Why I do what I do.

Hey,
So I know a lot of you know me but some of you are new to the Rex Felixx experience.

Here are a few things about me.

1.I have two eyes,

2.Anose

3. Love to sing, dance , and play guitar….

Ok for real though.

4. I do love eating spaghettios and edamame.

OK seriously, though….

I grew up in Buffalo, NY and have always been a goofy oddball person who loved to make people laugh. I come from a long history of artists who inspired me daily, to use that imagination.
Now, all grown up (37) and having too many gray hairs to count, I decided to continue this journey of assisting the world in understanding they can use imagination every single day and not be a potato too mature for play.
We don’t have to work a job we hate and never think about anything else. Can you imagine if you were 25 years of age, and found the (perfect) job and never thought about anything else except that?

Sad. ( Like ice cream melted in the sun before eating it sad.)

Rex Felixx has always been apart of me, and I am apart of it. The whole purpose of it is to show the world through my writings, drawings, and personality, that we can be true to our own self. Who cares what other people may chatter when we are doing something we love. King Happy (Rex Felixx) is all about inspiring people who feel down on their luck, who are stuck, or just bored with life. Everyday I wake up hoping to bring a smile to someone’s day, or a creative spark in a poem I write.

One little spark…

to get that imagination growing again!

You want to bake? Cool go bake it.
You love to sing? Great go and do open mic
You like doing marathons? Amazing go and run (I’m tired thinking about 26 miles)

Please if you can’t remember anything I write in this post, remember this

YOU ARE AWESOME!!!
STOP BEING SHY ABOUT HOW AWESOME YOU ARE!!

Get out there and start living, stop ignoring that little voice inside your heart telling you to dream.

Cheers,

Rex Felixx

P.S. I want spaghettios

It's okay bro.

I love onions but they don’t love me.

Whenever I am shopping at the store, I go to the onions and say “hello there Mr. Onion, would you want to come with me to your forever home?”

The onions never respond , but I end up taking them and bringing them home anyways.

Onions are the silent type, they won’t talk to me or even joke around.

They are ungrateful, I give them shelter, a place to live and to grow in my cupboards. I clean them and let them watch “Real Housewives of Omaha” every Tuesday night. (even though they are much too young) I don’t think they appreciate the love and care I give to them.

One day I was getting ready to make some homemade Blooming Onions and needed to use one of my precious onion friends. So I asked if it would be okay to use their help for a little bit.

No response. ( I figured they were being moody)

I asked again.

Sadly, no response again.

I figured it was okay, being that we were besties. I started to give the onions little trim and then that onion lost it. He went crazy!!!!

He started bullying me so much, that I started to cry.

Not just cry, but I balled my eyes out over his words.

I just ignored it and kept creating my favorite appetizer dish.

Tears kept running down my face from the hurtful words he spoke to me.

20 mins later the tears stopped and I had a glorious blooming onion dish

to show all the other onions.

Sad to say they weren’t impressed, they didn’t even give me a high five or a handshake for my accomplishment.

I think next time, I am going to think twice before I let these ungrateful onions come back into my home.

No more tears, just cheers,

Rex Felixx

P.S. blooming onions are better than onion petals.

Let's go fly a kite

So I know we are in the middle of winter, but with today being in the 50’s in Buffalo, it got me thinking of Spring. Flying kites is a great hobby for anyone. I haven’t flown a kite in a while, but this year I look forward to finding a kite and actually going to fly it high in the sky. It’s like kite flying is a lost art. I rarely see families take their children out on a windy Saturday and go hang out in the park. If anyone wants to join when this weather is back to being a breezy warm temperature, let me know. Who knows maybe we can even make it the monthly Kite Club, and make t-shirts. hahahaha

Fly so high ,

up in the sky.

In the white clouds,

no gravity,

no negativity,

won’t ever bring me down.

Fly away Kite

to far away lands

enjoy yourself

while you still can.

Cheers,

Rex Felixx

P.S. Anyone remember that Doug episode where he had to build a kite?… ah the nostalgia.

Be kind homies...

