Pink Package Winners!

We have some winners!!!
You all did so great doing "pink" things!  I couldn't choose just one.  So I choose the wimpy way out and let the computer pick the winners for me:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

10 8 5 6 1

Timestamp: 2009-11-03 20:45:52 UTC

That means that are lucky winners are: Elizabeth, Lindsay, Linda, Faren, and Meghan!  (Elizabeth, I need your contact info so I can send you your prize!)  I will be contacting the rest of you through facebook or twitter this week.  Congratulations, and thanks for spreading the word and awareness!

How to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Hey, you! There is a giveaway at the end of this post! Keep reading!

One in Eight women will get breast cancer sometime in their lifetime.

***1 in 8***

Isn't that ridiculous? Can you pick one of eight of the women you know to get it? Do you already know several ones who do? It needs to stop.

Every day we are getting closer to a cure. Now is a perfect time to lend your support to this cause! And if you do, there might be something in it (other than karma, and that gooey feeling you get inside when you do something awesome) for you. Keep reading....

Need an idea?

• Go to Ask.com and make a pink ribbon tribute to a loved one.
• Go to Yahoo.com and click on the pink ribbon. There you can update your pink ribbon status. For each person that does so in October, Yahoo! will donate $1 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation to help uninsured women get free mammograms.
• Go to the www.breastcancer.org or to www.komen.org or to www.nationalbreastcancer.org to learn about the disease and empower your self or those around you. Learn your risks and how to minimize them.
• Remind the people in your life to check themselves. Update your facebook status, send a tweet, call, text, or email - just tell them to feel their boobies!
• Go shopping! You will be hard pressed to go into the grocery store and not find a product that has a pink ribbon on it. In some cases, a portion of your purchasing money will go to the cause, in others the company has already donated a set amount. Either way, these companies are spreading the word - lend them their support to show you appreciate it!
• Find a 3-day walker (like me) to get to goal! Not only are you helping find a cure, but your making someone's day!
• Have a high risk of breast cancer in your family? Be proactive - be Bright Pink.
• If you can't lend your money - lend your time. Find out where the closest 3-day walk is and go cheer those brave people on! Make a sign to hang on the route. Get in a costume. Pass out candy or popsicles. We will love you for it! (And if you can't do it now, there is always time to do it later in the year during another walk for the cure or a race for the cure.)
• Any time of the year you can go to your local Komen Affiliate to help spread the word in your community.
• Just make a click of your mouse at Care2 to help find a cure.
• Like to ride a bike? Join the Hershey's Tour De Pink to raise funds for breast cancer while your working out.
• Become a member of the Army of Women and partner with researchers to help move breast cancer beyond the cure.
• Go to the Health Key to find a host of other breast cancer fighting opportunities.
• Eat chocolate - M&M's can cure just about anything, right?

So pick something - anything related to raising awareness, and do it. Now would be great, but I'll give you until the end of October since October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

To spice it up a little, I'm turning this into a contest. Do anything to support breast cancer awareness and leave a comment below. At the end of October, I will check back and pick 5 of my favorite posts to give a token of my appreciation - a little pink ribbon package full of pink goodies!

So get to curing people!

Edit: I decided to add other opportunities when then are pointed out to me...

• Belong to twitter? Help @FFanatics Tackle Breast Cancer just by following them! Learn How here.
• Become a jumper at Spirit Jump and send a note to someone battling cancer.
• Write a blog post or visit another! Here is the info for the How Do YOU Pink blog hop!
  
  
  
  
  

Remember any contribution will be in the running for the prize - you just have to comment!