When the place changes...

Don't you hate when the very best place changes? You know, the little hole in the wall mom-and-pop shop with food to die for.. My favorite delivery place of all time has recently changed. They raised their prices 20% while cutting down portion sizes about the same. Maybe the heat of the recession got to them and they are making a last ditch effort to not go under. But they are going about it all wrong; they've lost me as a loyal customer.

The Dresden Dolls

A few months ago I flew to San Diego to see The Dresen Dolls perform. It was completely worth the trip. They are really amazing and performed one of the better shows I've ever seen.

The Rise and Times of The Dresden Dolls EPK (Part 1 of 3)


The Rise and Times of The Dresden Dolls EPK (Part 2 of 3)


The Rise and Times of The Dresden Dolls EPK (Part 3 of 3)

Kayden Love

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Happy 4th of July!

Got invited out to see fireworks with a friend but I have to be asleep before it gets dark so I can work tonight. :(

Hope everyone else has a great 4th of July!

4L60E-HD2 Performance reprogramming kit

What is 4L60E-HD2 Performance reprogramming kit? Somehow this came up when I copied and pasted. It shouldn't have.

Imagine my surprise!

My mother called yesterday. A few weeks ago I mailed her an angel pendant. She hasn't been doing well at all since my sister's death and nobody else in the family will talk to her. Our conversation was pleasant. It's good that we're back in contact. :)

To the Rick who commented: You are by far the most talented photographer I've ever worked with. You deserve plenty of recognition and praise for your skills. After we lost contact, I didn't want to shoot with anyone else and haven't modeled since.

Considering I went through a tough period, I'm surprised to hear such kind words from you. Sorry for everything that happened between us. I am also very sorry to hear about your brother. Maybe you understand part of what happened to me. Hopefully you are surrounded by friends and family. Please email directly if you want to talk further; I do miss your friendship.

The Four Agreements

Lately I've been reading The Four Agreements. Excellent book. Different way of viewing life. It's tough work to implement but I am "doing my best".

This trip is going well. Not focusing on the money nearly as much as just going to work consistently and having fun. Both of which I am accomplishing!

In a silly mood.. Check this out!

By the way, to Rick: So few people know about this blog I was shocked to see your comment. It helped. Thank you for lifting my spirits. :)

Summer is here

I'm in Vegas to dance. After this trip I have no idea what my plans are.. Do I move to Costa Rica or do I stay in Atlanta? All the reasons I moved there for weren't real. Confusing, sad....

Dresden Dolls + Vegas

Tomorrow night I will be going to see the Dresden Dolls in San Diego. Don't know who they are? Watch: http://youtube.com/user/dresdendolls?ob=1


After the show I will be heading to Vegas to dance. This may be the last time before I re-enter corporate world. Come see me! :)

Not your typical Mother's Day

Looks like I may be moving -- AGAIN!

Arranging movers this week to come give estimates to move me away from Atlanta. Things didn't work out with the boyfriend here. Back to single life.

Trivia anyone?

Every single day you, unless you are already bald, will lose as many as 100 strands of hair – that’s 36,500 in a year. This is rather worrying as the average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

A sneeze can blast out of your nose at a speed greater 100 mph

THE ASHES OF THE AVERAGE CREMATED PERSON WEIGHS 9 POUNDS

The human body can survive longer without food than without sleep. While starvation takes a few weeks you would die after about 10 days without sleep.

An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

Your heart beats some 37,000,000 times in a year. During your life it’s will beat some two-and-a-half billion times.

Every square inch of your body is populated by an about 32 million bacteria.

Your largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet. If cut into pasta size pieces it would serve four.

85% of your brain is water.

Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.

The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.

It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown.

The average duration of sexual intercourse for humans is 2 minutes.

It is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.

You blink about 84 million times in a year.

When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop-- even your heart!

40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2 -6 years old.

In the course of a lifetime the average person will grow 2 Metres of nose hair.

Ladies in nudist camps tend to use more makeup than ladies elsewhere.

A team of medical experts in Virginia contends you're more likely to catch the common cold virus by shaking hands than by kissing.

The human tooth has 55 miles of canal in it.

Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.

People have legs of slightly different lengths.

The average cough comes out the mouth at 60 mph.

Men / women The average person speaks about 31,500 words per day.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.

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4/20 snapshot

Even though my ex-boyfriend and I broke up, I am still living with him in Atlanta until we can afford to move me. Since I gave up my Vegas condo to be with him, when I move I will be moving outside the U.S and living as an ex-pat.

