Weekend Frivolities

So this weekend is going to be a busy but fun weekend starting right when the clock hits 1!! Ferlice and I are going to head to the humane society to walk a couple puppies (yes I call all dogs puppies no matter how old or big) and play with the kitties (same goes for cats :P)!! I'm so excited! I've wanted to get my butt out there and volunteer for the longest time and just haven't gotten around to doing it. After this it will be time to shower up and head on out in search of a new pair of glasses. The pair I have are great, I just want a new pair and since my insurance will cover a good chunk for a pair of glasses I figured its time for some fun new glasses! Picture to come once I pick them out! :D
After glasses picking it will be time for the races!!! My mom traveled to Fargo to pick up my two nephews and bring them here for the weekend! So tonight it's the races! Then tomorrow we are doing some school shopping and lunch, after which it will be "getting cute" time to head out on the town to celebrate Laura's bday, then head to the OK Corral (yup, you read correctly) to listen to a band that's playing there.
Sunday I will be finishing up some family photos and then heading to Sertoma park with my mom and the boys for mini golf and rides!

Phew, hopefully I make it through it all! Haha!!! I'm excited though! It will be a fun filled weekend for sure!!!

My computer is once again down so I am still working solely from my work computer whenever I have a chance so videos and photo editing has come to a slow crawl since I rarely get the chance to work on them, but hopefully my computer will be up and working again very soon!!!

Hope everyone has an amazing weekend!!!

Exes and Ohs to everyone! :P
The Ferninator

DIY decor!!!

Last night my friend, Kathie, and I trucked on over to good ol' Hobby Lobby. I have been wanting to do a DIY decor video for a long time since I found what I wanted to do, and I FINALLY got the supplies for it!!! I'm so happy with the material I found and decided to use! It's such an exciting project, I can't wait to do it!!! I'm hoping this Saturday or possibly Sunday will give me time to do the project and get it all filmed and such.

I've been way to busy to really do any more hair tutorials at the moment and I do have one makeup tutorial I want to try. I'm not really that good at makeup, but this is a take on one of the makeup tutorials that has been going around YouTube lately. It's really fun and pretty! :D

The rest of this week is going to consist of:
Wednesday (tonight): Gym, then gals night with Kathie and Adrienne
Thursday: Gym, then heading out to Bucks for the Break Bucks Bank night and/or heading to the Dove to listen to my parent's band play. (Yes, my parents are rockstars ;D) Then packing an overnight bag for Friday
Friday: Working til noon, then heading for Minot for a wedding, attending the wedding and dancing the night away
Saturday: Return from Minot and watch Drew play softball (if I get back in time) and hopefully doing my DIY project!!
Sunday: Taking pictures of a gal friend in her wedding dress since her wedding will be down in Vegas!!

It's going to be a busy but fun and exciting rest of the week!!
Hope everyone's week is going well so far!!
Much love,
Fair <3

I have a plan!

I have a couple hair tutorials in mind and hopefully this time I stick to them! :P

I want to do some back to school hair tutorials, even though I'm not going back to school, I know its definitely a big hit right now, and I want to do two separate videos for this. One on about 3 hair styles, and one on different ways to wear pigtails as an adult (or young adult :P) I do not care what anyone says or thinks, I absolutely love wearing pigtails! :P (A little girl at heart til the day I die!)

Also, I'm wanting to do a couple hairstyles for people with longer and thicker hair, meaning my best friend Kathie will be coming into the picture so I can  "borrow" her hair :P She's such a sport!

One other video I'm wanting to do since I'm at a resting point with my shoes, is my high heel collection....I recorded it once, but wasn't happy with the results of the way it got filmed and such, so I'm going to do a new one now that I have added and subtracted some heels so my collection is pretty "stable" right now.

Again....I'm hoping these are not empty promises I'm making! :P The only thing I'm worried about is having the time to do them! The heel collection one especially will take an hour or so just to film because I have so many pairs that I will need to put on, take off and put away. But I'm excited to do it still! :D

I've also been working lately on revamping the townhouse a bit. I've lived in this townhouse now for 4 years and am just now FINALLY starting to decorate it! Drew pretty much just let's me do what I want because its really not his thing! Haha! I should have all the pieces I want now to get my living room all decorated so that is one of my next tasks! Also, my bedroom is finally set up well and now I just need to add some decor, but that will have to wait for a little while until I decide exactly how I want our bedroom to look. I haven't decided on colors or any sort of a "theme" yet, so I'll wait and see. My kitchen is finally all ready to go though as well. Yay for making my house into a home finally! Haha!

