Yearly 10 Update

Here's my progress on my mission to complete these things in 2011.

1. Get serious about the 2012 Bodah Reunion
2. Buy my 1st house  
3. Take Lucas to Disney World   
4. Get sewing machine repaired and sew again
5. Read Gone w/ the Wind all the way through
6. Go to at least 3 plays/musicals

7. Visit w/ an old friend, a different friend each month   (2 out of 12)

8. Lose 25 lbs     (down 4 of 25)
9. Climb Detroit; join a team    (done 3/6/11 w/ a time of 27 mins)
10. Ride my bike again

Flashback Friday

Well I've had an overwhelming past week.  Things have been good and busy.  Before I get to this weeks FF I wanted to share my stair climb results.  I had practiced each weekend (6 weeks w/ Kimmy) before the actual climb and our best time was 36 minutes.  We did the climb last Sunday and we did it in 27 minutes.  That is huge we blew the old best time out.  It felt great!  My co-worker Sanja was part of my team. We've signed up for next year already, one of my sisters joined also.  We hope to double our team next year.

MY STAIR LADIES, before the climb!

MY STAIR LADIES, after the climb!

We all stuck together and made sure we made it to the top together.  As a team we wanted to raise $600, we raised $1010.  Wow!  Next year we plan to raise $2000.  Anyways, after our climb we were on the news see below.  How much fun was that?  Lots!  Afterwards we went to a local bar and celebrated.

Love my teammates, who will join us next year?

                                                I get to scratch this one off my Yearly Ten list.
                         Thanks to those that supported us and the American Lung Association.

Hundreds Tackle RenCen's 70 Stories for Charity

So we're onto FF, this LO I'm not so proud of, sometimes you just have off days!  You do right? 

Hope you have a great weekend!  Gotta get dinner started before we all go hungry.  Blog at'cha later!

LoveLeigh miscellany

Goodness! I'm so tired and not enough sleep, maybe tonight.  Let's get right to it

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I didn't do any cleaning this weekend, that's ok right?  I was busy so I put it off, it'll be here when I get home.  I'll have to tackle it then.

Went to a comedy club this weekend.  Never made any mention to my friend Kim about it.  Oddly enough we posted on Saturday evening, seconds apart on fb that we were going there.  Her table was even behind ours, too funny.  There's more as we were being sent upstairs to get the show started I ran into some neighbors that used to live on the street (during the 80's) that I grew up on.

Ok so how about this one, I can't wait until the the new smurf movie comes out this year.  I remember Saturday mornings were the best, because the smurfs came on.  It was awesome too that my dad loved watching it with me.

Check out my blog, I am giving away a little blog candy, and you have to comment on this post, to be entered.  Its for scrapbookers, its something small and it is my first RAK.  Check it out, Winner will be picked the evening of March 1st.  So you've got today and early tomorrow to comment.

I am not going to change my blog design again for awhile.  I went through something the past couple months where I couldn't get it right.  I finally like what I have and won't be changing again.  I think readers like familiarity.  So I'm all set for now. 

So my last miscellaney is this coming Sunday I'm going to be climbin' my butt off to the top of the Renaissance Center, I've practiced w/ one of my teammates Kimmy.  All 1056 steps to the top, is tough but we did beat our original time of 40 minutes, down to 36 minutes now.  We will practice once more and then hope for a better time on the day of.  I'm excited the money we have raised for the American Lung Association.  Love my team:  My Stair Ladies!

Hope everyone has a good week, I'm hoping for good, I'm seriously not ready for this week at all.

Climbing to the TOP!

Hi everyone!  I'm on a mission to help the American Lung Association and prove to myself that I CAN....Climb to the TOP!  On March 6th I'll be joining others in the Fight for Air-Detroit. 
I have a personal fundraising goal that I am trying to meet, so far so good.  I have 23 days to make it there or with your help, exceed that goal.  So thankful for those that have donated already.  This has become very enjoyable, not only am I helping, I am seeing that physically I can do this. 
If you'd like to show support, you can visit here and make a donation.  Or if your local there's still time to join my team
"My Stair Ladies".....Just ask how!
Thanks for taking the time to read this post! 


