Moving Forward!!

Community Day Sale

Well, the Community Day Sale is over! It was a long ride this time with donations down. It took some extra time to even approach my typical goal for booklets sold before the sale day. With the shifts I got during the sale days however, it all came out great! Turnout both days was wonderful and in those two days I sold about 80% as many as I had before the sale! In the end, I was happily exhausted! I'm sure it will be a week or two before I can even think about the spring sale.

Mary-Thon

You may remember me telling you about the Mary-Thon about this time last year - a commitment to work out for 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week for 26 consecutive weeks. I did sign up mostly because I wanted to support Mary in her efforts; I thought it was a fun idea, and I had already decided to work out more in the new year anyway. Surprisingly...it actually did help me keep that resolution. I not only finished the Mary-Thon, but also went on to complete her Mega Mary-Thon after that.

The whole idea was so successful that Mary is going to do it again...with some added twists! She did find with the 2011 program that several people dropped out pretty quickly. When she decided to do another year, she wanted to somehow provide more incentive for participants to stick with it. In her research, she found that having a financial investment helped people follow through. So, as she designed the 2012 program, she made some big changes, including different levels of participation. As a Premium Mary-thoner, you will be entitled to a Moving Forward Mary-thon T-shirt, bracelet, downloadable tracking sheet, pledge, racing bib, motivational support, and a  finisher certificate and beautiful finisher medal when you cross the finish line! There is a $35 fee for participating as a Premium Mary-Thoner or Half-Mary-Thoner BUT!!! $15 of that will go to your favorite Project Linus Chapter if they are participating... and, of course, yours is!!! There are no stipulations on the kind of exercise, or even that you do all 30 minutes at the same time; you can do 3 10-minutes segments in a day, or even 6 5-minute segments. You can run, do weights, yoga, walk...whatever works for YOU! The goal is to just keep moving and to finish by December 31, 2012.

There is still the option of participating for free, it just doesn't include the T-Shirt, medal, etc. Also, for those who feel 26 weeks is just too much of a commitment to make, she has added a Half Mary-Thon option as well.

If you're interested, please see her Mary-Thon webpage for more info and the registration form... http://www.marython.net/ 

If you do sign up, remember to put down the Great Falls, MT Chapter of Project Linus as the recipient of the $15. I hope you'll join me!

Blanket Days

Our next Great Falls blanket day is this Saturday. Right now, the forecast is calling for some snow...hopefully not too much. As I've mentioned, we'll be doing Gina Halladay's I'll Tumble for You Quilt. Cute, easy and QUICK!!!

I'm not sure when I'll do another one in Helena, but I hope to be able to work one in soon.

Enjoy these last days of autumn!!!
gina