Apothecandy
Sig: Take A Dose of Beautiful & Have Some Fun
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Just to let those who don’t know, health care is a business. That is the truth with having to get medication through managed care and insurance companies. Otherwise that shit is pretty damn expensive. Organic chemistry is costly no matter what part of your adult life you are in. However if known well, it can make you one rich mothafucka.
Like any other business, health care depends on many supplies and many demands. There are a low supplies of health care professionals and hospitals are constantly short-staffed due to budgeting. There is a low supply of time especially when health deteriorates. There is a high demand for “fixing the problem” which most people believe to be is to medicate oneself.
NEWSFLASH: That is not fixing the problem. You are not a car.
Most people of course are ignorant about the drugs they are taking and most of them feel that if they miss one dose, they will not live. A battle they create against one pill & their one body. An unnecessary waged war.
People don’t feel they should be accountable for their health. They believe their health decays or becomes worse with their age. This is a very common misconception. Most people clumsily age because they do unhealthy things before aging. These unhealthy things include smoking a pack a day while on heart medication. What a great way to improve your pulmonary circulation. Another one is sitting on your ass the whole time while you chomp on fries and drinking a soda while on diabetes medication…like every fucking time I see you which is almost every other day. Another one is: shit I can’t sleep, let me take a sedative. Too much of that Ambien & Lunesta. Maybe if you didn’t sit on your ass the whole day and did not get much physical activity, you can maybe naturally release melatonin to fall asleep. I could go on and on in my own sardonic & Snapelike way but that is of course not really productive. I am do this blog post to let off some steam but I hope those that read it can somehow spread the message to someone that desperately needs it.
Drugs will not solve your problems. Doctors won’t solve your problems. Doctors are just fancy health consultants but people treat them like they’re gods. Sure they have specialized knowledge but it is not the ultimate truth. Most of them get what they know from science & from what Sagan said, science does not purvey absolute truth.
More and more people are visiting their doctors for medical concerns dealing with anxiety. I never understood the concept of an anxiety medication. From what I know in my pharmacology class, they alter brain chemistry and relaxes a person temporarily until their next dose. People become dependent. Big pharmaceutical companies become even more rich because a body fights for its own immortality to avoid its end. No one is immortal but that does not stop people from trying to be. They want to prolong their life and give better quality to it. Which is understandable, I guess. But they are doing more harm. & I am not only talking about physically. They are actually making their quality of life worse. I see it every day at work.
People overmedicate themselves for stupid reasons. They don’t realize there is an alternative. Of course that alternative requires time and patience. Of course most people don’t truly have that in this touchscreen of a world we live in.
So at places like my work we fill over 300 prescriptions a day just so that people can consume their own relief.
Don’t get me wrong though. There are some people who do need the medication because they have serious health issues. I am definitely not directing my disgust toward them. It’s just that the people who extraneously believe that they need to be on some pill to feel better when their “conditions” are preventable through lifestyle changes. I am talking about the people who walk around reeking preventable diseases. Our health care system in America is obligated to treat every patient with the same care as any other patient. Unfortunately with the way things are (health care transforming into a business & all) and our limited supplies, a lot of that patient care is sacrificed because a high quantity of people choose to be consumers of it when they don’t need to be. They are taking the limited care from the patients that need it. They are accidentally selfish.
People forget they can take care of themselves through the choices they make. We’re humans. We’re not programmed to do stuff. We can program ourselves. But we’re not programmed. Just thought I would make that clear.
No apologies for stating my own thoughts in this blog post.
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Guilty Filthy Soul by AWOLNATION
I’ve been AWOL from this tumbelog for a while. School and work has been sucking the blah-g out of me. Owning up to my lies also. Have not taken much time to be beautiful.
But to me everyday is “Tell Her She’s Beautiful” day.
Males.
They always are drawn to my noninvasive pretty eyes. My two second stare. Three seconds if I’m somewhat inebriated.
Maybe it’s the new Bio-Fresh eye Kajal my mum brought from India that has given me this Cleopatra effect.
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Chanel’s Paris-Bombay Metiers d’Art show for 2011
Lagerfeld used India as inspiration for his latest pre-autumn/winter 2012-13 collection.
I’ve always been an admirer of Chanel and Miss Coco ever since I saw Kidman in that Chanel No. 5 commercial. I have been addicted to their ad’s ever since. The recent one with Keira Knightley is one of my favorites and it captures the essence of Coco’s independent woman legacy.
However when I saw the Bombay Métiers collection on the House’s website, I was just wowed. This is what you call a collection. A collection that screams treasure. The headpieces are so close to home for me but chic enough to be exotically beautiful. The jewelery paired with the prints is very fitting and pleasing to the eye. This collection is something very different but not quite alien if that makes any sense.