BTW:  I can't wait to scrapbook this!

To make a donation, just search by climber (Andrea Rogers), please know that any and all donations are much appreicated!!!!

Flashback Friday

Its a little later then normal, usually I post FF in the a.m.  Today I had such the hard time waking up.  I just couldn't get it together this morning.  So here I am, the boy is asleep and I am on the couch just chillin' bloggin' and facebookin'. 

I'm goin' WAY BACK this week.  This particular page was done w/in the first year ('04) of scrapbooking.  In an album that I don't share w/ my son, the album is titled Party Central.  Yep!  Mostly its just alot of beer drinkin' w/ my buddies.  All that drinkin' and I've managed to fill a Creative Memories album w/ 45 pages of refills in that one album.  That is 90 pages of good times!  WOW!  Anyways.....some of my bestest times were w/ my good friend Bandit. 

So there you have it, as I sit here and post this I wonder if my sister over at Scrappy Lo's is posting her first Flashback Friday.  We'll see........ its only 2 hours till Saturday.  I was excited when she told me last week that she liked this idea.  Jump on board if you want to as well.  Its fun to share your old work

Miss Bandit is part of the 2011 Yearly Ten, you may not have remembered it but its to meet up w/ an old friend each month. 

Tomorrow I am able to meet up w/ another friend, and possibly one other mutual friend for breakfast.  Maybe February I'll arrange something w/ Bandit.  

Well hope everyone has a good weekend!  

Beginning and End

Well, well its a sunny day here in lower Michigan.  I'd love to be out and about but just not feeling like it. 

Let me just tell you about yesterday, had a wonderful day with my mom and Lucas just hanging out at her house for about 3 hours.  Then it was time to meet up w/ one of teammates/greatest friend ever for the Fight for Air Climb in March.  We went to my work which happens to be the place they do this.  This week I started climbing on my lunches and did fairly well.  She goes with me and I'm thinking ok we might do as many as I did, but its her first time maybe not.  Um, are you ready for this......

*~40 FLOORS~*

So there it is, we rocked and we rolled!  The Ren Cen consists of 7 towers total.  The center tower is the largest and it has 72 floors.  We did one of the business towers and it has 39 floors, however we started on A level so 40 floors is what we completed and it was rough a couple of times.  We did it, and we are proud, and we took a photo to show our pure excitement.  We drove around to the tower that we tackled and took a snapshot.  We'll be taking photos of this very unique situation for both of us, its NOT everyday we push ourselves into such a workout.  We are very serious about taking this on and we are looking into other challenges to do.  We aren't looking for great fabulous times, we just want to push and see what we are really capable of.  Yesterday proved to us that we can.  I'm still excited! 

On our drive home we were discussing it and she said, "once I put my mind to something I don't stop".  I had to admit I will stop.  We soon realized that we are good for each other because in the BEGINNING I'm ready to go, go, go let's get to it, then will give up after some time.  She needs to be pushed to start, but she always makes it to the END!

BTW all photos naturally will be scrapbooked by me, and probably put on fb by her.

What's scrapbooking, he ask?

Hi everyone, hope your week is going well.  Mine is going about just fine.
This whole week for me has been about getting back into shape and get movin'.  I have started something and can't back out.  I am going to do a stair climb fundraiser and it just so happens to be at my work.  One of my supervisors does these stairs everyday that he works.  Well isn't he just healthy!  lol, no really, good for him.  I asked him yesterday how long does it take him to the 72 floors in the hotel?  He says that it takes him 14 minutes.  Wow!  I'm completely amazed, and like can I even complete it.  Gosh I hope so when the day comes for the stair climb.  He has done the fundraiser in the past but will be out of town this year.  He goes on to ask me how I'm doing I tell him that I did 26 floors in the office towers yesterday.  The day before I did 22 so I figure increase it a bit each day.  It takes me like 13 minutes to do that many, so I'm not as speedy as he is.  I'm all good with that.  He says good job, and tells me to add a backpack and put some weight in it.  My eyes about pop out of my head......the weight is good it for some reason makes you go faster.  Um....my response to that outrageous comment is, well I have enough extra weight on me.  Truly in this process it is helping reach another goal and that is to lose a few lbs. 

