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In the past year I have spent close to 30 nights in the backcountry and on not one of them have I gotten a descent nights sleep. I have tried different pads - the Nightlight, Torsolight, and Threrm-a-Rest Prolite 3. I've tried taking different meds - Tylonal PM, Benadryl, Melatonin, and Wisky (not together of course.) No luck. I allways wake up serveral times during the night. Do you sleep solid through the night when in the backcountry? What's your secret?
BobOf the pads you've tried which one was more comfortable?
There are hundreds that swear by hammocks as the ultimate in comfort. My hammocking has only gone as far as the backyard, but it's something you may want to look into. You could also look into one of those super-cush down air mattresses that are about a foot thick, used by backcountry stuntmen. For me, I've never had a problem with a basic thin pad for mostly stomach sleeping, so that's what I use. It's usually other details that get in the way.One, not being tired enough to go to bed. If I try to go to sleep earlier than I really biologically feel like it, I end up frustrated and restless. I like to keep occupied with some reading, writing, or listening until my eyelids go half-mast. Long days of walking also help wear me out, but that's more of a style element.Two, temperature and moisture. It takes some practice and luck to forecast my clothing needs for an entire night of sleep, but having breathable, easily adjusted sleeping gear can make a big difference. I'd choose a sleeping bag you can get body parts in and out of easily, and that will keep you at the temperature you like to sleep at. Quilts fit well here, or use a sleeping bag that ventilates well when needed. As for clothing, it needs to not get clammy and be easy to take off or adjust without waking up too much. Hoods, hats, gloves, and scarves are easy to adjust. Pants, not so much. You can also bring clothing inside the bag without wearing it, just to add a thin layer.Three, aches and pains. A good session of stretching at the end of the day works wonders for me. There's no reason to not do it. It will keep you flexible, keep the soreness at bay, and you won't tighten up as much overnight. You'll be able to adjust to a variety of different positions more easily. If absolutely needed, add your mild painkiller of choice.Four, noise. Earplugs can be miracle-workers.Five, food and water. Typical signs like racing heartbeat, headache, thirst, wooziness, restlessness are a tip-off. There's an element of timing here. I like to drink all I can when I've stopped, get rid of all I can before I go to bed. I notice that my heartrate will remain at a slightly elevated level if I haven't had sufficient water, salts, carbs, etc. to replace and replenish at the end of the day.Hope that helps a bit.-Mark
The first time I got a full night sleep in the back country was when I was using the combination of an insulated air mattress and a down quilt. The quilt made it easy to adjust temp so I wasn't too hot or too cold. The insulated air mattress provided the right about of cushion and insulation. Now that it is possible, I find four things which effect getting through the night:1) Thermal Comfort. I need to be in the "zone" for the insulation I am using. Much of the year I am using a ghost quilt. In temps from 40-70 I can sleep through the night. When it's colder of warmer I tend to wake up unless I change something.2) Moisture management. I seem to sweat more than some people. If I feel sticky, I have a harder time getting to sleep. A bath (ideally in a nature hotspring) helps this. Also what clothing I am wearing impacts this.3) Enough food/water. If I am not well hydrated or didn't eat enough dinner I will wake up cold and hungry.4) Pain meds. Generate don't need them.. but sometimes my joints hurt. I have found aleve helps when nothing else does. Medically effectiveness of aleve requires a loading dose of 2 pills to the it started.
Edited by verber on 10/12/2005 16:48:09 MDT.
Mark,first rule, use the minimum amount of "drug"/medicine needed to alleviate the condition. however, if the pain is ever worse than usual, you might try adding one or two extra-strength tylenol into the mix with the aleve/naproxin or (NOT 'and') iubuprofen/motrin. while tylenol is NOT a NSAID and so will not assist in alleviating the joint inflamation, it will work synergistically with the Aleve as far as pain relief/perception is concerned. since these two drugs are in different classes, acting differently in/upon the body, they can be safely mixed - each without reducing their normal, separate doses. this is actually a not uncommon medical practice (used in some cases to supplement narcotic pain relief in the Hospice, Pain Therapy, and Oncology fields) - just ask your Doc. [sidebar info: NSAID = Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug - aleve, IB, and aspirin are NSAIDs,as are the newer COX-II (cox-2) inhibitors (VIOXX, Celebrex, etc) - and shouldn't be mixed in full doses of each. possible digestive, bleeding, and renal issues from long term use/overuse. i won't go into details, check with your Doc. tylenol too should not be overused - has effects upon the liver.]
Edited by pj on 10/13/2005 02:27:27 MDT.
Bob G:Almost any sleep problem in the backcountry can be fixed once you identify the cause. However, be advised that most folks wake up several times a night when sleeping outdoors. It has to do with a higher level of attentiveness and generally longer times in the sack. It is the habit of old woods hands to take the opportunity to star gaze, take a whiz, listen to the critters, and so on. Occasional wakefulness is a good part of the outdoor experience for many. However, if you are experiencing fatigue -- if it is a real problem, then perhaps something else is going on.Are you waking up because of the pad, or are you becoming wakeful, then finding that the pad becomes the focus of your attention? If so, you might consider: Do you drink caffeine after noon? Your bod may react differently in the woods - different exercise, different food. Is the wakefullness related to muscle or joint pain? If so consider drugs (ref. previous posts). You said you had no success with Benadryl or its clones. Too bad.IF you are sure the problem is only your choice of pad, then consider: What is the exact nature of your discomfort? For example: a. feeling the ground through the pad; b. cold; c. unaccustomed stress on lower back (if lying on back) or tork of the lower back (if lying on side).If a or b, the obvious answer is more pad or more careful choice of bed. There is a big difference between forest duff and uneven bare ground, and no reasonable pad will fix a bad location. If *c*, consider modifying a pad to create contours for your hips, to support the lower back. Experiment with additional padding under your waist or the small of your back (depending on how you sleep) and perhaps under the thighs. The waist/back pad may need as much as 1.5 inches to feel OK. Done right, you can think you are on a perfect mattress in the honeymoon suite. Once you get the pad location(s) right you can glue it down or glue on a Velcro patch (loop only). If you like self inflating pads, consider using a Therm-a-rest pillow for the waste pad -- if it is thick enough for you. It's about right for some folks. If you need a more custom fit, just glue up enough closed-cell foam pieces to get the support that works. Incidentally, the reason for adding padding under the thighs is to keep them from levering your pelvis and stressing the lower back with lying on the back. This is not a problem for everyone. The *perceived* effect is to create a hip hole. Old woods hands used to dig out a hip hole as part of making the bed. You can still do that some places. Try it. But renaturalize it before leaving.
