Possible Resolution

I dug through my junkmail and saw an offer for a Discover Card and decided to apply. I actually needed to transfer some credit balances from a couple of other cards with high interest rates to a consolidated account with a low interest rate so I would be able to pay them off more quickly. I got approved for a high enough credit line where I will be able to buy a new engine for my Beetle with a 0% APR for six months. The interest rate for my balance transfers is 3.99%. Not bad! I am feeling a lot better about being able to handle the financial catastrophes that have been looming before me. Now that I have a good paying job and steady income (even if I get ill) I should be able to pay everything off with no problem over the next year.

Now, I need to get my taxes done to see how much damage they are going to do to my pocketbook. :/

I got a little ballsy this afternoon and decided to spend a little bit of money and get a new stereo system in my Isuzu Stylus installed this afternoon (Santino put in the speakers to save me some money). I got a brand new stereo unit, two new speakers for the front doors, and Santino had some speakers for the back laying around that his ex gave to him before they broke up. Score! :) It is so much fun driving around the car I had when I was 18 years old with a dope stereo system. I am trying to make the car look like it was when it was new. All it needs are a few cosmetic improvements and some tender loving care.

I Feel Like An Idiot

The timing belt on my Beetle broke and it ended up destroying the engine. Now I have to buy a new engine and as you might imagine it is not cheap. My parents let me borrow my old car (the fixed it up and kept it around the house as a back-up car), a 1991 Isuzu Stylus, and I have been using that to get back and forth to work. The car is actually not all that bad at all, except that it only has one working speaker. :( Santino has some speakers that were given to him by his ex-girlfriend and we are going to look into installing them into my Stylus just so I can have some tunage until I can get my Beetle fixed.

I am really in a very bad financial place right now and am probably going to have to open up a new credit account in order to borrow some money to get the Beetle engine fixed in a timely manner. Thank goodness I just started a new job that pays decently. It is going to take a while to recover from this though, and the fact that I still have to do my taxes and am getting married in May is making me feel that the recent events with my car have been catastrophic.

Destination

The older and wiser I get, the more I am coming to realize and accept that save for my family, I am destined to be a loner.

What The Pleidians Say About Sex And Relationship

"You inherit the blueprint of every person with whom you have sex, so you not only have your stuff to deal with but theirs as well. When your body comes together with another's, your chakras are stirred and your kundalini is moved. If it is not a full body infusion, you can have 'hooks' in the other person's auric field, and they can have 'hooks' in yours. This is why it is important to be very selective about who you are going to have sex with. Make sure if you are going to go for it that you haves some kind of bond and commitment and that you plan on working things out, because in this day of accelerated time and sped up energy, you can take everything on from someone else. "


-Barbara Marciniak - Earth: Pleiadian Keys To The Living Library

Mineral Makeup

I was a huge makeup junkie from the time I was about 13 until I was around 23 or so... at the peak of it I actually had a HUGE tackle box-like plastic carrying case of makeup (when I was going through my goth phase). When I became a raver, however, I started to value the HEALTHY skin look and eventually realized that make-up was not really all that compatible with having healthy skin. I switched my obsession to healthy cleansers, lotions, oils- all made of essential oils - and trying to eat and drink things that would make my skin glow from the inside out. I never quit using lip balm and eyeliner, though. I have been using Dr. Hauschka eyeliner for over five years now. Today I took a step forward into the world of mineral makeup, by buying some concealer that is supposed to hide red blemishes and might possibly work on the black circles I sometimes get under my eyes. Supposedly, the mineral makeup I bought is supposed to be good for the skin by protecting it from harmful sun rays. Here is the brand I am trying out:

Larenim Hocus Pocus Concealer


I also bought an application brush from another mineral makeup brand called Mineral Fusion:

Crease Brush by Mineral Fusion

My True First Love

When I graduated college in 2005 I was determined to be independent and to not go back to work full time at any organization. I was determined to start my own business, so I pursued this desire. I made this intention into a reality and since December of 2006 I have had more work than I can handle. I have supported my lifestyle of renting a beautiful house on a horse farm in a prestigious area of Albemarle county, supported a record label, done a little bit of traveling, bought a new car, and paid all of my bills on time (including my student loans). However, I have noticed that owning and running my own business is a hell of a lot of work. Many nights I have spent time away from my relationship and my own creative pursuits, slaving over the computer to get caught up on work that I am doing FOR OTHER PEOPLE. Not only has my relationships with my SO and my friends suffered, but also my ambitions to work on music and release a record. I long for the days when I worked 9-5, had health insurance, and no responsibilities once I came home. I also miss PAID VACATION. I have decided to put my business on a bit of a hiatus and accept a job at the University in order to change things up and get some good benefits for a while. I am hoping that I will have all of my evenings and weekends to myself to do whatever the hell I want to do and not worry about catching up with work. Hopefully, my new job will not require a lot of overtime. If it is anything like my former job at UVA, it will not. I dream of coming home at nights and working on my personal web sites FOR MYSELF, and my EP which I plan on putting out on FBI in two years.

After one year, if my new job is a good fit, I plan on enrolling (free tuition!) in a Masters Degree program at UVA. I want to get my degree in Music Composition and Computer Technologies. I am tired of focusing my education on design and programming and am ready to put the focus back on my true first love: MUSIC. I look back to my childhood with its ambitions and have realized that my life is starting to come around full circle. I am a musician first and foremost, and I somehow found a way to support myself comfortably even though traditionally musicians have a tough time making it.