Today is the anniversary of my little sister's death. We were never very close but I miss her incredibly.

It is also 4/20 day. I haven't smoked yet today and I'm not sure if I will. While I am quite the pothead, today may be better spent in reflection. We'll see...

I may stop dancing and modeling soon and get a "real job". My background is in marketing..

While the Speed Racer movie is coming out in a few weeks, I just don't feel happy like I should...

Big Brother watching you order a pizza

As privacy becomes less and less, this could become our future.... http://aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf

Can you imagine?

WHAT IS MARRIAGE?

A 30 point answer:

1. Marriage is not a word. It's a sentence (a life sentence).

2. Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore marriage is an institution for the blind.

3. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her masters.

4. Marriage is a three-ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffeRING.

5. Married life is full of excitement and frustration: In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens. In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens.In the third year, they both speak and the NEIGHBOUR listens.

6. Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends.You order what you want, and when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that instead.

7. There was this man who muttered a few words in the church and found himself married. A year later he muttered something in his sleep and found himself divorced.

8. A happy marriage is a matter of giving and taking; the husband gives and the wife takes.

9. Son: How much does it cost to get married, Dad? Father: I don't know son, I'm still paying for it.

10. Son: Is it true Dad? I heard that in ancient China, a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her. Father: That happens everywhere, son, EVERYWHERE!

11. Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.

12. They say that when a man holds a woman's hand before marriage, it is love; after marriage it is self-defense.

13. When a newly married man looks happy, we know why. But when a 10-year married man looks happy, we wonder why.

14. There was this lover who said that he would go through hell for her. They got married, and now he is going through HELL.

16. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

17. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America, the rest cheat in Europe.

18. After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin. They just can't face each other, but they still stay together.

19. Marriage is man and a woman become one. The trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

20. Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After the marriage the "Y" becomes silent.

21. I married Miss right; I just didn't know her first name was Always.

22. It's not true that married men live longer than single men, it only seems longer.

23. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.

24. A man was complaining to a friend: I HAD IT ALL-MONEY, A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE, THE LOVE OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, THEN POW! IT WAS ALL GONE. WHAT HAPPENED, asked his friend. He says MY WIFE FOUND OUT.

25. WIFE: Let's go out and have some fun tonight. HUSBAND: OK, but if you get home before I do, leave the hallway lighs on.

26. At a cocktail party, one woman said to another: AREN'T YOU WEARING YOUR RING ON THE WRONG FINGER? The other replied, YES, I, AM. I MARRIED THE WRONG MAN.

27. Man is incomplete until he gets married, then he is finished.

28. It doesn't matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.

29. A man inserted an ad in the paper - WIFE WANTED. The next day he received a hundred of letters and they all said the same thing - YOU CAN HAVE MINE.

30. When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing - either the car is new or the wife is.

Visiting family

Lately I have gotten to visit much of my family. Seeing myself in them helps me focus on who I am and who I am becoming. Talking to my grandmother about years long past, trying to put myself in her shoes. Same with my mother..

Common Travel Myths

Unraveling Common Travel Myths

• If you use your cellphone, the plane will crash.
• Cruise ships are all-inclusive.
• If you rent a car with a credit card, you don’t need additional insurance.
• Taking the train in Europe is cheaper than flying.
• Recirculated cabin air on planes will make you sick.
• X-ray machines at airport security checkpoints can erase your computer’s hard drive.
• Your hotel card key can be used to steal your identity.

These are just some of the things many travelers believe to be true. And, in fact, with a couple of qualifications, they are nothing more than the latest batch of travel myths.


• Let’s start with the Blackberry/cell phone myth. Every airline flight attendant makes more or less the same announcement, insisting you turn off your cellphones and Blackberries, blueberries, strawberries and other personal electronic devices because “they interfere with the plane’s navigational systems.” If you ask if it’s a rule, the flight attendant will tell you it’s FAA policy. True or false?

False on both counts. First, the FAA has tested personal electronic devices, including iPods, Gameboys and laptops. Their scientists—for more than 25 years now—have bumped up the RF interference these devices give off, up to 100 times their normal levels, at distances of less than three feet from sensitive cockpit avionics. And guess what? Nothing happened. Nothing has ever happened. So did the FAA make a rule? Or a policy? Not exactly.

