Have you guys seen Castle?  Its like my new favorite show in the world.  Funny, witty, and suspensful.  I heard this song the other night and I fell in love with it.  sooo I Thought I’d share. 

the other day at walmart I was shopping for a mop head.  while I was in the aisle comparing mop heads a man down the way was looking at scenty things… sprays, candles, plugins and such. 

he had long stringy gray hair, a black cotton jacket, a cane, and thick black rubbered soled shoes like one of his legs was shorter than the other… except both soles were thick soled so I guess that means that both of his legs were short??

so he turns to me and says “How do I find one that will make my house smell good”  and I walk over to try to help. and I was like “well to smell the different flavors you just scratch this dot”  and then showed him how to scratch and sniff the dot and smell all the lavendar goodness. 

so then!!!!  he smiles and me all creepy like and says “Thank you I really need to make my house smell good”  and so I was like thinking “oh shiza GET OUT OF HERE SHELLIE”  because in my head the alarm bells were going off like crazy

ohmagosh..ohmagosh..ohmagosh…ohmagosh..ohmagosh..ohmagosh…breathe breathe… HE’S a SERIAL Killer!!!! he has dead bodies in his house and he needs to cover up the smell!!!!

so as I’m walking away I realize that I HAVE to go back and look at him very closely so I can ID him when the cops come to my house!!!  So I go back and stare at him for like 30 seconds and then he made eye contact with me and I almost fainted.  so i left…

but you know what have been really freaky is if when I was passing the lotion aisle he was there looking at lotion.

you know  “it puts its lotion on its skin” 

eeeeeek not good.

here’s the online sketch I was able to make of the seriel killer I saw.  as you can see it was very traumatic for me to recreate this. 

except his hair was gray and a little more stringy and he was like 40 years older than this guy.  and he didn’t have a mustache.   other than that it was dead on. 

p.s.

ok this should be a no brainer… but I was thinking  all you have to do to catch a serial killer is to put bleach, mop heads, scenty things, rope,  duct tape, and lotion on one aisle and who ever comes to that aisle arrest all of them.  you are welcome police. 

saw this pic today and thought I’d share

this morning at the crack of dawn both kids were snuggled in bed with me since dallen was sick and kate’s sibling sense kicked in and realized that wasn’t fair she was alone in her bed so she snuck in too… chad was getting ready for work and I woke up long enough to recognize that he was making his way through all the blankets and pillows to kiss each one of us goodbye.  it was very sweet and it made me feel loved. 

This was my favorite cartoon growing up.  My grandma and grandpa Murdock had a great collection of disney videos and the donald duck/chipmunk ones were my favorite. 

i don’t know who’s broken heart to pray for

and i don’t know what to do

so i pray

that god will just send his love down

like a thousand shooting stars

and one will find its way straight to you 

Yesterday I went to a baptism of a kid in our ward.  (I’m in the Primary Presidency)  So I get the opportunity to speak in public when emotions are high and the spirit is strong.  I love that feeling.  I always try to make the best of it and say really important things. 

Like “The holy ghost will comfort you when you get sad.  Boys get sad too just like girls.  Okay actually girls get sadder… but the holy ghost will make you feel happy when you are sad okay?”

So at the baptism I had the pleasure of sitting next to Liz Jaggi.  I like to use Liz Jaggi’s full name so that when people google her they will find my blog.  It makes Liz Jaggi feel good. I think.  So L.J. gave me the church giggles.  I don’t know how she did it.  But I couldn’t stop laughing inside and Randy Rupp was talking about spiritual things and I was laughing so hard (inside) that tears streamed out from the corners of my eyes.  So anyway when all was said and done I went to walmart.

at walmart I bought a boat load of candy for a party.  I got up to the cash register and the guy who was the cashier started ringing up the candy and he looked at me and said real serious like

“Okay who’s A$$ do you want me to kick?” 

and I was like “Huh?” 

So he pointed at all the candy and said “Well with all this candy and you’ve been crying.” 

So I reach up and touch my eyes and look at my hands and yep all this mascara is all over my fingers. 

“Oh no… I was at a baptism and my friend was making me laugh really hard” 

Which sounded bad anyway.  Who laughs at a baptism?  Oh right.  Me. 

anyway I know that if someone ever does make me cry I now know who to hire to kick some bootay that would *hopefully* not trace back to me.  I could probably pay him in big league gum, a wolf tshirt, and a remote control car. 

I’m a pretty happy person sure but I don’t think most people see that I have my own set of crap to deal with just like every one else. 

I get really really horrible bad awful winter blues.  It usually starts going down hill around September and then its full blown deep end by the time Christmas rolls around.  Thank goodness this year it has been very mild and I really attribute that to trying to pray more and ask that Heavenly Father will bless me with a clear mind during these hazy depressing feelings I go through. 

This year I am really looking forward to letting some negative feelings go which include anger, dissapointment, sadness, and frustration in order to have more serenity in my life. 

I really am going to give yoga a go again too because I really do believe that it helps your spirit work through shiz that your mind doesn’t have the emotional capacity to deal with yet.  When I was home in the summer I went to some yoga classes taught by my sister Stephanie.  For the 2 weeks I had been there I had been feeling some frustrations about some relationships in my life and was pretty pissed off about it.  At the very end during some deep breathing meditation time I felt very at peace and happy and the only thing I thought about was the way it felt when Chad is holding my hand.  I always forget from time to time how complete I feel being married to Chad and when I forget that everything else in my life seems a little off. 

anyway I’m not really sure where I’m going with this post.  only that I have sadness in my life too.  I don’t often feel like I can express it very openly because I don’t want people to think I’m a whiney person.  but there are times where I wish I could laugh it away,  or turn the music up louder and drown it out… but I guess the only way  you can deal with it is sometimes to grow a pair and face it head on. 

wish me luck.

xo

shell

new jewel song that should be released i think on a valentines cd this feb.

