Tuesday, 22 October 2013

long time no blog

So apparently my last blog entry was on October 11th? Jeez, what have I been doing?
Hm, let's see. This past weekend was a very full one but lots of fun . Saturday morning my co-worker and I had a meeting with our boss. It went very well! The Caesars weren't too bad either ;) Then that afternoon my boyfriend and I went out for a drive to Aldor Acres. We had both never been there before so we were very excited. We ended up having a blast! There were so many fun things to do. They had a few fires burning as well which made the atmosphere so awesome. There was hot chocolate and apple cider and apple pies and homemade ice cream and even hot dogs. We definitely had ourselves some samples. There were two huge barns full of animals. Cows, horses, llamas, bunnies, pigs, piglets, donkeys, and tons of birds. I pet them all! And even got to hold a bunny and baby pig. I now want to own both haha. They also had a pen where there were goats and sheep wondering around and you could go in and hangout with them. The goats were a little annoying because if they thought you had food, they were all over you. My favourite was the sheep tho. She was so pretty and fluffy :) The farm also had hay rides, which we didn't do, seeing how the line was super long full of little children haha. Once we had our fill of warm drinks and animals, we wandered out to the pumpkin patch. We found a couple we liked and headed on home.

Later that day we got ready to head our old friend, Launa's, goodbye party at Fox and the Fiddle. It was super nice seeing some of the old people we used to work with. I definitely miss working with them. But I definitely don't miss the work. As the night wore on it ended up just being me, Ryan, and our friend Brandyn hanging out. Around 9:30pm we headed home. I was super sleepy and ended up passing out around 10:30. I'm such a party animal.
Sunday we had a pot luck dinner our friend Tina's house :) It was a lot of fun. We ate, laughed and watched Walking Dead. And again, I passed out super early after dinner haha.

Friday, 11 October 2013

Shut Up & Sing

So, I recently watched a documentary called Dixie Chicks: Shut up and Sing. I was never a huge fan of the Dixie Chicks but loved a couple of their songs. Including "Not Ready to Make Nice". What I didn't know was that the song was written as their come back song after that whole Bush criticism thing.
After watching the documentary I couldn't believe it. They were being threatened to be shot if they got up on stage and played their shows.  
During a show in London the lead singer had said : "Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."
Apparently that just sent people way over the edge. They ended up needing to cancel shows and tours because of it. Radio stations stopped playing their music because of hateful phone calls and threats. There were even some protesters who resorted to publicly trashing their CDs. The song, Not Ready To Make Nice, is a reflection of how they feel about making that statement. By saying they are "not ready to make nice" means they are not going to apologize for what they said even though it was potentially devastating to their careers. Learning the true meaning behind why they wrote the song and the powerful music video and lyrics, has made it that much more of an amazing song for me and changed my opinions of them. You should give it a listen :)



"I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pojL_35QlSI