random Keli

I went to the gas station in Chantilly, VA last night to pick up my blazer after it got two new tires, and an oil changed and managed to once again take a HUGE chunk of my paycheck...
While I was paying, a guy in there that was a young, tall, fat, nerdy redneck was like " oh what color Blazer do you have" I said " an old dented one" he said " is it maroon" I said " no" he asked me if I was sure..
my toe is broken and I was in pain just being in shoes.. and this guy was asking me if I was sure if my Blazer is not maroon.... omgosh.. seriously...
He then asked me what year it was.. I said it was " a 99" he said that was not to old because what I should do is get one from the 80s and take it four wheeling....
come to think of it of all the list and ideas I have of things I SHOULD do.. trading my Blazer in for one ten plus years younger to FOUR WHEEL IN.. has never crossed my mind...
I said there is " no place around here to really four wheel and I don't know anyone with enough private property to do that on.. so I don't see a point in that"
He said there is a guy "not to far from here" that owns a BP with property behind it....well there you go.. I am going to get an old Blazer right now.. and find this said BP.. and well my life will be complete...
I said "well what do you drive" he said he does not drive because he " does not have a license"
he said he could "get one if he really wanted one" but that he did not because " it would be to much trouble"
right cause not having one.. is no trouble at all...
He then pointed to a Subaru and said that he was driving his mom's car.. "because he did not have a license"
...................makes sense...
and that " he would not be caught dead driving a Japanese car"................so I guess he is dead???????????? cause well he got there some way...
now I would have LOVED to stay there and continued this conversation BUT since I had a broken toe.. and just wanted to get my car.. and leave.. I was like ..
"well good luck with everything"....
on the way home I was like note to self.. I don't ever want a job where people can just come in and loiter ..like that.. like the dude that worked at the gas station was just stuck..  listening to him..he had a captive audience...

random Keli

I HATE lessons at church about pride and riches.. because then it somehow always gets onto the subject that " we should not be rich" and " we don't need the best of everything"
who are these fools that say this stuff.. have the LOOKED AROUND..we have some VERY WEALTHY LDS MEMBERS.. in fact ONE IS EVEN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT.. and one has written several books about vampires/werewolves.. and the humans that love them..
and my current ward has a lot of people that make a considerable amount of $$.
This is how I feel about it..
if you are
1. paying your tithing
2. you earn your money honestly.. like you can feel good about what you do for a living
3. your bills are paid..
THEN GUESS WHAT I THINK THAT HEAVENLY FATHER IS OK WITH YOU HAVING
1. a big house
2. a nice car
3. vacations
4. a nice wardrobe
5. fun hobbies
etc...
if you are using your $$ to bless your life and to bless others and you are a good person and doing what you can to not be a prideful jerk.. then HEY WHY NOT HAVE A NICE CAR/HOUSE/WARDROBE and go on vacation..
Heavenly Father LOVES us.. LOVES US.. we are his children and he wants the BEST for his children.. he wants them to be happy in this life and to treat ourselves and others with kindness and respect..
so I think if you are reading this and you think you need to make a comment the next time that someone has this lesson.. like that " we don't need to be prideful and live in big houses" or some other junk.. then just STOP.. and analyze yourself..
if you had the money that Mitt or Stephenie has would you be living in a SHACK..?? driving a JUNKER.. wearing clothes from WAL-MART.. never going anywhere except the dollar movies...
no you would not.. cause I know I wont be.. 
when my book is published and I will continue to pay my tithing ( like I do now)
buy a nice house that fits me and will make me happy.. I would LOVE a big house so I could invite people over and rent out rooms if I wanted too..
buy a nice vehicle.. or two..
and a pinteresting wardrobe...
and anyone that says they would not do those things ( or something that fits their personality).. well I question your credibility... 