“Stay Here Forever”

Been staring at the ceiling
Laying here dreamin
Wastin the day a-way
World’s flying by our window outside
But hey baby, that’s okay-ay

This feels so right, it can’t be wrong
So far as I can see where you wanna go
Baby, I’ll do anything

Chorus:
Cause if you wanna go, baby let’s go
If you wanna rock, I’m ready to roll
And if you wanna slooow down
We can slow down together
If you wanna walk, baby let’s walk
Have a little kiss, have a little talk
We don’t gotta leave at all
We can stay here forever
Lay here forever
Ooohhh

If you wanna see that Italian tower (?) leanin
Then baby we can leave right now
If that’s too far, we can head in the car
And take a little trip around town
They say that California
Is nice and warm this time of year
Baby say the word and we’ll just disappear

Chorus:
Cause if you wanna go, baby let’s go
If you wanna rock, I’m ready to roll
And if you wanna sloooow down
We can slow down together
If you wanna walk, baby let’s walk
Have a little kiss, have a little talk
We don’t gotta leave at all
We can lay here forever
Stay here forever
Oooh!

Bridge:
Take me for a whirl
Just a boy and a girl
Lettin go of it all
Holdin onto one another
Or there’s a whole world to discover
Right here under the covers

Chorus:
Cause if you wanna go, baby let’s go
Or if you wanna rock, I’m ready to roll
If you wanna sloooow down,
We can slow down together
If you wanna walk, baby let’s walk
Have a little kiss, have a little talk
Oh we don’t gotta leave at all
We can stay here forever
Lay here forever, oooh
Let’s stay here forever
Oooohhh mmmmm
Oohh
Oh

yes this means I lost my bet last month against chad.  which means I have to play World of Warcraft with him for a month 1 hr a night… or something like that

somehow I have a feeling this is all going to end bad.  may the ewoks or warlords or whatever all those different characters that are running around warcraft country have mercy on my soul.

I have no backbone when someone does something to me personally. Like if you ran up to me and yelled in my face that I was a fat lazy slaggy ho I would just burst into tears.

 But on the flip side if you wrong either a friend or family member of mine I can deliver a beat down in a nanosecond. And by beat down I mean A) a dirty look B) harsh words C) both or D) angry blog post

So the other day the kids and I were at McDonald’s so they could play at the playplace because it was so freaking cold (40degrees) (yes I have been acclimated to my new environment… if this was Utah we would be wearing shorts)

Anyway so in the playplace 4 big teenage boys were eating lunch. They were being pretty obnoxious and rude and loud and very annoying. But whatever boys are dumb so I just kept reading some old bills and a grocery list that I found in the bottom of my purse because I forgot to bring a book while the kids played.

Then after they threw away their lunch they ran to the play center and climbed up all in it and were yelling and screaming and shaking the whole thing as they ran around.

and I was like “oh no they didn’t!!!!”

because the sign clearly states the play center were for kids ages 3-12

and also they left their size giganto sneakers on

So I walked over to where I could see the 4 of them smashed together in a web tube and said

“Excuse me, you boys need to get out”

“Why?”

“Because it says ages 3-12 and you are way older then 12″

“We’re all 12!!!”

“Oh really you’re all 12?”

“Yeh” they all said (and they all said it in this mocking voice that was like “ha ha old lady you can’t do nothin to us”) (so then I had to go all crazy on them)

“Well if you’re all 12 then I guess I’m a millionaire and if I’m a millionaire then that corolla I drove up in is a freaking corvette. So GET OUT of the playplace because you are freaking huge and you’re scaring my kids!!!”

It was so so so rad. so very rad and I wish you had been there. I loved it. It wassooo fun. and I got a huge adrenaline rush.

So then they got out pretty fast because the one thing even rude teenage boys don’t have power against is the scary mom voice. Authority in its finest form :)

So then yesterday I drove to the grocery store to get some stuff for a dinner party ( I <3 Lily)  and the parking lot was full so I had to go to one of the very back spots to park.  As I parked I noticed about 5 teenage boys standing next to these 2 cars staring at something that was a couple of spaces over from mine.  So I looked and saw this huge box of bottled beer on the ground.  The box was kind of ripped open and some bottles were broken but you could tell that probably 3/4 of this box was still intact.  Probably some guy put it on his car? and forgot about it and drove off and it fell??? I don’t know… but I could tell what the boys were thinking… that they could go grab it and have some beer. 

So I was like “Hmmm not going to happen”  So I grabbed a cart and walked over to it pretty casually picked up the box and a little beer and glass went everywhere and placed it on the bottom of the cart and took it to the entrance of the store. and then got a employee to take care of it.   As I was walking I could feel them all giving me the death glare of pure hatred… but I was like hopefully this will teach them a lesson and make them realize that drinking is dumb and bad for you… and then hopefully they will realize they would have made a wrong choice and realizing that will make them feel the spirit, and feeling the spirit they will go to church, and then they will be saved.  JK  i know they didn’t think that.  They all thought I was a beeyotch. 

But their mom’s all silently thanked me.   

because what if they got drunk and got in an accident and killed someone… and what if I was like not my problem and just went into the store… then when I got to heaven it would have been all my fault. 

anyway i do what I can… but its a big big world. 

the end.