I'm a bony side-sleeper with a proclivity for camping on hard ground. The Big Agnes Insulated Air Core mattress has made a huge difference for me. I would expect similar products would do just as well.I still haven't figured out what to do about my other sleep problem: waking up in response to every little animal sound.
I am a side sleeper and mainly used the 3/4 NightLight pad bump side down. When I woke up, my hips would often be sore. So I figured it was the pad that was causing me to wake up. I recently purchased the BMW Torsolite to alleviate this problem. I used it this past weekend in the Shenandoah and was exited for a blissful night of sleep. However, I ended up having one of the worst nights of sleep in recent memory -- but not because of the pad. The pad one fine and I didn't have any pain in my hips. I believe the main reason for my restlessness was three fold: 1) My head was not properly supported. I use my extra clothes in the stuff sack as a pillow and they get compressed throughout the night so I start with a nice pillow and end up with almost nothing. The Torsolite exaggerated this problem because it is so thick and the pillow sits on the ground. 2) Heightened awareness. I would wake up at any little sound. This was also only my third solo trip. I think sleeping alone in the woods puts me a little more on guard. 3) I went to bed way too early. With the nights getting longer, it gets dark at 7 PM but I usually go to bed at 11 PM. Being alone there wasn't much to do so I just went to sleep.This is my plan for next time:1) Stay with the Torsolite as I believe it alleviates hip pain when sleeping on my side. 2) Put shoes in a bag and use that as a pillow. It won't be soft but it will be supportive. 3) Wear ear plugs so I don't wake up at every little sound, 4) Go to bed at my usuall bed time - 11 PM. - Bob
I think most of it is just due to the vastly different environment. My guess is, if you were out for a week or longer... after the first few days... you'd start to sleep better... no matter what pad you used. For me, I find the confines of a sleeping bag take a few nights to get used to. I'm used to being able to splay out in all directions if I want and take up an entire queen sized bed... lol. Sound also bothers me... I can't sleep in a rain storm. So ear plugs help.I have a question... is it possible to sleep on your front in a hammock?!?! I love the idea... but I'm a front sleeper. I do a lot of yoga... so I'm very flexible... very flexible spine... but still!!! I can't see it being comfortable on your front :(
Edited by davidlewis on 10/13/2005 14:48:54 MDT.
Bob G: Glad you have a plan together. Head support is a good one, I should have put that at number six for my list. Like you decided, I also keep my head on my shoes. I usually lap my sleeping pad over the shoes, or put a bag full of soft gear on top. Either way helps keeps the smell down... a little. Good luck.-Mark
> have a question... is it possible to sleep on your front in a hammock?I've done it in a Hennessy Hammock. Reason is that by sleeping diagonally in this hammock you aren't sleeping on the curve, but instead are sleeping mostly flat. I'm a front sleeper and have slept front-down in my HH, although I do find it more comfortable sleeping on my side. Best sleep I've had is in my Hennessy Hammock. I wake up (cold, but that's another post) and don't have any back/neck pain, while others are moaning their way out of their tents. I recently spent four nights on a Gossamer Gear ThinLight 1/8" pad (for warmth, not much padding) with a torso-length Z-Rest on top. My shoulders ached, as usual on the ground, so I resorted to taking an Aleve before bed. It made quite a difference. I picked up a BMW TorsoLite, and it feels like my old Thermarest when I lay on concrete--I haven't tried it in the field yet. I'm willing to carry a few ounces more if it will help me sleep better at night. The GG ThinLight + BMW TorsoLite seems like the best setup for me (at least until I solve my cold-weather problems in the hammock).
Bob, sweet dreams next time out.I've had trouble sleeping through the night too, but for me it's been the over-vigilance, wigging out being in the woods phenomenon. Though it seems to be subsiding with each trip I take (and as I fine tune the secondary comfort factors).I plan to switch from my heavy 2-wall tent to a tarp soon, primarily for weight reasons, but I also have a theory that the openess of a tarp will put me more at ease. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this?
KeKane,"theory that the openess of a tarp will put me more at ease. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this?"Yep. A tarp lets you see what that furtive rustling really is -- a sneaky carnivore, a chipmunk gnawing into your food bag, a Bowie knife wielding psycho, beetles playing under the leaves, whatever. You can only adjust to woods sounds if you can truth-check them, and a tarp lets you do that. And you don't have to cut your way out of your tent if a bear should happen to appear in the door as happened to a couple of friends of mine. When they went out the back of the tent, the bear got scared and ran the other way. So much for one tent. They were eating cookies, not sharing, and deserved it.
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Following her sudden rise to stardom in 2013, 'Rosie', the 'Tutty Gran' sensation has made another appearance on video. This time, however, her emergence is not well received by members of the Jamaican public.
In the five-minute-long tape - posted to several popular gossip-based local Facebook pages - scenes of Rosie and an unidentified man in a heated verbal exchange was to the dismay of several viewers.