I don’t know if it is just me coming back from vacation and being in the sunshine for a week straight. Or maybe it’s from being at the “ Happiest place on earth” hanging with Goofy and Mickey. I feel refreshed and ready to rock and roll. Being in sunny Florida makes me realize that its okay to be friendly and kind. Up in the great north I feel like we become so jaded and callous towards people sometimes. We keep our heads down and walk quickly to point A to point B. I don’t want to blame it on the weather and never seeing sunlight for almost half the year… but I am blaming on the weather. I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt my whole trip in Florida in the middle of January. It was glorious.

It shouldn’t be like pulling teeth to be kind to each other, in fact it should make us feel good to do something nice. I think I am going to put forward a more conscious effort this week to be friendlier and bring some of that Florida sunshine up north. Be a beacon of positive energy to all the people you greet. Maybe we can melt the snow a little more quickly with our happiness towards ourselves and each other. Who am I kidding? There will probably be snow until the 4th of July fireworks go off.

Be Kind out there homies.

Cheers,

Rex Felixx

P.S. GO BILLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Christmas Time is here.

The evergreen smell is filling our house as we prepare to get ready for Christmas this year. I enjoy Christmas so much and I love spending time with my family. This year we get to wake up and see the face of our little Adalaide smiling at the sight of Christmas morning. (well probably drooling and crying because… she is a baby) Words can’t describe this upcoming feeling of wanting to start these new traditions with her. My whole life I got to enjoy the traditions of our family from being a little tike to being an adult. However, now we get to embrace new traditions and new joys of having a little one in our home on Christmas morning. It is a surreal feeling. I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and hope you keep up the traditions you had as a child every year. Enjoy the memories this upcoming holiday and be present in the moment. Social media should take a step back and really enjoy the company of others this weekend

Memories

come back into our head,

after the scents

of Gingerbread,

and carols of yesteryear

echoe in our ears.

Gather around the table,

and feast on the finest Roastbeast.

as merriment, happiness, and joy

converse among our family cheer.

No sorrow, no pain , no worry, no angst

let us hold off and have an armistice

until tomorrow or forever

Amen.

Cheers

Rex Felixx

Thankful... Thanks... Thank you...

I am thankful today

for all the people

who I interact with on a day to day.

The people who are family , friends, and everyone who is

close by

or far, far away.

I smile ear to ear knowing you have a place

in my heart and life right now.

Life is so much more enjoyable

when I have you there,

and it would be oh so miserable

without your smiling faces.

Thank you for this chaotic life

I call my own, even when I feel mad or all alone.

Every moment has a time and place,

we should all embrace.

Soon enough it will all be forgotten,

or stored away on the lonely shelves of our memories.

Thank you for the burdens I have each day,

and the inevitable joys that approach after the stress and turmoil phase.

If I never felt the storms and rain,

how could I ever appreciate the sunny day’s rays?

Take time this Holiday weekend to enjoy the moments

and create the best memories!

Cheers ,

Rex Felixx

P.S eat all the food and sleep as much as you like.

Flocking around

Is it me, or does it seem like so many people are so serious all the time. Everyone has an opinion on this, that or whatever else it is to help them sleep better at night. I think it’s okay to be silly and have fun and take a day off from the serious faces. Sit back and enjoy yourself and goof off, I mean flock off. (hahaha sorry dumb cheesy pun) I could actually go for some cheese. Anyways, we should all lighten up and have fun this week. Maybe even next week have some fun too before the winter winds come and make us all depressed with its cold and frost bite on our faces until March of next year.

Flock off if you like,

Enjoy this time to dance, one last dance.

There will always be sorrow

but save that for tomorrow.

Gracias,

Rex Felixx

Silencio! Silencio!

Anyone else having this old man in their head trying to deter them from doing something?

Not kidding, this past Monday I was laying in bed feeling exhausted and worn out from the weekend , but I wanted to get up at 5:30 to go to the gym. The gym for me is a special place where I can go and destress and obviously lift heavy things, because I’m like a Neanderthal . “Me lift heavy things.” Anyways, I was in bed and my alarm went off, immediately this old man was saying,

“Hey go to sleep, rest a little, you had a hard night.” He was relentless.

“Don’t worry about the gym, you can work out later. Working out is overrated.”

