My song of the day:
youtube

The video is awesome. Love the band o’ stuff.

Lyrics:
We’re an oyster cracker on the stew,
And the honey in the tea,
We’re the sugar cubes, one lump or two,
In the black coffee,
The golden crust on an apple pie,
That shines in the sun at noon,
We’re a wheel of cheese high in the sky,
But we’re gonna be sinkin’ soon.

In a boat that’s built of sticks and hay,
We drifted from the shore,
With a captain who’s too proud to say,
That he dropped the oar,
Now a tiny hole has sprung a leak,
In this cheap pontoon,
Now the hull has started growing weak,
And we’re gonna be sinkin’ soon.

We’re gonna be
Sinkin’ soon,
We’re gonna be
Sinkin’ soon,
Everybody hold your breath ’cause,
We’re gonna be sinkin’ soon

We’re gonna be
Sinkin’ soon,
We’re gonna be
Sinkin’ soon,
Everybody hold your breath ’cause,
Down and down we go.

Like the oyster cracker on the stew,
The honey in the tea
The sugar cubes, one lump or two?
No thank you none for me.
We’re the golden crust on an apple pie,
That shines in the sun at noon,
Like the wheel of cheese high in the sky
Well … we’re gonna be sinkin’ soon.

Oh my god. This weekend I had one of those absolutely amazing, beautiful, wonderful inspiring days; one of those days where I become a gushy crazy woman. I went to the IRONMAN race in Lake Placid to watch my friend go through the race. She’d been training for as long as I can remember and was so excited… how could I not go and support her through the 14 hours she was there? Okay, so I was actually only there for about 11 of those hours, but! Not that point.

Every time I was around the athletes, I couldn’t help but feel totally totally inspired about life in general. I mean, over 2 miles of swimming, 112 miles of biking, and 26 miles of running? CRAZY! I found myself tearing at the beauty of humanity every so often. Pushing your limits and going and going… it’s absolutely cool and admirable.

With Lake Placid being 3 hours away, Helena and I didn’t roll into bed until almost 2am and this morning. When my alarm went off, I was having a hard time getting out of bed, but… remembering how hard those athletes worked, and trying that endurance and persistence state on, I got myself up and out the door in no-time. On a similar note, last week I decided that I wanted to build up a love for exercise by starting really small… I’m walking to the end of my block and back before I allow myself to get into the car for the first time in the morning (for the most part). Today’s five-minute walk seemed so pale, but I put my all into it and it felt great!

Hey, I’ll be the first to admit… I hated owning the blackberry. It is slow and hard to use. The only saving grace for it was that it was really easy to type on it. Every time I dropped it, the little ball would pop out and I’d have to spend 10 minutes trying to pop it back in.

Well, the ball has finally defected for good now… as it fell while I was in the Walmart parking lot, at night. I attempted to look for the little damn thing but it apparently didn’t want to be found. So, now I have to lay the blackberry down to rest and see how the heck I’m going to be able to afford the new iPhone 4.

Shucks.

The Hole:

I’ve been sitting here at the dining table trying to think of something clever to write here as I’ve watched my battery drain down from 20% to 10% now. It’s in the red and I’ve got about five minutes until it turns off so I thought, hey, what the heck, I’ll just start typing. If I just start typing then perhaps i can figure out something clever to write and then finally perhaps go to bed and sleep. Sleep has been really rare for me these days. I have rehearsal really late several nights of the week and the rehearsals go so awesomely that I am super pumped by the time that I get home and its just so hard to fall asleep so I toss and turn and toss and turn and then the next thing you know, the alarm clock on my phone is ringing fur Elise and I have to push snooze several times to give myself the false sense that by doing that somehow I am getting more sleep and restoring more energy when i’m really not restoring that much energy because i spend each of those 10 minutes anticipating the next ring.

Anyway, I’ve had so much on my mind these days. I am dealing with this sort of duality of seeing injustice in the world and then seeing my own response to it and how its more often than not just as violent in nature as the injustice that I see. I don’t really get why i respond the way I do but I do know that it would be awesome if i could look out into the world, see injustice, form a plan of action, and then move on it… without the whole blubbery “what am i going to do now” sort of thing going on. I mean i think its natural to get mad at stuff, but then there’s the step after that that is just so distracting and time consuming to fixing the injustice… i think that makes sense.

