It Grew!

Everything grew this season! Some veggies grew too much. We couldn't eat all the lettuce so we pulled it and replanted. 

Yesterday I pulled all these beauties and because there's still time left I planted some more. 

Got The Drip

Got the drip system up and working well!

Using a sprinkler head which we addeda T bar to with 1/2 inch poly tubing then 1/4 drip lines from that. It's working good so far. No blight this year!

This Season

The dirt is tilled

Retaining wall is in place

Lets get it on!

A big issue in lasts years garden was that because it is on a slight slope, all the beautiful dirt I put in slid down and not much grew up top. The water didn't stick either. So....we installed a retaining wall. We also fixed our watering issue. The sprinkler head that was in the garden was converted into a drip system.  No more fungus growing on the leaves due to watering from above! I feel more positive about actually growing everything we plant this year. 

In our 30x10 space this years crops hope to include:

Peas

Beans

Turnip

Carrot

Cucumber

Tomato

Onion

Zukes

Squash

Various lettuce

Collards

Chamomile

Pumpkin

Watermelon

Cantaloupe 

In a container i will try strawberries and I may try to plant basil, thyme, chives and oregano in a smaller planter towards the back of the yard. 

I know this seems like a lot, but last year nothing lived long enough to produce. We did have plenty of tomatoes, zuke and squash though. If I could plant more, I would!! 

Wish me luck! Any suggestions are welcome. 

Garden

Space I'm gonna use for herbs

And we get our compost on!

I AM SPARTAN! Rawr

I've been training for this since December.  Actually the Tough Mudder but I decided to do the Spartan Race instead because I wasn't ready for 10 miles, mud and obstacles. I finished this race in 2:02. It was hard, mainly because it was only 45 degrees, windy and jumping into water made it worse. I am proud but am gonna hold off on doing any more mud runs for awhile. They always seem to be too far from home which means an hour and a half cold, wet muddy ride home. Next: 5K's and maybe The Bolder Boulder....

...and there's strawberries

It's no secret to those around me that I love TED. Great ideas and even some I don't agree with are there. Today, I found this little nugget of inspiration featuring Ron Finley. I consider myself a novice gardener, this season will only be my second. I have witnessed the positive effects gardening not only has on me, but my family. I do believe everyone should and can garden. I even had my youngest brother telling me the other day that he wants to garden, but has limited space. I told him he could container garden and would still reap the benefits of veggie bliss. Like Finley stated, "go be a gangsta gardener." Oh, I will!

Arrested Development

This is 31. I am 31. Sometimes I forget that I am 31, and still think I'm 30. Purely accidental. I'll be 32 in September, wow. I don't feel like I should be this old already, but I am and that's OK. I have good things in my life that keep me happy and content. If I didn't I probably feel worn. Reflecting on my 20's, I feel like I wasted time not doing anything to be a better person. So I'm actually 21, because that's when you get a college education, plan for kids, a house and stable financial future. I'm a little slow, no I just did everything backwards. It's all just coming together now and I still have time. There's still time to have a career, raise my kids, get married and make a retirement plan. I'm a work in progress and there's progress which is great.

Bring on 22!

Mexican Stand Off

(sorry for the run-on)

Mexican Stand-Off

In a world best described as unwittingly blind I held my head up strong not to be trifled or trampled upon then across came a man he stood with such candor unflinching broad shoulders we met at a pass and neither would bow to be so gracious that would be atrocious so we kept bumping heads like two silly goats stranded on a mountain top high it was a Mexican stand off this allegory tells of a love forlorn of two lovers squabble how neither was wrong nor could let their guard down oh just to see how magical it could be if the other said you're right, I'm wrong live in undying bliss if it didn't go amiss an amicable way not be headstrong everyday just to get your way and stubborn prideful listless sentiments spilled onto the floor a Mexican stand off is what I'm in

Our First Veggie Garden

My First Vegetable Garden

     This year will be my first ever trying to plant a vegetable garden. I've decided to document my successes and failures, et al. I'm starting with a rather large space for a beginner, but I just couldn't help myself. There were so many things I wanted to plant and eat! My space is 10'x30' and I'm planting...

• Cucumber
• Broccoli
• Zucchini
• Squash
• Strawberries
• Beans
• Peas
• Jalapenos
• Serranos
• Poblanos
• Cherry Tomatoes
• Tomatoes
• Cauliflower
• Bibb Lettuce
• Cantaloupe
• Watermelon 
• Pumpkin  

Whew! That's a lot of veg!

