tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451463524637703832024-03-05T23:09:27.491-08:00Hurray for Boobies!That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-12893022985823394142009-06-07T06:44:00.000-07:002009-06-07T06:45:02.161-07:00O! M! G!I realized earlier this morning that I have only 4.5 months or so before this walk. <br /><br />I'm only walking about seven miles a day.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I'm gonna die, y'all. Seriously.That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-40562025259469102712009-06-03T04:51:00.000-07:002009-06-03T04:53:08.283-07:00Status update!CHARLOTTE 2009<br />Name: Stephanie<br />Registration: Walker<br />Raised: $787.00<br />Days left: 144<br /><br />I didn't quite make the $1000 goal last month, but still. I'm on my way!That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-24682818450004042152009-05-17T13:07:00.001-07:002009-05-17T13:09:58.926-07:00Yes we can!Okay, we're going to try anyway. Right?<br /><br />Only two more weeks to raise <a href="http://info.avonfoundation.org/site/TR/Walk2009/Charlotte?px=4368664&pg=personal&fr_id=1860"> another $300</a>! Maybe I can! Woo!<br /><br />To celebrate my unexpected burst of optimism, I'm walking an hour a day, every day, for the next two weeks. At LEAST an hour a day. How about that?<br /><br />Please donate if you can!That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-13410981962408678162009-05-03T11:44:00.000-07:002009-05-03T11:47:00.141-07:00$500 in the next month? We'll see!I'm trying to raise $500 by the end of May for my <a href="http://info.avonfoundation.org/site/TR/Walk2009/Charlotte?px=4368664&pg=personal&fr_id=1860">Avon Walk</a>. That would put me at $1087 (as of right now), which is just short of 22% of my goal of $5000 by October.<br /><br />Any help, ANY, is appreciated!That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-62829546713229068932009-04-29T06:57:00.000-07:002009-04-29T06:58:16.407-07:00Bad kneesWhat do you do if you walk every day and your knees sound like popcorn?<br /><br />I'm thinking this is probably negative, right?That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-53198693400732226852009-04-02T11:07:00.000-07:002009-04-02T11:08:07.086-07:00The road...seems awfully long sometimes.<br /><br />Sometimes I am on the treadmill and I feel like I'm going to die. Or maybe just fall off, but either way? Not pleasant.<br /><br />It's going to be okay, though.<br /><br />Right?That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-38747456353091156922009-01-18T06:41:00.000-08:002009-01-18T06:44:42.945-08:00More than $500!I was so excited to look today at my <a href="http://tinyurl.com/58q2m8">personal fundraising page</a> and see that kind people have donated more than $500 to my <a href="http://www.avonwalk/">Avon Walk</a>!<br /><br />It's only 279 days until the walk! If I can get only $17 in donations every day then I will meet my goal of $5000.<br /><br />Thanks to everyone who has given already and if you are looking for a great cause to support, then look no further!That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-51207333343353249062009-01-15T09:33:00.000-08:002009-01-15T09:34:18.823-08:00Let's try this again!<a href="http://tinyurl.com/58q2m8">This will hopefully work!</a>That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-20382681704139127402008-12-18T05:53:00.001-08:002008-12-18T05:54:12.399-08:00Sorry!My link in my last post is NOT WORKING! <br /><br />Shocking! <br /><br />I'll update it ASAP. Thanks for checking!That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-45102736564112844932008-12-03T08:57:00.000-08:002008-12-09T07:07:24.200-08:00Donation site is up and running!Woot!<br /><br />My goal is to raise $5000 for 2009. Please click <a href="http://info.avonfoundation.org/site/TR/Walk2009/Charlotte?px" pg="personal&fr_id=">here</a> to donate!<br /><br />All donations are 100% tax deductible!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">THANK YOU!</span>That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-25773123995846184292008-10-29T13:10:00.000-07:002008-10-29T13:11:40.294-07:00It's a banner day for boobies!I talked to the president of my company today and he graciously agreed to help financially support my journey to Charlotte next year.<br /><br />I told him my goal:<br /><br />$10,000 for breast cancer research in the next two years.<br /><br /><br />That number is huge but it doesn't scare me. I can do it. <br /><br />My company is going to help.<br /><br />It's an awesome day!That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-78387151708600174492008-10-11T04:29:00.000-07:002008-10-11T04:34:19.466-07:00Race for the Cure day in Knoxville!I'm heading out for a moment for the <a href="http://www.komenknoxville.org/">Knoxville Race for the Cure</a>. I am more worried about being able to find parking and subsequently find my team than I am about actually participating in the race. <br /><br />I'm mostly going to walk. Maybe some "wogging" (walk/jogging) as my friend Dawn calls it. I'm kind of embarressed that I'm not as fit as my teammates. They run all the time and then there's me. I can't run at all yet.<br /><br />But, it's about the cause, so that's why I'm doing it. Hopefully it will all be okay.