The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (i.e. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (i.e. represent some amount of work on my part).

This project was taken from Triplux.

I completed my first 101 in 1001 on September 15, 2008!

The things that I say I want to MAINTAIN will be counted as completed if they are maintained for at least two months. I figure that if I maintain something for at least that long, then it’ll be habit.

Tasks I have completed will be struck through and a completion date will be listed that is linked to a post about the completion of that task. Tasks that I have begun will be italicized and a beginning date will be listed.

Started: September 15, 2008
Due Date: June 13, 2011
Tasks Completed: 48
Tasks Remaining: 53

1. Make this list of 101 things to do in 1001 days. If anything was left incomplete from my previous 101 in 1001, then figure out why I didn’t do it, and see if I can rework the goal. If so, it has to be on this list (these items have a ** in front of them). Completed 9/15/08

Religious
2. Join a small group/women’s Bible study.
3. Start writing again at Reading Red Letters and MAINTAIN it. Completed 12/26/09
4. Find a church home wherever I move to after school. Completed 12/26/09
5. Read at least 10 books by C. S. Lewis.
6. MAINTAIN regular daily prayer time. Begun 12/15/09
7. **Plan a religious fast and complete said fast (probably 3 days, but that’s flexible).
8. **Read the Bible from beginning to end.

Family/Friends

9. Send Christmas cards in a timely fashion in 2008. Completed 12/30/08
10. Send Christmas cards in a timely fashion in 2009. Completed 12/26/09
11. Send Christmas cards in a timely fashion in 2010. Completed 12/15/10
12. **Go to a concert with Daddy. Completed 8/15/09

Health
13. Get serious about meal planning and menus
14. Start and MAINTAIN drinking 8 glasses of water a day.
15. Get professionally fitted for a bra at a store that sells bras in my size. Completed 8/28/09
16. Learn to eat at least 3 new fruits and vegetables (doing this one again).
17. **Start and MAINTAIN regular exercise.
18. **Reach my weightloss goal and MAINTAIN it.
19. **Start and MAINTAIN regular flossing. Completed 10/28/09
20. **Get my stomach into fit enough condition so that a pierced bellybutton won’t look ridiculous (and if I keep my courage, actually pierce the bellybutton – but even if I don’t go through with it, the option is nice to have).
21. **MAINTAIN taking vitamins regularly.
22. **MAINTAIN monthly breast self exams.

School
23. Find an internship. Completed 3/23/09
24. Complete my graduate thesis. Completed 5/5/10
25. Graduate from UNCSA. Completed 5/29/10

Career

26. Find a job upon graduating. Completed 7/19/10
27. File paperwork for LLC for virtual assistant business and become OFFICIAL. Completed 8/28/09
28. Have at least 6 clients for Tizzy Consulting.
29. Find a new format for my resume and rework it. Completed 11/8/08

Financial

30. Become financially independent from my parents.
31. Save $5 a day and deposit into my savings account (doing this one again).
32. Contribute every month to saving for a house down payment.
33. Fully fund Roth IRA in 2008. Completed 12/31/08
34. Fully fund Roth IRA in 2010.
35. Create a budget which allows me to give 10% to church and charity.
36. MAINTAIN using coupons as I grocery shop when able (many organic products do not get coupons).

Travel

37. Get a new car – and I’m the one paying for it. Completed 4/11/09
38. Visit Alaska.
39. Take another cruise.
40. See New York City when it’s decorated for Christmas. Completed 12/8/08
41. Travel to a different country.
42. Go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter once it opens.
43. **Take a vacation to Atlanta with Mama – go shopping and see an exhibit at the High Museum. Completed 1/26/09
44. **Travel to Washington, D.C. At least see major monuments, the White House, and the Smithsonian. Completed 7/10/10
45. **Mount all my hat pins somehow (this replaces the previous “buy nice map and put a push-pin in every place I’ve been”)

Personal Betterment
46. Perform 10 random acts of kindness to complete strangers (0/10).
47. Have more involved communication with my sponsored child.
48. Get up the minute that the alarm goes off every day for a month.
49. Give blood if eligible (attempting to do this one again). Completed 9/10/09
50. Write a personal mission statement.
51. Wear makeup every day for a month. Completed 5/1/09
52. Write “to be read” letters to selected people (letters to be read upon my death by the people who mean the most to me). Completed 10/15/10
53. Pay for the person behind me at a fast food drive thru (doing this one again). Completed 12/1/10
54. Write a book.
55. **Stop biting fingernails.
56. **Update my journal and MAINTAIN it.

