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Over the last 4 weeks, I’ve met many people. Some have been very intent on changing the direction of their lives while others have felt very powerless to do so. I continue to share my story of struggle and success with all, encouraging people to do something out of the ordinary, to break out of their “reality”.
Perception is a strong thing, like a spider web. Once caught, you don’t feel you can escape but for the bugs who don’t give up struggling, there is the chance of making it out alive. That struggle is the rudder in your life to steer your ship.
Learn how you can start making changes today that allow you to lead the life you feel is out of reach. That may sounds like some “space age” type talk but it works if you open your mind and focus on what is truly important to you.
Today’s topic at AskAdria is:
“How To Change The Course Of Your Life In 10 Minutes”
Monday, February 8th at 6:30pm Central
Join me over at http://askadria.com/live
Photo credit: *ian*
I like deals and coupons as much as the next person. People have been burned by forgetting to cancel their 30 day trial of and end up seeing a charge on their card. A few years ago, I began to put cancellation reminders for trials in my Google Calendar.
I’ve used this for Amazon Prime, Audible, cloud apps, credit report monitoring and a variety of other deals on-line and then gracefully step out before I get charged.
Here’s a screenshot of my Google Calendar. I have both email reminders and pop ups enabled so I can keep track of upcoming events. I enter in the url where I signed up or link to the welcome email. This saves me the hassle of trying to dispute the charges later via email or phone. That’s a hassle no one wants to deal with!
Sorry but it looks like according to Big Boss, Apple stopped signing version 3.1.2 for the iPhone firmware on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010.
I’ve been getting a lot of traffic that last few days on my previous blog post about storing your TSS on Cydia so this post serves to provide updated info as of Saturday February 6th, 2010.
If you didn’t store your 3.1.2 firmware file before last Wednesday, Apple has closed the doors so you can’t roll back to 3.1.2. Not the end of the world but certainly a nice thing to have!
For example, on my 3GS,
I have both my 3.1 and 3.1.2 files stored on Saurik’s Cydia servers:
Hey Little Sis, I Love You Too
6 Feb2010
I’m not sure how to start this blog post so I’m just going to start writing. Today I’m not writing about technology. Today I got a card and a couple of gifts from my sister, Gwendolyn. I haven’t talked to her since 2008.
I love my sister. It brings me much pain to realize how our childhood has affected her as an adult. I know that I always seem happy, excited, optimistic and ready for the next challenge that life brings my way. Unfortunately, her life and thoughts have been very different.
She suffers from depression. I didn’t really understand what this meant. I thought depression was something that was temporary. I thought it could be cured if things in life got better for you. I thought medication helped make life better if you have depression.
I know it took a lot for her to muster up the courage to do this.
Whenever I think of depression, that commercial with the cloud comes to mind where that’s sad person is always followed by that sad cloud. Then I think of the more happy, parody version MadTV did:
Pretty much 99.9999% of the time, I am happy, joyous, grateful, full of energy about life! Sometimes, I have felt guilty that I am just so excited about being alive while others seem to find the world a horrible place to exist.
Today is My 32nd Birthday! [VIDEO]
4 Feb2010
Today I celebrated another birthday and again, I didn’t celebrate it alone because I had Twitter and Facebook folks along for the ride! This year, I live tweeted my birthday!
I had a spa day at Juut, went for lunch at the Cheesecake Factory and reflected on the present moment. Last year, I did a birthday blog post too but felt uncomfortable about it since I was still finding my voice on my blog. Now I’m letting it all hang out!!!!
Adria’s 2010 Birthday Video on YouTube
My Day At Juut Spa
I did a few audio thoughts today as well right after my massage and facial. Kelly did my massage and was beyond wonderful! She had me pick out a set of aromatherapy oils before the session started and also did a mini consultation with me to find out what I wanted for the massage.
Since I do yoga, I don’t have many aches and pains but did share my desire to relax and reflect on my future. It was so easy to do! I passed between active thoughts and sleep. It was all very pleasant as I thought about my accomplishments of the past year and ran through various future situations I wanted to find myself in like my trip to London in June. You should ask for Kelly when you go in for a massage at the Edina Juut *smile*
I choose Juut because I’ve been to the Minneapolis location in Uptown over the years for waxing, massage and hair styling. They’ve always been professional, classy, clean and well managed. They have all Aveda products in their stores and the tea is delicious!
Thoughts on my Spa Facial at Juut
4 Feb2010
I Loved the massage provided by Kelly today and after lunch, connected
with Lori for my first ever spa facial.
removed through a series of clensing, exfoliation, massage and the
plant peel. Lori was very knowledgable about holistic approaches to
good skin care and recommended I eat more spinich and melons. I shared that I’d joined the Seward coop, started a probiotic in
January and had been seemg good results using Dr. Hauska’s holistic
facial skin care products. She tipped me off on using Brown Rice syrup as a sugar replacement. We talked about the toxicity in beauty products and agreed organic
foods are the way to go for long term health. Writing this on the iPhone so I’ll do a final update once I’m home! What a great birthday experience!
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Birthday Massage at Juut
4 Feb2010
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Photo Credit: adria.richards
In case you were curious on “What I’m working with” behind the scenes of ButYoureAGirl, AskAdria and Freshworkshops, here’s a view of my desktop from a few weeks ago. The two monitors connected to my Dell are the Samsung 23″ 2333SW model. My 3rd 23″ Samsung, a P2370HD which is also a HDTV, just arrived back from an RMA with Buy.com so I will take some new photos soon.
I have all 3 monitors on desktop stands which allow me to pivot them 360 from Ergotron
I blogged about both my systems late last year:
My desk is from IKEA and it’s called the Jerker (haha, now discontinued). I scored 2 of these desks on Cragslist in early 2009 after reading about them on Lifehacker. Lifehacker featured the IKEA Jerker again in September, 2009.
Today, I talked to my neighbor about his music. I had a webinar I was holding and needed it to be quiet. We got everything squared away and we’re still cool so I’m going to share how to respectfully setup your boundaries without making enemies.
When you move into a new building, you’re simply looking for a place to stay. You wanted to be nice, quiet and clean. Once you get all settled in you may decide to meet your neighbors, or not. One way or another, you’ll eventually bump into them in the longer of, in the parking lot or just when you’re coming and going from your apartment.
Living in an apartment building has its benefits. You often get a great location without the overhead of maintaining a lawn or shoveling snow. You also have certain utilities like water, heat and garbage covered.
But sometimes, there’s a dark side… and sometimes, that’s how you deal with your neighbors.
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