<br /><br />Wish me luck. I'm #5974!That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-22418326851503397112008-10-07T18:42:00.000-07:002008-10-07T18:45:47.840-07:00What about the knees?I don't know anything about exercise. Seriously, like nothing. <br /><br />So I'm concerned, I guess, a little bit. About my stupid knee.<br /><br />It feels a LOT better, mind you. A lot. I can bend and twist in any number of ways and it's not a problem. I even jumped up and down just a little bit the other day it was okay. <br /><br />But when I wake up in the morning or if I sit for a long time while at work? It's pretty hurty.<br /><br />I'm still walking. I busted out a really good pace today and walked for thirty minutes and covered more than the mile and 1/2 that I would normally cover in that time period. It was a rough path even with lots of going upward hills and not so many going downward hills. <br /><br />And right now? My knee doesn't hurt at all. It's not purple anymore either, so that's cool.<br /><br /><br />I'm just afraid of injury. I don't want to hurt something and keep myself from my goals.<br /><br /><br />Thoughts?That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-57178041579974796192008-10-02T05:06:00.000-07:002008-10-02T05:10:40.592-07:00Keeping it moving.I walked again last night. I took a different path which contained a lot more hills and a lot more douchebags than my usual path. My knee and ankle both felt fine the whole time I walked, which was a blessing. This morning my knee is sore, but when I say it's sore I don't mean it's so horrible I can't walk on it. I mean it's just a tad achy.<br /><br />I can handle just a tad achy.<br /><br />I walked for thirty minutes last night. It was late and getting dark and the children had homework. I felt like I could have gone further though.<br /><br />I feel I am ready to walk for an hour at a time each time. I did that last Saturday, despite falling and hurting myself, so I'm sure I can do it when I'm not hobbling in pain.<br /><br />After I do that for two weeks, I'm going to download a training plan. The internet is full of them, but they all recommend you are at a point at which you feel comfortable walking for one hour at a time before you start.<br /><br /><br />I'm almost there.<br /><br /><br />Well, I probably AM there. But I don't have confidence in myself yet. So I'll say I'm almost there.That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-76702864369376202882008-09-30T07:29:00.000-07:002008-09-30T07:30:34.995-07:00I think I'm going to try it.I didn't walk last night. Frankly, I was afraid. I really don't want to take a small injury and make it into a HUGE injury. <br /><br />I tend to do that.<br /><br />But my knee feels SO much better today. I can bend my leg in all sorts of awkward ways and nothing bad happens.<br /><br />So I think I'm cool.<br /><br />I'm going to walk after work. I won't run or anything. But I'm going to walk.That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-59855283783551206412008-09-28T13:31:00.000-07:002008-09-28T13:34:27.092-07:00Yeah. Not cool.So after I twisted my ankle and did this?<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0x9ObIIT4-OtiUcchq7g86Wc-mYkQrOrk5uAQx7FEFDAsxmlH2a0Q4SoQuaRp5KOI4V4ovbZoL3b1Mris1ix69qWjRDkFjpoZdMgnhcCelZYN_hqe6m7We4K3YjLR6vdb6NRXmRs65rxB/s1600-h/021.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0x9ObIIT4-OtiUcchq7g86Wc-mYkQrOrk5uAQx7FEFDAsxmlH2a0Q4SoQuaRp5KOI4V4ovbZoL3b1Mris1ix69qWjRDkFjpoZdMgnhcCelZYN_hqe6m7We4K3YjLR6vdb6NRXmRs65rxB/s320/021.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251172899822614274" /></a><br /><br />I fell onto my knee and did this:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO1ZKvtL4qXZ4AEWXcqdQeBNgVOuil_F3SY8sWw05vwDI2QVOOQ1O1Y4JEaRNJ3IwFoiKIBdlw3WwhhyonVudoZG0plpFwOB_tVx3sZm2Ujh8_2q2Li5ReCrO7ltVecBiE-CejOyBSCF0W/s1600-h/015.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO1ZKvtL4qXZ4AEWXcqdQeBNgVOuil_F3SY8sWw05vwDI2QVOOQ1O1Y4JEaRNJ3IwFoiKIBdlw3WwhhyonVudoZG0plpFwOB_tVx3sZm2Ujh8_2q2Li5ReCrO7ltVecBiE-CejOyBSCF0W/s320/015.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251173192069200546" /></a><br /><br /><br />Sexy.<br /><br /><br />Can you believe I walked another fifty-two minutes after doing that? What was I thinking?!?!?That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-68872677993398589782008-09-27T16:13:00.001-07:002008-09-27T16:15:50.697-07:00Being clumsy sucks.I asked Jason to walk with me tonight and it's a good thing I did.<br /><br />I said to him, "I always carry my cell phone when I walk out here. I'm so afraid I'm going to twist my ankle and fall on this rocky path".<br /><br />Literally, LITERALLY like less than two minutes later, I TWISTED MY STUPID ANKLE AND FELL.<br /><br />I skinned my knee and, it turns out, twisted it. My ankle went a funky direction.<br /><br />I got dirt all over my yoga pants, shoes, and my hand.<br /><br />I got small rocks and gravel stuck in my hand.<br /><br /><br /><br />I got up.<br /><br /><br />I kept walking.<br /><br /><br />In fact? I walked for an hour.<br /><br /><br /><br />I might regret it tomorrow. But today? I didn't give up.That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-66707908090090851922008-09-25T08:00:00.000-07:002008-09-25T08:46:19.490-07:00My big scare. By Stephanie age 32.So I've been walking all the time and the place I walk the most is very heavily wooded. I had a huge amount of bug bites on both of my legs and on my arms and so when I was putting on deodorant one day and felt kind of ouchy about it, I figured I had gotten a bug bite under my arm.