I was so close to hitting snooze button and roll back over and hold my wife and call it a day. Maybe I would even sleep until noon and not work that day. Then I decided quickly in my brain to shut that old man up. I jumped up out of bed and started saying “Silencio! Silencio!” Don’t ask me why i said it in Italian, but it worked! It felt amazing to beat up on an old man (figuratively obviously, I’m no monster. I love old people.) Whenever an old man or old woman creeps into your mind to deter you from waking up to go to the gym, or try to delay your from finishing a task remember to say “Silencio! Silencio!” hey will run away and leave you be for that day.

Cheers,

Rex Felixx

P.S. I wonder what kind of house he lives in, His address is probably something like 345 Sycamore lane .

Whistle ,Whistle, Not Thistles and Missiles

I was walking out of Dick’s Sporting Goods yesterday and I was whistling a rather catchy tune, and some old lady passing by said to her middle aged daughter, “He must be in a happy mood.”

I must say I was taken aback by the comment as I walked back to my car. It made me feel good to see others experience what I have everyday, or try to make an effort to experience. It made me realize how a little more happiness can make someone’s day. I had no idea I was whistling; it comes naturally from when I was a kid til now. My Grandpa Joe (not the same Grandpa from Willy Wonka, if you’re wondering.) always whistled around the house, and I must’ve picked up on it and have been whistling around the house ever since. Happiness should be shared with everybody around you. A positive energy normally exudes from you and is definitely contagious. Don’t believe me? Do this: Next time you are at a party or social interaction, look for the person with the smiles and notice the how the people are around them and how they laughing and enjoying life. Then look for the scowl and stern faced people and how they are lonely and bored to death. Put yourself out there and stop being so serious all the time. You will see happiness attracts the awesome people. Now go chat with the the scowl faced person and brighten their day. Happiness should be for you and everyone.

So go out there and whistle while walking, listen to inspiring podcasts, be your goofy self

and start living your happy life.

Cheers,

Rex Felixx

P.S. Maybe I will go back to school to get my degree in Classical Whistling Performance or Basket Weaving.

Surprise!

I enjoy nothing more than to hand out gifts to make people feel joy. Whether its paying the person behind me in line for their coffee at Starbucks. Or finding a green Sasquatch driving a monster truck t-shirt from a thrift shop to surprise a friend with. The elation it brings is amazing. Physical gifts giving is awesome in it’s own right. However many of us don’t realize that we all have gifts and talents that we can share everyday but we choose to bury them deep, and hide them away. I’m not sure if its pride or the feeling that recipient won’t like it. A smile to a stranger can help them through a rough patch in that moment. Listening intently to a friend in need while drinking some beers at happy hour. Handwriting a letter to mail to your family who lives far away. Singing a song to old Nana, Dorothy McShaw. We all have so many talents and gifts to share in our own way. Come to think of it, maybe the world would be a much better place, if we just shared our gifts for good, and try to bring joy out of people every single day.

“Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend." - Marian Anderson

Cheers,

Rex Felixx

Let's have an adventure today!

Everyday we awaken to a brand new day, and everyday we decide what we want to do with it. We can become our own hero or we can crawl back into our digital cave and scroll through social media for five minutes, which inevitably becomes 30 minutes, then hours upon hours. Clicks, likes, Pinterest trends, and Tik Tok famous people eating spicy ramen noodles through their snorkels, while petting their pet chihuahua named Dolores Boris. What are we doing? What are we becoming? We would rather text someone than to go out and converse in person. Then when we do decide to hangout we scroll our brightly lit screens texting others while we use Gifs to show our emotions. (Actually most times, it’s almost impossible to make plans nowadays. people want to always keep their options open. “Maybe I will… ummm maybe if nothing else is going on.”

Decide today that adventure is in your future. Actually scratch that. Decide today that adventure is now. ( no more procrastinating) Do something fun, something exciting. Make memories with people, Soon enough we will all be 65 and wishing we did something exhilarating with our friends when we were younger. It doesn’t have to be extreme skydiving or licking poisonous mushrooms. (please don’t) Le’t get excited for life. Do something different. Adventurers pack your bags!

Let’s have an adventure today!

Yours truly,

Rex Felixx