Hi all
Now this makes shopping really fun...and I've left the details on because they deserve a plug
Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with
sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure
it was in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Friday, March 28th.
I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year." We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Sigh...
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Derek Sivers, president, CD Baby
the little store with the best new independent music
http://cdbaby.com cdbaby@cdbaby.com (503)595-3000
Friday, March 28, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
Drugs (legal ones)
Recently, I've quit both coffee and alcohol. 3 drinks in the last 5 weeks; no coffee for 40 days (and nights) ; no, we're not talking about Lent here!
I find coffee, even 1 decaf per day overly stimulating. I find alcohol to be a depressant that makes me go to sleep. So why was I paying people for this combination of "legal uppers and Alexanders (downers)?" what was the nutritional value in either?
What's pissed me off re the alcohol are the people who say "you don't drink because you have a control issue. You're afraid if you drink too much you won't be in control." Having given my reason, I find their comments rude and insulting. We all have different metabolisms, we're all different.
The third drug is called anti-depressants (ADs). First of all, don't do anything re this without consulting your health professional. But I believe in the idea that ADs are over-prescribed:
1. They are most likely over-advertised to health professionals(as proposed by Healthy Skepticism)
2. They are prescribed too quickly by docs and psychs who are too busy/unable to listen.
3. People are left on them for too long without counselling on what is causing the alleged need for the AD.
4. The difficulty in getting off them is well documented.
I think solutions lie in:
1, Docs and psychs always need to outline an initial counselling program at the same time as prescribing ADs.
2. There needs to be constant checking in re the need for continuing use.
3. There needs to be allowance by docs, psychs and employers to ensure sick leave and medical certificates are available for people to have time to come off ADs.
4. People need to be allowed to have someone attend appointments to advocate for them without question.
Here's to health (that's a toast with a glass of filtered water!)
I find coffee, even 1 decaf per day overly stimulating. I find alcohol to be a depressant that makes me go to sleep. So why was I paying people for this combination of "legal uppers and Alexanders (downers)?" what was the nutritional value in either?
What's pissed me off re the alcohol are the people who say "you don't drink because you have a control issue. You're afraid if you drink too much you won't be in control." Having given my reason, I find their comments rude and insulting. We all have different metabolisms, we're all different.
The third drug is called anti-depressants (ADs). First of all, don't do anything re this without consulting your health professional. But I believe in the idea that ADs are over-prescribed:
1. They are most likely over-advertised to health professionals(as proposed by Healthy Skepticism)
2. They are prescribed too quickly by docs and psychs who are too busy/unable to listen.
3. People are left on them for too long without counselling on what is causing the alleged need for the AD.
4. The difficulty in getting off them is well documented.
I think solutions lie in:
1, Docs and psychs always need to outline an initial counselling program at the same time as prescribing ADs.
2. There needs to be constant checking in re the need for continuing use.
3. There needs to be allowance by docs, psychs and employers to ensure sick leave and medical certificates are available for people to have time to come off ADs.
4. People need to be allowed to have someone attend appointments to advocate for them without question.
Here's to health (that's a toast with a glass of filtered water!)
Monday, March 3, 2008
Ms Manners
Being an old-fashioned gal, I'm into manners.
One thing at the gig that annoyed me on Saturday was people talking through the gig. If you go and see music, stand-up or similar, shut up! Talk before, during the interval or after.
My arts colleague from my JOY days tells the story of a woman in the second row of the audience at a musical who talk a call on her mobile in the middle of a shoqw. Even in spite of the lead beaking out of character saying " do you want us to stop while you take the call" the woman went on talking.
Honestly...
One thing at the gig that annoyed me on Saturday was people talking through the gig. If you go and see music, stand-up or similar, shut up! Talk before, during the interval or after.
My arts colleague from my JOY days tells the story of a woman in the second row of the audience at a musical who talk a call on her mobile in the middle of a shoqw. Even in spite of the lead beaking out of character saying " do you want us to stop while you take the call" the woman went on talking.
Honestly...
Childhood innocence
i've been working recently with the ideas promoted by "The Magician's Way" following my doing the weekend course last year.
One component of that work is the idea of childhood innocence. Last Saturday I got an image of it.
