kellie|taylor

happy valentines day.... and ish like that.

2012-02-14T17:00:00.002-07:00

right, valentines day is today. honestly to me it sounds like just another tuesday nothing really special. infact the only thing that makes this valentines day really speacial is that i have a mechanics (mechanical engineering that is....not like the car stuff, lol) test tomorrow so i get to study for that. how exciting right?! the life of an engineer.

i guess there are things that you think of that have to do with love and marriage and family and friends and all of that romantic ish. i feel like a lot of times as girls we get all worried about relationships always assuming that something wont work out or that something is wrong. i mean, we're girls right?! its what we do for heaven sakes! so i was worried about this girly ish.

sometimes i pray to my HF to ask him what i should be doing or how i should be doing things and 90% of the time i feel like i dont get an answer. i think a lot of the time he allows me to make decisions on my own because he trusts that i'll do whats right and if i do what's right He'll let me know.

last night/this morning i decided to make one of those decisions on my own. at first i wasn't sure that the decision i was making would be a good one because lets face it, when we take our decisions to HF we all kind of feel inadequate, i mean talking to the most powerful being, the person who knows everything and saying, "hi, um...i've made this decision...is that okay?" its kind of scary. so i decided what i did and i let Him know.

i had to trust in myself and hope that this decision was a good one. and you know what? it was.

im not much of a crier, in fact i hate crying. i hate it because it makes me feel week and usually when i cry its because i'm sad. thinking about it i've only really cried one time because i was happy. the day that that happened was my baptism. it was the best day. up until this morning that had been the only time i've ever been so overjoyed that i actually cried.

i dunno, i guess what i'm trying to get at is that i made a decision and told HF and now i know that everything is going to be alright. i know that He approves and now i dont have to worry anymore.

one day.

2012-02-09T00:04:00.001-07:00

one day someone will love me enough to do something this embarrassing...

Every girl's got her list

2012-01-30T21:46:00.000-07:00

Every girl's got her list. You know the list you made in young womens (or in my case when my mom forced me to right before i went on my first date). The list of things you want in a future spouse. Frankly i never gave a crap about a list of things i wanted in a man because if you know me, for a very long time i was anti-marriage/dating/kissing/physical touch. haha. why? beacuse i'm awesome....just deal with it. anyway i never cared and when my mom made me write one out before i went to go visit my now ex-fiance (that still sounds weird, i wish there was another word for it, ex lover? nah....that sounds even worse)

when my mom made me do that, her intentions good, i could care less and i wrote down a bunch of crap not even thinking about it...there was absolutely no thought put into it whatsoever. i would also like to note that my mom was hovering over me as i wrote it so i'm pretty sure half of it is her ideas anyway...haha.

here is the list i came up with:

1) LDS or christian (there's the mom)
2) easy going
3) sarcastic/witty
4) patient/slow to anger
6) smart
7) be able to make me laugh
7) affectionate
8) common sense
9) active/healthy
10) willing to let me work (come on kellie you idiot, then they just want you to work all the time!)
11) stylish
12) mac user
13) handsome
14) good with ninos (thats good with kids for all you non spanish speakers)
15) working towards/has degree
16) buys me gifts of any kind
17) random- likes to do random crap with me (yes i actually wrote the word crap)
18) quirky
19) not superficial/ down to earth
20) into music/musical/random music

in retrospect i guess thats a pretty good list and now that i think of it i think my ex, aka the man i was going to marry only satisfied three of those requirements one being willing to let me work, which in his eyes meant willing to let me support him forever...haha and the other were LDS and a mac user and lets be honest those arent hard requirements to fill. haha.

i'd like to revise my list....i think this is maybe what i want?!?! then again i dont know.... then again maybe this list will change in the future after i've lived a little longer...i mean i dont think there could be one guy who will fit all of my requirements and be perfctly perfect in every way but you know thats okay as long as he gets most of the main ones right?!?! haha.

1) ~~LDS or christian (there's the mom)~~ Temple worthy! being LDS isn't gonna cut it anymore
2) easy going
3) sarcastic/witty
4) patient/slow to anger
6) smart
7) be able to make me laugh
7) affectionate
8) common sense
9) active/healthy
10) ~~willing to let me work (come on kellie you idiot, then they just want you to work all the time!)~~ willing to let me work until we decide to have children then i get to be a stay at home mom sucka!
11) ~~stylish~~ i can always change that, how about uses his priesthood and knows a lot about religious crap and is willing to talk about it with me
12) mac user yep, this one's staying in there
13) handsome
14) good with ninos (thats good with kids for all you non spanish speakers)
15) working towards/has degree and to add to this will be able/willing to support a family
16) buys me gifts of any kind i guess not buys me things as much as ISN'T CHEAP ( i hate that)
17) random- likes to do random crap with me (yes i actually wrote the word crap)
18) quirky
19) not superficial/ down to earth
20) into music/musical/random music
21) * treats me well and respects me, this is the most important i dont know how i could have left it out when i first wrote this list but you know what i was an idiot and i'll admit that.

So i guess thats what i want right now... hopefully someday i'll get it. i'm not gonna lie this young gentleman that i'm with now fulfills a lot of these requirements and as i get to know him better i hope he'll fulfill all of them but eh you never know where life is gonna take you so i'm just gonna wait it out and see what happens. until then i've got this nifty list to keep me in check.

cheers.

km

p.s.
you can thank a google search of "lds dating" for this awesome cheesin' image. ha.

15 pounds in 6 weeks...here goes nothin.

