Please Click Here to see if you’re a raffle winner.

I’m working on 5 hours of sleep here -and am not all together with it. LOL! If your name appears on the winners list – I will be sending out e-mail to you on Monday with all the details on how to collect your prizes.

I’m just too tired to trust myself to handle the details today!

Congratulations to you all!

And a GREAT BIG THANK YOU goes out to: Joni, ChubbyisNotCUte, Shox, Chaotic, Valerie and Actorman. To Joni and Lori for hanging with me the majority of the Blogathon {like the whole thing!}, the others for popping in sporadically to make sure we were all doing OK.

We were able to raise $4,115 (thanks surprise donor in the middle of the morning!) during the Thon here at Willo’s Web – and as a whole – the Blogathon raised over $120,000 and the total keeps climbing as last minute pledges come in. WAY TO GO!!!

Final preparations are in the works for the Blogathon that starts TOMORROW MORNING! I can’t believe it’s already here and am wondering … how will I work around my Jenny Craig program? I’ll be up 24 hours – and then sleeping during the time I’d normally eat. I guess I’ll improvise! {silly me – always thinking of food first!}

Some things you – as my readers – need to know:

• It’s not too late to sponsor me and enter the raffle for our FABULOUS PRIZES! {sponsored by RealityWellnessInc.com}. Just click on the BLOGATHON button in the sidebar at Willo’s Web.
• For every $5 pledge to sponsor me during the Blogathon – you earn one chance in the raffle drawing. The drawings will take place every two hours – with the first drawing at 10:00am.
• I discovered – once the raffle drawing starts – I won’t be able to add anyone to the game. So only those persons who have sponsored me by 10pm tonight will be entered into the raffle.
• When you come to Willo’s Web – starting at 10pm tonight – you will be automatically redirected to the Blogathon site. This is a temporary redirect – Willo’s Web will go back to normal late Sunday afternoon.
• Membership on the Blogathon page is not required – Feel free to comment and join in the chat box. HOWEVER – I reserve the right to put the Blogathon page on lock down in the event trolls stop by.
• If for any reason there are technical difficulties at the special Blogathon site, I’ll move the whole operation to the Willo’s Web main site. It seems there are some server issues today – and my Host has not responded to my emergency call for assistance!

Please stop by throughout the 24 hour period – I’ll be setting up a small Chat Box on the Blogathon page today. Offer encouragement for me to STAY AWAKE! If you’re a night owl and can pop in overnight – that would be WONDERFUL! I’ll also be spending some time in the Rumor Mill during the blogathon if anyone would like a group chat!

My wonderful moderator this year is Laci from Long,Slow, Beautiful Dance. We’ve been online buddies for a few years now – so it’s kinda cool she gets to boss me around during the Blogathon! Hi Laci!!

And now … announcing the theme for this years Blogathon – REALITY SHOW FAVORITES COUNTDOWN! That’s right – I’ll be counting down my Top 20 favorite Reality TV shows. It’s hard to imagine that there’s actually more than 20 to chose from – but with literally hundreds of cable channels on air – there’s literally hundreds of reality shows too. Stay tuned in all day long to see where your favorite show falls in the countdown. I also have 4 special mentions categories you’ll enjoy. I think that you’re all going to be in for a HUGE SURPRISE when I get down to that #1 spot.

To all my sponsors so far – thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU! Without you this Blogathon effort would not be the same. I’d have all these prizes and no one to give them to! The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation will benefit far more from your donations than you think possible. I’m going for a last ditch pitch right now – I would LOVE to see my ticker reach $1,000 raised before the end of today – so if you have not made a pledge yet – please do so today!

UPDATE: A big thank you to our Mystery Donor for meeting – and BEATING – the pledges made for the Blogathon! They’ve put out a challenge to push the total to over $4,000 today – and to $5,000 by the end of the day tomorrow! Can we do it?!

 

 

 

That’s right everyone! Just three more days for me to gather sponsors – and for you to enter into the raffle for some fantabulous prizes!!!!

