1.17.2010

the cheapest stuff

I usually don't go looking for deals at the grocery store or clothes shopping or when in search for other random items, but it's deals I would love to find.

Not having a lot of money to shop with I know the cheaper stores or neighborhoods to find what I need.  I go to stores like payless for shoes and H&M (or China town) for clothes and C-Town for groceries - these are the places I know are already cheap and I will find what I'm basically looking for on a particular day.

However, near by the c-town in my neighborhood and even closer to my apartment is a great little organic market called The Garden, where the produce always looks better than c-towns and the store looks more colorful and glittery and the skin products and dish washing products are all organic and just seem better to live with on a daily basis.  They are more expensive, but I see them at the Garden and I feel like they're better because they improve the way of living for the long term and not just for a one-time-thing and that's probably what my body would like to live with.  Natural, organic, glitter...a world that's starting to remind me of Pandora.

That being said, I do not go food shopping every day nor do I search for clothes or shoes that much either...It usually has to be pay-day for me to even think about it.

Here's the thing...I'm an iphone owner.  I love love love my iphone.  It's changed my life in ways I never knew.  I have a computer, but there are days when I don't even turn it on, either from being too busy or too tired.  On those days especially I am constantly using my iphone.  I'm not a phone talker, I really don't even like it, but what I love is texting, researching, tweeting and using well made apps.
Why are they amazing?
Well, it depends on each app but usually if it lets me do what I need to do at that very moment, super fast and AND it's cheap than that's all I need.

Apps are probably the cheapest thing in my life currently and I like them and what they provide.

1.16.2010

dehydration

When one is dehydrated, the best thing to do is drink buckets of water.

However, too much water consumed at too fast a pace can make a person feel sickly.
So by adding the juice of half a lemon to each tall glass of water one drinks, over the course of 1 hour the dehydrated individual will come to feel completely cured.

A good idea would be not to sit out in the sun while performing this process but rather in a shaded area or inside a covered structure of some sort.

A hut can almost always be built by found objects gathered from close by in most areas of the world.  This would be my recommendation if one was in such a state as this.


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1.12.2010

avatar & why i simply liked it:





It may not be the perfect movie as far as the storyline and it's predictability, but I was really into it as an enjoyable IMAX 3D experience as a whole.  


Also, putting myself in their world I'd love to experience the spiritual Pandora and run around on a soft natural ground with pretty much nothing on except a bow & arrow and soar through the landscape connected to a monstrous bird.  It's a beautiful and simple place that Pandora and it's people, whom I fell in love with.  I mean, they were definitely hot!  Super tall with their blue skin and their long braids...how could you not fall in love with them?  At least for a little while anyway.  

The group chanting used to transfer the human life & soul into that of their avatar was really beautiful and gave me the chills.  Definitely wish more of that was added somehow...it was just really powerful seeing a large group of people focused, chanting and meditating on a singular being for just one reason and all connected.  I often like seeing tribal gatherings like this in films because it's the only way for me to experience them.  Having not been brought up in a very spiritual cultural in terms of the meditation and connectedness around certain beliefs makes me want to try it out even more.  


The experience was awesome and I may even attempt to see it again in the theater.  

1.11.2010

back to blogging...and circus stuff

I've decided to give it another go. Writing again. Hoping it will last a bit longer this time...I think it will.

Tonight was our first rehearsal for Cirque This' spring show. It's going to be a great one. A few new cast members have been brought to the table & I feel it's going to make for a very strong show.
I'll keep the interesting stuff on the process posted here...and probably some of the boring stuff, too. I think it's all pretty great.
This is as far as I can go for now without giving too much away. Also because I don't know much more about the show because we just started.
Tonight.
It's totally not done yet.
Nope. Sorry.
Can't say anything more.
Not on this topic.
On no I can't.
Don't you talk to me like that.
Don't give me that stupid look.
Stop watering my plant.
Don't you drink that glass of water on the counter and stare at me over the glass.
Don't even think about washing that water glass and placing it gently on the drying wrack.
No.
Stop it.
Now you're getting all annoying to me.
It's all over.
And clean.
Well that's just great.