Just thought ya'll might find this funny. I'm trying to be consistant writing here but life is always getting in the way. Had a friend who went to a work out for the cure type thing this past week end and passed out some Chemo Ninja Cards. He wore a Chemo Ninja shirt and apparently had some interest in the info. Hopefully we'll see some traffic on this and the www.zazzle.com/chemoninjastore sites.

New Project

So if you don’t already know I’ve been working on a project that is helping us raise some money. At the moment I still need lots of helping promoting it but I’m sure it will get there. At the same time I’m developing a business plan so that we have a clear cut goal for the immediate future and for the long term.

The Project I’ve been working on is www.zazzle.com/chemoninjastore which is something that was a little broader based than strictly making the group visible to testicular cancer survivors, which is and will be our primary focus. However not everyone is interested in supporting testicular cancer with ribbon testicles on their chest, yet. And yes I could have gone a little safer and just done a normal ribbon thing and said it was for testicular cancer but that’s boring and already done anyways.

Chemo Ninja Cancer Assassin is something I created that I think spans the entire spectrum of cancer patients. You can’t tie him to just one thing but it gets you to look at the site that has a decent number of Save the Twins logoed shirts and other testicular cancer related themed shirts. The array of shirts allows us to ease into view instead of just testicle ribbons up in your face. At the same time being the age group that falls victim to testicular cancer is younger I thought the Ninja would be more appropriate.

Chemo Ninja represents the battle that each of us must fight to survive. Ninja’s fought by all means available to them, as all cancer patients do. On that same token, if a ninja was unsuccessful he gave his life in the battle. Ninja’s are all about honor and completing the goal. The goal of every cancer patient is to win the battle and be cancer free, so I can’t really think of a better representative for the fight against cancer. Samurai was close but doesn’t have the same ring to it.

I'm Back

Ok. So I’ve been sidetracked for the last 2 years 8 months and 3 days, but I’ll say this. I really was busy! In my first post on this blog I stated that I was starting a new job. During that two weeks of training I had plenty of time to do some writing and get some, be it very little, information out. Well once I started that job I found that continuing my second job was still necessary. Needless to say working 90 hours a week to take care of your family doesn’t leave a lot of room for writing blog entries.

I’ve kept the dream alive though. I know there is still a huge amount of information missing in the public eye about testicular cancer. I’m still working on figuring out on how to get all the pieces moving in the right direction but at least they’re moving now and not stalled out.

I’m no longer in the job that I started in June of 2009, thank goodness. Nor am I still working a second job to cover everything, WOO HOO! In February of 2010 I started with a company I had been laid off from 15 months prior but I decided to take the risk and I’ve been there continuously for 2 year 2 months and things look great for the future. I just got back from a 6 month stint in Afghanistan and which has made a huge difference in taking care of a lot of the financial issues that came from going through cancer and the treatments to cure it.

Now granted I was working 12 hour days 7 days a week, there wasn’t much to do after that time frame was up so I started focusing on this again. Biggest problem was that I on the company network in Afghanistan there were very few sites other than work related things we had access to including blogs and any other social networking sites. Now there was an internet provider out there that I could have used, but I’m cheap so I didn’t get it.

Stay tuned I’ll tell you what we’re looking at moving too, if you haven’t already heard.