While the root of the dispute is unclear, the footage is littered with a string of expletives hurled by Rosie, who spares virtually no threat in a dispute believed to be over a sum of money.
"And don't call out mi pickney dem name!," Rosie begins.
"Try fi gi mi mi money enuh ...," the man rebutted before being cut off by Rosie.
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Washington Post: "Youll almost certainly enjoy Beryl Bainbridges dry humor and her books pervasive sense of menace."
By Michael Dirda
A few months back, the people behind the Man Booker Prize, Britain's highest honor for fiction, decided that the late Beryl Bainbridge deserved a special award. When the much beloved writer died last year at age 77, tributes galore came from such notables as biographer Michael Holroyd and novelist A.N. Wilson, and most of them mentioned that Bainbridge had been nominated for the Booker on five occasions and never won. She was the perennial "Booker bridesmaid."
So a contest was held: Which of Bainbridge's titles deserved a posthumous award? The winner was "Master Georgie" (1998), an intricately structured short novel about a surgeon (and amateur photographer) in the Crimean War. It opens this way:
"I was twelve years old the first time Master Georgie ordered me to stand stock still and not blink. My head was on a level with the pillow and he had me rest my hand on Mr. Hardy's shoulder; a finger-tip chill struck through the cloth of his white cotton shirt. It was a Saturday, the feast of the Assumption, and to stop my eyelids from fluttering I pretended God would strike me blind if I let them, which is why I ended up looking so startled. Mr. Hardy didn't have to be told to keep still because he was dead."
Now that's what I call a hook.
Bainbridge wrote 17 novels, and "The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress" is the mysterious last, at once witty, engrossing and macabre. But then those words could describe almost all of Bainbridge's work. In general, her novels — as compact as those of Ivy Compton-Burnett or Penelope Fitzgerald, both of whom she sometimes resembles — tend to divide into the loosely autobiographical and the more or less historical. For instance, "An Awfully Big Adventure," about a second-rate troupe of English actors, took off from the young Bainbridge's own theatrical experience (and became the basis for a superb film starring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman). By contrast, "According to Queeney" focuses on Samuel Johnson's relationship to Mrs. Thrale and "Every Man For Himself" on the doomed Titanic voyage. I first became aware of Bainbridge in 1978, when she brought out "Young Adolf," a fictionalized account of the 23-year-old Hitler's visit to Liverpool in 1912. That alone should give new readers some idea of her unsettling imagination.
In "The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress" a young Englishwoman named Rose arrives in a United States riven by civil unrest. It is 1968: The Vietnam War is escalating, Martin Luther King Jr. has recently been assassinated and violence seems endemic nationwide. Rose is in her mid-to-late 20s, works in a Liverpool dental office and has taken three weeks' holiday to search for a mysterious Dr. Wheeler. While she was growing up, Wheeler had been something of a foster-father and wise counselor to her, and she feels a deep connection to him.
Her trip, though, is being financed by a middle-aged Washington Harold, who also wants to locate Wheeler for reasons of his own. Rose, he figures, will help lead him to the doctor, who may be working for some sort of political or intelligence organization. From the beginning, Harold is intent on making the almost penniless Rose feel a sense of obligation to him: "It would make her more compliant when the time came." That sounds more than a little sinister.
Rose's character is hard to read: At times she seems a total innocent, almost a period flower-child. She doesn't like to bathe, wears the same shapeless raincoat all the time and often behaves like an extremely naive female Candide, wide-eyed in a strange and savage land. But there are darker sides to her character, too, and, when she wants to, she can effortlessly manipulate the people around her. She steals, regularly wheedles cigarettes from strangers, periodically recalls disturbing episodes from her childhood — including an illegitimate baby — and tells lies with blithe abandon:
" 'He was a great friend of the poet, Robert Lowell . . . You've heard of him?'
" 'Who hasn't?' said Rose."
In structure, the novel traces Harold and Rose's journey by camper from Baltimore and Washington to Southern California, the road trip being the traditional form through which foreign authors satirize American life: Think of such novels as Kafka's "Amerika," Nabokov's "Lolita,"J.G. Ballard's "Hello America." In just 162 pages, Bainbridge's odd couple attend a dinner party given by a Washington power couple; encounter a series of ominous characters who rant about religion, race and politics; are caught up in a bank hold-up; try to help a woman permanently addled by lysergic acid; hide the body of a murdered man; and meet a hypnotist who darkly claims to be able to control and manipulate anyone. Throughout, there are frequent allusions to horse-racing, love affairs gone wrong, suicide and the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where Dr. Wheeler may be staying, along with presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and his campaign staff.
As is often with Bainbridge, the real joy of her book lies in its deadpan humor. Rose tells us, for instance, that "she wasn't into wine; in her opinion it took far too long to make one feel cheerful" and that she had "spent most of her childhood crouched on the stairs listening to her parents calling each other names." At one hotel, she drops in on a meeting of Theosophists:
"Rose took a seat at the back and then moved forward; she didn't want to draw attention to herself by looking solitary. The proceedings began with a prayer to Him on High followed by a rendering of 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' sung without accompaniment by an elderly lady in a coal-black wig."
Similarly grotesque scenes and characters recur throughout "The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress." When Rose and Harold stop at a farm near Santa Ana, they meet a woman named Philopsona whose elderly mother "sat in a chair overlooking the fields, dressed in a nightie and a straw hat, clutching a woolly rabbit and the remains of a charred handbag." Later, "Philopsona cooked them lunch, the ingredients home-grown, even the chicken. The birds, she trumpeted, were her pride and joy, each one with a name and fondled from birth. She never allowed anyone but herself to wring their necks. 'It wouldn't be right,' she assured Rose. 'They need somebody they can [expletive] trust!' The one they were about to devour was called Nessie."