Like, i remember when I lived in Hawaii, we had a hurricane (Ike) come through. Everyone was just so scared it seemed. People were getting the supplies they needed but then everyone was just sitting around, talking about how scared they are. I felt scared but I felt more like making sure things were in order to ensure that we would survive it. I mean, we didn’t know. I’d never been in a hurricane before and I had no idea what to even expect. I was 12 for heavens sake. I remember not really getting it as to why everyone was so crazy. heh… until of course I grew up and realized that we’re all just crazy when it comes to catastrophe even in our own way. i mean even the people who are silent and not “freaking out” seem to be freaking out.

Anyway, going to go to bed now. I’m not going to worry about spell checking this post or grammar checking it. I usually don’t on my free-form posts anyway because this is exactly how it comes out and well… hell.. I’m proud of that!

Peace out folks! love to the peeps!

Words cannot express how funny this commercial is to me!

I know I am low on sleep when I start tearing up over the smallest things. I’ve been practicing with my acappella group every single night this week, and I don’t generally crawl into bed until 1am only to have to be up and to work by 7:30 every day. So, today, a co-worker sent us all a link about these two guys who are trying to raise funds for Breast Cancer. They are doing it by walking from Florida to NYC in under 60 days. I don’t even know why this is so emotional for me… but when I think about the beautifully creative ways that people come up with to raise money for causes they feel passionately about, I find it to be such a beautiful expression of care and love for humanity. I mean… the publicity and overnight fame doesn’t hurt as they cross the finish line (or maybe no one will even notice…), but the mission itself, to raise funds to make a healthier world, is really beautiful.

While I hold the position that most sicknesses/diseases in America can be prevented and that a lot of the cancers and strange illnesses are more often than not, caused by stress (i.e. I believe that holding up pent-up anger for years and years leads to all kinds of stress issues on your body, including migraines, muscle and tendon fatigue, weakened immune system, etc… I should know… I’ve been sick nearly all of my life with one cold/migrain/[insert illness here] or another). If we can find the cause of these stresses, that can point us to a solution… It’s preventable that way. In other words, if you start to feel stressed or angry, etc… Find the cause of why things are stressing you and fix that. I also believe that as long as cancer and other diseases DO exist, we have a two-front battle to fight… so to speak. The battle to overcome it now, and the battle to prevent it in the future. It takes an investment of both money and time, for both yourself, now, and humanity into the future. It’s an investment into you; a committment to letting go of those things that are bothering you, and figure out why they do, and learn what’s going on with that and work to fix that. Chances are, if you get that far, you’ll probably just let go anyway. Most cancer survivers will report to you that having a prognosis changed their life. It either seems to piss them off to no end, or is an impetus to do more with their lives and to be bigger than before and better than before and catapult change in the world.

It’s simply beautiful, this process of life.

To see more about the walk that these guys are doing and donate, if you wish, click the link below:
http://keyandbenwalk.com/.

So, I recently made the fateful switch to Google’s browser, “Chrome” and have been liking the experience thus far, which the exception of having my developing tools on Firefox. Last night, I opened my browser and all the fonts had turned into these weird As with boxes around them.

At first, I thought, “hm… must be some sort of tongue-in-cheek thing that google’s doing?” But then I realized that it was happening on every page that I was going to! Pfft.

Anyway, after some google searching in Firefox, I ran onto an article titled “How to Fix Chrome for Mac Broken Fonts.” I might have just titled it “Fonts are broken on chrome!” or “Boxes around A’s on Chrome” but that doesn’t really matter, because they gave awesomely useful tips on how to correct the annoying issue, which is that you need to clear your fonts cache.

So, if you have the same issue, go read that article and you should be fixed in a jiffy!

First of all… This is our little Dakota? …. Fanning?

Secondly… Just Because…. TLC!

So, I am a sucker for Magento Commerce software. In the past it has been a real bitch to install though, and has eaten up plenty of my time. I’m also one of the dorks who get yelled at a lot because…. wellllll… I LIKE dreamhost! I think, so far, it has worked well with my needs. I’ve been a customer with them for several years, and have no complaints yet really.

Anyway, In the past, it’s been hour after hour of trying to get Magento to install on dreamhost for my own nefarious reasons. There was tears, there were swear words, there were furious posts on magento message boards and pleas to Dreamhost support. There was always success in the end, but at my expense… let me tell you!

Well! Cry no longer, my friends! I read the coolest tutorial and used the coolest instructions and was able to get my mom’s new online store to install within MINUTES. That’s ALMOST as fast as it takes to install wordpress.

Impressed!

Here’s the toot:
http://www.gimmesoda.com/installing-magento-commerce-on-dreamhost/

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