One activity I enjoy while visiting the farm family is archery. I got my first bow when I was about 10. Not one of those plastic toy bow-and-arrow kits, mind you. This thing is legit. I've got a couple I primarily use out of the family's bow collection now. I prefer the longbow style anyway. Possibly something to do with my great love of Robin Hood.
I'm not sure why I love this sport so much. Maybe it's because I'm naturally talented at most hand-eye coordination tasks. Or because I grew up with it as a family-bonding hobby. I'll never be a hard-core deer hunter like my father (of course), but target practice is fun.
(video to come)
Or at least it is until you have to scour the thicket and the woods for lost arrows. Oops. Can't hit the target every time.
I've got quite a few little adventures I'm hoping to post here from the holidays. Here's the first one. Christmas afternoon brought rough-housing around with the little brothers - an event that was once accident free, at least on my end. Recently though, the little brothers have all grown big and strong. ALL of them are bigger than me!
After a delicious dinner with the extended family, and a half-hour spent unwrapping presents, little brother wanted to give me a piggy back ride to prove just how strong he is (earlier he had lifted me several feet off the ground). Well, piggy back ride didn't go nearly as well as it could have. Perhaps it was partly my fault, wearing a skirt and just being to short to jump up on there. Well the story ends in more of a leap-frog way, with little brother standing up and throwing me down in front of him. On. My. Face.
Christmas is such a special time of the year. It makes you feel all warm inside - even when it's cold outside! I've said several times that music is one of my favorite things about the season. Here's yet another reason why that is so:
My favorite part of Black Friday is not the super crazed shopping sprees - though I did experience a little of that at 1 am. Oh my goodness, not doing that again! - but it's that I can finally listen to Christmas music without feeling that I'm taking away from other holidays. I love Christmas. I hate the cold, and snow, and wintery stuff, but I love that everybody is so happy. And excited. And families pretend they all love each other again.
This year I'm on the hunt to find some more non-traditional Christmas music. I love the classics, of course, but sometimes you want something a little different. For instance, I just love it when awesome rock bands release rock-n-roll versions of Christmas songs. Observe.
I wonder if I'm the only one that feels this way. I have a complicated love/hate relationship with music videos. Most of the time I won't even go watch them for new songs for fear I'll hate the song afterwards. Music means a lot to me and I love it. I love new pop songs that I hear on the radio and songs that friends recommend to me.
Sometimes I'll make playlists on YouTube of songs I like, and inevitably the "official music video" will show up, so I'll watch it. Sometimes, not always, I'll love it. Other times I'll hate it.
For instance, I love this song and I love it EVEN MORE after watching this video:
On the other hand, I used to love this song. I loved the message portrayed when I heard it on the radio. Then one day I saw the video, and now it's not the same. I mean, really? Why? This doesn't even make sense.
And then there's this song, which is just pretty much awesome... when you don't watch the video. It's a catchy tune, and the whole message behind music videos is really how I feel about them. But it's really annoying when you just want to watch the video to hear the song. See what I mean below.
What are your favorite music videos? How do you feel about them? Do they ever ruin the song for you?
