Yes, I know it’s Tuesday. What’s your point?

The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, is coming up in a couple of weeks, beginning at sunset on Friday, September 18th. In case you’re unfamiliar, Rosh Hashana begins a ten-day period of introspection, atonement for misdeeds during the previous year, and of giving charity and doing good deeds, to hopefully have your name sealed in God’s “Book of Life” for the next year.

We wish each other a Sweet Year and mark the occasion by eating special foods, such as apples dipped in honey and other foods touched with sweetness, like honey cake. For Rosh Hashana, the challah bread you might be familiar with, is not braided, but coiled into a smooth round shape, signifying the Circle of Life and God’s Nature – there is no beginning and no end.

MJ and I will be spending the first evening at my mother’s and the second evening at my brother’s, so I won’t be doing any of the actual cooking, this year, but I am baking the challahs and honey cakes for both dinners, by special request. I’m even baking challahs and honey cakes to order for my co-workers at $10 apiece, and donating the money to the Komen Foundation to find a cure for Breast Cancer!

Some people equate the New Year honey cake with the Christmas fruitcake – traditional, but more useful as a doorstop. I proudly admit that I like fruitcake – properly aged in a fine Irish whiskey – and I love a good honey cake. This is one of them.

I posted a recipe for my favorite Honey Cake, last year, but as with all things, evolution happens. I’ve tweaked this a bit further, adjusted a couple of measurements, and added a little ground cardamom for even more dimension.

This is my new favorite.

Honey Cake

Dry Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. ground ginger
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. cardamom
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 tsp. salt

Wet Ingredients:
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2/3 cup honey
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 cup applesauce
1/2 cup hot strong coffee

Handful of sliced almonds (optional)

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 325º F.

Grease and flour a 9x5x3-inch metal loaf pan.

Sift together the dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Set aside.

With an electric mixer, beat together the wet ingredients in a large bowl until blended, about 3 minutes.

Beat in the dry ingredients in 2 additions, alternating with coffee, until batter is smooth.

Transfer batter to prepared pan. If using sliced almonds, sprinkle them on top of the batter in 2 columns, on either side of the center. Bake until cake is brown and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour (test with a wooden skewer).

Cool cake in pan 10 minutes. Turn out onto a rack; cool completely.

Wrap cake in plastic wrap and store at room temperature or if preparing ahead, seal in freezer storage bag and freeze.

Makes about 8 servings.

Of course, you don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy this honey-sweetened spice cake! It’s the perfect first taste of Fall – try it topped with a big ol’ scoop of vanilla ice cream and cup of coffee or tea on the side. Mmmm… This freezes really well, too, so make it now, wrap it well, put it in a plastic freezer storage bag, and you’ll have one less thing to think about, when preparing your holiday meal!

And speaking of charity and doing good deeds, now would be a really good time to donate to the Susan G. Komen Foundation to cure Breast Cancer through my page! Remember – I’ve pledged to add $2.00 out of my own pocket per donation made through my page, no matter the size – so please click here and do a good deed! Thanks!

If you’re good, I’ll give you the challah recipe next week!

Fighting breast cancer has been one of my “causes” for sometime now. A co-worker died of it just a few months ago. I actually really liked this one, too. Look over there to the left in my sidebar, and you’ll see a button to click to donate mammograms to indigent women (you just click and the sponsors of The Breast Cancer Site donate the money!)

I just find it frustrating that the best we can do is fight the beast. With the current technologies, the best we can do is identify it early, if we’re lucky, and poison ourselves – and therefore it – or mutilate ourselves by cutting it out of our bodies, if we aren’t. Science can map the human genome – hell, it can isolate the particular gene that makes muscles stop growing – but it can’t figure out what causes cancer and how to prevent it? Apparently not. Yet.

My friend Kelli (a/k/a The Zoo Lady) sent me an e-mail the other day that really grabbed my attention. It read:

The Love/Avon Army of Women offers women the opportunity to partner with the scientists who are conducting research that will end this disease–once and for all.

Breast cancer has been around for decades, but it does not have to be our future. We can be the generation that stops breast cancer once and for all by figuring out what causes this disease and how to prevent it!

Sign up for your sister, mother, daughter, granddaughter, best friend, and the woman you met last week. This is YOUR chance to be part of the research that will end breast cancer.

