At the benefit concert we had on March 16th, we had performances by:
Patrick Kaempf
Wonder Waffles
DHS Show Choir
Hang Em High: https://www.facebook.com/HangEmHighROCK
Skipping Stones
The Picture Perfect: https://www.facebook.com/thepictureperfectmusic
The Levitating Train Committee: https://www.facebook.com/levitatingtraincommittee
Thanks to everyone that showed up, we raised a total of:
$1,821.25 for the Chordoma Foundation
$60 in the Pennies for Penny for my mom
So Thank You!
I ended up raising my goal on the Chordoma Foundation website from $1,000 to $3,000. Currently the total amount that I've raise is $2,453.05. I couldn't have done it without all your help.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Chordoma Benefit Concert
A benefit concert for the Chordoma Foundation is being held in honor of Penny Halling, along with a bake sale, no sew/tie blanket sale and silent auction.
If anyone would be interested in helping out in any way (baking, helping, or donating), let Stacy, Corey, Brian or Breanna know.
Show Choir
Wonder Waffles
Hang Em High: https://www.facebook.com/HangEmHighROCK
The Picture Perfect: https://www.facebook.com/thepictureperfectmusic
The Levitating Train Committee: https://www.facebook.com/levitatingtraincommittee
Admission:
$5
Admission packages:
$10 w/ bracelet
$15 w/ t-shirt
$20 w/ bracelet and t-shirt
"Pennies for Penny"
There will be jars to collect pennies for Penny to show our appreciation for everything she's done. So help us show her how much she has touched our lives!
Watch the Chordoma Foundation's Uncommon Cause Video here: http://youtu.be/PJ7P6TtoJQ8
Monday, January 7, 2013
Planning
Lately there's been a lot of planning going on but no real details to actually talk about yet. A couple of my friends and I are currently planning a benefit concert for the Chordoma Foundation in honor of Penny Halling. Different types of bands, baked goods, and information about why we are doing this. Any and all help is welcome. Honestly, none of us can wait for this to happen. I feel it's brought us closer as friends and gives us something to look forward to doing for a good reason. Hopefully I'll have more definite details later.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Conversations With Mom
We never really realize what we take for granted until we see it taken away from someone else and see how hard it really would be. Watching them go through that and only being able to be minimal help is hard. Trying to put yourself in their shoes makes you wonder how they can be so strong to stay positive through everything being thrown at them.
Ever since the surgery, whenever I go to visit my mom I worry about the conversation. Not really the part where she asks the same questions multiple times because she doesn't remember or having to explain something again. It's more so the part where she gets emotional and asks about the surgery she had. She doesn't remember when, why or what happened. She just knows that it did happen. There are many times where she asks me to explain the whole thing for her and I understand why she wants to know. I would want to know, also. But having to re-tell the story every time I go to visit her gets really hard on me. It's an emotional thing. I've been thinking about making a ShutterFly book for her. We made one for the Chordoma Conference trip and Sandy made one for her after that. I'm not sure at the moment what that one was. I'm pretty sure it had to do with the surgery but it doesn't explain in it what happened. I'm thinking of writing it up and putting it together with some pictures of family so she can re-read it whenever she wants to know what happened.
Ever since the surgery, whenever I go to visit my mom I worry about the conversation. Not really the part where she asks the same questions multiple times because she doesn't remember or having to explain something again. It's more so the part where she gets emotional and asks about the surgery she had. She doesn't remember when, why or what happened. She just knows that it did happen. There are many times where she asks me to explain the whole thing for her and I understand why she wants to know. I would want to know, also. But having to re-tell the story every time I go to visit her gets really hard on me. It's an emotional thing. I've been thinking about making a ShutterFly book for her. We made one for the Chordoma Conference trip and Sandy made one for her after that. I'm not sure at the moment what that one was. I'm pretty sure it had to do with the surgery but it doesn't explain in it what happened. I'm thinking of writing it up and putting it together with some pictures of family so she can re-read it whenever she wants to know what happened.
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Tattoos
You know what really bothers me about people now days? They don't believe half of what you say. They believe what they want and that's it. I know everyone has different thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc. But you can't tell me what I should think or feel. Just like when it comes to tattoos. No one can tell me what I think about them. And, honestly, most the time I don't care what you think about them. "Tattoos don't have meaning like they used to." You don't know that. There is no way for you to know what a tattoo means to a person. Yeah, there are tattoos out there that don't have a real serious meaning, but to the person there is still a meaning. If they got it tattooed on them, then it does mean something to that. Simple as that. Just like my tattoos. For example, my bird:
Done by Jake Haag at A Brand New Tattoo in Eau Claire
What it looks like is all people can see about it. They don't know the meaning behind it unless they ask me or I tell them. Otherwise someone might see and think, "Her tattoo doesn't even mean anything. It's just a bird." No. It's not just a bird. Not to me. Same with the flowers. Why this tattoo means so much to me: This tattoo is a Goldfinch with Blue Cosmo flowers. My grandpa (who passed away in 2010) was always watching the birds outside through his picture window. It was something we did together every time I was there. His favorite birds were Goldfinched and Cardinals. I wanted to get something in memory of him and nothing reminds me of him more than the birds. The cosmos? Not typically colored blue, but I wanted a personal touch to theme. Blue is the color of the Chordoma Foundation so I incorporated that color into this tattoo so it means even more to me. It is my grandpa and mom tattoo. It means the world to me. I wouldn't change it for anything. People may see it as just a pretty bird, but to me it's more. And the only person who gets a real say in if my tattoo has meaning or not is me. In January just before my mom went in for surgery, I got another tattoo. When my dad and sister visited her a couple days before the surgery, I had my sister get my mom to write the word 'Persevere' on a piece of paper. When they got back, I took that paper to A Brand New Tattoo and got my fourth tattoo.
Done by Tim Morris at A Brand New Tattoo in Eau Claire
So don't tell me that tattoos don't have meaning anymore. You don't know everyone's personal stories. Until you do, keep your speech to yourself.
What it looks like is all people can see about it. They don't know the meaning behind it unless they ask me or I tell them. Otherwise someone might see and think, "Her tattoo doesn't even mean anything. It's just a bird." No. It's not just a bird. Not to me. Same with the flowers. Why this tattoo means so much to me: This tattoo is a Goldfinch with Blue Cosmo flowers. My grandpa (who passed away in 2010) was always watching the birds outside through his picture window. It was something we did together every time I was there. His favorite birds were Goldfinched and Cardinals. I wanted to get something in memory of him and nothing reminds me of him more than the birds. The cosmos? Not typically colored blue, but I wanted a personal touch to theme. Blue is the color of the Chordoma Foundation so I incorporated that color into this tattoo so it means even more to me. It is my grandpa and mom tattoo. It means the world to me. I wouldn't change it for anything. People may see it as just a pretty bird, but to me it's more. And the only person who gets a real say in if my tattoo has meaning or not is me. In January just before my mom went in for surgery, I got another tattoo. When my dad and sister visited her a couple days before the surgery, I had my sister get my mom to write the word 'Persevere' on a piece of paper. When they got back, I took that paper to A Brand New Tattoo and got my fourth tattoo.
So don't tell me that tattoos don't have meaning anymore. You don't know everyone's personal stories. Until you do, keep your speech to yourself.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Lucky Penny Bracelets
Penny Halling truly is a Lucky Penny. She has overcome many obstacles that come with having Chordoma but has maintained a positive attitude.
It has been 22 years since my mom was first diagnosed with Chordoma. They told her 5 years. Not only has she lived longer than anyone guessed, she's done it with a positive attitude. Most of the time I feel like she has more confidence and hope in this situation than I ever did or would. She's pushed through all the surgeries, radiation and negativity by simply hoping for another day, month, year. I look up to her so much. I envy her positivity, her hope, her love. There's nothing that could bring her down.
Bracelets are $3/each. Just let me know if you are interested in buying one. Money raised will be donated to the Chordoma Foundation in honor of Penny Halling.
It has been 22 years since my mom was first diagnosed with Chordoma. They told her 5 years. Not only has she lived longer than anyone guessed, she's done it with a positive attitude. Most of the time I feel like she has more confidence and hope in this situation than I ever did or would. She's pushed through all the surgeries, radiation and negativity by simply hoping for another day, month, year. I look up to her so much. I envy her positivity, her hope, her love. There's nothing that could bring her down.
Bracelets are $3/each. Just let me know if you are interested in buying one. Money raised will be donated to the Chordoma Foundation in honor of Penny Halling.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Lesson #1
When I was just a little girl,
My mother taught me much;
How to love, how to care,
How to reach out and touch.
The thing she wanted me to know,
Runs deeply in my soul,
Was that no matter where I was,
Touching others should be my goal.
Touching others in many ways,
By being the one they could trust,
To help them face their troubled times,
And to sacrifice if I must.
Sacrifice my own time, my resources
And my treasures,
By helping others I would find
A much greater kind of pleasure.
[peph]
My mother taught me much;
How to love, how to care,
How to reach out and touch.
The thing she wanted me to know,
Runs deeply in my soul,
Was that no matter where I was,
Touching others should be my goal.
Touching others in many ways,
By being the one they could trust,
To help them face their troubled times,
And to sacrifice if I must.
Sacrifice my own time, my resources
And my treasures,
By helping others I would find
A much greater kind of pleasure.
[peph]
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Country Love
They strolled down the lane together,
The sky was covered with stars.
They reached the gate in silence
And he lifted, for her, the bars.
She neither smiled nor thanked him,
For she knew not how.
He was a young country lad
And she was a jersey cow.
[peph]
The sky was covered with stars.
They reached the gate in silence
And he lifted, for her, the bars.
She neither smiled nor thanked him,
For she knew not how.
He was a young country lad
And she was a jersey cow.
[peph]
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Penny for Your Thoughts #2
"I do remember talking to her about having something that no one can see and it is frustrating when people don't understand. Neither of us can be cured but we make the most of life. I remember meeting her over at Traci and Rob's after the fire and she was there helping to pick up the pieces that were still good.
-David Koch"
-David Koch"
Penny for Your Thoughts #1
"The first time I brought John home with me, I took him to get your mom and we went to check out the new McDonald's in town. Well, it was Christmas time. Your mom asked if she could where her antler/santa hat. I said, no problem. As we waited in line at McDonald's Penny starts up a conversation with a guy in line. Once we get our food we sit down and she invites over the guy she met in line to sit with us. Well, come to find out, this guy was my step-Grandma's brother. We had great conversation. Then she asked him if she wanted to feel her hat cause she is horny....get it! The hat is a horny antler hat.
Well, after this incident we then meet up with my step-grandma Marlene at the House of Beauty. Marlene was under the dryer getting her hair processed so she couldn't hear well. For some reason Marlene asked if I liked hot sex. She meant Hot Sex the drink but Penny thought it was hilarious and could not stop talking about it all day. By this time my fiance, John, was rolling with laughter too. He was getting a sense of how weird my family was. After that we went to the printing shop to pick up our wedding invites. Where I had to scold Penny because she went behind the counter to say hello to everyone and she wasn't supposed to go there.
John and I remember this story fondly and it always makes us laugh and smile. Your mom is so special to me, she is a gift given to us to see the bright side of each situation and to not take things so seriously.
Hope this makes you laugh too Stacy!
~Trish Chee"
Well, after this incident we then meet up with my step-grandma Marlene at the House of Beauty. Marlene was under the dryer getting her hair processed so she couldn't hear well. For some reason Marlene asked if I liked hot sex. She meant Hot Sex the drink but Penny thought it was hilarious and could not stop talking about it all day. By this time my fiance, John, was rolling with laughter too. He was getting a sense of how weird my family was. After that we went to the printing shop to pick up our wedding invites. Where I had to scold Penny because she went behind the counter to say hello to everyone and she wasn't supposed to go there.
John and I remember this story fondly and it always makes us laugh and smile. Your mom is so special to me, she is a gift given to us to see the bright side of each situation and to not take things so seriously.
Hope this makes you laugh too Stacy!
~Trish Chee"
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