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I love my job--it is lots of fun, I work with really great people and we have the opportunity to enterain and help people.  Tonight we orchestrated a fund raiser for the Rocky Mountain Pediactric Foundation.  I was talking to the administrator of the foundation and she said that she gets SO many requests for help and she can't assist everyone.  Can you imagine what it's like to be in a fight to save your childs life but you lack the resources?  When I was a little girl, my younger sister died from Leukemia.  She was seven years old and I was nine years old.  I can only imagine the heartbreak my parents experienced and I know the incredible loss we all felt when she left us.  I know that my parents experienced some financial hard ship from that period.  I also know that it was incredibly hard on their marriage and their psyche.  My Dad talks about it every once in a while but my Mom doesn't like to discuss those things.  Today, we understand this cancer and others and the knowledge base is much greater but they still can't save all of the children.  I know that these parents need help and I'm so glad that we were able to help them tonight.  I respect my General Manager a great deal, as he strives to help this foundation and many others.  Thanks to Cowboy's, Tim Metcalf and Sam and Kathy Guadagnoli for helping us to help a very worthy cause.