posted March 08, 2009 12:26 AM            

Leaping ...

Dulce - I miss the Red Sea. It really is pristine. The salt levels in there make it easy to float too

AG - How are ya

posted March 08, 2009 12:27 AM            

Beck, Girl (long-time Back fan...I love this video) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13iLkTrDlbI

Fiona Apple, Not About Love (I like the video too ) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4LmJToyAEo

Sting, Fortress Around Your Heart. (I love Police too) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gd0cvOHTHE

Kate Bush, Cloud Busting (I'm a huge fan of her stuff): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRHA9W-zExQ

Fairouz (Really amazing Lebanese singer) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrZ8F43-4c8

Lila Downs, Burn It Blue (from the Frida soundtrack): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxdCJA-de3s

Megadeath, Symphony of Destruction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qKGZ4Ysy5M

Oum Kalthoum (A very beloved Egyptian singer from the past. She's amazing, but I don't think it would appeal to everyone's taste ) Enta Omri : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_865eOixNas

Some background on Oum Kalthoum's singing method: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDAt7LfDP7o

Radiohead (huge fan), No Surprises: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqsyXdj_p_I

Radiohead, Just: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5X7HKxpiQA

Radiohead, Fitter, Happier (scarier....scary song ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laoq1eeIUxQ

Radiohead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGRdh_3XN5U

Radiohead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJkeVkYq8Es

Radiohead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdPtlIeJYQ

Radiohead, Pyramid Song (makes me cry sometimes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLOPO-z7xh4&feature=related

Radiohead (I love this too): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vgMYcMROcc&feature=related

Radiohead (lovely song...really sexy IMO): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmj176eFXEI&feature=related

posted March 13, 2009 03:46 AM            

Snohawk....lol. That's the only Megadeath song I like. I rather enjoy the chunk-blowing voice in this one

Good Girl - Glad you liked it! I start to get all teary and bawl my head off when I listen to Oum Kalthoum. Apparently this is normal in Egypt, and she seems to have that reaction a lot. It's weird.

Well, I am ******* exhausted. I am seriously ****** off too. I'm happy to FINALLY be starting my own website/business for my own readings. I really need to - the place I currently read through gets a lot of traffic, but charged 45% of what I make!!!! Can you believe it?! Well, anyway, so it sucks and I am kind of at a point when I am ready to keep my own money from readings that I do. I may not have a lot of traffic initially, but I intend to give it about a year to see what happens.

I am tired of people asking for readings about if they are pregnant. I also write on my work page that I do NOT do medical readings of ANY kind. I also tell these people to go and buy a pregnancy kit. Seriously, people, how hard is it? I charge anywhere from 3-4 dollars A MINUTE. Trust me, it's cheaper to run to the store and pick up a kit. And yet clients act all insulted when I tell them this. Like I've told them to go lick a lightbulb or something.

Then I have the reads where people who are in school ask me how they will do in school for the semester. UGH! Instead of asking me, DO YOUR HOMEWORK! LOL.

I'd do horary if I was better at it, but that's just not my focus.

One of the things that bugs me about the site I work through is that people get to leave ratings for every reading you do. Don't get me wrong, I'm a 5-star reader. But sometimes it's like having to walk eggshells. I don't like to sugarcoat my reads but the level of gentleness can really be challenging sometimes. I don't let anyone hire me until I feel I've made a connection with their situation, and 9/10 I know the rating will be good - because I take the effort to make sure I can connect to them.
But still. Sometimes, my clients need to have sense knocked into them, and there's nothing less predictable than an emotional client who is going to rate based on what they want to hear instead of the honest vision. No matter how nice you are, and forthcoming, they will hate you if you give them negative news. And that's a bite on my ass. Because it feels like I am not always able to be as honest as I want since my ratings are being compromised potentially. And people DO hire on the site I work for according to pages upon pages of 5-star feedback.

SOmetimes I get clients who need a firm shake out of their state - they come back again and again. At that point, I tell them not to hire and then just try and smack some sense into them. If they don't hire, they can't leave feedback. I don't like to have client too dependent on me - they get a grace period of help, and then they can't keep asking the same question with me, because I don't allow co-dependent behavior. It's gotten a lot of my clients out of terrible relationships and feeling better about themselves, but sometimes, I swear, I just want to yell my head off that I can't have someone hire me while I feel free enough to give my reads out of fear of the ratings. I hate that I give my toughest advice off the clock.

