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My mom and I have been doing the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization’s Walk to Empower for the past couple of years. The first two were at Bull Run Regional Park in Centreville, Virginia. This year the walk, which takes place on Mother’s Day (May 11th, 2008), is moving to the National Mall. It’s 3 miles and non-competitive, which is about all my mom and I can handle.

This walk means a lot to me, because my mom had breast cancer when I was 4.  It’s coming up on 30 years since she beat the disease.  I can’t even begin to imagine what my life would have been like if she hadn’t.

Donations:

• My page
• My mom’s page

Never title a post “RSS”.  That was what I had used for the previous post and it screwed up the permalink, making it look for an rss file instead of showing the post.  Dang it!  Changing the title didn’t fix it, because it still keeps the original title in the link path.  I suppose I could have just deleted the post and posted again with a new title but for some reason Wordpress will not let me cut-and-paste text into the editor.  Hmm, now I see there is a file upload option but I’m too lazy to figure out if that would do the trick. 

Something I didn’t know until a co-worker pointed it out on the office forum: federal employees can get a discount on their personal cell phones. None of us had ever heard of this and she only found out when some forwarded an email to her about it. Seems like one of those rumors you hear by email or on the web that turns out to be a hoax. But this one is actually true- I contacted my cell phone company and they are applying the discount starting with my next bill. Of course, it’s one of those things you can only get if you ask for it. They are probably glad more federal workers haven’t heard of it…