<br /><br />Yes, I know that sounds crazy. But it made sense at the time.<br /><br />It didn't feel better for a few days, so I looked at it again and noticed that it was red and raised and kind of bumpy. I felt of it and I definately felt a lump. Not a bug bite, but a definate, sincere, raised lump.<br /><br />But I didn't freak out, you know? Why would I. It's just a lump under my arm. Could be a million things, right? Of course.<br /><br />That night I was doing my civic duty as a woman and the daughter of a breast cancer survivor and feeling myself up.<br /><br />And then I felt a lump.<br /><br />It felt sort of the same as the one under my arm.<br /><br />I felt again, just to make sure. Because, see, I'm kind of paranoid about breast cancer. I have been for a long time. I didn't want to see something that wasn't there.<br /><br />I felt it again. It was there.<br /><br /><br />So. <br /><br />I still didn't panic or freak out. I went to bed. The next day I went to work and as soon as the doctor's office opened I called them and said, "I need to come in, I have a lump".<br /><br />So they asked me to come in the next day.<br /><br />So I did.<br /><br />And the doctor? <br /><br />Found a total of three more lumps. In addition to the two I had already found.<br /><br /><br />And then the doctor?<br /><br />Said, "How old was your mom when she was diagnosed?"<br /><br />And I heard myself say, "Forty".<br /><br />She said immediately, "Let's get this checked out right away".<br /><br /><br />I sat in the examining room, waiting. I could hear the nurse on the phone outside the door of my room. Scheduling an appointment for a mammogram. I heard her say,<br /><br />"She's only thirty-two," and there was a pause and then, "Her mother was forty when she was diagnosed".<br /><br /><br /><br />I have never in my life felt so alone and so young.<br /><br /><br />The next morning I went and had a mammogram and a breast ultrasound. I was the youngest person there and I felt very alone and scared. In my mind I felt like it was nothing, but I kept having these nagging doubts.<br /><br />Turns out it WAS nothing, but I found out that I am at an increased risk for breast cancer, based on how I answered questions on the assessment I was given. A normal woman's risk of breast cancer in her lifetime is 12%. <br /><br />My risk is 25%.<br /><br />I asked my doctor if there was anything I could do to improve my odds, and sadly, there is nothing. I have the double whammy of having both parents have cancer and the misfortune of having a mother who was diagnosed very young.<br /><br />The worst case scenario for me, at this point, is that I catch something very early.<br /><br />I'm going to make sure that's the <em>worst</em> thing that happens.That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-24479602716872687772008-09-23T09:36:00.000-07:002008-09-23T09:42:22.996-07:00Look what you can do!<a href="http://www.leancuisine.com/Komen2008/Index.aspx?Source=10078004">Lean Cuisine</a> has these really cute lunch bags for sale. They are only $9.95 and for every one you purchase they will donate $5 to the <a href="http://www.komen.org/">Susan G. Komen for the Cure</a> foundation.<br /><br />And they are pretty styling this year!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0S0aExMinE6BanS30wwQpUfFLr8rUXq-QK06oJfZNjhDC_ixvIt4shkncNKmT_7iFCNqVd-AeiB8MNFXbyDn9wfEVQAbO0g1_QOtPPmIkENjGsO6BiqbbNpESV3kCgPRcemLtMgGNvScK/s1600-h/imgMainOnSale.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249257510391549538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0S0aExMinE6BanS30wwQpUfFLr8rUXq-QK06oJfZNjhDC_ixvIt4shkncNKmT_7iFCNqVd-AeiB8MNFXbyDn9wfEVQAbO0g1_QOtPPmIkENjGsO6BiqbbNpESV3kCgPRcemLtMgGNvScK/s320/imgMainOnSale.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />You know you want one. Or, you know, twelve.That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345146352463770383.post-52309560095272302692008-09-20T13:16:00.000-07:002008-09-20T13:49:10.438-07:00So. What the crap am I doing here?<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">My name is Stephanie Snowe. I am thirty-two years old and the mother of ten year old twins.<br /><br />When I was sixteen years old my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.<br /><br />It was a really hard time. My mom was really sick. I didn't know if she would live or die. She lost all of her hair and one of her boobs.<br /><br />That was sixteen years ago.<br /><br />I recently decided that I needed to get my fat ass into shape and, at the same time, do something with my life.<br /><br />Thus, I decided to walk 39 miles in 2 days in the </span><a href="http://www.avonwalk.org/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Avon Walk for Breast Cancer</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">.<br /><br />The one problem?<br /><br />I have a fat ass.<br /><br />I am not in shape.<br /><br /><br /><br />I have until October 2009 to get it in gear, lose weight, and prepare for the walk.<br /><br /><br />This blog will be my accountability.</span>That Chick Over Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03066031548129806050noreply@blogger.com7