Stifling the Constitution

Stifling the Constitution

            It is not a matter of gay rights but of basic human rights for a person to love and marry whomever they choose. I believe that same sex marriage should be allowed everywhere in the United States of America. The opposition believes that the sanctity of marriage should be left to heterosexual couples. It is unconstitutional for the government to dictate whom a person can marry, based on sexual orientation. Equality amongst all Americans is what is important, regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation.

            It is unconstitutional for the United States government to bar same sex marriages. They have made legislature stating that same sex couples and marriages will not be allowed or acknowledged. In 1996, then President Bill Clinton signed into effect the Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA; which states that, “In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word `marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word `spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife” (Congress). Its enactment was brought on by Georgia representative Bob Barr who wrote the Act and President Bill Clinton, who is a democrat willingly supported it stating that he has long since been against same sex marriage. DOMA violates constitutional protections that forbid the Government from discriminating. One way it does this is by, “…creating disfavored, second-class citizens—and disfavored, second-class marriages. Such

unconstitutional election-year bills appeal to anti-gay disapproval, dislike, or discomfort the very animus rejected by the Supreme Court as a basis for government discrimination” (Dickson). This Act perpetuates hatred towards the gay community. It rates them as like the quote says, “second-class citizens”. They do not qualify to have the same rights as the rest of Americans, to love and marry who they choose to. It is a discriminatory Act, which the federal government has no place uphold because it goes against The Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, which states that “...no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privilege or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” (Unknown). This states that we are all to be treated equally under the same laws and are not to be discriminated against. Thankfully, times are slowly changing. President Barack Obama is a strong leader for the cause of equality. During his tenure he has helped take away the stigmatism of being gay by abolishing the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy; which disallowed gays in the military. While he was running for Presidency in 2008 he, “…presented himself as a strong proponent of ‘full equality’ for ‘LGBT people’—the current term of art, awkward but inclusive, for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people” (Hertzberg). He has helped make strides for the gay community and in recent times, “In a major policy reversal, the Obama administration said Wednesday it will no longer defend the constitutionality of a federal law banning recognition of same-sex marriage” (Post). DOMA still stands, but at least the President has realized that it is unconstitutional and in time hopefully it will be taken out and not be defended whatsoever.

            A few states are on their way to liberate the rights of their people. The State of Massachusetts on May 17, 2004 made same sex marriage legal stating that not allowing same sex marriage, “Barred access to the protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage, a person who enters into an intimate, exclusive union with another of the same sex is arbitrarily deprived of membership in one of our community's most rewarding and cherished institutions. That exclusion is incompatible with the constitutional principles of respect for individual autonomy and equality under law" (Massachusetts). They found that even though DOMA exists, it is unconstitutional to the rights of their people and under Massachusetts’s constitution not allowing same sex couples to marry places them as unequal persons. Illinois has tried to follow suit, among some other States to allow what is known as a civil union. A civil union is a legal entity that offers same-sex couples the same legal rights and benefits as marriage, like hospital visitation of a sick spouse and tax relief, emergency medical decision-making power and access to domestic relations laws and procedure amongst other benefits. Other states have acknowledged domestic partnerships between same sex couples, one of those being California. A domestic partnership is like marriage in that it shows you are over the age of 18, are in a committed relationship and it as well offers some of the same benefits of marriage and a civil union those being  medical decisions making powers et al. In the November 2008 elections the state of California passed Proposition 8 which added a new provision to the California Constitution, which provides that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. Subsequently under much heated scrutiny and many lawsuits filed challenging the proposition’s validity on February 7, 2012 a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel declared Proposition 8’s ban on same sex marriage to be unconstitutional. In our home State of Colorado, a civil union’s bill made it through the Senate on April 25, 2012 but it still needs to go through the House. With any luck and open-mindedness the State of Colorado will move forward and allow civil unions; eventually same sex marriages as well.

            Not allowing same sex marriage perpetuates discrimination against homosexuals. In fact, it is pure homophobia that keeps same-sex marriage from not happening. Our politicians use their own personal and religious beliefs as a deciding factor when it comes to allowing civil unions, same-sex marriage or domestic partnerships when their decisions should be made on what is equally right, what The Constitution says and our laws about equal treatment for all our citizens. Everyone deserves the benefits of marriage, which not only include state and federal recognition of you and your partners commitment to another but other such benefits as; tax, estate planning, government, employment, medical, death, family, housing, consumer,  and other legal benefits and protections such as visiting rights in jails and other places where visitors are restricted to immediate family.

