The problem was that when I got up my shoulder and neck were already sore. Add to that flailing my arms around madly for a couple hours and you can imagine that I had a painful day of it yesterday. Ouch. So my Love was nice and picked up this heating patch thingy. The problem is that the darned thing stayed literally ICE COLD (similar to the effects of the migraine ice product) for the entire time. For like five hours it stayed there, smelling really bad and being icy cold. I left it on since it at least numbed the pain, though it certainly wasn't the "Deep Pentrating Heat" as advertised. I emailed the company and they want me to mail it back to them in a pre-paid envelope and they'll send coupons towards anything else of theirs I want. Eh. I tend to think that whatever the active ingredient is in it, probably just causes a cold response in some people.
We got the Sarah McLachlan cd, "Afterglow" but today was the first time I had to sit and listen to it all the way through. The damned cd was a pain in the ass thought. It's got some "advanced" software on it called "BANDLINK." Yeah, well bandlink can kiss my ass. First off, I refuse to install something I don't know what it is on my pc. Other "enhanced" cd's don't require you to install their (most assurdly full of spyware) software, they just make different cd-rom readable tracks for video clips and such. Secondly, because of this shitty software, I couldn't play my cd. WinAmp couldn't read it at all - it couldn't find the tracks. Windows CD Player found the tracks, but produced silence. Windows Media Player was able to see the tracks and make sound - but it stuttered so badly I couldn't tolerate more then five seconds of it.
I was enraged. How dare they make a damned cd that when you purchase it - not a copy, not a burn, I shelled out the $11.89 for it thank you very much - you can't play it in your pc? So I called my Love. He suggested that I get the Music Match Jukebox software to rip it into mp3's and then play it off of my pc direct (thereby avoiding the bandlink bullshit). I had never used the program before, so I downloaded and installed it, rebooted my pc and set to see what I could do. Sure enough, it was a couple clicks and the thing very quickly snagged the tracks for me and converted them into .mp3. At first I didn't know where it put the tracks but when I found them I really came to LOVE this software. I had specified in installation where I stored my music files. So I first looked in that root directory folder for them after ripping them. I didn't see them. Turns out that the software recognized that I already had a folder within my music one called "Sarah McLachlan" and it put the entire album it it's own folder within the Sarah one! Too damned cool. Once they were on my pc, I was finally able to sit down and listen to the album. Yeah for Music Match Jukebox!
Heaven bend to take my hand
and lead me through the fire
be the long awaited answer
to a long and painful fight
truth be told I tried my best
but somewhere along the way
I got caught up in all there was to offer
but the cost was so much more then I could bear
though I've tried, I've fallen
I have sunk so low
I messed up
better I should know
so don't come round here and
tell me I told you so
we all begin out with good intent
when love was raw and young
we believe that we can change ourselves
the past can be undone
but we carry on our back the burdens time awlays reveals
in the lonely light of morning
in the wound that would not heal
it's the bitter taste of losing everything
I've held so dear
I've fallen
I have sunk so low
I messed up
better I should know
so don't come round here and
tell me I told you so
heaven bend to take my hand
I've nowhere left to turn
I'm lost to those I thought were friends
to everyone I know
oh they turn their heads embarrassed
pretend that they don't see
that it's one misstep one slip before you know it
and there doesn't seem to be a way redeemed...
though I've tried, I've fallen
I have sunk so low
I messed up
better I should know
so don't come round here and
tell me I told you so
-Fallen, Sarah McLachlan from the new album, "Afterglow"
It's the first song on the cd and her first single as well. It sets the tone of the cd. It's a darker, but still airy and hauntingly beautiful album for her. I've managed to listen all the way through it today and a few of the songs really have stood out. This is one of them. Another one I particularly enjoyed was "Answer" - most specifically this quote:
Cast me gently into morning
for the night has been unkind
take me to a place so holy
that I can wash this from my mind
Anyone who enjoys her work will like the album. Those who enjoy beautiful female vocals with a powerful and yet hauting quality and range would also enjoy it. I recommend it and think you should also take a look at her previous cds such as "Surfacing" and my personal favorite, "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy."
Alrighty, so that's the sum. I need to pack up some of my stuff that's cluttering the living room right now (I had mailed out a few px items today so my stationary and related are out there) since we're having some friends over tonight. Ta for now.
(Oh yeah, wish us luck. We're going to [finally] drop off our app for the apartment we love so much tomorrow. *crosses fingers* Please let us be approved, please! I want out of the ghetto building so badly and the other place is SO nice and less expensive then we have now.)
~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
at 11/7/2003 04:23:06 PM ~
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