Organize/Purge

57. Organize, file, and store all my notes/keepsakes from my graduate classes. Completed 10/1/10
58. Move a large portion of my items stored at my parents’ house to my place. Completed 8/15/09
59. Sell, donate, give, or throw away 101 items (doing this one again). Completed 3/27/09
60. Create a filing system for all paperwork and MAINTAIN it. Completed 1/1/11
61. Sort through all clothing three times. Completed 10/7/10
62. Sort through all of my books and BookCross or give away a LARGE amount (at least 50). Completed 3/27/09
63. Rearrange books so that they truly are according to the Library of Congress system. Completed 6/30/09
64. **Finish entering all my books into a database. Completed 5/25/09
65. FLY. Begun 3/22/09

Technology
66. Write 500 blog posts (more attainable than 1001). (163/500) Begun 9/15/08
67. Participate in Blogathon 2009 Completed 7/26/09
68. Participate in Blogathon 2010 Completed 7/16/10
69. Participate in Blog Action Day 2008 Completed 10/15/08
70. Participate in Blog Action Day 2009 Completed 10/15/09
71. Participate in Blog Action Day 2010 Completed 10/15/10
72. Participate in NaNoWriMo Completed 12/1/10
73. Build up a decent audio/visual system. Completed 6/17/10
74. Start a system for regularly backing up my computer(s) and MAINTAIN it. Completed 5/1/10
75. Complete an email purge of all unnecessary old emails. Completed 5/12/10

Entertainment

76. Read through my A-Z Challenge.
77. Join local library. Completed 8/28/09
78. Decrease my LibraryThing TBR tags by at least 71 books (to less than 262 books, which was 50% of my books when I moved to Atlanta).
79. Re-read all the Harry Potter books.
80. Re-read all the Star Wars books.
81. Read at least 150 books (40/150).
82. Reach a Gamerscore of at least 3,000 on XBox360 (currently at 2,160).
83. Go see a famous jazz musician/group in concert. Completed 2/22/11
84. See a Cirque du Soleil show I haven’t seen (doing this one again). Completed 11/21/10
85. Go see a movie at the movie theater alone. Completed 8/30/09
86. See an opera. Completed 4/16/10
87. **Complete The Sims 2 Legacy Challenge. Completed 9/15/09
88. **Finish clearing my previous Netflix queue. (344/494) Begun 12/19/05
89. **Read 75% of the list of books that my friends have sent me. (24/85) Begun 12/19/05
90. **Watch 90% of the Greatest Films in 101 Things to Do Before You Die. (102/119) Begun 12/19/05
91. **See 100% of AFI top 100 movies. (81/100) Begun 12/19/05
92. **See 75% of Entertainment Weekly’s top 100 movies. (58/75) Begun 12/19/05

In the Kitchen
93. Rework my chocolate chip cookies recipe so that it is healthier.
94. **Learn to use cast iron skillets without messing up the seasoning.
95. **Find and make a good cheese fondue recipe (may require several tries).

Just for Fun
96. Find some attractive skirts that I can wear daily (not just on special occasions) and wear them! Completed 10/28/09
97. Complete a New York Times crossword (any day of the week)
98. Be super silly – take Oprah’s product recommendation. Completed 5/2/09
99. **Learn to drive a stick shift.
100. **Win something (anything) from a lottery ticket.

