This Thursday, I am throwing back to bangs & short black hair. I miss you bangs-maybe we will meet again one day.
xo-M
"Take care of all of your memories. For you cannot relive them."
-Bob Dylan
Thursday, May 21, 2015
TBT
This Thursday, I am throwing back to bangs & short black hair. I miss you bangs-maybe we will meet again one day.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Life is Strange
Episode 3 of Life is Strange is out today!
It is my favorite game in a long time. [it is a choice and consequence game that you can rewind time to affect the past/present] If you don't hear from me today...know that I am alive... just playing a game.
xo-M
"There are plenty of skills that I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you are using your brain."
-Shaun White
Monday, May 18, 2015
Slide the City: Columbus, Ga
Slide the City is a pretty cool concept- A 1,000 foot water slip n' slide made on a street in the city. You can pay to slide once, pay more to slide three times or buy an all day pass to slide as many times as you want. I did find out that they work with the city to find the best location for this slide- for both sliding down the hill and water flow for this. Again, this is a cool concept but it went down as an epic fail for Slide the City and Columbus, Ga.
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Several weeks ago my friend Brandi and I decided to volunteer this event. We had on and off discussed getting involved in things and volunteering. Both of us decided this would be a good place to start. We were so very wrong. Our scheduled volunteer shift was 2pm-7pm. Once all of the volunteers for our shift arrived, we had a very brief pow-wow and were taken to our spot. We were excited and thought that we had scored the best possible volunteer spot of the day- the bottom of the slide. Our job was to slow down sliders and to keep them out of the bottom of the slide (which EVERYONE wanted to go in] because it had a water pump that filtered the water and pumped it back up to the top of the slide.
I should mention that the event began earlier that day and up until around 2:45 or 3 the water pressure was not enough to actually slide down the slide because there was not water down the entire slide. I am sure you can imagine that the people who paid for this experience were upset. Also, all day only two of the three lanes were open for sliding. The wait time for the slide was extra long due to the combination of one lane being closed and the inability to actually 'slide the city'. After the water pressure picked up people were actually able to slide down. The problem here is that it was just two girls against the city of Columbus. Most people did actually listen and slow down/stop before hitting the end with the water pump. We managed to grab many of those who didn't slow down before they hit the end- grabbing their tubes/legs/hands/whatever we could grab to make them stop. If this were a sports event- we would be the goalies. The next problem was having that group of a**holes who didn't listen. The ones who purposely slide in the end or go in there anyway after we had stopped them. I was knocked down a few times, but poor Brandi was completely wiped out by people several times. Frustration was building. Not to mention the super creepy old man who had a child's pool noodle/water gun squirting young, attractive women with water. [and who had been asked/told to stop many, many times] Even after being told to stop he remained at the bottom of the slide, sitting on the side-creeping away. Brandi even went so far as to tell one of the people 'in charge' and they did nothing.
We became fed up with the few people that simply would not listen and the lack of help/assistance from the coordinators and decided to leave around 5pm. Feeling that we were doing the right the thing, we went out of our way to find one of the people 'in charge' to tell them why we were leaving and that there was now no one working the bottom of the slide. She didn't even care why we had left or even care that we did leave. Then she had the audacity to ask if we could help clean up and pack up the volunteer tent/supplies. After picking our jaws up off of the floor we just said no and left.
The thing I am going to take away from this is that this is one experience and I refuse to let it ruin my stance on volunteering. You get out of the world what you put in. Don't let a bad experience ruin your good nature.
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Several weeks ago my friend Brandi and I decided to volunteer this event. We had on and off discussed getting involved in things and volunteering. Both of us decided this would be a good place to start. We were so very wrong. Our scheduled volunteer shift was 2pm-7pm. Once all of the volunteers for our shift arrived, we had a very brief pow-wow and were taken to our spot. We were excited and thought that we had scored the best possible volunteer spot of the day- the bottom of the slide. Our job was to slow down sliders and to keep them out of the bottom of the slide (which EVERYONE wanted to go in] because it had a water pump that filtered the water and pumped it back up to the top of the slide.