In the end, "The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress" is strong on atmosphere, incident and wit, while remaining rather nebulous and tantalizing in its plot and resolution. So it's not quite as fine a novel as those various Booker short-listed titles. Still, you'll almost certainly enjoy Beryl Bainbridge's dry humor and her book's pervasive sense of menace. It's an odd combination, but Bainbridge brings it off beautifully.
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Don't Bring Home the Polystyrene Foam
December 12 2008 | Rise Above Plastics,
by Ximena Waissbluth, Program Director
I love this gift I received from a Surfrider WestLA/Malibu Chapter Activist, Laura Boccaletti, when I presented there a few months back. Well done! We use it to table at our beach cleanups now. If you do beach cleanups, this would be a great project to put a creative person in charge of, make one of these, bring it to cleanups, and talk about why...


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Considering Colmers and his group's major focus is in obesity, this is a very exciting finding.
"You can find the fridge and you know there's good stuff in there, so you can find it in your sleep, and people do," said Colmers. "So there's this whole reward aspect to place that we've been able to unravel."
These results help explain the mechanisms that underlie the formation of reward-cued spatial memories in both the laboratory model and human dentate gyrus. Understanding this mechanism not only explains the biology of an important form of learning, but may also lead to potential treatments for addiction and obesity.
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Flashbacks from emails long, long, long past.
Something I wrote to a friend, the only line she quoted back to me:
p.p.s. given that, THIS CHICKEN'S NOT SO BAD A TYPICST.
From my brother, same month (12/99):
Here's a passage from Tropic of Cancer. I seriously suggest you read this book:
I think I told you I got my schedule for next semester and I got everything I wanted. For theology I have the really good priest who was the exorcist. We'll see what happens, my man.
My boy Paul once said:
I have a font called Zapf Chancery, but since it is a script font it is already italic, and by default I guess it would be medium. Do you need an exact match, or a font that looks similar?
A girl said:
I think I forgot to send you email about the Friday party. Sorry, J
Agi says this shit is so bullshit she can't believe it.
'Don't use my name, first of all. Second of all don't use my name.'
'Sweetie, do you understand what I'm saying about credibility?'
'First of all I don't speak that way. I don't say "Saying about credibility". [...] THIS IS FUN FOR YOU!!'


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Sephora VIB Friends and Family Event 20% Off in Store
Stalk your mail boxes!
Yesterday, I got a coupon from Sephora to get 20% Off my total order in store! The Sephora VIB Friends and Family event starts on November 11th and ends on November 15th so if you're a Sephora Beauty Member and you've reached VIB status you should be getting a coupon via regular snail mail soon!
I imagine Sephora will also e-mail the coupon out as well once the date grows closer so be sure to check your e-mail!
Just wanted to give you a heads up!
11/5/10 13:15 DivineMsN:
Just in time for my bday! I was gonna hit them up anyway 😉
11/5/10 13:25 Perry:
You're killing me! I just purchased a Clarisonic online and now I'm getting antsy…should have waited for this!
11/5/10 13:47 Ludwig:
Hey Muse, any deets on if there is a VIB Shopping Party as well this year? I missed it last year (I believe it was a 3 hour event and they had food and sample bags)
11/5/10 14:44 Kaoru:
According to my invitation that I got (it was inside my coupon):
Holiday Shopping Kick-Off
Thursday, November 11 6-9 PM
*20% off for YOU AND A FRIEND
*FREE Sephora Collector's Tote
*First look at new holiday beauty
*Holiday makeup lessons from our experts
(I left their punctuation in tact, so the yelling is them, not me, hehe.)
11/5/10 13:59 Michelle:
I just hauled from the Sephora F&F and the Beauty.com F&F and now a VIB only F&F??!?!?! My heart sings and my wallet…well that's another story!
11/5/10 14:55 vonnie:
yes!! time to go get a new foundation!
11/5/10 15:23 Tracy:
Yay! Now at least in Canada we can get 20% off too!
11/5/10 16:53 Kate:
I hope so too, but I wouldn't hold my breath. We always get screwed
11/5/10 15:25 Lisa:
Sweet!!!! I missed the online F&F but I never get anything in snail mail from them. I hope I get my coupon. Or hopefully just show up and they can check that I'm VIB.
11/5/10 16:01 Andrea:
Just hit VIB status thanks to the online F&F. I was planning on taking a break from shopping at Sephora, but they're making it very difficult with all these lovely discounts… Plus I have a b-day coming up this month so I *have* to stop in sometime soon… 😉
11/5/10 18:14 Rinny:
Thank you so much for sharing this! I will definitely keep an eye out for it in the mail; hopefully none of my neighbors steals my coupon >.<
11/5/10 19:14 Katy:
hey muse, i literally JUST became a VIB (i think) with my haul from this past sale online so idk if i'll get anything in the mail….do they typically send an e-mail to VIBs? do they tell you anything letting you know you've become one? 'cause on my account page thing it says i am but i didn't get an e-mail or anything :\ i want more stuff!! 😀
11/5/10 19:28 Lisa:
Omg! Sephora is killing my credit line lol. Thanks for posting this! <3 I hope the naked palette comes back in stock!! Must .. get .. it … arghhh loll.
11/5/10 19:41 Cait:
ahh..i'm a VIB but haven't gotten this yet..I better or else Sephora will be receiving a call from me..haha
This is killing me, lol… I just placed order #2 12 min before the F&F ended on 11/3…. I guess we'll be getting more Philosophy! I'm loving the Peppermint Bark right now, my husband is loving the the Melting Marshmallow lotion.
Hmmm…I might buy a clarisonic depending on how many hours I end up working next week, LOL.
11/6/10 13:17 Amanda:
Is there going to be a generic code for it this year, similar to FF2010?
11/6/10 15:20 Bel:
Are they having the $15 or $20 off coupon this year as well? Or is it just the discount this year?
11/6/10 17:33 origami:
Is this going to be for Canada as well?
11/8/10 17:19 origami:
I just got on an invite so I guess Canada's in! 😀
11/8/10 12:41 Kate:
I emailed Sephora with the same question and it will work for Canadian stores! Can't wait till Wednesday
11/6/10 18:58 Julie:
Got my coupon ready to shop!
11/6/10 19:52 Mara:
I just made VIB a couple of months ago and haven't received any e-mail coupons for a 20% in store discount. Is that how they usually do it, they don't send the e-mail en masse at the same time to all VIB members? I'm getting antsy because the Bobbi Brown limited edition Holiday palette just became available and I have to get it before it goes out of stock again.
11/6/10 21:56 Anngee:
Got my envelope yesterday and almost peed my pants. Like Michelle, I just got my F&F haul and am expecting my Beauty.com 20% off haul on Monday. I one-upped Michelle though because I also did a Stila.com 25% off haul. I'm truly scheming to try to intercept the UPS delivery before my husband does. You know you have problems when you are hiding packages from your spouse. He says I have a $25/day make-up habit. Little does he know, these recent hauls are well over 10x that. Each. I am officially The Make-Up Whore. Is that title already taken?
Here is what I got from F&F. I need serious intervention if I take advantage of the VIB event. Is there a 12-step program for make-up rehab?
1. Urban Decay Book of Shadows
2. Bare Escentuals/Pure Luxuries Vol. 2 – I COVET THIS SET.
3. Kat Von D/True Romance Eyeshadow Palette – True Love/True Romance
4. SEPHORA COLLECTION/Face & Eye Travel Tool Kit
5. tokidoki/Galleria Nail Files Series Uno
6. Too Faced/Enchanted Glamourland
7. SEPHORA COLLECTION/Double-Ended Grab'n Go Brush
8. Smashbox/Camera Ready Full Coverage Foundation
9. MAKE UP FOR EVER/Mat Velvet + Matifying Foundation/No. 35 – Vanilla
10. MAKE UP FOR EVER/UV Prime SPF 50
11. Pacifica/Indian Coconut Nectar Holiday Set
11/7/10 0:23 Martha:
You're too good to us for posting this!! I can't wait, I can't wait..
11/8/10 12:51 sunnygirl:
If the VIB discount is 20% then that is the same as the F&F one. It would have been nice if they gave is VIB'ers something a little more. Maybe I am missing something. Miss Muse, I love the way you write. You are so funny and so girly! I think the same way. Thanks for allllll you do.
11/9/10 0:11 HautePJ:
OMG, I just placed two orders online last week. Slight addiction, lol. I am going to stalk the mailman this whole week for my coupon!!


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Children's Museum garden looking for some pop from Pepsi
Project a finalist for $50,000 in Refresh online contest
Visit www.refresheverything.com/ childrensmuseumgarden
Opening its doors less than three years ago, the Children's Museum of the Treasure Coast is once again expanding with its most recent exhibit idea, an interactive garden, set to open by the end of the year.
The museum has teamed up with Pepsi Refresh, a project set up by Pepsi Co. to help fund community projects, to get the $50,000 it needs to bring this outdoor playground to life.
The museum, 1707 N.E. Indian River Drive in Jensen Beach, is creating the garden as a place for children to learn about agriculture, natural resources and the environment, all while having fun. The exhibit will feature a butterfly garden and a pizza garden, which will teach children how to grow and maintain their own herbs and vegetables, along with a rock wall and an outdoor seating area.
Now a finalist in the Pepsi Refresh contest, the museum needs the community's help voting for their project idea.
"Only 10 awards are given out and we would love to be one of them," said Olivia Labrador, the museum's education director. "It's important to create this area because it will be the first learning landscape for children along the Treasure Coast."
The project stands in 89th place.
Museum directors have plans to continue forward with the project, raising the cash on their own this fall, if the project is not selected by Pepsi.
The idea of the interactive garden came to be from a collaboration with the Junior League of Martin County, said Laura Shoppe, president of the museum's board of directors. The project has been in planning since before the museum's opening.
"It's so wonderful to see the league partner with us to do something lasting for the community," Shoppe said. "It's a great thing to have in our community and it is going to be a great option for teaching children about our environment."
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Group of women arrested in theft from Camarillo outlet store
From staff reports
Several women were arrested Wednesday afternoon on Highway 101 near the Lost Hills exit after employees at a Camarillo outlet store reported they stole some merchandise, authorities said.
Camarillo police said employees told authorities they confronted the five or six women at the store after they were caught shoplifting around 3 p.m.
Employees said the women entered a vehicle and left. A description of the vehicle was given to police. A detective later spotted a vehicle matching the description.
Police said a detective followed the vehicle south on Highway 101. The detective also asked for the help of other law enforcement officers.
Authorities pulled the vehicle over in the Lost Hills area of Los Angeles County where the women were arrested on suspicion of theft, authorities said.
The women were brought back to Ventura County and taken to jail, authorities said.
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I am a longtime silver elite member on Continental, and have long been worried about the high standards of customer service I have experienced with that airline being diminished as the merger with United progressed. My worries came true last weekend. I should also point out that I am not a complainer, am very understanding that mistakes can happen, and have a personal rule never to take out my frustrations on the individual who is not at fault, just a representative of the company that made the mistake.
