Enlisting Your Help, Please

As if I have not asked you for enough, I am going to ask for your help once again.  The best part about it is I am not going to ask you for any money, but you may help me get to my money goal.

I have 16 days left of my weight loss challenge.  I am going to pass the pound goal I set for myself by a couple of pounds.  “Yeah!” for me and my furniture that has to hold me up.

Right now I have 218 supporting units—now I’m not calling any of you a ‘Unit”, but sometimes a unit is one single person and some times it is a couple and maybe even it could be a whole family.  So I’ve got what in the south would be called “a mess of” people who have pledged to give the Food Bank money when I am done this challenge.  218 units is some kind of incredible and I am thankful to each and every one of you.

After I started this challenge I came up with a secondary goal just to make myself a little crazier than I already was from giving up sugar.  That challenge was to try and raise $50,000, which in Food Bank language would be $500,000 worth of food.  Right now I am on track to raise something like $35,000.  Now that is incredible and I am not really sad, but I really like to reach my goals and I don’t want to fall into some donut laden, cookie filled, cake impacted trough because I failed.

So here is the part where you come in.  I think that Ellen DeGeneres is a pretty generous person it is practically her name.  Maybe if she heard how close the Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC was to getting $50,000 for this challenge she might announce it on her show to get people to pledge in the final hour to the “Less Dana, More Good” campaign.

If you get a minute, drop Ellen a line and ask her to shout out the blog and let’s see if we can get that last $15,000.  I think you can click on the following link and fill in a form.

http://www.ellentv.com/be-on-the-show/10

She is looking for all kind of things that I don’t fit into, like bad paid for photos, or someone that needs a car, or bad Halloween costumes.  None of those things apply here.  But I think if she can hear from a few of you who have already made the commitment to help feed your hungry neighbors she might help us out.

It can’t hurt to ask and I have certainly asked you all for so much, let’s try and get some people who aren’t sick of me to help.