Showing posts with label Friday Funday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friday Funday. Show all posts

Friday, January 27, 2012

Friday Funday: Origins

I don't think I ever told y'all where Friday Funday came from.  For about 13 years I was on swim team.  It was a love/hate relationship but all in all I am glad I participated.  Occasionally on Friday the coach would proclaim 'Guess what guys!  It's Friday Funday!'.  Now this could mean one of two things:
1.) We were gonna play water polo, jump off the diving board and have a fabulous two hours of fun OR
2.) The coach was gonna bust our rear ends and give us the hardest workout we have ever experienced or will ever experience in our entire life.  This would stink at the time but in the end we felt stronger, we swam better, and no one can complain with results like that.

That's right, I swam with Leverenz (when I was a wee tot)!

Now that you know what Friday Funday is all about for me I will explain how I plan to make use of it in blog form.
1.)  I will provide a post of stuff I think is fun, inspiring, and brings a smile OR
2.) I will give you the most miserable post to read ever because I feel like complaining.
Yes, I realize that with this in mind you probably have no desire to read the rest of this post but hey, at least I gave you fair warning.


The troubles with this week:
1.) My roommate was at a conference and I was all by myself until Thursday!  I was very lonely and sad.  Now I am very excited she is home and less sad so it did get better, which is good.

2.) I like to run.  I am not good at running, I cannot run far, but I run intervals 3-4 times a week and do other exercises the other 2 days ion a week, with Sunday as my rest day.  Well, I had a really nasty blister on the arch of my left foot.  It popped and was raw which hurt while running but I said 'no pain no gain' and sucked it up.  Now, I have a blister inside the perimeter of the old blister.  I asked my PE professor what I should do, he took a look at it and said it was infected.  SO, guess who's not allowed to do any exercises like running, or elliptical, or things that involve your feet until it heals?  Oh yeah, me.  So basically my entire exercise routine has been killed for the foreseeable future.  After all of that ranting I can attest that it is healing and my foot it feeling better which is really nice because I was in a lot of pain.  I guess every grey cloud has a silver lining.

I know her!!!

3.) I am having the hardest time waking up.  This in itself does not seem like such a bad thing but it is similar to a time when this symptom as it were brought me face to face with a serious health problem so it concerns me.


4.) I'm whining and I hate whining but I am doing it anyway and that bothers me.

If you read all of that you are better than me, I would have quit 4 paragraphs ago!  Well thank you for listening, I feel a lot better having gotten all of that out.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Felicity

Friday, January 20, 2012

Friday Funday: My Adventure

GO TO FACEBOOK AND LIKE MY PICTURE!!!  PLEASE!

Today, being Friday Funday, I thought it appropriate to share with y'all a little bit about me.  I love a challenge. Like Barney from How I Met Your Mother I will turn things into a challenge that were not intended to be challenges.  With that being said I will begin the background story.

Samantha and I were watching Miss America and commenting about how they were a bit too skinny, how it was incredible that they had six-packs and how a lot of them did not directly answer the question they were asked in the interview portion.  Well, in reality all of these were my comments because I can never keep my mouth shut while watching TV.  I then began to tell Samantha how much I would love to be asked an opinionated question in front of a large crowd and give the audience a piece of my mind.  After that I said to myself, 'self, you could totally be Miss America'.  So, after some focused internet searching I signed up for a local pageant.  Yes, that's right I will be competing - in 2 weeks!

Well, after signing up it occured to me that I would have to do more than just answer a question, I would have to strut my stuff in a swimsuit, wear a ball gown, perform a talent, and submit head shots!  Samantha, being the most wonderful friend ever, kindly accepted to help me with my head shots which were taken at home.



These are the two photos I submitted to the pageant, but in the process of getting these head shots I made plenty of not so pretty faces.  This one is my favorite, I feel it depicts the true me!


Samantha had the wonderful idea of using a fan and I loved acting like a super model with it, that is why my hair has such volume!

I hope you enjoyed a peak into my life,

Felicity

Friday, January 13, 2012

Friday Funday

It's Friday!  The good news is that I don't have class today.  However I do have homework.  But in my spare time I have been dreaming of knitting, quilting, and baking.  Here is a preview of some of the projects I would love to conquer in the future:

Pi Cloth {source}

Sockhead Hat {source}
Chocolate-Blueberry Cake {source}
Scrap Map {source}
Have a wonderful weekend,

Felicity

Friday, December 2, 2011

Friday, November 11, 2011

Veterans Day

On this Veterans Day we have a guest post from a Veteran.


We all know how to celebrate our birthdays, Thanksgiving and Christmas. But, what about Veteran's Day? Is there something we can do as on July 4th? Veterans are individuals that have stepped up, as a group, and put it all on the line for America. Men & women that have risked their lives, their health, their futures so that this country, this world, may be a better place for all of us. 
So, how do we celebrate? Fly the flag? Yes! Count out your freedoms? Yes! Ponder what America would be like had we lost the war? Yes! Pray for our veterans with mental and physical disabilities because of their service in one of our military branches? Yes! We can actually go to a Veteran's Day Parade. You can visit a war vet spending time in a VA hospital. You can check out www.vfw.org. If a nothing else just love and enjoy America. Be a positive American!



Friday, October 28, 2011

Boots and Boys

I'm keeping quite the collection


Take nothing less than perfection


Cowboy boots, cowboy boys


Oh, the joy


-Ke$ha Boots and Boys


For all of my readers out there this song is applicable to my life, minus the boys!


(boots + boys) - boys = Felicity

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Friday, September 16, 2011

Fabulous Friday Funday

A superstition I heard from Fons and Porter says: 'if you begin a quilt on Friday, you will never live to finish it'.  Therefore I resisted the temptation to start a sewing project and decided to knit instead!


I had a hard time at first because I had bits and pieces of fabric all over my house, tons of quilting magazines only two feet away from the couch I was knitting on and my sewing machine calling to me from the kitchen table, so in the true spirit of Fabulous Friday Funday I moved all of my fabric into one place, rearranged my craft bookshelf, did the dishes, took out the trash, and vacuumed the whole house.  Then I went out to high-brow stores and looked at stuff I could never afford and ate Nut-Free Toffee to my hearts content, such a lovely day!


Fabulously,

Felicity