It takes a just a minute to join. But the impact we will have will last a lifetime.

Please Join Me in Being One in a Million!

Join the Army of Women

I thought, “Okay, what’s she involved with now? Another walkathon to raise money for The Cure? A ‘Million Woman March’?” Then I read it again. The part that says: “We can be the generation that stops breast cancer once and for all by figuring out what causes this disease and how to prevent it!”. Wait. Deja vu. So I clicked on the link, and what I read blew me away.

Our revolutionary initiative has two key goals:

• To recruit one million healthy women of every age and ethnicity, including breast cancer survivors and women at high-risk for the disease, to partner with breast cancer researchers and directly participate in the research that will eradicate breast cancer once and for all.




• To challenge the scientific community to expand its current focus to include breast cancer prevention research conducted on healthy women.

Not just cure – eradicate. The Avon Foundation For Women has partnered with the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation to recruit one million women all over the U.S. to volunteer for breast cancer research studies. All ages, all ethnicities, whatever you are, however you are. Until now, research has concentrated primarily on “The Cure”. Very little has been done on finding out the whys and hows, or what’s the magic key to prevent it.

The idea is to give breast cancer researchers access to women of all types – especially healthy women – to help answer those questions. No one will ever pressure you to do anything you don’t want to, you only participate in studies you’re comfortable with, your information stays private, and you will be part of the very real possibility of eliminating breast cancer in our lifetimes! Intrigued? So was I. Excited? I am!

Here’s our opportunity to do more than wear pink ribbons – something proactive rather than just reactive. Join the Army of Women. Or at least click on one of the links and read all about it. Then let’s make history together.

There are so many potential posts rattling around in my brain at the moment that it’s difficult to pick one topic. But there are lots of things that probably don’t justify an entire post to themselves, or maybe do, but right now I just want to throw some stuff out there. And so, the first Bits ‘n Pieces for 2009:

Most particularly, I like the stripe in the upper right-hand corner. The man admitted his crimes regarding complicity in the use of torture on detainees, and how nobody gave a rat’s ass whether or not the intelligence was good about WMD’s in Iraq – we were sending troops there – in media interviews. What I have said since before the 2000 election – “If Bush becomes president, we will be back in Iraq. Mark my words.” Nobody listened to me. He confessed. Without the kind of torture he was responsible for inflicting. “Cheney Begins Prison Term” Sweet dreams.

I know! We’re in the middle of Chanukah and Christmas Eve is, like 5 minutes away! And you forgot to get Cousin Bluebell anything! What are you going to do?!?

Don’t panic. You can still get Cousin Bluebell a gift certificate from

The Hunger Site
The Breast Cancer Site
The Child Health Site
The Literacy Site
The Rainforest Site or
The Animal Rescue Site

They e-mail the gift certificates to you, and you can cut-n-paste them into your own personal e-mail to the giftee, or your can print them out and present them in a lovely card.

Cousin Bluebell or your little niece Dottie can use the gift certificate at any of these sites’ shopping areas. And there are hundreds and hundreds of things they can get, ranging from jewelry, clothing items, accessories, and even coffee. You know that’s high up on my list! And while they’re shopping, they’ll learn all about these great causes and have a good time doing good.

Happy Holidays, Everyone! Please do stop by Flamingo Fotos for A Flamingo Christmas / Chanukah!

You Are Mashed Potatoes

Ordinary, comforting, and more than a little predictable You’re the glue that holds everyone together.

No kidding? Dammit! I was hoping to be something a tad more exciting. Like, umm, the Turkey or the Yams. Mashed potatoes, indeed! Hmmph!

We had a great day, yesterday. The deep-fried turkey was to die for. If you’ve never had it before, you simply must, sometime. I took a portrait of it for my Saturday PhotoHunt post, tomorrow on Flamingo Fotos (it’ll be up after midnight – the beauty of scheduled posting!).

I toyed with getting up at the crack of dark to do some early shopping, but the comfort of my bed and the warmth under the covers (you have to understand – once the mercury drops below 80 and the humidity below 60%, we open all the windows and don’t close ‘em again until it goes above those conditions – no matter how cold it gets at night. And it had to be in the low 50′s or high 40′s last night!) acted like some kind of super-gravitational force, and I didn’t even open my eyes until almost 10:00 a.m.! I couldn’t believe it! I never sleep in that late! Yeesh!

