This Memorial Day the Buffalo Wild Wings Crew tool to the water again. This time we chose the Buffalo River in Pulaski, Tenn. (Get it, we work at Buffalo Wild Wings and were on the Buffalo River!)
Anyway, we started out much sloppy but in no time Sam and I had our canoe under control. We had this!
Three boys and five girls, at least we out numbered the boys this year.
Don't you love our hats! Shout out to Samuel Adams!
Larry, Tim, Dani, & Jarod
Just chillin' on the water!
This is Henry. His owner's last name is Winkler, so that makes his name Henry Winkler! AYE!!!!!!
Last year we saw a duck on the Duck River this time we saw a cow. Hey, it resembles a Buffalo.
What an amazing trip. We are going to try and go again on July 4th. Hopefully on the Duck, the Buffalo was way too shallow and people kept tipping their canoes, thankfully we didn't tip ours, not to mention the Buffalo is over an hour away from me. Until next time.
A friend of mine whom I haven't spoken to in a few weeks sent me a text today. He was telling me how he has been depressed and not making enough money at work and that's the reason why he hasn't spoken to me or been able to hang out the past few weeks.
I understand that and I told him flat out that I eventually quit asking him to hang out because he was always too busy for me and not his other friends. And I also told him the statement above. "You can't shut people out of your life. They may not be there when you need to let them back in."
People can only be rejected so may times before they no longer want to be your friend anymore. As someone who has been a complete nerd her whole life, I am familiar with depression and rejection. I have always had people come up to me and ask me when my baby is due, which wouldn't be a problem if I was actually pregnant which I have never been. It can really lower your self-esteem especially when you have already lost over 25 pounds and people are STILL asking you that damn question.
I had given up on being happy and settled on being miserable. I figured this was the best it was ever going to be.
Then I heard this song. (I prefer the SMASH Cast version. It's a little more fast paced then the original.)
Originally sung by Rihanna, "Cheers (I'll Drink to That)", has some inspiring lyrics right from the beginning.
Life's too short to be sitting around miserable.
People gonna talk whether you doing bad or good.
Just those two lyrics right there were enough to pull me out of my slump and start focusing on the good things around me. Of course this lyric helped as well since it dealt with my main problem, people. People are what hurt the most.
Don't let the bastards get you down.
I don't care what people think about me anymore, I only care what I think about me. When I started focusing on the good instead of the bad I became more positive and when I looked in the mirror I saw someone I hadn't seen in a long time, myself. And she was smiling a little!
I hope you take my advice seriously and don't shut people out of your life that you may need to let back into your life again one day. Who knows if they will be there. Of course a true friend will never truly leave you, you may just have a lot of explaining to do to get them to open up to you again.
I had such as awesome time canoeing with my coworkers and friends on Memorial Day. We went on the Duck River in Maury County. I haven't been canoeing since I was around 12 when I was in church camp. I think I did pretty good though!
We met at River Rats in Columbia at 10 a.m. and spent the next seven hours on the river. There was beer, lots of laughter, canoe tipping (mainly Ryan and Nikko), and plenty of good memories that were made.
Sam E., Me, Brandy
I had to have Ryan take this picture or else there would not have been one of the girls in the canoe at all.
Jorey (left) and Larry (right) in a boat.
This is Nikko (back) and Ryan (standing), and one of the few times they had not fallen in the water!
We Buffalo Wild Winger's, past and present, really know how to have a good time. (Jorey doesn't work there anymore.) I can't wait to go again!
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