101. On June 13, 2011, publish a new 101 in 1001.

• 12/18/2005 -- 101 in 1001 – 67.33% Complete
• 7/19/2006 -- About
• 7/27/2008 -- Longest Meme Ever (Day of Blogs ’08 #32)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn & Hal Iggulden
Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris
The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan
Einstein by Walter Isaacson
The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
The Weight Loss Cure They Don’t Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Women & Money by Suze Orman (I own it in PDF format)
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
The Reagan Diaries by Ronald Reagan

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• 7/27/2008 -- Longest Meme Ever (Day of Blogs ’08 #32)
• 7/26/2008 -- Recycled Reading Meme (Day of Blogs ’08 #17)
• 7/26/2008 -- Another Book Meme (Day of Blogs ’08 #12)

• 9/15/2008 -- 101 in 1001 #2 – 47.52% Complete
• 7/26/2008 -- Top of Amazon in 2007 (Day of Blogs ’08 #20)
• 12/29/2006 -- Thursday Thirteen #35

This is a problem! Why did I lose my motivation? I was doing well, and all of a sudden it just seems like too much effort.

Does anyone have any advice or tips to offer me? How do you keep your motivation? HELP ME!!!

• 7/19/2006 -- About
• 12/18/2005 -- 101 in 1001 – 67.33% Complete
• 7/26/2008 -- Recycled Reading Meme (Day of Blogs ’08 #17)

She was not a celebrity. She was not a model. She was a real girl with a very real disease that killed her. Anorexia (ana) and bulimia (mia) are NOT to be tolerated!

Please pray for those who have been taken by these diseases, and for those who still have a chance to live, if only they get the help they need. And spread the word – eating disorders are real, and the miserable weight-obsessed culture that we live in (and value!) are killing our women.

• 7/27/2008 -- Longest Meme Ever (Day of Blogs ’08 #32)
• 7/19/2006 -- About
• 9/15/2008 -- 101 in 1001 #2 – 47.52% Complete

Sorry for the late posting. I don’t really have many specific New Year’s resolutions because I am working on my 101 in 1001 – and I’m more than 40% through it! I’m right on track with the amount of time I have left, so that is very exciting! However, I do have a few clarifications about some of the goals in my 101 in 1001 . . .

1. #5 on my list is to officially join the Episcopal Church. So far I haven’t done this because I’m never home at the time that they’re offering the courses. I’m going to make a serious effort to see if I can somehow work that out this year.

2. #50 is to sponsor a child. This was actually one of the first things I completed. However, I would like to become more involved, so a resolution of mine is to try and maintain regular written correspondence with my child.

3. #47 is to stop biting my fingernails. This is one of the things that is the hardest on my list . . . I’ve been biting my fingernails for 22 years! I had stopped at one point my freshman year, but then I started to date a guy who bit HIS nails, and that got me started back again, and it’s only gotten worse since. However, Mama recently told me about something that she heard on the radio. One guy said that biting your fingernails is an addiction just as bad as smoking (which I think is probably true – no chemical dependency, but mentally . . . geez). The way that HE stopped was one finger at a time. He was allowed to bite the nails on 9 fingers, but not the tenth. Then 8 fingers. 7. All the way until he was down to only being allowed to bite one nail. And he said it took him a loooong time to get off that finger, but when he did it he had completely kicked the habit.

I’m starting with my right thumb. Here’s hoping.

4. Since I haven’t made much headway on reading the books for #76 and #87, I’m going to try and keep a list of the books I’m reading this year here on my blog. Hopefully that will make me a little more accountable!

5. To aid in my reading the Bible for #4 I have just purchased the The One Year Bible Companion: Questions and Answers to Help You Make the Most of Your Daily Bible Reading. It leads you through reading the Bible in a year – every day a little New Testament, a little Old Testament, and some Proverbs and Psalms. And this version of the book has questions and things. I like it !

6. To go with SEVERAL of my health 101′s I am going to continue further implementation of FlyLady‘s principles. While her main thing is cleaning, decluttering, and organizing, everything is built on routines, something that I have found is leading me to healthier eating and (gasp!) daily exercise!! Through the FlyLady way and through her book Body Clutter: Love Your Body, Love Yourself I am going to work to have a healthier lifestyle. And if that gets in place, the weight will come off !

7. #27 is to get a job. Now that I am no longer in grad school, this is priority numero uno for the new year!

8. As listed in #42, I want to begin creatively writing again. In the past month or so, I’ve actually felt like I think I can do this soon. I’m slowly working on ideas for a new book, and I’m excited that my little creative spark might be ready to go after a looong hiatus!

