Teal Tuesday - Birthday Cake!

Since you are what you eat, this Teal Tuesday I am wearing my teal on my hips, and butt, and stomach and chin....

Yesterday was my birthday (click here for shameless plug for Team Kelly and Fundraising )!  I am officially one year away from my favorite number (33).  Thank you to my great co-worker Joe and his sweet daughter Livi for baking this cake for me.  When Livi wanted to make the inside pink, Joe suggested she look up the color for ovarian cancer.  She did and the result was this teal and chocolate master piece (that only got confused with a gender reveal cake once)! 

Every Tuesday I blog, tweet, and facebook teal and link up with some great groups.  You can too! Here are some I recommend...
http://takebackteal.com/the-turn-it-teal-tuesday-challenge/
https://www.facebook.com/TakeBackTeal
https://www.facebook.com/tealtoes
https://www.facebook.com/OCancerDancer

A Reason To Celebrate

A little chocolate

A little awareness

A Little Birthday!

A year ago today, I was celebrating my birthday by working at a BBQ for a local Democratic Committee. It was a very hot day spent with so many friends, two cakes, Mad Jack beer, and a bounce house.  In the end, it turned out pretty well, a birthday party I didn't have to pay for and a fundraiser for my organization all in one day...killing two birds with one stone.

This year I thought I would do the same...celebrate the day by working and raise some money.  Given all the changes this past year, my fundraising has a different focus.  On September 15th, my friends, family, fellow cancer survivors, the medical team from my Oncologist and I will be running (jogging, walking, crawling) at the Caring Together Inc Run/Walk for Ovarian Cancer Support and Awareness  in Albany's Washington Park.   My amazing crew has created "Team Kelly" and we are hoping for a beautiful fall day to enjoy each other, celebrate survival, and bring awareness to the most deadly gynecological cancer. 

So want can you do in August to celebrate the day of my birth?  First, I would love it if you would join our team!  You can join us through facebook and sign up officially online and join Team Kelly.

This year, I've learned a lot about gifts.  The gift of health, the gift of family, friends, and support, the gift of all of you.  The gift of you all reading, listening, reaching out and supporting me this past year has certainly been enough. However, if you would like to give a little something to the Ovarian Cancer cause, a donation on my 32nd birthday would mean a lot.  You can find that here:
https://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/KQD/12th-annual-teal-ribbon-runwalk

Thank you for giving your time, support and kind words to this endeavor.  I hope you will join us in the fall!

Oh, and here are those symptoms again...

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Do You Follow??

So I am a little late to the game on this one one (big surprise there!).  On July1 st Google Reader, my favorite way to keep track of all the blogs I love out in blog land, turned off.  They gave us plenty of notice on this but I just didn't want to believe it.  I figured people would freak out and Google would change its mind, come to its senses, and keep it going, but alas they did not.  So I had to find a new way to follow blogs.  At the very last possible minute I chose Blog Lovin because it was so simple.  I liked how in Reader everything was is in lists and I could organize the blogs by category.  I looked at some other options that wanted to make all the blogs appear as magazine pages or add "suggested" blogs into the mix.  I'm not visual and I have way too much to read as it is so I passed on those. Blog Lovin seems to be the closest to Google Reader that I can find, so Blog Lovin it is!

Wait...What is this following you speak of? 
Good question!  There are a lot of ways to make sure you see all the updates of the blogs you love, it also works for newspapers and some magazines.  When a website you are following has a new post, it is shows up in bold on your reader.  You can then click on it and read it right there.  No keeping track of bookmarks and checking each and every one each and every day.  Easy peasey just the way I like it!   If you look over to the right sidebar ------> (yup, right there) you'll see some choices.  There is Blog Lovin', Facebook, Pinterest, my email address contact or Twitter.  Every time my 'followers' number goes up a do a little happy dance...so follow me today ppplllleeeaaassseee!