Holy Mackerel

Em with her friends, talking treats and scores. Dee being Dee, all aglow. Cool bowling photos of an unnamed subject, probably getting a strike. Just numbers. But they mean everything when you put this, $ , in front of them. That's how much money was raised at last Saturday's Camp Quality of Eastern Ontario bowlathon fundraiser. $34,888. Not just a simple number. I am speechless. This is a record , and in this day and age, it is beyond belief. Our next highest amount raised was about $32,000 a few years back. The generosity of the Ottawa region Starbucks, as well as everyone else who participated and donated, reminds me that people will always continue to amaze me. In the midst of financial woes, of people losing their jobs, there is still so much generosity. It blows my mind. The children will have one more year of happiness at Camp Quality this summer. Thank you everyone!

My Saturdays are often spent prostrate on a couch, ignoring my children and husband, reading the paper and drinking coffee, or running errands, or just picking my nose and wiping it on an unsuspecting child. This Saturday, that all goes down the toilet. Because this Saturday, folks, this babe is going to be b-u-s-y. Yup, that's right. No rest for the wicked, they say (whatever that means). Saturday is the annual fundraiser Slut and I run for Camp Quality , which is a camp for kids with cancer. This year, Slut has pretty much run the show all by her lonesome, mostly because I am very lazy, but also because I've not been well. We've been doing this fundraiser for six years now (I think), although it feels more like sixty, and it's probably our last year, because we're both tired of doing it, and it's time for some new blood. My kids have attended this camp for about seven years now. Slut's son attended it for many years as well, and Slut is actually the perso...