Oh so much to write!

Here, I was promising to be better about writing, but....as always I am doing too much! Update on Janice!

April 23-26th, I attended the National Lung Cancer Partnership's Advocacy Summit in Dallas, Texas! It was 4 days of Advocacy, Awareness, Learning, and Friendship. We learned how to better spread awareness, how to better spread our message of hope and healing, how to raise funds, and how to erase the stigma. My mom died of Lung Cancer 13 years ago, next week actually, and it still seems like yesterday. I lost my best friend and protector - the one person, along with my dad, that loved me no matter what! By losing my dad only 22 months later, I feel that the disease took his life too. I have worked for 13 years for this cause, because I see other friends with their mom and dads, I see children enjoying their grandparents, and it breaks my heart! I don't wish this on anyone and Nobody Deserves Lung Cancer!!!! I am honored to be part of NLCP and hope to be a force behind the change that is needed and the CURE that WILL happen.

NOW - May 16th, I am excited that Mrs. California United States is next weekend! May 16th at 7PM in Santa Monica, CA!! This is my first year as Director, and I am so excited to Direct and Produce this glamorous event! We have 8 wonderful women, great events planned, amazing sponsors, and fantastic volunteers. I hope that each of you can attend. Please visit www.mrscaliforniaunitedstates.net for all the information you need to order tickets, mapquest the location, VOTE for your favorite contestant or just look and think about entering next year (hint, hint!!!). Come join us!

More to come....AFTER May 16th!


Blessings,
Janice

Updates on the CA UNITED STATES Website!

Make sure to check out our Mrs. California United States website, as updates and sponsors are added every week! We have recently added to our prize package, our sponsors and I have extended the deadline for entry fee payment! This year's pageant will be spectacular, as we have over $10,000 in prizes, a 4 STAR Hotel, TV coverage, and 3 Celebrities will be judging! Attending will be a former Miss USA, former Runner-Up to Miss America, a Model and Actress from Deal or No Deal, PLUS we have MIss America's "Countdown to the Crown" Noah Alexander!
Total cost to enter is only $595, which includes entry fee, AD page, local Mrs. Titleholder sash, breakfast each day for the contestants, rehearsal dinner for Contestant's and their husbands, pageant ticket for husband, PLUS gifts from our Sponsors for everyone! Please join us May 16th at 7PM at the newly renovated Simkins Hall in gorgeous Santa Monica, California, only blocks from the Ocean!
Get ready to walk the Red Carpet and make your debut as California's most beautiful and intelligent women!!!

PLEASE VISIT:
www.mrscaliforniaunitedstates.net

To health and eating your vegetables!!!

I know that I don't write much on my blog these days, but that will change, I promise. I wanted to briefly send everyone a link to a great VEGAN website and Podcast. Most who know me, know I am a Vegan. I began 5 years as of April 1st to keep myself healthy, to live the way God intended, and to be compassionate toward animals! My husband, Tony, is also Vegan, and our son, Cameron is Vegetarian (by his own choice, of course).
I know there are many "nay-sayers" out there, but PLEASE look at the website and listen to the podcast, as I am sure you can understand the logic that Heart Disease is linked to animal fat, diet, and unhealthy lifestyle choices; Cancer is linked to unhealthy lifestyle habits as well. When I lost my mom and dad to these lifestyle diseases, it made me read, listen, be open-minded to changing MY choices. It's not about being thin...it is about being healthy! I hope that you will take something helpful from either site, as there are great recipes too!
Diet, exercise, and a healthy lifestyle!

Visit: www.compassionatecooks.com

Podcast Link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=47365287&id=147907532

Mrs. California United States Pageant, Executive Director

Well, I am once again trying new things! I accepted the responsibility of Executive Director/Producer of the Mrs. CA United States Pageant, officially about 2 months ago. As a former Mrs. United States, I truly believe in this system and feel that it celebrates married women. We can be involved with a platform, with our family and community - yet maintain a beauty, a "sexiness" that is carried with us throughout our lifetime, no matter what age! Combining beauty and brains, and adding maturity, allows us to be even more charismatic and powerful with each decade. I am excited to take on this new challenge, and although I may not have as much time to BLOG, please keep in contact (add me as a friend) through my facebook, myspace or by visiting www.mrscaliforniaunitedstates.net or www.janicemcqueen.com
Also, I am happy to announce that my state pageant will be featured in the upcoming edition of SuperModels Unlimited, link to the ad:
http://www.mrscaliforniaunitedstates.net/supermodels_unlimited_ad