Castle of Chaos

Yes, Its that time of year! Castle of Chaos haunted house is officially open! That is what I've been doing on the weekends now. I won't lie, it was hard for me to go back there considering all the memories associated with Phil. But it has been a lot more fun than I thought it would be. They have definitely improved the haunt this year! I hope you all come down and see us!

Above is the owner of Castle, who has been a a huge support for me over these past few years. Below is my hero Jesse as the "Mad Scientist" in our "Terror in 3-D" :)

We are located at 3300 South and West Temple in South Salt Lake. I hope you will all come down and help support us. Proceeds go to the Boys and Girls Club. Please go to our website for more details:

www.castleofchaos.com

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I also want to pay a random tribute to Matt Stone and Trey Parker. I freaking love them so very much.

They are comedy geniuses!

They have created genius films and tv shows for so many years, and they just keep getting better and better. They are my heroes!

Good times! I love them and I wanna marry them both! LOL

My vote + My love life through song lyrics

I have a few random thoughts that I want to share. First off, politics schmolitics! Forget Obama, I'm voting Chuck Norris for president! He can roundhouse kick those terrorist arses! Nobody messes with Chuck Norris.

2nd thought. I have discovered many songs lately that just touch me so deeply and really truely inspire me. Sometimes, the source of such inspiration can surprise you. My song of the day is "Dance Floor Anthem" by Good Charlotte who says it so perfectly: "Throw up your hands and say I dont wanna be in love!"

Another song that I absolutely freaking LOVE is called "Damaged" by Plummet. The lyrics are how I feel right now with all the drama I've been deeling with. I am damaged. Seriously, read these lyrics. So simple yet so so strong.

Dreaming comes so easily,
Cause it's all that I've known
True love is a fairy tale;
I'm damaged So how would i know?
I'm scared and I'm alone,
I'm ashamed and I need for you too know
I didn't say all the things that I wanted to
But you can't take back What you've taken away
Cause I feel I feel you, near me(repeat)
healing comes so painfullyAnd it chills to the bone
will anyone get close to me?
I'm damaged as I'm sure you know
I'm scared And I'm alone and I'm ashamed
And I need for you to know
I didn't say all the things that I wanted to say
But you cant take back
What you've taken away
Cause I feel youI feel you, near me (repeat)
There is nothing before my soul
into this fear forgiveness for a man
who is stronger
I was just a little girl
but i cant go back
can't go back
I can't go back
I must go on

09/09/2006

2 years ago today I said "I do" to the man I loved and wanted to spend the rest of my life with. Today has been kind of a rough day not celebrating my anniversary, and knowing that my husband is living with another woman and no longer loves me. Most days I'm perfectly fine and I'm certain I'm over him. But today I spoke to my mother in law (soon to be ex-mother-in-law). Everytime I talk to her it makes me depressed all over again. I really miss Phil, and even though I know it's over and I know i'm better off without him, I still really miss him. We had some really good times and I will never doubt that he used to love me. I mean, look at the way we are gazing into each other's eyes? We were very in love. :(

This was the pic we used on our wedding announcements. Look how happy we were together. :( It hurts to know that we lost that happiness. I really did think we would be together forever.

Getting divorced sucks. No easy way around it. I am so tired of arguing and fighting and yelling and being hurt. I found this pic online and it really fits what most divorce is like. How can two people how are so in love end up hating each other?

It boggles my mind.

I hope that others who are, or may eventually be, going through divorce can be civil and be adults and still try to be friends. Not every divorced couple should have to be miserable and fight all the time. :( This is so depressing. Although I know with all my heart that I'm better off without him, and that he has moved on, it still hurts to not have him, and to wonder what I did wrong. *sigh*

Yearbook Pics

So Jen introduced me to this awesome website!

http://www.yearbookyourself.com/

You can put a pic of yourself in and see what you would have looked like back in the dizz-zay! So freaking funny!
(Apparently I wasn't photogenic back then either!)

Shelye in 1966

1977

1978

1982 (The year I was born!)

1984

1990

1994

LOL Good Times :)

Re-post...A MUST SEE!