I've finally also gotten back into the gym. Yay for working out! :P Other than that, life lately has consisted of softball on Monday nights, watching the Swimsuit International contest at Bucks on Thursday nights (Yes, I'm 25 and I go to the bars and watch girls strut their stuff on the stage on the dance floor and have done the contests myself, its just fun :P), watching our movies from #-Z (Drew and I got rid of DirecTV just to save on some money and instead have started watching our collection of DVDs from #-Z, so far, we are still in the As haha! But it's fun! :D), and hanging out with friends and family a lot! Drew has also been going down to his dad's house a lot to help him with the flooding that's been going on. I'm thankful that the flooding didn't get any worse than it did! Not that what occurred was good, but I'm glad he didn't lose the house and no one was hurt or anything of the like.  So life hasn't been overly crazy, just filled each day with different things going on.

One other thing I'm excited about is I did my first high heel shoot a couple weeks ago! I have yet to go through the pictures and pick out the ones I really like and edit them and such, but it makes me happy knowing I have at least gotten the ball rolling on my high heel series I've been wanting to do! Hopefully more to come soon! I'll post some of my fav pics on here once I do get them done!

I've also gotten a couple customers for my business, Forget Me Nots. It started as a scrapbooking business that my mom convinced me to do and it hasn't really taken off, but it's slowly working its way down the runway. I have done one scrapbook, one guestbook, and pictures for a friend of mine. The business mostly consists of scrapbooking and decorating the flower girl baskets and ring bearer pillows for weddings, but I also do some pictures on the side. Granted I'm no where near a professional photographer level and my camera isn't the best camera out there or anything, but I really enjoy photography and hope to continue with it and maybe get a better camera someday. I don't think I would ever want it to be my full time job, but I do thoroughly enjoy it as a side thing to do! :D

I hope everyone's day/week/month/year is going swimmingly! :)

Much love,
Fair <3

Being absent

Well...after being all sorts of MIA with my blog and YouTube for a while, I'm back!! I got a new background and a couple new videos in mind so hopefully I'll be able to get my home computer fixed fast so I can get to editing some videos and posting them!!

Summer has been so incredibly crazy busy for me I just haven't had time to do everything I've wanted to do, so I'm hoping that once winter rolls around again (I can wait though!! :P) I will have much more time to be at home and doing videos and more fun DIY crafts and such!!

I know I don't have many followers or readers on my blog (yet!), but if anyone that reads this has any ideas for videos or anything you would like me to do a video on specifically just let me know!!! The things I think I would be ok at are hair tutorials, maybe some makeup tutorials, DIY crafts and I'm hoping to do some healthy food videos!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day and here's to hoping I get time to get geared up on my videos again!!

Much love,
Fair <3

And I'm back...

Jamaica....

I'll explain the trip as easily, in as few words yet as in detail as I can. A bit contradicting, but yeah...we'll see, haha!

Well, we left the Bismarck airport at 6:40 a.m. February 11th. All the flights went really well and smoothly. We went from Bismarck to Denver to Miami and finally to Montego Bay, Jamaica. After landing we had to get a shuttle to take us to the resort since Runaway Bay is about 40 miles or so away from Montego Bay. (I don't remember exactly how far away, but around that..) We payed for the shuttle to take us to the resort and come pick us up again on the day we left. The guy said it would be leaving in about 15 minutes. So we truck on out to the shuttle and get in with three other people. 15 minutes my butt. Almost 2 hours later we finally left! I guess they were waiting for another plane to arrive that was late or never showed up or something...anyway. I fell asleep on the bus ride there, but it took us about an hour to get from the airport to the resort so we finally got into our room at about 1:30 a.m. It was a long day to say the least. So we got our bags in the room and pretty much just crashed that first night. 

The next day we woke up and went to walk around the resort to check it out and find some food. We didn't even make it a quarter of the way through the resort and some crazy Jamaican came and grabbed Drew and sat him down in a chair in a line of about 7 other guys for a race. They had to start from one end of the pool, swim around back to where the chairs were, do 5 push-ups, chug a beer, grab their chair and go through the pool all the way back to the beginning.....yeah....welcome to Jamaica. Needless to say, Drew wasn't the most excited about this, but played along anyhow. After this we did get food and pretty much just bummed around the resort all day.

