Fun Friday (Part 1)

Wow. That first one’s difficult, if only because my memory is bad. LOL!

  1. The questions that go over where we’d like to visit. Dream destinations, things like that.

  2. I let go of something that was bugging me and decided it wasn’t worth worrying about. There was nothing I could do to change the situation, so I might as well go with the flow. I was still annoyed but not as much.

  3. Yeah, mind is Purple Muffin. It sounds like an STD. LOL!

  4. I’m doing a bit better at being less impatient. Which is one of my bad habits I’m trying to work on. We’ll see how it goes.

  5. My superpower? The ability to have a HUGE Wish List at Amazon without having any money! LOL!

    Seriously, this week is Banned Book Week and I’ve added several titles to my Book List.

Have a good weekend, y’all!

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re: Last Fun Friday. Oh my! Say it ain’t so! I love the almost stream of consciousness answers that come to me and I love all the other’s answers.

1 What was your favourite Fun Friday question?

Several first place draws. I always found one that tickled me.

2 Today is World Mental Health Day - what will you do today for positive mental health?

Well… do a Fun Friday post! They are therapeutic!

3 Take the name of your favourite colour and the name of your first pet, and that’s your stage name… what’s yours?

Here is why I like this. Blacky Blacky

4 What are you most proud of at the moment?

Family

5 Lastly, my personal favourite… What is your superpower?

Empathy (this changes each time I answer a question like this… so… maybe functional schizophrenia. :zany_face: )

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I actually loved this

1. What is your superpower?

It used to be empathy, but I’m retired now. I’ve become a crusty dragon
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2. If you could be an ambassador to any country, which would you choose?

I’d love to be an ambassador to Egypt, but lets face it, I’d have 3 strikes against me. ::I’m a card carrying Witch, I’m too white, and definitely too female.**

So to avoid a garnet bonfire, :fire: :I’d choose any of the South American countries. They’re so rich with culture, history, archaeology.

:What can’t you live without…**
Chocolate :chocolate_bar:
4. What are you proud of this week?

My memory is a little keener this week :brain:

5. We’re all going on a picnic - what would you bring?

Hot dogs, macaroni salad, deviled eggs….Yum! :hotdog: :collision:

Garnet

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1 What was your favourite Fun Friday question?
Well now this just pre-supposes that I can remember anything from a week ago or longer!

2 Today is World Mental Health Day - what will you do today for positive mental health?
I avoid the news - definitely helps my mental health

3 Take the name of your favourite colour and the name of your first pet, and that’s your stage name… what’s yours?
Purple Patch

4 What are you most proud of at the moment?
I’ve been doing really good at sticking to my exercise program. After years of being completely sedentary, I’ve been doing at least two miles on the exercise bike everyday, as well as a bit of yoga and walking around the block with my rollator. Haven’t lost any weight, but they say muscle weighs more than fat, so I’ll go with that!

5 Lastly, my personal favourite… What is your superpower?
Walking in to a room and forgetting what I went in there for.

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Aww that is so lovely to hear @Feathertip, thank you! It has been my honour, it really has :people_hugging:

I’ve kind of been ignoring some signs lately, signs that my path has diverted to the left; instead of facing things head on as usual, I’ve kept myself busy with other things, doing my best impression of a divine ostrich. It’s time to take my head out of the sand, refocus, recharge and restart. I’m not leaving the coven, just adjusting my peripherals :blush:

Who knows, maybe one day, someone here will wake up on a Friday and ask the same 2 questions I asked myself each week:

1 What do I want to know about the coven family?

2 Is this question appropriate for the public side of the site?

Every one of you is just as unique and nuts as I am, so I do hope someone keeps the fun going… maybe a different person will ask questions each week, we will see!

PS loving the answers, especially the stage names :see_no_evil_monkey::rofl:

x Blessed Be x

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You set a high bar. I am sulking about our loss. I know we all have things to do so I appreciate that you need the time. Thank you for all the fun!

