Disneyworld Day 1

I don't have much time. But I have to say I'm in heaven here. I thought everyone might have been a little weird when they talked about how awesome,magical,cool,perfect Disneyworld/land is... but its all true.

Besides having a bad morning... threw up twice because of the nerves. I had a definate case of "Disney Tummy"


I also have a new dream - to become a stunt car driver.

Kate at Dinner

enjoy this cute vid of Kate... And my singing debut!

See you real soon!

M I C "see you real soon!" K E Y "why because I love you"
M. O. U. S. Eeeeee!


Tomorrow we are going to Orlando Florida. (Flo Ride A! to some of you...Lisa...Kendra!!!) and we are meeting up with my dad, stepmom, and little sister.

I am so excited. I think I'm the most most excited... even over the kids. Well Kate doesn't have a clue and Dallen is presently out of the Disney stage now that he is addicted to Transformers a.k.a "Kid Crack" (but I think that will change when we get there)

I went to Disneyland with my family when I was 3 and I do have some wonderful memories. Two of which that involve my cousin *Mewissa (name has been changed to protect the innocent.)
side note--- Mewissa was a beautiful child. Beautiful blonde hair, big eyes, cute wee little button nose. (everyone sigh) She was really a little doll. I on the other hand was not I picked my boogers, I had shaggy hair, and a stout little body, not an ugly kid by any means... but well... just not Mewissa.












So I have 4 memories from Disneyland when I was 3.

1. "It's a Small World" ride - that is the only Disney related memory

2. Opening my uncle chad's contact lense case and bathing my baby doll with the solution that was inside...along with rubbing the contacts all over the baby which made them tear and totally unusable. Sorry Uncle Chad!

3. My cousin Mewissa locking me out on the balcony of the condo we were staying at and saying "You can't come in if you aren't a Murdock!!!" (LOL I can still see you with your hand on your hips and shaking your finger at me)

4. Mewissa had a new doll that crawled whenever you stuck the binky in its mouth. It was sitting on the bed and I went to play with it but it quickly got taken away by her because you guessed it...I wasn't a Murdock :)


In Mewissa's defense we were only 3 years old and she was and still is a very sweet person. Love ya!

Jewel

I bet you guys didn't know that I'm pretty much obsessed with Jewel. But I am. I have been so since 1996 when her first cd Pieces of You came out. I think she's amazing. It's one of my life dreams to learn how to play guitar. and the first songs I'd like to learn are from that first album.

While going through some old journals the other night I came across Jewel's book of poems. My boyfriend at the time who knew I was obsessed with her gave it to me and I loved it. I think she got a really bad rap for it in the media but I thought it was pretty good. So while reading it the other night I came across a poem that I had written in the margins. just so you know I was pretty dramatic in high school. and keep in mind I was 16 when I wrote this :)

Please come find me
and wrap me in your arms
its been too long feeling this lonliness
to ever feel good about
what the future might bring.


that should be on some tshirt at a Lilith Fair booth right?

p.s. I don't take myself that seriously and if you want to tease me you can cause I think my dramatic teen years are funny.

p.p.s - but I reserve the right if I see any "you're weird" or "that was dumb" kind of comments to scratch your eyes out

Love

you know I hear sometimes that I don't post enough about my family i.e. dallen, kate, chad. and its not that I don't love them. But I just post what is ever in my head at the moment. so I'm sorry family. I love you. today's post will now be dedicated to my main homey... Chad.


I love Chad for many reasons but the main reason I love Chad is because he's the only person in this whole world that I can 100% be me for 100% of the time. You think I'm random and say crazy things here. Chad gets it all the time and I never have to worry about saying or doing the wrong thing. Its like coming home just being with him. and yes We fight and we say rude things (well I shouldn't say we... I say rude things) (Okay I'll stop listing all the bad stuff I do) But when it comes down to it. I love being with him.
Thanks honey for loving me just the way I am.

oh and what do you think about a perm?

Hair Cut Poll

#1 Do you think I should continue to grow my hair out?

