Think Geek

My boredom has led me to thinkgeek.com today. I just don't think to check it out very often. I thought I would share some items of interest to me with all of my fans.
We shall begin with one of my most favorite items in the entire world, Astronaut Ice Cream. I have known of this tastee trip as far back as I can remember. I remember wanting it for my birthday and for Christmas. (One year I even had my birthday party at the Hansen Planetarium. Such a grand time was had by all.) If you have not have this before, you get your pants on, your keys in your hand and you head down to the Clark Planetarium TODAY. I highly recommend the neopolitan flavor. I always eat the strawberry last.
Next we have an item that every Mormon families needs, and not just one. The Titanium Spork! How can you serious have food storage and not have a spork? The spork is the most univesal utensil in the the universe, hence it's universality. (And I did not make up that word because spell checker did not pick up on it.) I know that I will be investing into these beauties. On to items that are just silly such as this cubicle doorbell. I do not have a cubicle anymore but if I did I would need one of these. If for nothing else than to irritate my neighbors. The gamers' glove. I had never seen this before and thought that it was just a fabulous idea. I know there are many times when my thumb has started hurting even before my tendonitis kicks in. It is difficult to tell the value of this in only a photo. Just think of this being on your hand and you flexing and then contracting your fingers. (This reminds me of a gadget a lady I know had to wear. She wore it for the arthritis in her fingers. Maybe if she had had this long before she wouldn't have needed surgery.) I can't tell you have many times I have sufferred from "Nintendo Thumb". I wonder if this really would have helped and would have cut down on my down time from playing games. Now one of the great inventions of the geeks. The Plasma Ball. I never had one of these BUT Marissa had what we liked to call the Borg Disc. It was the same thing but a big flat disc. Like the ones that were stationed above the borg heards when they regenerate. I remember spending lots of time at the planetarium with my hands on the plasma ball seeing how far out my hair would stand because of the static electricity. Such a wonderful toy for all ages! And last but not lesat...the Princess Leia Poster. I remember when Return of the Jedi came out. I LOVED that movie. I wanted to be Princess Leia. I found the only brown clothing item I owned and cut it up and did what I could to make it look like the pncho type thing she wears when she is on Endor. But even before we get to Endor, we see the lovely Carrie Fisher hanging out with Jabba. I also wanted to look like this Leia. I did not own a bikini growing up so I had to roll up my shirt to try and look like her. If I had had any idea when I was 6 years old what boys were thinking when they saw her I probably never would have done that. Nevertheless, such fond memories of wanting to be cool like Leia!

Flypaper - What's In The Name? PART DEUX

Since Monica happens to be the only one to comment on this blog and want to know what is up with the name, she is the only one that can read this blog. hahaha

We all have nicknames in life. My grandpa used to call me Shelly-o-nee (At least that is it phonetically.) Marissa = Rissy= Pissy Rissy or Rissa = Rashes. Maddy = Poco
Rick's family had them too. For the 3 younger boys there were/are Cory = Cory-ory-um-phan-tree, Scott = Scotty Tissue and last but not least Rick= Ricky Sticky Flypaper.

Shelly-o-nee is just lame for using when setting things up like a blog name. Somewhere along the line Rick and I call me Mrs. Flypaper. (That is my name on my PS3 if any of you want to find and add me. I have an awesome icon of a little fly.)

The rs in our domain techinically stands for Rick and Shel Flypaper but it could always be ricky sticky.

So there is the explaination...this comes from this and that comes from that...Greek. The root of all words are greek. (Yes I watched my Big Fat Greek Wedding just last week.)

