13 miles

13 miles

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After running 13 miles in the rain, wind and hail (it started around mile 7, just after the turnaround), you smile creepily like this.

Wine Tasting & Fundraiser on October 13

Thanks to Everyone who cam eout, we raised $3800.

 

2nd Annual Team Challenge Fundraiser and Raffle

October 13, 2012

5:30 – 10 pm

Once again, Kristie is raising money for the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation through the Team Challenge program. (http://www.active.com/donate/seaLV12/kmacris) Please come out and support her at this amazing wine tasting.

A suggested minimum donation of $30 per person (or $50 per couple when paying cash) gets you wine, food & fun. The donation is tax-deductible if you request a receipt. 

As this is a fundraiser, bring cash, your checkbook or a credit card! Yes, I’ll accept credit cards using Square.

Back by Popular Demand: Blind Wine Tasting– Taste and rate wine. Person who ranks the wine closest receives a prize.
New This Year: $5 Premium Tastings– Grab a glass or taste of “premium” wine and support CCFA!
Raffle tickets will be for sale. $5 each or 5 for $20
iPad, Digital Camera, Gift Certificates, Wine & More
Prizes Sponsored by:
Ballard Acupuncture Center, Cabot Creamery, El Gaucho, Elite Island Resorts Caribbean, Luc Restaurant, Krave Jerky, Museum of Flight, Seattle Seahawks,  & many, many more…

We are graciously being hosted in a party room at the Bellevue Towers. The Great Room gives us plenty of indoor and outdoor space and an Eastside location! The Great Room is located on the 5th floor. Please enter through the guest elevator next to Lot No. 3. While there may parking in the garage, we will not be validating!

If you can’t make it to this event, please consider supporting me by donating online:http://www.active.com/donate/seaLV12/kmacris

I hope to see you there! More info will be released as the date draws near.

RSVP online here, on Facebook, or to kristie@macristravel.com
I’d like to have a headcount before October 1 to order wine, but you are welcome to RSVP after that date.

For more information:
Kristie Macris 206.617.0613

Please feel free to invite your friends and co-workers–anyone in the Seattle area you may know!!

**************** UPDATE ON THE FUNDRAISER ****************

For those of you who asked, there will be plenty of non-alcoholic beverages (including Diet Coke), we’ll have local Vodka on hand, and beer. There will also be a cheese tasting, a chocolate tasting, and an overabundance of food (cause that’s how I throw a party). There will be a couple fun non-drinking activities as well. There will plenty to eat, drink and do if you don’t drink or just hate wine! Hope to see you there!!!

That’s 11 years….

If you type my name into Google, you may come up with a couple articles I wrote about the tenth anniversary of 9/11, but that’s not what this 11 year celebration is all about.

See 1o years and 364 days ago, I had an appointment scheduled as a recheck on my cancer treatment. It would either mean I was currently cancer-free or that I would need more treatment. I didn’t make it to my doctor, just a few blocks, from  the World Trade Center on Sept. 12, 2011.

I had to wait for phones to work again and my doctor’s office to reopen in order to reschedule. I went in a couple weeks later, and the smell of death of asbestos clung to my hair and clothes. As I was prepping, the nurse said to me: I’m glad you’re okay. We don’t know about so many of our patients until they just don’t show up for an appointment.

There was an exam and some tests, an ultrasound performed. It was quick and I walked away with knowledge things looked good. It wasn’t until a few days later that the doctor called and said I was cancer-free. I had many years to go until I could say remission.

I’ve experienced and accomplished so much with my life that I don’t often refer to myself as a survivor. Perhaps it could even be a hang-up of my 9/11 experience. I have friends who are survivors, dug out of rubble, trapped for hours in a collapsed stairwell. First responders and little worker bees. Me, I was at home that day watching from my window.

Or perhaps, it’s because I don’t want to become a disease. I don’t want my identity to be overshadowed by labels. Yes, I had cancer. Yes, I have endometrosis. But I am so much more than that. Those two things do not define me, nor do they dictate how I live. I’d rather you see me and not a disease.

You’ll never see me wear the “Survivor” band at races, but that doesn’t lessen my experience, my present, or my future. But it has been 11 years since I kicked cancer to the curb. That’s kind of special.