The days to follow were pretty much the same...in general we would wake up, go get the breakfast at the buffet if we got up in time for it, bum around the resort, grab a drink and hang out on the beach or in the pool, get lunch, take a nap, get up and get ready for dinner, go have dinner, walk on the boardwalk, go to bed. Rinse and repeat. Some of the things we did do around the resort...

At least 5 of the 6 days we were looking for shells for me on the beaches. We played a few games of chess on the giant chessboard (one of the ones you walk on and such). We walked on the boardwalk at least 3-5 times a day. We sat in the hammocks some. Swam in the pools, played some volleyball and basketball in the pool, and had some drinks at the swim-up bars.

On the first day, we went to go sit in a hammock, Drew let me get in first so it would be easier for me. I fell out. Yes, I fell out of the hammock all by myself....I had battle wounds. It was quite hilarious! Whenever we walked on the boardwalk, if the waves were big enough they would wash little crabs up onto the boardwalk. They would scuttle away off to the side and under the boardwalk when we started to walk towards them, but it was still fun to watch them. 

The resort was definitely not what we expected. The website on the resort was a bit deceiving. The website said they had 4 restaurants and you could get snacks 24/7. Well two of the restaurants were only open on certain days and if you wanted to eat at them you had to make a reservation the day before or early in the morning because they filled up right away. By the time we figured out when they were open we were leaving and they weren't open on the last night we were there. I realized when we tried to make the reservation for the last day that there was a small sign on the desk that said what days they were open. So we ended up eating a lot of the same things over and over. Breakfast was always the same, we ate at the Reggae Cafe everyday for lunch because that's what was open and then at night the buffet was never good so we had the pasta instead. So the food wasn't the best and every time we saw a food commercial on tv at night we would change the channel cause we would just get hungry haha! Also, they had a pool table in the pool, cool right? Wrong. The "felt" was the fake plastic grass turf so it was horrible for playing pool, the sides were so high you couldn't even get a good shot, and the pool stick had no tip since it was in the water. Not their best idea ever.

Also something we found out about the resort after we got there, it just changed on October (or maybe September) from being a nudist resort....yeah....so above the bed and above the bathtub were full length mirrors on the ceiling...talk about unexpected...

Of the things they had to do in the water we only did one. We went out on a little kayak for about 15 minutes. It was ok, but I have such fears of touching the ocean floor that it wasn't fun for me. I kept thinking we were going to tip over and I would accidentally touch something under the water and..yeah...eek! I know, I'm really weird, but it's true. We didn't do the snorkeling because one person said it was only sea urchins, so nothing exciting and you could put your feet down. There was one wind surfer but of course again with my fears I didn't want to do it and Drew just wasn't interested in trying it. We did play some pool and ping pong in the game room. (They had ping pong, pool and slot machines in the game room..) The only nightlife was drinking pretty much...they had a piano bar where one guy would play piano and they would do sing-a-longs...no thank you....and they had a nightclub. In the nightclub the music was louder than the bars in Bismarck and the room was small and there was usually only about 5 people in it...so we never went there but once to see what it was like. So the nightlife was very boring there. 

The good thing about the resort was the staff. They were all really friendly and willing to help. And yes...they literally always say "Yeah, mon.", "Respect." and "No problem.". So every time we walked up to the bar it was, "Hey baby, what can I get for you?" (Insert heavy Jamaican accent) The bad thing about drinking down there....no bud light and absolutely not clamato. They had vodka, one (maybe two) whiskeys, a couple liquers, red stripe and red stripe light on tap....and rum. Lots and lots and lots of Jamaican rum....nothing that Farren really likes to drink. I ended up leaving a lot of pretty much full drinks because I didn't like them. 

The other thing I didn't expect...Jamaica was very....for lack of a better word....ghetto....I expected it to be a bit, but not as bad as it was. On the way back to the airport from the resort I literally saw a woman parked on the side of the road selling munchies and snacks and such out of the back of her van....They will try to sell you almost anything. And we did walk out of the resort once, we got only about 200 feet from the resort and got hit up at least 5 times for pot, even from across the street....yeah...

