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Name: Nicole
Country: United States
State: Minnesota
Metro: Minneapolis
Gender: Female
Interests: music,mostly listening, some singing; cooking, cats, progressive politics, alternative health care, Tarot, reading
Expertise: I used to be a Registered Dietitian, now I work in interlibrary loan- long story! but I love being around books. I've become quite good at finding information both from fixing bad citations at work, and from the resources I picked up in my integrative medicine studies. I finished my post grad certificate in health coaching in 2008, which gets back to my health care roots, but in a much more client centered, holistic way.
Occupation: Other
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message me
Member Since:
4/16/2006
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| Nov. 8-grateful to the ancestors who came up with comfort foods like chicken and dumplings, which is what I made that day Nov. 9- Aero purring on my lap in the morning even though I did not have the sort of breakfast she wanted to steal  Nov. 10-continued warm weather making it easy to keep up with partial bike commuting Nov.11-maybe this is a good day to be grateful to have a job though I did not get the day off like most public employees do Nov.12-good health, despite my peri-menopausal gripes, I notice I am perkier and stronger than many my age Nov. 13- I'll put this woo woo one on this witchy day of luck, I am grateful to Muse and Matt Bellamy for apparently awakening some esoteric energies in me. I may have blogged some of this throughout the year... first, the new awareness of when I'm full and ability to stop eating that started last winter when I got into Muse has continued though the loss of inches has plateaued. Second, after kind of neglecting reiki for years, though I would do it on myself sporadically, Muse's music seems to be calling me back to it. It started with noticing my hands "buzzing" during yoga when doing it to Muse. Then I started spending more time in corpse pose, relaxing or body scanning at the end of a session, and the past few months, these have become mini-reiki sessions. Now I feel like it's time to get the more advanced attunements and see where this is taking me, and new contacts that can guide me are showing up.
Matt working his magic in Birmingham the other night
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| Nov. 4 - no more taking Ted to religious education on Wednesdays, he got confirmed Nov 3
Nov. 5 -plenty of built up sick time, so I can take a day of when female stuff has me down a bit, and I did
Nov. 6- my fellow Musers who tweet, post pics, reviews and Youtubes so I can get a taste of the European tour , this one was taken at Sheffield , the first UK gig of the tour. Not a professional photographer, but she might as well be, also Panasonic apparently makes a good compact camera.
Nov. 7 grateful for HAARP, (and the person who gave it to me ) it's the best Muse concert dvd and gets me by until they actually tour here
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| let's see if I can tear myself away from Muse news to post here semi-regularly this month...though they are sure to be part of it at some point! Nov. 1 is a no-brainer, grateful for falling back! Mornings are never easy but a little less dreadful now. Nov.2 : the versatility of risotto, equally good with chicken, shrimp , proscuitto or gourmet sausage and just about any vegetable you care to throw in Nov. 3: the availability of a debt consolidation loan from my life insurance policy at a sane interest rate. Should have done it sooner before the credit card balance got bigger than what they can give me, but this will knock it way down. Unlike the offers from banks and other credit cards, this interest rate really won't change. | | |
| the most important one being persistence, believing that somehow there is a way to get the info , find the book. But I used them for a very odd purpose , figuring out the origin of the unusual suit Matt Bellamy wore to the Q awards where they were named Best Live Act in the World!
because not long after these pics hit the Internet, some Muse fans recognized the pattern on the suit as matching a photo in a book Matt was holding in a twitpic they had sent a few weeks before
but what book? I started tossing out this pic to people I thought might know, it was another Muse fan who thought it was crowd surfing at a 1992 Pearl Jam concert, a quick Google search verified this, but we still didn't know which book? The same fan had a couple ideas, but how to get a look inside one? Amazon didn't show enough, discovered one possibility was at the Reference Dept. of the Minneapolis Central Library, but it would be a bit before me or any of my coworkers could look in it. Then for some reason I tried Google one more time, a little differently and got this!
"Photographer Charles Peterson's images of the early days of grunge—collected in his book Touch Me I'm Sick—are the stuff of music nerds' dreams. That includes noted music nerd Takahiro Miyashita of Number (N)ine, whose love affair with all things grunge is well documented. The two men met on one of the designer's seasonal pilgrimages to the Pacific Northwest, and the result is a small collection now available at Number (N)ine. Miyashita printed fabric with Peterson's pictures of mosh pits and crowd-surfing, creating a camo-like collage pattern that adorns T-shirts, denim, and, in appropriately subversive Number (N)ine fashion, a tuxedo (above) and satin jazz shoes"
So I am not reading the currently reading selection, it's just part of this story
Meanwhile Muse has been touring Europe, looks and sounds like an awesome show from what I can tell from tweets, fan photos and fan Youtubes, amazing what some non-professional cameras can do these days!
In family news, football is over, Ted's team never won a game but he looked impressive blocking and tackling, only close up I got of him in uniform , fingers were cold so it got a bit blurry
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| at least when it's this early in October, our ash tree still has green leaves! But there was that white coating this morning and Sara stayed out all night in , ornery cat. .
I survived h1n1, seemed a milder flu than others to me, and the strategy I used last time, herb teas & yoga worked well. It did not get in my nose and throat for some reason, so I didn't need ear candles this time. Laying around chatting with Muse fans and watching Youtubes was kind of pleasant at times, if only Youtube could solve their buffering problem
Ted is having a disappointing football season, missed 2 games while he had the flu, and they have yet to win a game. Yesterday's was at least close but it was during the day so I didn't get to go
I've heard Mon Couer S'Ouvre a ta Voix many times as a solo but never in the opera before today. I was pleasantly surprised to find there is actually a bit of duet in it, but I don't think Matt Bellamy will be trying to get Chris to sing that part, his arrangement of the chorus of that aria in his song I Belong to You would not work so well with that anyway But while Matt's French is far from perfect and I was giggling at him, the mezzo on this recording is a bit flawed ,too, so I will ease up on Matt. I had just gotten used to hearing Marilyn Horne do it nearly perfectly.
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