Still Clear in Mesa
17 months ago
July 11, 2008
lovingeveryminute has written 9 entries about this goal
START is the key word for me.
20 months ago
I joined Cheryl’s team on the first day, so I’ve accomplished my part of this goal. Going 300 strong now, this team is amazing!
However, I already do regular checks and do not require a spot on my list in order to continue the habit. Plus, as interesting as it has been to help grow a giant team like this here on 43T, when my comments and questions start getting deleted, I know it’s time to go.
Thanks, Cheryl, for the effort in the “research” area. I hope someone who lives in Colorado can use that info.
Good HEALTH, everyone!
I love the RESOUNDING All Clear!
20 months ago
It’s like 230 cops storming the global village for “bad guys” and thankfully not finding any!
All Clear in Mesa, Arizona!
20 months ago
Or maybe I should say San Francisco, California, since that’s where I was.
At any rate, I’ve been 700 miles away from Cyberspace for the past 3 days but I didn’t forget.
Marcia
21 months ago
She treated me like crap when I was her assistant, even though I made her job monumentally easier.
Then she got a different job and a different assistant. She called me about 2 months into the new job and apologized for not appreciating me better and said she never realized how much I knew and how much I did until she wound up with someone she had to train in every little thing and my work was still better.
As you can imagine, this conversation proved profoundly helpful to me when she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer.
During the couple weeks before her passing, I had been reading a book, which was actually one of the worst books ever written, but it had one redeeming quality: a little story about what the title character learned after her family had been killed by insurrectionists. An old man told her to write down 3 things that she had learned from each person that had enriched her life, and blah blah blah… the book was a wretched mess of badly written descriptions, meant more for killing spiders than for reading.
Anyway, after I found that little jewel in the hideous haystack of literary garbage, I stopped reading the book and wrote down the things that I had learned from Marcia.
February had been her favorite month. She loved the sheer excessiveness of Valentine’s Day and she was also fond of groundhogs and patriotism. She always decorated for Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day and put a little stuffed groundhog on her desk. She was seriously OCD, and every paper heart had to be put up exactly where it had been the year before. It was ridiculous. I don’t know how she managed at all, having to change jobs.
Anyway, I made a pink paper heart and wrote the following on it:
3 little Wisdoms from Marcia~
1. There is no such thing as too much masking tape.
2. A little make-up goes a long way.
3. Never drive barefoot in your pajamas.
She would have smiled.
Oh, and always order ‘Jumbo’ paper clips because they remind her of Pennsylvania. Apparently, that’s what you east coast people call baloney. Anyway, she thought ‘Jumbo’ was funny.
Nora
21 months ago
She came from a long line of women who died of Breast Cancer. She always knew it would come for her. What she didn’t expect was to be in her 30’s when it happened. She had a half dozen or so little boys.
For her funeral, someone had written a poem about her, entitled, “That’s OK” because she was that type of person. Her demeanor was relaxed and she never took anything personally. The poem fit her perfectly and I have remembered it, and her, all these 13 years.
Buddy Check 12
21 months ago
I live in an area with a television station on Channel 12 and I always thought they made this up, so I was surprised to see someone in Florida refer to the program as Buddy Check “12”. Little did I know that the whole thing originated in Jacksonville, as the brainchild of Jeannie Blaylock, a news anchor and health reporter on their Channel 12.
Apparently, there are 39 cities across the US with stations on Channel 12, and all of us call it that. That’s so cool! So unifying.
Thanks, Cheryl, for thinking to put this goal up here as a team effort. You are surely making your mark on the world.
Martha
21 months ago
Cheryl started this goal the day after my sister-in-law’s birthday. She would have been 44.
Last year, eleven days before her 43rd birthday, Breast Cancer took her from her family. She left behind four small children, a husband, and an adult son, not to mention all the other people who loved her.
She came from a family that refused to go to the doctor, so she never had a mammogram until she was already in Stage 5.
Please do your self-exams. And if you find anything – anything at all – GO GET CHECKED!!!