9. My books are out of control. I’ve got my closet cleaned, so it’s time for the next step! Not only will this help me declutter and make my room more pleasant, but it will help me through reading my books AND it will get me to the point where I can add them to a database (#56). Lots of goodies rolled into one.

10. I am revamping #61 a bit. Up until now it has said “Get Mama’s bead business online.” While I would still LOVE to do that, it appears as though my big resolution from last year is not going to be completed by the end of the year. However, I don’t consider this to be a complete failure. Mama isn’t ready to go online. However, I have helped her to figure out a system for keeping track of her records, which is just as valuable as getting the business online. I’m not sure when we’ll be able to get her online, but I can help her get completely organized . . . taking inventory of probably somewhere near a million beads. This is just as big a task as getting her online, and it’s something that I have more control over. I don’t want to push her into going online if she’s not ready just so I can complete my list. So, the new #61 is “Get Mama’s beads inventoried and make the inventory something she can easily work with daily.”

11. If I plan on writing 1001 blog posts on this blog and Reading Red Letters in time, I need to get busy or #75 won’t happen!

12. Now that I am getting a little control over my life and I am establishing routines, I am cooking a lot more, so I am really hoping to get my “In the Kitchen” goals completed this year.

13. And one resolution that isn’t addressed in my 101 in 1001. When I was younger I had a little bit of an environmentalist in me, and I pushed that aside when I turned 13 because it made me “uncool” – yeah, such is middle school. Then when I was in high school and college I was so super busy that I didn’t even consider making time for caring about the earth. But as I’ve been out of school and have slowly started to become “a grownup” (like that will ever happen), I’m realizing that this is something that is a part of me. I am going to work on green living this year, and try to conserve and reuse whenever possible. I’m researching cleaning products and clothing lines, as well as how we can make up for energy expenditures. I’ll be posting more about these things throughout the year, and hopefully I will have started some great new habits by the time we get to next year’s resolutions!

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• 12/18/2005 -- 101 in 1001 – 67.33% Complete
• 9/15/2008 -- 101 in 1001 #2 – 47.52% Complete
• 6/15/2006 -- Thursday Thirteen #45

After taking scary before pictures, I took the overflowing crate of textbooks and the foot and a half stack of binders and handouts and sorted through them. I’m not in school anymore, so I was able to get rid of all but one or two textbooks and I condensed all the papers and stuff into one binder – not bad, LOL! Next, I moved my bookcase (and all the stacks of books) out of the closet and into my room next to my other bookcase. As you can see, I know what my next project is going to be – the book situation is a problem, LOL!

Since I moved my bookcase out, I then had to do something with those boxes that were previously in the bookcase’s new home. The ones that are related to my business I moved into storage – it’s so nice not to have those sitting there everyday staring at me. Instead I get all my wonderful books. Yay!

The two boxes on the bottom, however, had to go into the closet where the bookcase was. One of them is work-related stuff to which I need regular access, and the other is a box of all my techno-stuff . . . the manuals, the software CDs, the spare cables, etc. This was a nightmare, and while it was a contained nightmare in its fun little box I knew that there was some serious organizing to be had:

More on this in a bit – first I needed to assess the closet situation as a whole.

When I moved the books out of the closet they had cobwebs all over them, so I knew that I needed to pull EVERYTHING out of the closet and give the closet itself some cleaning. There wasn’t enough room in my bedroom to pull everything out, so I had to put it all in the living room:

What a nightmare! Well, at least it made sorting through things easier – it was all pulled out, so I could actually see what I owned!

I sorted through my shoes and was able to get it down to one pair per cubbyhole, and I’m gonna go with the replacement theory on this one – from now on, if I want a pair of shoes, I have to get rid of a pair of shoes!

Then I went through my clothes. I didn’t do a huge overhaul at this time, I just pulled out things that I knew I would never wear – some knit tops, a few things that I know will never look good on me, regardless of weightloss, and several sorority t-shirts that I know I won’t wear anymore. I also sorted through all my sweaters, and quickly assessed that I would need a better system for keeping them organized. This rack seemed like a great organizing solution!

