it's really real!

already four comments (two on the actual blog and two via email) and it hasn't been 24 hours since i launched Go.Run.Liz. i am so humbled. thank you.

speaking of quick, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society isn't messing around. they've already sent me my own personal fundraising link! i have exactly five months to raise a minimum of $2,400. can we say DAUNTING?! but this is what i signed up for and i'm not complaining (yet, wink wink). i can do this. WE can do this. i've posted the link on my facebook page, my personal website and i've added a "widget," whatever that is, to this blog (you can see it just to your right).

i'm not sending that email you're all dreading, you know, the "please give me your money" email, just yet. many of you have already been so generous with the Walk 'n Rock fundraiser benefitting Sacramento ENRICHES, that i just can't bring myself to ask again yet. but the ask is coming, and, for as much guilt as i feel about it, i also feel privilege - that we're all in a place to even be able to be asked, you know? when i think about the cancer patients i'm training for, the financial losses and more importantly life challenges that they face and beat every day, i feel like this is more of an opportunity than anything. an opportunity for each of us -myself included- to dig deep and give a few dollars to a cause that has been trusted and incredibly successful for over 60 years. it's an opportunity to pay it forward, to earn yourself some good karma points, if you will.

anyway, this wasn't a blog begging for bucks. it was more of a "whoa, they made me a website, this is real, i gotta come up with an average of $500 bucks a month between now and october," blog. it was also me keeping my excitement up. sharing how much i'm thinking about this, dreaming about this and how very incredibly pumped i am!

i love you for reading this and i love you more for supporting me!

besos,
liz