So, instead I did a lot of damage at Amazon and at my Daily Click sites (I repeat, you must do some of your holiday shopping there – it’s great!), enjoyed what MJ and I call “coffee on the veranda” for about an hour and a half, late this afternoon, and watched the parrots – all of them! – descend on the feeders one last time for the day.

Charla gave us some leftovers to take home – no pie, though – and I’m going to add some mashed potatoes, and we’ll be happy to do it all over again…. yum!

So, what did you do today?

No, you’re not seeing double. I’ve pretty much duplicated this post on Flamingo Fotos. Why? Well, mostly because I can. And also because, among the things I’m thankful for, are that MJ and I have a roof over our heads, food on the table, and the ability to provide the same for a kitty or two.

JJ was a shelter kitty. MJ and I went to the southern branch of the county animal shelter to donate an extra piece of cat furniture. While he was filling out the donor paperwork, I went into the “kitten room” – a screen enclosure very thoughtfully located just inside the front door (hee!) – to play with the kittens. As I bent down to pet some of them, a small black striped ball of fur shot vertically into the air and landed on my shoulder, purring wildly. “Look, Honey! A volunteer!” It was, of course, all over after that.

I tell you this story because I’d like you to consider an alternative to some of the traditional places you might do your holiday shopping. Namely, The Animal Rescue Site. Or The Breast Cancer Site. Or The Rainforest Site. Or The Hunger Site. Or The Child Health Site. Or The Literacy Site. If you’ve ever clicked on any of the buttons on my sidebar, you know that you can click every day and – without any cost to you – by clicking you are helping your favorite cause, or all of them. But did you realize that you can shop, too? Serious.

There’s such a variety of things to choose from, ranging from t-shirts to jewelry, house and garden, and on and on. Lots of really cute stuff for kids and teens and adults. And the prices are really reasonable! Look, I know there’s a lot of competition for the few bucks any of us has left, but when you give a gift this holiday season, wouldn’t it be nice to know that your purchase is not just going to make someone smile, it’s not going to cost most of your right arm? And that it will benefit something you believe in?

Like feeding and finding a good home for JJ? C’mon, look into those eyes!

And now a short break from beating up on politicians:

Along with everything else that’s happening around us these days, please remember to Click to Give. It costs you nothing and means everything to women without means. Your Daily Click will help provide mammograms to women who can’t afford them. While you’re there, you can also click to help save the rainforests, support animal shelters, feed the hungry, and more.

So, please take a minute and Click!

Back soon with our regularly scheduled politician bashing!

Just a quick reminder to do your Daily Click! October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and if The Breast Cancer Site receives enough clicks to earn 500 mammograms for needy women, its premier sponsor will donate 200 more.

Remember – it’s free to you, and all you have to do is click! While you’re there, don’t forget to click on the tabs to donate to all the other worthy causes. Your clicks feed the hungry, promote literacy, benefit shelter animals, and more. And it doesn’t cost you a penny! So what are you waiting for?

Click!

Nature Calls

Open on our kids making their beds and getting ready for a brand new day. The last day for one of them. (Cue evil laugh).

Korto is brushing her teeth in the kitchen sink. Eww. She interviews that she’s 33 and the oldest in group. She’s got a husband and child and is grateful for a second chance to make her life what she wants it to be.

Leanne says to Kenley that she’s so glad that they’re finally down to the top 4. Kenley is ignoring her. Leanne interviews that, “Honestly, Kenley should have been eliminated awhile ago. She’s been disrespectful to all of us – she’s been downright rude.”

Kenley’s not speaking to Leanne. She thinks Leanne sabotaged her at runway, last week, and made her outfit look foolish. Personally, I don’t think she needed any help in that respect. “I’m not interested in even trying to pretend that I like her.” Why have I not noticed before that Kenley is wearing one of those feather – what does Miz Shoes call them? – “fascinators” things in her hair with a ponytail and tee-shirt?

Jerrell is the only guy left and has no one to talk to. He’s sitting on the floor with a Tim Gunn bobblehead, a syrup bottle an apple and a grapefruit, bidding farewell to Joe and Suede. As he walks out the door: “Later Joe… Later Suede… Don’t rot on the counter…”

Parson’s

Heidi appears on the runway for model elimination. Really – what’s the point? Korto, as last week’s winner, stays with Katerina. Sefara is out.

