Five Seconds of Your Time Today, Please

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Can you guys pitch in and do me a favor today?

My friend and colleague Lauren needs your support in a big way. In December, Lauren was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer. She’s been kicking cancer’s butt since then all while keeping a smile on her face.

Now we need YOUR help! Lauren is in the final rounds of a contest that would give her $10,000 to help off set her medical bills!

Our other co-worker, Michelle recently ran the marathon to help benefit Lauren. She entered her fundraising effort in The Classy Awards, an online voting awards program.

They won the Chicago chapter and now are in third place for the national contest and $10,000!

All you have to do to help is visit http://www.stayclassy.org/classy-awards/, scroll down to “Most Successful Fundraising by an Individual or Group” and vote for “Running 26 Miles to Help LC Beat Cancer.”

Don’t forget to hit SUBMIT at the top of the page once you’ve selected them! Voting ends tomorrow– so don’t wait!

Lauren is a HUGE inspiration to everyone who meets her. With our help, we can surely move her into first place!

Thanks guys and leave questions in the comments section.

The Path of Life

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I’m in a deep-thinking mode this week. Nothing I really want to write about yet, so instead I’ll leave you with some images from our recent Cali trip that I love.

I hope you all are having a great week!

Creepy Halloween Foods

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Yay! My favorite holiday is just 1.5 weeks away!

I am a HUGE Halloween fan. Everything from the costumes to the parties makes me smile.

We have a ton of fun dressing up, which reminds me I really need to get going on my costume this year!

Anyway- I was thinking about hosting a Halloween bash and immediately got to think about what foods to serve. I searched online and was amazed at all the amount of  Halloween themed recipes available.

Of course, I was most intrigued by the creepy, scary, GROSS-looking foods like “roast flesh worm with spikey teeth and spilling guts.”

Fried WTH on a Stick…

Eyeball Ensalata Caprese

Creepy zombie finger cookies

And my personal favorite- the Dexter-inspired blood slide suckers…awesome.

Seriously- who comes up with these recipes? Who ever they are, they are disturbed and yet totally awesome.

What are your Halloween plans? Are you dressing up and hitting the town?

My Dream Home

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From the Chicago Tribune:

Holy chlorination, Batman!

Hinsdale home’s swimming pool a hot topic online

October 18, 2010|By Steve Schmadeke, Tribune reporter

A Hinsdale couple was surprised and a little weirded out to learn Monday that their Batman-themed backyard swimming pool was suddenly drawing a lot of online attention.

The 30-foot-wide logo they had painted at the bottom of their swimming pool two decades ago was widely discussed after a Google Maps satellite image of it showed up on a mainstream technology blog.

Titled ” Wayne Manor, Illinois,” the post was the second-most-viewed Sunday on Gizmodo. The blog apparently reposted an image highlighted on virtualglobetrotting.com, a site whose users compile interesting or unusual images captured by Google Maps.

“I can’t believe it — our son sent (the link) to us,” said one of the homeowners, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, not unlike the Caped Crusader himself. “It is so strange.”

The couple decided to have the logo painted in their pool about 1990, when their son, then in kindergarten, was obsessed with Batman and wore a cape as often as he could. A painter re-created the logo using a design from a beach towel, the homeowner said. The logo is easily seen in the satellite photo because the pool was being filled when it was taken and the water hadn’t yet covered it.

It has since been touched up about three times. The 15-foot-deep pool has become a neighborhood landmark and was often the site of class picnics and football team dinners.

The homeowner said it felt odd having strangers from across the country commenting on the property, some of them wondering whose car was parked in their driveway.

“That’s our cleaning lady’s car,” the homeowner said.