I have been put in charge (again, like always) of the Family Readiness Group for 1SG’s Reserve unit. Actually, the entire battalion, not just HHD. Nice huh?

Maybe you don’t know what FRGs do but in a nutshell they’re designed to get families connected and provide resources and information related to the Army, Army Reserve, Benefits, Entitlements, blah, blah blah… It’s a great concept. I think an FRG can be a very good thing. I’ve just never seen it. Hopefully this one will break the mold.

Part of our task as an FRG is to stage events like a Christmas Party and a summer family picnic which takes money. Potentially, it takes lots of money. The problem lies in our fundraising constraints. The rule says that any and all FRG fundraising must be within and among the members of the FRG. We have to keep putting our hand in the same set of pockets if you will. We can’t do bake sales or soup lunches either unless the food is all cooked in the Reserve Center. Asking for outside donations is also out. We can accept them, but we can’t ask for them. Makes total sense, right? Because we all know donors crawl out of the woodwork ALL THE TIME.

So what I am asking from you is for some unique, fun and successful fundraising suggestions. What have groups you’ve been involved with done in the past? I will reward any suggestions we actually use with a $5.00 Starbucks card.

I was all geeked up to blog about the great time-suck known as Facebook but now I’m very frustrated! I wish someone could tell the gods at WordPress and Mozilla what their blog updates have done to Sharp Around the Edges and how it is affecting the fragile mental state of yours truly.

HONESTLY people! It’s called Beta Testing. Now my blog dashboard is all jacked up and in Times Roman font (which I hate and will explain in another blog) and it’s making me insanium. I can’t fix it and it won’t fix itself.

It looks like my plans for today just got made.

1. Fix stupid blog.
2. Take nap
3. Watch tv with the gents this evening.

Go. Me.

Peace

I will admit it is a crappy version of the song but it signifies my current mood. For the last several months, I have focused on what can’t be done instead of what can be done. It’s odd because the way I interact with myself is exactly the opposite of the way I am with any and everyone else. If a friend of mine had my attitude, I’d probably have slapped it out of her.

So starting this minute, instead of thinking about what can’t be done, I’m going to make a conscious effort to be positive. Instead of thinking that there is nothing to do, I’m going to do whatever it takes to convince me that I have 24 hours in a day with ANYTHING to do. That means more blogging ’cause it’s therapeutic and giving more of my energy to Discover Indies and my family because they deserve it.

What do you know? The therapy is working.

Today’s thought: My actions will roar while my words whisper.

Has anyone seen my mojo? Honestly I was a little embarrassed to see that I hadn’t actually gotten a post to publish in two months. I could blame Firefox or WordPress because the instigator of this entire bloggy collapse was a WordPress Update that screwed up my dashboards in Firefox. I spent more time trying to fix the stupid thing and now I’ve just switched to stupid IE8.

I have a whole list of stuff I plan on writing about and I will also take requests. Thanks for stopping by. I missed you.