Under the current federal air regulations, the FAA simply states that it was unable to prove any connection or link between operating these devices and airplane system interference. But it hasn’t made a rule; it's left to each individual airline to set policy. So, if you insist on ignoring the flight attendant by using your Blackberry, you may be in violation of an airline’s policy (and subject to arrest for interfering with a flight crew). But no, the plane won’t crash because you were sending emails.

• First-time passengers like to think that “all-inclusive” cruise means you can put your wallet away for a week. True or False?

Keep your wallet with you. Not long ago, what you paid for your cruise (exclusive of liquor) was the sum total of expenditures. Not anymore. Think of cruise ships today as multiple floating revenue centers. Some cruise lines are now charging a flat fee for unlimited soda, and even a wine-and-dine deal that includes wine or champagne with your dinner (about $125 for a seven-day cruise). But the key to cruise ship profitability can be summed up in two words: onboard revenue. A new rule of thumb for budgeting your next cruise: Take the basic cruise fare and multiply it by 1.75 per person.

• Oops, you just backed into a parking meter. Not to worry, your personal auto insurance covers damages to your rental. True or False?

The answer in most cases is true, but with a big warning from us. Credit card companies promote their promise to cover your insurance if you rent a car using their card. As a result, a number of unsuspecting renters who don’t own a car—and thus don’t have their own insurance—think they are covered by their card. Not so. Almost all credit card companies offer something called “secondary insurance,” which only kicks in when you’ve exhausted all the limits of your primary policy. And if you don’t have a primary policy, then you are not covered at all. Even if you are covered, check your policy limits. If the car you own (for which you pay personal insurance) is only worth $5,000 and you total a car worth $20,000, you’re out $15,000.

• Trains are the way to go within Europe if you want to save money. True or False?

Definitely false. While I have always been in love with trains, and I think back fondly to my days using a student Eurail Pass, the dollars-and-sense truth today is that trains are not economical alternatives to air travel. Low-cost European airlines are now cheaper than intra-European train travel. On Ryanair, an off-season round-trip flight from Rome to Frankfurt can be as low as $90. By comparison, a point-to-point train ticket from Rome to Frankfurt starts at $326 each way and takes about 12 hours of travel time.

• Many travelers contend that the way cabin air is circulated makes the plane a prime breeding ground for colds and flu viruses. True or False?

In my experience, the answer is a qualified true, but there is no scientific proof. First, the cabin air: Modern jet planes were designed to bring in air from the outside at high altitude. In theory, the extremely cold air (about 40 to 60 degrees below zero) is then heated by the aircraft engines and circulated into the cabin, purging the old air. But there’s a problem. This procedure costs fuel and fuel costs money, so many airlines simply recirculate the air already onboard the cabin, bringing in a very small amount of new air. So you may well argue correctly that if the person in seat 2B has the flu, you’ll be breathing his air back in 35E. But to date, no definitive scientific studies have proven that allegation. Still, my advice is to hydrate yourself while on the plane, wash your hands often and turn off the air vent over your head.


Myth: Your plastic hotel key card can be used to steal your identity and credit card account information.

False: Simply put, hotels do not put your personal information on the card. At the most, they will encode the room number and activation date.


Source: http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-22269573;_ylc=X3oDMTIwOW1uY3B2BFNlYwNmcC10b2RheW1vZARTbGsDdHJhdmVsbXl0aHMtMjAwOC0wMy0xNARfUwMyNzE2MTQ5BF9zAzI3MTk0ODE-

Who I am and my ideal partner

This is who I am. Love me or hate me.

ABOUT ME:
PROS: grateful, intelligent, self-aware, honest, likes dogs and cats, good in bed, happy, newly found zest for life, pretty, loves Costa Rica, old soul, enjoys reading, bisexual, adventurous, confident, free and living day by day, non-smoker, motivated, romantic, loyal friend, exhibitionist, smiles and laughs easily, spiritual, realist, motherly, submissive, likes cross-dressers, lifetime student, kinky, logical, athletic, reliable, liberal yet conservative, loves every aspect of sex, open-minded, generous, into computers, loving, trustworthy, can vibrate every part of my body, 420, optimistic, awesome boobs, Dominant, enlightened, independent, girly, children-free, thoughtful, sober, thinks outside the box, spontaneous, one-of-a-kind, tenacious, ex-pat mentality, good dancer, goddess, fair, helps friends move, likes sports...

CONS: addictive personality, not organized, think I know it all, sleep 10+ hours per day, high maintenence, clumsy, princess, difficulty being monogamous, irresponsible at times, talks too fast and too much, airhead, ADD/OCD, (bipolar?)