I know I have already posted this clip before, but I insist on posting it again, and hope that you will ALL take 2 minutes out of your life to watch it. I work in the healthcare industry and it doesn't matter how many times I watch this clip, I bust up laughing!

Summer Festivities 2008

WOW! I cannot believe summer is over! Not that us working adults get an actual "summer." All the days blur together anymore. Getting old sucks. Anyways, I've been horrible as far as posting pics on my blog of my summer activities. Bad Blogger Award! So lets start at the begining of summer. I went to Lava Hot Springs with my girl Sandra. My batteries died in my camera after like 3 pics, so this is all I got:

The water was so amazingly warm! It was so relaxaing! I definitely want to go again. We also spent most of the day rafting down the river. It was such a blast!
Here is me (pre-sunburn):

And here is Sandra applying sunscreen for the zillionth time! She's a vampire (and proud of it!)

In July I went to DCI (Drum Corps International) at WSU. It brought back a flood of memories! I haven't been in the marching band in nearly a decade and it was great to reminisce!

Cutest picture EVER! I'm not sure if D was more entralled with the cheetos or the drum corps:

Man I totally miss drumline. Especially the base line. :)

This band was my favorite! They did "Thriller" and even put down their instruments to dance the Thriller Dance! Awesome!

Maybe the Thriller dance was too exhausting? Drumline decided to take a nap mid-show? Love it!

I liked this band because the men were oh-so butch and masculine!

Wow...The formations!

Fantastic times! Thanks to Troy and Jen for allowing me to tag along! And it was also fantastic to run into Mark & Connie and their families too. I also ran into a girl from work. Small world in the marching band community, eh?

On July 24th it was Jo's official De-Vegitarianism party! Most people were rather confused at what this meant. Jo became a vegetarian on July 24th exactly 10 years before. She has deciced to eat meat again. (I'm not sure why-but I think it has to do with need more protein in her diet.) So she had this party at the Olive Garden and we had like 5 tables full of people.

I think there were at least 30 people there to witness Jo finally eat meat after a decade!

This is me and Jen in front of the Olive Garden:

Jo deciding if she can really go through with this:

She looks so pretty! Despite being overwhelmed with like 20 kinds of meat products (Fish, chicken, steak, etc)



Here is a pic of my good friends Jill and Jen at the Olive Garden. Yay! Good times.


Ok....now lets see. Random goofy summer times! Jen and I having sunglass contests?


Getting Jen her fake tattoo? (Dude-she's gonna kill me when she sees this pic is posted on here for the whole world to see!)


And then Last weekend I went to Bear Lake with Sandra and her family. My camera wasn't working, and I was afraid to take my good camera so this is all I have for now. Sandra's brother has promised to email me his pictures which will look a lot better. I'll update with those as soon as I have them. Here's me and San, the hottest hotties there!


And here are the waverunners we rented! So much freaking fun! I had more fun on these seadoos than i've had in years! I even fell off at one point. My legs were so sore from being tense and holding myself on the machine that after a few hours my legs just gave out. We were doing figure 8's and we hit our own wake and I just went flying. It was fun though! I love flying and swimming so it was a good mix. :) Poor Robert though, he felt so bad, not to mention I almost dragged him into the water with me!



Good times! It was such a fun summer, I'm sad to see it over. However, I love autumn and I will hopefully continue to have great times. I thought the summer would be difficult without Phil, but I've discovered how many great true friends I have that get me out of my house and keep me from getting lonely. I'm so grateful for everyone out there helping me to get over all the drama and emotional garbage in my life. I am especially grateful to my pyro friends like Jenny and JJ. You have welcomed me back to pyro even without Phil and have truely shown that you guys like me, and didnt just "put up with be" because I was Phil's wife. I wish I had better photos of the pyro from this summer. There were some good shows! One of our shows even hit the news this year. There was a fire at our Magna show! (I wasn't there, I was at the Lagoon show). Here is a pic from KSL:



Here is the link to the article by the Deseret News:http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5620,700241252,00.html

And a short video clip taken by a spectator: