Tuesday 4 Trevor

Posted on November 23, 2010 by ThePeachy1 in It's Juicy, Peachy Advice, The Peachy Tree

Hi guys I know this is usually the day of the week I toss out non advice but not today.

Today as you are making plans for Thanksgiving I need to borrow a second of your time.

Whether you are cringing at or bouncing from the thought of seeing all of the Holiday people I hope we might all take a second to put ourselves in these shoes.

There’s a cool little guy named Trevor and here’s the story.

If you read nothing else I write or nothing else anywhere today please take the time to read this. Due to extremely grave circumstance with a friend of mine last year 2 states away I met a lovely lady named Heather via facebook but never in real life. She worked with the husband of my friend, and reached out to him, his work, and my friends 3 children she had never met. She is not a blogger but I can vouch for the year I have known her on FB that she is certainly an exceptional, human being. She went above and beyond time and time again to go out of her way to help the family even though she had never met my friend or the kids.

Now in a horrible twist of fate I bring you Trevors story via his loving cousin Heather.

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“My 12 year old cousin, Trevor B, is going to be having heart surgery on Nov 30^that UAB. He began having issues last year while playing baseball and it was discovered that he has hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy . It is a very scary procedure and there is a chance that he will not make it. If he does make it through the surgery he will be dealing with this for the rest of his life.

“Trevor will be in the hospital for quite some time (ICU for at least 7 days and another 7 days in a regular room at minimum). I am getting up a care package for my cousin (Todd B) and Trevor’s mom (Terra). I wanted to reach out to you guys first to ask that you pray for Trevor and his family in the coming weeks”

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Ok people this means a 13 ( birthday) year old boy whose adventure in this world is just beginning is not only stuck in ICU isolated, far from home, loved ones and team mates but he is facing a life that will pretty much remove his love of participating in sports.

We know this world can suck, and bad things happen to good people and children become ill every day. It’s not right it’s not fair, but there is nothing we can do about it usually.

This time you can. I am asking, actually begging for you to send Trevor a card, if you have little kids let them make Trevor a card. If you can get your local High School Football, baseball or basket ball team to send a group card or picture with their autographs( which makes high schoolers feel super cool) EVEN better. If you have age appropriate books you are looking to get rid of, or happen to know someone who is an athlete that would ROCK.

I fully understand that right now the economy is in the trash and a lot of people are living paycheck to paycheck. I would NEVER ask anyone to do without to donate to someone they haven’t met. But I do ask that if you can, even $1 would make a difference. His parents costs to be near him 24/7 are approaching $1500 a week, and the type of parents Trevor has are a blessing because they are THOSE type of parents that wouldn’t leave little guy alone even if it met sleeping in the bushes to do it.

I have 380+ Twitter Followers, 1290 Face Book Friends, and between the 2 blogs I am guessing around 500 visitors a week. If each one of you sends just $1 and just 1/2 of you send a card. Imagine the support and love Trevor and his family would receive. I have watched the internet and social media do so much good for so many people.

If you can’t swing a card, a minimal donation or a small token, I understand, if this is your case I ask you to get with your higher power whatever it is, and send good thoughts to Trevor. If you can think of him during your Thanksgiving supper and send out a silent thought that’s fine, it will make a difference.

I have never met Trevor. Clearly that is my loss, the more I learn the more I find out what an awesome little guy he is.

Mail everything to his Cousin, Heather, she will be handling the mail and taking bundles over. I say bundles because I am optimistic that social media will indeed come through. I am not a power blogger or a famous person. I am just a chick thankful she was able to enjoy her youth and make huge mistakes and live on the edge, who turned into a Mom even more thankful, it’s not my 3 kids in there, with my world on it’s head scrambling as my heart breaks to let my child know he is loved and does matter and so many people care.

If you can donate anything even $1.00 like I said before it will be so appreciated by those that know and love him and of course by me more than you will ever know.

Last year my little Prince was 8, he told me to use the money I saved up for his Christmas to go help my friend. He said he had his mom and dad for Christmas my friends kids didn’t. This year he wants to pay it forward to Trevor. Yes my 9 year old informed me today even though he only asked for 2 things for Christmas to either give them the money I would have spent on one of those or to send the gift to Trevor. I spend every day in awe of my Prince who 10 Dr’s said would probably never survive, who was supposed to stay in NICU for months on end, who shows more compassion, understanding and humanity than most adults I have ever met.

If you are a blogger and willing to participate in a blog post for Trevor please let me know via email beingpeachy@gmail.com

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You can click on the paypal secure link below to do a donation to help with costs associated with Trevors hospitalization.

From the bottom of my heart I thank you for reading along and hope you are moved to reach out with whatever you are comfortable doing.

xo

PEACH OUT

This page 4 Trevor will stay on my site until the new year, please link to it or copy it or tweet/share/ whatever lets get the word out and make a difference. Click here to go to that page.

All bloggers doing a post, or placing one of Trevors cool badges on their site ( you can see them on my right ad space) please go ahead and log in on Mr Linky !