            There was a time when inter-racial couples and inter-racial marriage were seen in the same light as same-sex marriage. People thought that it would ruin the sanctity of marriage and that those marriages would take away from what was so honored in marriage. People believed that the divorce rates would be increased and that children of inter-racial couples would not have the same wholesome upbringing as same raced couples. The very same rhetoric that was used during the civil rights era to keep inter-racial couples from being together is being used today to ban same sex marriage. “The arguments white supremacists used to justify for miscegenation laws--that interracial marriages were contrary to God's will or somehow unnatural--are echoed today by the most conservative opponents of same-sex marriage” (Pascoe). I believe it is only a matter of time before our generation comes together and realizes how unconstitutional, narrow minded and just wrong we are being by not allowing same-sex marriage. This topic is has always been important to me not only because I believe in equality, but because my youngest brother is gay. I watched him go through realizing who he was and supported him. I get very upset with the homophobic attitudes of people who do not understand and even more upset when their attitudes are justified by their beliefs in God and the Bible. Nobody chooses who they are; they are just born that way. I know my brother would not have chosen to be a societal minority and have to fight for rights that should be available to everyone.  My gay brother, his boyfriend, my boyfriend’s youngest brother, who is gay and every lesbian, bi-sexual or transgendered person deserves to be treated as an equal and have the same life, liberty and pursuit of happiness The Constitution speaks of that I do.

Works Cited

Congress. Bill Text: H.R. 3396.ENR, Defense of Marriage Act. 21 September 1996. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c104:H.R.3396.ENR:. 23 April 2012.

Dickson, Diana. "Why Federal DOMA is Unconstitutional." 24 March 2004. United Church of Christ http://www.ucc.org/assets/pdfs/emr21.pdf. PDF. 23 April 2012.

Hertzberg, Henrik. "Stonewall Plus Forty." The New Yorker (2009). http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/07/06/090706taco_talk_hertzberg.

Massachusetts, Law Library of the State of. Massachusetts Trial Court Law Library. 17 May 2004. Webpage; http://www.lawlib.state.ma.us/subject/about/gaymarriage.html#main. 29 April 2012.

Pascoe, Peggy. "Why the Ugly Rhetoric Against Gay Marriage Is Familiar to this Historian of Miscegenation." George Mason University's History News Network (2004). Webpage; http://hnn.us/articles/4708.html.

Post, AP/The Huffington. Obama: DOMA Unconstitutional, DOJ Should Stop Defending In Court . 23 February 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/obama-doma-unconstitutional_n_827134.html?view=screen. 23 April 2012.

Unknown. Judicial Interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. n.d. http://www.uscourts.gov/EducationalResources/ConstitutionResources/LegalLandmarks/JudicialInterpretationFourteenthAmmendment.aspx. 23 April 2012.

Poop On A Fan is Hard to Clean

So they say that when God closes a window he opens a door...or something like that. Well that figurative person above has shut all the windows in my life, and he better be opening a bloody garage sized door for me!

The shit has hit the fan.

My Story:

From a vary sequence of events, I am here now in this part of my life where at times feel overwhelmed. It all started with the beginnings of my divorce. My divorce and a car accident left me in a financial ruin. Credit is gone because a certain somebody racked up loans and credit card debt that also had my name attached to them. On top of that in October of 2008 I got into a car accident, which was my fault all the way. Since the accident I have had a Grand Am, that I sold to buy another Cavalier with my old engine in it from the car accident Cavalier. That lasted until September of this year. Then my parents were kind enough to let me borrow my brother's Jeep Liberty until I could save money to buy another car. That hasn't happened yet because, my last job with Colorado Community Hospice cut my hours, which led to me not being able to pay my rent. So I had to leave that apartment and go to another one, but before that they let me go in early January of this year. So, no job still had the Liberty and found a new place to live. Whew! Not yet....

