Crazy generosity

I don't think I've ever used the word "humbled" this many times in a two day period, but it's the only word I can think of that describes how I feel. Maybe I should consult dictionary.com.
Synonyms:
1. unpretending, unpretentious. 2. submissive, meek. 3. unassuming, plain, common, poor. 4. polite. 6. mortify, shame, abash. 7. subdue, crush, break. Humble, degrade, humiliate suggest lowering or causing to seem lower. To humble is to bring down the pride of another or to reduce him or her to a state of abasement: to humble an arrogant enemy. To degrade is to demote in rank or standing, or to reduce to a low level in dignity: to degrade an officer; to degrade oneself by lying. To humiliate is to make others feel or appear inadequate or unworthy, esp. in some public setting: to humiliate a sensitive person.
Ok, I feel common? No, let's stick with humbled. To be honest, before yesterday I was much more worried about raising the minimum amount required to participate with Team in Training than I was about actually running the marathon. I mean, that's hard, but you just do what they tell you and sooner or later you've done it. Raising $2400, on the other hand....that number can seem quite overwhelming. Again, that was before yesterday, and before I saw my friends and family and people I barely know come together and donate almost $600 in three days! I met my halfway point deadline, but, more importantly, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society now has $600 more to work with than they did on Monday morning to research new drugs and treatments that make blood cancers more and more manageable. I could spend pages talking about all the amazing things LLS is doing with the money you guys have given, but you can read it straight from them at www.teamintraining.org and/or www.lls.org.
Of course, I now have 2 1/2 months to raise another $1180 (MINIMUM - I'm upping my goal to $3500, which leaves me with another $2280 to go), but I want people to feel like they are getting something and being appreciated for their donation efforts, so we are having tons of events to raise money and show our donors a good time. Coming up October 20, we are having a California Pizza Kitchen FUNdraiser....here's how it works. Comment on the blog to let me know you are participating and I will email you a flier with my name on it. You print it, take it to any one of the three Houston CPK's (www.cpk.com) anytime on October 20, and they donate 20% of whatever you and your party eat or drink to LLS. How cool is that?!??! A million thanks to CPK and Arturo Betancourt, the GM at the River Oaks store, for setting this up. Later that week, Friday October 23, from 4-7pm, Sambuca downtown (www.sambucarestaurant.com) is generously letting us host a happy hour there. You come, pay $10 to get in (which all goes to LLS), get a free drink, some free food, and then half price drinks and apps all the way to 7pm! Lastly, Sunday November 8, we are having an Arbonne party (www.autumnclack.myarbonne.com), where 35% of all products sold at retail get donated directly to LLS!! You get to do your Christmas shopping without hitting the Galleria AND you get to do a good thing!! Pre-orders count as well if you can't make it to Kelsey's apartment where we are hosting it. Oh, and December 17 I will be gift wrapping for donations at the Barnes and Noble on Holcombe - come laugh and point!!!
So mark your calendars, everyone! I hope to get to see you at some of these events...I promise they will be fun!!
Oh, and for those of you who have been losing sleep over the status of my "foot injury," it seems to be magically healing itself. Still hurts a little, but I just wrap the crud out of it whenever I'm working, and apparently the fascia just grows itself back to the heel bone like it's supposed to - hurrah!!
Leave a comment so I know I'm not just talking to myself! :) Thanks!!