The September Chronicles

Hello, world!

Today the boy and I had some company.  Our friend Justin came in for some shooting. Turns out I'm not too shabby at it. It was a nice, beautiful day. 

I actually did really good at this!

 Later we're heading up north a bit to check out some neighborhoods with exceptional Christmas lights.

9/3 - 9

My weekend of fun was not going to end with the last post, ladies and gents, because Monday, September 3rd was what we call LABOR DAY.  So Shelby and I packed up my car with drinks and chairs and towels, got in our sexy swimsuits and went to Lake Waco.  We stopped for Whataburger, parked the car at the park and got a sweet little spot right in front of the water, and did absolutely nothing else.  

It was such a nice day.  

  

  

And we'd definitely be grateful for this nice relaxing day once school really got under way.

~*~

The next week was pretty mundane…until Saturday.  Saturday was the second annual BUT OLYMPICS!!!  AAAHHHHHH!

So BUT Olympics (or Baylor University Theatre Olympics) is pretty much departmental Field Day.  It is pulled together by the Druids - the Executive Committee of the Baylor University Theatre Student Society.  Each class wears one of the four non-black olympic colors and we participate in four extreme games:  orange-passing, tug-o-war, hula hooping, and water balloon tossing (which is typically followed by a free-for-all water balloon fight).  Last year, my class (the sophomores) wrecked shop.  

Waddup, Juniors.

This year was our time to protect our title as Reigning Champs.  

Tug-o-war was not our best...

Ultimately, we got the job done.

But the most important thing was that the department had fun.

Yay!  Go Druids!

9/10 - 16

Friday was going to be my mom's birthday.  The past couple of years her birthday has fallen around Parent's Weekend at Baylor, so I've been able to celebrate with her.  This year unfortunately Parent's Weekend was scheduled for October.  I needed to be in Houston that morning for a Speaker's Committee event anyway, so I was able to come home Thursday night and be in early for the traditional 

RUNK BIRTHDAY MORNING

Happy Birthday, Mommy!

Basically, the morning of someone's birthday, the rest of the family wakes up early to set up cake, cards, decorations, and presents.

Jay put the "3" of "53" on backwards… lol

After the celebrations I hit the road, driving from Bay City to Calder Road Elementary.

As I've mentioned before, I'm a member of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo's Speaker's Committee…kind of.  Currently, I'm too young to actually be a member, but give that 18 days and I'll be certified.  I'm sort of a provisional member for the time being.  A provisional rookie.

Well, rookies must observe a full day of school speeches before being let loose to give their own.  Even though I wouldn't be able to make any speeches until January, I figured I'd get my observation out of the way.

So from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. I was at Calder Road Elementary watching speeches and getting further educated about Texas Western Heritage.  

  

This was the nicest, most hospitable bathroom ever.

It was such a fun day.  I know that I definitely picked the right committee to go after.  Being able to take a day away from my typical schedule for a day and spend some time talking about the rodeo and western heritage and this great state of Texas…There's not much better than that.  And some of the speeches were just super entertaining.

One guy had a speech on the History of the Rodeo Clown.  By the end of his speech he had about six or seven kids up in front, putting on a little rodeo for the class.

The kids ate it up!  

The rest of the weekend was dedicated to getting Nevada ready for the Rice Festival Pageant on Sunday where he would be competing for Little Mister Rice Festival.  

Look at his snazzy white suit.

I had to go back to Waco before the pageant but pretty soon my mom texted me these photos.

  

HE WON!  This was huge, because my senior year of high school I was in the Rice Festival Queen's Pageant and I won as well.  So we're a bit of a royal family.

  

Rice Festival Royalty over here.  woot!

I'm so proud of that little man.  And he was so happy.

Well, I'm off to see the Christmas lights!  Sorry, friends, no CRAFT TIME today.

Until next week,

The FeltWoman

Flowers for Algernon…no wait…those are mine.

Hallo!

After sleeping in until about 11 (whoops…), I rode to Arlington for the second day in a row.  In the past week, I have spent about 33 hours in the car.  Euck!  Anyway, today I was in Arlington watching the boy secure his new GMC truck.  AND I secured tickets for the Christmas Eve showing of LES MISERABLES!!!  AKA MY FAVORITE MUSICAL OH MY GOD I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE HUGH JACKMAN AS JEAN VALJEAN!!!  We were going to go see Kyle Park at Billy Bob's but instead we just got a nice small dinner, saw some Christmas lights, and hunkered down to watch the BU vs. BYU game on ESPN.

