Tonight's picture was taken in July of 2009. Mattie was home between treatments and he and Peter literally built the Taj Mahal out of Legos in about two days. Keep in mind that this structure has almost 6,000 lego pieces! Legos were our God sent while Mattie was battling cancer. Because he lost his mobility from limb salvaging surgeries, Mattie needed more hands on activities. Fortunately Mattie always loved to build and be creative and Legos gave him that venue. We had Legos all over our home and the hospital! In fact, after Mattie died we donated many thousands of Lego bricks to charities! One thing that is very apparent at our annual walks..... Lego activities. Legos are part of our event because they played such a significant part in Mattie's life. Legos are not just for fun. You can learn all sorts of things from Lego building, and we wish to inspire that at our Walks in memory of Mattie.
Quote of the day: Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ~ Roger Miller
I am sure there are plenty of people who just 'walk in the rain.' I am NOT one of them. I truly can't stand the rain, the dampness it brings, and the grayness. It is the royal trifecta which is depressing. On top of balancing a ton for the Foundation, I had to take the car in to be examined! We bought the car last May, and I have noticed that the radio and GPS periodically go out. You just can't turn them on, or better yet they are on and working and then automatically shut themselves off and you can't turn them back on. Yesterday I experienced this for two hours. It is a problem when you plug in an address in your GPS and are following it until the system crashes. Then I am LOST! I waited for the car for four hours today. No updates on it after two hours and Peter text messaged me to find out what was going on. I was sitting at a Starbuck's down the block, but called to talk to a service person.
This fellow irritated me within the first two seconds. I was just about to blow up at him when I logically thought about the fact that this wasn't going to help me get the car any quicker. So I then appealed to his logic and reasoning and it actually worked out. Once he realized I wasn't complaining about the timing, but about not being kept in the loop as promised, he was able to rectify that. Not sure what the moral message is to this, other than when one's schedule is full, this is when a car starts acting up. Naturally (as this always happens to me), they found NOTHING wrong with the car's system. It is like when you go to the doctor, as soon as you are being examined the pain subsides, until you leave the office of course. So I told the service rep today.... I better not be coming back to you with this same problem a week from now.
Of course the rest of my day is filled with Walk issues, processing donations, and coordinating the event. I remember one friend saying to me a year or so ago that the Walk must just run itself now that I have done it a couple of times! DON'T I WISH THAT WAS THE CASE! Still waiting for that to happen... NO LUCK so far, and we have been doing this for 8 years!
No comments:
Post a Comment