field trip

Sometimes I think that I need to start a blog called "people I meet on the metro" cause WOW .. I meet some interesting people.. not so much when I have kids..When I have the kids I seem to meet three kinds of people:
1. people that are super annoyed that I have brought a STROLLER ON THE METRO AT RUSH HOUR...( how dare I?)
2. people that want to tell me how cute "my" child/children are, or how well behaved they are..:)
3. people that want to tell me that their children are MUCH MORE ADVANCED than "MY" CHILDREN.. I had two people one day telling me that Julian was not advanced enough when he was not talking more WHEN HE WAS NOT EVEN ONE.. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?.. like um.. OK thanks for sharing..
but when I dont have kids wih me.. all the interesting talk to me..
When I was in Chicago with Kevin coming home from the Lincoln Park area in September 2011.. the metro or WHATEVER it is there.. did not disappoint.
Kevin and I could not even sit down there were SO MANY PEOPLE..  for a long time we were standing next to a black guy with long braids and a baseball cap,  that was selling some of the tackiest jewelry EVER .. like these HUGE CRUCIFIXES and MARIJUANA LEAVES and other large,tacky jewelry.. I asked him who he sold that stuff to.. and if he made much $$ ,this guy had them all around his neck, arms, and had extras with him too...I thought who would EVER BUY SOMETHING THAT TACKY like um.. EVER.. my question was answered a couple of stops later when a guy got on and asked him if he could BUY ONE.. I am not even kidding someone wanted something THAT TACKY.. like to wear in public.. wow.. but that guy did not want to pay what the other  guy was asking.. and he said things like "help a brother out" or something along the lines of " since they are both black and men.. he should cut him a deal" seems reasonable... I should cut every white single LDS woman I know a deal with whatever I am selling..the salesman said no.. no and NO...Kevin said he enjoyed watching that because he felt like he was "back in Egypt"
also the guy asked if Kevin and I were together.. we said no we had just met...hahahahahha and that Kevin was not "really with me.." then I was like " hey can I go home with you?" and Kevin was like "well sure" and that guy said if Kevin did not want me that " he would take me" repeatedly.. cause this guy thought I was attractive..
see I got options.. hahahahah
this guy also said that "he knew Kevin drank because he had a beard".. I love when I meet smart people..


after that train we got on the real train and tried to tell some lady we were mother and son.. and she was like OK.. like basically like OK I am just trying to get home from work in peace.. like come on lady you are no fun..
but you know what IS fun riding the metro with me.. I am always having some adventure :)

field trip

While I was in Chicago, walking down the street I passed the sign for a play that as called "women are crazy because men are a**holes.."
.......................
hmmm I feel that I could write a whole essay on this...I mean I know a lot of women that are just.. crazy..but I also know a lot of sane women that are driven crazy by RUDE, SELFISH GUYS.. some momentarily.. some for a long time.. some sadly forever..
I guess the only thing that I can do is not date or hang out with men that are like that..
and any young boy I come in contact with do my best to help them become a wonderful man.

missionary Keli

 When I came home from my mission.. I was like " I NEED TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT MY MISSION .. like RIGHT NOW!!!!"...but I came home to UTAH not VA..  nobody knew me in Utah..and I went to California..  you can drive to California from Utah in less than a day.. and I spoke English.. therefore.. yeah not too exciting.. it was hard for me to transition from being SISTER WRIGHT..  who everyone knew.. and thought was "cool" to Keli.. who no one in Utah KNEW.. and at some points I felt like no one cared about.. like um didn't anyone WANT to hear ENDLESS stories about my mission and everyone that I taught and people I met..
...........no they did not... and I felt like everyone knew everyone.. and it was not like VA where people invited everyone.. cause we were "all LDS" so lets just invite everyone..  no... people only invited me if I was FRIENDS with them.. and it was hard to make friends when I first came home..
I planned a little trip to visit Salt Lake, and my roommate Faye drove and I insisted on painting this on her car.. Why ? IDK I guess I thought that it looked cool..and I wanted everyone to know WE ARE LDS!!!! check us out..instead people gave us the middle finger .... yeah...
I would NEVER paint something like this on my blazer now.. or let someone.. I feel like I can just let people know that I am LDS by telling them.. or my example...and I focus more on the aspect of Jesus Christ and his atonement now. I am grateful to Joseph Smith for restoring the gospel...and I do know that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet
I am grateful that my roommate Faye was so nice to me.. and I am grateful the other girl in the picture Karena was such a good friend to me.
I am also grateful I do not wear those nerdy heavy sandals anymore.. or super baggy jeans...