Tim is waiting in lobby to take them on a field trip.

Kenley whines that she had a hard time in the last challenge, so she’s hoping that this time it’s something that she actually does.

In the van, Tim asks the designers what they think the challenge will be. Korto says she thinks it will be “evening / wedding – something in that arena.” Jerell says that the twist will be that their client will be Hedda Lettuce.

New York Botanical Garden

They seem overwhelmed by the experience of actual fresh air and sunshine.

Leanne says: “Oh no, we’re going to have to make a dress out of flowers.” You know, I really loved that challenge from Season 2. That was creative!

But no, their challenge is to create an evening gown using nature as their muse. Yes, I guess it’s too late in the day to ask for anything actually fun. For us, I mean. This will be the traditional “Oh My God This Is The Last Cut So I’ll Disappoint The Judges With A Safe And Boring Long Dress That Has Nothing To Do With My Actual Personal Style Challenge”.

Kenley says that the place is huge and they’re surrounded by all these crazy, bright, vibrant colors all around, and that they all feel like they’re in The Wizard of Oz. We now know that fresh air and sunshine work like LSD on Kenley.

They see Collier Strong – consulting makeup artist of L’Oreal Paris. Tim says “Don’t be afraid.” Collier is there to officially announce that this is the “Oh My God This Is The Last Cut So I’ll Disappoint The Judges With A Safe And Boring Long Dress That Has Nothing To Do With My Actual Personal Style Challenge” – inspired by nature.

They each get a camera and they have an hour to wander around to find their inspiration.

Jerell takes inspiration from everything in life. He finds some old-fashioned roses in hues of pinks and reds and plums.

Leanne plays tag with the bees. They’re like her favorite credit card – everywhere she wants to be (be / bee – get it? Fine.) She finally runs across some lavender-colored flower that inspires her with its structure and layers.

Korto finds a “flamenco” flower. This area reminds her of her mother’s garden in Africa. “I’m gonna win this one for my mama.”

Kenley is in her element, surrounded by all the florals she could ever hope for. “This challenge is perfect for me.”

Back to Parsons

They have 30 minutes to choose one photo to be their inspiration and will get $250 to spend at Mood for this L’Oreal Paris Challenge.

Miss “I’ve got to throw some ugly-ass floral print into everything I make” Kenley chooses a purple coleus. A leaf. Go figure.

Mood

Kenley finds a fuschia snakeskin textured fabric to mimic the texture in the coleus leaf.

Tim asks Jerell pointedly about some horrible lemon/lime dayglow sequin-y fabric he had chosen. Jerell re-examines his choice. “There’s such a fine line between elegant and low-class.” Um, I don’t think the line is quite that fine, Jerell, and that shit’s fugly.

There’s a pile of black tulle on the counter with a ticket on it. Korto looks at it and asks no one in particular “Is this somebody’s stuff?” And then they all leave.

Back at Parsons – 6:00 p.m.

They will have until midnight tonight & all day tomorrow to work.

They all talk about their fabrics, their designs, their flowers, yada yada yada…

It’s now 11:10 on the old clock on the wall

Kenley – “Did I have another Mood bag?”

Jerell – “I think you only had one.”

“I’m missing my tulle. I’m going to kill myself.” Well, please be quick about it so we can just move along to the finals. Okay? And don’t make a mess in the workroom while you’re at it. The custodial staff gets very upset about that sort of thing.

“Well, I’ve got to move on, so I’m using drafting paper. I’m freaking out right now.” Everyone smiles at her discomfiture. So am I.

Jerell : “I do have tulle that I’m not going to use, but Kenley’s a one-trick pony and I’m not assisting her in any way. She threw her eyes on that tulle sitting on my table and it’s not gonna happen like that.”

Korto: “I’m probably not using mine, either. I can’t feel bad for Kenley. She’s rude to Heidi, she’s rude to Tim. When you have an ugly attitude it just makes you ugly, and it makes everything you make ugly. I don’t feel sorry for her.”

Jerell : “I can’t wait to see how this all pans out – I’m going to stay tuned.”

Hee.

Day Two

Jerell goes to the girls’ apartment and asks Korto if she’ll do his makeup, too. Kenley’s not in the mood to talk to any of the other designers. Nobody gives a shit.