My Ideal Partner:
Has these qualities: honest, reliable, responsible, good-in-bed, funny, makes me laugh, we can talk about anything, knows and likes the true me, treats me as an equal, mental/physical/financial/emotional support, always takes my feelings into consideration, loving, has zest for life, is my best friend, likes to travel, ex-pat mentality, helps me better myself, cuddles, likes cats/dogs, spontaneous, genius intelligence, into computers, likes to learn, teaches me, athletic, includes me, confident, same political beliefs, makes me feel loved, high sex drive, motivated, puts me in my place, can build and repair things, acts like a man and treats me like a lady, worldly, smart in ways I'm not, takes chances, family values, listens to me, shares hopes and dreams, gentleman,

NOT these qualities: dishonest, lies, insensitive, violent, scares me, makes me feel bad about myself, drug addiction, alcoholic, disrespectful,

To remove Candida

Treatment Protocol to remove the Candida

(1) An Anti-candida diet - Cut out all of the following: -

sugar, all types: brown, white, syrup, molasses, honey, fructose, lactose, maltose, dextrose etc. Check all tins and packets,
yeast products: bread, pizza, buns, breadcrumbs, marmite, Oxo, Bovril, Bisto, gravy mix etc. flavoured foods i.e. crisps and foods containing citric acid.
Refined grains, white flour products, cakes, biscuit, pasta, cornflour, cereals etc. all prepared breakfast cereals except Shredded Wheat and purpose made options like Kashi
cured and smoked products: bacon, meats, kippers etc.
fermented products, vinegar, pickles, chutney, soya sauce, alcohol
tea, coffee, ovaltine, chocolate, etc and all malted products
cows milk, cheese cream except yoghurt and cottage cheese
fruit, fresh, juice or dried (some fresh fruit can be added after three weeks under the direction of your therapist)
mushrooms
peanuts and peanut products
Enjoy the following foods:-
Onions and garlic,
Fresh vegetables and their juices (beware of carrot juice it contains a lot of sugar) Rainbow salads are good,
Rice cakes, oat cakes (unmalted) ,Ryvita, sesame and original only,
soya milks, butter, cottage cheese and yoghurt.
herbs, mild spices,
freshly cracked nuts, seeds
water, fruit and herb teas
cold pressed oils
brown rice and flours, use for cakes and pastry etc.
oats (porridge makes an excellent breakfast – make with water and serve with nuts, seeds and yoghurt)
meats, unprocessed preferably organic or free-range
fish preferably unprocessed, oily fish is best
eggs, lentils, peas and beans


(2) To kill the yeast:-
Caprylic acid or mycropryl (natural remedy from coconuts - kills candida, available from our main site www.junglesale.com)

Nystatin - anti fungal drug (available on prescription)
Garlic treatment - eat a fresh clove raw, can be washed down with milk, water or olive oil - three times a day with or after food
Biotin (inhibits candida)

To replace important nutrients
Take a good multi vitamin and mineral, vitamin C and any other nutrients prescribed by your therapist. At this stage chromium should help to control blood sugar.

To re-colonise the gut
Take probiotics - Lactobacillus acidophillus, bifidus
FOS -fructo oligo saccherides
Eat natural yogurt daily

To treat the genito-urinary tract
Douching with either:
fresh aloe vera juice
propolis tincture
garlic water (crush a clove in water - strain)
insert : yoghurt
aloe vera jelly

To repair the Intestine
Avoid foods that you may be sensitive to. Cow’s milk and milk products and wheat are the most likely here. To reduce the strain on the immune system and to allow the maximum absorption of the nutrients you are advised to combine your foods and to rotate them. A simple explanation of food combining is not to eat proteins and carbohydrates at the same meal because they are digested in different acidic environments. A rotation diet works on the principle that it takes five days for traces of a food to be removed from the body. Eating a food type only every five days means that:

* the immune system has a chance to recover by not being subjected to the same allergens everyday.
* when food is re-introduced after five days an adverse re-action will indicate that your body is intolerant to that substance.
* Eat plenty of fresh vegetables, organic if possible to provide essential nutrients and antioxidants to repair the immune system and fibre to help repair the digestive system.

Source: http://www.candidadiet.com/treatment/treatment_diet.shtml

Writing from an internet cafe in Costa Rica

Having a great time here. Making friends. Learning my way around. Wish I could update with photos, maybe when I get back. :)

By the way, if you ever find yourself in Costa Rica and need a cell phone, one of my friends has a rental company.