field trip

While in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago, Kevin and I were looking for a fun local eatery to eat at .. we did not find one.. instead we found.. a Potbelly...Potbelly is a chain sandwich shop that is in about 13 or so states.. BUT this was not just ANY Potbelly this was the FIRST Potbelly.. neither Kevin nor myself had been to Potbelly so .. SOLD..here is their website so if you don't live near one.. you can check it out http://www.potbelly.com/home/ who knew that we not only find a great place to eat but also a "tourist attraction" Kevin and I got REALLY yummy sandwiches.. so yummy in fact that I have been back to Potbelly a couple times since then.. and if you know me I don't frequent that many restaurants..Julian and I went to one on Capitol Hill one day.. and another somewhere else in DC.. The Potbelly in Chicago that we went to sold big pickles.. unfortunately not all of them do.. it was kinda funny having Kevin order that.. I was like " and I want a big pickle" and Kevin was like "what" and I am like " a big pickle" it was HUGE they had to cut it in several pieces.. and yummy I LOVE, LOVE LOVE BIG PICKLES!!!

Kevin and I sat in this loft area and were eating our sandwiches when a man on a power trip that worked there came and told us that we needed to not be in that area.. because that area was reserved for "band" or " musicians" or something like that.. I said "well he plays the drums" indicating Kevin.. that man that worked there did not think I was funny...He must have absolutely no sense of humor...

so we moved downstairs to a table with writing and carvings all over it and I carved our names on the table and we read out of Harry Potter.. we were reading Harry Potter 1.. and I hit my head on the low ceiling I got so into reading..and acting out the story.. in the Potbelly.. cause I am THAT cool..

so yeah if you live near a Potbelly.. go.. I love the sandwiches and the big pickles.!

dating Keli

My boss Will has his own bookshelf full of books..his wife my other boss Julia has a bookcase and a half full of books ( she also used to work at a bookstore).
my boss Michael has a whole wall of book. Whenever I finish a book at work I read one of theirs.
This made me realize something..I NOW KNOW ONE OF THE THING I LIKE/WANT in a man..
I LOVE MEN THAT READ..!
I also like men with fun quirky personalities.. guys that make me laugh..
smart guys..I really like smart guys :)
...it would not hurt if they were handsome too..but I would love it if they
read..and actually liked their own  books.. like they liked books before I even came along
I would love them to be confident and funny like my bosses, Will and Michael..
and I would LOVE if they were smart...
well they have no choice BUT to be smart..because if they are not smart they wont be able to keep up with me :)
.......oh and you know what else would be cool if they had a testimony of the gospel..:)

field trip

While I was in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago, Kevin and I stopped by a 7-11 to go to the bathroom and they said it was downstairs..what proceeded after that was one of the strangest places I have ever gone to the bathroom.. ever.. so we are in a REGULAR 7-11 in what seemed like a nice part of town.. but when I opened the door there were these stone steps..and a pair of flip-flops just flung on them.. almost as if someone had fell down the stairs and they had fell off.. I was like what the...??? so I go back to the girl behind the counter and I was like the bathroom is down .. there... and she was like yes...

I made Kevin go with me.. I was like um this just has a dungeon like feel.. so I go down and the bathroom was fine and normal...but omgosh there was no JOKE a whole dungeon/cave type thing under this 7-11.. I am not lying !... it was all stone walls with chunks missing out of them and there was a HOLE in one where you could look into this other room and all that was in there was a fan.. and there were all these exposed pipes..and um yeah... it looked like where King Uther locks people up on Merlin.. I mean all they needed was a cell door and some straw on the floor for the look to be complete.. and who knows maybe they DID have that stuff down there..it was just SO SURREAL.. like what the?? It reminded me of the bottom floor of Smithfield Implement in Smithfield, Utah .. and that was some crazy stuff down there.. there were tunnels there that led to OTHER BUILDINGS IN SMITHEFIELD.. like the thrift store I volunteered at...