I Am a Dog Person - NOT

I made a little run over to Thanksgiving Point today to pick up some treats. While there I saw a person sitting out by their car with their dog. I have no idea what type it was...it looked like maybe a mini-greyhound = UGLY! It got me thinking about dogs...I am just not a dog person.
I sure love the dogs that live with my mom, Tomba and Picabo and really miss their baby Keely BUT I don't miss them. I don't miss their barking, their shedding, their pooping, their shedding I think you get the picture.
Rick has also had dogs in the past. We both agree that we will never again have a dog. We both love knowing that there is no dog fur on our clothing. I don't care if your dog "doesn't shed." There will be dog hair. People don't shed, well most people, but there is still people hair all over. (We happened to have a hairy monster that lives in the Jeff Gordon toilet. It has hair the EXACT same color as mine and often as long as I mine. I have no idea how it got in there. We flush it away every day but it keeps coming back. Dang Hairy Monster!)
Back to the dogs, I think about Maddy and her cat this summer. She had to find a baby-sitter for her cat for the 8 weeks she was in Mexico. It led to weeks of horrible torture for her. Even now she refers to Lexy as The Devil. When I still lived at my mom's, we had to find someone to come and let the dogs out any time we wanted to go out of town. Fortunately Tomba and Picabo do not need someone there all the time with them. They seem to be happy to be alone all day but still, making sure someone would let them out twice a day wasn't always easy.
Then there were the people who had me house/dog sit back when I was 18. They had a St Bernard and this was before Tomba and Picabo. This dog hated me! He barked so much and he was way bigger than I was. These people wanted me there all the time with this dog. It just wasn't going to happen. I had to have my boyfriend who was 6'8" come over and help because I couldn't stand to be around the dog.
Growing up our neighbors mostly had dobermans, rottweilers and german shepherds. Those dogs used to scare me. They don't so much anymore but still, I don't LIKE them. I SO did not like going to my cousins' house with their variety of german shepherds. I am told that the first was just the sweetest dog in the world. Well if that is the case, why was my uncle outside yelling at the top of his lungs at it?
I don't like dogs that stink and slobber. Way too many of them do both. Tomba and Picabo, they stink a good portion of the time.
There are many good things about dogs, I loved spending time with Tomba outside while I worked in the yard and he protected the compound by barking at anyone that happened to come into his view. Picabo, well Jimito sums it up: He was sleeping over one day and told my mom he was scared of the monsters and bad guys. (This kid plays WAY too many video games with his dad and has created such an imagination that we have to ask if he is real scared or pretend scared.) My mom said well don't worry I am here to protect you. That wasn't good enough so she told him that Jesus would protect him. Again, not good enough. Then Picabo came barging down the hall as the polar bear she is. Jimmy said, "Picabo Bites. She will protect me." She climbed up on the bed with him and they both had a peaceful night together.
The other things about dogs...I think most of the are ugly. Sure puppies are cute and so are kitties BUT they grow up. Cats are NEVER cute. Dogs, well not most of the time. More often than not they are not cute. Heck the only dogs I think are cute are Tomba and Picabo and most of the time it is only Tomba. (Sorry Picabo)
Honey and Hunter at my dad's house weren't too bad either. They mostly kept to themselves unless you were on the couch and that is pretty much their home. They didn't bark so it was easy to forget they were even around. Besides, there were enough people around to pet them that I didn't have to do it.
The moral of the story...I am just not a dog person and I am happy to be married to someone who also is not a dog person. Ok yes I like "my" dogs but I sure don't like other people's dogs. I shall never again have to worry about taking care of a dog. (And don't worry, cats will never be considered either. If we have children, they will just have to go to friends and relatives to play with pets cause they aren't going to be in our house!)

(Tomba was named after Alberto Tomba. Picabo after Picabo Street and Keely after Jean Cluade Keely even though she was a girl. She was THE cutest dog ever! We couldn't name our dogs snowball and fluffy or other lame names like those.)

Nosey Norman

Blog #5 for the day (I am shocked, I thought there were more by now.)