Parsons

Kenley’s angry at herself and asks if Jerell’s tulle is for sale. He says no, his tulle’s not for sale – he thinks he’s going to use it to fill out his taffeta. Liar, liar, pants on fire! Korto shoots him a look and rolls her eyes.

Tim comes in and asks how they’re doing. Kenley tells Tim that she left her tulle at Mood and he tells her that if it’s on her receipt, he doesn’t want her to be handicapped and she can go back and get it later.

Tim sends in the models for fittings.

Collier Strong comes in to consult on makeup.

The cool kids are on one side of the room, chatting, and Kenley: “It’s just me on one side of the room and the other three designers on the other side… It’s been like that my whole life. I don’t know why.” Because you’re a loud, rude, obnoxious bitch. That’s why. Oh, was that a rhetorical question?

Kenley’s off to Mood to retrieve her tulle. She interviews that she was taught to be tough. Her father was a tugboat captain and she spent half her childhood on water, far away from land, where she could be as loud and obnoxious as she wanted to be (her words), and that it probably had some bearing on who she is today. Yeah. A loud, rude, obnoxious bitch. Have we not yet made the association?

“I’m not worried about people understanding me. I yam who I yam (said Popeye), and I want to go to Bryant Park. I deserve to be there… ‘cause my line will be the best.” Snickering.

Tim does his walkabout

Korto – “You have got to talk to me about that lace. It’s really sleek and 2008 in the front and Catherine the Great in the back.”

Kenley: “…looking more like fish scales than floral.” “Really? Cool. That’s what I’m going for. I’m feeling really great about this. I love it.” She was completely complimented when Tim says that it looks like fish scales.

Jerell – responds positively to the layers but it’s looking unfinished, but has the potential to blow everyone’s socks off.

Leanne – Looking very Hello Dolly.

“I’m so proud of all of you, so work, work, work.”

Morning of Runway Show

Everyone is stressed out and on more than the verge of tears. It’s all coming to an end and they’re starting to crack under the pressure.

Korto: “I just wish everyone the best from the bottom of my heart.”

Leanne: “I know. I wish everyone the best, too.”

Lying bitches.

Parsons

Tim: This is the last runway show… I’m sending in the models and you have one hour, etc.

Jerrel: “That suit is cut great, Tim.” “Thank you.” Suck-up.

What a surprise – Kenley doesn’t like anything that anyone else did. Stop the presses!

Ten minutes – “They’re still sewing and ironing in there…”

Leanne: “This is not going to be my best work.” Um, may I point out that this would be the wrong time to not bring out your best, people?

The Bravo Question

Would you have given Kenley your extra fabric?

A. Why? She’s a pain
B. Sure, it’s good karma

Guess which one wins.

Runway

Jerell’s roses:

Kenley’s coleus:
Korto’s flamenco flower:
Leanne’s lavender:

Judging

There are 4 left, but only 3 will earn the right to go to fashion week. The guest judge is Georgina Chapman, co-founder & designer of Marchesa. Oooo. Score!

Korto – flamenco flower. The shape is very flattering, well-made. MK thought it was pageant. Questioning the fabric choice. Doesn’t come off as sophisticated. Threw too much in there and went too far to impress us.

Leanne – inspired by lavender plant – wanted to recreate the structure of the lavender plant. Nina pleasantly surprised to see her working with something soft. Bustle was a problem.

Jerell – Heidi wanted to yank the top up. True – even his model is holding her arms very close to her sides to keep the top up. A little messy. MK – “It’s off in a way that intrigues me.”

Kenley – Doesn’t look very organic. Looks scaly and creepy. Doesn’t look young, cool, hip at all. MK said he wrote cliché. The petals don’t look elegant. “I wasn’t going for elegant, Heidi.” Heidi starts in on Kenley getting all defensive anytime she’s criticized, which of course, Kenley argues – defensively. Nina tells her that it’s true – when she gets all flippant and smug, they wonder “does she really give a damn?” MK: “You wouldn’t be standing here if we didn’t love what you do. We’re fans, we want it to be fabulous.”

Heidi then asks each of the designers why they should move up and which two of the remaining three should go with them.

