I want to ride my bicycle!

Greetings everyone!

First of all, if you haven't donated yet, why not? You should really get on that, it's an amazing thing to do and all the cool people are doing it. (Donate to Kathryn, or to Annamaria)

Annamaria's last post surprised me (seriously, I had no idea this was happening) by saying that we would start really working out this week (8:30am!!). Monday and Tuesday I used some of those stationary bikes that the gym has, and Stony Brook just opened up a new fancy-pants fitness center with new fancy-pants equipment, so these bikes are more like video games. Seriously, you can steer these bikes and catch dragons while you're pedaling in place. Honestly, it wasn't as bad as I remember stationary bikes being, but still not the time of my life. On Wednesday we had a rest day (yay!) but tomorrow it's gym time again at 8:30am.

Also, surely everyone has noticed (or remember that she told you last time) that Annamaria and I have reached the $1,000 needed to order our Bike&Build bikes! This is super exciting and we are biting at the reins to get started. But first we need to go to our Giant bike dealer and get sized so we won't be in huge amounts of unnecessary pain by getting a bike that's too big or too small. We were all pumped to go on Tuesday but, get this, our Giant dealer is closed on Tuesdays (ONLY on Tuesdays), so we are going to go on Thursday instead. Then we'll send Bokoo Bikes our sizes and they'll send us our bikes and everything will be peachy!

Even though we have >$1,000 now, that's only about one-third of the way to our $4,500 goal. For the past month or so we've been brainstorming a lot about possible fundraising ideas, and here's a sample of the ideas we've come up with: Bake sale! Yes, a bake sale. Everybody loves cupcakes and cookies, and bake sales bring in some pretty sufficient funds for organizations on the Stony Brook campus. Raffle! (If you are part of a company that would like to donate something for us to raffle, e-mail us.) Stony Brook students, you know all those things that you hate to do? Like going outside to get food, waiting for the bus to take you grocery shopping, maybe even taking out the trash? For a small donation of $3-5 we will do these things for you! Just e-mail us or comment to get our attention.

Lastly, most of you probably know (or... I don't know... do you?) that March is Women's History Month! A whole month dedicated to remembering the contributions of women worldwide, which Annamaria and I think is worth a mention. Both Annamaria and I were blown away last week by a PBS documentary "Makers: Women Who Make America" and I have made it my personal mission to share it with everyone I know (or don't). As many people often forget, it was less than a century ago when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution granted women the right to vote (Woohoo!), but activists still had their work cut out for them  fighting discrimination and speaking out against domestic violence. In this documentary, activists, authors, actors, entrepreneurs, and law enforcement officers talk about what the Movement was like during the last half of the 20th century.

As always if you have any comments, questions, or answers feel free to contact us!