On December 7, I was flying from Washington Dulles to Las Vegas, with a connection at LAX. As a silver elite member, my suitcase was tagged with a Priority baggage tag. I arrived in Vegas at 9:30PM, and my bag was nowhere to be found. Because I had a short turnaround in LA, I assumed my suitcase missed my connecting flight. But the young man in the baggage claim office informed me that my bag never made it on to my original flight in Washington, which is mind boggling considered I dropped the bag off 90 minutes before my flight departed. Using the tracking number, he informed me that the bag was on the current, later flight from Washington, and would arrive around midnight. It would then be delivered to my hotel, which is in the suburbs of Las Vegas, about 40 minutes from the airport.
It did not arrive that night, nor did it arrive that morning. It showed up at my hotel at 4PM, roughly 19 hours after I had arrived, and I was still wearing the same clothes I had traveled in. I was thankful to have my suitcase because I had a wedding rehearsal dinner to be at, at 7PM. But when I opened the suitcase, all of my clothes were soaking wet. And they smelled, from being wet for a full day and packed tightly in a suitcase. My guess is that the suitcase was left outside at Dulles Airport, which was having heavy rain storms when I departed. One-third of my trip to Vegas was already over, I was still in my jeans and t-shirt from the day before, and now I had a suitcase full of wet clothes.
I called United Baggage claim to ask them what I was entitled to, in terms of buying new clothes for the short-term and getting some of my clothes dry-cleaned. I was told I needed to take the suitcase to the airport to get it inspected by the agent there so they could determine the damage and compensation. I drove 40 minutes back to the airport (I had to be at a rehearsal dinner at 7PM, and all I had was the jeans and t-shirt I had traveled in and had been wearing for 36 hours) and spoke to the agent in the baggage claim office. She looked at the suitcase, and noted the suitcase itself was dry. I pointed out to her that when water-resistant suitcases get wet, they dry out quickly. But not the contents. She then admitted the clothes were wet, but couldnt really smell anything. I asked her to pick the clothes up and smell them individually, and she refused she thought this was somehow beneath her. She asked if I had any liquids packed in the bag that may have leaked I said no, and said I would need to have had a 3-gallon jug of water in there to get everything that wet. She then said I needed to call the 1-800 number and deal with them. I stepped out of the baggage office and did so, and this person insisted that the airport agent was the one I needed to talk to. I kept him on the line, went back into the office and asked the agent to speak to her colleague. She refused! I told the guy on the phone, and he asked me her name. She told me her name was CHARLENE. When I asked her for her last name, she said You dont need that. The 1-800 guy apologized, said there was nothing more he could do, and suggested I call United customer service. I then asked CHARLENE to call her supervisor, who apparently wasnt on location. I heard her talking to her supervisor, KATIE, and amazingly, CHARLENE was all but calling me a liar. She said the suitcase was dry, some of the clothes were wet, the customer says they smell but I dont really smell anything, and they had received no other complaints of wet clothes (gee, I wonder how many other people flew from Dulles-LAX-LAS the previous evening and lost their bags). She then hung up with KATIE, and told me that all I could do was contact United Customer Service.
I am aware of the airlines 24 hour lost bag rule and compensation. Nonetheless, I needed to purchase some new clothes and get others dry cleaned so I had something to wear on my trip. I spent the first day of my trip with no suitcase, attending a wedding rehearsal dinner in jeans and a t-shirt, and spent the next day or two waiting for all of my other needed clothes (shoes, running shoes, workout gear, pajamas, shirts, jeans, etc) to dry out.
On my way home, going through OHare, I went to the customer service desk and spoke to a very nice lady, who did what she said was the most could do for me she sent me a $125 voucher for my next trip. I appreciate this and her attitude, very much so, but will be requesting much more from United. My trip was ruined, and I spent $450 on that plane ticket. I had to buy $50 worth of new clothes, and $30 of dry cleaning. Worst of all was CHARLENE, who has no idea what the concept of customer service is. Never once did either she or the young man I saw on that first night apologize for my situation. I simple Im sorry, we screwed up .NOTHING. And then casting doubt on what happened to my luggage, and all but calling me a liar. This is unacceptable. This is how United treats elite members? I have been loyal Continental OnePass elite member for years, but this one experience has made me seriously consider switching my allegiance to a carrier that has a better concept of customer service than United.
Charlene got it into her head you were a liar and had gone to the trouble of wetting your own clothes, calling numbers repeatedly for assistance and then travelling 40 minutes out to the airport, to get compensation in the princely sum of $80. Charlene is burned out and is an idiot/
At the minimum United owe you the cost of dry cleaning your clothes, the purchase of emergency supplies (to which you are legally entitled regardless of whether the claim they mishandled your suitcase was true or not) and have provided a token gesture towards another ticket.
Personally, I would not ask for anything more. Instead, I would focus my fire on Charlene.... she is stupid and deserves to be humiliated. Write your most scathing letter..and if they don't respond appropriately switch to another carrier.... the big dilemma is who? Standards are low across the board!
This should have been better handled.. I think the LAS agents questioning was commensurate, in that her asking things like "did you have liquids inside?" and the like would be prudent questions to ask as a part of a larger investigation and asking such-- so long as it's done tactfully, I don't see an overt act of asserting blame to the passenger..
That said, I do NOT like the telephone tag game.. Airlines the size of UA (as UA and CO are now cleared by the FAA to operate under one AOC) should have better processes in place to insure that these things are handled on a more consistent basis..
IF it needs to be inspected, then so be it, but lets make sure that after doing so, the processes doesn't become a game of tag-- come get inspected, then call, no- go back to the office, etc.
Whatever the process needs to be, let's have it be that and be consistent so that dis-serviced passengers aren't further dis-serviced by a confusing and inconstently applied process.
As far the agents conduct when in the view or 'ear shot' of the OP, that's just wrong.. plain and simple..