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Pink Fluffy. :rofl:

This question is the answer to

Still working on this one. Labeling my herbs, spices, oils, incenses, drink mixes, etc. I want to be more aware of what I’m ingesting and the energies working upon me subconsciously. Way too much has been subconscious lately; but then again, I have been super busy.

Once upon a time, I was called a cleaning tornado. Yet I can go back even further for something perhaps borne within me rather than beaten into me from the outside.

At the Catholic school I went to between 4th and 8th grades, I would overhear tales and let the people talking know that if the activity continued, certain things would happen. I saw it as a matter of basic physics, cause and effect. They saw it as witchcraft or foretelling the future and were upset when it actually happened just as I predicted. Back then, science wasn’t important in the church run school. I was considered stupid because I hadn’t been brainwashed to recite certain prayers and name off every county in Indiana, but they were less logical than anyone I’d ever met. Do I call this superpower logic, physics, or premonition? It just was as it was for me. Mom called it “special,” just before the kids on the short buses received the sneering moniker, so I was quickly disenchanted of any ego boost which may have been intended. The ability has since faded, possibly due to the fear of others, partly due to disuse or flow into the subconscious in adult life, but the idea of it still interests me.

Thank you for these. I have enjoyed them, even when I was scared to answer due to a personal disagreement.

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I have tried really, really hard not to engage with you to maintain civility on the site, and I hope the mods don’t lock this thread because of this, but now I need to be crystal clear about a few things because you brought it up here. You have no reason to be scared; I did not stumble into your personal thread, you strolled into mine. It was not a personal disagreement, and you are not the victim. Afterwards, I stopped engaging with you, but you continued to reply to me directly each week as if nothing had happened… that’s just not how I roll.

I believe every blessed breath is an opportunity from Spirit: the opportunity to be happy, sad, nice, nasty, supportive, damaging… we choose what and who we want to be, outside of mental health issues. You chose to be harsh, unnecessarily so - I had not tagged or mentioned you in anyway in the post, so you didn’t even need to respond, you chose to say what you said. Then, when you realised you’d hit a nerve - which is exactly what you said - you didn’t apologise, you hit it again with different words. That’s like punching someone in the stomach, saying you punched them in the stomach, then punching them in the face… who does that? Then, when I called you out about it, you tried to flip the script and act like you were the victim and I was the one with the problem - not cool. I reacted emotionally to your words, but at no point was I nasty to you, even when I wanted to be - that was my choice. Even when my thread was locked, and I wanted to hurl every name I could think of in your direction, I chose not to.

Everyone is entitled to their thoughts, but I don’t know why you would actually say what you said. Did it make you feel better to try and make me feel bad/insignificant? Cause there’s a name for people who do that, they’re called bullies, and I’ll tell you the same thing I’ve told every bully I’ve met; have a dialogue with your self, redirect your anger where it belongs, and deal with it… do not bring it to me.

I do owe you thanks though, for helping me to relearn the most fundamental lesson of life; not everyone is authentic, and not everyone is nice, even here in spells8. So thank you for rebuilding my walls, and I will soon return to my thread and finish it, because it is my space and I can have my own space just like everyone else on this site. I will not allow what happened to hinder me anymore. You have made no attempts whatsoever publicly or privately to reconcile, which tells me everything I need to know; to do so now would be insincere, so you do you and I’ll do me.

Duuuuuuuude, that made me laugh on the outside and cry on the inside at the same time! :rofl::cry::people_hugging: A perfect example of why out of all the people here, you can’t act like your brain isn’t as wonderfully weird as mine!

x Blessed Be x

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My ability to put myself in other people’s shoes and truly care/be kind and my work ethic. Sets me apart.

My own. A new country. But I’d feel it unnecessary to call it a country. Just a fond name. Somewhere by the ocean. I would also create a kinder place wherever it was. Completely gut the system. Go back to living with other people as in “village”. We need our villages back.. People weren’t meant to separate this way. We were meant to be together. With a village living we would more easily be able to reach our goals and live comfortably. We are so far separated from one another generally speaking..