2012-01-11T11:59:00.003-07:00

Well my friends as much as i love the holidays and food they were not kind to me this year! Haha. At family dinner we started this whiteboard where you write down your goals for the year. Everyone wrote down one and i got super ambitious and wrote "LOSE 15 LBS." yeah, thats right i wrote it in all caps! at the time i meant business. so i set out on the quest to lose those 15 extra buddies i've got hanging out on my belly.

with the help of my friend Todd we set up a nice low carb diet for me to do. apparently like EVERYONE has done this diet. so i figured if everyone can do it so can kellie. this diet is practically no carbs which means what do i get to eat?! veggies and meat. (and sometimes legumes) yeah, so think about that for a bit.....that means NO BREAD!!! (and no dairy) AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! HEAVEN HELP ME!!! this is like the hardest thing of my life i am the queen of carbs and i loooove cheese!!!! its quite awful.

on the plus side i've alredy lost 4 pounds and its only been like three days. i attribute that to me drinking water like theres no tomorrow. i'm not gonna lie i'm starving!!!! ahhh!!! but in this diet you get one cheat day....oh cheat day i love you!!!

so if anyone has and good veggie/lean meat recipies pleeeeeeeeeeease let me know because i'm fairly sure that after a week i'll be sick of eating salads with grilled chicken. haha.

well as Jess would say....

The adventure begins!!!

Every Man...

2012-01-03T13:16:00.005-07:00

So there is this little blog i read called hello giggles and its pretty much one of the most awesome things everrrr. does anyone remember reading the book To Kill a Mockingbird? yeah yeah yah i know it was like forever ago and we all probably hated it because our english teachers forced us to read it and write papers about it but hey its actually a pretty good book. well today on hello giggles i read this awesome article that i think YOU (and by YOU i mean everyone, yes i did just yell YOU) should read it!

enjoy!

How to Be a Real Man, Like Atticus Finch

the game part 1

2011-12-13T15:57:00.000-07:00

Now you all know i'm all about the perfect experience and having a song for every moment so before you start reading this blog please hit play on this awesome song ....it kind of goes amaazing with this post.... enjoy!

Now that i'm a senior in college someone decided that it was a good idea for me to kind of get into the dating game, if you can even call it that.... With my last boyfriend i dont know if you can even call what we did dating, i always paid for everything and we didnt do a lot of special things, in short, it sucked. Anyway, this summer i was introduced to this new thing called a date.

I should have started this blogg with telling you all how my life is one awkward experience. And by awkward i mean think of the most awkward moment in your life and multiply that by like 10 and then you'll know exactly what my life is like. So, where were we? Oh thats right young kellie and the new found dating game....

FIRST DATE

Where the H did he come from? I may or may not have gone to the casino with some friends from ASU(okay okay you caught me i did...REBEL!!!) and they invited some of their friends to come along with us. At said occasion i met this guy, he seemed nice enough not awkward or weird really. While talking all of us decided it would be a great idea to go tubing down the salt river. Cool.

So after that event i went home and like every good procrastinating college student i immediately hopped on facebook to upload some pictures i had too from that night. Biiiiing! New friend request! Who could this be??!?! Oh well what do ya know it's that cute guy from the casino....nice! So i accepted that request. From here on i will just call this guy #mrforward (if anyone follows me on twitter you'll know where this came from). So we started chatting it up on facebook and he got my phone number. ohhh gasssp! i know. anyway, he told me how cute he thought i was and how he couldn't wait to get my number and how he was sooooo excited to go to the river.

Flash forward... we went to the river and #mrforward asked when he could take me out. so we said he would take me out on a thursday. oh boy....ughhh. so before the date he decided we needed to hang out so we did. on said hangouts #mrforward was trying to be charming (barf) and said stuff like he wanted to kiss me, to which i said NO. thats what i said aloud but we all know what i was saying aloud, HELL NO i dont even know you fool!

i know right now some of you are thinking oh thats cute! and i like kissing boys! whats wrong with you kellie? oh i'll tell you whats wrong. so then #mrforward got bold. he asked me if i was a virgin! WTF?!?!?! to which i answered, why YES! YES I AM! ha! virgin card! TRUMPED! haha! or was he trumped??!?! this persistent son of a gun kept asking me if i would sleep with him and why i wouldn't and told me about how he took his last girlfriends v card. what a douche bag! am i right!?!?! where do these guys come from?!?!?! in short i told him i would NEVER sleep with him and then we went on our date. and upon talking to our mutual friends i told them how he was never getting any because this girl is chaste, they talked to him and he dropped me like a hot tamale. thank the Lord.

so thats part one of my little dating blog....haha i think i'm going to make this into a series.

stronger.

2011-11-03T14:23:00.001-07:00

so legit.

i care if i do something special.

2011-10-19T19:33:00.003-07:00

anyone who has known me for a while knows this has been my motto for my whole life...i'll admit i let it slip a little but hey now i'm totally back on board. i love this girl she's awesome!

happy wednesday erryone!

It's falltime and we all know what that means...

2011-10-13T09:17:00.001-07:00

JAZZ MUSIC! (and pumpkin spiced drinks at starbucks...haha)

Jazz music is one of my favourite types of music out there and it just so happens to be great falltime music. iTunes must know that because they just put a bunch of jazz albums up for $7.99. Anywhoo, while you're out there enjoying you're warm drink all snuggled up on a couch reading a book (if your in arizona you're drinking your cold drink by the pool...) have a listen to this wonderful version of Someday My Prince Will Come by Dave Burbeck. Feel classy and fall-like. Mmmmhummm!!! And enjoy fall everyone!

i feel lovely just the way that i am.

2011-10-09T00:40:00.003-07:00

tonight the brook waggoner station on pandora was killing it, playing lots of awesome songs. One of my favourites of the night would have to be Lovely by Sara Haze. this ones definitely going in to the "the life of kellie taylor as told by music" book. enjoy.

gonna pull a mike posner (watch at 2:45 to get the joke...haha..its funny) and say "jacob scott rakozy this song is for you"

i'm just little old me, and that's fine with me.

sometimes you just have to do what you gotta do

2011-10-02T19:22:00.000-07:00

after scott left i read a book called "Its Called Break Up Because It's Broken" and it suggested not to talk with whoever you broke up with for 2 months. so i did it. my 2 month mark came up this past month of september and as it came so did text messages from scott. i stuck with my 2 month rule and didn't answer and then a few days ago this e-mail came...

