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On August 12, the new film starting the always funny and enchanting Audrey Tautou Beautiful Lies comes out. Amelie is one of my favorite films of all times, but I think I've seen all the others she stars in and haven't been disappointed yet. Count me as in the theater already. And I'll update this post with my thoughts, or if motivated enough even a review. So many great things happening the day of and around my birthday. Good sign! UPDATE: Watched it and loved it. If only all of our messes in life could have happy finales like in "chick flicks." The world would definitely be a better place.

A few years back I had a "make ends meet" day job for which I had to train on the history of perfume. Ever since then I added perfumer to my (now getting ridiculously long) things to study before I die list.  Today I stumbled across this Huffington Post slide show on San Francisco based perfume artisans that create unique scents, and amongst them there is a well-known local perfumer who is also a clairvoyant, reiki expert, aura reader and aromachologist that creates custom scents energetically aligned to each client's vibration. I wonder how mine would smell and if I'd like it. You would think that after living in Berkeley for so long I would by now be getting tired of all the seemingly "hocus pocus," but the truth is that since I've lived here I've learned so much about the healing powers of herbs, oils and good food; and so much more about preventative and alternative medicine. In the 5 years I've lived in Berkeley I've only go