Wednesday, January 24, 2007

TAROT ME TODAY


You are The Moon


Hope, expectation, Bright promises.


The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.


The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.


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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

STILL SICK

I got hit with flu-something last Thursday and am still recovering. The faver and body aches are gone, thankfully, but the constant coughing and not-really-hungry-do-I-have-eat feeling in still there. The first makes for difficulty sleeping and the second difficulty deciding what to have for lunch and dinner. And thanks to 3 days in bed instead of the cube, I'm behind at work, which means longer days that I'm not physically or mentally up to doing well, if at all.

kawaisou aka sucks to be me

Saturday, January 20, 2007

LAST UNICORN DVD - BUY FROM CONLAN PRESS

This is great news, and a step closer for Peter to get some of the money
owed to him for the film adaptation of his work. The URL for purchase is:
http://www.conlanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc

So shop early for Christmas! And birthdays! And Groundhog Day!

per the Conlan Press news release:

It took a lot of cheerleading, plus a lot of work by Peter and Connor (nearly two years' worth, in fact) but we are pleased to report that on February 6, 2007, Lionsgate Entertainment will be releasing a brand-new 25th Anniversary DVD edition of The Last Unicorn. This new edition is a huge improvement on the previous one. It is widescreen instead of fullscreen, it was made from the digitally-remastered German DVD (so the picture is gorgeous and the audio is 5.1), it has extras (including a video interview with Peter), and it has much better cover art. Click here for all the particulars.

Peter is really pleased. He wants every fan of The Last Unicorn to know that this new edition has his complete blessing and approval.

However, he still isn't getting any money from it. That's right — the film's owner, London-based Granada Media, still isn't paying Peter any of the money that he is contractually owed, not even after they've sold nearly a million DVDs and VHS tapes of The Last Unicorn around the world since 1999, and made lots of satellite and cable deals for the film as well.

This isn't right. And while there has been some movement on the negotiation front with Granada, it is anyone's guess when (or if) there will ever be a resolution. Until that day Peter gets absolutely nothing from any Last Unicorn DVDs that are being sold out there. Doesn't matter by whom: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Wal-Mart, KMart, Borders, Target, Best Buy, Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, your local outlet of any size...you name it.

With one exception. Right here!

The good folks at Lionsgate have graciously agreed to let us sell the new DVD along with all their other retail outlets. And if you buy the 25th Anniversary DVD here, more than half the money goes straight into Peter's pocket.

Naturally enough, Peter hopes that you will buy here if you buy at all, and that you will spread the word as widely as possible.

Lionsgate has sold 530,000 DVDs of the old version of The Last Unicorn since they released it in April, 2004. Imagine the difference it would make in Peter's life if the income from even 5 or 10% of that number came straight through this site to him!

Saturday, January 13, 2007

CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER

Part of the date today, after lunch and anime and comic book shopping, was to see the new movie by director Zhang Yimou: Curse of the Golden Flower. Visually beautiful, and while it did have the flying ninjas, there was much more court intrigue and dialog than martial arts confrontations. All of the trailers are filled with action scenes, but the heart of this movie is the relationships between the family members.

I thought Hero was amazing, and enjoyed the House of Flying Daggers. This latest movie from the same director is worth seeing in the theatre if you have less than a 50" television screen at home. ;)

Thursday, January 11, 2007

MIGRAINE FREE IN 2007

Had a migraine today. Strong weather coming in, both rain and a severe temperature change. Nothing like dropping 40 degrees in a few hours to bring on the pain. Fortunately, it's a normal, obviously weather-related migraine that will be over, hopefully by tomorrow, depending how many individual fronts come through.

Not the daily migraines that had crippled me for so much of 2006.

If you've read parts of this blog, you'll know I tried several prescription migraine medicines, saw several doctors, and if I didn't write about it, I was offered to participate in a Botox study to create clinical evidence that Botox is a viable treatment for migraines - I declined. The presciprtion drugs work their way out of my system within 24 hours. The Botox injections would be directly into the muscles around my forehead and lasts for months. The thought scares me.

On the OTC side, I used so much Advil and caffeine that I suffered from rebound headaches and am still overly sensitive to both of those drugs now. I tried to reduce stress, eat differently, exercise (when possible, which was not often, as raising my heart rate too much increased the existing pain in my head). I considered acupuncture. I tried massage. Nothing the doctors suggested or anything I did helped.

And then I paid $50 for an online report from the Women's Health Institute of Texas.
http://www.migraine-headaches-information.com/

It's one of the looong scrolling pages with lots of testimonials and promises and hints. I was desperate and took a chance.

It worked. He says give it 60 days. I felt a difference within the first 30. It is simple, it is easy, it is something none of my doctors asked about. After finding the report, I asked the neurologist specialist that I had worked my way up to seeing after 7 month and got a speech that had nothing to do with my question. I read through all of the documentation he gave me as background research on migraines and none of it mentioned this cure.

If you suffer from migraines, and especially if you are a woman, buy this report. Do what it says. Men with migraines, it also addresses a cure for you, it's just going to be a bit more difficult for you to get the treatment.

I have a pain-free life thanks to Dr. Andrew Jones, Medical Director, Women’s Health Institute of Texas creating a downloadable PDF of his research.

I'm now going to put a bunch of key words in here so that hopefully someone looking for migraine relief or some one who suffers from severe headaches, pain behind one eye, ever felt like they had an iron pike being rammed into the side of their head, has taken Imitrex or Topamax or Zomig or the herbal feverfew or applied HeadOn (Head on) directly to the forehead and sill had intense headaches, really bad head aches, migraines, weekly migraines or daily migraines will find this blog post and download the natural cure to your severe headache.

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Saturday, January 06, 2007

9 AM MEETING

blech, the things I do for my financial freedom. :
Good meeting, looking forward to seeing some results this coming week. Have documentation to create, a house to continue to clean, and boxes to unpack. And a short story to complete. A a book to revise. And maybe some sleeping and eating. And boyfriend time.

Weekends are too damn short.

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

BACK IN THE CUBE

January 2nd was a new company holiday, so today was the first day back at work.

Yep, still the same.

On a project for another office with a tight deadline. Very involved, sharp client, which is cool. It also makes for detailed reviews, multiple revisions, and more hours needed.

Weekdays are going to come down to getting up, going to work, coming home to eat, going to bed. Repeat until Saturday.

Side project is stumbling along, kinda sorta. There are dreams of a true independence day, but the future is still uncertain.