So, I’m home sick and I have nothing to write about except the fact that I was up until 4 in the morning with a fever and a stomach ache and that my day has mainly consisted of seeing what foods I can convince myself to eat without wanting to ralph and seeing if there’s any position I can lie or sit in that doesn’t make my head feel like it’s going to explode (hint: there’s not). Fun times. Let me tell you.

Instead of going on and on about how today’s headache is one of the worst on record, I’m going to pimp myself out a little and ask for your support and stuff.

First, I’m a finalist in the Aiming Low Recipe contest! Click the button below (or on the right side bar) and vote for your favorite 4 recipes! (p.s. I’m Katie, and mine is the Pumpkin Cake). This pumpkin cake is ridiculous kinds of delicious and also? literally could not be easier. 3 ingredients and one is optional (but not really, unless you’re the kind of person who doesn’t frost cakes…heathen). If you can use a spoon and preheat an oven, you can make this wonderful cake.

There are some other great looking recipes there and more importantly, the amazing women at Aiming Low are taking all the recipe submissions and making a cookbook, the proceeds of which will go to Anissa’s family to help pay for her medical costs. If that isn’t a fantastic cause, I just don’t know what is.

Second, for those going to the BlogHer Conference in August or who care about it, I submitted a request for an added session on health blogging. They weren’t able to work it into the regular conference schedule this year (since they did it the last 2 years), but speaking from the experience of having been there last year, it’s needed and amazing. I walked out of that panel feeling like my writing had a purpose, feeling like I had a place in the world of blogs.

Now, even though there’s no health or patient blogging panel on the schedule, BlogHer does a cool thing were they let attendees suggest panels that aren’t already arranged and others vote on whether they would attend. If you get enough people indicating they will attend, the panel will happen (more or less).

If you’re interested in the panel, go here, click on the Health Blogger link (at the bottom) and then on the link that says “I would attend this panel.” You have to have a BlogHer account to do it (I think…), but if you’re not already registered with them, you should be. I cannot say enough about BlogHer and the great coalition of women there, the amazing conferences they host, and the good they focus on doing at that site.

I know that pimping one’s own stuff is not the best blog etiquette, but the health blogger panel is near and dear to my heart. I would love more than anything to be able to make that happen for myself and for the others of you reading who write about your health and your fight to keep it. If it can be anything like the panel last summer, it will be incredible.

And now I’m going back to my dark cave of ice pack, drugs and self-pity.

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