My dear dear dear friend Kimba performed her first gig (jazz/swing music) since becoming a mum last September. Being a truly good mum she wants to give her ensure her son has love/validation up to 18 months (another component of Mag Way).
So half of her gig was with her son piggybacking (attached in a harness/backpack like arrangement) her. i reckon 95% of 6-month-olds would have been screaming their heads off. Not Dante. Wide-eyed and loving it. Innocent. Happy. Beautiful. The camera phone pix are average but the memory is and mental image are 200%.
Made Kate Langbroek breastfeeding her baby on "The Panel" look meaningless...
One component of that work is the idea of childhood innocence. Last Saturday I got an image of it.
My dear dear dear friend Kimba performed her first gig (jazz/swing music) since becoming a mum last September. Being a truly good mum she wants to give her ensure her son has love/validation up to 18 months (another component of Mag Way).
So half of her gig was with her son piggybacking (attached in a harness/backpack like arrangement) her. i reckon 95% of 6-month-olds would have been screaming their heads off. Not Dante. Wide-eyed and loving it. Innocent. Happy. Beautiful. The camera phone pix are average but the memory is and mental image are 200%.
Made Kate Langbroek breastfeeding her baby on "The Panel" look meaningless...
Sunday, February 24, 2008
one more TTH
You show me your heart and I'll show you mine
I'm not gettin' hurt anymore that's a promise I made me for sometime ago
I've never ran into things hard and unbending when I was just traveling slow
If it's down to this and I'm taking my chances I've just got one offer in mind
Let's see a teardrop whatever else you got
You show me your heart and I'll show you mine
You show me your heart and I'll show you mine
I'm weak and I'm uncertain in fact I'm still hurtin'
And hurt put on hurt just won't heal
So make me a promise you'll laugh when I laugh and you'll cry when I cry it's a deal
I'm strong and I'm able but weak and unstable when somebody steps on my mind
You have to be willin' the free milk I'm spillin'
You show me your heart and I'll show you mine
You show me your heart and I'll show you mine
There was a time I'd be willin' to risk just the day of my life on the nights
But if you've been away say at four in the morning the memories crawlin' by your side
If you want to take it or if you can just make it a one sided offer that's fine
I just got one proposition to make you you show me your heart and I'll show you mine
You show me your heart and I'll show you mine
I'm not gettin' hurt anymore that's a promise I made me for sometime ago
I've never ran into things hard and unbending when I was just traveling slow
If it's down to this and I'm taking my chances I've just got one offer in mind
Let's see a teardrop whatever else you got
You show me your heart and I'll show you mine
You show me your heart and I'll show you mine
I'm weak and I'm uncertain in fact I'm still hurtin'
And hurt put on hurt just won't heal
So make me a promise you'll laugh when I laugh and you'll cry when I cry it's a deal
I'm strong and I'm able but weak and unstable when somebody steps on my mind
You have to be willin' the free milk I'm spillin'
You show me your heart and I'll show you mine
You show me your heart and I'll show you mine
There was a time I'd be willin' to risk just the day of my life on the nights
But if you've been away say at four in the morning the memories crawlin' by your side
If you want to take it or if you can just make it a one sided offer that's fine
I just got one proposition to make you you show me your heart and I'll show you mine
You show me your heart and I'll show you mine
(SNAP) Sensitive New age Person
I've been thinking about this lot lately. How our patriarchial society derides sensitivity in any form.
When I heard about this site http://www.hsperson.com/ and looked it up (18 months ago) I finally found some affirmation and support for a part of me. Brilliant. There is also now an Aus/NZ group/list getting underway.
One word of caution: it's useful to understand and know yourself, but don't trap yourself in a label and stay there. This can happen, hypothetical examples being I'm bipolar, I'm transgender, etc. Know it, absorb it, value it.
When I heard about this site http://www.hsperson.com/ and looked it up (18 months ago) I finally found some affirmation and support for a part of me. Brilliant. There is also now an Aus/NZ group/list getting underway.
One word of caution: it's useful to understand and know yourself, but don't trap yourself in a label and stay there. This can happen, hypothetical examples being I'm bipolar, I'm transgender, etc. Know it, absorb it, value it.
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