Sparks and Butterflies...

Play the I AM game! Google your name followed by “is”, and post the first several results to your blog.

Michele is a professional speaker

Michele is the leading fiscal and social conservative in the Minnesota State Senate

Michele is an essential part of my team and I recommend her to my clients regularly

Michele is determined to offer couples a powerful antidote to this

Michele is also a publisher, illustrator, photographer, travel adviser and webmaster

I tried doing it by my handle – Sparksfley – but it was too odd to really bring anything up.

During Blogathon they’re going to have different games and such – keeps it interesting for those of us writing.

The first?

Are you listening to music? Post what’s playing right now (me: Snow Patrol, Chocolate). If you aren’t listening to music, just say you aren’t, with a few words about why (can’t wake up the family? hate the stuff?).

At the moment I’m not. It’s 7:00 (will be 7:30 when this thing gets posted, but it takes me a while to write). I finally made Poe get up due to the ANTS! problem. Dammit he’s the man, there’s an unspoken agreement that he deals with the bugs. Anyway – it seems to bug him when I play music through the speakers. Like it interferes with his listening to his game on the tv. So – later on I’ll probably listen to my iPod because that let’s me focus on what I’m doing.

I have ants! it’s 6:55 am, and I can’t do a thing about it.

I’m going to have to post this and then run the the store myself in order to actually get these killed, because my husband won’t get up. And why should he? I’m up! I can take care of everything. Even though I’m doing this and HE freakin’ picked the charity!

No, no, it’s ok. You sleep in, I’ll take care of the infestation, the breakfasts, and the kids who got up 2 hours early while you get your beauty sleep. it’s NO PROBLEM!

This is going to be harder than I thought. Every half hour comes quick!! So, hear’s an update on my smoking, until I get into the groove of this thing…

I have now stopped smoking for 3 days, 8 hours, 24 minutes, 36 seconds. That translates into 67 cigarettes NOT smoked, for a savings of $16.24! I have increased my life expectancy by 5 hours, 35 minutes, 2 seconds.

I have to somehow get through today and tonight without smoking – an added bonus challenge!

I’m just waking up, and this is my first post for Blogathon – and I therefore have no idea what to write. For goodness sake it’s 5:45am!

Blech.

Anyhoo…

Let’s just give an introduction into Blogathon and who I’m sponsoring as my first official post. Then I won’t feel like I have to rehash it on the next 47 of them.

The first annual event occurred in 2001, when Cat invited friends and other bloggers to join her in her sleepless marathon. Over a hundred participants stayed awake on July 28 and 29, some doing so in spectacular fashion: there were virtual mix tapes, physical collages, shoes aplenty, and even dreams for the sleepy. Altogether, bloggers raised over $20,000 for 77 different charities in 2001 and garnered even more attention than Cat had on her own the year before, prompting her to confirm Blogathon’s perennial nature: 2001’s success outstripped all my expectations, so we’re here for good.”

For today – I’m blogging for Fisher House.

Supporting America’s military in their time of need, we provide “a home away from home” that enables family members to be close to a loved one at the most stressful time — during hospitalization for an illness, disease or injury.

So… You can still Sponsor Me! I don’t bite. And you can do so all the way through 48 hours after the event. The whole purpose is, after all, to raise money for our chosen organizations.

You’ll be seing a whole new entry here every half hour for 24 hours. I look forward to it.

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