PBS Frontline Documentary "Close To Home"

Anyone affected by our dying economy (and who isn't?) can relate to this amazing documentary I found on PBS. 

"As the U.S. unemployment rate hits a 25-year high and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a six-year low, award-winning FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel chronicles the recession's impact on one unlikely American neighborhood -- New York's Upper East Side."

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Kseniya Simonova

You've got to see this!

Kseniya Simonova is a 24 years old Ukranian artist. She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand painting" skills to interpret Germany's invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII. She won Ukraine's Got Talent 2009, watched by over 13 million people.

Eighth Day..........Hazel O'Connor

In the beginning was a world
Man said: Let there be more light
Electric scenes and laser beams
Neon brights to light our boring nights

On the second day he said: Let's have a gas
Hydrogen and CO are of the past
Let's make some germs, we'll poison the worms
Man will never be surpassed

And he said: Behold what I have done
I've made a better world for everyone
Nobody laughs, nobody cries
World without end, forever and ever
Amen, amen, amen

On the third we get green and blue pill pie
On the fourth we send rockets to the sky
On the fifth metal beasts and submarines
On the sixth man prepares his final dream:

In our image, let's make robots for our slaves
Imagine all the time that we can save
Computers, machines, the silicon dream
Seventh he retired from the scene

And he said: Behold what I have done
I've made a better world for everyone
Nobody laughs, nobody cries
World without end, forever and ever
Amen (amen), amen (amen), amen (amen)

On the eighth day machine just got upset
A problem man had not foreseen as yet
No time for flight, a blinding light
Then nothing but a void, forever night

He said: Behold what man has done
There's not a world for anyone
Nobody laughs, nobody cries
World's at an end, everyone has died
Forever amen (amen), amen (amen), amen (amen)

He said: Behold what man has done
There's not a world for anyone
Nobody laughes, nobody cries
World's at an end, everyone has died
Forever amen (amen), amen (amen), amen (amen

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Too Many Goodbye's

Disclaimer:  Anyone who hates pity parties should stop reading now.

This time of year always gets me in a "blue" mood.  Partly because the weather here starts getting colder and grayer, and partly because the 12th is the anniversary of the loss of someone very special.  Even though it has been a few years since Richard died, I still feel like the wound is fresh.  Richard (Ric) was my partner, soul mate and friend.  So much of me died with him.

Come to think of it, this time of year also sucks because it's the 2 year anniversary that I lost my dream job.  Losing that was also like the death of a lover.  I suppose in many ways it is because after losing Ric, I threw myself at a career and wrapped myself up in it's comfort and security.  Evidently I'm still mourning that loss also. ( I need to skip Octobers)


My baby girl, Misty, died \earlier this year.  She was my dachshund that was given to me after Ric left.  She was my companion, friend, child, confidant.  Losing her was, and still is, a very hurtful experience.  Just as with Ric, I became the caregiver during the last few months together.  What sucks about this is you tend to become even closer and bonded during this period.  You focus on the small things, the moments and the seconds that are so special.  Sort of a paradox. 

Sometimes I think that our experience here is to learn a lesson.  This existence is sort of like a school for our souls (or something like that).  If that's the case, then the lesson I guess I'm supposed to learn is this........

"You don't know what you've got till it's gone".

Re-Inventing Myself....

Well, I'm now a bona-fide member of the unemployed! Laid off with a group of other fortunate souls at my work. Actually is sort of a blessing since I really hated that job. (accounting stuff). ugh!!!!

Did have a great career as an operations manager and trainer for a hotel management company for many years up until 2007. I loved that job! That is until they sold their assets and I along with everyone else was laid off (I'm seeing a pattern here!).

Fortunately I decided awhile back that it was time to reinvent myself and look at pursuing a new career. Something I enjoyed yet could specialize in as well. So, have been training as a web-designer and I am really liking this path. There is soooo much more I want to learn, but glad I at least decided to go down this road. Can't fail if you don't try...right!?

Guess I'll take advantage of this down time and get some additional training and classes completed. The alternative is to be a 9 to 5'ver, doing accounting crap for some faceless corporation. Would rather jump in front of a truck than sit in traffic all day on my way to a mind-numbing day of mediocrity!

Have published a couple of websites for a couple of businesses that belong to some associates of mine.  The plan is to get a few more out there so to build up a portfolio of sorts.  So if anyone out there needs a webdesigner, feel free to get in touch! (I'm definitely available and cheap.)  Unless you're Garrett Wang, then I'll do yours for you for free!

Dachshund Website

Are you a dachshund lover or thinking about adopting one soon?  Check out my website...........................http://www.mistyspetstop.webs.com/