She may have thought the OP was "a liar".. that's OK for her to think that.. I mean it's hard to control what one *thinks*.. and I don't have an issue per se, communicating her feelings or suspicions to her supervisors, but it's NOT acceptable to do so in front of the passenger. I'd also expect a good supervisor to not only take what their agent has told them, but also to do their own investigation as well.
She should have had more tact and said something like "Can you excuse me for just a few minutes, I need to speak to my supervisor on the matter. I will be right back with you in X minutes."
I also dislike the exchange about her last name.. I think it was in very poor taste to say simply "you don't need that.."
I think there's a whole lot of better ways to address this..
My carrier doesn't endorse the disclosing of last names.. but... to balance that with the real need for accountability - both good and bad- we are required to disclose our first name (or whatever our internal ID shows) and IF our last name is not present, we must disclose our full employee ID number..
So what I'd say in that scenario is something like...
"I'm sorry, but for personal safety reasons, we don't disclose our full names to passengers, but I'll be more than happy to write down my first name and my company ID code which anyone else can use to readily identify me within the company."
but again, like a lot of things in life, it's also HOW you say it.. I can say this and come off as a smart-a$$.. I can also say it, and look you straight in the eye, and be totally honest with you.. so delivery also counts too.
I think this is a fair balance between an employees right to have their personal identity protected and the need for proper accountability.
I think in the totality, UA owes you what you mention was missing from the start, a sincere "We're sorry".. and to the extent that it is, to make you whole for appropriate and document-able damages.
charlene's last name is goodsby. i know because she's still working there and still being outrageously rude and making up total lies, except now, she's the boss!
That says all you need to know about United...Charlene Goodsby, Idiot in Chef, gets promoted
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Friday, April 09, 2010
Little Sisters.
I took a Big Sister class even before you were born...
I was as proud as if you were my own child when you were born. Gosh, I was practically beaming...
We always enjoyed each other's company...
Thank you for cheering me up after all my surgeries...
We had lots of awesome jam sessions together...
I'm honored to be your sister, Janelle! I love you more than you'll ever know.
P.S. Don't forget to hug your sibling today! xoxo
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- Juliana said...
This was so very sweet, you girls are lucky to have each other. I wish I had a brother or a sister...but I guess that sometimes it is the family that you make and not necessarily the biological ones.
- April 9, 2010 at 11:08 AM
- Melissa Blake said...
i completely agree, juliana!
- April 9, 2010 at 11:11 AM
- Christy said...
That's sweet! I'm the middle of 7 and we haven't all been together in 10 years and are spread out all over the country! But I'll make sure I give all of them a call tomorrow!
Thanks for posting =)
- April 9, 2010 at 11:22 AM
- Wild and Precious said...
fun pictures!
girl, we've got to get you a scanner!
- April 9, 2010 at 11:23 AM
- Strawberry Templetons said...
Melissa, I love this post! I have a younger sister too and while we don't live near eachother, I try to stay connected with her via phone and occasional visits. I'll make sure to give her a hug tomorrow! I also have a brother who is in Afghanistan with the Army. I wish I could give him a hug too but I'll have to send him a mind hug instead. Thanks for the uplifting post!
- April 9, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- Melissa Blake said...
Hahaha, Wild! I do have a scanner, but it hasn't been working for 2 months!
- April 9, 2010 at 11:27 AM
- desireejaclyn said...
Awwww Melissa, what sweet photos! Thanks for posting.
- April 9, 2010 at 11:30 AM
- Melissa Blake said...
Mind hugs are awesome, too, Strawberry! :)
- April 9, 2010 at 11:48 AM
- minagraphy said...
Melissa, you're so right! Nothing is better than having a brother/sister. I love mine with all my heart, she's the most precious person in the world for me, my best friend, my confidante. Thanks for sharing your family pictures.
- April 9, 2010 at 11:58 AM
- Cat said...
How sweet...what a great time to stop and fully appreicate the siblings we have been blessed with :)
- April 9, 2010 at 12:28 PM
- Melanie's Randomness said...
aww this is so sweet!! What wonderful pictures! I'm an only child so I think I'll call my best friends tomorrow because they are like the sisters I've never had!
- April 9, 2010 at 12:49 PM
- Melissa Blake said...
How sweet, Melanie!
- April 9, 2010 at 12:58 PM
- SweetPeaknits said...
I loved you photos. Your very lucky to have such a special bond.
- April 9, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- Alicia said...
this is such a sweet post! i had no idea tomorrow was national sibling day!!
- April 9, 2010 at 1:49 PM
- hopeyt said...
This is such a sweet post. I just found your blog, and I am excited to read more. I really appreciate your honesty, and it is nice to read such good writing!
- April 9, 2010 at 2:37 PM
You are the two best daughters ever!!! Love, Mom
- April 9, 2010 at 4:59 PM
- MaryBeth said...
I was the younger sister but always felt the need to protect my older sister from the outside world. At some point in her life she learned how to do this herself.
I have just started reading your blog and was so happy to see you have red hair just like me. I always love meeting another red head, (really weird my attraction to red heads) I hope it shows in the picture. xo, MB
- April 9, 2010 at 8:35 PM
- leanne said...
You are the best Sister!
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Great information from all. I have tried most of the stoves mentioned and have decided the Coleman Xtreme is my stove of choice for winter hiking. This past weekend temp's ranged down to 11F and had no problems at all with the stove. I have used it in below 0F as well with the same results. Aside from a somewhat tricky canister insertion into the stove, the problems are almost non-existent compared to my buddy's white gas models mentioned here. He gave up on the Dragonfly and now uses his whisperlite/shaker jet model. Few problems for sure but not as easy to use as the Xtreme. - John
Edited by JohnMacri on 11/30/2005 08:05:56 MST.