Hey Kellie,

So the past couple of days I've been doing a lot of thinking....mostly due to a guilty conscience.....I need to help you out with this lease......Seriously, I cannot go a day without thinking about what a mess this all turned out to be.........and I really need to do something....to fix it up, to do something......anything! I know things are sour between us and honestly I can't really move on until I fix that up........more so, until we fix that up. You're in school, in an extremely difficult major, trying to get work in there to pay rent and other expenses......and honestly I know you can't do it alone......and my guilt is getting the better of me......I want to help you......and I need to. And since all of this is my fault, I've been selfish the past couple of months neglecting my responsibilities to help out an incredible friend.....one of my best friends, in fact. And the ironic part is.....I still haven't saved any money.....I'm still where I'm at 4 months ago........with 1500 dollars in car repairs and registration, I think God's telling me something......haha! Kellie.....I still care about you......and I know you're trying to rid me of your life, however I can't.....no matter how hard I try, I can't.....because, in the end of it all, you're just amazing......I dunno what happened back in May where everything took a major turn for the worst......and every time I look back I wish I could have changed everything........every time I think about the night I left to go to Utah and looking back you were still looking through the window, I wish I could had changed all of that.........where I wish I could've made the right choice by not leaving at all.........then again, I wasn't in the right mind set.......I was angry, upset, disappointed, any sort of negative feeling......not at you, but at me....I wish I was just stronger at the time.....

But anyway, so everybody still hates me from down in Arizona, I've lost my best friend in the process of it all, and I want to do something to fix it all.......not so much about making everyone happy because that's not going to happen......but rather I want my best friend back......and I know money isn't going to fix it...maybe a portion.....but you've got a million reasons to hate me....which is understandable and I accept that.......but I want you to be happy....even if that means me sacrificing all my money I was saving for college to help you out..........even if that means living off bread and water for a couple of months.......whatever it takes.......so we need to figure out how to do this.....how I can transfer moneys down to you to help you out........now I'm no money bags, mind you......where I make a whompin' 7.25 an hour and maybe get 30 hours a week.....maybe......but I'll do my best to help you out.......please let me know! Call me, e-mail me, something!

In addition to all of this, I wanted to also send you the latest piece I'm working on......an orchestra cover of "Fix You" by Coldplay.........anyway, I would really like to hear from you, see how life has been treating you and everything........

--
Jacob Scott Rakozy

Scott-

I'm glad you've decided what you did. This summer was extremely tough financially and so is this year. My mom helped me out the best she could and it really set her back a lot. She's behind on her bills and is still trying to catch up from the summer when you left. She's an amazing woman to have sacrificed all she did for me.

Anyway, there are two ways this could go. You can help me pay to brake our lease or you can send me a check each month for half the rent, what i would charge a roommate. To brake the lease it would cost approximately $7,000 not including extra fees such as having the apartment cleaned and paying to have things fixed depending on what the complex deems necessary. If you were to pay half the rent it would be $350 a month until July 25th when the lease ends or until i am able to find a roommate.

As for our friendship, i wish i could say everything would go back to the way it was before we were engaged, but it cant. I've forgiven you and i'm not mad at you at all. However, being friends with you now would just be incredibly painful for me. You can be completely different now and if you are that's wonderful but any mention of you brings back some extremely painful memories. Even if i try as hard as i can those memories are very hard to erase from my mind.

Scott, you hurt me more than anyone i have ever known, including my father. I tried my hardest to be the best friend I could be to you. I was there for you at your best and at your worst and all i received in turn from you was emotional, psychological, and physical abuse. You took advantage of our friendship. Like i said that night at the temple, you know exactly how to hurt me more than anyone. I trusted you, which for me is very hard to do due to my family history with my father. I let you have my trust and you took it and my vulnerabilities and used them to your advantage. You used them to break me down and hurt me to get the type of girl you really wanted. No matter how much weight i would have lost or if i dyed my hair blond i can never change and that type of girl isn't me. For that i am NOT sorry.

You made me think i was not good enough for you, when in reality i was more than good enough. After you left my life was horrible. You left me very hurt and with a huge financial burden that i didn't know what to do with. In addition to that my anxiety came back and for months i could not eat, i threw up, and balled my eyes out every single day. Our friendship ended when you chose to leave to Utah and didn't look back.

I dont think you understand what it means to be someones best friend. You should talk to Vance and Logan or Jess and Kent, they are amazing best friends. Your best friends are supposed to be there for you and to love you. Never in a million years would any of my best friends tell me i'm not good enough for them or say any, or even half of the hurtful things you said to me. Why? Because they love me for who i am and they are good people.

So, you can see what being friends with you now would be like for me, remembering all that hurt and loneliness. Honestly Scott, it wouldn't be healthy, mentally or physically, for me. You took care of yourself when you left and now it's my turn to do the same. I'm exercising everyday, taking care of my body. I finally have time to spend on my homework and time to really do well in school. I'm making new friends and hanging out with old ones.

You said you would do what ever you could to make me happy again. Well, here are the only two things you need to do:

1. Never EVER EVER EVER EVER treat another girl how you treated me. Every girl, including me, deserves to be treated like the wonderful, amazing, daughter of God that she is. Take her out on proper dates, don't make her pay, and do something special for her every now and then. And if you ever ask another woman to be your wife you'd better treat her like a goddess. Treat her like you don't deserve to be with her and like she could leave you at anytime because odds are you don't deserve her and she will leave you, not every girl will put up with what i did.

2. Please dont contact me outside of what you choose to do with our apartment. I've moved on and you should too. You didn't need me as a friend when you left to Utah so i don't think you really need me now. So there's no use for us to be in contact. We don't live close to each other, and i dont like going to Utah so odds are we probably will never see each other again. I want to be happy and part of that is to not have you in the picture anymore. I dont want to be hurt by you anymore and i cant trust you enough to know that you won't hurt me again, even if it is in just a friendship. I believe it to be best if it were like you never existed as a part of my life. I don't want to be reminded of the immense pain you caused me.

I wish i could say we had a good run, but we really didn't....haha!

Best wishes in your future,

Kellie M. Taylor

Sometimes i guess you have to do whats best for you. I'm pretty sure i wont be getting any money for the apartment i'm stuck with but oh well, i didn't expect to anyway. Life is a learning experience and thats just what i did. I took this horrible experience that i had to go through and learned that i was worth a whole lot more than what i thought i was. I also learned how a girl should be treated and what not to want in a spouse. All though this recent experience has brought back some of the pain that faded a way i'm sure that it will fade away and my life will go back to normal. i will be happy again someday and i look forward to that day.