Remember how I said I was in an accident? Well Adams County frowns upon not having insurance. So they took my license away in May of 2009. Started a new job at another hospice on January 11th only to be let go on February 1st because my MVR came back and guess what? You don't have a license so you can't work for us. Crap. But before that about a week prior to being let go, my Mom calls. "Tash, I've got bad news" What Mom? "They're here to get the Jeep" What? You're kidding! That was on a Friday, Saturday the repo guy came all the way down from Fairplay Colorado to Westminster to fetch the Jeep. So, I guess Ma and Pa weren't paying for it. Just started a new job, got a new place to live, but no car to get me to a job that requires me to drive. Luckily Travis and his lovely Ma, Bobbi came through and suggested that I ask his sister Tammi if I could borrow her old Saturn that she wasn't driving because Bobbi had sold her her Jeep Cherokee. Thankfully, she was more than willing to help. I have a car now temporarily, still no license and no job. It'll cost me $1,200 to get my license back. I am currently looking for a job.

THE ICING ON THE SHIT CAKE:

Through all my unsteadiness of said events, and me trying my hardest to make a good life for my children and I, Travis was there for support. He always helped come up with plans and ideas and told me "we" were going to make it through this crap together. He even lent me money that I paid back for a car payment on the Cavalier. I never asked him for anything, ever. I have a really hard time asking for and accepting help. I've been working on that though, because he always reassured me that it was okay to need help and he would never hold it against me.

I guess it can't always be good.

He left me.

On Tuesday, the day after I lost my job. He said that he wanted to take a break because of the stuff I have going on is too much for him.

I am beside myself with anger

I feel lied to. He always said he wasn't going anywhere, don't worry I'll be here, I love you. I call bullshit. You do not up and leave the person you supposedly love when they're going through some shit. You stay, you back them up no matter how many times they fall down. You are there to raise them up. At least that's what I believe. I know if the roles were reversed, that's what I would do. I have been there for a good share of supportive events in that man's life. Father passing and helping him try and work through that. Mom getting breast cancer. Pushing him to go to school.

How can you say enough is enough?

I know that my life has been hectic since August of 2008. This is all new to me. Being a single Mom. Trying to make it on my own with two kids. It hasn't been easy, by no means. But I'm trying. I want a good, stable life for me and my kiddies. I can't live like this either, with all this chaos in my life. I have a plan and I have goals.

Regardless if he wants to be here with me or not. I will succeed. I will have a job, house, car, oh and license ha. It just takes time. I will be fine.

So....another window closed.

Where's that garage door? :)

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The Birdman of Denver

Drawn by Travis T
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Morning Sun

Morning sun thrust upon the sleeping world.

Shuttered windows opened to this fresh new light.

Groggy snooze and sand filled eyes.

Opened Wide!

Let it in I say! Evoke my soul!

My mind is still only half awake from my midnight run.

It does not want to see the sun.

Tis inevitable though, cannot ignore the light.

Oh yours is too bright.

Morning sun, so fresh and new

I awoke to you

Reconsider Everything

I've had sometime to reflect about what I wrote in a previous blog called "Starting". I've become more solidified. Congeal, if you will. I have deemed it unnecessary for my man and I to move in together right now. I'm not sure when exactly it would be necessary, but I'm OK with us not co-habitating. It feels like there's a lot of pressure these days to follow a certain relationship guideline. For instances, at 3 months you should be saying "I Love You" or at 6 months this should be happening. Well, some people just don't fit into those "molds". I myself am good with taking it easy. What's the rush? I have learned from past history mistakes to NOT rush anything. Plus, Travis hasn't lived on his own, own with no roommates in....god I don't even know. It's been a really long time though. Plus I'm still figuring out how to be a single Ma', live on my own again and take care of my babies. A little soul searching, and standing on my own two feet. That means a lot to me. My independence is everything to me. I don't want to feel like I need to rely on somebody else. In all honesty, it scares me to death. The idea of living with a man again.

I think I was really upset before because I felt rejected. Which is normal. I took it personally. We have a really great thing going between us. The best either of us has ever had. It's a grown-up kind of thing, which is such a nice change. No yelling and screaming, we talk. Most of the time it is rainbows and lollipops full of sunshine and sugar. I do believe I have found the other half of me. Like Dr. Evil says to Mini Me, "you complete me". Ahh, too funny.

All in all I am saited, content, full and loved. In no need of convincing, or feeling pressured. It'll happen, like most things, when it's ready to.

And I'm OK with that

One New Age Hippie? Coming Right Up!