I think most everyone has heard of Nosey Nora but I bet most of you don't know Nosey Norman. He happens to be every guy I work with!!!
My boss is in a meeting with one other employee and some guy from outside the office. EVERY SINGLE person who walks by wants to know who is in there. This is not a one time thing either. It happens with every meeting that goes on in there.
Granted we are a pretty open company and everyone really knows what is going on with everything, nevertheless...
I realize too that I am nosey...why else would I check out blogs? DUH!

Too Much Time On My Hands - Facebook

Obviously I happen to have too much time on my hands today. I am not sure if this is post 5 or 6 including my photography ones.
I was just thinking about facebook...
Because of facebook I am now in contact with friends from my ward, high school and even family members. I think it is a great thing. When I first joined I wanted to add everyone I knew. Then I realized that lots of these people don't even talk or say hi to me. Heck I even deleted one person once I looked him up in the year book and remembered he was a jerk! hahaha I have decided to not add anyone that shows up in the "people you might know" category anymore. I figure that I show up in theirs, why don't they add me?
Then there are the people I try to add and they ignore me. What is up with that??? I just don't get it. If someone tried to add me I would be all...dood - that person thinks highly enough of me to want to be friends. How cool is that? Of course I would add them! This has happened with several people including one of my best friends from high school. I just don't get it. Yeah he had a crush on me in high school and I was too stupid to realize it but we stayed friends for a long time. Even after he got another girl friend. Then there is my neighbor from childhood. He is gay and I can understand why he doesn't want to add me but still...is someone worked that hard to try and find me I would be, an old friend? Hell Yeah! (Don't worry I don't talk like this when teaching primary.)
Then there is the new facebook layout. I so do not like it. I can't find the games on there as easily as I used to...also the never ending movie quiz has become much harder! I am still #1 of all my friends who do have it installed and I am ranked in the top million of everyone who has it.
So if you decide to get on facebook, look me up! I will be your friend and send you things on there all the time!

Vacation

I know I just returned from vacation not even a month ago but I am ready to go again. From December 2006 to November 2007 we went to Disneyland, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Cancun. Since November 2007 we have to be Seattle. Not that we didn't have a great time, I just want to get out and travel some more and see more things. I guess I need more things to take photos of too. Hmmm how to remedy this....

Flypaper - What's In The Name?

As I was trying to go to sleep last night I thought...is there anyone out there who doesn't know why I chose Flypaper to be part of my blog?
Please comment if you don't know and maybe I will then explain. Or heck, give me your thoughts on why you think I chose this.

Hair-Looms

For those of you that don't know, my grandma's maiden name was Hair. We have had a long running "joke" (if you want to call it that) about things being Hairlooms rather than Heirlooms.
Today I had a really neat experience with my Hair genealogy. I have not worked on genealogy probably all summer. I have just had other things to do and sometimes I get so overwhelmed with what I am working on that I need to stop and take a break.
A few weeks ago, maybe even more than a month ago, I received an email from a guy in Australia asking for some information on this Hair line. (hahaha no pun intended) I have my family tree on ancestry.com BUT it is private. Most people that ask for information I ask them what they are specifically looking for and I never hear from them again. This guy wrote back to me. I wrote to him a few times and yesterday I finally sent him some information. I didn't have what he was looking for as he has come to a dead end right about where I had. I actually had one further generation back but still, not very much information. I was able to send him the personal history of his great great grand-uncle and a photo. This had all the information I had used to find out where his parents had lived and were buried. He was VERY specific on where his mother was buried like under this tree near this rock etc. I hope someday to get to England and check it out. (It is a bit further north than where I went when I was there.)
Anyway~ I sent this to the Australian "Cousin" and he wrote back to me thanking me. Saying that it was more than he could have ever hoped for in research. I have learned that you just don't find a person's personal history when doing research very often. It usually needs to come from someone. I am very lucky in that my grandma had a lot of information this way. Her sister, my great aunt who never married spent a lot of time working in the genealogy library. All of her information was also passed on to me. (When I was 13 I spent a few nights with her. She had to work so she took me to the library with her. I was able to roam and search through anything I wanted. It was pretty cool being able to read those really old books.)
Included are photos of this specific ancestor and his second wife. They were both Pioneers who came to Utah from England. I am thinking that I might need to start up on all this again.
Yes they are buried right next to the bathroom. It is great for Memorial Day to be able to make an easy pit-stop. It makes it even easier to find their headstone. (Which my grandma actually had placed in 1998. Until then, they were in an unmarked grave.)

