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Every 38 Seconds…

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Today, I wanted to dedicate my blog to an awesome family that lives right around the corner from me, Charlie Haughey and his family. I’m going to let his mother, Julie tell you guys what they are up to…

“I am writing you today to ask for your support of an incredibly important organization, CureSearch for Children’s Cancer. As you may know, my son Charlie was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma on December 24, 2009. Three days later he celebrated his 3rd birthday and began 14 months of very aggressive treatment at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Your generous donation supports CureSearch for Children’s Cancer, a national non-profit foundation whose mission is to fund and support children’s cancer research and provide information and resources to all those affected by children’s cancer. CureSearch raises funds for collaborative research conducted at more than 175 hospitals across the nation, including CHOP. These hospitals participate in National Cancer Institute sponsored clinical trials conducted by the Children’s Oncology Group. In the last 40 years, collaborative research has increased the overall survival rate for children’s cancer from 10% to 78%. At CureSearch, our goal is 100%.

Two years ago, I ran the New York Marathon with Team CureSearch. This year, I have chosen to join CureSearch in their fight for a cure by participating in The CureSearch Walk. The CureSearch Walk celebrates and honors children, like Charlie, whose lives have been affected by children’s cancer, while raising funds for lifesaving research. I have set an aggressive fundraising goal, because all children living with cancer and those who have lost their fight deserve it. Please consider making a donation to my campaign – there is no gift too big or too small.

Thank you for your support. I can promise that you are making a difference in the lives of all those affected by children’s cancer. Together, we can Reach the Day when every child with cancer is guaranteed a cure.

With hope and gratitude,

Julie Haughey”

To donate to CureSearch for Children’s Cancer, please use this link.

 

Do something good today folks. A Child Dies From Childhood Cancer Every 38 Seconds. Who is ready to stand with this brave family? Make a difference today.

Movie Reviews…

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – there’s only two reasons you want to see this movie… either you’re 12 or you would pay money to watch Johnny Depp do anything. Or both I guess.

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busy day, go!

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

Very busy day today – two soccer games, lots of coding work to be done, going to Christine Dougherty‘s book signing at the Carriage Trade Cheese Shoppe, and then going to Wasabi for my Aunt Cis’ birthday dinner.

Oh, we discovered that Titan, for some reason is afraid of brooms…

Movie Review…

Win Win - loved this movie. Great script and I really appreciate flawed heroes like Paul Giamatti’s character.

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what matters most

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

I am beaming with pride. My son nearly got a perfect score on his presentation yesterday!  Way to go Bubs! He came home, burst into my office screaming my name with his grade in his hand and gave me a big, big hug. Hopefully, we can afford to celebrate this weekend – you deserve it big guy.

Tomorrow, I will be helping out during field day for Viv. It’s gonna be hot out there, but we will have fun.

Those two things I just mentioned, plus my gorgeous lady… I can’t tell you how grateful and happy I am right now. Even after a hellacious day yesterday repairing code and data for a customer (not my fault) and waking up to a very unhappy email from another customer (this one was a bit more on me) – the perspective of what is truly important kept my head on straight and allowed me to access both situations and respond. Both customers are up and running and I think my response time was definitely note-worthy.

On top of taking care of some emergencies, I was stood up for a very important meeting this morning – which will be fine. The prospective client had an unavoidable emergency to tend to, and they saw that I was prompt, profusely apologized for missing the meeting, and I am confident I will get their business.

But in all of these setbacks, I kept the emotion out of my responses and just got the job done – because I did my best to put myself in their shoes and concentrated on doing a good job for Abbe and my kids to be proud of me. And although getting paid is important, their love is what matters most.

Look Inside And You’ll See
When You’ve Got So Much To Say
It’s Called Gratitude, And That’s Right

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meh

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

Bubs has been working on his presentation (due tomorrow) for about 4 weeks now and supposedly he has been researching his hero, Chase Utley that entire time. But yesterday prior to ice hockey, he ran through his notes as a check for material and his 5 minute speech was only two and a half. I reviewed his notes and pointed out the areas he really needs to expand. As expected he talked a lot about Chase’s accomplishments on the field rather than the whole point of picking him as a hero – he has used his fame to help the community.

Abbe and I are going to help Bubs get his index cards together and help him practice his speech after school today. I’m really concerned with him doing well on this project. I keep drilling the idea of writing everything down, but he had no idea what outlining his presentation meant (this was supposed to have been covered in class), his notes were a complete mess, and his organization of everything was woeful. I know this is a prime example of the independent thought that needs to be encouraged, but when the written instructions were so brief – it really makes me nervous. I want my son to do well. He’s worked so darn hard this year – I want him to end it on a strong note going into 5th grade.

After a stressful afternoon of working with him on the project (and helping him re-study for his Language Arts test that is today), I got a slew of emails that through my already amped up worry into overdrive. I had to re-invoice a customer. I needed to re-work a MySQL user defined function into PHP code (because contrary to popular belief, although stored procedures and all those cool data object types exist in MySQL – they suck performance-wise). And then… it was like the clouds cleared a bit… Bubs and I went to hockey practice… ahh…. (that’s Bubs in the orange and white socks and the wooden Louisville given to him by his soon-to-be Uncle Ben)… oh but one last stressful thing, Bubs forgot his hockey gloves. They needed to be replaced anyway, but there went another $50… so he’s also wearing a pair of brand new Bauer gloves in the pic too…

So we have more work to do Bubs, but we’ll get there buddy. And hey, we have a make-up hockey practice tonight again too – just don’t think about forgetting any more equipment on the way to the rink, Daddy is broke!

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new additions

Friday, May 6th, 2011

Well, she’s here…. oh yes. The iPad2 arrived a day early and I have to say – it’s pretty awesome. I haven’t had much time to play with it as of yet, but I already have started using it for it’s intended purpose, checking iOS compliant web code for that big cool project I mentioned yesterday.

Another new resident arrived at Casa Kapeghian last night too, meet Swimmy – Viv’s brand new betta (this was her choice for a report card prize)…

But along with those two nice additions to the house, the joy/check engine light just turned on… crap! Time to take my ride back to Chad!

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