Fair Information

The Self Injury Awareness Day Informational Fair has been set.  It's going to be in Norwich, CT (401 West Thames St., Bldg 301) on February 26, 2010 from 10 a.m. -2 p.m. and on March 1, 2010 in Hartford, CT (Legislative Office Building Concourse) from 10 a.m. -2 p.m.  A Facebook Event Has been set up and is here.  Feel free to share the information with people.  


The Fair in Hartford will be on the actual Self Injury Awareness Day.

That Time of Year Again

Yep, it's that time of year again. Time to get to work on the Self Injury Awareness Day Informational Fair. This is the 4th year that my roommate Robbyn and I are working on this fair.  This year though we're branching out and doing 2 of them.  One on 2/26 and one on 3/1 (the actual Self Injury Awareness Day).  In some ways it'll be double the work and other ways the same amount.  Needless to say, it'll be hectic.

What a summer!It’s been one of those odd summers here. I swear July had to go down ad the coldest and wettest on record. It was definitley cooler and wetter than I ever remember it being. On the bright side, the Self Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) bill got signed by the Governor. It (SIAD) was actually in with a bunch of other days fo rhte bill and got passed by the state senate with les than 2 hours to go in the session. It then took about another month to get it signed. It’s signed though. That makes us the only state to have SIAD on the books.



At the end of May I sprained my ankle. I did it good this time. At the ER they weren’t sure if I broke it and ruled it out by asking if I’ve ever injured it before. My regular doc had it MRI’ed. I ended up in PT for it. Otherwise things have been going well.

3rd year in a row

So, came home from knitting and went to the mailbox. Next thing Robbyn knows I'm giving my excited yell. Why? There was a nice big brownish flat envelope from the Governor's office in our mailbox. We put a proclamation request in a couple weeks ago for Self Injury Awareness Day as we have done for the past few years, since 2006 to be exact. We have gotten it granted for the third year in a row. We didn't get it the first year.




So, we're good for the year. This gives us time for the bill to get through legislation. The differnece between the bill and the proclamation is that with the proclamation we have to ask for it yearly. With the bill (that's if it gets passed) it would be yearly automatically.

What a week

It's been one of those weeks I'll tell you. Between rescheduling the Self injury Awareness Day Informational Fair (SIAD), doing a new website for SIAD, cancelling this months board meeting, finding out one friend might be dying of chirrosis of the liver and another having a 90% of cancer I don't know which end is up.




The one that might be dying of chirrosis is an alcoholic and was just/is in the hospital for internal bleeding. The friend that might have cancer had a biopsy yesterday and we're waiting for the results now. This one is a good friend of mine and I'm really scared for her. At least tomorrow's saturday so I can get together with my knitting group.