Elf 4 Health & November Blog Challenge

It’s started snowing here and I am not a happy camper. (You’d think after the past 3 years of living in snowy terrains/mountains/coasts, I would’ve gotten used to this by now, but no. My spoiled-by-CA’s-sunny-weather runs way deeper than that. :'[

But enough with that. I bought 4 winter jackets earlier this year for $80, and I’ve finally snapped out of my denial and switched out my closet’s summer clothes to winter clothes. (sigh!) Hopefully, I’ll be a-okay!

Also…GIVEAWAY WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED! I’m sorry that it took me awhile to go through the entries, but all the winners have been emailed! (Please check your spam folder just in case my email happens to find its way there!) I tried hunting down everyone I could on twitter and everything! If there is no response with 48 hours, I’ll have to get rafflecopter to choose new winners! :O

This year, I’m joining in on Elf 4 Health for the first time! :D

Elf For Health great way to meet new people over the holidays, and to motivate each other to stay on track with fitness + healthy eating (especially because the holidays are pretty much the best/most prevalent time to fall off the edge). You can choose to participate alone or as an Elf! There are prizes involved!

The deadline to sign up for the first round is this upcoming Friday, at 11:59 p.m. EST! (Here are the daily challenges!)

In other news, I’m also covering Days #16-18 for the November Blog Challenge! Feel free to link up below if you’re also participating in it!

11/16: Proudest Moment

I think I have ridiculously high standards for myself, so even when I accomplish something awesome, I always feel like I could do better. It’s good for the whole continual self-improvement philosophy, but perhaps not so wonderful for self-satisfaction. If it were a period of my life, I would say it was my last two years of undergrad. When I look back on everything I was doing, I don’t know anymore how I managed to do it all anymore, but maybe that’s just because I’ve burnt out.

That being said, however, if I had to narrow it down to a single moment in my life, I would say that it’s when I found out I got accepted into medical school. :]

11/17: Meaning Behind My Blog Name

I know “fairyburger” sounds really random and seems to have nothing to do with me or what my blog is about.

“Fairy” is in fact one of my nicknames (but was modified to “Farrie” by a family friend), but burgers are not my favorite food. (I love em’ and all, but they don’t hold a candle to salmon sashimi.) But here’s the thing! Because it’s super unique, I never had issues with fighting for my own domain name! :D?!

For those of you that have ever wondered, “fairyburger” is one of my brother’s [many] nicknames for me. I’ve chosen to embrace it. It’s random enough that I can talk about anything and everything under the sun and it’ll still technically be pertinent to my blog, because it’s still a reflection of me. This is especially helpful because I have a frightening amount of interests, none of which I intend to let go of anytime soon.

Other nicknames I’ve been christened with include:

• Black Hole (I eat a lot)
• Superwoman (I do a lot of things)
• Eiffel tower (I have a pointy head :[ )
• Ferret (sounds like my name and doubled as my science camp counselor nature name, because I’d actually answer to it)
  

  I had one of the cutest kids in the world in my cabin. I totally would’ve adopted her as my little sister. <3

• Double F (my initials), Ferrari (also sounds like my name)
• [Asian] [jumbo] shrimp (I have a small-ish frame, kindasorta lift a lot, and I’m Asian)

11/18: My Collections

-Hobbies

-CD’s
I know these are technically considered to be archaic by today’s standards, but I have a pretty impressive collection of CD’s back at home-home. I love almost all genres of music (other than rap, which I don’t consider to be real music), but I especially like symphonic metal, songs I can sing to, the Romantic period for classical music, and anything with awesome piano/guitar parts in em’.

-Quotes/Conversations
I didn’t include conversations because there are enough quotes here. My friends and I grew up with a whole lot of snark and friendly abuse banter; it adds to the fun!

Wait, what? I would never say anything mean! :O!

• “How did that happen? You didn’t even punch me that hard. You must have a lot of chakra.”
  
• “I’m going to have an interesting time with this decade report thing for history. Mainly because my group acts like a bunch of stoners minus the actual pot. We spent a good hour singing about the special olympics, superheroes, and decrepit fathers, devouring chocolate-covered nuts and fruits, throwing grapes, and just laughing at asinine things. Just wait until we start drawing comics about Hitler. Good times.”
• “Farrah has the JLo butt of Asian girls.”
• “She’s an internet vampire. She eats kilobytes and drains the life out of your computer while she’s talking to you online. That’s why your computer always crashes.”
• “Farrah is the kind of student that teachers would want to build a relationship with. Some students, you just teach and then it’s over with; we all move on. With Farrah, you want to continue talking to her and getting to know her.”
• “Hey Farrah, are you interested in dying? …I mean, dinner?”
• “I’ll be nice. Just don’t tempt me. Aka don’t be yourself.”
• “Try not to do anything anymore that will make the heaven cry. I want it to be sunny these few days.”
• “In retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have told her, but it was fun watching her face fall fifty floors.”

-Memories
Along those same lines, I’ve been keeping journals for about 15 years, both on and offline.

As such, I can show you some ridiculous awesome times from years past.

• What’s one of your proudest moments?
  
• If you have a blog, how did you choose your name?
  
• What do you like to stockpile?
  

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