Decided to hold an "opportunity drawing" and poker night

I asked friends on facebook for fund raising ideas and got some great feed back. I decided to hold an "opportunity drawing" (I can't call it a raffle because of some weird rules California has with raffles where you can't do them on-line and LLS wants it to be kosher, of course). I am "selling" entries this week until Feb 28th. People can either go directly to our team page and donate $5 or more (entries are $5 each) or give me the money directly and I will donate it, either way. The drawing will be on March 1st and so far I have a couple Starbucks gift bags and also some of my art for the drawing. I'm going to go tomorrow to Jamba Juice and a few other places and see if I can get donated items for the drawing.

I just began promoting the drawing last night and so far already have 5 people from work participating but I'm hoping to get a lot more. Pay day is Thursday and I already have lots of promises, so we'll see :) I'm also going to LA this weekend so hopefully some of my LA family/friends will participate as well.

I will also be doing a poker night. I haven't totally thought this one through yet and I need to get someone's agreement to have it at their house, but I think it will be a lot of fun. I'm thinking it will be a $10 buy in with snacks provided. I haven't decided on the drinks yet, maybe another $10 if you want to drink? Any suggestions on this would be great.

Otherwise, the art auction is still coming along. I'm working out getting prints made of some of my art work by this weekend. I don't know what's possible but I will do my best. I wish it was a lot easier, it seems to be made more complex than it is. I just want a simple flat art copy, how hard can that be? I actually live next door to a printer so tomorrow we're going to try to do some copies and see how they come out. I hope they come out well, that will be an easy and inexpensive solution.

Training has come a little bit to a halt this week, other than cross training. My husband is out of town and I had to rearrange my schedule to be able to watch the baby in the morning and at night, so I have shorter lunches. I will try to figure out how to squeeze in a run tomorrow but then probably won't get another chance until Saturday. I will at least keep up the cross training :)