Onward and Upward!!!!!

2011-09-27T13:11:00.002-07:00

"The best revenge is massive success." -Frank Sinatra

I think he had it right. Massive success here i come! Weeeeeeee!!!!!

Yesterday.

2011-09-14T21:49:00.002-07:00

Yesterday was a beautiful day in Tempe, AZ. Its monsoon season, lovely. Tuesday is usually the day that i go to design studio class. i drove to class and parked, then proceeded to pay for my parking, because you know good old ASU, NOTHING is free. haha. so its raining and i get up to the pay station and guess what....the thing wont read my card. so after 5 minutes of trying desperately to get it read my card i decide to try and find some free parking....to my surprise (not) there were none left and it was 6.20 pm...studio started at 6.

then i remembered that it was stake temple night. so i figured ehhh what the heck i havent been to the temple in a while. so i went home and got ready and headed on over. of course stake temple night really means all of the endowed people go to a session and like two people go to do baptisms because NO ONE goes to do baptisms. so i basically went by myself, which is a thing i dont do often.

pause for a "life of kellie taylor" history lesson.

so up until this point i hadn't gone to the temple since scott and i broke up...for a lot of reasons. one being i hadn't been going to church regularly....which i'm working on. i finally found a ward to go to where i dont feel totally upset and worthless when i go. things are looking up. but i dunno why i didnt go. in retrospect i should have been going every single day with or without scott.

resume current story:

so there i was at the temple all by myself. and it just felt so amazing to be there. all i could think was "how could i have not come for almost four months?!" and "there is so much work and service to be done" it was kind of a mix of happiness and disappointment. i was so happy to be there but so disappointed in myself for not going for so long.

i must say it was weird going to the temple without scott, but something interesting happend this time when i went. when i would drag scott there (it was a real struggle to get him there, like pulling teeth) we'd get in there and i would just feel uneasy. which when i was engaged to him i would never admit. but this time i didnt feel that. without him there i was able to feel the peace that had been missing from my weekly visits. and this peace that came over me was another way that Heavenly Father let me know that not marrying scott was a good choice.

ya know, i havent talked to scott in about two months. and with each day his memory fades from my mind. each day i feel better and better. and i really know that this is better for me. at one point in my life i thought i was destined to be a wife to someone who didnt really care about me and someone who i'd have to take care of for the rest of my life. and hey i was ready to do that and willing to do that. but now i dont have to be that woman. i now realize my potential in a lot of different areas.

i know that one day i'll make an awesome loyal mother and wife, and i am capable of loving others more than myself. but thats not gonna happen right now. but thinking about the crappy life i would have had and comparing it to the amazing, bright and wonderful life i can have makes me feel a heck of a lot better. i may not be married, but hopefully one day i'll get lucky and find some ace of a guy who will love me just as much as i love him. whoo. but thats the future.....way in the future! haha.

i'm going to finish college and be an engineer! now there arent many latinas out there who can say that. BOO YAH! (latina powwwer!) and ya know what, i'm gonna travel the world and save my money and own a burberry bag and live in chicago and then in australia. i still get to live all of my dreams. i'm so excited for my future to begin. just gotta hang in there for 1.5 years. i cant wait.

wow holy long blog.

i'll just finish it off with a good youtube video to keep you engaged....haha! i do love a good mr timn video...

when you're having a bad day/month/summer/minute

2011-07-30T18:17:00.003-07:00

a couple of months ago i was having such a bad month and every day was just plain awful. i was depressed to the point that i didnt shower, eat, or even really get out of bed (other than to go potty) for that matter. i just felt plain crumby and i didnt know what to do with myself. but one person that consistently made my day was this man. Julian Smith.

i don't know what it is but this guy has the ability to make me smile even if i'm at my worst (worst not worse, if you get the inside joke laugh super loud because you gotta admit, its funny). his videos are so ridiculous/hilarious/loud/strange/entertaining. i like to think that it was some of his videos that made me want to get out of bed. haha. he's awesome.

whenever you're having a bad day/month/summer/minute just go watch one of his videos. they may not make all your problems go away but they sure as heck will make you laugh.

i recently had a roommate move out and it wasn't at the most convenient time but i'll figure something out. so for a bit i felt down and what did i do? mosey over to julian smiths page to see what was up and i found this....

enjoy.

Blue Like Jazz

2011-07-18T22:28:00.003-07:00

bikes and ballet.

2011-07-15T11:45:00.002-07:00

some of my favourite things.

living one day at a time.

2011-06-24T10:52:00.002-07:00

"I believe the heart of [Cars] is the importance of living one day at a time and making that day a masterpiece." - John Lasseter

clair de lune

2011-06-17T19:39:00.001-07:00

part of my favourite song of all time and a fun video.

i'm going to be an intern!

2011-06-09T11:44:00.002-07:00

Texas Intern from Bill Bergen on Vimeo.

alrighty so things are starting to look up! i'll be interning at Ping in Phoenix this summer! Exciting!!!!

how bazaar.

2011-06-02T14:18:00.003-07:00

so i usually never read horoscopes but today i figured "eh, what the heck" so i ready my VS Pink horoscope for the month of june....and this is what it said:

haha. how fitting right???

why kids are cool

2011-06-02T10:20:00.004-07:00

you know how in church they are always telling you to be like a child...well these kids are great examples of why we should do just that.

i feel happy of myself!

i can do anything good!

these kids give me hope and make my day brighter.

in addition...

