On the Subject of a Pledge.

On October 1st I'll be making a special blog post about Avon's Army of Women. So stay tuned. And if you want to participate, check it out here: http://www.armyofwomen.org/thepledge

On the Subject of How to Donate.

For the time being I will be collecting any donations through my Paypal account; it is linked to a separate savings account with my credit union specifically for the purpose of this 3-Day Walk fundraising event.

My current goal is to make the registration fee by or around my birthday this year towards the end of October. That fee is $90. I'll work on getting suitable counters for this site up in the near future for each goal that gets set, including the great big one for the 2300 total minimum amount to be raised (so I can actually participate in the walk at the end of all of this)!

Any amount is welcome, even if it's a dollar at most. I'm counting on a lot of people for help with this so if it can get passed around as well, that would be awesome. Your friends, your coworkers, your family, please let them know! Thank you so much!!

On the Subject of My Soundtrack.

So this is Private First Class Lavernius Tucker, or Tucker, for short:

 

He's a happy little 16gb iPod Touch.

Tucker keeps me going when I'm out on my walk/run (2 miles up to Buffalo Park and 2 miles back). Here's a few things I've put on my playlist, music that gets me pumped and helps me keep that energy!

• "Carousel" by Blink-182
• "Don't Let Her Pull You Down" by New Found Glory
• "Detroit" by Fireworks
• "Closer to the Edge" by 30 Seconds to Mars
• "Nice Guys Finish Last" by Green Day
• "The End With You" by Box Car Racer
• "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" by My Chemical Romance
• "Grenade Jumper" by Fall Out Boy
• "Letters to God Pt. 2" by Angels and Airwaves
• "Faster Than the World" by H2O
• "Sweetness" by Jimmy Eat World

Great stuff. I've got a lot more by a lot of different artists but this is just a taste. It's so awesome to have that personal motivation through music, and pretty much all of the artists I listen to when I go out mean something to me. They don't just bump my heart rate up with their music's bpm, but they push me to get up and get going in life and in what I want to do. :) I'll go into that more, in later posts. For now, I'm hitting the pavement. See ya!

On the Subject of the New Shoes.

Wowee, I'm glad I made the choice I did to pick up a pair of these awesome runners... I feel like I've picked up a pair of Talaria instead (and by good ol' Hermes, these sure are a treat for my feets).

They're women's Nike Zooms, with what they call "structure". Meaning that they're going to correct my gait and strengthen my calves, improving my posture and weight distribution too. Ahhhhhhh, arch support! Took them for a trial around town running my errands after my job interview, and I'm glad to say that tomorrow I'll be getting a sure kick in the rear from them. I've upped my walking route from 3 to 4 miles already! Yeah!! Can't wait to get these shoes out on the urban trail.

Pretty excited about how this is going so far. I have already made (yes! handmade!) a slew of friendship-style bracelets and will keep making them;  I have some ideas on when and where I will start selling them and for how much as part of fundraising. More details on those as we go along, so if that interests you, keep an eye out.

Just thought I'd give a quick little update on things. Hope you have a great night!

On the Subject of Shoes.

So last year at about this time or so I was in Phoenix and Albuquerque, catching one of my favorite bands, Fall Out Boy, opening for another one of my favorite bands (the band I never thought I'd get to see live, ever), blink-182. The sheer amount of joy and happy that trip and those shows brought me will probably never be matched for me again, perfectly. It was an amazing week.

I blew my shoe out at the Phoenix show. LOL.

I've been wearing these shoes for the last year. Not like, everyday, as the job I held required me to wear nice, dressy shoes, so these I would throw on when I had to run out to the store or whatever, whenever I didn't want to bust out my support-less Converse (I did Fall Out Boy's first two shows on the BND2 tour earlier that year in my Converse and wowee, never taking those shoes to a show again ever; not that spending the entirety of the next day wandering around the Las Vegas strip aimlessly helped at all, yikes). I've owned this pair for quite a few years and while I love Sketchers, nearly every pair I've ever owned has busted out for me along the inside or the outside where the sole meets the rest of the shoe.

Today I have enough set aside that I think I'm going to hit the mall and see if I can find a good pair of shoes that will help me through the next year and possibly the Walk itself. I was going to wait until Wednesday but I am curious to see if the shoe store at the mall has the same pair I was looking at online for the sale price. If so, I have more than enough for it.

But uh. Yeah. :) These shoes have served me well for the years I've had them, but they're pretty unsuitable for walking much further than the 3 or so miles I try to fit in every day. I'm going to be expanding my walk route this week and next so I need some good support and possibly something that will correct and keep my gait balanced. Also I haven't bought new sneakers in forever so yay.

I was originally going to ask for donations to help cover the cost of these, or for someone to donate an old pair they don't use anymore, but my feet run super small and I have asked around a little, already, and the general consensus is that this might take longer and be a little more difficult. Also I'm not quite sure how I want to factor supplies or anything of that nature into my fundraising just yet, if I want to do that at all. I still need to sit down with Paypal and figure out a donation widget, too. Ahh, I'll get there. :D

I have a couple of other errands to run so I'm gonna get going for the day. :) Hope your week starts off well!

Testing, testing! 1-2-3 Day GO!

Hi and welcome! I've not got much up on this site just yet but that will change in the near future as I figure out more of the controls and options here on Blogger (until now I have only been using this account to post comments on other blogs I read that run off of this awesome site). So please bear with me as I get things up like donation buttons, counters, all sorts of goodies to help me and you, my readers and supporters, keep track of this undertaking.

I'll be 25 this year and 26 by the time I get to run the event, and I wanted to do something that would allow me to put my mark on the world around me. I enjoy helping others where I can and so this was the number one thing I could think of participating in. I'm a big fan of groups like Keep-A-Breast, the Dear Jack Foundation and 11:11 AM, and the Hurricane Olympics, and while it's awesome to be able to contribute to that I also had the need and want to prove to myself that I can organize and perform something like an individual 3-Day walk. I wanted to do something that will not only give me a personal goal of achievement, but one that will ultimately give back to a cause.

:) Anyhow. Please be sure to check back in; I'll likely be linking posts through my Facebook and Twitter account; and maybe in a few other places too, but we'll see what happens.

Right now I'm gonna throw some pants on and go for a walk!