Using my powers of looking stupid for good!
Cross-posted from Facebook:
My friend Trisha is doing a 40 mile walk in Washington, DC to raise money for breast cancer research. This is something I've always wanted to do, but I'm not in a place in my life where I can do that now. So after I donated my $20, I kept thinking of ways I could help her out.
After I brainstormed, I came to the conclusion that I have a sense of humor, not a lot of dignity, and lots of friends and family. So after getting Spen's okay (after all, he'll have to look at me), and talking to Trisha, I realized what I could do:
If we can raise $1,000 for Trisha's walk by February 3rd, I will shave my head.
$1,000 is a fair amount of money, but it breaks down to a little less than $5 from every person I know. Even in this economy, most people have $5. That's less than a fast food meal, or in my case, less than three 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke.
Two important women in my life have had breast cancer. They both beat it (remission rocks!), but they had to shoulder their personal fear, the fears of their friends and families, the sickness from both the cancer and the cure, and in one of their cases, the loss of her hair.
Hair is the one vanity most women take for granted. So help me remove my hair, and donate $5 (or more if you're feeling plush) to http://www.avonwalk.org/goto/Trisha.Snow by February 3rd, so no one else has to lose their hair. So no one else has to lose a mother, a sister, a wife, or a friend.
Feel free to link to this entry (I'm making it public) if you think of others who might want to help Trisha meet her goal. Or to anyone who might want to make me bald - either way, I'm good. :)
My friend Trisha is doing a 40 mile walk in Washington, DC to raise money for breast cancer research. This is something I've always wanted to do, but I'm not in a place in my life where I can do that now. So after I donated my $20, I kept thinking of ways I could help her out.
After I brainstormed, I came to the conclusion that I have a sense of humor, not a lot of dignity, and lots of friends and family. So after getting Spen's okay (after all, he'll have to look at me), and talking to Trisha, I realized what I could do:
If we can raise $1,000 for Trisha's walk by February 3rd, I will shave my head.
$1,000 is a fair amount of money, but it breaks down to a little less than $5 from every person I know. Even in this economy, most people have $5. That's less than a fast food meal, or in my case, less than three 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke.
Two important women in my life have had breast cancer. They both beat it (remission rocks!), but they had to shoulder their personal fear, the fears of their friends and families, the sickness from both the cancer and the cure, and in one of their cases, the loss of her hair.
Hair is the one vanity most women take for granted. So help me remove my hair, and donate $5 (or more if you're feeling plush) to http://www.avonwalk.org/goto/Trisha.Snow by February 3rd, so no one else has to lose their hair. So no one else has to lose a mother, a sister, a wife, or a friend.
Feel free to link to this entry (I'm making it public) if you think of others who might want to help Trisha meet her goal. Or to anyone who might want to make me bald - either way, I'm good. :)