[This was before the madness ensued]
I should mention that the event began earlier that day and up until around 2:45 or 3 the water pressure was not enough to actually slide down the slide because there was not water down the entire slide. I am sure you can imagine that the people who paid for this experience were upset. Also, all day only two of the three lanes were open for sliding. The wait time for the slide was extra long due to the combination of one lane being closed and the inability to actually 'slide the city'. After the water pressure picked up people were actually able to slide down. The problem here is that it was just two girls against the city of Columbus. Most people did actually listen and slow down/stop before hitting the end with the water pump. We managed to grab many of those who didn't slow down before they hit the end- grabbing their tubes/legs/hands/whatever we could grab to make them stop. If this were a sports event- we would be the goalies. The next problem was having that group of a**holes who didn't listen. The ones who purposely slide in the end or go in there anyway after we had stopped them. I was knocked down a few times, but poor Brandi was completely wiped out by people several times. Frustration was building. Not to mention the super creepy old man who had a child's pool noodle/water gun squirting young, attractive women with water. [and who had been asked/told to stop many, many times] Even after being told to stop he remained at the bottom of the slide, sitting on the side-creeping away. Brandi even went so far as to tell one of the people 'in charge' and they did nothing.
We became fed up with the few people that simply would not listen and the lack of help/assistance from the coordinators and decided to leave around 5pm. Feeling that we were doing the right the thing, we went out of our way to find one of the people 'in charge' to tell them why we were leaving and that there was now no one working the bottom of the slide. She didn't even care why we had left or even care that we did leave. Then she had the audacity to ask if we could help clean up and pack up the volunteer tent/supplies. After picking our jaws up off of the floor we just said no and left.
The thing I am going to take away from this is that this is one experience and I refuse to let it ruin my stance on volunteering. You get out of the world what you put in. Don't let a bad experience ruin your good nature.
xo-M
"A bad system will beat a good person every time."
-W.Edwards Deming
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Sunday Sounds
Oh, Honey- Sugar, You.
Panic! At The Disco- Hallelujah
I am not ashamed to admit that I love this band and am super stoked for new music. Such an infectious voice- how can you know like them?
xo-M
"It would be glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger."
-Andy Warhol
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Sunday Sounds
With my return to the blog, I decided to continue Sunday Sounds. [with just a few changes] Previously, I always tried to post five songs. This go round I'll just be going with the flow.
Eric & I waited for what seemed like forever for Love Story to be released. This Sunday Sounds is the entire album. It is not often I love every.single.song. on an album but Yelawolf did not disappoint. The obvious favorite [if you know me at all] is Till It's Gone- it is just infectious in the best way. My other favorites are Whiskey In A Bottle, Have A Great Flight, and Best Friend.
xo-M
"Yeah, I have animosity, I have a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too."
-Yelawolf
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Hello!
I'm back!
[I can never stay away from blogging for long]
So, here is a random jumble of what is going on with me lately...
I update the look of the blog a bit. I like it....but I am a tad biased.
I update the look of the blog a bit. I like it....but I am a tad biased.
The spring is such an inspiring time for me. I thrive on cool summer nights mixed with whatever music I find myself in the mood for at the time. This week I have been listening to a lot of Brand New and Taking Back Sunday. It is oddly comforting to be just as in love with these bands as I was years ago.
I've been missing Tennessee lately.
TN will forever serve as my home away from home.
TN will forever serve as my home away from home.
[November 2014- smokey mountain national park]
In other semi-interesting news, I cleaned up my facebook. I went from 300+ friends down to a solid 186. I choose to hit the unfriend button on people that I do not interact with. It is highly liberating to decide you want to share everything with a select few. [ironic statement seeing as how I have no problem sharing my stories with anyone on this blog]
I started staying up late again and sleeping in [well, sleeping in when I can]. Creativity flows better on the computer more freely at 1am. Long live coffe, youtube, and blogging!
xo-M
"In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules."
-Tina Turner
-Tina Turner
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Sunday Sounds.
Going to make it short and sweet today.
God is love.
Happy Easter.
xo-M
"You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it."
-Denzel Washington
Thursday, April 2, 2015
TBT
Today's throwback is a favorite of mine. I dug deep into an 'instagram' file on my computer to find these! A day in Atlanta with the bestie. We went to ICE ATL and then on a photo spree.
[I could go for some IKEA about now]
[This tree bench was magial]
[we stopped at UO and got disposable cameras. confession: I never developed mine]
[sadly, this has since been covered up with something less memorable on it now]
[taking a pic of a ladybug]
Dear Bestie, if you read this we are overdue for an ATL adventure ;)
xo-M
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
-Woodrow Wilson
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