Friday, March 26, 2010

Yep! I Took the Boss’ Challenge & Got a Logo Tattoo

mobileStorm CEO Offers Up Bonus to Brand Employees, Has First Taker

The unique offer stems from a trip Reitzin made over six years ago to Dublin, where he had the blue tornado portion of the company’s logo tattooed on his ankle in a show of pure dedication to the company he founded and built from the ground up, as well as to have a “permanent testament on my leg to (that) perseverance, persistence, and determination.” Though the employee bonus offer has been on the table for a while, there so far hadn’t been any takers, until now.

Yeah… that’d be ME I really do love my job at mobileStorm, and all the people I work with - both clients and colleagues - and “touching down” there has made it a fairly easy landing after the last few chaotic years. 2010 seems to be the year to start a whole new life!

Shout out to Dana at Studio City Tattoo for the fantastic work! Jared says it’s nicer than his (of course it is!), heh.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

U by Kotex: Twat Did You Say? I Cunt Hear You!

Rebelling Against the Commonly Evasive Feminine Care Ad - blissfully free of twirling, horseback riding and virginal white…

Merrie Harris, global business director at JWT, said that after being informed that it could not use the word vagina in advertising by three broadcast networks, it shot the ad cited above with the actress instead saying “down there,” which was rejected by two of the three networks. (Both Ms. Harris and representatives from the brand declined to specify the networks.)

“It’s very funny because the whole spot is about censorship,” Ms. Harris said. “The whole category has been very euphemistic, or paternalistic even, and we’re saying, enough with the euphemisms, and get over it. Tampon is not a dirty word, and neither is vagina.”

Finally… straight talk about twats! Can we all just be grownups now? Kudos to U by Kotex for their campaign to Break the Cycle!

Time to stop all the weirdness about periods, don’t you think? Progress is where it’s at. Every video watched, every comment made and every question asked helps change unhealthy attitudes and Break the Cycle*.

Random sidetrackage: Looking for the product that inspired a rant of mine from 2004 (Some things are worth RAGGING on!), I came across Havoc and Mayhem’s Musings on being a Woman… so glad to know I’m not the only one befuddled by the need for the “quietest wrapper” as a selling point for feminine hygiene products!

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Destruction, reclamation

The last time I really paid any serious attention to my blog was in 2007, just after the killing blow that destroyed the last bit of hope and self-worth I possessed. Shortly thereafter, I started writing in a journal. Perhaps it’s because those feelings were just too raw, too close to the bone and quite frankly too fucked up for eyes other than my own. Looking back at them now, I see nothing but wrong-headed delusions; wishful thinking based on feelings I thought I needed to have in order to feel alive again. Indulging in the fantasy that I was important to at least one person who was important to me at the time.

Today I shredded that book, and along with it the crazy time I spent shattered and under the illusion that someone cared enough to at least gather up and carry around the pieces until I could heal and be re-formed and whole. The few passages I read made me sick inside; before I took a utility knife to it and sliced it into pieces so small they can never be reassembled into something recognizable as my words, my thoughts, or in any way ME. They’re on the trash heap where they belong, instead of boxed away, to be discovered in the future by myself (or worse, my family when I’m dead)… a reminder of that sick, broken person for whom even the illusion of a relationship was better than none at all. Bad choices, bad execution, regrettable actions.

That was 2007. It’s 2010 and I’m SO much better now…

I’m healthiest when I live out loud… blog my thoughts, feelings, passions and furies. Time spent journaling takes me to dark places and no good ends. It’s taken me this long to admit (though I’ve known forever it’s the case) that secrets, for me, are a cancer that spreads and destroys those parts of me that find joy in living and being with other people. If I can’t be me, just as I am, I may as well not exist… and I’m not quite ready for THAT yet.

Time for me to find my way back into the light…

Friday, October 09, 2009

Tween Prays for her Friends, Whose Dad Isn’t Saved

Tween girl indoctrinated…

~LouLouBelleXO’s Prayer Journal~

God, I pray that my faith will be revived. Help me become closer to you.

Help Auntie S. since she is out of state and is battling in court.

Help J. and K., since their father does not know You. Help Mr. F. come to know You.

I pray for A.’s braces, that her mouth won’t hurt so bad.

I pray for all the mid-terms I took this week. Help me get a good grade on my math and science tomorrow.

I pray that all the nations will come to know You, Father, especially Afghanistan, China, Swaziland, South Korea, and Guatemala.

Amen.

The reason a abbreviated people’s names is because I didn’t want to post them on the internet.

I hope that you guys will pray for the same things I pray for, as I do with you.

God bless,

LouLouBelleXO

(Emphasis mine)
Wonder if J. & K. have one of those godless heathens (like me) for a father, or if he’s simply Hell-bound because he attends a different church than LouLouBelle - or is *gasp* one of them Jews???

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

If Mc Kinsey’s Been Called In, Prepare for Layoffs

From this morning’s Cynopsis:

Conde Nast sent a memo out to staffers on Monday saying it was shuttering the print publications Gourmet, Cookie, Modern Bride and Elegant Bride as part of a massive restructuring effort. The publisher hired consultancy McKinsey & Company to help figure out how to cut down on costs and grow its digital businesses, in the face of deep drops in print advertising revenue. (emphasis added)

No less than 5 times during my so-called career did the arrival of Mc Kinsey consultants result in anything other than layoffs. I survived a few of them…