Hey Dudes-

You know my sister is sick. Yeah, she's a perv (we all knew that), but what you may not have know is that she also has Ulcerative Colitis, which is thought to be an autoimmune disease where her body essentially is attacking her lower digestive tract...mostly her intestines. It is generally seen as a counterpart to Crohn's Disease, which attacks the entire digestive tract (even less fun). It's really a big pain in the ass, because she will inevitably get colon cancer as a result of the disease. Although I have graciously offered my intestines to her, she said it wouldn't even help because her body might reject MY intestines, too. Which makes no sense, because my intestines are incredible, although I'll spare you details. Not to mention, of course, she'd have to poop in a bag for six months or so before she could even find out if my intestines do the trick. Decidedly not fun.

At Grand Old Day in Saint Paul, I randomly found this organization, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, that exists to help her and her people. Being that there is no way for me to immediately help her, I thought this was an awesome alternative: Team Challenge. They train you to run a half marathon in the name of someone who has the disease to raise awareness, and you raise a few thousand dollars to donate to the organization. So, in November I will be running for my sister.

I am in training, and I need to raise an incredible amount of moo-lah to meet my financial goal. It is tax deductible and this website even accepts credit cards. Ask your employer if they will match your donation. Many do!

There you can find the CCFA website link to their financial info and a blurb my sister wrote about her disease. Please consider a donation. Every teenie-tiny bit will help me reach my goal. And you'll probably get tons of good karma, too.

Thank you so much!
Rock

Happy 5 year anniversary, Erica and Justin

I guess we kind of got distracted:
Happy Birthday Erica
Happy Birthday me [and my Dad]
Happy Anniversary (5 years too, yay) Lisa and Jacob (and Dan and Sam too, though I'm not sure they read this)