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Happy Holidays to all the Blythers out there!
XOXO
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....I'm on holidays??
Well, the last order dates for the holidays have passed, and Santa's final sacks of festive MOOs are filling up fast. We're still taking new orders though, and we'll be shipping them out as fast as we can - so don't hesitate to order thank you cards for all your lovely pressies!
Just so you know, here's our warehouse and customer service closure dates over the holiday season.
Thursday 24th December - LIMITED HOURS: we'll be shipping orders in the morning, but going home in the afternoon to wrap presents.
Friday 25th December - CLOSED : we'll be at home feasting on mince pies and turkey.
Monday 28th December - UK CLOSED: we'll be buying new trousers to fit our expanded waistlines!! (please note this is a UK Holiday only).
Tuesday 29th December - OPEN: business as usual.
Wednesday 30th December - OPEN: business as usual.
Thursday 31st December - OPEN: business as usual.
Friday 1st January - CLOSED : we'll be trying out our New Year resolutions and nursing hangovers.
Monday 4th January - OPEN: that's it, holidays over, back to work!
It's also important to note that our StickerBook turnaround in the UK is severely delayed over the holidays. Any orders placed after the 20th December will not be dispatched until the week of the 4th January.
That's all for now - Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the MOO Warehouse Crew!
Hey everybody! Long time no Post! Seems like the last post I wrote was
on November 30th. The holidays for me has always been crazy. Work,
family, and traveling always get in the way. Though I always have time
to squeeze in a Blythe meet, or a quick nosh with a friend or two.
On Holiday Stuff: The shopping downtown
has seem fairly sad. Besides decoration going up before Thanksgiving,
the stores haven't been as
busy as usual. The deals on items are yet to be seen, and the options
for holiday
things have been boring. We have made most of our holiday shopping
online. It's fast, easy, and no wrapping involved.
Kyle and I usually have holiday parties with
his work. Recently we went to his previous jobs get together as well as
his current jobs holiday party. Both were as expected, yet on different
levels. The one from his previous job was held in an intimate setting at Medjool
on Mission St. It's generally a Mediterranean restaurant with lots of
Tapas. We met some old and new faces. We had a lovely time eating, chatting, and playing the usual usual White Elephant
game. It was sad to see everyone go, but there is always another time.
Kyle's current job party was held at a larger space around South of Market. There was food, drinks, music, and about 100 other people. It is a small company but not as small as the previous job. The people here are very young. Very, very young. So young that they danced to Lady Gaga, and could handle talking over loud music. I felt so very old. I know I'm not that old, but when all you want to do is sit and talk to your friends. When you find that fun.. you feel old. haha. It was fun none-the-less.
This XMAS we are spending time with Kyle's family in Ohio. It isn't as fancy as San Francisco, but it is always nice to see his side of the family. Everything moves at a quieter pace. I'll get some reading and relaxing done. Which is always needed when you have spent your whole life in a busy city. *phew*
The New Year is approaching fast. Faster than I'd like but I hope the
next year will bring us a new apartment, a new job for me, and other
opportunities. It will also be the year I turn 30. Woo! People,
including my sister and my best friend, stress that I will start
feeling depressed. I don't feel depressed about my age. I feel like I
still have tons of things to do and my age has nothing to do with that.
I actually have not felt young since I was 23/24. I've been through a lot
in my younger years, so these years are for me to grow and just
continue on finding new ventures to pursue.
My new years resolution will involve letting go. I have the issue of
just not letting go of things. I get very worked up on little issues. I
hope-hope-hope that when something comes up I am able to just handle
the issue and move on. Indeed!
Now on to fun things! I have a wonderful Blythe meet this Saturday. As most of you know I collect Blythe. Yes. I collect dolls. Most importantly I have fun with a group of people who collect these dolls as well. We have gatherings were we eat, chat, and we exchange tips and tricks on how to customize these dolls. The nicest part about this meet is we will be together in a friends event space. It will have a schmancy eating, sitting area and a real kitchen. I hope all goes well! XD
I also just finished writing all my holidays cards and mailed every gift. Well except for one to my friend BEC. She lives in Australia and I always collect things through the year for her. I hope to get it mailed out before the New Year.
Anywho, I hope you all have a very merry holiday as well as a Happy New Year.
Thanks for reading! XOXO
What are you hoping to find under the tree this year?
