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The Return to All Natural and Organic - Essential Cane

Hi Followers.

I have neglected the feel good All Natural/Organic healthier way of life for a while. See I got this job where it is really hard to not stress - eat and not much offered in the store is good for me. That statement could be all encompassing, and I'm not the black sheep of my co-workers in this thought train either. I mean the poor ventilation in the building is reason enough alone to feel sick, and to have a daily headache from the inability to take fresh water breaks dries up your heart. Not to mention the fluorescent lights, the occasional mean comment from customers... oh boy I digress. I also have this mild allergy to nuts and basically if I want something semi good for me there, it contains nuts. (no pun intended, but highly amusing!) Happy health wise it's misery. The upside is I get to make pretty crafts all day, so until the "Biz" picks up for me again... here's where I am, most days, with an non intentional glue high.

I have decided to honor less of the paper tissues in the box crying it out, and to heathify my inner body tissues by flushing the toxic stuff I have let invade my body for the past year. I'm back on the organic/all natural hay ride of nutrition :) I never stopped buying Organic Sugar however, so there is the one constant. And without further verbose delay here is my new favorite thing:

It's an all natural cane sugar called "Essential Cane." Aye Ca rumba the Raspberry flavor parties on my tongue buds. It all started because I wanted to put a pure Madagascar vanilla bean in my organic sugar cane granules to make my coffee taste like "French Vanilla" in a real way. (OMG $25 for 8 oz!) And then I found this on the shelf at Market Basket (photo). For copyright issues I would like you to take a moment to check out their photo on their website since when I buy this sugar, it is gone before I think to take a picture.

They have plenty of flavors! Now, here is the drawback of this most delicious raspberry sugar. There is only one. The raspberry seeds floating at the top of your coffee. It TASTES amazing, and is well worth the skimming of the seeds off the surface. I found it works best if you skim before you splash in your half and half/creamer/milk/soy/Vario/Lactaid/eggnog/Organic Cow (now owned by Horizon). I'm not a seed snob, but it equates to crunching on coffee grounds in the bottom of your cup, only it happens at the top. FLOATERS!

Once you get past the seeds...

Oh sorry I zoned out in raspberry flavored coffee heaven.

Check out their whole deal here. Suggest to your local grocery to carry it, if you can still do that sort of thing these days. :) Until next time, love from me and Jasmoos Kitty. (who scarfs up Newman's Own wet catfood daily. NOM.)

P.S. I splash Horizon Vanilla small lunchbox size milks into my coffee when I make Starbucks Instant Coffee at work, just an FYI. So the good.

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three peas and their pod.

MY Feelings: The coping post

I have revisited some old hobbies. Today I'm just going to share the cuteness of some crochet from an Anigurumi book I picked up. Enjoy:

I have done many more. Pictures will come.

Carefree emo blogging

Amazing. I have been enduring the mostly-unemployed-for-over-a-year-now struggle. I think I had the good fortune to have employment for three months in 2009. I'm more of a Cover Letter/Resume kind of girl, but lately I have been embarking on a journey which I was hoping was going to be an easier more time-effective/find a retail job in a few days journey.

Back in the day I was able to go into a place with a "now hiring" sign with a pen and a list of contacts to copy onto an application. That is long over apparently. I have been casually walking in, store after store and keep getting the same thing. "Go to the website, and on the bottom of the home page, click on Careers. You can apply online"

Sounds OK right? Now instead of paying for gas you just go to the yellow pages online, look up "Vinnin Sq" for instance and then click on the websites for stores found in the plaza five minutes from your house, and get out a bunch of apps in an hour, cut and paste right? Really, really wrong.

After an interview this morning that was so-so I walked around the square to see who else was hiring, and was told by a few stores to go online, so I figured it was a trend and went home. Got online and looked up Pet Co... filled out the app... as best as you can in my industry, every company you enter has to match the national database of jobs, which of course you type in "Furry Vengeance Productions" and it doesn't exist. So you have to call Cast and crew to get the ID number, they don't call you back with it of course. Ah well, so I write in Cast and crew, and then say I've been a freelance Production Assistant for a number of years... then I have to type in a few more things and done. ok cool thanks Pet Co... Hope my Resume fits the keywords someone is looking for. then I go onto another job I saw in the Career Center to apply to at Joanne's Arts and Crafts. I go through the two hour long process of a psych exam etc, to then be finally allowed to see what positions are available in stores for cashiers. No where but Ohio. Fantastic. I chalk it up to the time I would have wasted watching a bad movie.

So I check out Michael's. Hour to write a custom Resume. Half hour to find the right words for a cover letter. Then I have to post it, then type out everything again in a data base that is in the resume. then I have to take a skills assessment test. Then I have to take a psych test again... 300 questions asking me 100 different ways if I think it's a good idea to make up for the pay I'm not going to be getting there by stealing it from the registers. Basically, now if they call me they are going to offer minimum wage and think I want to just steal from the registers all the time. wow. talk about employee confidence. they want to make sure I won't rip them off while letting me know that they are going to treat me like shit and not pay me, and expect I'm going to steal from them anyway.

Art supplies people. You sell art supplies. To artists. And scrapbookers.

Anyways, so hours of my day have been spent on applying to jobs. I guess I can say that before all this I could type 75wpm, and now it's prolly gone up to 100wpm. If nothing else maybe I can make some money by writing my opinion on "The Examiner" even though I have heard that the blogging revolution is dead.

Time to go to sleep, wake up at 7am. Travel an hour to help a "friend" (whom over the past two days of delaying my free labor for Career Center visits and interviews I can tell is thinking in the back of her mind she'd never hire me, nor recommend me after this) paint and learn from her (she who gets jobs with her Union card, I not)... for five days... for a free lunch. Payout $80 in gas, and hopefully no broken car parts. Time to say goodbye to my beautiful apartment, my freedom, my dignity, my hopes and dreams... and sell off more shit, to be able fit on a blow up mattress at my parents house in the living room... and undo all the good that has happened to me in my life in a few weeks time. I can't make it in this world.

But you know, with an upbeat twist! People, there aren't enough happy pills to fix this. God Bless America.