betsy oslund

 Last night i got such a bad migraine that i curled up into a ball on my bed where i cried and groaned until i threw up the milkshake i had eaten for dinner again + again ALL night long until i was left dry-heaving....yum-yum....it was horrible to say the least.

But as soon as i felt that first twinge of pain in my head, i knew what was coming because this is ALWAYS the outcome of my headaches...I have to let them go on until they wear themselves out. I havent taken modern medicine (not even advil or tylenol) since middle school so i cant get rid of my headaches with the pop of a few pills like most people do. People think im just being stubborn (and maybe i am) but more-so its because I dont believe in the overall motives of the pharmaceutical companies...they dont produce the majority of medicine to help you, but to help themselves. Big businesses want big money. They are marketing medicine as though it were the newest trend. Personally, I dont think your body is something that should be treated so carelessly. It seems that new forms of "miracle medicine" are being discovered everyday, after which news releases come forth to tell of their side-effects, addiction rate, etc, etc. Sad, but its true...they are handing out perscriptions for deception, greed, and selfishness. AND I have chosen to dissociate myself from this as much as I can.

But enough ranting already...the weather is FINALLY beautiful outside and I am no longer left wearing the only 2 sweatshirts I could fit in my suitcase (i figured i only needed summer clothes for summer, but apparently not). My newest love is clothes is anything black...i used to wear only bright colors but now everything i buy is black, black, black. Pretty soon my closet is going to resemble a big black hole.

And now for some exciting/interesting news: after a lot of talk, one of the amazing photographers I have worked with in the past just gave limited copyright use to a German band (whose lyrics are actually in English) to have one of the photographs we took be used on their CD cover...they sent me a preview of what it is going to look like and it was pretty damn rad =] So i guess my face is gonna be floating around in Germany on a CD cover haha

Time to go make mischief...

"Like damn, I'm from Minnesota, land of the cold air…
Prince lives here, we got 10,000 lakes

So ive been in my homeland of Minnesota for about a month now and couldn't be all too much more content. Don't get me wrong, I love LA…but a break was well needed. I grew up in the genuinity of the Midwest so some things about LA start to get to me after awhile and I need to re-ground myself. I am excited to return to california in august though...i wish i could rearrange the states and put these 2 together...then i wouldnt have to live such a split life.

Only 2 major things I am not happy about here:

1. Summer school. In order for me to graduate from college in less than 6 years I have to take physics + calculus here over the summer AND I have to drive back and forth 2 hours everday to Minneapolis in order to do so…studying never stops for me apparently.

2. MOSQUITOS! Unless you live like right next to me (perhaps in my alfalfa or cornfield??) you cannot complain about mosquitos. I live on the frickin river and that is their breeding territory so its basically a death-zone when you walk outside. My body is more-or-less covered in itchy little red bumps…I feel like I have fleas.

Beyond all that…im pretty happy at the moment. Wow, when is the last time I said that? Sometimes it takes certain events in your life to realize what you were taking for granted or overlooking…its really the simple things + down-to-earth people in life that make it worth it =]

Tonight, tonight, tonight!!! We are adding to members to my family! Yes yes yes…the oslunds are getting 2 baby black+white kittens! I am the biggest cat lover in the world so I am extremely excited. They are just little mutt farm kitties but those are the cutest…I don't understand why people see the need to buy from breeders + pet-stores all the time when there are so many stranded animals out there.  Spay and neuter your animals if you don't want babies people…animals are horny little devils and will reproduce if you let em run free! Anywho…I want to name one of them harry and one voldermort but my mom said you cant give an innocent little kitty a scary name like that. Maybe Dumbledore or Sirius be better...

My newest obsession is reading my horoscope daily. Ive always been very much into parapsychology but never gave astrology too much attention before even though that all ties right in. Destiny, karma, life…its all relative and it fascinates me. Everything happens for a reason and im beginning to really believe in that and learn to accept all the ups+downs of life as one in the same. Even though I follow the general Christian faith, I used to attend a Buddhist temple and met with the equivalent of a priest there on various occasions and he taught me a lot which I now base my life on. Dhuka. Things happen and they just ARE so accept them for their existence and move on. No reason to dwell on mistakes or what you wish you could happen. My religious ideology is very complex and intermixed and everchanging. Im just a very open person and believe that religion is an imperfect thing and that's why we need to continuously discover what it means throughout our life. Its ignorant to learn only one religion, base your life beliefs off what other people or books say, isolate yourself in a community of people with like-thoughs, and stubbornly stick to that for your whole life…but people do it. Human though on religion and life is intriguing.

I have been sitting at this coffee shop for far too long...i better go before they arrest me for being creepy

PS: life is not worth living without ebay…it nurtures my soul.