Daily C Daily doses from Courtney P.

I tried to find a good quotable section from this, but the whole thing is so insane I had to paste it all in. What an amazing amount of hoops they make contenstants jump through to appear on the show!

WARDROBE

ALL TEAM MEMBERS MUST READ AND UNDERSTAND THE WARDROBE INFORMATION

REMEMBER YOU NEED TO DRESS TO IMPRESS. You are coming to appear on television, and you need to dress accordingly. You must have a total of three outfits (bring two, wear one). Your clothing has to be clean
and pressed and have no slogans or logos (i.e. POLO, TOMMY, DKNY).

PLEASE DO NOT BRING DARK CLOTHING!! You cannot wear ALL dark
clothing, dark bottoms (slacks & skirts) are fine but you have to wear
brightly colored tops. BRIGHT, BOLD colors look best on camera and
with our set. If you wear all black or dark clothing you will not
appear on the show. NO BLUE TOPS’. Due to the color of our
background blue tops don’t look good on the show. PLEASE AVOID
FLORESCENT & PALE COLORS (such as light yellow and pink), as they are too bright for television. Also, avoid MIRRORS, SPARKLES OR
RHINESTONES on all clothing. If you have an item of clothing you
love, but doesn’t quite meet our standards, bring it with you and we
will review it during your wardrobe check. Your entire body will be
seen on camera. You must wear nice pants or skirts and nice shoes.

We understand you want to express your own personal style but IF YOU
DO NOT FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES SET, YOU WILL NOT APPEAR ON THE SHOW.
Please call us if you have any questions.

**If you serve in the U.S. Military we would like you to wear your uniform.**

*WOMEN:
NO White clothing (Absolutely None), Polka dots, checks, stripes, busy prints
NO Jeans, Casual Pants (Capris) or Denim
NO Formal evening wear
NO Tennis or athletic shoes, sandals
NO Turtlenecks

*MEN:
NO White clothing (Absolutely None)
NO Polka dots, checks, stripes, plaid, small busy prints, especially on your ties.
NO Jeans or denim, Athletic or tennis shoes

YOU MUST WEAR A BELT

**Your shirt must be a long sleeve dress shirt and it must be pressed**

Bring at least three different colored, long sleeve shirts, several
ties and at least one extra pair of slacks. If you own a suit jacket
please bring it with you. We prefer you wear a lighter colored suit.
You can bring a dark colored suit (black, navy or dark grey) provided
you wear a brightly colored dress shirt and that others on your team
are not wearing dark colors. Again, if you wear all dark colors you
will not appear on the show.

HAIR & MAKE-UP

YOUR HAIR AND MAKE-UP MUST BE DONE AT HOME BEFORE ARRIVING AT THE STUDIO. We know that some women and young girls do not wear make-up. However, when you appear on camera it is necessary for women over 15 years of age to wear make-up base, lipstick and mascara. If you don’t wear some makeup, the bright studio lights will make you look very washed out (i.e. YOU WILL LOOK BAD ON TV). We do not supply make-up for health reasons. Please arrive with your hair & make-up done, there will only be time for you to do touch ups. EVERYTHING IS ON A SCHEDULE AND TIME IS PRECIOUS!

Source: Dennis Crowley, Just in case you were wondering about the dress code for Family Feud…

This could be one of the greatest passive-aggressive notes ever.

aynne:

Last night at the Zen center, the monk gave a talk about not getting what you want.

She spoke about how small dissapointments lead us to suffer.  We expect things to be a certain way or we create dependencies on things continuing or not happening to make us happy. 

She talked about taking a pause before reacting with anger.

Anger is the personalization, the taking on of someone or something.   If you live a life of honesty, peacefulness, generorsity and openess then rarely should situations require you having to deal with difficult interpersonal situations. 

But, if you do find yourself in a challanging interpersonal situation, try to distance yourself for a moment. Realize that when someone does something unkind or destructive you must know,  that they have the problem, it is their cause and condition to deal with, it is theirs to own and deal with.

Take yourself out of the equation and try not to let it effect you personally.  Responding to the situation with grace and walk away calmly. 

This is something I know I have been learning to do for many years and it is not an easy practice. When people do things that do not compute, I feel angry.  I feel slighted, I feel dissapointed and sad. But, I must not respond with that energy. Instead, I hit the pause button and think about something else instead. 

And the amazing part is, when you simply don’t allow it to bother  you, anger and hurt simply goes away.    If you don’t feed it,don’t react to it, it dies. That which you don’t think about, don’t give any energy to and do not care about leaves your mind.

I don’t always suceed in my mission, but it gets easier with mindful practice.

One thing that helps is to everyday find moments, things, people that make us happy. 
They should be varied and small things.  Such as enjoying our morning coffee, witnessing someone politely give up their seat to somone who needed it, being told you are doing a good job,  having a old friend call.  These are the small pleasant blessings that happen all day all around us.

It makes for a much happier life to contemplate these things.

It seems such a simple thing to do, but easier said than done. With complete sincerity, I encourage everyone to consider this as well.

The times that I have managed to practice this, I have been generally happier and at peace with myself and the things that surround me. I think I’m getting better at this as each day passes.

/moment of zen