Being a young Indian woman, I have access to Indian jewelery and the intricacies it offers but Lagerfeld just adds the extra fairy dust to make these pieces embody the essence of Chanel introducing a feeling of luxury for the women wearing the pieces. The accessories speak and they say “I may be exotic but I still am a Chanel”.
To understand my excitement about this collection, watch this video here.
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Quote reblogged from Apropos AppledorkAdult orangutans of opposite sex tolerate each other’s company for one purpose only. After a brief tryst, including copulation that lasts about 15 minutes, the male and female go their separate ways. If a pregnancy results, then the mother, who weighs about 40 kg, will carry the fetus for 8 months giving birth to a 1-kg baby, nurse it for about 3 years, and continue to protect it until it reaches the age of 7 or 8. For the father, who weighs about 70 kg, the beginning and end of parental investment is a few grams of semen, which he can replace in a matter of hours or days. In their pattern of parental investment, orangutans are typical mammals. In more than 90% of mammal species, females provide substantial parental care and males provide little or none.Evolutionary Analysis (4th ed.) by Scott Freeman and Jon C. Herron (via appledork)
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Khruang Bin
Now what the hell does that mean? That was the first thought that came to mind when I glanced at a poster outside of Cactus Music in their Montrose location. Of course I had to Google the name because I HAVE to translate every little thing I look at.
Innate curiosity. Puts the ‘O’ in my Oh! and is the bane of my existence.
Anyways I was glad that I did this Google search because this brought me to a series of youtube videos with a guy and a girl. Making music.
Any time I think about a guy and girl making music together, I envision a Matt & Kim or a Jenny & Johnny. I like both of them so I decided to give their (Khruang Bin) Soundcloud a listen.
The first track I played was Cassette Side A and as soon the bass jumped in, I thought to myself…this one is a keeper. Free show at Cactus. Free Beer. I am going at whatever cost.
So I went. The performance was in the daytime and very conveniently after my Saturday class so I took an exit on Greenbriar/Shepherd after seeing the horrible traffic on US-59 (they had two left lanes closed. That’s a major blockade in Houston traffic). Seeing this as a sign and thinking that this is what fate wants me to do, I dispelled all hesitation and my beetle fluttered down to Portsmouth St. saying hasta la vista to the other cranky automobiles stuck on the highway.
Took a good look at the crowd, made eye contact with this cute guy that looked like Jesus, looked away immediately, and grabbed a fortune cookie. My fortune read “A metaphor will save your life.” Well isn’t it comforting to know that my life is at risk. Great. Stupid cookie.
Mark Lee, the guitarist, jokingly started out the performance by saying something like “What is this? Occupy Cactus Music?” sending out scattered ha has across the store.
& immediately after that they started playing. & guess what was the first song?! Cassette Side A!
The bassist Laura Lee killed it the entire time making me seem awkwardly epileptic trying not to spill the drank in my cup. But I couldn’t help it. The guitar is very down to earth and I’m not just saying this because I’m a fan of this band. The band sounded just as good live as they did through their other various media whether it be a CD, streaming internet audio, or vinyl. & that says something. Something I don’t have to tell yall but something I would like you to discover through either making a visit to their soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/khruangbin or making a purchase ($6.98 at Cactus Music) to play in your car.
Khruang Bin, which I found later to mean airplane after conversing with bassist Laura Lee (who also signed my CD! Yay!), is The Shanghai Restoration Project with a little Texas flair. There are no vocals which is great because the instruments used speak volumes over words and I lovingly hate that they do. I lovingly hate how I cannot translate or analyze what it all means. All I can do with Khruang Bin is sit back, turn the volume up, cruise to the bass, and assure myself that all is well. & that life is beautiful. Coconut curry beautiful.
Perfect music to play in your car. Cassette Side A is actually “Start, You, The End Starts Again” which also includes Cassette Side B. My favorite track ever and I often repeat it over and over trying to conjure up an image in my head but all I see is colors going back in forth refusing to conform to any noticeable shape. Colors that are happy to be just simply colors. I guess they’re like light beams but powdery. If that makes any sense.
It does not make any sense. But don’t try to make any sense of it. Just enjoy the music.
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If I had stayed at Boehringer I would have had an incredible career. But I would have been promoted every half year and removed from the projects. The people who are good get promoted, they become vice presidents and fly around the world from one site to another, but the knowledge never gets to where it is needed.Peter Hirth, pharmaceutical inventor
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Purdue Pharma reformulated Oxycontin back in Spring 2010 in response to the abuse of the drug on “the streets”. The drug was reformulated in a way where the abusers would have a harder time making the drug into a substance that gives them a quick and immediate high.
