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January 12, 2005
On a brighter note
The sun is shining in LA! And hopeful news is all about..
Yay! What a beautiful day!
The sun came out yesterday and I was walking down Santa Monica Blvd on my way to pick up my catalogue from the printer, and I had one of those great sense memories.. I suddenly was transported to England on a crisp Spring day.. The light was the same from the semi grey sky with sun bursting through, and the air was fresh and crisp and so sweet.. I heard myself say "ahhhhhhhhh" as I was walking along...
Many memories flashed though my mind like fast forwarding a film.. I miss my years and years in England..
Anyway, I was thoroughly enjoying my walk and the feeling of icy wind on my face and the sweet clean air. The LA air has been thoroughly and beautifully washed and the plants are breathing for the first time in a year.. and so are we..
The air smells like freshly washed sheets drying in the sun.. Thats one of the very best scents in life!
I can smell all the plants gushing out lovely oxygen that makes the air sweet and crisp. Boy, this LA air is like walking through a wood in England.. (How RARE thats is in LA! LOL)
This gorgeous rain washed air reminds me of all Springs Ive ever experienced. Spring in Sydney, in England and all the places Ive visited in my travels in Spring.. Ahhh, the joy of all those yummy memories.
Nature is a huge force in my life that motivates emotion and thought and creativity in me.
Funny how scents can transport you to times in your life isnt it?
Anyway, what a great day it is! Today the sun is bursting out. The air isnt warm, but I adore that sunny icy feeling on my face. Keeps me young!
Oh, a bit of good news.. maybe... I am considering coming out of semi retirement for a film at present, its a low budget independent sci-fi film with a GREAT script... Ill let you know more later.
AND.. I am waiting to hear back from the most perfect store in the world for my perfumed products.. I have spoken to them and sent a large selection of my products.. Hee hee, I wish I could be a fly on the wall watching as they open box after box and they are mesmerized by incredible scent after scent.. I LOVE watching people faces when they smell my range, they dont expect what they smell and their faces light up with a mix of sheer joy and love with every product they lift to their noses. I line them up at the personal appearances and watch as folk pick them up idly. They get such a sense shock and then quickly pick up the next one almost in disbelief.. Then they get frantic to experience more and the crescendo builds to fever pitch as they pick up every product one by one, sometimes two by two at a staccato pace.. hee hee. I LOVE watching.. My products really have unique and incredibly gorgeous and sexy perfumes.. It makes me smile as wide as a Cheshire cat when I witness folk enjoying my work.
I have worked to the depths of my soul on the fragrances and products over the last 3 years. I have given everything and sold everything so my business can leap into action. Ive trialed my products on everyone at the personal appearances Ive been doing in the past 3 years, product by product, perfume by perfume, person by person. About 100,000 people in all Im guessing. I did an appearance almost every week for 3 years with an attendance rate of between 2,000 to 60,000 to even 5000,000 at the Milton Keynes show in the UK. Not everyone came to see me of course at each show, but Id say about half at most shows. (BTW Thank you for saying hello and taking the time to come to my table for a chat and to see my products that started with one perfume and grew and grew! LOL and grew!)
Its been an extremely long process, but I am a perfectionist with an artistic streak so I would not approach a single store till I was absolutely ready..
Im ready and have started at the very top.. lll tell you more on that later ..
So thank goodness Mother nature is blessing me with her beautiful clean nutritious air so that my nerves can be eased..
Bless you Mother Nature!
Posted by Virginia Hey at 12:51 PM | TrackBack
Life is great, except...
for the bloody theives who try to extort...
Do you get 20 potential extortion letters a day! I do.. And every single one of them is a different sad long winded story offering millions and millions from Mrs someone, or Reverend someone, or some Government official, or a little boy crying because his parents were killed.. ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING ploy to pull on our heart strings, they try to target every type of person with their inventive letter content..
Each of them is full of BS about being recommended to me, and requesting at length that I help them transfer tens or scores of millions of dollars into my account with a percentage of the transfer going to me..
Usually all based in Africa.
They make me so sick these criminals! I am so tired of getting all their letters day after day after day, 20 a day usually, all different, from different people at different public email addresses.
Why cant the police set up some sort of body that stops these low lifes..
The scam is well documented on the CIA fraud sites, but that doesnt help stop them, they must get one victim who is sucked into their filth for every 10,0000 emails they sent out.
Grrrrrrrrr
ha ha, you can tell it pisses me off!
And no, this is not my imagination, I really do get about 20 a day. All via my Alibaba.com inbox. Alibaba warn us about the fraud letters, but have no protection set up!
Anyway, its all as boring as bat shit..
Posted by Virginia Hey at 12:19 PM | TrackBack
By the way
How can I stop the company "Two Cows" from using my name for thier website?
They ignore all my mail asking them to cease.
I know that there is a governing body that stops sites from using your name, but you have to pay for all the forms and there are fees up the wazooo..
You see.. Once I got the domain virginiahey.com I made the mistake of not continuing to pay for the domain virginia-hey.com and "Two Cows" CLEVERLY snapped it up knowing that I had 30,000 hits a day going to that address. Two Cows are part of Addr, the company who who hosted my site for years and the same company who sold that domain name. (Stinks doesnt it!) Which explains why, once I realized that I should continue renting the domain name and noticed that it had not been sold, they refused me... I explained the dilemma and they told me some rubbish about the name not being available.. They wanted to use it themselves... and did!
I have been told about the board who can stop them, and Andy and a few of you in the past have sent me all the links to the forms, but it costs a great deal of money for me to fight them to stop using my name.
Any ideas as to how I can get this done without having to pay for forms and fees?
DONT go visit their virginia-hey site where they have stolen my name, I dont want them to have any more of my hits... Grrrr
Im opening the comments for this one, please send me ideas as to how I can, or WE can all fight them without having to pay all the fees. i refuse to have to pay fee after fee for the use of my own name!
Any ideas?
Posted by Virginia Hey at 07:24 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
January 01, 2005
Thank you all
All the Dick Tracys have a big HUG..
Thank you so much to all of you who sent me the most wonderful advice and information about international business transactions, gosh, I appreciate it so very much!
What would I do without you all!
Ive stored all the information in my personal files and deleted the post from here. Obviously it contained business information that I shouldnt splash all over the place! LOL
Im a lucky girl to have such an amazing, kind, pool of experience and wisdom in you all to call upon whenever Im perplexed about business.
THANK YOU!!!!
HUGS ALL AROUND!!!!
Happy New Year to you all
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