Caucus Race

In case you wondered if I got my milk and cheese...Mom finally came home from work and pick them up on the way. Yay Mom :)

I feel defeated because after the 3rd mile of my 10k my IT band started to swell up. This sucks. It feels better after ice and Aleeve. I would cycle the rest but the rec center has already closed. Mom's cat likes to use my stretch time to steal pets.

Oh that thing about humans misusing the gift of speech- I believe that was in Gulliver's Travels- that people lie and animals don't. That is not true. Animals totally lie. I know this because the dog and cat have 3 feeding times and they know it. still, they try to hit up food from anyone who walks through the door. They cry, they whine, they give affection as if they were Mogwai after midnight.

I'm thinking of starting the caucus race animation of Jose and his money...running circles in water trying to get dry. I would draw Tricia of Florence with a job but she hasn't contributed to the Leukemia Society for my Marathon.

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!

I am so pissed. I'm a 15 year old kid that can't go anywhere and can't contact a living soul to fix this problem.

wallah! the internet.

It's 10:30 Friday night in Ark City Kansas and all I want is milk for my tea and cheddar cheese for my egg sandwich. However the "Town" Jeep my dad left for me thinks I'm trying to steal it. I unlocked the door with the key and BEEP BEEP BEEP the alarm sounds. The street is dead and I know everyone inside their house can hear this. I can even hear the echo answering in the distance. So I called my dad on his cell and he did not pick up. So i called again and again. then I called mom. no answer. then I texted both of them to call me because the car thinks I want to steal it although I shoved a key in the ignition.

Dillions (the grocery store) is only 5 or 6 blocks away, but I can't walk there alone. It's way too dark and I can't take my dog to the store. What happened to the street lights? It's safer to walk in Harlem.

GRRRR this stupid car. I want go to the store before it closes but I think it already has. Now if the car will let me in I will have to drive to the super walmart, which I don't want to do, because it is so far. Oh yeah this jeep has a special way of operating... my dad showed me earlier today. "You have to start it in 3rd then when hear it make a knock switch it into Drive. When you come to a red light you have to put back in 3rd. Remember you can't this out of town it won't make it." He told me like 5 times to not leave town. I told him I would probably only go to the store. Why does it have an alarm system?

Also I am sitting in front a 4 foot widescreen tv that doesn't work. Apparently the the bulb or something burnt out and costs $300 to replace. Doesn't that sound like buying a new tv?

wall-to-wall is the worst idea ever

wall-to-wall is that thingy on facebook that can trick you into thinking you are sending or continuing a message to someone but really you are writing it on their message board for god and everyone to read.


by the way, I spent days-DAYS- composing Stand by Me in Mario Paint when I was 12. I found this pic online of someone's game and it must sound like a car wreck of quarter notes.

How can you book a flight and not have a seat?

I'm on the AA site booking a flight to Kansas. I would have done it sooner but for some reason I thought I had to ask which day i got off. Finally I decided to just do it, but now it's almost $700.00. That's crazy and it's not like the service is any better. I almost want to see what first class is going for.

So I ended up going through the airline site instead of the "deal" sites because I thought it maybe cheaper. I got my price under 500 now, but I have no seat on one plane...


....American Airlines was no help. By the time they did help the $480 ticket went up to $687. So I went back to orbitz and I'm now flying out of Newwark at 6am but the ticket is a decent price.

Oh yeah, I know I've pushing this Marathon pledge this a lot, but I only have 3 months to go, so it will be over soon if I can meet the fund raising goal. I want to Thank Cynthea and Simon for helping so much. oh and here is a link to my running blog so you can be on my ass about training: SeeChristiRun.blogspot.com/

me running again animation

Mostly I've been running and animating myself running. I'm so terrified I'm going to injure myself but I'm taking it pretty easy except for last practice when I ran 4 miles without walking at all. That hurt the next day.

Anyway, as part of my fundraising I baked cookies last night. I need to bake more. Plus I am building a site to sort of persuade people to contribute. I don't think anyone will buy me looking determined while gazing over a mountaintop, so I tried to draw myself running. Yeah, I'm not finished but here is another work in progress.

ideas for fundraising

I'm trying to think of ideas to raise $5,900 by March 5th.

So far I'm going to learn to make cookies for Friday's bake sale. Do you think it would be a good plan to offer drawings or maybe a simple animated loop in exchange for donations? Those are usually things I would do for free if I wasn't so lazy. If I do draw for donations who do I draw for? For how much should I ask? This could help me practice animation...if it won't take me away from training.

I think I will also learn some Smith songs on my Sax. I think the main reason I never made much money was because I didn't play anything people recognized as a song. Then again they may not recognize Smiths.

Since only people I know read this I'm just going to start asking for money now. I don't know what I can offer you, so let me know. I guess at this point I'm offering favors.

I will get you more information soon. So far I know that 75 cents of each dollar donated goes to cancer research and donations are 100% tax deductible.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) Team In Training

I'm working on a little vain little animation of me for my funds site. It may end up being a blog site, but that might be ok too. Here is a rough. It isn't much right now.