My apologies and thanks..

So here’s the thing about working with your family, friends and lovers.

It’s tricky because most likely they are working for free which of course you appreciate and chances are you can get things done at all hours of the day or night which is a nice perk. God knows since Andrew has been doing my web stuff I have changed the look of my site 16 times, put up multiple videos, and even began Tweeting over a year ago WAY before it was cool. But the catch is when something goes wrong it’s almost impossible to complain because they don’t need to be changing the colors of your myspace page every week for free you know, they get PAID to do it.
You feel me?  :)

So, this is what happened….last year I started blogging again, after I left the band. It was a sort of outlet, a way to express the many churning emotions bubbling up within, and a way to stay in touch with you all. Now, I didn’t write every day or even every week, but a lot for me and frankly, I thought some of the blogs were pretty good. Kinda funny, smart-ish, insightful I guess….I felt pleased with myself, I’m not gonna lie. So it was a bit of a blow to my well, ok, somewhat fragile ego when almost none of you commented or wrote back to me at all. Considering there are A LOT of you who actually get this blog and I thought you liked me…..you really liked me. I was hurt. Could it be that SO many of my once loving and expressive followers have now jumped ship because I decided to try something new? Is it possible that asserting my independence sent so many running in the other direction?

Umm. No. As it turns out, that’s not possible.

Yesterday, my love, my friend, and now my betrothed (Oh yeah, didn’t I mention it? He popped the question.) came home and got on his computer, which is not the shocking part of this story.  After about an hour he casually announced over his shoulder that the recipients of my blog have been replying directly to the blog email and there is an ACCOUNT FULL of responses to all of my blogs over the last year.

WHAT??????????????????  I thought quietly to myself.

So, I casually, but not  casual on the inside say….”oh, so, you didn’t know this was a possibility when you set up the blog?”  Eh hem…keep smiling Cass.
He said….”oh yeah, well, I guess it was a possibility but I didn’t think to check.”
I paused. Remembering how hard he works. How many weekends we have sat in front of the HTML or PHP or whatever you call it, fixing dark photos, cropping, clipping, posting, changing…OHHHH OK.

So I say, “Alright, why don’t you forward them to me and I’ll just write them back now.”  Thinking, how many could there be? 

Fast forward to an hour later and my inbox is inundated.  I am still reading them and there is no way to answer them all.   You ARE all still there!!!  Sending your love and support.  Commenting away.  Asking me to write a book, to come to Florida, to Texas to San Fran.  Big sigh.  I KNEW IT!

So all at once may I say, thank you thank you thank you.  And I am so sorry. I knew you were out there…..we just missed each other.

For future, if you want to comment on the blog, click on the title of the blog in your email which will take you to it on my site or go to akacassidy.com/blog and you can post where it says comment on the actual blog you are responding to.  If you only want me to see your comment email me at cassidy@akacassidy.com.

Also…Mid-Westerners, we’ll be in Kansas City at the Paola Roots Festival on 8/29 with Marc Broussard and Robert Cray!  I would love to see you all out in full force!

Check cassidyproject.com or akacassidy.com (same thing) for all info. And did you hear about my Gap campaign?  Well, go to the site and read all about it!

Thanks again everyone, for keepin’ the love alive.

Cassidy