Sep 19th – Rock the Pink

Cancer is a disease that plagues over a half-million women each year. Four of those women will be honored at the Rock the Pink fundraiser event; Northwest-Delta flight attendants with breast and lung cancer.

On Sept 19, 2010 IamMoody and Uptown Drink bring you Rock the Pink; a fundraising event that is open to the public. Cancer treatments are painful and expensive, this is your chance to dig deep and open your hearts and help those who need it. Go to Uptown Drink in Minneapolis, MN from 2:00pm – 7:00pm. There is no cover charge to attend and there is a $10 all you can eat buffet with food provided by Uptown Drink and Fusion. 20% of all food and beverage sales will go directly to these four wonderful women.

A silent auction will be available from 2:00pm – 6:30pm. Winners will be announced at 7:00pm. Only cash and checks will be accepted; receipts available upon request. All item winner’s will be posted on IamMoody.com. 100% of silent auction proceeds will be divided equally between the four women.

One of these items that will be at this amazing silent auction will be “The Cathedral” by James Jenson. This 20×20 mixed media work of art is being donated by Gallerie Zueger and Aspen Grove Fine Arts with a retail value of $1,900.00.

Photos – Pink Party 4 A Purpose 11/4/2009

What an amazing group of friends.  So much good was done last night.

If you didn’t come you missed out.  Great money was raised our sponsors.  Tee and Heidi are very luck to have such great friends.   Thank you everyone.  The party is over and that means it time for photos.

Pink Party 4 A Purpose 11/4/2009 – 10/9/2009

View all 35 Pink Party 4 A Purpose Photos On Flickr

Nov 4th – Pink Party For A Purpose

Delta Minneapolis Base Employees, View Restaurant, & IamMoody are hosting a Pink Party.  The party is a fundraiser for Delta  Employees Tee Simmons & Heidi Andersen.

Tee has been diagnosed with Brain Cancer the kind similar to Ted Kennedy.  Heidi has Breast Cancer.  You can send messages of love and support to Tee and Heidi to their home address (posted at MSP In-Flight) or to Tee via CaringBridge.org.

This is an event organized by friends to make a difference.  The View Restaurant has generously donated the space, and will offer appetizers and drink specials.

Come hang out with good people for a good cause. Share with friends and family so together we can make a difference.

Please thank the people and businesses that have generously donated to the silent auction items.

> Shelly M & Crew Amsterdam Gift Basket

> Broody Hen Farm
> Carole Bruns $25 Gift Cards
> CRAVE Gift Card
> Edge Marketing
> JD Hoyts
> IamMoody.com Gifts
> Muddy Paws Cheesecake
> Phillips Gardens
> ReVamp Salon
> Robyne Robinson
> Small Talk Tees – T-Shirts
> Twin Cities Green
> UV Vodka
> View Gift Card

More items donated by Delta Crew members.  Check back as we will updates as things change.

IamMoody Team

View Restaurant & Bar
2730 W Lake St
MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55416
(612) 920-5000
www.viewcalhoun.com

Delta BCRF In The News

TwinCities.com just posted “This Delta flight attendant goes head over heels for a good cause” to help support efforts to raise money for Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

The article focuses on Heinie Lund who does a backflips on his plans before take off read the article and see the related video for more information.

This Delta flight attendant goes head over heels for a good cause

Pink Fund Raiser & Garage/Antique Sale

With each passing day, we realize we have so much to be grateful for and often look for ways to help others.  We have among us fellow employees who could use a helping hand or a moment of our time to show we care. We have two upcoming events where your presence will truly make a difference in the lives of our Delta co-workers.

MSP Flight Attendants Terresa (Tee) Simmons & Heidi Andersen Fundraiser – November 4, 2009 at “The View” Restaurant – 7:00-9:00pm

You are cordially invited to attend a fund-raising event at “The View” to support Tee Simmons and Heidi Andersen. If you wish to donate items for the event for a raffle or silent auction, please contact Richard Moody at iammoody.com. You can also send messages of love and support to Tee and Heidi to their home address (posted at MSP In-Flight) or to Tee via CaringBridge.org.

Garage/Antique Sale (Care Fund Kick off) November 4-5, 2009 –7:00 AM- 7:30 PM

Attention all Garage Sale and Antique enthusiasts: Fall is the perfect time to clean out your attics and closets while contributing to a great cause. Bring in your garage sale items, heirloom or rare pieces. We are collaborating with the Delta People Care Funds on November 4-5, 2009 at MSP In-Flight. The Delta People Care Funds consists of a Care Fund and a Scholarship Fund. The Care Fund provides financial assistance to employees, retirees, and survivors experiencing unforeseen financial hardships. The Scholarship Fund awards scholarships to employees and dependents. It is entirely funded and managed by Delta employees for Delta employees – active or retired. Drop off any items you would like to donate to Janet Jorgenson at MSP In-Flight.

