Bootcamp, BBQ Off and a Blogathon July 17, 2008
This week has been a particularly busy one. It is my last week at bootcamp - tomorrow we are redoing our measurements and fitness test and I’ll post the results and the overall inches lost. I’ve already noticed a huge difference in my stamina and overall muscle tone. So much so, that I’ve already signed up for another month. It starts on Monday - so no break for me, but well worth it.
At work, we like to do off’s. We started with a soup off, then progressed to a slow cooker off - which we aptly named Rock Out with Your Crock Out. That one was so good, that we did it twice - the mix of slow cookers and guitar hero is amazingly fun. To celebrate the final arrival of summer in our fair little city, we’ve decided to do a BBQ off. As I type, I am parboiling some ribs and am about to make a BBQ sauce to marinate them in over night.
Yesterday, I signed Invoke up for the 2008 24 hour blogathon for charity. Basically, we will be posting a blog post every 30 minutes for 24 hours. This year, the blogathon was arranged by Vancouver’s very own Miss604 and the last time I checked, there were 12 bloggers signed up. I know Vancouver can do a lot better than this and I encourage any bloggers out there to participate. I will be writing in Invoke’s blog for the event if you would like to check it out during the event. The Invoke team with begin posting at 10 pm July 26, and we will upload our last post at 10 pm July 27.
We’ve chosen a charity that helps villages in Mali. I will have more information on the charity and an actual page where you can donate tomorrow. It’s going to a great cause, so any bit that you can help with would be much appreciated.
**Update:
Invoke has set a fund raising goal of $1000 for the blogathon. If you would like to support our efforts - which we would greatly appreciate - you can make a donation to the cause here (the page will be going live later today). Invoke has chosen a charity that is very close to Invoke’s heart - The Lochmaddy Foundation. Invoke is connected to this charity through Dario Meli and David Tedman who sit on the board. Through the Lochmaddy Foundation, all donations will be directed to a community in Mali, West Africa. Families in N’Gouraba are working hard to improve their lives and the lives of their children through a special agricultural project. Your donation will empower and enable them to realize increased crops, more family income with new opportunities and a brighter future.
We are collecting donations through Plan Canada who are our partner on the ground there. I would like to thank them and specifically Heather for all of their hard work in helping Invoke bring this all together.