I have been seriously entertaining the idea of becoming a vegetarian. More exactly, lacto-vegetarian. Reasons why are as follows:

• touching raw meat sickens me
• the processes which bring meat to my local store are degrading, not only to the animals but to the people whom work in the plants.
• it's just not healthy. There have been many reported cases of illness, even death due to eating meat that wasn't up to standard. Not to mention the cholesterol.
  
• the only dairy I enjoy are cheese, cottage cheese and yogurt. Milk is easy to cut out, since it hurts my stomach and soy tastes sooo much better.
  

Ethically and morally, I just can't side with being an omnivore anymore. Maybe one day I'll have my own farm and raise chickens, pigs and cows, then I'll feel at ease with eating meat again. Until that time, then I think I'm just going to drop it from my diet. I'm making a conscious effort to stop standing behind the conglomerate corporations that feed us their ideas and horrible food which is laden with maleficence against other humans, animals and the earth as a whole. Until there is a shift in the practices these corporations uphold, then I will take a stand against them. I will spend my money on locally grown, organic, non-overly processed food and beauty items. I'm shaking my newly born, hippie fist at them. Take that! Ha!

I've been researching the internets to formulate my herbivore plan, to make sure I'm doing it right. The biggest problem I've heard of with talking to people who once were veg or are and how they got started,was the lack vitamins and minerals that you once received from eating meat. You need to be informed, so you can make the healthiest decision and not have any dietary deficiencies. I found online a "Vegetarian Pyramid", which shows what you should typically eat at every meal, once a day and weekly.
I've also been worried about what the heck am I going to cook?? That problem was easily overcome since the internet is full of veg recipes. I found on the Mayo Clinic's website, that they have a plethora of free meal ideas and recipes. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/meatless-recipes/RE00104 Amazing!

I've also worried about cost. I know a lot of the obesity problem and diabetes issues in this country are because people eat poorly.
People eat poorly because they typically cannot afford to eat the things that are good for them. It's set up this way on purpose. Why go to the store and buy a pound of apples for $1.29? When you can buy a cheeseburger for only 99cents. Like the movie Super Size me states somewhere along the lines, that fast food places are geared to make you want to eat every meal there, and for cheap. Eating right is a choice. There are many local co-ops, whole food markets and farmers markets you can choose to shop at. Yes, you're going to pay a little bit more at let's say a Whole Foods or Sunflower Market, but you're paying for quality and to me the value in that goes a lot further with me than paying for something that is over processed, full of chemicals that are going to cause my daughter to start her period earlier, and harmful to my planet. If this is the one thing I can do, for myself and my family then I'm going start.

I'm really excited about this. I'm excited to go to Whole Foods and check out their bath and beauty products. No, laurel blah blah sulfate? Sweet!! A product that's made of real, wholesome ingredients that are good for me and the earth? Awesome!! Stoked people, I'm absolutely stoked!!

You got me good...

Love stricken. I have always been. Since I first laid eyes on you, I wanted you. I could never get enough. I still can't. Head over heels from the very beginning. I have always loved you. Passionately. Words cannot truely express how I feel about you. Miss you always, when you're not near. Want to hold, touch and kiss you all the time. I'm so happy that you're mine. I thank pure luck or coincidence that you're in my life. You've helped make me a better me. There was a time when I was scorned and unopen to the possibility of love, had all but lost hope that I could find someone who brought the best out of me and made me truly happy. I found that with you. You are the other half of me. I still get excited to receive a call from you and to hear your voice. I still get butterflies when my phone goes off and it may be a text from you. I still get fluttery when you walk into the room. You got me, you got me good.
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Starting

I'm currently starting a lot of things in my life, or the possibility of starting things will be happening soon.

Starting not to care is one of them...

Been dating this wonderful man for over a year now, and 95% of our relationship is frickin' amazing. He treats me well. He's kind, thoughtful, considerate, funny, very intelligent blah blah blah. All the good stuff. He just keeps getting me confused with other girls he's dated and quite frankly, I'm over it. No, I'm not the girl who got knocked up by another dude while you were together. I'm not the girl who broke your heart and left you sleeping on your sisters living room floor. I'm not any of those people.