OK, I find myself with a question. Canister stoves are notoriously flakey in the winter. At least they are for me even in temperatures above 0°F with moderate winds. I can recall trips where a canister stove just plain did not work and the conditions were reletively warm and winds nearly nil.So, what is it about the Coleman Xtreme and/or MSR Wind Pro stoves both of which use fuel canisters that enables them to work (or so it seems to be claimed) reliably at temperatures aroun 0°F (and perhaps below)?On a strictly stock wieght comparison why should I not obivously go with the Wind Pro overr the Coleman Xtreme every time (no, I'm not going to modify an Xtreme or Wind Pro; I doubt I have the mechanical knowhow, let alone tools, to do it)? ** Ken **
In a word, liquid propane...The Xtreme, by design, uses canisters that have a tube in them that draws up the liquid propane. Propane boils off well below 0F (-44F comes to mind???). This allows the stove to work at sub freezing temps.The wind pro is "just as bad" as any other canister stove in the cold, **UNLESS** you flip the canister over which allows the liquid propane to leave the canister "first". Thereby behaving, more or less, like the native functionality of the Xtreme.
Edited by tlbj6142 on 12/15/2005 07:42:40 MST.
If the wind pro does work that way when the canister is upside down, aren't you going to get less use of a windpro canister once the liquid propane is used up?
Actually, it's because these stoves are able to take up liquid butane, not propane. Butane has a boiling point of more or less 32°F. In normal canister stoves vaporisation takes place inside the canister and once temperatures drop beneath 32°F, the vaporisation of butane slows down very fast (vaporisation of propane continues as long as temperatures are above -40°F). In the Xtreme and in the Windpro in upside down mode, vaporisation of the liquid fuel takes only place in the preheaeter tube running over the burner head.
Edited by Woubeir on 12/15/2005 08:05:03 MST.
Hi Ken and John-I'd like to add a little to Tony and Tom's excellent replies:A liquid feed canister system (home-brew upside-down, or Coleman Powermax) has two cold-weather advantages over regular canisters. But first, some background.Current generation canisters contain a mix of Propane and Isobutane, (plus sometimes regular Butane.) The problem with regular butane is that it boils at -0.5 degrees C. So if the ambient temp is below freezing, your fuel would not vaporize. Isobutane is better in that it has a boiling point of -11.7 degrees C. (Propane boils at -42.1 degrees C.) So, why not just use Propane in the canisters?? Well, Propane has a higher vapor pressure, so requires a stronger (heavier!) can -- like the giant cans used for car camping, or your backyard BBQ. So, in order to keep the small canisters light, yet still work at low temperatures, manufactures use the Propane/Iso blend.This blend approach is not completely trouble free, though. The different gases in the canister boil off at different rates. So, as you run the stove, the Propane is used up first -- leaving behind the (iso)butane. This explains why partially used canisters are particularly bad in cold weather -- there is little propane left in them.To make things worse, the fuel in a regular canister vaporizes inside the canister as the stove is run. This causes evaporative cooling of the fuel, lowering it's temperature. So even if you start off with a warm canister, after running it for several minutes, it will cool and it's output will drop off or stop. That's why canisters are problematic for things like snow melting where 30-40 minute boils are needed.Ok, so what about the liquid feed canisters:1) Since the fuel evaporation occurs outside the canister in a preheat tube prior to cumbustion in the stove, canister cooling is minimized during prolonged usage. This allows them to provide consistant output over long burn times.2) The liquid fuel bled from the canister always contains close to the original mix of propane/butane. Because the fuel does not evaporate in the canister, the propane doesn't get used up first. This makes liquid feed canisters perform more consistantly over the life of the canister.[If you just invert a regular canister to get liquid feed, the final 10g or so of fuel won't come out in liquid form and operation reverts more or less to regular gas-feed operation for the last few minutes of fuel use.]Cheers,-Mike
Edited by MikeMartin on 12/15/2005 12:01:53 MST.
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Beginning, designing and furnishing a hair salon involves some practical thinking along with some thoughts about the atmosphere of your work place. Harness your thoughts for just a minute and keep your enthusiasm. Come with me and have an ear to listen because you have a lot of things to think about and many decisions.
Good planning on designing your hair salon comes from the type of ambiance, comfort and practicality. Are you in a small village or a medium sized town or a large city? What color scheme are you thinking about? In other words, country, conservative or city? Will it be a family oriented salon or perhaps you are considering servicing the career girls and guys a bit more? All of these considerations need to be thought about, before you paint your walls red or put up a pony seat in the corner to cut childrens hair.
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The cons are that, it is true; neutral thinking is just like everyone else; neutral, meaning; medium, make no splash, go easy and dont make waves. Something big to consider is to follow your own color passion. Connect with something that spells who you are and what your hair salon will represent. Different colors represent different things to people. If you are neutrally minded, then; go neutral. Everyone who has ever become famous has stepped outside of their comfort zone! Look out your window and you will realize that any shade of green that you are looking at will go with any color theme of your hearts desire.
Green is neutral! Bold daring walls of a vibrant luminescent green trimmed with a pulsating rich blue will stop anyone in their tracks whoever walks through your door. Instead of the usual grey or black chairs, why not purple, or a hypnotic bronze? There you have your three colors of green, blue and purple/bronze, or if you arent into purple; think about a pretty yellow. Yellow is a happy color and considered very optimistic and bright. Yellow is mentally, very up. When you decorate your walls with yellow, try not to go canary though, go mediterranean yellow, something between mustard and gold or a pale light sheen. I walked into one hair salon who enriched the color pink and everything was divinely pink, I must say, it was totally captivating, to say the least. Im not too sure how many men walked in, but you can be sure if the gents liked the haircut they were getting; the walls didnt really matter to them.
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