Bellevue Botantical Gardens

While in Seattle we spent Sunday afternoon walking around the Bellevue Botanical Gardens. It was SO beautiful. I have waited to post this blog because I wanted to do some artsy fartsy stuff with my photos. I took a billion of the flowers. They were so gorgeous. I just can't imagine how pretty they were say a week or two before. I have also posted the photos individually on my "Point and Click" Blog
Not only was it beautiful, it was free. Why can't Red Butte Gardens be free?!?
{If I start "talking" too much like Seriously So Blessed, someone please tell me. I am into reading that site because it makes me giggle but I am worried I will start talking like her.}

Proposition 8 Support

Please join in an interfaith fast on Sunday, October 12th for California Proposition 8.

Whatever your professed faith may be, your faith and fasting can bring forth the powers of heaven. Please abstain from food and drink on Sunday, October 12th and please pray for a positive outcome for California's Proposition 8, that hearts may be softened, and that understanding and wisdom will prevail.

Please FORWARD this to those in favor of protecting and restoring traditional marriage in California. We would LOVE to have residents of other states or nations join us in our fasting and prayer!

Here's the link that the Catholic, LDS, and other Christian churches are using for donations to support Prop 8:

www.protectmarriage.com

https://www.icontribute.us/protectmarriage/initiative/main

Orthopedic Shoes

So...(yes it is one of the words I say ALL the time) Maddy's PT told her that she needs orthopedic shoes. This has me just laughing every single time I think about it. Man just thinking about them makes me laugh. Rick told me that it really isn't that funny but come'on Maddy is 26 years old and is a school teacher. Seriously, would you not laugh if your teacher who normally wears cool shoes... Well Maddy thinks they are cool. (These are the Go Skyline Edition) and then they showed up wearing... HAHAHA
I did some searching and found some "stylish" orthopedic shoes but man you just can't beat the Velcro!

Seven Things

I Plan To Do Before I Die:
1. Build a house
2. Travel to England again
3. Travel to Hawaii with Rick
4. Cut my hair
5. Go to a race a Talledega
6. Go to a Packer's Game at Lambo Field (this is for Rick)
7. it's a secret

Seven Things I CAN Do:
1. Spend countless hours on the computer doing who knows what
2. Play the piano
3. Make others happy
4. Bake delicious stuff
5. Spend lots of money on things that will be used all the time
6. Crochet, cross stitch, knit and sew on a mediocre level
7. Giggle at most anything

Seven Things I CANNOT Do:
1. Grow finger nails
2. Remember my french and italian very well anymore
3. obliterate breast cancer
4. draw or paint
5. scrapbook without a computer
6. understand why Maddy likes to watch boxing
7. Run

Seven Things That Attract Me To My Spouse:
1. His love and patient for and with me
2. His big chest
3. His ability to tolerate most anything I do
4. His never giving up on me even though I turned him down 3 times!
5. The way he makes me laugh all the time
6. His tenderness and ability to cry as much as I do
7. His willingness to do anything and everything to make me happy and make sure I am safe

Seven Things I Say Most Often:
1. Dood (Thank you Rick for getting me attached to this!)
2. Good Afternoon/Good Morning, Prime West, He is unavailable may I take a message or put you through to his voice mail? 9In reference to calls for my boss.)
3. So...
4. Anyway....
5. Oh Crap, I can't remember what I was going to say
6. What do you want for dinner?
7. Um, I don't know

Seven Celebrity Crushes:-
1. George Eads
2. George Cluney (I just don't want to hear his views on things)
3. Mark Gooselar (Zack, Saved by the Bell)
4. Matt Damon (as long as he isn't talking)
5. Christiane Bale - If he would get rid of that mole near his eye on his nose. I see that and think...nah he isn't that good looking
6. Ricky Martin - ok not so much anymore. I thought he might be gay but when I heard he adopted twins, that just confirmed it. He HAS to be gay.
7. Ricky Sticky Flypaper - His picture has been in the paper lots for Tennis Tournaments, does that count as being a celebrity?