So here is where, he says what's scrapbooking.  I share with him that I will be having a scrapbook crop fundraiser to help raise monies for the American Lung Association/Fight for Air Climb.  He looks like all confused and curious.  So I'm shocked and tell him you crop pictures put them in albums that you decorate with all sorts of cool and neat things.  He stares at me, still confused.  So I explain further and he just like huh?  What is a world without scrapbooking?  How in the world has his wife not spoke of this or some other girl in his life.  Not that they need to do it, but I talk about scrappin' probably everyday, or it crosses my mind.  Weird?  I don't think so, its my passion.  We all have something we're passionate about, however some haven't figured it out yet.

Climb Detroit

Ok so you can see my new gadget that has been added to the right, its a countdown to Climb Detroit. That is one of the 10 things that I would like to do in 2011.

I am trying to get a team together and have one other person committed, and one that is concerned about climbing 70 floors. I too am concerned but want to see what kind of strength I can pull together to do this. Fortunetely for me I work at the Renaissance Center the place where the stair climb will take place. The other person that has committed to it also works here. We will start training today during our 30 minute lunches. I have done stair climbing for the health benefits of it, lost 13 lbs doing it and saw a wonderful difference in the way my clothes fit. So looking forward to that again. Its been a couple years since I did that. When I did it in the past I got up 6 flights and thought I would die, but after 2 months of pushing myself I was able to do 26 floors. I think I could have gone further but time didn't allow for it.

Looking for a team of 4 at least.

Planning a fundraiser scrapbook crop as well at my mom's church. Hoping to find out if the date that I chose will be ok. Gotta get planning and started working on it.

I'm really looking forward to this, I'll be sure to share my progress along the way. Besides this will help me w/ one of my other goals to lose 25 lbs this year. BONUS!

Edited post: After posting this I went over to fb and updated my status asking for people to join my team. I have 4 people total now, and possibly another.
I also did 15 floors during lunch!

Yearly Ten

Just before the new year started I had thought about a book that I read called Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber. Its about a group of women that create a list of 20 things they would like to do before they die, be it small or big. I thought about how I would like to try out some stuff. I made a list of 10 things that I would like to do in 2011. I never thought to share it on my blog, but a lady that I follow posted her bucket list. Well I commented to her that I thought I might have to steal her idea and blog about it. This way it makes it more out there and I'll feel the need to accomplish these things be it big or small.

So here it is:

1. Get serious about the 2012 Bodah Reunion
2. Buy my 1st house
3. Take Lucas to Disney World
4. Get sewing machine repaired and sew again
5. Read Gone w/ the Wind all the way through
6. Go to at least 3 plays/musicals
7. Visit w/ an old friend, a different friend each month
8. Lose 25 lbs
9. Climb Detroit; join a team
10. Ride my bike again

There it is and I'm looking forward to all of these. Some are things I used to enjoy doing but somewhere they were lost along the way. I am enjoying the thought of doing this list and seeing how and when I am able to complete it. I'll definetely post each time I complete one and I'll post a pic.

#9 I've already started working on. This is an annual stair climb to the top of the Renaissance Center (72 floors). I've always wanted to do this, I'm trying to find others to join a group w/ me or at least join another group that has already formed. I work at the Ren Cen and have in the past climbed stairs for exercise and could get up to floor 26, not quite 72 but its a start. Hoping to find others that will help me complete this goal. It's coming soon March 6th, gotta get busy to make this one happen. www.lungusa.org/pledge-events/mi/detroit-climb/

I think this would be fun for me to do each year; a new list of ten.
STAY TUNED!