My friend Kim, is a breast cancer survivor. She’s walking - 3 days. Sixty miles. She has a team called The Chest Nuts walking with her. Go see her site. If you can help her, or any of the other Chest Nuts make their goal, please do. You know we’re about Saving The Boobies around here.

Tomorrow WhyMommy will have her double mastectomy in her fight against Inflammatory Breast Cancer.

—- Keep her and her lovely family in your thoughts, will ya? —-

And then go read one of the funniest women I know today.  Renew the Dream.

WTF? I have laryngitis. I ache all over from whatever crud Mr. Hot decided to infect me with and (just for good measure!) I started my period today. The world, my friends, is a cruel, cruel place. There is just something so totally freakin’ wrong with this. So, I am taking my first sick day since 1999 (January 4, 1999 to be specific - and even then, I wasn’t sick - it was a snow day and my turn to stay home with Shortman!).

I’m sitting here in the “office/computer room/Shortman’s alternate pig sty”…

Proof of sty-ness - a la Bossy

… I’m not good at being “in bed sick”. Mr. Hot keeps telling me to stay there. But, he went out to Home Depot to get wood to put a “floor” in the “barn” (which really means, to lay some plywood over the dirt in the storage shed that is painted red and shaped like something to keep animals in) so I am being a bad little patient and blogging.

But hey! I had to announce the winners of the Save the Boobies contest. [pretend trumpet sounds here]

The winners were drawn by Shortman and the results of this drawing were reviewed by Mr. Hot in accordance with all laws of randomness and blind hand-into-the-hat selection. If I could afford to have Price/Waterhouse/Coopers or whoever it is that oversees the Academy Awards come in and make sure it was all on the up and up, I could have awarded bigger prizes.

Necklace - Marianne at My Left Nerve

Baseball Cap - Phil at Outta My Mind in Mechanicsburg

Purse Key Holder - Shelly at Not The Daddy

Congratulations Winners! And thanks to everyone who participated. The final tally is $85 to the Susan G. Komen foundation from the Hotfessional family. I’m going to go ahead and up it to $100 (I like even numbers) - on behalf of WhyMommy and LawMom.

—- Now, shhhhh! I hear the truck pulling up the driveway. I’m going back to lay down. Don’t tell him I was here. —-

If you want me, I’ll be on the couch under the blankets. It’s raining. My throat is closing up. I’m going to make Mr. Hot bring me hot tea and honey all day. Naps are good. Who am I kidding? Naps are freakin’ excellent!

Before I go down for the count, though, here’s the weekly Save-The-Boobies Update. We’re up to $80 from the Hotfessional family to the Susan G. Komen foundation. Remember, you can still get in on the prizes by linking and/or donating before October 29. I’m drawing the lucky winners (3) on the 30th:

Cupcake
WhyMommy
Kim
Sherry
Shelly
Phil
Jennifer
Mouse
Lys
Zoot
Ben
Sherry
Karen
Marianne
Kristabella
Dani

Join the club! You could be a winner!
Email me (reereep[at]gmail[dot]com) if you linked to me and I missed you! Seriously, I found Dani’s link through sheer dumb luck. (Hi Cole’s mommy!) If you care enough to link, I want you to have a chance to win.

Don’t be like this guy: