End of July

July has come and is nearly gone. It has been a really hectic month as far as jobs was concerned, at the beginning of the month I went from two jobs to one job full time. I also have had a lot of planning to do, between my trip to LA next week and graduate school. But everything is settled now, I took my GRE test yesterday (it's like the SAT for grad school). I leave for LA on Sunday and will be there for a week for Steph's wedding. That means getting my bridesmaid dress squared away (which I picked up, fully altered, yesterday), the dogs boarded, and all of our travel arrangements. I leave on Sunday, Zach gets in on Friday, and we both leave the following Sunday. We're getting a rental car to get around LA, and my friend Lauren will be staying with me during the week, which will be lots of fun.
I also want to thank EM and Callie, who have helped me out in my fundraising by forwarding my email to their email lists and have gotten me donations as a result. At this point I have over $2110. I do still really want to get to my personal goal of $2500, but at this point I have surpassed Avon's minimum of $1800 so I am all set for the walk. I just need to get my training shoes on, and keep up the walking, although I know next week in LA I will be able to go walking with my mom, which will be really fun.

Update

Sorry I've been really bad about keeping this updated. There has been a lot going on in my life lately. For a while there, I was working two jobs, one at the restaurant, and one at the copy center. Well, over 4th of July weekend I received a phone call saying that the restaurant was not opening back up. So, I took on the copy center full time. That transition has led me to working a whole variety of hours, so I don't really feel like I had the same routine that I had before. I am also studying for the GRE, which I am going to take on July 29th; I wanted to get it out of the way before I went to LA in August, and then I will work on the application process between the August wedding and the September wedding. Things have been busy, and I haven't been able to concentrate on the training for this as much as I had wanted to. Plus, we aren't really getting summer nights here...it's still hot at night. It's made sleeping difficult, and I am even sleeping under an open window with the ceiling fan going full blast. I haven't had as much energy as I would have liked. I think this means I will get back to going to the gym after work. If nothing else, it's air conditioned. I just don't feel right taking the dogs out for long walks in this heat. I do plan on waking up early on Thursday morning and taking Skylar for a hike, that will be fun. Not sure where yet though.

Currently I have raised $1250 so far. I am only $550 away from the limit set by Avon, and I am half way to my goal. I have contacted a few more people, but really most of my fundraising attempts have been put on the back burner for now. I am hoping my trip to LA will help out with donations.