2011-05-25T15:04:00.002-07:00

while talking to my friend at work he told me something and it reminded me of this video....i loooove the gap girls but even more i love how it kind of applies to my situation....just watch at 2:50 and you'll see what i mean....

i've got to GET RID!

give him the keys to the street and DO IT TONIGHT!

haha. love it!

sometimes//

2011-05-25T14:31:00.003-07:00

sometimes life is really good, sometimes life is just okay, and sometimes life sucks....and then you move on. there are brighter and better days in my future, and as bad as it hurts i know i'm free. now i can concentrate on what really matters the Gospel and school.

before all of this happened i was so determined to go to school get my masters and go to law school and then live in chicago and just be awesome for the rest of my life. then this guy came along and things were really good for a long time pretty much a year and he asked me to marry him so i said yes and i changed my plans, and my hopes. i really feel like i screwed up a year because my grades kind of suck this semester. and then he got depression and pretty much turned into this person that i didnt know, i dont know what happened to him and i went through a lot of verbal abuse and some other stuff id rather not mention, all the while i would take this verbal abuse and try my hardest to help him get through this and get better because i loved him and i was not going to give up on him, and then we decided to postpone the wedding, and then we called it off all together and decided to just date, but i dont want to date him anymore. and sometimes i'm not even sure if i want to be his friend. even now that he's better he's not that great.

so now my heart is broken because i threw everything into this relationship...my heart my soul and my money. sometimes i think, "what a freakin' waste" but you know what in a way im thankful for this, i now know what i want in a man, i have also become so much more in tune with the Holy Ghost and how i should be living my life for Christ and my testimonies of the Lord Jesus Christ and everything that has to do with church have grown tenfold. i feel like i've learned more in the past three weeks than i have in the whole two years i've been a member of this church.

i now know how strong i am, spiritually and physically...and also mentally, cant forget that one. i'm pretty stinking tough and i've proved to myself and others that one day i will be a freaking awesome wife and mom. and i also learned that i am a beautiful, intelligent, strong, spiritual woman. and even if someone calls me fat or unattractive i know now that i am NOT those things. i deserve so much more in a spouse than what i thought i did. and i know for a fact that any guy would be extremely lucky to have me. and i know my Heavenly Father would not want me to have to deal with the crap that i've had to. now i know...

I, Kellie Marie Taylor, will NOT settle for less because I deserve MORE.

cancelled.

2011-05-19T11:14:00.001-07:00

i just had to cancel my temple sealing date. sigh.... but hey the suns still shining and tomorrow is another day.

moving mountains.

2011-05-17T08:54:00.003-07:00

life's hard right now. really really hard. i know that we're all supposed to have trials but sometimes they are just really really difficult to deal with. i guess when i think about it my life has been full of trials and i'm really thankful for those trials that i had to endure when i was younger because they have helped me prepare for this trial that i'm facing now. i know that God will only push me has far as i can go, so if this is what he wants me to endure i know i can do it and i can make it though. i also know that i could not do this without His help. this trial has made me realize how important it is to do the things that He asks of us, pray often, read your scriptures and lean on Him. Gosh i cant even begin to count how many prayers i've said each day since this has began or how many times i've read a talk or scripture to help me get through things. and its interesting because every time i do one of those things i just feel so much better. i feel comforted and uplifted and reminded that i am the daughter of a king, i am a child of God and that if i obey the commandments and keep to the covenants i've made i can move mountains.
i can do this. i can move mountains.

due to my pre-marital nature....

2011-05-07T19:07:00.002-07:00

due to my pre-marital nature i have decided that i must loose 20 lbs by my wedding....july 1st.

yeah i know, nuts. but i'm determined so i'm starting a food log of what i'm eating.

so today....

Brekkie
1 mushroom/spinach/onion/tomato and swiss cheese omlet
mixed fruit

Dinner
Some 360 cal healthy microwave crap....it was nasty.

Misc.
2 crystal light drinks, fruit punch, and lemonade
1 dove dark chocolate
handful of dried cranberries

i miss my food already... :(

sometimes you love one person enough to marry them.

2011-04-22T20:06:00.002-07:00

scotty and i took our engagement pictures last week, that Wednesday was the day when i really had my HOLY CRAP I'M GETTING MARRIED!!!! moment. some people have it when they buy their dress or pick out their colours or their invites or their decorations etc. i must be a really slow bride because i had gotten almost all of that stuff done before we took our pictures.

so i guess this is what i'm trying to say....

HOLY CRAP GUYS I'M GETTING MARRIED!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! WEEEEEEEE!!!!!

i'm happy and this is why...

2011-04-15T14:51:00.002-07:00

lately i've been having a crazy month. not too much time to do much of anything, it seems all i do is study and its driving me insane. i havent been too happy to be quite honest. today i decided i was going to change that. so here's a list of reasons i'm happy:

God loves me
its sunny outside
the weather is beautiful
good music
i have a fiancee who loves me
i finally after 21 years of living do i know what real love is

so those are a few reasons why i'm happy. but mainly the last one is what really makes me happy . i realized that love isn't always the fluttery feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you have a crush on someone. its the love that is explained so eloquently in 1 Corinthians 13:1-8. a long lasting deep love. its not based on physical attraction or those warm and fuzzy feelings you get its more than that so much more than that. there's an awesome article that helped me more fully understand what true, real love is. its "Agency and Love in Marriage." by Lynn G. Robbins.

Christ-like love is what the world needs.

2011-04-14T12:31:00.002-07:00

i'll be back. dont worry.

happy sunday mornin' errrrry body

2011-02-27T11:50:00.000-07:00

Star Slinger - Mornin' Directed by Alan Jensen from Star Slinger on Vimeo.

a man, his dog, and God.

2010-12-28T22:10:00.001-07:00

Last Minutes with ODEN from phos pictures on Vimeo.

Mascot basketball @asu

2010-12-23T12:58:00.001-07:00

Download now or watch on posterous

VID_20101223_125158.3gp (18473 KB)

Awesomeness.

christmas in the room

2010-12-22T12:24:00.004-07:00

Oh, I can see the day when we'll die

But I don't care to think of silence
For now, I hear you laughing
The greatest joy is like the sunrise

No gifts to give, they're all right here
Inside our hearts the glorious cheer
And in the house we see a light
That comes from what we know inside

I'll come to you, I'll sing to you
Like it's Christmas in the room
I'll dance with you, I'll laugh with you
Until it's Christmas in the room
Until it's Christmas in the room

this man never ceases to amaze me with his beautiful lyrics and equally beautiful music to accompany them.

