I would like to welcome you all on a journey.  or exploration if you will.  a journey of exploration.

i bet you can tell I just drank my crystal light “energy”  hey! no judging… its not like its a hot drink!

so Chad and I have been married for 8+ years.  Out of those 8 years we’ve been pretty much a 1 car family. 

 its been the bane of my existance.   I have been the prisoner of my own home for 8 years.  Seriously anytime I needed to use the car I’ve had to drive chad to work… drive home… get ready… run to the supermarket to get milk and tortillas… run home to take a nap because I’m so tired from getting up at 6am to get Chad to work on time… wake up… get in the car drive 30 min to go get chad… drive home.  I hate it so much I rarely take chad to work.  So that means I’m stuck at home and then I get so depressed that I can’t do anything but clean or watch Judge Judy, Judge Alex, and Judge Whopner that when Chad got home all he’d find was a sloppy mess of a woman in pj’s and uncombed hair.  He loves being married. 

But there has been a couple of months here and there in the past 8 years when we’ve had 2 cars and its was so Freaking Awesome.  I didn’t have to wake up at the crack of dawn to have the use of a car.  Getting more sleep I was a more happier person.  Being a more happier person I always cooked a good hot meal and made sure I looked pretty.  Also instead of watching Judge Judy I read and write.  Then when Chad got home he was greeted with a kiss and a home baked peach pie.   oh and the kids… the kids!  they were all like “DADDY DADDY WE LOVE YOU!”  and thats all because  when Dallen got home from school I was able to drive the two of them to Sonic for happy hour so that we could all get our mid afternoon cocktail of slushes and RT44 diet coke and go then to the park.   

Life is good in the Kendrick home with two cars.  Life is good.

So I’m proud to say that we are now officially a FOR REAL 2 car family as of saturday.  Yes my friends we did it.  We are the proud owners of a 2005 Kia Optima with a Classy Cherry Red Exterior and a Blue Cloth Interior that looks like a pimp mobile.  It has a CD player and also power lock doors.  Also its a 5 speed so I don’t get to drive it… bummer. 

And today I was able to sleep in until 7am.  And I’m going to Sonic…. and maybe…. wait for it… wait for it…. the library!

um just barely found this site and have become addicted in the past hour.  I don’t understand much about it… yet… but I can already tell that I’m going to be a wee bit obsessed

check out the “set” (thats what they call these collages of fashion items) that i put together for my sick day

The other night as Chad and I were watching TV a commercial came on for a Jewelery store.

Chad:  “Did you think that guy was good looking?”

Shellie “Uh not really”

Chad: “really?”

so we re winded and watched it two more times

and I’m like “Yeah he’s not hot. He looks like John Tesh”

and Chad was like “Who is John Tesh?”

“Uh are you serious??? John Tesh! Entertainment Tonight Correspondent in the 90’s!??”

“Nope.”

“I can’t believe you don’t know who I’m talking about… You know John Tesh… he’s married to Connie Sellecca…”

“Who’s Connie Sellecca?”

oh gosh I’m about to have a heart attack

“You don’t know WHO CONNIE SELLECCA is???  CONNIE SELLECCA!  P.S. I LUV U!!!”

“What’s P.S. I LUV U???”

“WHAT! Like one of my favorite shows EVER!!!”

OH MY GOSH!!! …  and all this time I thought we were perfect soulmates! ;)

does anyone else remember this show?

So if I’m in a bad place I have some sure fire things that make me happy

#1 Working Out

#2 Cleaning

#3 Looking at shoes online

#4 Listening to music

#5 Baking

So today I’ve already went on a run, started my cleaning for today, both while listening to music. 

and Here’s just a sampling of shoes I love… (i know i know… you might not give a rats a$$ about the shoes I obsess over… but it makes me happy…) 

($24.99 from Target)

just so you know it rains a lot in georgia.  and even if it didn’t I’d still wear them.  but I’d have to get a red coat and maybe some skinny jeans so that I could wear them over my pants. 

oh and these shoes-  they are a little hard core.  but i tried them on the other day and I LOVED them.  and they were like only $22 on clearance at DSW.  they didn’t have my size though.  bummer. 

and plus I do have to keep in consideration that most of the time the only time I get to wear heels is to church.  I just don’t think I could be as fierce as these shoes would so demand while singing “Popcorn Popping” i mean i guess I could… but it might frighten the children. 

what do you guys do to get out of your funk? 

Here’s my advice in case you forgot

My friend and I were talking the other day that we are both nearing 30.  And that since we are in our 20’s  we should make the most out of it and do 30 awesome things that we’ve always wanted to do before we turn 30.   I’ve come up with about 5 things so far. 

• Knit a hat
• Be in a major motion film
• Run a Marathon
• Sing at a piano bar in a sparkly red dress like Jessica Rabbit
• Publish a book

I have a year and a half folks before I turn 30 and I need your help.  First I need some suggestions of things that you think would be fun to do in your 20’s.  Second you can dare me to do some things(and I’ll add them to my list).  There’s about 100% chance that I’ll do them.  I HATE turning down dares. 

Our rules for completing 30 things is that we have to complete ALL of them before or on our 30th birthday.  2nd we have to prove that we did them through pictures, receipts, video.  We haven’t figured out what the winner gets yet though.  But I think that the loser has to eat shrimp or something equally disgusting. 

So what should I do?  and where should I start? 

Rychelle sent me a beautiful print a couple of months back from a Sweet(ie) Etsy Shop! and because of that I’m obsessed with finding prints on Etsy.

This shop is Grade A Quality

wouldn’t this be cute over my bed  a “C” on chad’s side and a “S” above mine???  and every night I’d whisper “good night C” and chad would say “Good Night S”  and then I’d say “Lewis”  

Because I’m short on time I would like to post a draft of mine that never saw the blog light of day!!! written FEB 9th 2009

That title is so so  dumb :)

more better title

Things I would like to share with you

#1  Yesterday I wore pantyhose that were like 1 size to small so I couldn’t pull them all the way up so basically I had that gappy restricted nylon feeling.  One of the bishopric even said “Sister Kendrick you are limping”  so I answered “Ah its just my shoe”  cause you can’t yell “Nah I’m just wearing too small pantyhose and its restricting my forward motion Brother Rupp”  across a parking lot.  I felt like a 2 year old. 

#2 I have a cold.  Which means I have frog voice.  Which means while driving around today