volunteering Keli

When I came back from Chicago I thought about how passionate all those people were about their education and I want to get an education.. IDK when or how that is going to happen... because of my lack of credit to GET a loan and my lack of funds.. to pay for school.. so I thought what would I DO if I went to school I thought I would get a degree in


museum management

OR

history- I would like to specilized in history focusing on the American South...

so what can I do now.. so I thought I could volunteer somewhere..so I thought I want to volunteer somewhere where they need help.. so I called Sully Historic property in Chantilly, VA and guess what they REALLY, REALLY needed volunteers so.. it was a perfect fit :) so far I am really happy there :)

random story/field trip

I really like to go to the mall. It is a good place to go and just walk around or sit and read a book.It is also a good place to people watch.. now that the weather is turning bad.. it is even better I can go there and walk around with Julian.. but now I am scared to go to the mall .. scared because I don't want to buy..
1. a flat iron ( I already have one and nothing is wroing with it)
2. a curling iron
3. a fabric aromatic heatpack
4. stuff to make my nails look shiny
5. anything from The Dead Sea..
I am so over people calling to me to curl my hair to feel this or to do that.. like you know what.. I am sorry I DONT have $100 to spend on this stuff FOR REAL!!!!!!!!!!I wish that this kind of stuff could be BANNED from the mall like you know what I am at a MALL.. not a BAZAAR.. if your wares are so OUTSTANDING then just sit there and if I WANT TO THEN I WILL COME UP TO YOU AND BUY SOMETHING or ask a question.
and if I DO don't
1. look around like "someone can hear you"
2. say "shh this is only between you and me.. "
3. this deal is only for TODAY RIGHT NOW.. never ever again will there be or has there been a deal THIS GOOD EVER...
4. that I am a FOOL for saying I want to PAY MY BILLS instead of buying your stuff...
5. that your product is the BEST EVER.. wow..
6. or that I am the coolest/prettiest woman you have ever seen... wow..
so yeah those are SOME of my feelings..

crafty Keli

I saw a pin on pinterest where you get a map of the USA and then cut out the states and put magnets on the back of them . I thought HEY I can do that with Julian.. I told his mom and she was a little worried that he would take the magnets off and eat them, so instead I just got a map of the USA that was a little bit bigger than a placemat that you could write on with a whiteboard marker.
I brought it back to Julian's and started filling in the states.. I got
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Florida
Texas
Nevada
Arizona
Colorado
Utah
Idaho
Montana
Wyoming
Washington
Oregon
California
Illinois
Ohio
Pennsylvania
North Dakota
South Dakota
Hawaii
Alaska
West Virgina
Maryland
Delaware
New York
 ..............and that might be the only states I knew for SURE... seriously...omgosh...
my boss said that it was because
" I grew up on the coast" ( Virginia)
She said people that grow up on the coast they don't know the states in the middle...
IN CONTRAST my nephew Mark that is in THIRD GRADE knows every state and every state capital and what state a ton of president's are from...
...........................I guess I really bought that map for myself........................

missionary Keli

When I was a missionary in California.. we had a missionary scripture which was Alma 53:20 "And they were all young men, and they were exceedingly valiant for acourage, and also for strength and activity; but behold, this was not all—they were men who were true at all times in whatsoever thing they were entrusted."

this caused an UPROAR with me.. like wow REALLY we have HOW many scriptures and President picks one that says MEN.. really like you can't just pick one that is good for either.. so not cool.. like I want to get up at every zone coference and say "and they were all young men" NO NO and NO.. I don't think so .. so I complained about it ... a lot.. and they ignored me.. so I complained MORE... like in front of people and often and said things like THAT IS SEXIST!!! and that is NOT RIGHT!!! they were like "Sister Wright just say it" I said no.. I will not.. because there are a LOT of scriptures out there and he did not have to pick one that only had men.. that is dumb when WE are here too.. dumb.. especially since I baptized WAY more than MOST of those men.. seriously.. ( and that was not prideful AT ALL for me to say that.. not at all) so finally I got to Zone conference and the APs stand up and say we will now recite the mission scripture which per request of Sister Wright has been changed DID I HEAR RIGHT PER REQUEST OF SISTER WRIGHT!!!!! they made us say the same scripture and say "and they were all young MISSIONARIES" .........which of course was MUCH better and SHOULD have been that way in the FIRST PLACE!!! :) Elder Adams said I was "not right" for changing the scriptures.. but what did he know??

missionary Keli

Ok I am going to admit something.. when I was on my mission I was a bit of a HOARDER!!! ... the thing that  I hoarded the most of was clothes.. I don't know what my deal was but I felt like I needed a TON of clothes... OK I better admit something else.. up until recently I have felt the same way.. now I am getting rid of things left and right.. but I am also BUYING more clothes too.. but out with the old in with the new.. right..BUT anyway on my mission I was all the time
going to thrift stores ( only on preperation day OF COURSE)
and if anyone was getting rid of something or left something behind that even SORT of fit me.. then guess what I would take it...
at one point when I was in Simi Valley we had other sisters as roommates and one of the Sister's Sister Child had a talk with me.. about having to many clothes..
I basically told her she was crazy and that I needed ALL THOSE CLOTHES.. ALL OF THEM...Sister Child made me put them all out on the floor and she was like SISTER WRIGHT THIS IS TO MUCH!!!! THIS IS TO MUCH!!!! and I was like NO I AM GOING TO TAKE ALL THIS HOME!!! I NEED ALL THESE CLOTHES!!!!! .... you could not reason with me.. I really, really REALLY THOUGHT I needed ALL THOSE FREAKIN CLOTHES...
............I posted a picture of this on FB.. go there now and look at it and WHAT was up with my hair did I think that color looked cool...
.... and I am holding Elder McCabe's pajama pants.. I WORE THOSE OUT.. I wore those until.. they seriously fell APART.. like I could not even save the fabric I wore them so long after my mission...
I did take most of those clothes home.. and shortly after I realized they were all NERDY and so not KELI.. they were Sister Wright.. but um so not Keli.. so with a LOT of help.. I made them into a quilt..
I have NO FREAKING IDEA where the HECK that quilt is now.. I hope that I find it one day if not.. oh well.. I will always have the memories.:)
I am grateful to Sister Child for trying to talk some sense into me.. all though writing this REALLY scares me that one day I am going to have a daughter.. and she will be hard to reason with over ridiculous things... :)