All in all, I don't really ever want to go back to Jamaica. And I will also never book a trip on my own again. I'm going to a travel agency. It will be well worth the lack of stress!!! It was terrible when I was planning this trip! The weather was amazing the entire time we were there. I'm pretty sure even at night it never fell below 70 degrees. For everything I ended up wearing, I could have packed it all in a carry on...pretty much just work a swimsuit and cover up every day. Put on a skirt and top or simple dress at night, but that was it. 

The best thing about this trip is that it taught me a lot and I'll know better for a lot of things for next time! I am glad we went on the vacation. It was some much needed time away from the "real world" and it was nice to soak up some Vitamin D and just relax for a while. 

I hope everyone is doing well!!! I know I'm extremely slacking on videos but hopefully I'll catch up quick!!

Jamaica

I cannot believe that in less than 48 hours Drew and I will be on a plane to....Colorado! Haha! We have a few change-overs so we will be going to Denver, then Miami, then Montego Bay, then taking a taxi to Ocho Rios. All the traveling will definitely be worth it once we are in our hotel room!!! I am so excited!!! We are doing all our packing in one fell swoop tomorrow night. And I will be bringing my camera, my nice Canon Rebel camera, and the video camera Drew bought us for the trip! So there will be plenty of documentation of our trip to share with everyone when we get back!!

I've been working on a few videos lately but haven't finished one yet so I'm hoping to finish one tonight or tomorrow night and post it before we go!

I'm so glad we are taking this trip over Valentine's Day! I HATE Valentine's Day!! If you have to have one specific day to tell someone you love them, then you musn't love them all that much. What Valentine's Day represents is every day to me. I tell my boyfriend every day that I love him and how much he means to me. I don't need one specific day to do that. Drew and I don't celebrate Valentine's Day other than maybe getting each other a card or something like that and that is the most we do. I would much rather get flowers as a surprise on a random day than overly cliche red roses on Valentine's Day when every other girl is getting them as well. This is just my opinion of course and I know many many other girls love this day of the year, but as for me, I'm way over it!

Moving on!  As soon as Drew and I get back from our trip I will be able to finish my organizational video!!! I finally got my last piece about a week ago. I have one more thing I need to figure out before I can make the video but I'm pretty much all good to go with it! I'm excited to do this one because for a while there I was at a total loss on what to do with all my makeup and hair accessories and jewelry and such! I'm hoping my organizational tips will help other girls (and/or guys) out there to get their stuff organized! It just makes me feel better about my living space and is a bit of a stress reliever to have everything in its place and put away. Now if only my scrapbooking room was as organized! Hopefully that will happen next! :P

As much as I hate this holiday, I do hope everyone has a great Valentine's Day and I will catch up with everyone when I get back from Jamaica!!!!

Winter...Jamaica!!!

Life has been busy busy busy!!! Work and other things have just been keeping me occupied! After tomorrow I will have a lot more free time before I go on my trip to Jamaica so I'm hopefully going to film and edit 2-3 more videos and get them posted before I leave. I'm wanting to do at least one if not two more hair tutorials and maybe another makeup tutorial. I've been feeling like a bit of a chicken with my head cut off trying to make sure I have everything ready for the trip and making sure I won't be completely stressing and freaking out the day before we leave, haha! Things are going very smoothly so far so hopefully that continues throughout this week and through the trip! Fingers crossed!

I hope everyone is doing well and winter isn't completely freezing anyone out! And to anyone that has complained about winter without experiencing a North Dakota winter, go through one of our winters before you even start to complain! Haha! I had a booth at the bridal show this last Saturday for my scrapbooking company and when I walked outside after the show I couldn't believe how much snow had piled up on my car!!! But at least we are in the end half of winter, getting over the winter hump. Not much longer now! I'm also of course very excited that in 8 days I will be on the beach in a bikini with a drink and no worries for a whole week!!! It's very much needed!

Aside from that I have been going crazy trying to get the right outfits for my trip! As soon as I have completely decided I'm thinking about trying to do a video on how to "pack smart" for a trip when you don't want to overload yourself (which I tend to do) and how to pack the "correct" things for a trip so you aren't bringing things that are unnecessary. We will see if I get the chance to do that or not. Maybe my boyfriend will help me with it, we'll see. :P

Again I hope everyone is doing well!!