Also, plan to stop by the Care Fund Kick off for refreshments and to learn more about how you can invest in Delta people with a small payroll deduction. Details about the Delta People Care Funds can be found at Deltanet under Employee Information.

Lastly, we will be recycling used cell phones. You may drop them off in our cell phone recycling box available at MSP In-Flight. All proceeds will go to the Delta People Care Funds.

Thank you for everything you do to support each other and thanks in advance for making both events a success.

Sincerely,

MSP In-Flight Team

Ted Gibson Wig Is Coming

The wig has been shipped and is on the way…  Here is a sneak peak.

BCRF Pink Wig #6 – Ted Gibson

Ted Gibson a graduate of the Aveda Institute has become one of the top stylists in the world.  He does hair for celebs like Angelina Jolie, Renee Zellweger, and Anne Hathaway. He also regularly does styling for top magazines like Vogue, W, and others.  Recently he has joined the team for the TLC show “What Not To Wear” We are so privileged to get Ted’s time and talent to participate in the BCRF Pink Wigs event. Checkout his new line of hair care products in Target Bid on Ted Gibsons wig vip@iammoody.com More Information Ted Gibson Salons 184 5th Ave New York, NY 10010-6045 (212) 633-6333 www.tedgibsonsalon.com

BCRF Pink Wig #3 – Bella Salon

We think Kiko, JoLene and the rest of the team at Bella are over achievers. When we called to get them involved in the BCRF Pink Wig event the immediately said yes. Then they had a question… Can we do two wigs? Thanks to the generosity of Sunny’s Hair & Wigs they got that wig. Located at the trendy 50th & France area of Edina, Bella offers Hair, Nails, Waxing, Facials, Tinting & Make-Up, and Massage services. They also care the following products Bumble and bumble, Pureology, Kusco-Murphy, Aestelance, Jane Iredale, and Phytomer. Bella Salon & Spa 3811 W 50th St Edina, MN 55410-2019 (612) 928-7835 www.bellasalonedina.com

BCRF Pink Wig # 2 – Tres Jolie Salon

Bryce Jermain and the rest of their team at Tres Joile has been doing faboulous hair in the Twin Cities for years. When IamMoody called they jumped at the chance to be a part of this. Tres Joile are known for creating style, color, texture, hair straightening, hair extensions, conditioning, and facial waxing. They also carry Kerastase, Bumble & bumble, GHD Flatirons, and Tres Jolie Signature Products. Tres Jolie Salon 2214 Hennepin Ave South Minneapolis, MN 55405 (612) 374-2214 www.tresjoliesalonmpls.com

Breast Cancer Research Foundation Pink Wig Boutique

IamMoody and Delta Airlines have teamed up with Sunny’s Hair & Wigs and celebrity hair stylist Ted Gibson, Faatemah, Brian Graham, Jon Charles, Tres Jolie, and Bella Salons

Here are the photos of the wigs at Sunny’s before being delivered to the stylists.  We can’t wait to see the finished product.  Stay tuned for more updates.

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— Official Information —

MSP IFS Pink Boutique would like to thank you everyone who has helped raise money for the Breast Cancer Research Fund (BCRF) in only 21 days. This includes the sale of our official BCRF merchandise consisting of pink and black tee shirts, pink turtlenecks, tumblers, coolers, pins, pens etc, in addition to items donated from fellow co-workers.

Our inventory is almost gone. We were informed today that we will not be receiving additional pink tee shirts, black long sleeve and short sleeve tee shirts, pink ties, and pink pins/tie tacs.  We still have plenty of tumblers, duffle coolers and aprons.

Effective October 1, 2009, our new operating hours are Monday-Friday 8:00am -6:00pm; Saturday 8:00am -noon; Sunday, closed. When the boutique is closed, the denim passes will be at check-in for $5.

You are cordially invited to attend the following events:

Friday October 9, 2009, 9:00pm -  Grand Opening of Crave’s new location in St Louis Park
The event is by invitation only. Complimentary menu samplings and hors d’ouevres will be served. The location is Shops at the West End, 1603 West End Blvd, St Louis Park, phone 952.933.6500.  RSVP vip@iammoody.com for your invitation.

Diva’s Night Lillians Boutique of Hudson WI: Wednesday October 14, 2009 from 6:00pm-9:00 pm.
Please join us for refreshments, fun and give-a-ways.  We will also announce the winner of the Pink Hand Knit Purse and wig #6 (Sassy). Lillian’s Boutique is owned by Tom and Dianne Perillo who donated over $600 worth of items for the MSP Pink Boutique. They also held a raffle onboard the 747-200 MSP-SEA flight last Friday and will present a check for $1170.00 to BCRF.

The schedule for raffle drawings is as follows:

Pink Wigs Raffle
Bids are flowing fast and furious for the pink wigs.  Remember to get your bids in by 4:00pm Wednesday, October 14, 2009 for Sassy. The remaining wig high-bidders will be announced one a day, beginning on the 15th. The order of selection will be #5 (Birdie) on the 15th; #4 (Candy) on 16th; #3 (Aquarius) on 17th; #1 (Mariah) on 18th, and #2 (Antoinette) on the 19th.  Be sure to get your bids in by 11:59am on the day of selection. Winners will be selected at noon.