#2 If I cut it should I get a trim, shorter, super short

#3 What color should I go with? Dark Brown, Keep the Red (look to family pic on left) or go light brown with high lights?

COVER UP FROM MY CHIN DOWN TO COVER UP THE MULLET LOOK!

so sad :(

I thought I'd start a new tradition over here at AdventureinAtlantaGa. (yes that is a link back to me)


I thought once a month at any random time I'd post an embarrsing moment from the life of me. This one though I have to warn you although is quite embarrsing for me will probably make most of you cry. Really. if you don't cry you might need to go see your bishop because clearly you have no soul and the spirit no longer resides in you. Now I know this isn't a funny post and I don't know why I'm sharing it but I started thinking about jr high because I recently found some old jr high friends and this is kindof like my only journal... and I rarely journal stuff like this... well anyway... here you go.

Some of you may know I had cancer when I was a kid. for those who didn't know - guess what I had cancer when I was a kid... I don't talk about it much (unless people ask me questions and then I start talking and get all dramatic and tell all the juicy gory details)

I pretty much didn't go to 7th and 8th grade. In fact in 7th grade before we found it was cancer (I had been staying at home so much because I was sick) The principal called one morning and I was afraid to get my mom so I pretended I was her (I think I tried to make my voice lower)

Yes this is mr. so and so is Mrs. Taylor there?
oh crap
This is her.
I'm Shellie's principal here at Midway Middle School. We are quite concerned with the amount of school she's missed.
Oh yes she's been really sick. We think she has a goiter.

Well it wasn't a goiter :)


At the end of 8th grade I started going back to school at Rigby Jr High. One week was Spirit Week. Where each day had a different theme like Wear your clothes backwards or Wear Maroon and Gold. Then there was "Crazy Hair Day" Which um I didn't have. and I didn't have a wig ... I just used bandanas and hats(keepin it real yo) . But today was the day... I was going to school bald and beautiful! But I still wanted to be crazy so I decided to paint my head yellow and red (the closest we had to maroon and gold) By myself I painted my head Yellow. And then while carefully looking in the mirror I painted "RJH #1" on one side and "RJH Rules!" On the other side in red.

I went to school very excited to show off my cutely painted head but as soon as I entered those doors and saw all those kids I started feeling really dumb. As I walked down towards the lockers some kids noticed, some kids didn't, some kids kind of pointed, and some kids just stared. But then I heard a group of boys whispering "What is that written on her head?" "I don't know" I hurry and went into the bathroom... and it looked fine to me "RJH #1" on one side "RJH Rules!" on the other. Then I went to class and and saw my friend Nikki and asked her if my head looked dumb... and she was like "no its fine... well except why did you write that it makes no sense" I was like what I wrote "RJH #1" and she was like "no you didn't... it's that but backwards." I guess I didn't realize that if you paint something in the mirror you have to do it the opposite. Man I felt so embarressed. I didn't even bring a bandana to cover it up. And I didn't want to wash it off because then I'd be really BALD. So for the rest of the day I just kept to myself... oh and avoided the boys who called me "chemo"



How sad.

My Martha Stewart Soul is dead.

I realized today that any Martha Stewart I thought I still had in me is dead. Because of this conversation with Dallen.

"Hey Dallen we need to get that birthday present over to Isabella's today"

"Okay"

"We'll need to wrap it"

Dallen who is standing by the sink grabs a target bag out for me.
"Here mom"


Yep around here we wrap presents in the bag they came in. But I didn't think we did it that much that now our 5 year old think thats how its done! That this is how people around the world present gifts from the heart to the ones they love. I'm such a turd. I'm sorry to have let you down mom... you at least had it together enough to wrap our presents in the funnies.
But it is true that at Christmas time Chad's presents to me and my presents to him were in Target bags. (But to his credit he did put a couch pillow over top the bags on the floor so that I had to first pick the pillow up and then untie the target bags) (And to my credit I did triple knot his bags... added to the suspense!!!)

Big Grizzley Turkish Dude

Britta was wondering what the Turkish dude at El Cheapo looked like. This is pretty much on the money...