2010-12-20T14:55:00.001-07:00

“The key skill of the innovator is error recovery not failure avoidance.”
— Randy Nelson, Pixar

happy holidays....

2010-12-10T09:54:00.001-07:00

2010-12-08T15:31:00.001-07:00

just once it would be nice

[scattered flurries] from felt soul media on Vimeo.

5 years time

2010-12-07T23:25:00.001-07:00

Young and Lost - Noah and the Whale - 5 years time from LOVE on Vimeo.

christmas is coming//

2010-12-04T21:46:00.004-07:00

i spent the remainder of my saturday night in my new apartment with my best friend and mullina (roommate/best friends sister) listening to christmas music, eating peppermint chocolate, and decorating our awesome tree. its disco ball themed...and what to goes better with disco balls than glambert....yes... adam lambert is our tree topper. haha. fabulous.

tonight was an ace.

the only thing that would have made this better was if scott was here.

if i had a dime

2010-11-25T00:25:00.003-07:00

if i had a dime for every time i saw this i would be so rich.....i hate it when this happens

one of the best pictures ever.

2010-11-18T21:23:00.001-07:00

this will always make me laugh.

2010-11-16T23:54:00.000-07:00

he's just lines on a screen. nice try, kellie.

doris day

2010-11-15T11:14:00.003-07:00

december 29th

2010-10-25T17:13:00.009-07:00

i'm sick of skyping....december needs to hurry up and get here.

2010-10-08T10:19:00.001-07:00

today feels like fall.

let it all out

2010-09-28T23:15:00.001-07:00

remember, the end will justify the pain it took to get us there.

2010-09-19T23:38:00.001-07:00

i just want someone to listen to me.

te quiero

2010-09-16T22:13:00.003-07:00

i want someone to take me on a real date where he'll open the doors, take me out to eat at a fancy restaurant and out for dancing and desert afterward. and maybe a kiss good night....

mad men

2010-09-13T13:28:00.002-07:00

wow. i adore retro anything and this show is all kinds of retro goodness! everything about it is amazing, the music, the plot, the fashion!

OH THE FASHION!!!! both the clothing and the interior design are amazing!!! oh my gosh. i love it so much!!!!

the mens suits are ace and the furniture...i want it all in my house!!!!

fantastic.

lomography\\

2010-09-04T23:27:00.003-07:00

something i've got a great passion for. i dont get to do it nearly enough.... hopefully that will change...i vow to have at least one camera on my person at all times for the rest of the year....

here are the rules.

At the very base of this lie the 10 golden rules that define our philosophy and approach towards photography. Memorise them, recite them by heart, or break all the rules; whichever way, be ready to throw all your inhibitions about photography to the wind.

Take your camera everywhere you go
Use it any time – day and night
Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it
Try the shot from the hip
Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible
Don’t think (william firebrace)
Be fast
You don’t have to know beforehand what you captured on film
Afterwards either
Don’t worry about any rules

2010-08-25T23:13:00.001-07:00

eh... i'm engaged....no big deal.

p.s.

the weddings july 2nd in chicago, once again, no big deal.

2010-08-24T16:09:00.001-07:00

"...and you'll find the peace of the Lord" - The Middle East

OH! so classy.

2010-08-06T22:07:00.003-07:00

lauren bacall circa 1955

if i only had an ounce of her fashion sense.

the motion that makes me last

2010-08-04T12:06:00.005-07:00

i'm a vessel between two places i've never been.

i'm happy to be alive. i'm happy to have the friends that i do. lately i keep getting the feeling that i just dont belong here anymore. and by here i mean arizona. i've lived here my whole life and i'm ready to get out. i've had my fair share of adventures here and met so many wonderful souls and i'll never regret that. but after being here for 20 years i'm ready to leave. my heart is yearning for something new, exciting, different. for change. thats what i'm ready for.

i'm restless. i'm an explorer an adventurer, i cant stay put. this summer has made me realize what i need to do with my life, yet again (if i had a dime for every time i've said that). once upon a time i wanted to go and help others, travel around the world and serve my brothers and sisters. i wanted to travel the world, see australia, japan, and europe. somehow i got caught up in school, its hard to think about other things while you're focusing on passing engineering classes.

some days i wonder why i'm even doing engineering, lately it feels like it sucks the creativity right out of me and i feel my sense of wonder for the world leave because i'm so focused on the numbers and passing those damn classes. i've had my fair share of fun times with the people i've met doing group projects and griping about classes or people watching but when i think about it the happiest times i've had all semester have been with just my bike, iPod, and my camera exploring the city i live in. or hanging around the college of design just exploring all the cool stuff. and checking out all the cool people.

i've found a new love, design. i love everything about it and all different kinds of it. thats why i changed my minor to design. with the small hope that i can use my industrial engineering degree to do some kind of industrial design, or to work with the industrial designers. that would just be amazing. i think that maybe engineering was chosen for the job security, that and the sheer fact that i knew nothing in regards to what i wanted to be. so look it just so happens i chose engineering.

i've been thinking about chaning my major to industrial design but with only 4 semesters left i feel like "well, why the hell not. i'm already this far, may as well finish" i just feel so locked in. but it'll be worth it right? i'll be able to work anywhere i want and it'll be easy to get a job and i can just get my masters in design right? right. but then again thats 2+ years away.

so right, back to where i was, what i want to do with my life. i want to ADVENTURE! so what have i done? i've set up a bank account and have called it "adventures" so there's where i'm going to save up money for my adventures. and what's my first adventure going to be? moving scott from Iowa to Utah. Road/flight trip! then later that month we're looking at MacWorld 2010 with Mandi, Vance, and Angie in San Francisco. i'm crossing my fingers that they'll actually go through. and of course, this one is a little ways away but New York, New York with Katie. and various road trips to Utah with Katie and Bonnie to visit Lynard and Scott. I've got my adventures all lined up. So i may be stuck in AZ pursuing this engineering degree i'm not sure i really want but i CAN and WILL leave this place often and get in as many adventures as i can.

and eventually i'll get to go on an adventure to this place.

ace.

