Donations for ALS- also known as Lou Gehrig's disease

Hello everyone out there in blogger world. I know I have been MIA for a very long time but I wanted to try to get this out there. Two weeks ago we had a death in the family. My brothers wife's father died of ALS. I know when I first heard of this I wasn't exactly sure what this disease was. Persons with ALS have a loss of muscle strength and coordination that eventually gets worse. This eventually makes one unable to do routine tasks such as going up steps, getting out of a chair, or swallowing. In ALS, nerve cells (neurons) waste away or die, and can no longer send messages to muscles. This eventually leads to muscle weakening, twitching, and an inability to move the arms, legs, and body. The condition slowly gets worse. When the muscles in the chest area stop working, it becomes hard or impossible to breathe on one's own. ALS affects approximately 1 out of every 100,000 people.
There is no known cure for ALS. The first drug treatment for the disease is a medicine called riluzole. Riluzole may prolong life, but does not reverse or stop the disease from getting worse. This is a horrible way to live and slowly die from. That is why I am asking for donations to help the ALS Association Greater Philadelphia Chapter. Anyone in the East Coast area can also participate in their 2010 Ocean City Board... Walk to Defeat ALS. Any donations will be grealy appreciated. As little as $5 makes a difference. Here is the link to donate or Sponsor a walker. Thanks!

Music Monday

I love this song by Lykke Li featured in New Moon.

Wordless Wednesday! Well Almost....

My daughter A with her best buddy A. They are only a couple months apart and some days get along great like this day and others not so great..... lol

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Caution!

So a few days ago my husbands friend was on our computer. He was on facebook when something came up on the screen for Security Tools. I guess he looked at it and then clicked off it when it wanted you to pay. Well it embedded itself in my computer. It's malware. It basically said that everything in my computer was infected with a virus and that I couldn't access anything (and I mean anything) unless I put in my credit card number and paid for the program. My husbands friend is a computer guy and he said it is the hardest thing to remove from your computer because it hides itself so well that you can't find it anywhere. The only way to get it off is to wipe the hard drive. Thankfully when we got the computer we had our friend go through and program everything, so he put on Malware Bytes. This program is amazing. I had to go in and start my computer in Safe mode and run the Malware program several times but it saved my computer. It's a free program and if you don't have it you should seriously consider getting it. I run it atleast once a week. But word of wisdom stay far away from Security Tools. Do not put your credit card number in because my computer guy said one of his other clients did and Security Tools drained their whole bank account. So that happening further delayed my posting so I apologize. Tomorrow I will be posting a giveaway!!

MIA

Hey everyone, I know I have been MIA lately. My parents are coming today. They drove all the way from Texas. They haven't seen my new house yet so I have been frantically cleaning all week. And recleaning and cleaning some more. Because as soon as I get one room clean my kids trash the one I cleaned before that. I also scrubbed down the bathrooms for my 6yr old to pee all of the toliet again. So my day will involve recleaning everything I have cleaned 50 times this week. So I'm sorry if I am missing for a little since they will be staying with me and I only get to see them 2-3 times a year. So thank you all for being patient with me, I really appreciate it and when they leave I have some great giveaways to post for you guys!

Officially Addicted

Ok, I can finally admit it.... I am completely and utterly addicted to American Idol. I have a dvr and I faithfully record every episode. I have even enstilled feat into my children if they even think about canceling the recording. I don't even know why I love it so much but I do. I like Ellen but I wasn't sure how much I would like her on Idol, but she is great. I can't imagine what it will be like without Simon. He's my favorite one on there. He is brutally honest and I think it is a good character trait to have. Well hopefully some of you are addicted as well so I'm not the only one. Well gotta go because Idol started 20 min ago and I can fast forward the commercials now..