I am always hoping for a blythe I've been coveting the whole year or an SLR camera that I've also been coventing. Those usually don't show up so I just hope for candy and giftcards. haha XD
Those of us who are old enough to remember William Hurt's acting debut in the film, "Altered States" may also have been lucky enough to have experienced something of what the movie was about. No, not the regression to a primal state of mind, let alone physical being, as Hurt portrayed in the 1980 sci-fi, suspense flick. Although, if you've indulged in some recreational hallucinogens while experiencing sensory deprivation, you're a braver person than I am, Gungadin!
Karl Marx was a brilliant man and a deep thinker, but sadly, didn't recognise the principal flaw in his philosophy, as defined by himself. Marx believed that capitalism was simply a societal system of class divisions, which would eventually destroy itself through it's innate inequity. Other systems of societal structures - feudalism, socialism, communism as examples, are all fatally flawed just as is capitalism, due to one over-riding, inevitable, non-programmable factor. People.
I'd decided to give Archangel IV it's service today, before I head off on a camping trip next weekend. All of my cars since the 1988 Bluebird have been named Archangel. It's an inside joke. Anyway, initially intended to be an oil and filter change, remove plugs & clean and general check over of fluids, I discovered when removing the plugs that I was facing an original equipment issue. The plugs were extremely difficult to remove, in fact, I very nearly destroyed a plug spanner and pair of multi-grips in the process but out they all came with gentle but firm persuasion. I took pics of these rare birds, which you'll find below and on my Flickr site.
I have six invites to Google Wave, which appears to be Google's entry into the live chat/Twitter/discussion forum format, but with much greater expansion capacity & broader useability. Being the geek that I am, I asked a friend for an invite and today was awarded 8 more myself. I've invited my wife and step-daughter, so there's six left. The platform is currently in Beta preview mode, which means it's still being worked on and might show the odd glitch. Those of us who were Vox Beta testers will understand the growing pains a new platform undergoes in Beta.
The Copenhagen Climate Change talks were always destined to be little more than a talk-fest. If anything genuinely inspiring comes from it, I for one will be much surprised. My feeling is that what we're witnessing, even after a couple of days, is the arising of a new world order where the industrial giants, the so-called 'first world' nations, will call the tune on climate change mitigation. Second & third-world nations will simply be the lesser players. The oceanic island states will lose their sovereignty ultimately because in the grand global scheme in which the tune is called by the major industrial nations, their concerns are transitory. I'd even go so far as to state that arguments of climate change deniers will be utilised by the first world nations such that claims of inevitability will be aired by the first world in a bid to belittle the outcries of the the smaller island states. In my view, it is inevitable that Small Island Developing States (SIDS) will lose out in global climate change negotiations simply because their voices, their contributions to the global picture simply aren't loud enough or of high enough concern to the first world. There is no appeasing going on. There is only overt collaboration, collusion occurring between the major players in much the same way as the major powers in pre-world war two Europe made decisions about what could and couldn't be sacrificed in a bid to stave off war. Some might like to call that 'appeasement' but in reality, the only parties being appeased are those who are apparently conducting the 'appeasement'. There is no third party.
In my view, humanity being the pathetic species it truly is, will use events like Copenhagen to pave the path to its own destruction. The atmospheric carbon 'tipping point' used to be 350 ppm. Copenhagen is all about limiting atmospheric poisoning to 450 ppm. In ten years or less, the target will be 550 ppm, by which time the oceans will be exhibiting conclusive symptoms of acidification, polar ice will have vanished for the foreseeable geological future during the northern summer and continental ice shelves in Antarctica will have reduced by at least 20%.
It's what we do, we human beings. Habitat destruction is our forte. We lose more species every day, week and month than we realise, and most of us don't care a fig, nor have the least understanding of what it is we do. Last night on the ABC's 7:30 Report there featured an article on farmed Atlantic Salmon in Tasmania. I was struck by the words of David Suzuki addressing the National Press Club in October 2006... "You all sat here and chowed down on farmed salmon and obviously you don't give a shit about what you're putting into your body. You know what a farmed salmon is? It's filled with toxic chemicals."
It's worthwhile recalling Suzuki's words in regard to the performance of the media, national & international, in regard to the pressures humanity places on this planet daily.
He calls himself 'second-rate', but I'm afraid I prefer to listen to him than any self-interested politician colluding with other self-interested politicians when it comes to the future of my species.