Napa Valley Wine Tasting
Drawing is scheduled for Friday, October 9 at noon for tasting Thursday, October 29, 2009; positive space to /from SFO and a day of wine tasting with Andrea Robinson, Master sommelier for Delta.

Pink Leather Jacket is Wednesday, October 21, 2009
VIP pass (Randy Gerber’s Clubs) is Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Please visit our MSP Pink Boutique to get your raffle tickets. Winners will be announced at noon on the days mentioned above. Thank you to everyone who donated the beautiful items. Your gifts have brought many visitors into the shop and generated a great deal of money for BCRF.  We also wish to thank everyone who volunteered their time to work in the boutique. We would not have been successful without you. Please contact Pat May at patricia. may@nwa.com if you are interested in donating items or volunteering to work in the MSP IFS Pink Boutique.

Lisa Speer Update From Caregivers Melanie & Mary

Lisa Speer  is a dear friend of mine and I wanted to post this for all my friends who know her.

Richard Moody

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If you have any Lisa memorabilia, it now would be the time to have it autographed by her, because let us tell you, she has become a (more) famous person within the walls of the Mayo Clinic today.

She had a very busy day down there.  Jackie took her down this afternoon for some pulmonary (lung) tests and to meet with her oncologist.  Leave it to our Lisa to be the first patient in 30 years at the Mayo Clinic to stump them with this particular issue.

She is allergic to Taxol (her chemo drug).  Her doctor has never seen this type of allergic reaction to Taxol in his 30 years of practice.  We always knew our Lisa was special.

Ok, so what this means……they told her she has pulmonary toxicity (basically chemo ‘pneumonia’) from the Taxol.   The great news is that no permanent lung damage has occurred so she can fully recover from it and there will be no long term affects.

She learned also that this does not knock her out of the case study and she will continue with that medication every three weeks down at Mayo until the end of June.  She will still undergo her radiation in rochester.

As you can imagine, she is a roller coaster of emotions this afternoon. She will have 100 more questions before she gets back to River Falls and trust us, she get them answered on Tuesday when she returns to Mayo.

They started her on a steroid that they assured her would help her feel better within a few days, her hair will start to come back and we’ll be sure to post photos of the bandanna burning party when it happens!

I appreciate very much all of you reaching out to her last time when I posted, so I’m going to come back at you again – there are not enough words to tell all of you how much your words mean to her.  It takes you five minutes to post on her caringbrige site and it carries her throughout an entire day.  Pretty good rate of return if you ask me.

She was very concerned that all of you get an update as soon as possible as she’s not felt good enough to update since yesterday morning.  She’s exhausted. She’s not sleeping.  But, we are force feeding liquids and food and there is light at the end of the tunnel.  So, if you don’t hear from her right away or she doesn’t answer your call – leave a message, leave a post, she’ll get to it, trust us.

UPDATE FROM LISA:
I am going to ‘chime in for a minute: by now most of you know of the scary 2.5 weeks I have had and the startling news I received from mayo. in both regards – chemo – and pulmonary pneumonia. some of the pulmonary tests indicated that i was only getting 35% oxygen at times. my oncologist said he had not seen this in his 30 years of practice and that had this condition been left as it, we would have been looking at pulmonary fibrosis and eventual death sooner than later. i tell you this because one thing cancer and this past 4 months has taught me and i want to pass on to you is how important it is to be your own health advocate, for you or for your loved one. if you do not like the answer, result, doctor, or what ever – BE PRESISTANT!!!!! FIGHT THEM, GET THE ANSWERS, YOU KNOW WHEN SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT AND PUSH UNTIL YOU ARE HAPPY AND FEEL THAT ALL HAS BEEN DONE THAT CAN AND SHOULD BE DONE! WE ARE WORTH IT!

Okay, I am done with that soap box.

Slowly, I am getting little bits of strength back and I mean little, but that is great.  I even found a few hairs on my legs!! not to mention a little bit of ‘stubble’ on my head. I might not have to work on tanning it after all.

I will ‘chime out’ for now and leave you with the harley davidson thought for the day: THE WORLD STANDS ASIDE TO LET ANYONE PASS WHO KNOWS WHERE HE IS GOING.

I know where I am going, I hope you do too.  Thankyou my nwa/delta family for your cards, calls, emails and vacation donations. each and all are very special to me as you are. they really do carry me through my sometimes long days.   fly safe.

Good Night

xoxox Lisa
~ always lean into the curve ~
www.caringbridge.org/visit/lisaspeer1

Richard Tyler On The Delta Uniform

Mpls.St.Paul Magazine’s style editor, Melissa Colgan, talks with fashion designer Richard Tyler about the line of uniforms he created for the Delta flight attendants.