First Week of Work

So here is a breif rundown of what I did my first week of work, there were breakdowns of the mechanical nature but we still got the silage in and the silage pit covered. So it was a good week.

August 25th Vlog;

Monday, I got a crash course in driving a tractor and trailer for silaging. It was rather easier than I expected but then again the silage pit was also high enough that I didn't have to drive my tractor over it...

Monday evening I made biscuits look how pretty they are!

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday were more of the same, although I also had to figure out how to back up a trailer full of silage into a specific space. But I'm happy to report that I got that done without breaking anything. Also, Tuesday morning we sent a bunch of steers to auction, which was not as difficult as it could have been although there were a few iffy moments. And of course Wednesday evening was Knighthaven. Which was okay, but not spectacular, I'm just excited I drove an hour and a half both ways without incident.

This morning we covered the silage pit (A rather large job that involves tossing a lot of tires around, a few pitch forks and three loads of bad silage.) and this afternoon was sorting steers and getting off early. I have to admit I'm glad Silaging is over and done with, although driving a tractor and trailer is not as scary as I thought it would be.

Also mom gave me a book of sayings called Never Ask a Man the Size of His Spread: A Cowgirl's Guide to Life

The saying of the week is;

Even if it takes more than one throw to land a steer and tie him, he's still roped and tied. 

 And just for those of you who need either a laugh or some decent relationship advice;

Before you get serious with a cowboy, be sure he values you more than his truck.

August Report Card 2014

It's a good thing I'm doing these boring report cards, otherwise I would completely forget about this blog. Which brings me to the first item on this list.

Find something fun to do with this blog; like a monthly posting of pictures gifs or memes or something... I feel like there should be something thought stimulating going on here but I am sadly short on consistant inspiration...

DRAMA CAAAAAMP; I wish I was as excited for this as I should be but I'm really a bit overwhelmed at the moment

Continue to use the techniques I learned at my art lessons; becasue it kind of defeats the purpose to foget about them

And since I'm already two weeks late on this I won't add anything else to the list.

How To Train Your Dragon 2 Review

Saw How To Train Your Dragon 2 in theaters in July and I am now finally happy with my review. There are minor spoilers in here, mostly dealing with information revealed in the trailers.

As always we'll start with the downsides. First off, this movie seemed a little confused; while Hiccup and Toothless are still the indubitable stars there seemed to be a lot of half developed side shows going on with people who can't decide which side they're on, and a ridiculous love triangle. Secondly, while Astrid was pretty important in the first movie she spends a lot of time being dramatically useless. I mean, she's there but she says little of importance and does even less. Also, while there were a few giggle worthy moments there was very little of the sarcastic and ironic humour that made the first movie so fantastic. And while the movie starts out at a good pace, with plenty of time for characters, dragons, landscapes et cetera, the last third just feels rushed, and the speed seemed to ruin what had the potential to be the most important moment of the entire film.

On the upside, oh my word the animation! The textures! The colours! The new variety's of dragons! There is so much to fangirl about when we're talking visual stuff. One of my main complaints about the first movie was the limited varieties of dragons with Hiccup having the only unique one. That got resolved, and fast. Another, rather unexpected upside was Valka, Hiccup's mother. She was simply amazing, and the chemistry between her and Stoick was absolutely adorable. Over on the evil side the villain was pretty intimidating and managed not to get too overshadowed. Unfortunately like so many other parts of this film, all the ingredients for epic "bad guyness" were there, but not fully developed.

Altogether this film was not the almost impeccable, epic, touching movie that the first film was. Through half finished character development, weak plot, and inconsistent timing, it just failed to compare. Which, to be honest was a complete disappointment. How To Train Your Dragon 2 has all the right ideas, characters, designs, actors; it was just one movie that I want to hand back to the producers and say 'I think you sent the wrong film to the box office, this one isn't done yet!' 

July 2014

Well, I didn't do as badly as I thought I would after all that.

Organize/go to two more events; Yes, I went to the Passion Play in Drumheller (which was really cool) and organized a filming day for a short film me and Nicole have been planning for months. (Though we did the actual filming on the 1st...)

Memorize my lines and song; I got this guys, totally got this.

Work on my Sword and Sheild skills; Well I survived two bouts of Capture the flag without 'dying' so what does that tell you?

Read more than Ten books: Accomplished!

So yeah, not as bad as I thought it would be.