Friday Night Lights

I like Thursdays because it means that Friday is only one day away. I love Fridays because that means it is almost the weekends. Every Friday I look for something special to happen to signify that it will be a great weekend for me. I call these special happenings my Friday Night Lights. Don't laugh at the Greek Girl, but they are like a flash of positivity - that signals everything is going to be OK for the next several days. I was calling it that long before the Friday Night Lights television series came out.

I don't think I'm looking real hard for these positive flashes because almost anything can be that special happening - something as simple as a driver letting me go  in front of them at the gas pump or if I am lucky, having my manager Mr. Bricks calling me with a last-minute audition. It doesn't have to be anything big really.

As I mentioned Friday Night Lights is also a TV series that was based on a book with the same name. It primarily deals with the people in a small-town in Texas whose lives revolve around their high school football team. Friday Night Lights uses the small-town backdrop to address many issues facing contemporary issues of middle America and their dreams of good things to come.

The characters in that small fictional town are using their high school football team to find their happiness for not just the upcoming weekend but for the rest of the week until the next game. If the team wins everyone is in a happy celebratory mood. If the team loses the game it is like a giant wet blanket has been draped over the town.

When the show first debuted on NBC in 2006 it was a huge hit. I think because we are all looking for something that will let us know that everything is going to be OK. A God Wink or anything to reassure us when we need reassuring. I think the series has less to do with football that it does with searching for internal happiness. When your favorite team wins - well then you just feel a little bit better inside. I am sure there was a lot of very happy people on Sunday in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The people of Green Bay and all the Packer fans around the world are the same people as they were on Saturday, but after the Super Bowl win on Sunday it did not change anything about their lives, but I bet most of them found a boost of confidence after their team won. It's like their noggin says to them that all the crap that is going on in their lives is going to get better now because the Packers just won the Super Bowl.

It doesn't really matter whether you use a friday night football game or some other special happening in your life as a positive yardstick in your life. Just  as long as you realize that the most important thing is what is in your noggin. You alone control your positive and negative thoughts. Now go out and have a great day! I know I will.

Blessings,

Ava

xox

Blog Year In Review

With a candy cane dangling from mouth I was trying to think what topic I wanted to write about in today's blog when I realized I should take you on a trip down memory blog lane and share with you a bit about how some of my more popular blogs happened.So without further ado, here are my personal favorite 5 blogs from 2010 and what inspired me to write them. You can click on the title of each respective blog to take you to it so you can read the full blog.                    Eggnog: The Rocky Effect

I received a lot of emails about this blog.  Possibly more than any of my other blogs. Most of the emails saying that it was very inspirational to them. That's not a huge surprise to me because as I say in the blog I love Rocky and it is a huge inspiration to me as well.

Help!! I'm in lockdown and my Mom doesn't care!

This blog was a once in a lifetime moment where I think I was actually peeing my pants as I was writing the blog. I have a voice for all of my dogs and they actually "call" my Mom from time to time. I had just hung up from Punkin calling my mom and I thought, well if Punkin can call my mom maybe she can hijack my blog as well. This was by far the most popular blog I wrote in 2010

A God Wink

The title just sums up this blog. Many nights when I prepare to write the blog I sit down and have absolutely no idea what I am going to write about. No shocker there, huh? I just always trust that God will inspire me. So this blog was just acknowledging the times in my life I feel God is looking down upon me.

Saturday Morning Cartoons
aka: "Ava Wants A Record Deal"

Doing the saturday morning cartoons started by accident.  I had stumbled upon the website Xtranormal.com where people were making videos and I thought it might be fun. I made a really short one and sent it to Mr. Bricks saying, "I want a Record Deal." He encouraged me to expand on that idea. Growing up I loved watching cartoons every saturday morning. Making the cartoon is fun for me because it's not really me, it's a cartoon character of me. The character is a total diva and I'm so not like that. Really, I'm not! Since I started doing these every saturday morning they have kinda caught on with my fans. I'm glad you enjoy them.

It's official....Muckery is my new favorite word!

This will always be a very special blog posting for me because it was my very first one ever on September 30, 2010. One day I was talking with my manager Mr. Bricks about something and explaining how muckery sort of followed me in my life. He always laughed at my daily episodes and suggested that others might enjoy hearing about them as well. So Mr. Bricks suggested I start a blog called Ava Aston's Muckery... and the rest, as they say, is history.

Blessings,

Ava

xox