I get by with a little help from my friends...

I thought I'd continue with the music theme that preceded this post... :)

Humble. That is truly the best way to put it for me right now. I am truly humbled by the response of my family and friends that are helping me along this journey. It takes a village to do a marathon (I'm sure Hillary won't mind that I'm borrowing her analogy for this purpose). I've been humbled by the donations people have made on my behalf. I reached the 50% mark this week, and in only 4 weeks that is truly awesome from my perspective. I've been humbled by my friends who've rolled up their sleeves and taken one for the team (all of this coming from ms. independent that hates to ask anyone for anything). We've worked 2 festivals and 2 Bengal games thus far and raised a little over $1000 with those efforts. Many thanks to Kim and Cathy for working the games and BrewHaHa and Oktoberfest with me - we earn our dollars that's for sure! Thanks to Mark and Jim for helping me with Oktoberfest last weekend as well. Aside from the fact that we were located in polka $@!!, which was happily offset by the fact that the Cincinnati Wolfhound Rugby team was next door to us, we had fun and our booth raised $341 in one day. Woo Hoo! A big thank you to Stacey for helping with Samantha through all these events - picking her up, taking her back home, feeding her and loving her. It would be impossible to do this without you guys.

Oh, I must report on one more song I've added to my playlist: "Daybreak" Barry Manilow. He was on the Today show on Stacey's birthday recently, because his "best ever" (or whatever) CD came out the day after so he and/or his name was popping up everywhere that day - even on the ESPN Mike and Mike show. That connection I'll never figure out. Anyhow, we were into his music all day - I swear I walked the halls at work humming "Daybreak" all day - so I felt it was only fitting to add it to my Playlist as the first song for my 6:30am morning runs. I mean...he does write the songs.