Remember when

Remember when I was young and so were you

 And time stood still and love was all we knew

 You were the first, so was I

 We made love and then you cried

 Remember when

 

Remember when we vowed the vows and walked the walk

 Gave our hearts, made the start, it was hard

 We lived and learned, life threw curves

 There was joy, there was hurt

 Remember when

 

Remember when old ones died and new were born

 And life was changed, disassembled, rearranged

 We came together, fell apart

 And broke each other's hearts

 Remember when

 

Remember when the sound of little feet

Was the music we danced to week to week

 Brought back the love, we found trust

 Vowed we'd never give it up

 Remember when

 

Remember when thirty seemed so old

 Now lookin' back, it's just a steppin' stone

 To where we are, where we've been

 Said we'd do it all again

 Remember when

 

Remember when we said when we turned gray

 When the children grow up and move away

 We won't be sad, we'll be glad

 For all the life we've had

 And we'll remember when

 

Remember when

 Remember when

 

I love this song because Alan Jackson is telling the story of his life with his wife and he doesn’t leave out any details because even the personal things are shown letting people who listen really feel like they are part of the story. The musicality of this song is simple, but it’s nice because it doesn’t take away from the words. This song is very poetic in the way that he repeats remember when in each new paragraph in both the beginning and end. I just think it’s the sweetest thing ever that Alan wrote this for his wife. I also love how the song is like a time line and it goes through the years from the start to the present time. (317)

More tricks

1.      Put a bottle standing upside down on a dollar bill. Ask someone to get the money out from the bottle without making the bottle fall over. Once they give up gently roll the dollar bill up and once its rolled up to the bottle continue to roll it and the bottle will slide right off of the bill.

2.      Write the equation 9.50 = 101010 and ask someone to make the two equal (make the equation true) by adding only one line, the answer is to add one line above the second 1 to make 9.50 = 10T010 ( get it? 9 hours and 50 minutes is equal to 10 to 10).

3.      Put a dollar bill and three coins on top of a glass bottle. Tell someone to get the note from under the coins without any falling using only one finger. To actually do the trick lick the underside of your finger and quickly swipe your finger on the dollar bill and the saliva will make the dollar stick to your finger and slip from underneath the coins.

4.      Challenge a friend to balance a paper clip in water only by using paperclips. To do it take a paperclip and fold it to an “L” shape, balance a paperclip onto the shape and gently place the paper clip into the water using the “L” paper clip, once the paper clip is in the water take the L one out and it will flout.

5.      Place a brandy glass and a normal glass in front of someone. Put a cherry tomato under the brandy glass and challenge that person to get the tomato inside the other glass only by holding the base of the brandy glass. To do so quickly swivel the brandy glass in a circle and the tomato will circle up the glass, then while still spinning the glass pick completely up and stop swirling to let the tomato drop into the glass. (327)

Bluebird

 

The song Bluebird by Alan Jackson:

 

I'm lost in the night

 The icy wind is howling out your name

 And desolation wanes

 Like a fog

 The fires rolling in

 In the wind

 

I'm out in the rain

 The moon is gone behind the clouds again

 And I can't stand to live

 Another day

 Cause my bluebird went away

 

And I'm locked in this room

 With my song

 No escape

 No way to get away

 

And my only connection

 with tomorrow

 Is hopin' that you might decide not to stay away

 

Well I'm out on a limb

 If I could only find sweet love again

 To live my life this way is too much to bear

 Can't find my bluebird anywhere

 

I'm out in the rain

 The moon is gone behind the clouds again

 And I can't stand to live another day

 Bluebird why'd you go away?

 Bluebird why'd you go away?

 

               When I read this poem I read it like a poem because it defiantly seems like it was originally written as a poem. This one of the few songs that can make me cry. The way Alan Jackson sings this song you can tell by the tone in his voice that he really is hurting when he sings this song. You can tell he has a really deep connection with these words because he sings it like every word is full of truth.

               The guitar, maracas and harmonica in this song go perfectly together. The harmonic is my personal favorite musicality of this song because the “whininess” of the harmonica adds to the sadness, especially when the sound of the harmonica crescendos and decrescendos to add to the flow of the music. The maracas are a very light “sandy” sound (like sand is rustling) which relates to the part of the song when he says the wind is blowing. The maracas help give the effect of bad weather. Like most of my favorite songs that I blog about, this song is also very relatable because the things Alan Jackson sings about in this song are things that have happened to nearly everyone. (354)

Pride

               

In the following excerpt from Antigone, by the classical Greek playwright Sophocles, the wise Teiresias observes:

Think: all men make mistakes

But a good man yields when he

Knows his course is wrong,

And repairs the evil: The only

Crime is pride.

 

I agree with the excerpt “crime is pride”.  Although the exert looks clever and wise  it is just mostly saying that everyone makes mistakes, but good people change what they are doing if they know it will end badly. If people fix what is “evil” and bad in this world then the mistakes that you can’t help making won’t be bad because they are impossible to stop. When he says “The only crime is pride” I think he is saying it’s bad to do things for fame, just do them for the good of the world. “Repairing the evil” should be done because it’s the right thing, and huge pride shouldn’t come of it because it is just something everyone should do.

I think this excerpt is slightly valuable because it does have some good points. The part that I don’t think is all that valuable is when he says crime is a pride because without pride you won’t feel proud of the things you do. Being proud of the things you do make you want to continue to do them, of course having too much pride is bad because you get cocky, but a little is always good. (242)

               

Tricks

These tricks are brought to you by the video “10 bets you’ll always win” by Quirkology on YouTube. He has a few of these videos.