Time to continue on with

SEMESTER IN REVIEW:

8/13 - 19

The week before school brought Welcome Week activities for the incoming freshmen and a few theatre traditions for me.  Such as our wonderful Baylor Theatre Meet-n-greet where you're thrown into a room of people (3/4 of whom you actually know, thankfully) and you walk around trying to make sure you say hi to everyone.

Jason and Kyle were creepily smiling for my candid shot...

8/20 - 26

Classes started up again on the 20th.  Junior Year - waddup?  I was mostly excited to be back with these crazy, gorgeous girls.

Also, the boy sent me these:

I got me a keeper…he knows purple is my favorite.

And finally, after years of waiting, I became a GRANDBIG.  Look at our little family!

2 GrandBigs + 1 Big + 1 Little = 1 Happy BUT Family

But all good things must come to an end, and that end was my car dying on me…

Eponine finally bit the dust...

Two weeks after they had helped me move in, my mom and brother were back, helping me to find a cheap 2-year replacement.

This is the cleanest she's ever been...

Look at all the stickers…so many adventures.

And boy did we find it!  We found our deal!

Hello, gorgeous!

A red 2006 elantra with like 60,000 miles for like 9,000 (and that was before my trade in which knocked at least 1,500 more off).  

It was by no means my dream car, but it was fine for now.

The signing process was hard...

I'm gonna miss Ep-y.

But after, my brother and I had celebratory drinks.

Cheers to new cars and 10 bold flavors!

With my car ordeal good and done, my mother and brother left for home, leaving me to tackle...

8/27 - 9/2

The second week of school.  My friend Ryan's 21st birthday was Thursday! Which meant that Wednesday night a group of us went to Cricket's Bar and Grill and Ryan proceeded to get sch-wasted the night before our design presentation for the musical.  But that's another story.  Point is he was very happy that night.

Friday night was Ryan's rave birthday party.  Black lights, neon paint, white shirts, dubstep:  all of it was there.  It was AWESOME.  Until all of the randos showed up and the cops came.  By the end of the night I was covered in paint and sweat.

The next day I hosted a Harry Potter viewing party!  Just in time for the first day of school at Hogwarts.  Yes, I planned it for that day specifically…I don't care, I'm a dork.  The only problem is it was a day after a full-fledged night of paint, dancing, and drinking as aforementioned, and also half of the department was helping to build a set for a musical.  Still a few good friends showed up and we drank butterbeer and it was good fun.

Hannah and I with some addictive Butterbeer (courtesy of the Pinterest)

Okay, now...

CRAFT TIME

So back to those beautiful flowers that my boy sent me on August 20th.  I could not bring myself to throw them away.  Actually, I still haven't.  So first, I did what I always do to procrastinate.  I hung the bouquet up to dry.  Well after a couple of weeks, that wasn't an option anymore.  Then it hit me: potpourri!  Dried flowers can be stored with herbs on display or in mesh bags as a little thing called potpourri.  Well I had a spare glass bowl so i pulled the petals off of the stems, put them in the bowl and VOILA!  I think this is an awesome way to add shelf-life to floral arrangements you have a fond attachment to.  I've done it three times since.

Thanks for reading, whoever is out there doing so.  I hope I'm not too boring.

Until tomorrow!
The FeltWoman

My GIFt to You: Actual Posts tainted by pop culture references...

HELLO READER!  Oh my goodness has it been awhile or WHAT???

I am so sorry that I am awful at updating my blog.   I'm so ashamed...

Oh well.  Life gets in the way sometimes...

Speaking of life.

We gotta go BACK IN TIME for this blog post.

By the way, it's my desire that any time I say BACK IN TIME in this post, you automatically think of this. 

If you know what I mean, I applaud you.

If you don't know what this is.

Not really.  Sorry guys I'm a little gif happy today.