Jerell: “This is my dream… I have a lot more to show… blah, blah, tears, choke, choke.” He then goes on to say that while Kenley is “an amazing designer”, the 50’s thing’s been done and he’s seen it all before. Kenley starts arguing with him and he tells her to shut the fuck up and wait her turn. Go Jerell! He continues that Korto, Leanne and he, Jerell, should advance to the tents in Bryant Park.

Leanne: “I’m not going to do a boring show.” Jerell and Korto are on the same level as her and should advance with her.

Korto: “I’m the oldest one here and I still have my dream.” Leanne and Jerell should go with her because of who they are as people.

Kenley: “Well now that I’ve been trashed – I take the most risks here.” “I feel like I’ve been fighting my way through life, so it’s force of habit.” She picks Leanne and Jerell. “I don’t think classic puts on a show and people want to see a show at Bryant park.” Did she just pick her nose on the runway?

Korto calls out Kenley in the waiting room: “I’ve got to say, Kenley, everytime you have to defend yourself, you’ve got to ‘dog out’ what I do.” “They forced me to.” “Nobody forced you to do nothing.” “Okay, I’m sorry!” “No you’re not. You’re not sorry. I didn’t ‘dog’ you out.” “Oh, really?” “No, I didn’t. I didn’t say one word about you.” “Look, I just went through what you went through times ten, okay? So don’t.” “Don’t what? I’m going to say what I have to say and I’m going to speak my mind.” Silence.

Judges

[The designers] are all scared so close to the end.

Leanne – softer Leanne. Really helped her. Definitely has a signature. MK thought the ruching and structure was sad and somber.

Jerell – most intriguing. Need to see polished show at Bryant Park, not a mess.

Korto – pageant and bridal. But she’s not afraid of color; it was every cliché of an evening dress.

Kenley – total loss of taste. Didn’t see the flirty florals. Aside from her designs, Kenley’s attitude is an issue – “…with an attitude like that, what is she going to do when a buyer says they don’t like that sleeve? Take out a knife and kill them?” Would it surprise you? Heidi says that she’s made interesting and outrageous things in the past, and she’s interested to see what she would show.

MK: “They’re all so distinct, and isn’t the most exciting fashion show for the finale, one that shows different points of view?”

The Verdict

“This was the closest runway show we’ve ever had to judge.”

Leanne and Jerell had the highest scores. Kenley and Korto the lowest. Jerell is the winner – just barely.(!)

Of course, the judges couldn’t decide on a loser so all 4 will create collections for Bryant Park, BUT still, only 3 of them will compete for the win. When they return to New York, one of them will be out – including possibly Jerell (!)

Tim: “Group hug, everybody.” Kenley sits there. “Kenley, let bygones by bygones.” Kenley sits there. She interviews: “I’m really happy that we’re getting a second chance to compete. But it’s a little annoying that the other 3 designers hate me. It just makes me want to win even more and beat these other designers to the ground.” Kenley, you have a call – it’s the U.N. on line 2.

Next week: Tim does looksees, everyone’s back in NY, and the final elimination! Whew! Don’t the producers know it’s Erev Yom Kippur?

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As you know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So while I have your attention, I’d like you to click on this graphic. The link will take you to The Breast Cancer Site, where by clicking on the pink button, you will help donate free mammograms for women in need. This is totally for real. It doesn’t cost you a penny. This is how it works: The Breast Cancer Site is sponsored by a number of different companies who donate free mammograms to indigent women based on the number of clicks on that little pink button. The sponsors gain exposure because you see their logos and might be interested enough to check them out. But you don’t have to. All you have to do is click and then go on your way.

During the month of October, if they get enough clicks to earn 500 mammograms, their premier sponsor, Bare Necessities, will donate an additional 200 mammograms. But it takes 45,000 clicks to earn one mammogram, people. So everyone’s help is needed. Your click will be counted only once a day, so please click every day. To help you out, there’s a link in my blogroll over there to the right, titled “Daily Click”. That link will take you to The Breast Cancer Site. While you’re there, you’ll notice other tabs at the top of the page where you can click to benefit childhood literacy, rainforest preservation, shelter animals, fight hunger, and more. All at no cost to you. You can click through every tab on the site in under 60 seconds. That’s all it takes. Unless you decide to shop. But that’s another post. Please click and help save lives. And tell your friends. Thank you.

Okay, I’m getting off my soapbox… for now.