I bet there are tunnels under that 7-11 too. I don't mean to sound all conspiracy theory but WHAT WAS THAT... I mean was it built on an old house or old bunker..

all I know is if a natural disaster hits the Lincoln Park area of Chicago the people of THAT 7-11.. yeah they are all good...

when we went back upstairs.. I said to the girls that work there WHAT IS GOING ON DOWN THERE???????? they said they try and not go down there... I said I don't blame you.. I would be like hmmm I get off in what two hours.. I will hold it...

I said "what about the hole down there in the wall and that one empty room" they said what? we don't know about that? I said come with me I will show it to you.. I was just down there.. they said oh no thank you...

they were both black.. I told Kevin later.. they probably thought we were some crazy white people and there is NO WAY I would EVER go down there with someone I did not know.. I didn't want to go down there with someone I DID KNOW...

I also asked them about the flip-flops and I guess one of them was pregnant and she had kicked them off...

for the rest of the day.. Kevin and I made up scenarios that we could have said to those ladies working there.. like "what about that old man chained to the wall"

or yeah.."what about that homeless man living down there".. I think I MIGHT have said that one to them.. but I can't remember everything.. just most things..

we made up probably 10 scenarios of things that could go on down there ..and they got crazier and sillier and funnier.. until something else .. crazy and silly and funny happened to us....

My Amazing Friends

I have very amazing friends. When I came home from Chicago.. I realized..something I have been in denial about for a long, long time.. my hair was looking SO DEAD.I don't know the right word for it..but it just looked bad.. it was really long..but a few INCHES at the bottom were just dead and ugly..
I was also broke.. it costs a LOT of money to get your hair done RIGHT in VA..So I called my friend Amy.. I know that she is smart and had done some stuff to her daughter Jenna's hair and to her own hair. She drove up to Gainesville, where I was watching Chris and Tessa and we cut my hair DRY with a pair of scissors.. I am not kidding we were that ghetto.. and we had some extra pieces ..so we just kept cutting them off until it was all the same length..then we dyed it a little bit blonder..
...........and it came out a little.."brassy"..so I wore a cute hat for a couple of days..
..the crazy thing about all of this is that ONLY my boss Julia noticed and commented on my hair.. she was like that looks so cute! :) other people noticed a couple of MONTHS later because I wear my hair up so often or wear hats so often.. the brassiness faded and I felt so much better about myself with all that dead hair gone.. !!! it is amazing what a haircut can do for a woman's soul.. and a HUGE THANK YOU TO MY FRIEND AMY for driving to Gainesville and dying and cutting my hair :) you rock!!!

random Keli

Th married women in my ward are OBSESSED with the grocery store "Wegmans" you always here them say things like
" I got to make a Wegmans run" or " you can get that at Wegmans" or "they have that at Wegmans or "the other day when I was at Wegmans"
...so I was on my way home from Alexandria and I thought I would stop by Wegmans. I went in and it was so crowded..like "metro at rush hour crowded" I had one of those little baskets and I could barely move around the store with it.. I had to lift it up over my head to even get by and even then I was bumping into people..
this is crazy... no wonder Bloom is going out of business if this is the kind of stuff they have to compete with..
I went and got the things that I wanted to get and went to the register, the lady asked me if had a Wegmans card.. I said "no" she asked me if I had "ever had one" I said no..I said I wanted to write out a check and she said that I HAD to have  a Wegmans card for that and now I HAD to be rung up at the customer service desk. I said "OK"
a young guy that is a manager came over and led me over to the customer service desk. He asked me if I had ever had a Wegmans card.. I said "no" He then said "never? " I said no never..so I get up there and they asked to see my drivers license...and then they ran it through some machine.. I am serious..
...............for a grocery store card they ran my DRIVERS LICENSE through a MACHINE.. like for real????? you all do know this is JUST A GROCERY STORE.. where people get discounts right?????????????? so while she is running my card through she asks me have I ever had a Wegmans card.. I said "no" she said " so are you sure? " I said " yes I am sure" ... then another worker came over and was like "she says she has not had a card before..?" and she was like "that is what she says" ...........
wow.. that is what I say... THIS IS  A FREE GROCERY STORE DISCOUNT CARD... come on.. you guys.. yes I am going to lie about this...
I almost felt like lying like "yeah I just moved here from Utah.. there are no Wegmans there"...because APPARENTLY I AM THE ONLY PERSON IN FAIRFAX,VA with OUT a Wegmans card....So then I wrote out my check and it was a starter check.. but I thought whatever it is worth a try.. I mean all they can tell me is no right??
so they were like "oh no we can't take that check.. hold on.. " I said OK.. I had no idea what I was holding on for but I did.. so another young guy manager comes over and he says to me in a really calm condescending voice.. like I am causing a scene when in reality I have said NOTHING but a calm, quiet no.. when it comes to them asking me if I had a card.. and is like "I am sorry to tell you Ms. but we can't take your check because it does not have your name on it yet" I said "well that is fine" but why did you need to come out and tell me?" I did not ask for a manager.." and this lady could have told me"..why did I need two people to tell me"  So I said " you know what? I think I will just get my groceries elsewhere" and I had to reach over the counter and get my DL back.. and then I left..
I think I like my grocery stores a little more ghetto.. I mean Harris-Teeter I just filled out a sheet and got a card.. Safeway.. I just filled out a sheet and they sent it off to somewhere and I finally got a card.. Giant.. I just put in my phone number and even though I don't have a card there.. THEY STILL GIVE ME THE DISCOUNT.. now that is what I am talking about...
I am just grocery shopping I am not trying to join at COUNTRY CLUB!!!!!