2010-08-03T10:31:00.002-07:00

Joseph Gordon-Levitt. i can honestly say that i love absolutely everything about his style from his haircut down to his shoes. he has this old school classy air about him and its so refreshing to see a man with style this clean cut...Scott, if you're reading this (which i'm pretty sure you're not because a. you dont like to read anything but manuals and b. you hate blogs) but with that small teeny tiny glimmer of hope that you are reading this, take notes. you've got the suits and the eye wear down i'll give you that but gee wiz are Joe's jean button up combos an ace!

p.s.
press play before you start scrolling.

2010-08-03T10:29:00.000-07:00

2010-08-03T10:05:00.003-07:00

Sometimes growing up, it gets you down.

2010-08-03T09:42:00.002-07:00

ruh-tard-dead.

2010-07-29T11:50:00.002-07:00

i'm an IT which means when everyone's computers are working the way they should be i have absolutely nothing to do. so today i'm reading a money management book and i took a break and did a little internet surfing. and as everyone knows internet surfing almost always includes some facebook stalking and blog reading.

well upon doing both i stumbled upon a blog or two and read some literature off of them. and all i have to say is....

bad idea.

why do i have to be spiritually retarded?!?!?!?! blast!

well i guess lyndee and i can just keep taking extra showers each week (separately that is...dirty birds) until one of us somehow ends up in the diamond club.....

okay no more complaining about this.... i'm done.

2010-07-29T10:38:00.000-07:00

Baby, remember on the bus and my hand was on your knee
When U love somebody it's hard to think about anything but to breathe
Baby, I am the cub who was washed out in the flood
When U love somebody and bite your tongue all you get is a mouthful of blood

the dog days are over

2010-07-28T12:19:00.001-07:00

“Leave all your love and longing behind, you can’t carry them with you if you want to survive. It’s just time to move on from whatever predicament you’re in and finally be happy."

why i love facebook.

2010-07-28T00:26:00.003-07:00

every day i log on facebook i think "gee this is a freakin waste of my time" until i find items such as these and facebook lives to see another day.

Jess and Kent

2010-07-27T14:17:00.005-07:00

Congratulations

4 days early

farewell my friends. i love you and i'm going to miss you, its been a great run.

HAVE FUN BEING MARRED*

*dobberism for married.

this american life

2010-07-21T11:05:00.004-07:00

its been a while since i've last been here. i'm feeling like i need to get my stuff together just add a little organization.

whats new.
1. i've got a new best friend who just happens to be my boyfriend.
2. love, WTF? i know. at first my thoughts were just like that david after the dentists kid
"why is this happening to me"
"is this real life?"
"is this going to be forever"

but you know i love the guy so i'm okay with all these "feelings" i'm having. haha!

2. i live in gilbert until friday when i move to back to tempe into a new two bedroom apartment with three new roomates Alli, Kacie and Erica. i'm going to miss living with lyndee, jess, and emily.

3. i'm a bridesmaid! this is a first everrrr! jess is getting married on the 31st of this month

4. i'm a legit junior at ASU i really only have 2 years of school left can you believe it?

5. i have a job...i may have made mention of it earlier....or before or sometime...

6. i've got a playstation weeeee!!!! blue ray and little big planet, and Modern Warfare 2
online...that is if it ever comes in.

7. i used to listen to this radio show called this american life and i found out that its on netflix
instant play weee! new favourite show.

8. i will have a brother on a mission in september. blaine's grown up a lot and i'm so proud of him
will portland organ be able to handle him?

i'm growing up. and thats exciting but not that exciting i dont know if i'll ever be able to be a real grown up...i'm fairly certain that i'll always think the same way. i dont have much else to say but here is a groovy song that i just cant get enough of lately....it just makes me want to dance or fly or dance and fly or cruise around on my bike or ride a motorcycle to the moon (ha). either way i cant sit still when i hear it.

HOLY [insert word of your choice here]!!!!!

2010-06-23T10:21:00.011-07:00

well, i'd like to think that i'm a pretty independent gal. in fact i think most people would describe me as such. i've had some good adventures in my life:

getting lost in downtown phoenix with melissa and chelsie at 12.00 am not to mention almost missing the light rail countless times.

riding my bike ALL over the city of tempe with my headphones in gosh i love exploring

deciding to go to chicago for a weekend with mandi

trying to attend general conference (silly us)

attending quite a few first fridays (yes i met the Ghostbusters at one, they're regulars at first fridays)

flying to utah to visit my best friends for spring break

driving around the lovely state of Arizona in search of the perfect indie photo

and about a bazillion other adventures whose memories i keep close to my heart. i love exploring so much! there's so much to see in this world and while i'm here i'll be damned if i dont see as much as possibly can of it. and as for my adventure this summer its a big one.

this morning when i was driving to work i had a holy s*** moment. HOLY SH** I'M GOING TO CHICAGO!!!! pardon the language but thats just the way i am. you know that. i'm going to chicago in about four days but not only am i going to chicago but i'm going to explore the great midwest thats right illinois, iowa, and wisconsin(wiscaaaaaaaaanson). are those states ready for me? i think they are. i'm more excited than anyone will ever know. i get to see green stuff! and i'm doing all this with someone who just might be the coolest person i know, provided he isnt a rapist or ax murderer. watch out midwest team kellie and scott, better known as team EFFIN AWESOME is going to pwn you! hahaha! okay okay i just had to throw in a little gamer slang seeing as also on this trip i'm going to get in my fair share of playstaion hours. so thats going to be my latest adventure.

but here's a couple of songs that will provide a soundtrack to my trip.

oh yeah and this has nothing to do with this post but i watched the US play in the FIFA World cup and they WON!!!!! i hope they beat the crap out of the D group runners up. come on USA if you win odds are they'll make a movie out of it! haha! VIVA USA!

Glenn Miller

2010-06-16T14:37:00.004-07:00

well thank you netflix for always pleasantly surprising me. i haven't seen The Glenn Miller Story in years. in fact the last time i watched it was with my grandpa it was a good time. this is such a swell movie. its a classic and with Jimmy Stewart no less.

wanna go for a bike ride?