I sorted through my purses and was able to get rid of half! I took the remaining purses and put them in the crate that used to have all the textbooks in it. Not the most attractive storage container, but it was the right size, and I already owned it, LOL! No sense in spending money if I don’t need to! And it’s so nice to have them in a container since they are higher up – I don’t have to pull down 80 bazillion things to find what I’m looking for, I just take down the crate, pick out the purse I want, and put the crate back into its nice little home!

NOW I was able to get to that large box of techno-stuff! I carefully sorted things in to piles – cables, software, manuals, etc. I was amazed at how much had accumulated! I was able to get rid of over half of the cords (because honestly, we have cable internet, and we use a wireless router – I didn’t need all the telephone and ethernet cables that seem to come with every new computer product), some of the old software that I don’t use anymore, and some old telephones (we have Vonage now). There were also a ton of backup disks that are obsolete now that I have an external hard drive that does regular backups. Imagine my surprise when not only was I able to condense the tech stuff, but I was able to fit it all into a box that was HALF the size of the previous box!!!

Talk about gaining some space! I knew I’d have more room, but if you had told me that I would be able to put it all into that small box, I would have just laughed at you! In this case, yay for being wrong!

Now that the majority of the STUFF was organized it was time to get down and dirty with the clothes. About once a year I sort through my clothes and get rid of things, but it usually amounts to a few shirts, a pair of jeans, and a sweater or two. This time, as I pulled everything out and looked at each individual piece, I thought hard about when was the last time I wore it. How it looks when it’s on my body. If the color is a good color for me. I used the principles that I’ve learned from a recent discovery, MissusSmartyPants, LOL!

MissusSmartyPants is a clothing consultant – you send her a picture of yourself and she helps you figure out what clothes will fit you the best. I am amazed at how right she is. She has detailed directions for what are the essential wardrobe basics and on how to do a true, thorough closet purge. By using her methods I was able to get rid of almost 2/3 of the clothes in my closet . . . and still feel like I’m able to dress well every day! I came to realize that I only wear 1/3 to 1/2 of my clothes on a regular basis anyways . . . the rest are just sitting there reminding me of one particular occasion, or of a thinner weight. Her recommendations have also helped me to figure out what styles and cuts of clothing work the best for me, so I know that in the future when I go shopping I will be able to buy clothes that will fit me well, look great on me, and get worn on a regular basis! I let a couple of my friends sort through my clothes and take what they wanted, and the rest I am giving to our housekeeper (see #6). The rest of my giveaway things went in 2 carloads to Goodwill.

Yay for not only getting rid of all that unnecessary clothing, but having things organized in a way that I know I will use them! I also read on her website a tip from another client – I’ve taken all my clothes for this time of the year and grouped them together. Then I turned all the hangers around so that the hook is going the opposite direction on the rack. Then, as I wear things I will put the hook back the way it’s supposed to be. At the end of the season I’ll be able to see what I DIDN’T wear because the hook will still be backwards. If I know what I haven’t worn, then I know what I should consider getting rid of. Sounds brilliant to me!

With all the clothes weeded through, all the junk sorted through and organized (or in a different home) I was able to see the greatest asset of all – the closet itself. I have a huge closet. I always knew this, but I didn’t know what to do with it. I got the lightbulb changed so that I can see EVERYTHING (you’ll note the light is out in my before picture). I looked around and thought about my daily process to figure out what I wanted to change to make my life easier.

Now that I’ve been trying to exercise regularly, I realized it would be nice to have my workout clothes in my dresser that is in my room. It’s near my bed, and it would be so much easier to just pull something out of there. In order to do that though, I’d have to clear a drawer. As I looked, I realized that I had more than half a drawer dedicated to bathing suits! When I was living in Florida, that would have made sense, but here in North Carolina (in November, nonetheless) that seems like a waste of space. Since my closet was all cleared out, I was able to see that there was space higher up on the shelf where I could put the bathing suits. I bought a few small containers to use on that space – they’re small and lightweight, so they’re easy to pull down.

I got one for the bathing suits, one for my scarves and gloves, etc. Sooo much better than the “where is such and such . . .” organizational method I had going on before! And while the containers aren’t exactly the most attractive bins, they’re the right size, and I’m the only one going to be seeing them, so I don’t mind their color! Go Deacs!

