Linking up with My Little Drummer Boys for Wordless Wednesday and with Faith Hope and a whole lotta Love.
This one does require a little explanation. I decided to participate in this year's Breast Cancer Awareness campaign on Facebook which required women to make the following statement dependant on the month of the year they were born, and a sweet allocated to the date of their birthday. My statement read:
"I'm 18 weeks and craving Choc Mint" (my birthday is December 14th).
I posted this in my status update and soon people were wondering if I was announcing baby #5. I told women who asked that I'd send them an explanatory email. One of those women was my mum - although I thought she was just playing along - because, you know, I'd only told her a million times that we're done having children now!
She didn't read my message as you will see below...
By cancelled lectures, she means she, as a lecturer, cancelled her lectures for the day! So all the students in her classes got an extra day to work on assignments thanks to a Breast Cancer Awareness campaign on Facebook!
Have YOU done a self-examination this month, or had a mammogram lately? Please ask you're women friends the same question! Early detection goes a long way to increasing recovery rates!
p.s. if you're playing the game, too, it's only fair to warn your mum/dad/husband/partner first...
This one does require a little explanation. I decided to participate in this year's Breast Cancer Awareness campaign on Facebook which required women to make the following statement dependant on the month of the year they were born, and a sweet allocated to the date of their birthday. My statement read:
"I'm 18 weeks and craving Choc Mint" (my birthday is December 14th).
I posted this in my status update and soon people were wondering if I was announcing baby #5. I told women who asked that I'd send them an explanatory email. One of those women was my mum - although I thought she was just playing along - because, you know, I'd only told her a million times that we're done having children now!
She didn't read my message as you will see below...
By cancelled lectures, she means she, as a lecturer, cancelled her lectures for the day! So all the students in her classes got an extra day to work on assignments thanks to a Breast Cancer Awareness campaign on Facebook!
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p.s. if you're playing the game, too, it's only fair to warn your mum/dad/husband/partner first...
Comments
Thanks for the breast examination reminder. I am definitely due for one !
I confess. I didn't get the explanatory email that day. And I fell for it the first 3 times. and thought people were announcing pregnancies all over the place.
I did it last year and my status received a LOT of comments from people thinking I was preggers too! Including mu mum. It would have been a very cool way to announced your pregnancy though!
Thanks everyone - Mum's over it now, LOL - but for a while there I was kind of glad she lives interstate, hehehe!
Sif, they all send their love; you know most of them...:D
Apparently a lot of people have been caught out - and not very happy about it - and given participants a lot of flack for being cruel to women who are having trouble conceiving or have lost babies.
I know it was never my intention to upset anyone (and no one has expressed upset with me specifically). It's a shame that this game has become such a battle field when the participants were only ever trying to support a worthwhile cause...
Social media has become a minefield of political correctness.