Here are a few of my favorite bets he shows that you can always win, I have gathered my favorites from a few different videos of his. (I like to think of it as easy money)

1. Bet someone to put a straw horizontally on the top (the cap) of a bottle. Ask them to move the straw without touching the straw. Once they can’t figure out how to do it show them how it’s done. To do it before putting the straw on the cap rub it on your shirt to gain static electricity so that when you put your finger close to the straw it will gravitate toward your finger and follow it around the bottle.

2. Challenge a friend to put one straw inside a glass of liquid and another outside the glass. Have them put both in their mouth and tell them to suck the liquid out of the glass. They won’t be able to as long as one straw is outside of the glass.

3. Challenge someone to clasp there hand together into a fist and keep the ring fingers up and pressed together. Put a coin between the ring fingers. Tell them if they can pull the ring fingers apart without releasing the fist then them can keep the coin. Thing is, it’s impossible!

4. Place two glasses apart on a table. Challenge a friend to put a piece of paper across the two glasses and using only the paper keep a glass standing on the paper. When they give up, fold the paper tightly into an accordion type way, unfold a little and it will be more stable.

5. Put an ice cube into a drink. Ask someone to get the ice cube out with only using a string. To actually do it you have to lay a section of the string on the ice cube and pour salt onto this area. After a minute you can pull the ice cube out because the salt makes the ice stick to the string.

6. Put 4 matches into an “X” shape with all the ends touching. Challenge someone to move only one match and make a square. The answer is actually quite simple. To make a square move one match so it’s not touching in the center to make a tiny square were all the ends aren’t touching.

7. Have three boxes of matches on the table. Shake one with your left hand and show them that there are matches in the box because it rattles. Then shake the other two boxes with your right hand and they don’t rattle. Have them watch the boxes as you flip them around and change spots as they are watching. Have them choose which box has the matches. They will always be wrong because they are all empty, the rattling actually comes from the hidden box of matches that’s in your sleeve (wrapped around your wrist by a rubber band).

Hope you try some of these out! (525)

Angel eyes

I think the song “angel eyes” by Love and Thief is just such a cute song. It’s the kind of song that everyone can sing along to. They are singing words that a lot of people may think about the person they are in a relationship with.

There’s a little bit of devil in her angel eyes

 She’s a little bit of heaven with a wild side

 Got a rebel heart a country mile wide

 There’s a little bit of devil in her angel eyes

 A little bit of devil in her angel eyes

               I can’t help looking at these words without smiling! The tune of this song definitely has a country flair to it, but not overly country so that I think everyone would still enjoy it. This songs pretty cool because I could see dancing to it, but I could also see just relaxing in the pool listening to it too. It’s got that beat that is calming and upbeat at the same time that is very unique.

Saturday night she’s rockin’ out by the bonfire

 Flirting from that tail gate and crankin’ up the dial

 Come Sunday mornin’ she’ll be singing with the choir

 Drivin’ me crazy with that kiss me smile

               This part of the song portrays the curtness of the song. It’s just a good old fashioned love song, done in such a cute way. And there’s nothing wrong with that! (237)

Salads are not just for dieting!

When people first think of a healthy food what do you suppose it is that they think about? I bet most of the people think about a salad. But to me a salad isn’t just a healthy meal, it is also very tasty and it has a lot of different varieties. My personal favorite is a salad with fruit. I love apples and cranberries on my salads with a little bit of raspberry vinaigrette to top it off. The combination of the sweet with the more biter spinach is wonderful.

               Salads don’t have to be boring; they can be made to fit any person’s personal favorites. Whether you like nuts, celery, carrots, raspberries, sunflower seeds, blue berries, blue cheese or peppers on your salad, you can make it however you would like. That’s why I think salads don’t get enough credit because they really can be just as delectable as any other meal.

               Another plus about salads is that they taste so good with any type of meat on top. Steak, chicken, or even tuna are very good. And you can add a lot or just a little, again, it all depends on your liking. 

               The dressing is usually were people go wrong. People take a completely healthy and nutritional salad and shove that all down the drain because they cover it in piles of dressing. You shouldn’t even use a lot of fat free dressing because dressing is meant to add a little extra taste, not to sop every inch of the salad with it.

               Try experimenting with salads. You would be surprised how good so many things taste in a salad!

Here are some interesting facts about salads brought to you by http://www.makemoreofsalad.com/:

.In ancient Egypt, lettuce was sacred to the fertility god Min and considered to be a powerful aphrodisiac. The first representation of salad appeared in paintings on Egyptian tombs in 4500 BC.

.Lettuce was first eaten by the ancient kings of Persia 2,500 years ago. The ancient Greeks and Romans thought it helped you to have a good night’s sleep.

.The lettuce we see today actually started out as a weed around the Mediterranean basin.

.Leonardo da Vinci was the first artist to depict salad in his paintings. In the Leda, 1504, a child, standing next to the goddess of fertility, poses with a bouquet of lamb’s lettuce.

.Salad comes from the Latin word “herba salta” or “salted herbs,” so called because such greens were usually seasoned with dressings containing lots of salt.

.Southern Chinese chew watercress to cure sore gums. The term ‘Salad Days’, commonly used in the English language, means carefree days of one's youth and comes from Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.

.The name Lamb’s Lettuce was given to the leaf because of its resemblance to the size and shape of a lambs tongue. There is also a belief that it was so named because it is the favorite food of lambs (apparently in nature the first crop appeared around lambing time). (500)