As today is a work early dismissal day, I'm taking Pam's advice. I worked at work (well home office today) and now, it's after work and instead of working, I am sharing this AWESOME Ignite video with you.



And then I'm taking Lexi on a jog, gardening, getting a pedicure and finally, a massage. And tomorrow Ross and I are taking Lexi to the dog park and bar hopping with friends. And Sunday we're having Easter dinner with our family. All that I think Pam would agree fall into the "have a life" category.

Enjoy!

(Unless the F bomb really offends you and then here's your warning: it's central to her theme.)

Mashable

We're in Mashable!

See: http://mashable.com/2012/04/03/online-giving-non-profit-infographic/ 

For those of you not familiar, Mashable is like the NY Times of the digital world. Any one who geeks out to tech, especially of the online variety, pines away for Mashable. Thus this story, more than made my day today.

Stay Classy San Diego

In tribute to the newly announced Anchorman 2...I'm not sure who is more excited, Ross or Kevin.

As it's way past my bedtime I'll be brief. I'm in San Diego! With Mom! And Kevin! And Carly!

Here's a picture from dinner last night.


More pictures from the San Diego Zoo and Flower Fields coming soon.