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Moronic Monday- Turkeyfest09

Posted on November 22, 2010 by ThePeachy1 in Moronic Mondays

HI my name is ThePeachy1 and I am a moron.

If you hare having Turkey might I suggest you go ahead and buy that today. There is of course a reason I say this, I don’t just go throwing suggestions out all willy nilly.

I always over cook for all holidays, invite everyone, including strangers and military people I don’t know who may be all alone. It’s my thing. I have always done it. I never have less than 6 people but could have up to 25 or 30 any given holiday. Everyone is always welcome, it’s a serious production and I cook for days to prepare. But in 2004 I started having funky undiagnosed medical issues, in 2005 Hurricanes kicked our financial butt and we have been working hard to recover but not quite making it. In 2008 my daughter moved out for college in 2009 my son had moved out. I took both of these events really hard and they happened within 50 days of me founding out what my medical problems were, which was just not good news on any level.On top of all our family issues, one of my long time friends had just suffered a serious major medical issue and it was touch and go in ICU and I worried about her and her young family although I was helpless and heartbroken. To say the holiday mood just wasn’t upon me would be an understatement.

No one else in the family ever cared if I had the HUMONGO event I always thought I needed, in fact they usually rolled their eyes and avoided me acting like I tortured them into being there. Honestly it was my own neurotic we HAVE to have a tradition mental status that drove it, and I just didn’t have it in me last year.

The day before Thanksgiving my daughter shows up and then my mom calls. OH holy bat turds. You mean I have to climb out of my pity party and pull this off again folks? Also I need to do it on a budget of -42.57 well this is just already smelling of sparkly awesome.

I slipped off my proverbial pity party water wings and did some financial magic tricks. ( you know that proverbial money tree the husband and kids think you have, yeah it involved that.) Against my better judgement I bothered to get out of my pajamas and actually went to the store to buy a turkey.

There are a few problems with buying a turkey on the night before Thanksgiving.

#1- You know you will have issues thawing it

#2- There might be a limited selection

#3- combine 1 and 2 and you get holy craptastic bird day folks they only have hypothermic birds that a only second mortgage can purchase and they aren’t available in any store located in my state.

so for your math people that’s 1+2= your screwed. ( there may or may not be a test )

I finally at the 3rd store found a bird but it cost more than my vehicle. I kept looking, store number 4 was a waste of time but I got a twix bar and mt dew to rejuvenate me in battle, because they were straight up out of double mocha latte Valium. The 5th store I found a bird, although he was roughly frozen to the solidity state of a cannon ball he was less than the cost of a bionic arm so I bought him. But not before I dropped him and actually cracked the tile on the supermarket floor. Sorry about that unnamed store that was me. Well actually it was your bird and therefore your bad. I blame you since you should have had it somewhat thawed by Thanksgiving eve your a bunch of shatards and obviously deserve broken floor tile.

So by 6pm I am home with a bird that there is no hopes of thawing and cooking for 1pm feast in just 17 hours. Panic + Vodka = Epiphany. ( that is math question number 2, well sort of, it’s a word problem but it has math symbols so I guess it’s higher math or something.)

I threw the bird in the hot tub and turned on the jets. I sat and watched him spin head over nubby little would be feet and figured I would drain then bleach and possibly burn the hot tub afterwards. See I have this aversion to poultry. Kind of like my aversion to bugs. If I see a bug I will go to any lengths to make sure it and anything it touched pays dearly. With poultry, I have to bleach repeatedly anything that could have touched it, or throw it away.

I wasn’t sure if it would work. Would this sexy hunk of arctic poultry thaw. Would it reach a temperature that bred some bacteria that would send us all to the ICU with some funky butt explosion disease? Was I going to run out of Vodka before this damn bird finished spinning missing head over butt ?

So the long and short. It worked, the Turkey was tender, and juicy and yummy. In the culinary world it would have been described as very relaxed. But wouldn’t you be after 5 hours in the hot tub?

It was cooked and served on time. I was thankful that my family through all their years of faining eye rolls and acting like they hated my tradition actually wanted and expected it. I was Thankful that I was physically capable of gathering and making Thanksgiving dinner. I spent Thanksgiving bleaching the hot tub and being Thankful I had found a stinking turkey and had a hot tub to thaw the damn thing out in. I also found it’s spinning very hypnotizing, or it could have been the vodka, not sure.

So go forth and win the epic battle of Monday knowing your not alone in your journey of suck, you are in good company. Me and my Local news.. Ok partially good company.

Peach Out…

Funny Stuff Friday-nearly there

Posted on November 19, 2010 by ThePeachy1 in Funny Stuff Friday

Hey people Happy Friday ! Let’s get a little laugh shall we?

this is not mine I received it in an email

this isn't mine either not sure who sent it in

Some things can not be unseen.. Just sayin…

obviously not mine either. my emails are great.

Have a great weekend people. I lurve ya like imported German chocolates filled with real like ( as in I found some of those at the store yesterday and will be going on a chocolate binge.)