Seven People Who I Think Should Do This:
1. Heather
2. Darci
3. LaDawn
4. I don't think there is anyone else who really does surverys on their blogs that reads my blog

The I Tag

I...
I am...always trying to loose weight
I think...about way too many things all at the same time
I want...to have a house, not an apartment
I have...the most wonderful family and friends
I miss...summer and the pool being open
I hear...the tv and the air conditioner that just came on
I cry...everyday and rick is so sweet about it
I wish...I didn't have to work even though I love my job
I care...about making my friends and family happy
I always...have to tinkle before leaving the house (Like you wanted to know that one)
I worry...about going out and doing things without Rick or my sisters
I am not...one who usually likes crowds
I remember...laying in bed at night with my siblings all being in their rooms singing songs before going to sleep
I sing... Like a Rock star! I seriously need to post my video of me playing Rock Band (Heather - I learned the same song in 1st grade and still sing it! It is the way I remember all of the state.)50 Nifty United States from 13 original colonies...Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas...
I don't always...eat healthy food. Cookie dough is a might tasty dinner
I argue...with my mom just for the fun of it well at least I find it fun to irritate her some days
I write...on my bog cause I am self centered and like to read other people's comments. I like to talk about myself too.
I win... uh stuff?
I lose...most thoughts that come into my head
I listen...to music constantly
I don't understand...lifelong grudges.
I can usually be found...doing something on a computer
I need...some new clothes..no that is a want... I need to lose weight to be more healthy
I forget...my head if it weren't attached
I am happy...when people comment on my blog, when I am with Rick, heck I am happy all the time. Even when I am crying I usually end up laughing at the same time!

I tag anyone else who wants to write about themselves!

Staying Little

A very close friend of mine has a business selling hats. Not only does she sell these hats...SHE MAKES THEM! She is so talented. She even has hats for Halloween. I realize most kids can't wear hats to school, probably none of them can, but seriously, these are worth having. They are just too adorable. I can totally see little ones wearing some of these to church. Please check out her blog while her website gets up and running. I will update my blog as she updates hers and especially once her website goes live. Enjoy Staying Little!

Getting Ready with the Scary Face

About a month ago we headed over to Jimmy and Carrie's house for dinner with them and my dad and Laurie. Laurie is an awesome Nana. She always brings gifts for Jimito.
But first...this might have been a different visit but it was within the same week...we got there and Jimito started bawling. Usually he is so excited to see Rick and we couldn't figure out what was wrong. Jimmy was able to find out though..Jimito had left his hook at his friend's house. Fortunately the friend lived only 2 houses away. Jimito is SO funny. I don't know if he is still doing it and since Carrie hasn't had a chance to blog about it, I will. (By the way, Maddy decided to call him Jimito = Hee Mee Toe = Little Jimmy) Jimito had to have his gear hooked into his shorts everyday before he would get dressed. He had to have his dager and sword and gun all in the pockets and painters hook thing before he would get dressed.
Notice not only does he have a sword, he has a spear too.So back to the visit... One of the gifts Jimito was given was a sword that makes noises like the guns we had when we were kids. Jimito got all decked out for us and gave us his scary face. Don't forget all of the nerf guns...which his dad likes as much as he does! This kid could outfit an entire army for a small country. No wonder he is going to be Cap'n Hook! (I just hope Cap'n Ris is able to join him.)