I know you’re all pretty tired of me talking about the Blogathon .. but serious .. with 20,000 visits in one week to my blog I should have at LEAST $20,000 in funds raised!! All it takes is a few minutes to click my sponsor link … pledge to make a $5 donation .. and then sit back and watch me make a fool of myself in a 24 hour period. Then … at your convenience follow up on your pledge with a donation to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. It’s that easy!

For every $5 pledge made to the Blogathon towards a donation to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, you will be entered into our raffle. Each $5 pledge earns you one raffle ticket in the drawings – and the raffle tickets are good for all prize drawings. Only one prize can be won per raffle ticket.

Prizes to be given away:

• Autographed photo from Fat March’s Steve Pfister
• 1- $25 Amazon.com gift certificates
• 2- $25 Borders Gift Cards
• 2- $45 Macy’s Gift Cards
• 2- $25 Bucca di Beppo Gift Cards
• Gift bag with fitness items and signed photo from Fat March Trainer Lorrie Henry
  
• Biggest Loser Calorie Counter Book – signed by past Biggest Loser Contestants during the Finale Eve Dinner for Season 3.
• The 3X Blue Biggest Loser Sweatshirt and an autographed photo from Erik Chopin
• ONE MONTH Online Training from Amy Hildreth and Marty Wolffe and RealityWellnessInc.com

For an updated list of Raffle prizes at any time – please visit the official Willo’s Web Blogathon site.

I am completly floored! yesterday I put out a call for everyone to drop their cheeseburger habit for one day – and donate $5 to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation by sponsoring me for the Blogathon! The response I received was fantastic! We went from having 8 eligible raffle players – to having 73 raffle tickets now in play!!!

If you’ve sponsored me for the Blogathon – today you should be getting your raffle ticket numbers via e-mail. I’ve just purchased a really cool software program that will run my drawing for me – so we keep everything fair and square!! I won’t be able to control which ticket numbers are drawn – the software does it all for me! It’s fantastic!

There is still time to sponsor me for the blogathon – and enter the Raffle to win one of these fabulous prizes:

• Signed photo from Fat March Trainer Steve Pfister
• 3 -$25 Amazon.com gift certificates
• 2 – $25 Borders Gift Cards
• 2- $45 Macy’s Gift Cards
• 2 – $25 Bucca di Beppo Gift Cards throughout the day
• Giftbag and Signed photo from Fat March Trainer Lorrie Henry
  
• The 3X Blue Biggest Loser Sweatshirt and an autographed photo from Erik Chopin
  
• ONE MONTH Online Training from Amy Hildreth and Marty Wolffe

I must tell you that there is one very special person with his eyes on Erik’s sweatshirt, and is feeling that fate will work out his way! Remember – for every $5 donation made you receive one chance at the raffle. You don’t have to make your actual donation NOW – but you do have to make a pledge to sponsor me on or before July 28th to participate in the raffle drawings.

For more information on what the blogathon is all about – please visit the official Willo’s Web Blogathon page.

We’re getting close to our goal! All remember – funds raised will be matched by our mysterious donor!

Someone asked me the other day – why am I participating in Blogathon 2007? And .. perhaps some of you are asking yourself that as well.

In June 2006 I lost my husband to post-transplant lymphoma. He was a Cystic Fibrosis patient and had fought the disease his whole life. Having a double lung transplant in 1997, and a kidney transplant in 2004 – we thought he was winning the war. The Lymphoma caught us by surprise. To help find a cure for this genetic disease, to allow others to continue fighting, and to keep them safe from similar surprises – I’m honored to be blogging for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

I know I’m starting to be a pest .. but it’s really important to raise funds for this research!!! For just a $5 pledge … thats less than one Starbucks purchase …. you can make a HUGE difference. As I was telling another sponsor … you don’t have to make your donation NOW. But you do have to make a pledge to sponsor me BEFORE July 28th in order to take part in the raffles. Then … when the blogathon is complete you can make your donation to CFF.org when it’s convenient for you!

For a complete list of all Giveaway Items … you can now visit my Blogathong site!

Thanks in advance for sponsoring me!!!