Hot weather and swimming.

Hmmm… I guess that my body hasn’t gave out yet lmao ..

Tater salad. no I’m just kidding lmao. Ummm probably fruit and water

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Question: Has anyone volunteered yet to take over Fun Friday?

If not, should I do it? I don’t want to see it go away!

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I don’t think anyone has volunteered – I say if you want to, go for it! :pink_heart:

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That would be wonderful! :heart_eyes:

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I can start a new thread this Friday, then.

I know I’ll have pretty big shoes to fill. :beating_heart:

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Hooray! I’m looking forward to seeing your unique spin on Fun Friday :blush: I hope you have fun with continuing the tradition of weekly questions - I know it’ll be fun to see and read everyone’s answers! :tada: :heart:

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Thank you! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: I’ll try to make it as entertaining as @Nikki-Phoenix has.

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I think this is a wonderful idea! :heart_eyes: And don’t you worry, as long as the questions come from you, I have no doubt you will be awesome! If you ever get stuck, just ask yourself those 2 questions and you’ll know what to say. Oooooh, I feel a ceremony coming on, passing on the virtual torch! Gather around everyone!

waits for the stragglers

Feathertip kneels

Nikki-Phoenix reverently places a sparkly tiara on Feathertip’s head, then readjusts her hair

Nikki-Phoenix raises her sword so everyone at the back can see

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Nikki-Phoenix gently places her sword on Feathertip’s left shoulder, then right shoulder, then left shoulder

I dub thee once, twice, three times. Drum roll please…

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Arise, Princess Feathertip - Guardian of the Fun Friday Realm! May her reign be blessed!

Hip Hip HOORAY! Hip Hop HOORAY! Hip Hip HOORAYYYYYYYYYY!!!

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I am so glad FF will carry on, and you know I’ll be lurking with love!

PS…

What do you mean?!?! Tater salad sounds fab to me, anything less would be sacrilege! :grin:

x Blessed Be x

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:astonished_face:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Thank you! Thank you very much!

waits for applause to subside; hears crickets

See, this is why you’ll be missed - you make us all laugh! :heart: :sparkles: I could look at the drum roll duck all day.

I hope you won’t be too busy to swing by and partake as we move forward. :people_hugging:

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Thanks for taking over! And your brilliance will be missed with this. I look forward to these each Friday!

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Three cheers for the previous FF princess and all her wonderful questions, and three cheers for the new FF princess taking the throne! Hip hip HOORAY! :partying_face: :sparkles:

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Thank you, thank you! It honestly has been my pleasure, and it truly warms my heart to see how much you have all enjoyed it, it really does! I’m honoured to hand over a small piece of our precious and treasured journey together as a coven :blush:

Takes a bow, then gracefully exits stage left

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Of course I will partake - I’m not going anywhere, I’m just not in charge anymore! It will be a great experience to answer someone else’s questions and join in the fun! Oooooo, maybe I could be a steward, I would make a great steward! Allow me to set the scene for FF 2.0…

Everyone glides into the spells8 theatre, settling into their individual seats and watching the projector images of past FFsthen the lights dim

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Then, some donut starts yelling from the back…

POPCORN, get your POPCORN!

The Tuck Shop is now open, we’ve got sweet, salted, sweet and salted, we’ve got Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans, we’ve got mini roast taters, magickally seasoned to perfection, you name it we got it! For those who require liquid sustenance, the Bar in the Lounge area is ready! Every item, one pricea hug :people_hugging:

Everyone:

whaaat-what

Nikki-Phoenix:

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:rofl::see_no_evil_monkey::rofl::see_no_evil_monkey::rofl::see_no_evil_monkey::rofl::see_no_evil_monkey::rofl:

Everyone needs a drum roll duck hahaha!

x Blessed Be x

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