Hence, my new site. I really hope it does well. I just need the freedom, and clients who actually want the kind of reads I offer, not ones who maybe want to try me out just because I might give them blanket words. I can't stress the point of free will enough in my reads. For every action there is a consequence. That's the 'catch' with free will. Most of the time that's all we;re asking about - how our own or other people's free will effect us. But it always does...and it only runs through my hands momentarily, before running through the hands of the universe, which obviously has its own will....

posted March 14, 2009 02:19 AM            

I have some domains. Same primary name with different suffixes. That's the right word, right (.com .net .org etc.)?

I got the sites with an idea in mind, but I'm thinking about assembling a team more for the purpose of actually doing something with the site rather than doing nothing. I don't know that I have the follow through to do everything, and it would be handy to have the help of people familiar with managing sites.

posted March 14, 2009 07:59 PM            

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Like I've told them to go lick a lightbulb or something.

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A Rant?? It's so good to hear a little venting from you...you're usually such a cheerleader to the rest of us (bless your heart)...I am still wearing the smile on my face from reading your post.Fiesty girl!!

posted March 15, 2009 12:02 AM            

Leaping - I need to IM you...sorry I've not been around

Snohawk - Well, I concur. I don't think I'd dig on a sped-up Sabbath song, especially Paranoid. I've always been a fan of their stuff.

Good Girl - Oh yeah, I rant my head off sometimes My 5th house and Jupiter 10th doesn't show it (bouncy bouncy bouncy!) because I always try to be optimistic, but MAN, when I get ****** off, I can go on forever about how irritated I am

posted March 15, 2009 12:48 AM              

And congratulations on the website again. Sounds cool about the past life reading thing, how does it work? I can't conceive your resource to assuredly declare. How are you sure what someone's "past life" is? How do you know, is what I mean. I'm definitely interested in this. Your saying astrology comes into it makes me doubtful of it, though, unless you meant the theory of progressing through the signs and "passing" you lives. Why I'm doubtful, and what I suspect you DO mean, is predictions based on astrological natal charts or something like that. My mom went to some website and got a sheet of a bunch of stuff on what people with her aspects were told their past lives were by Edward Cayce (if that's his name), but that, obviously, isn't definite, and I think is just the stupidest thing.

Wow, my username is my email without the webaddress (.com etc.), and by reflex I typed my whole email address instead of my username, but luckily enough, when I pressed back the text was kept. That would have been a pain in the ass.

posted March 15, 2009 03:55 AM            

Snohawk....WHOA, there
No, i don't do predictions on past lives - I basically take a snapshot of someone and see stuff. It usually resonates with them. The asteroid thing is from the natal chart - so kind of as a backup, if I am seeing a kind of pattern in a past life, I check the asteroids connected to it, and go from there. But there are no predictions with the astrology. I just don't know enough about it to do that anyway.

Like I said, it's just fine-tuning now.

I'm not into Edward Cayce or anyone like that. I just don't connect to that stuff. I'm too much of a skeptic (I know it's kind of weird to say, considering my work - but I am a HUGE skeptic in general).
I just kind of do the reading and see the pictures/movie, and just write it out. It's pretty detailed, and interesting to do. Do I believe in past lives? I don't know. I just know what I see. I'm not 100% anything really... Again, I lean toward skepticism a lot of the time, because I tend to see/sense a lot and it's overwhelming. Mostly I just go with what I get and trust the inner voice, and it's right. If it's not, at least I tried my best. I do no more and no less than my best though.

I 'know' (whatever that term means) that it's past life when I see all the old garbs/cities/etc. But you know what? Most of the time what I am seeing is 'now', and present tense. 9/10 what I describe in relation to past life has gone in the person's life and they're working through it. So, who knows? Maybe these past lives are just present tense in the garbs of yesterday, you know? Who I am to be absolutely sure?

posted March 15, 2009 10:44 PM              

Well yes, perhaps not AS crude, but somehting I could do myself, and thus have little need to got to you for. It's not like you have some authority as to what is so more so than anyone else, is what I mean.

posted March 15, 2009 11:16 PM            

And I'm certainly not asking you to be a client

Any way....I think it's about doing something for long enough to feel confident about it. Like with any job....you do it long enough, learn enough about it, and you start to find out more. You become an authority when you've amassed enough experience to hopefully call yourself competent to an extent.

posted March 16, 2009 12:08 AM              

The thing is *I* don't feel confident about it, and it's my money.