I'm a good girlfriend to him, he's even told me so without me asking. In his words the best he's ever had. The hang-up here, or the snag we're stuck at is that I have kids from my previous marriage. He's spent some time with them, but not enough to be a clear judge on how awesome they are. Yes, they're kids and yes they do whine at times or make messes, but those are not reasons to not want to move in with me. Oh, yeah that's the biggie going on right now. We've been talking about moving in together. He's worried that they'll destroy all his worldly possessions, they'll never listen to him, he'll have to be prime punisher, and that I just want to live with him for financial reasons. Yes sirree!!! We are out to destroy him!!!! Mu-ah ha ha ha ha! lame.

It goes without saying, that he has to protect himself. Everybody does, I understand this even though I am blond. This is the natural course in any grown-up relationship. I cannot say that I too am not scared. What if we move in together and he's a controlling Nazi? Overall though, I'm not as afraid as he is. I can't explain why. Maybe it's because I know him, and even though he's an OCD clean freak I still love him and want to be with him all the time. I know all his quirks, habits, hang-ups, annoyances, pet peeves, and I still want to be with him, live with him whatever.

As I'm writing this, Ive started to think that maybe he knows all those things about me too but just doesn't want to really live with me? What if I didn't have my children? He says he'd live with me, that hurts. Is it true though? Would he just find another excuse not to live with me?

So, starting not to care. You go. You go and live on your own. I don't give a shit.

I'm afraid that if we don't take this step, because it's coming up soon. Leases will be up and all that, that we won't work out. I will be hurt, I will be resentful and not to mention pissed. I seriously don't want to wait another goddamn year to "see how it goes". Mr. Shuffle His Feet, better pick up the pace. This is just so frustrating. I don't know what to do with myself. Bail? Suck it up and hold out?

It aggravates me to say this, but I probably would hold out. I have been and still would. How pathetic is that? A glutton for punishment, I guess. Good things come to those who wait, right? What if I do wait, and we still don't work out? If you really love somebody, you will do whatever it takes to make it work, you will love them unconditionally, through thick and thin. I love this man. I really do, more so than I can say I've ever loved another. I can say that I would wait for him because of this.

So, we'll see how it goes. Start here, our paths parallel but not joined hopefully heading in the same direction and possibly merging into one? Start here, together, on the same path side by side and definitely heading in the same direction? ................

Hungry

My sweet little peach is hungry
It needs to be fed
Salivating juicy nectar upon its cotton bonds
Please pluck it from its tree
So ripe and ready to devour

Emotion In Motion

.....Emotion in Motion

Like the oceans waves that flip and turn for days

To come and some of the clouds recede to please

For pleasure, whatever, i hope this lasts forever

Nothing can devour or sour what is or what will come,

But for some they believe we will end in lonesome memories

Look into my eyes... this is true, from me to you

Nothing but me and you

My hearts on fire for that one that i desire

You and only you, believe when i say that i speak the truth

.....that i truly love you

-Travis Thompson

No Vacancy

The sign has been posted
Its stated very plain
No vacancy here today

Guests come as you may
Make requests to pay, ample amounts
I'm sorry, you cannot stay
No vacancy here today

You may ring the bell
Shout real loud
Threaten taughts of bodily harm
We're all full, it has been spoken
No vacancy here today

Go, leave now
Come back some other time
Make a reservation
I'll say it once more
No vacancy here today, this heart is not working

-Tash

What You Thought You Need

Well I can't give you everything you want
But I could give you what you thought need
A map to keep beneath your seat
You'll read to me in time. I'll get you there
But fold it up so we don't find our way back
So nobody knows we're here

We can park the van and walk to town
Find the cheapest bottle of wine we could find
And talk about the road behind
How getting lost is not a waste of time
Le Bois d'Amour will take us home
In the moment we will sing as the forest sings

It's all for the the sake of arriving with you
Well it's all for the sake of arriving with you

Well, I will make the table into a bed
The candle is burning down, it's time to rest
I cant' take back things already gone
But I could give you promises for keeps
And would only take them back if they became your own and you gave them to me

And it's all for the sake of arriving with you
Well it's all for the sake of arriving with you

We could make this into anything
We could make this into more than words we speak
This could make us into anything
It could makes us grow and become what we'll be

How will we really know?
Its' just like it feels, just like it feels

How can we really know?
It's just like it feels , just like it feels

Just like it feels, how does it feel?
Just like it feels, just like it feels

How does it feel, just like it feels
How does it feel?

Lyrics by Jack Johnson

Bold type is significant to me