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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

My Childhood in a Nut Shell

So I found this online and thought it was worth sharing. :) 


You’re a 90’s kid if:

You can finish this [ice ice _ _ _ _ ]

You remember watching:
-Doug
-Ren & Stimpy
-Pinky and the Brain
-AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
-Rockos modern Life.

You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word “PSYCHE!”

You just cant resist finishing this … “Iiiiiiin west philidelphia born and raised …”

You remember:
-TGIF
-Step by Step
-Family Matters
-Dinosaurs
-Boy Meets World
-Sabrina The Teenage Witch

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.

You remember reading “Goosebumps”

You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.

You still get the urge to say “NOT” after (almost) every sentence … not

when everything was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-inky pinky ponky daddy had a donkey
- ennie meanie miney moe.

when cops and robbers was a daily activity.

when we played Hide and go seek until our legs grew numb.

when we used to obey our parents

You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time.

“Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?” was both a game and a TV game show.

Captain Planet. He’s a Hero.

You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together. ♥

You remember when Super Nintendos and Sega Genisis became popular.

You always wanted to send in a tape to America’s Funniest Home Videos … but never taped anything funny.

You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 … and tried to pull the pranks on “intruders”

You remember watching:
-The Magic School Bus
-Wishbone
-Reading Rainbow on PBS.

You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.

You remember those Where’s Waldo books.

You remember eating Warheads.

You remember watching:
-the 1st Batman
-Aladdin
-Ninja Turtles
-3 Ninjas movies.

You remember Ring Pops.

You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.

If you remember when every thing was “da BOMB!”

When they made the new lunchables so that you could make pizza AND tacos.

You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.

Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting your life with them.

You played and/or collected “Pogs” :)

You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere.

… Furbies.

You haven’t always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.

And Windows 95 was the best.

You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles.

Michael Jordan was a king.

YIKES pencils and erasers were the stuff!

All your school supplies were “Lisa Frank” brand.

You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out

You collected those Beanie Babies.

Carebears

Gak was the coolest stuff invented.

Lambchop’s song never ended.

The old dollar bills.

Silver dollars, which were cool to have.

You remember a time before the WB.

You collected all the Troll dolls

If you even know what an original walkman is.

You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.

You’ve gotten creeped out by “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”

You know the Macarena by heart.

“Talk to the hand” … enough said

You always said, “Then why don’t you marry it!”

You went to McDonald’s to play in the playplace.

You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.


Before the MySpace frenzy …

Before the Internet & text messaging …

Before Sidekicks & iPods …

Before MIKE JONES …

Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX …

Before Spongebob …

Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.

When light up sneakers were cool.

When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.

When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.

When we recorded
stuff on VCRs.

When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off of our walkman.

When checking out drawing books and that one book about the rainbow fish from the library was THE cool thing to do.

You had slap bracelets!

Way back.

Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.

Who would have thought you’d miss the 90’s so much!!!!!

Friday, September 9, 2011

College Life at its Finest

Alrighty. I am sorry for the random MIA time. I have been crazy busy with school and everything else going on. But I am going to try to get back and be good about this. :)


Sooo...tonight is going to be fun it is the last rush function for Phi Boota roota tonight before interviews on Monday. PBr is a coed-percussion fraternity. But I am really excited and I am slightly nervous about interviews but I think they will go well and hopefully I'll come out of it with a bid!!!!


I am also being adventurous and trying to start an A Capella group on campus with some friends in my chorus class. This will be an interesting endeavor seeing as I have never been in an a capella group but it looks like so much fun!! And I have a lot of people I've talked to that seem pretty interested in it and its people who have been in groups like this before so YAY!


Crazy things on campus today...well we are in the middle of "Mini Human vs Zombie War on campus right now and its very intense! As in last night after band practice (You can't play during classes and band is a class so they had to wait till after practice) the zombies surrounded the field to try to get all the humans in the band. Some of the humans got away but now before having to jump over a fence, being chased by a car, and getting to a safe haven of Taco Bell. I am pumped to join in on the war next week when we do it again. This time it will be three days and involve missions and stuff. :) I know I'm a dork but its okay ;)


Well I am going to do some reading and listen to music so I'll be back soon.


(&hearts&)


P.S. here is a video about Humans Vs. Zombies :) Its gets this intense!


Monday, August 8, 2011

Oh The Places You'll Go

Day 5: A Place You've Been

Well I've been to several cool places but the coolest place I've been was the trip my church took to Colorado. We drove from Loganville, Georgia to Grand Junction, Colorado in 3 days and it was a very interesting bus ride. Here are some pictures from that trip. :)

We stopped in St. Louis (Isn't it purty??) 

The group we went with :) I loved my youth group!

Another picture of the St. Louis Arch

The view from the arch!

Pretty mountains in Colorado


This is what makes the trip even more interesting...about a day into the trip, the air conditioner went out completely! SOoo this is how we fixed this problem...
All you have to do is tie a few simple knots and you can hang a box fan from the front of a bus. :)

While this trip was almost 5 years ago now, it was a very fun trip and there are so many memories from this adventure. I really hope that in my life I get to travel a lot and see lots of places. The one place I realllllly want to travel to is Germany! See isn't it beautiful???

This is Köln and isn't it beautiful!!! I want to go visit there so badly! I mean I think I should put the four years of German I will have taken to some use in my life ;)

(&hearts&)



Saturday, August 6, 2011

I won't say I'm in Love

Day 4: Your perfect date.

Hmmm..being the girly girl I am I have actually thought this one through :) So...

