Short Hawaii Story - For Now!

Well.. long story short (I will do a much longer post at a later date) I had the time of my life.. Hawaii is beautiful and the Bud Light Lime People treated us like gold! Needless to say Monday morning I received news that my Mother had been rushed to the ER sometime in the middle of the night Sunday going into Monday. She is still in the hospital and we are awaiting on the time for surgery, she has to have her gall bladder out. This could have been much worse than it was, but being 5000 miles away and not being able to get any answers from the Hospital, thank you so much HIPAA, I was going crazy.. it took a ton of phone calls, emails, and texts to get someone to answer my questions. Not to mention my 3 dogs had been alone for 12 hours and were going to be alone until I got home at 10 or 11am on Tuesday, but my Aunt Kathy (yes whom I was named after) and cousin Jason (the wedding post cousin) came through. They came and took care of my dogs, walked and fed all three, then even moved my car to my Aunt's house and she came to get us from the airport. See, my Mom was our ride home... I have come home to one cluster you know what after another since yesterday morning. So if everyone could keep my Mom in their prayers and thoughts it would be much appreciated. Let me mention I now have a brace on my left ankle too! Of course I will get more into that and the trip details at a later date.. but for the mean time let me leave you with a teaser of a picture from Waikiki Beach, Hawaii of the beautiful sunset I got to see every night from our hotel room...

Yes, I took this picture from our 9th floor hotel room at the Modern Honolulu ...

While I'm Gone

Hello Everyone!! It's approximately 1am EST here... I am getting ready to get in the shower in a half an hour to get dressed and then off to pick up Christine and to the airport we go.. our flight takes off at 6:05am this morning. However... While I am gone, if you come across a party that you would like posted or just in general please tweet the info to @4evamamii (Linda Brooks) or after Saturday to @rsmstahley (Susan Stahley) as they have the authority to update the calendar. You could always post it on Kathy's Calm To Chaos Facebook wall at ..

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kathys-Calm-To-Chaos-Life/225951400774151

I look forward to coming home and doing a few posts on my Hawaiian adventures... also there are two giveaways that will be going up within the week after I get back, so stay tuned!! 

Please Vote For My Orbit Gum Pack!

Here I go.. I did it again, I entered a voting contest! I am asking all of my loyal followers to please go and do a simple one click vote once a day for my Orbit Gum My Life Gum Pack! I would appreciate it very very much... Voting can be done at

http://www.facebook.com/orbitgum?sk=app_228102660596648&app_data=%7B%22voteFor%22%3A%22338%22%7D

You need to allow the app permission. My pack is a Strawberry Remix Pack! If it's not on the main cover scroll down design gallery it should be listed as Katherine K Grand Island, NY

I have been able to go in and out of the app to vote more. You can vote 10 times per day for any given pack.. 10 for me would be great! If you do vote please drop me a tweet or comment letting me know so I can thank you personally

THANK YOU in advance!! 

Count Down To Hawaii - Pro Bowl

If you haven't seen me tweeting about it or posting all over my Facebook you must not be paying close attention. The Count Down to Hawaii has begun! For those of you who do not know what I'm talking about, let me enlighten you! 

One of my closest friends.. one of my besties.. Christine and I have been on a mission to get on that Bud Light Port Paradise Boat or to one of the big trips they give away! We huddled, crewed, did daily entries, sent countless snap tag texts, and well at one point chased around a Try It Rep(local bud distributor) trying to get us on that boat... well it seems that boat finally arrived, just in the shape of a plane going to a very warm tropical beautiful island. You see, Christine was one of the winners of the Bud Light Lime Pro Bowl 2012 Hawaii trip. YEP you guessed it I'm going as her guest, but had it even been reversed she would have been mine anyways, so it worked out in the end! I'm very excited to get to see Hawaii, I've never been to any of the islands. It has always been a "bucket list" trip... a trip I can now mark off that list...

My HanesPink NBCF T-shirts Still Available To Purchase

After skimming through my email I came across an email I received months ago.. it was from a representative from the National Breast Cancer Foundation thanking me for doing a blog post about the t-shirts I had designed. That my post helped spread awareness to their foundation and as a token of appreciation they emailed me a very sincere Thank You letter. I was blown away, to say the least, I am just a little small blogger in this huge world of blogging and my post made a difference! So in order to show my support I am yet again posting about the t-shirt designs for sale. My two designs are still in the HanesPink gallery for sale. The cost is a mere $18 + shipping. This is a SMALL price to pay to help out the National Breast Cancer Foundation... and to help a woman in need of care regarding breast cancer. The t-shirts are printed by Cafe Press. Cafe Press offers a wide array or payment options to suit everyone's need. PLEASE check out the links below and purchase one of my shirts! Even if you never wear it, you will be helping a foundation help someone else....