by Sarah | Apr 30, 2013 | A to Z Challenge, All About Me, Bucket List, Random
Sad to see the A-to-Z challenge coming to an end. Some days were tougher than ever, but I managed to post every day this month. I wish there was something like this every month to help keep me moving. Anyway, here I go with my final letter for April.
Last year I did some things I never dreamed I would
I went Ape.
I went rock climbing.
I met Mario Andretti.
I saw Cirque.
I watched the Fever.
I got published (and then a contract on my novel, and then another, and another).
I took chances I never would have before, and I pushed myself beyond limits I didn’t know I had…and it gave me a zest for life.
Now I want more challenges…
But I’ll be spending a chunk of my summer flat on my back after foot surgery.
So much for zest.
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by Sarah | Apr 29, 2013 | A to Z Challenge, All About Indiana, All About Me, All of Us, Blogging Life, Random, The Reluctant Hoosier
So Because, dude…DUH.
Oh, and because I get to go to this awesome Star Wars experience at the Indiana State Museum…and a costume party and…oh yeah.
I’m a total geek.
We have 4 versions of the original trilogy on DVD, and still have the VHS tapes somewhere, too.
Our kids are quite well versed in Star Wars.
If you’re in Indy – you have to go.
If you’re not? Be jealous.
Be very jealous.
Millennium Falcon, here I come!
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by Sarah | Apr 28, 2013 | All About Erik, All About Indiana, All About Me, All of Us, Blogging Life, Indiana Family of Farmers, Sponsored, Zest & Zing
GIVEAWAY CLOSED – WINNER SELECTED
Are you a foodie?
Are you a wanna-be-foodie?
Do you love watching the cooking shows – even better, the cooking competition shows?
Ever fancy yourself a judge on one of those?
Do you like helping out awesome causes like Gleaners Food Bank?
For the second year, Indy is pairing up chefs with local farmers for a cooking competition for Zest ‘n Zing.
And they’ll be picking an audience member to be a judge!
Oooh, and it’s being emcee’d by the Weather Man – Paul Poteet and Jennie Runevitch of WTHR.
I know, I sound a little fan-girl here, but I’m really excited for the opportunity to go to this event, and even more so that I get to give one of you a pair of tickets to go! That’s right, I’m not just talking about the event, I’m inviting you to join me! (Thanks to Indiana’s Family of Farmer’s!!)
So before I give you tickets, here’s the nitty-gritty details of the event.
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Zest ‘n Zing: A Foodie Event for the At-Home Chef
What it is: Two teams, each made up of a chef and a farmer, go head-to-head to create a great new dish. The winning chef receives $500.
When it is: May 7, 2013. Doors open at 5PM, the competition begins about 7PM.
Where it is: Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center
Cost: $20 online – and all proceeds go to benefit GLEANERS! Seriously. How awesome is that?
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So, you want a pair of free tickets to this event, right? I know you do, because it’s awesome.
So I’m going to make it easy on you. All it takes to win is one comment.
For that comment, I want you to just tell me what you’re most excited about for the event? Is it the good food? The thrill of competition? The possibility of being a judge? Or meeting the farmers that will be there?
The Giveaway will end at 9PM on Tuesday, April 30th. I’ll contact the winner by midnight through email. You’ll have only 24 hours to respond before I draw another name so I can get the name to IFOF.
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Disclaimer: I am an IFOF Ambassador and therefore this is a sponsored post. I’ll get the same Zest ‘N Zing tickets as the winner does. However, while I do blog for good food, good company, and good competition – I don’t sell my opinions. All thoughts and opinions expressed in the post are my own.
by Sarah | Apr 27, 2013 | All About Kennedy, Cystic Fibrosis, Failure to Thrive (FTT), GERD, Hypotonia, Special Needs, Tibial Torsion
So X-ray might not be original, but I don’t care.
Some days I wonder how it is that Kennedy doesn’t glow.
I know the exposure levels are ‘minimal’.
I remember the lectures.
I remember the exposure tags when I worked at the vet’s office years ago.
But Kennedy has had so many x-rays in her short 7 year life.
They started around the time she was a year old.
Some X-rays were because of her lungs, and her eventual diagnosis of CF.
Others were for her hypotonia and the possibility of one leg being shorter than the other.
Or her tibial torsion.
And let’s not forget the reflux…oh, and the dysphagia where she had painful swallowing (which we eventually learned was from her inability to chew properly)…which meant about 5 times drinking and eating barium-laced substances and eating in front of a fluoroscope.
She has spent more time in front of X-rays, CT-scans, fluoroscope’s in her 7 years than I have in my entire life.
I’m seriously surprised she doesn’t glow.
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by Sarah | Apr 26, 2013 | A to Z Challenge, All About Me, I'm A Writer, Random
They are lands of make believe.
Characters that I have created.
Flawed.
Wounded.
Imperfect.
Characters.
Terrible things happen to them, just as terrible things happen in real life. In writing it’s often worse, although you know what is said…
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
The difference is.
In those worlds.
Where chaos reigns.
Where characters are deeply flawed.
I am in control.
Without question, I know there will be resolution.
A happy ever after in my lighter works.
An eerie end in my horrors.
I know the resolution.
Real life – it’s messy and I don’t have all the answers.
So I write to create worlds where I do.
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by Sarah | Apr 25, 2013 | A to Z Challenge, All About Me, Personal, Random
I have never been a vain person.
But as I get older, I find myself wishing I had been at least a little.
Pregnancy changed my skin – I know have spots and bumps on my face I never had before. I don’t like them, because they feel like a foreign object, not a part of the me I know.
Menopause (thanks to an emergency hysterectomy 6 years ago) has taken its toll on my body. I am now no longer the high-metabolism girl with skinny jeans…and I’ve had no luck breaking old habits from those days.
The circles under my eyes, a permanent genetic mark I’ve always had (and Kennedy carries now), have darkened into deep crevices of dark color that require makeup and camera/photo-editing magic to hide.
Still…
In many ways I feel the best I have in my life. Not about my outward signs, but about me.
I posted last year on my birthday about feeling like I was in the prime of my life.
It still holds true, although it wavered a bit over the long and very cold winter because in winter I tend to hermit myself inside and never, ever, go out.
But now the whether is turning. Events are planned, some lifelong dreams have been met, and I’m ready to set some new goals.
And try some new crazy things to push myself again.
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The A-Z Challenge has over 1900 participants, all blogging from A to Z this month. Check them out and see if you can’t find a few new favorites!!
Sad to see the A-to-Z challenge coming to an end. Some days were tougher than ever, but I managed to post every day this month. I wish there was something like this every month to help keep me moving. Anyway, here I go with my final letter for April.
