My Life As A Movie...

I found a quiz online that tells you what type of movie your life would be if it were a movie...this is what it came up with...Who knew I was so funny??

What Type of Movie Would Your Life Be?
	You life would be a Comedy. Most everything is all fun and games. It's difficult for you to be serious about almost anything, typically seeing the sillier side of things. While this is a great outlook on life, it also makes it difficult for people to take you seriously. However, people are attracted to that thing about you that makes them laugh so hard they pee in their pants (although they will never admit it).
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There's a lot of stuff about me you don't even know...

My brother found this link on one of his friends blogs. You stick your name and it tells you about yourself. So here is what it said about me...some of it is very true and some of it is the farthest from the truth you can get...interesting though...

What Krishelle Means

You are a seeker of knowledge, and you have learned many things in your life. You are also a keeper of knowledge - meaning you don't spill secrets or spread gossip. People sometimes think you're snobby or aloof, but you're just too deep in thought to pay attention to them. You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You're always up to something. You have a ton of energy, and most people can't handle you. You're very intense. You definitely are a handful, and you're likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long. You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are the total package - suave, sexy, smart, and strong. You have the whole world under your spell, and you can influence almost everyone you know. You don't always resist your urges to crush the weak. Just remember, they don't have as much going for them as you do. You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out. Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia. Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person. You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone. You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together. At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together. You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow. You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily. Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is.

What's" Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

We Are Family....

I figured I better post something this week since I am kind of a blog slacker. So here we are...Nothing really that exciting has been happening. My brother Eli graduated from BYU last week and has moved in with my parents for a few months. He will be going to BYU law school in the fall. It has been a lot of fun for me to have him so close by. The first two days he was home we spent de-junking his room. Not by choice for me...he begged and pleaded with me to help him cause he just could not do it himself. It actually turned out being kind of fun. He had so much junk stored in that room he could have opened a thrift store filled only with his stuff and make millions!! Some of the "treasures" that we found were actually quite hilarious! We spent at least 30 minutes looking at old dance pictures from high school and laughing hysterically at his hair, his clothes, his braces.... Then another 30 minutes reading his very personal journal entries from the ages of 12-15 about the Jazz, Arctic Circle, School... He was such a silly kid! My favorite part of this experience was the 45 minutes he spent trying on all of his old clothes in different arrangements in order to create a new look for law school. He would say "what about this shirt, this jacket and a loose tie?" or "What if I get this Blazer tailored so it's a little shorter and wear it with my tuxedo shirt?" While I was slaving away cleaning out all of his CRAP! Anyway we got it done in just two nights and it actually looks pretty good!

I am really glad I get to spend so much time with him. We are going to Amsterdam, Egypt, Jordan and Israel at the end of this month. We are sooo excited!! We will be traveling with our Uncle Will and our Grandma. It is going to be so great! The other day I realized that after this trip I will have seen 4 of the 8 new wonders of the world! That is so amazing. I am so grateful that I have had the chance to travel as much as I have. I have had so many wonderful experiences and so many great memories. I have seen so many beautiful and amazing things. I am so excited that Eli is joining us on this trip and will get to see some of these amazing things!


My family is also going to California next week. I am very very excited about that as well. I have 2 nieces and a nephew who have never been. It is going to be so fun to see their little faces as they see all the different things in Disneyland! And I can't wait to hear the funny things they say. They are just so cute! Their mom, Krisanda, is such a good mom. She made a paper Disneyland chain with them about a week ago so that they could tear off a ring each day until the day we leave. They have been having so much fun with it and have called me several times at work to say things like, "Shelly......6 more days until I get to see the princesses!!!"

I am so grateful I am so close to my family and get to spend so much time with them!

Jiffy Lube

Well, it's that time of the year again. Time for car registration. I took my car in to Jiffy Lube on Saturday and was once again reminded how much I LOVE that place!! My brother, Eli, and I have a sort of obsession with Jiffy Lube.

It all started a few years ago when Eli got his new car. He called me up one day asking where he should take it for it's first oil change. So, I sent him to Jiffy Lube. About 20 minutes later he called me and before even saying hello, he screamed at the top of his lungs, "I LOVE JIFFY LUBE!!!" And for anyone who knows how dramatic Eli is, you know exactly how the rest of the conversation went. He went on and on telling me how amazing it was. They washed his windows and vacuumed out his car. They were quick and had great customer service. He was definitely preaching to the choir...I already knew how great they were, why else would I send him there?? I am pretty sure we we had the longest conversation about about Jiffy Lube that has ever occurred in the history of the world (including with the Jiffy Lube executives).

we chatted about how we should both quit our jobs and work for Jiffy Lube as promoters (like they have working for all the fancy clubs in LA (can you tell I am addicted to the Hills?)) We would plot out our entire careers working for Jiffy Lube and talking about how easy it would be because we already loved the place!

