This is another edition of Friday Dance Party on Acorns On Glen….live concert edition.  Before we dance, let’s give thanks for another week.  We are here, we are breathing and we are finally approaching Spring.  If you are flexible enough, give yourself a hug or pat yourself on the back.  We made it through another one, and now….let’s dance.

If you are a regular reader of the blog, you know this has been somewhat of a hard and strange week for me.  I’m not really in the mood to dance hard.  I just want to do a little sway back and forth and enjoy some slow music.  An earlier post I made this week was a sadder one than usual for Acorns On Glen and in it I mentioned my high school trip to French Canada in 1979.  After writing that and thinking about my trip to French Canada, I remembered that before, during and after the trip I had listened (over and over and over again) to Gino Vanelli’s “I Just Want To Stop”.  Remember the first line?  “When I think about those nights in Montreal, I get the sweetest thoughts of you and me”.  You know, Montreal>>French Canada.  You get the picture.  The song reminds me of a great trip and a trip that was the first time I traveled without my parents and the first time I left the U.S. (remember, my troubles started when I returned home!).  I worked hard for some live concert footage of Gino and found this from a concert video from 1979.  Sorry, I’m not sure what the angry part is all about at the beginning.

So, chalk up another week.  Get ready to sway back and forth.  I’ll be imagining I’m one of Gino’s backup singers that you see in the video.  Feel free to shake it if you want to do it.  I don’t care.  You deserve to dance to this song in any way you like.  I’ll be listening to this a lot over the weekend and trying to pick my hair out to get Gino’s stylish long afro in place on my own head.  Thanks for sharing another great week here with me on Acorns On Glen.  Are you enjoying your time here with us and do you have any feedback for us to make this site even better?

This is another edition of Friday Dance Party….country style with a twist.  First off, give yourself credit because we’ve made it through another week.  Give thanks for this accomplishment and all the great things that happened to you this week (think of health, family, friends to name a few) and when you’re done giving thanks…let’s dance.  We are switching gears this week and moving into a country line dance.  Think Dolly, Reba, Shania with a twist.  This week’s country line dancing is not only for fun but it is also for charity.  From now through April 8, GE wants to create the largest internet line dance in history and they need your help.  GE wants you and your family and friends to learn a line dance and submit a video of your team doing it.  Visit www.youtube.com/ecomagination for the details.  The site has everything you need to know, including the song download and line dance lessons.  If you decide to take GE up on their offer, every video sent of you and your family and friends doing the official line dance will mean that GE will donate safe, clean drinking water to various developing nations that don’t have access to adequate sources of water.  There is also great prizes to win as well.  Talk about keeping it real.  I hope this crazy video makes you laugh like it did for me (sorry for the little Google ad pop up.  If you see it, just hit the boxed “x” to close it).  See other great video episodes by going to www.youtube.com and typing Ian Is Bored in the search engine.  They are laugh-out-loud funny.  So whether you choose to participate or even if you don’t, let’s still watch the video and, as always, just shake it to the music.  You’ve “Walked The Line” (sorry, Mr. Cash) this week and made it through.  You deserve it.  Will you be submitting a video for charity or just shakin’ it in private?