Happy Friday

Happy Friday!

Happy to report our first sale in the shop yesterday! A random e bay shopper bought a charity glow in the dark band! we are officially open lol!!

This evening Caroline ( my sister), Maureen and myself are going around the pubs in Bingley to confirm we are ok to organize the 3 legged pub crawl in Aug. We hope that they all sign on for it ( sure they will with the wet sales they will get from it )...no-one said organising fund-raising events was easy....Gin & Tonic....I say, it's all tickety boo!

I got my cholesterol blood results back...mmm not the best as I said the other day, anyway my GP phoned to discuss my results and what the plan of action is. The result came in at 7.7, which is very high. It is believed my cancer drug is causing the elevation and so I will be going onto meds for it. My doctor said the meds will halve my cholesterol level quickly and thus take me out of the danger zone. He said however long they keep me on the cancer drug...be it 5 years or 10 ( I balked at 10 yrs! ) I will have to stay on the cholesterol meds to control it at an healthy level.

I won't lie and say I was ok with all this, I was pretty emotional about it all and discussed whether it was plausable to come off the cancer drug because of all the other things going on. He said they don't want me off the drug even though I have other serious illnesses that have developed since the cancer diagnosis.

I have to have my bloods rechecked in 8 weeks and then a consultation the week after that to check the drugs are doing what they should be.

Will keep you posted on the continuous medical drama that is my life lol!

Enjoy your weekend everyone

Tracy

Cocktail and BBQ date confirmed - July 30th!

Morning everyone!

The cocktail list is finalized ( at last lol ) can you be tempted to have a slurp or two of one of the wonderful cocktails I, The Pink Palace Cocktail supremo shaker will be making for your enjoyment! ( ok, only volunteer....beggers can't be choosers! )

Here is the list so you can peruse at your leisure and hopefully it will wet your appetite for the BBQ day :)

Pinky Cosmo, Strawberry Daiquiri, Blue Lesbian, Frazzleberry, Cheeky Vimto,Tom Collins and Harvey Wallbanger. These will all be available for a small price and all monies raised will go to the chosen charities of the year. My labour, smile and undoubtedly dodgy sense of humour will all be free. Why not meet me at the best place at any party.....The Bar.....come on you know you want too!

A raffle, tombola, food, even a book sale and of course an afternoon and evening of relaxing company and great fun and humour will definitely be on the cards. Hope to see you there!

First item in the shop!

Hello everyone

Very happy to announce I have listed the first item in the shop!. Unfortunately you will have to wait a little longer.. But shortly you will be able to link straight to it from this blog!

More items are been sorted as we speak, hopefully you will like them. We will be shipping worldwide if anybody orders. Payment will be paypal so no hassle for anyone.

Twitter support is picking up at a nice pace, if you want to follow, you can join on the home page down the outer right edge...also if you want to sign up to this blog ( I would be very happy to have you aboard this adventure we are starting out on )

On a personal level - I have been to the gym again this am...went well another 90 min workout, even did a little hill climbing on the treadmill :). Determined to go working out 5 times a week if health allows it. Doctor phoning me in the morning about my cholesterol level, the bloods have come back at 7.7, not sure until tomorrow if it is good or bad cholesterol and what this means for me. Could possibly have caused by my cancer drug. Lots of questions wanting answers, hopefully tomorrow will be the start of that.

Meeting this week to finalize events

Happy Monday! I hope everyone has a good week ahead.

Feeling pretty good today,did 90 minutes in the gym today, even sneaked in a little extra on the workout ( shush it's a secret )

Hoping to have a money counter/accumulator up and working the early part of this week so we can all see how the fundraising is going!

Anybody want to advertise their business for twelve months? or know someone who wants to? get in contact..For a fair and reasonable donation ( nothing silly like £5.00) we will advertise your business on the homepage on a slide-show at the bottom giving optimum exposure.

We are having a mini mtg tomorrow pm to finalize the BBQ details for the end of the month. Heard that the rain we are having right now may be around for a while. If thats the case...we will be having a wellybob BBQ!!...gazebo's at the ready or watered down cocktails on the menu!! One thing for sure...it won't dampen our spirit even if it does our clothes :)

Ok today,I thought I would write a little piece on Clic Sargent, this is the second charity I have chosen to raise money for. For those that missed the piece on Walk the Walk...just read back through the blogs :)

Clic Sargent is a children's cancer charity. It was founded in 2005 after a successful merger between Clic and Sargent cancer care for children. Sargent cancer care for children was founded in 1976.Clic Sargent give clinical, practical and emotional support to children and young people who have been diagnosed with cancer. They help the whole family cope with the trauma of a cancer diagnosis and treatments. They offer "Home from Home" to the families who live far away from the hospital.This means the family can stay with the child if the child is well enough and if not they are on the hospitals doorstep. From the children or young person point of view it is critical to have their family near by as they will be going through enough with all the treatments without adding the stress of missing the family.