1. Guy would show up and pick me up, from where ever I am at, school, home ect
2. We would go to maybe dinner or somewhere and eat (if he can cook, even better)
3. Just chill together for a while and talk about the random things we think of
4. Finally go to a place with some sort of water and watch the sunset together :)



Yes, I know I am uber cheesy but I think things like that that are simply but fun are the best. And if a guy can make me laugh then I know I will be okay.

Anyway, so today was my "going away party" with my family and a few close friends and I must say I am going to miss everyone so much! But I can't wait to get to Troy to start everything there and meet people. And I am super excited to get to go to the beach sometime! People, you have no idea how exciting this is for me. I haven't been to the beach in over 7 years!!! So being only TWO hours away from the beach makes this so much more exciting! To show how much I have changed from the last time I went to the beach here's a picture of me then.

 and a much more recent picture of my family :)


Alright well, bed time for me, church in the morning for one last Sunday at Victory :( but super excited for the adventure to really start.

(&hearts&)

Friday, August 5, 2011

We Go Together Like Rama Lama Lama

Day 3: A picture of you and your friends

These are my two best friends! Aaron Lapniewski and Karissa Martin! They are the best people ever. No matter whats going on we can tell each other everything. I have known each of them since elementary school and they are the two people who are going to be my friends for life.








This is Aaron. He is my "unoffical big brother who's younger than me!" He literally is someone who I can tell everything and he will listen and tell me the truth. He is actually my ex-boyfriend but that was so 9th grade haha. No, we dated for about a year and half but now we're cool as just being best friends. He treats me with like I'm his little sister, which is okay because I always wanted a big brother so now I have one.

KARI!! haha This is my unbiological sister! We have been best friends since middle school and even when she moved to Tennessee for a year we still stayed close. We are so similar but still so different that we have awesome adventures together, including frozen yogurt and stake 'n' shake trips. Its fun to scare our other friends (mainly Aaron) with our obnoxious singing to musicals and being strange.






AND....Karissa and I have started a small business called "Pearl's Friendship Bracelets" to try to raise money for Breast Cancer Research. There are all sorts of patterns (all made by Karissa) for sale and all the profit goes to help raise awareness and do our part. We are also on Facebook so go find us. Here I made it easy! Facebook for Pearl's Friendship Bracelet. So please go look at it and spread the word!

Thursday, August 4, 2011

What is in a Name?

Day 2: The meaning behind your blog name

Well that is an easy one! This blog is designed to keep track of my days in college. The good, the bad and the fun! And I'm going to Troy University so it's not like I would name it "College Days @ UGA or GT or something like that"

But it is sorta strange to think about the fact that Troy is literally only a couple days away from being my new home. I actually move out on Monday, so I have about 3 days left at home. And in that time I have so much left to do. I have to clean my room, that's always a daunting task, finish packing, I will need a bigger closet, and buy a few more things. Hopefully I will get it all done before I leave for band camp! This summer has completely flown by and it is hard to believe that it is practically over. But I couldn't be more excited to get started on the great adventure called college. So many people to meet and things to do, it will be one exciting ride!

(&hearts&)

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Lets Start at the Beginning


This is me and Marissa :) she is the my pastor's middle daughter and basically my little sister. She looks a lot like me (if you didn't notice) and she acts a lot like me. I'm going to miss her so much when I am off at college. But thank goodness for skype so I can see her and the rest of her family (who I love too). 

Anyway, so how my day was today, well yesterday since its only 12:30 in the morning so I haven't done anything today. Well I went with my little brother, who is actually related to me, and we went and visited our dad at his job. This was a lot of fun because I leave in four days to go off to school, four hours away. After that, I chilled at home with Tyler and then went to church. Then our pastors wife treated me to ice cream from Brusters with her kids, she has 6, and we hung out. It meant a lot to be able to because they are all so important to me. There was Mrs. Michelle, Cole, Hunter, Malia, Marissa, Marianna, and Drake and of course myself at Brusters just hanging out and having fun. The oldest, Cole, is almost 13 and the youngest, Drake, is only 2!



So I decided to do 15 random facts about myself so you can start to get to know me a little better...

1. My name is Felecia Elizabeth.
2. I am the oldest child in my family and I am going away to Troy University next week.
3. I play four instruments, piano, flute, piccolo, and oboe.
4. I am going to march in the Sound of the South (SOTS) Marching Band at Troy and I am super excited because I love marching band and everything about it.
5.  I have a little brother named Tyler and a dog named Dixie.
6. I am majoring in Broadcast Journalism and getting a music minor. 
7. My dream is to do entertainment news and be on something like Entertainment Tonight or E! or any show like that. 
8. Eventually my biggest goal is to interview people on the red carpet at award shows.
9. I do want to get married relatively early and have kids young. I want 3 kids, two boys and a girl, in this order; a boy and then twins, a boy and girl. Now the chances of that happening are not very high I know, but a girl can dream right??
10. My best friends are Karissa Martin and Aaron Lapniewski. Karissa is my best friend but more like my sister but God knew our parents couldn't handle us as real sisters. And Aaron is my "unofficial big brother (who's younger than me)". He is actually my ex-boyfriend but he treats me like I'm his little sister. Which is good because I know I can always count on him.
11. My favorite colors are pink and purple. Mainly pink. I am even doing my dorm room in pink and zebra!! 
12. I love to look at quotes. 
13. StumbleUpon is my addiction, along with Twitter and Facebook. Oh and texting. I mean my phone is never far from me!
14. I love little kids. I help in nursery at church a lot and love the 2 year olds because they are old enough to play with but still cute!
15. I love to take pictures! I even have a website! Go check it out!! Bless This Heart 

Okay, I think that is enough for one night. Tomorrow, well today, is going to be a busy day. Going to see teachers at my alumni, crazy to say that, and with my little brother. And then I get to go to work. So good night! :) 

(&Hearts&)