According to Commander John Burke, member of the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators, abusers want to get the drug they’re abusing into their body as fast as possible whether it be through through their schoz, a needle, chewed or smoked.
Broadband for your body but there ain’t a broad involved unless her name is Roxy…codone.
At the pharmacy I work at, almost towards every weekend we get calls from pushers asking if we got Oxycodone IR 30mg in stock. IR stands for immediate release and it makes sense why they would request this strength. A need for instant gratification.
So now the indica on the new Oxycontin pills are changed from OC to OP. I always considered the storyline surrounding surrounding Seth, Ryan, Marissa and Summer to be a treasure. Now I have to consider these outdated but antique pills inscribed with OC to be treasures too. Store them in a shoe box with your Ty Beanie Babies.
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ShopHouse: Steve Ell’s most recent project. He’s the guy who invented Chipotle. Discovered this in the most recent issue of Forbes.
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Trouble is not intrinsic to the girl who excites the extrinsic anatomy of a male.
J. Cole drops his debut album Cole World: The Sideline Story in exactly one week. I have been doing everything to practice my self control to not listen to the leaked version of it. Not that I consider myself a gung-ho fan of his music but I believe the artist deserves this type of respect because some of his songs off Friday Night Lights leaves a very special place in this dynamic heart of mine.
So I’ve been listening to any song that features him while I make flashcards for my exam on Thursday. It’s like promising to lay off the pina colodas by eating only the pineapples used to make them instead. My own unusual form of self control. Hey. I try.
The song is called “Trouble” by Bei Maejor and it features Mr. Cole. Feature. *scoffs* that’s funny. Mr. Cole obviously steals the show for this mediocre song.
The thing that makes this song just “aite” is the message that it conveys about girls who like to express their femininity by dressing cute and being carefree about how they act during a night out on the town.
First of all Mr. Maejor, you don’t need to be telling a fine lady such as myself to not wear them heels that make my legs look so sexy or yell “come get me”. I am vertically challenged and it sure ain’t my fault if them heels enhances my posture on my coke-bottle of a body. Boy, I be trying to balance and try to make it out of walking on the sidewalk alive with poise and grace. As a result my C-cups and my G-string gotta align parallel to each other and the only way that going to fly well is if both of them are perky perky.
& if that makes your willy waggy waggy, that’s not my fuckin’ problem and no girl should alter the way she presents herself because it’ll get her in “trouble”.
A lot of times in our present society, a woman or a girl is condemned for dressing too sexy because she shows too much skin or if the dress she is wearing hugs her skin too tightly. People in our society have gone too far in trials involving rape saying that the victim (mainly women walking the streets at night in skimpy clothes) set herself up for the crime.
Has it ever occurred to people that maybe some of us women like to walk around half-naked. Cause y’know sometimes it is like over 100 degrees outside. And sometimes we like feeling the air on our beautiful bare skin. Pores. They need air too.
Women who are biologically fertile and fit are going to be curvy and delicious looking. Women who are socially aware of their presence are going to present themselves to be the most attractive women they could be. No female wakes up early in the morning and says to herself, “I’m going to look like a fucking slob today just ‘cause I can”. Well that don’t count her menstrual mornings but y’know what I mean.
The only trouble Mr. Maejor should be addressing is the lack of self control men have when an incredibly juicy woman or girl graces his eyesight. Snake charmed without the music on. But an instrument is still played.
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The other day, I was filling a prescription for Adderall XR 30 mg and as the capsules spilled out on to the filling tray, I couldn’t help but notice how fucking beautiful they looked.
Half solid burnt orange, the other half clear with burnt orange and white sprinkle like things inside. Quite alluring for the ex-Longhorn filling the prescription.
Teva, the company that manufactures this drug, comes up with the prettiest candy looking drugs. The XR 30 is available only in capsule form. Instead of being a gritty little tablet in a dull pastel color, the capsule has got quite a nice paint job shine to it. The concoction does not look classically medical. A contemporary glamour is pervasive in the aesthetic capsules. Femme fatales of the drug industry is one way to put it.
Just read the fine print in the package insert. Especially Section 5.2 Psychiatric Adverse Effects.
This drug is diagnosed for people with ADHD. ADHD is diagnosed by docs who evaluate symptoms.
Symptoms is a subjective term. Even with all the science that is available these days. Will elaborate more in a later post.
Maybe.
If I take an Adderall.
Just kidding.