When a child is diagnosed with cancer treatments may take up to 3 years. A really big part of what Clic Sargent does is help the family cope with the trauma of the cancer, life after treatments and unfortunately in some cases bereavement.

The work they do is invaluable to making a child or young persons life as comfortable as possible throughout the whole process of fighting and surviving cancer.

Having cancer treatments is very invasive and very hard on the body.Emotionally for many it is hard to come to terms with, so for a child or young person to cope with all this is very difficult and the need of the family close by is critical. They do amazing things and this is why Clic Sargent is my second chosen charity.

Thank you for taking the time to read!

Enjoy your day

Tracy

Some Mount.Kilimanjaro facts.

Morning everyone!

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend,those of you in the UK, I'm sure you're not enjoying our lovely British weather. It is a fairly usual rainy summer day here in West Yorkshire, I'd load a photo for you all, but I don't want anybody sat in the sunshine feeling sorry for us Tykes!!

This coming Tuesday we will be having a meeting to finalize the BBQ, watch out peeps, I'm apparently the new Tom Cruise.....I'm running the cocktail bar! this is going to be dangerous for two reasons. 1. I tend to make drinks a tad on the strong side ( oops watch out ! ) 2. Been told not to try throwing the bottles about like in the movie as they do want to sell some drinks and make some money for the two chosen charities!....I have been warned 

Mt.Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania and is close to the Kenyan border.

It is the tallest free standing mountain in the world and is also known as the Roof of Africa, it stands at 19,340 feet.

Only around 40% of all attempts to reach the summit are successful and almost all failures are due to altitude sickness.

Mt.Kilimanjaro contains virtually every eco-system on earth,when climbing,it will take you through several climates and vegetative zones.

It is predicted that Mt.Klilmanjaro's plateau ice may be gone in the next 30-40 years, but the slope glaciers will remain much longer.

Ok off for now, I will be doing a piece on Clic Sargent in the next day or two. Stay happy everyone.

Until next time Thought I'd give some more facts about Mt.Kilimanjaro.

Morning World!

Morning world!

Just a little blog today, I will be working very hard all weekend to try and get the e bay shop up and running.Don't worry about missing the launch of it.....I'm sure you'll all hear from me lol!

I have had a little health scare this week, but although I'm been referred to a specialist, my doctor has said I can still workout at the gym unless it gets too painful, so having had a few days off until I was checked out, I will be back following my instructor's work-out from tomorrow morning....7.30am sounds like a good time to get the body up and at em! ( don't put the work in,won't be making it to the summit )

Thank you to those of you who have taken time to sign up and follow, I really appreciate the support,please keep posting up on Facebook and Twitter, really want to get this out there to show there is life while surviving cancer and that we can achieve anything if we set out heart on it. I just want to raise awareness for those who are or have been fighting cancer and a big up to all who care for or support someone with cancer!

Help spread the message and help me to raise a mountain of money for climbing a mountain!

Happy Friday everyone, hoping you all have a great weekend!

Tracy ( aka Jellyhead or geeky depending who you talk too )

P.S.

For those of you who live fairly local.....If you have any unwanted gifts ( promise I won't tell!! ) or are having a clear out and think you have stuff for a car-boot, please PM me and I will collect it....we will be doing car-boot sales regularly over the next 12 months. Thank you :)

Great response to the blog launch!

Wow! great response to the launch of the blog! Thank you to everyone who has taken time to have a look,I would say I'll have a cocktail for everyone who can't make it to the charity BBQ......but then I'd have to have my stomach pumped....or even worse I might start singing in public lol! ( now that would make everyone's ears bleed!! )

I want to just take a little time over the next few days to tell you some things about the charities I've chosen. Today I'm talking about Walk the Walk.

Walk the Walk has been going for just 14 years, this year after the London Moonwalk ( where we Team L'Oreal took part...Jeannie,Sue,Helen,Caroline and myself )the money raised by this grant making charity has raised in excess of £70 million!, and over 250,000 people have walked one of the events.It's a fantastic charity and unlike many who have followed suit with walking type events,this is open to men as well ( they get breast cancer too) and it was fantastic to see so many out waking with their decorated bras on too!

Walk the Walk is the brainchild of Nina Barough, she woke up one morning and thought powerwalking the New York marathon would be fun and a great way to raise money for breast cancer....at this time Nina didn't know anyone affected by breast cancer personally,however fate stepped in and two months after completing the Marathon,she herself was diagnosed.

Walk the Walk especially looks at projects that don't find funding that easy,and those who would possibly take years to achieve their goals.Walk the Walk supports research but also fund physical and emotional support for those who have cancer now.HRH Prince Charles is the patron of the charity and has been so since 2004.

Walk the Walk is an avid supporter of "The Generation Study" which plans to track the health of 100,000 women over a 40 year period,the largest study of it's kind.

The motto of Walk the Walk is.....Raise money,Raise awareness,get fit and have fun!

Keep your eyes and ears open.....you never know when an event may happen near you!!

Thank you for reading, Happy Thursday!