eniv been a busy little bee. like the company, the issue reflects enliv's growing cultural presence with more content, additional articles and columns, and better photography. the HOME issue, the HOLIDAY issue, and next month's, the GROWING UP issue. it's going to be B-E-A-utiful! (<-- can you guess where that was from?)

i just want to say how enchanted i am with your online publication - just found it today - i have never seen anything like it online before. Bravo!

whatever kind of 'web technology' you are using, i only wish everyone else online was using it too, b/c it's just wonderful, even for my slow dial-up connection. and no banners, no popups, AWESOME! are you all doing this 'fer free?' :) In any event, it is a fantastic web offering i will be back to view again and again.

much delighted & grateful for the talent behind your creation,

Rebecca

thanks for the extrememly kind words rebecca. (you should be receiving $20 in the mail soon!) i like to attribute our talent to our team - the writer, photographers, PR that our entire team helps out with. truly remarkable. and also, we keep it simple. we keep it true to our culture.

and thanks for noticing the technology we use. never anything too flashy and annoying, we use great yet simple programming. and of course, no dreaded pop-ups! but bad news... the banners are coming... but good ones!

Oooohhhh... My Biscuts are burning. I've never scene such fun and insanity since my days cleaning toilets at 9200 feet. I mean at that altitude you get completely exhausted - completely I tell you - cleaning those toilets - before you know what happened you're on your ass crawling back to your company supplied hovel back to your pot-smoking roomates and drug dealing neighbor - you know the guy the one so enterprising he acually recovered the seeds and was growing in a pot near the end-table over by the window - though I doubt that they grew that well as the light was rather poor and the pot was small and then there is that altitude issue again - which i eventually leaned to cope with by eating a more calorie intensive breakfast, namely a whole quart of whole milk plus several dough-nut as it seemed that it would keep me going at least till lunch when I could tackle some other calorie rich foods - though the law of unintended consequences was yet proven again as I am lactose intolerant - resulting in painful cramps and consistent flatulence - not that I cared at this point or even felt socially responsible for my bodies response to being poisoned by the very nourishment that I bought at the corner mart - that was a place I tell you - where u could purchase any fried greasy delight that would keep you going for the rest of the day but at inflated prices - the prime example to me was the bubbly water with sugar and flavors imported from the Napa Vally in Cali that was damn good by anyone's measure but so expensive that It absorbed a significant portion of my meager earings - after all I was cleaing toilets and the going rate was minimum wage and that wonderful rate attracted the best of the best that was a good flick no who on a consistent basis were so hung over that the supervisor for another site brought alcohol so they were able so function - how I envied those at that site primarily for t! he more pedestrian reason as the stoves they had to clean where of the burnerless variety and were far easier to address in terms of passing inspection - though I question and don't recall who exactly the inspector was at my site but it certainly wasn't one of my three roomates who was an actual inspector who was very conscious - he would say can enjoy milk without all the fat - use skim milk with your coffie and smoke a bol on his lunch break - not that I drink coffie but there is again that milk issue but I'm more of bubbly water person but the spending on the bubbly was getting atrocious so I bypassed the quickie mart and hitched a ride to the super grocery and bought the generic cola - you know the house kind that uses the high fructose corn syrip - but the cheap kind that results in a vauge corn-like aftertaste that is a constant disappointment every time you crack open a can - which was often as dehydration was a significant concern at that al! titude...

Your disgruntled contractor...part 2 to follow at later date...

apparently on the contact page, it states that submit something and see it printed here. well, my friend challenged by personal integrity to see if i would follow through. read it and weep.