Pink Ribbon Day

Monday Oct 25th is internationally known as Pink Ribbon Day.

Show your support here, and help click to fund free mamograms. It only takes a couple of seconds and is free. Please spread the word about breast cancer awareness and tell your friends to "click daily" too.




My grandmother had a double masectomy.

My brother's partner found a lump (early detection) a few years ago and had radiation treatment for several months.

J's good friend from high school found a lump while breastfeeding her now 6year old son as an infant.

I had a scare last year - turned out only to be a pregnancy related lump.

And not a week goes by that I don't remember blogger Kathy Sugio, who passed away earlier this year after fighting cancer for several years.

Tomorrow (as with every day this month) I will be thinking PINK.

what to do?

hmmmm,

vacuum and clean the living room now in the few spare minutes before I have to get dinner ready


OR

leave it and faff around on the computer instead (after all, the living room will just have be done again tomorrow night anyway as PIL coming over early Fri morning, as I go out gathering preschool applications,)
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and here I am on the computer ;)

half-here

I am here (as in - back in Japan, and back in the land of faffing off all day in front of the computer, as opposed to shopping, long coffee dates with friends, sunday roasrs with the family and simply enjoying the great Aussie lifestyle) BUT I am not really here (as in - am in the middle of youchien hunting. Application forms come out on the 15th, and I need to visit schools before then to see what they are like. Case in point - went to one yesterday which was high on my list, only to "see for myself" and realise that it is not what we are looking for. sigh. So back to square one, and researching schools further afield, making times to visit and getting the sproglets out and about to actually visit the schools. Going to one this morning.)

Still not even sure if we will be putting K into 3-year or 2-year program.....

I feel a bit like the John Marsden novel we read at high school ("So much to tell you") but cant see myself blogging for a bit longer yet.