missionary Keli

I went to pay my insurance the other day and my insurance agent was in a funk. She said she is just depressed lately and sick of doing what she is doing..she said that she used to have people begging to get insurance and now.. she does not get that much business.. She said "that no one is loyal"  I said "well I am loyal.." she said "well yeah.." (I guess that full coverage on the 1999 Chevrolet Blazer is not doing much for her..) She said she feels like people are leaving her for the "big companies"
She said her husband is"saved" and she guesses she is still saved, but she has not been to church in years..I inquired and asked her "why not? " She said that she did not like her minister because while everyone else was sacrificing to pay tithing he was driving around in a Cadillac and living in a nice house. She said that when he got mad at people he just kicked them out of the church..
I said " well......you could go to my church..." she said "well yeah.. but you are a Mormon.. and they don't believe the same as we do they do not believe in Jesus Christ"
I assured her that we DID believe in Jesus Christ and that we in fact were The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.. She then asked me why then did people think we were so weird and say such crazy things about us..?
I said "well we believe in God and Jesus Christ and and we know that Jesus Christ is the son of God and our savior and without him and the atonement we would never be able to make it back to God..." I told her that we also believed that in 1820 that a young boy named Joseph Smith went into a grove of tree's and prayed and asked God what church he should join. In answer to his prayer God and Jesus Christ appeared to him and told him that the church of Jesus Christ was not on this Earth.. I said that Joseph Smith was a prophet like Moses and other biblical prophets and he restored The Church of Jesus Christ to this Earth.. and we have the same church that they did in the Bible.. and we believe in prophets and after Joseph Smith was martyred Brigham Young was a prophet.. and so on and so forth and now we have Thomas S. Monson and he lives in SLC, Utah. She said well none of that is weird...
I said well.. we used to practice polygamy..but we don't anymore and that was a long time ago and we had different reasons for doing it and we have not done that in a long time and people that do do that...they are not members of our church..
She said that our church seemed all right and she had no idea if I was telling the truth why people thought our church was so weird and so crazy... I said because people are idiots..
I said that she should know people are idiots because they are leaving an insurance agent like her and going to different companies.. .She said well that is true.
I told her that if she wanted the truth to not listen to idiots and to go on www.lds.org or that she could visit our church on 123, in Fairfax.
I also told her that our bishops do not get paid.. all though some do drive around in nice cars and have big houses but they made that money themselves...
She said her husband would "kill her" if she went to the Mormon church..but she would think about it..
I was in there forever.. she did not want me to leave..I said can I be put on automatic payment she said no.. because
she would miss me coming in to much...
:)