And so, for the grand finale, the after pictures of my closet:

As you can see, the clothing is clearly organized according to type and color, as well as the occasion in which I would wear it. It is MUCH easier to see what I have, and since the floor is clear, I can walk in there and actually look at things. I’m actually using the double hanging rack now, so I can use the other hanging racks for things like the storage of sweaters. Ideally I would like to have a double clothes rack with the bottom rack being shorter so that I can hang the longer dresses and things with the other clothes, but since I’m in an apartment I can’t change the racks around This will work until I move next summer, and hopefully I’ll move into a place that will let me change the racks around to the way I like them.

I’ve used the shelf between the racks for my games since I don’t use them too much and I don’t need regular access. On the left side of the closet I’m only using half of the length of the closet for clothes, so on the other half of the shelf I have put those 2 boxes (work stuff and techno-stuff) and my spare pillows (boo for lack of linen closet), and on the floor I have put all my luggage. It’s all waaaaay more accessible than it was. You can see the spare sheets sitting next to the blue crate with my purses, and on the very top are my scarves, boots, etc. – things I don’t need to get to that often. I think using that high up space was key for me.

As far as the rest of the closet goes, it’s fairly empty except for my shoes. I was excited that I can put my exercise ball in there and it’s not in the way! The rest of the shelves are empty. When I am at my parents’ home for Christmas I plan to get all of the things out of my closet there and bring them back here, and those shelves will be used for storage. It will be much more helpful to my mom, because then she can use that closet at home instead of my things taking up all the good space when I am rarely there anymore anyways.

So the closet is clean, ridiculously functional, and ready for growth! All in all, I think I did pretty good . Thanks for challenging me Laura!

• 12/18/2005 -- 101 in 1001 – 67.33% Complete
• 12/1/2007 -- Storage Solutions
• 11/9/2006 -- Dirty Little Secret

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Controllable Breast Cancer Risk Factors

* Having more than one drink of alcohol per day
* Taking birth control pills for 5 years or longer
* Not getting regular exercise
* Using some forms of hormone replacement therapy for 10 years or longer
* Being overweight
* Being exposed to large amounts of radiation

Uncontrollable Breast Cancer Risk Factors

* Getting older
* Family history of breast cancer
* Having the mutated breast cancer genes (BRCA1 or BRCA2)
* Personal history of breast cancer
* Starting your period before age 12
* Starting menopause after age 55

Source: National Cancer Institute, 1999

This post is for the Blogathon 2006! I am blogging for The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. For more information about what I am doing, please click here!

• 7/29/2006 -- Top Ten Signs You’re a Shopaholic (Blogathon #8)
• 7/30/2006 -- That was fast! (Blogathon #40)
• 7/30/2006 -- Fellow Boobie Bloggers (Blogathon #47)

What is chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy is the use of anti-cancer drugs to treat cancer. It can be used to treat cancer by stopping the growth of cancer by killing cancer cells that have spread to other parts of the body. Chemotherapy is given after surgery (called adjuvant chemotherapy) or before surgery (known as neoadjuvant chemotherapy) to reduce the risk of breast cancer returning.

What are the side effects associated with chemotherapy?
Side effects from chemotherapy depend on what drug or combination of drugs is used. The severity of these side effects will vary from person to person. Some of the most common side effects include nausea and vomiting, hair loss, early menopause and fatigue. Other possible side effects include infections, mouth and throat sores and weight gain. Remember, chemotherapy can greatly reduce the chances of breast cancer returning. The side effects are temporary and the management of these side effects has greatly improved in recent years.

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• 7/30/2006 -- Blogathon 2006 Wrap-Up!
• 7/30/2006 -- Reading Memories (Blogathon #46)
• 7/30/2006 -- Movie-aholic? (Blogathon #41)

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Is obesity a risk factor for breast cancer?
The effect of adult weight on the risk of breast cancer is different among pre and postmenopausal women. Before menopause, it appears that being somewhat overweight decreases a woman’s risk of getting breast cancer. After menopause, being overweight increases the risk of the disease.

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• 7/30/2006 -- Movie-aholic? (Blogathon #41)
• 7/30/2006 -- That was fast! (Blogathon #40)
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