This weekend was no different. I dropped my car off on Saturday morning and went with my mom to run some errands. When I went back to pick up my car, they thought they had locked my keys in the car. Luckily, they hadn't. When they finally found them, the guy who was working (who happened to be my parents neighbor) gave me a discount for all the confusion. It was so fabulous! And...they do the registration renewal right there in the store, you don't even have to mail it in and wait for your registration stickers to come in the mail!!!! Oh how I love Jiffy Lube.

The point of all this rambling about Jiffy Lube is that last year something really embarrassing happened to me when I took my car in for inspection. There is a Jiffy Lube really close to where I work, so I decided to run to Jiffy Lube on my lunch break and get my inspection done. So I ran over and waited in the waiting room while they completed the inspection. Once my car was ready I hopped in and drove back to work. When I got back to work I turned the car off, pulled my keys out of the ignition and opened the door. As soon as I opened the door there was a dinging in my car. I could not figure out what the problem was. I tried playing with all the nobs and buttons to see if I could get the noise to stop, but had no luck. I worked with a bunch of guys and figured that one of them would know what was going on. Once I got back inside I whined to everyone I saw, telling them about the annoying dinging sound and how I could not get it to stop. Right away a few of them said, "I think you left your lights on". I drive a Chevy Malibu...it's one of those cars where the lights are always on. You don't have to turn them on or off. So of course I assured them that that was not the problem. Since neither of them could tell me what the real problem was, I decided to call my dad. While whining to my dad, I realized that Jiffy Lube must have done something to my car during the inspection. That would explain this odd dinging. I was ticked!! I could not believe this place I was so impressed with, I had told all my friends and family about and had been so loyal to all these years could have done something like this to me!! My dad referred me to my brother in law who knows more about cars than any of us. I called Jeff and he told me to go out to my car and try a bunch of things. The first thing he told me to try was turning the lights on and off. Of course I scoffed at his suggestion and said "Duh Jeff I can't, the lights are always on, there isn't a way to turn them on!!" My brother in law is so sweet, he told me to bring my car over that night and he would get it figured out, I am sure he knew the problem and that there was no way we were going to get it taken care of over the phone. Before I left work that night I decided to call Jiffy Lube to see if I could stop by so they could look at it since they were the culprits. It was so weird, the guy who answered the phone had the same suggestion that everyone else had. He told me to go out and check the lights. I sat on the phone and argued with him for about 10 minutes about how it couldn't be the lights and how THEY were the ones that broke my car, and they better look at it and get it fixed right away! That night I walked out to my car and got in, ready to go to Jiffy Lube to have them take a look, and suddenly I noticed a nob on my car that I had never seen before. It had a picture of a light on it....then suddenly it hit me...I turned the nob slowly and the dinging stopped.

Penny

I remember as a child waking up on Saturday mornings to watch Saturday morning cartoons. We had the best cartoons back then. After watching cartoons with my sister Krisanda, we would watch Pee Wee's Playhouse. For anyone who doesn't remember or is too young to remember... Pee Wee's Playhouse was an absolutely ridiculous mess of skits, secret words for the day, cartoons, lame jokes, and silly lines like "I don't make monkeys, I train 'em!" and "if you love it so much why don't you marry it?". It usually involved Pee Wee Herman parading around with a pair of giant underwear on his head or holding a special ceremony to marry the fruit salad he loved so dearly. Often during the episode they would play a "Penny Cartoon". This was a cartoon with a claymation girl named Penny who always rambled on and on about the most random things. These cartoons always started with the line "Hi, my name is Penny" and then continued with this rambling for about 2 minutes straight without a pause while this girl tried to make sense of the world. No matter what was going on we always laughed and laughed.

Several years later when we had grown out of the whole Saturday morning cartoon routine, Krisanda, Eli and I were invited to a slumber party at our crazy Uncle Will's. He was attending school at BYU and living in an apartment in Provo, so we felt quite cool going to our "rad" Uncle Will's for a slumber party. About halfway through the night, he popped in a video (I am positive this was an attempt to get us to shut up and go to sleep, as I am sure we were as obnoxious as anyone could possibly be at our age). We watched several episodes of Pee Wee's Playhouse (in spanish for some odd reason) recorded from TV on a VHS tape with our Uncle Will and laughed and laughed.

So as I sit here creating this blog (as it seems like no one can survive anymore without one), I can't help but think back to those days and those "Penny Cartoons " and how this blog is much like a "Penny Cartoon" of my own. A place for me to come and ramble about the most obscure things. A place for me to try to make sense of the world.