8/6 - 12

Sunday, August 5, was MOVE-OUT/MOVE-IN day.  I had to be out of my apartment by noon Monday, but I wasn't supposed to move in to my new apartment until August 10…  #awkward.  BUT luckily, with some nice help from the office on move-in days, we managed to get it all taken care of in one day.  And by we I mean my mom (who had a cast on her leg), brother (who was ten), and myself.  I mean, everything was still in boxes, but it was still very impressive.  We hired some guys to help move heavier items later in the day, and I have some great neighbors who were REALLY helpful.  They rock.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves.  I had to bask in this wonderful moment for a while.  Here we go.  Phase by phase.

Ohmygod!  My first steps!

Such a big living room for one girl!

I have appliances!

And a place to do necessary things.

I'm gonna sleep in this room…just not now.

Acting as though I have a good view… I don't.  The only con.

So Monday, instead of being move-out day, was unpack crap/get Mom's cast off day!  We went back home and then to Katy to have the nice medical people cut the plaster off of her leg.  The next step was her nifty boot.  Which she said reminds her of Star Wars gear…

What my mom was wearing…

 

What she thinks she was wearing...

Tuesday was a big day for me in Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo land.  Some of you may know that I am a provisional-ish member of the Speakers Committee.  We travel to schools and give speeches on Texas Western Heritage and the Rodeo.  But as rookies we have to get our speeches approved.  So on Tuesday I went to Reliant Center to present my twenty-minute speech on Country/Western Music so that I could be approved.  Technically I can't give the speech until January due to my being under the age limit, but I was able to begin observing speeches.  It's a process.

I swear, this is my last one.

So anyway.  MY APARTMENT.  Let's jump back to that whole process.

I did not have a bed.  My new apartment came unfurnished so I was a little behind schedule on that part…  Also, it's a one bedroom/one bathroom and there were (again) three of us.  Sleeping arrangements were…interesting.  And the apartment was not looking too hot.

But with a little time and effort, I got this little sweet number.

        

My mantle looks gorgeous in candlelight…                    I HAVE THE EXPLODING TARDIS ON MY WALL!!!

And eventually, I even got a bed!

I have an apartment, and it's all mine!  Mine alone!  Except when the boy is here, then it's kinda his, but since that's a rareity, it's MINE!

Not only is it an apartment, but it has wifi AND BBCAMERICA! (I mean it has other channels too, but this was the huge selling point.)  It's 2+ minutes form campus by car and it is my much needed sanctuary.  I LOVE IT.

CRAFT TIME

And here is my little bit of craft for this post.  I needed some shelves.  But I wasn't about to go and buy more stuff after getting all the necessities for an apartment.

I did have one of these hanging around though:

It's a spinning top game.  Well mine was a lot older than this one.  And it didn't have the little pegs.  I also don't have spinning tops.  #sorry

It seems this was a bit of a dated piece of play.  That's alright though.  It was about to get a new life as a cubby shelf.  I called up the boy and he helped to consult me on to the best course of action. 

He suggested I get some of these:

 

Ook Hooks                                                   Mounted D-Rings

I mean, it's pretty simple.  I attached the D-Rings onto the back of the maze, nailed the ook hooks into the wall...

And VOILA!

Such a wonderful place to show off my bottle collection!

I'd say that's a bit of a success.  And it looks so nifty on my wall!

Well, that about covers move in.  

Today I spent all of my day time with the boy searching for a new truck for him…so I'm pooped.  I'll cover 8/13-19, 8/20-26, and 8/27-9/2 in the next post.  

Much love,

The FeltWoman

The Return of the FeltWoman

I'm baaaaaaaack!

Oh my goodness, I have not been here in forever!  And the year is almost at a close.  I've made good use of it - so much so that I have neglected to keep up with my adventures online here.  Seriously, so much has happened in my life, and there is no way that I can wrap it all up in its entirety in one post.

In order to make sure that I do not waste another day of this blog, I will be (attempting to) post each day about the awesome events of the past five months, two weeks each day.  As well as the present day's activities.

Along the way I'll be posting my crafty and artsy doings.  Mostly I just want to get on good ground for the coming year.  I doubt I'll remember everything, but two weeks per day should keep it interesting.  And at this rate we'll wrap up everything by New Years Eve.

So without further ado...

The FeltWoman has RETURNED.