2010-06-12T09:31:00.001-07:00

yes? well this is your song. by far one of the best bike riding songs. it makes you feel like you're in the city.....legit.

phi

2010-06-07T13:21:00.004-07:00

this is just a random i'm at work with nothing to do type thing. but my life is almost like this number....the golden ratio. the perfect number. i'm so happy to be alive.

rad.

2010-06-03T11:41:00.001-07:00

this place needs me.

2010-05-29T12:16:00.004-07:00

chicago - sufjan stevens

i am in love with chicago. when i was a sophomore in high school this family moved in across the street from my family. the wifes name was paula and she was from chicago. its funny because she used to tell all about it and i always thought it would be a nice place to visit.

well it would happen that i was to win a spot to FBLA nationals and what do you know it was in Chicago. well as soon as we got into the city i knew that place needed me and i it. theres so much to love. beautiful architecture, diversity, beautiful weather (they have season, real ones!), chicago dogs, museums, art galleries....you name it and they have it. one day i'm going to live there. its fait because Chicago is one of the few cities in the united states that offers a masters in my degree program. who wouldda thought that?

at the end of the month i'll be back in Chicago right where i belong. i cant wait...

well this is new.

2010-05-28T14:11:00.004-07:00

okay, where to start. since i checked in last time quite a few things have changed in my life. here's a little list.

ONE
i'm a working professional!
i'm an IT for the Arizona State University Technology Office that's right i'm legit, tech support for the tech people. ha! i love my job! its awesome.

TWO
i no longer live in Tempe
emily is getting married in June, Lyndee graduated, and our landlady just decided to kick us out. awesome. so because i'm a moving pro (i've moved 8 times in the past two years) i'm chillin with my friend Jess (who is getting married in July whoo!) out in Gilbert for a couple of months until school starts and she gets marred(as christie dobbs would say, i think she meant "married" but whatever we love dobbs). So what up G town.

THREE
i have netflix
i know its not a big deal or anything but gosh have i missed it. instant play rocks my socks.

FOUR
i passed all of my classes and am sucessfully a Junior in the Industrial Engineering program!
heck yes...two down two to go! and my GPA went up!!! take that Fulton College of Engineering!

FIVE
i cut my hair.
6 whole inches off, believe it! much thanks to Kelsey for making it perfect. and i can now blow dry it in under half an hour. hahaha. its freakin amazing.

SIX
I'M THE PROUD NEW OWNER OF A MACBOOKPRO!!!!
that's right. the power is in my hands. this is one of the moments i've been looking forward to my whole life and now its here. his name is Newton and he's fully loaded with 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 duo, 4GB memory, 320 GB hard drive, and the NVIDA GeForce 320 M graphics card. i love him so much! so lots of photoshoping to come!

the good old days....

2010-04-23T15:50:00.004-07:00

i'm sure everybody remembers computer class in high school. the states attempt to teach an already computer literate generation how to use computers. today, i hopped on google chrome to find a hotel room and this is what my brain started thinking.

"gosh, i had so much free time in high school, there was funny stuff on the internet back then".

and all of a sudden it hit me like a ton of bricks...ALBINOBLACKSHEEP.COM!!!!! now come on, who didn't get on this site 10 minutes after computer class started, because we all know those assignments only took about 5 and the other 5 were wasted because we wouldn't shut up...hahaha.

well this post is dedicated to good old Albinoblacksheep.com. i thank you for all of the meaningless hours of entertainment in high school computer class.

and finally the one i know you're all waiting for. SCHWIFTY FIVE!

i'm a sucker.

2010-04-16T11:00:00.002-07:00

so what if i am a sucker for a piano solo and a black and white movie? its been a while since i've watched one/heard one. i love classic movies and i love watching them with friends, mainly vance and mary anne because they are the only people i know besides my splendid uncle that appreciate them as much as i do. vance and mary anne, i miss watching classics with you.

update.

2010-04-12T20:28:00.006-07:00

right o mates i've been slacking at these, i know. welp let see where to start i love the band Phoenix and their new cd is amazing. they are so cool and i'm really diggin this retro 80's rock pop stuff going on empires of the sun kind of got that going for me and when i listened to this cd my love for it really took off. phoenix is so awesome they even made it in a cadillac comercial....if thats not classy i dont know what is.

also another song i fancy from this album is Fences it just makes me want to move to chicago, put my headphones in and ride my bike soak up the city....or just plain old get down....oh yeh.

these guys are just good....if you get a chance check out the remixes. theyre pretty dang awesome.

well tazo. for now....

i'm alone on a bicycle for two.

2010-03-04T00:35:00.005-07:00

Thats right. sing it to me zoe, sing it.

indie at its indiest.

2010-02-23T19:14:00.000-07:00

jack penate. be the one.

2009-12-19T10:49:00.005-07:00

i'm out.... i'm back.

2009-12-15T12:53:00.003-07:00

my winter holiday has officially begun.

i leave you with some visual stimulation.....

seasons greetings

2009-12-05T15:13:00.004-07:00

HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

this is what i did with my saturday.

thanksgiving

2009-11-26T18:00:00.004-07:00

i'm thankful for:

my grandma and uncle.

they're the best example of selflessness

my mom.

she always tries to do what's best for us.

blaine.

he takes care of us and he has amazing style.

garrett.

i know when i say "i love you" to him he'll say it right back.

soffee.

best 200 dollars blaine ever spent, she's a cuddly little dog.

mandi.

i can always count on her amazing taste in music/people and her ability to be accepting of every type of person.

emily for teaching me the difference between

this and this and for being herself.

jessica and her jokes

she makes them funny, even when they're not.

lyndee and lyndeeland.

its possibly the happiest/messiest/stickiest place on earth.

and i leave you all with something that demonstrates yet another thing that i am thankful for... creativity.

fall is beautiful

2009-10-08T17:09:00.003-07:00

i'm so very thankful for the many ways that Heavenly Father speaks to me. i'm especially grateful for the music and teachers sent by Heavenly Father in my life that have helped guide me and keep me on the path that i need to be on. every time i begin to stray i know with utmost assurity that if i read my scriptures and pray and strive to be christlike that i will be strengthened by Him. that in itself is more than anyone could ever ask for.

fall has arrived and the weather is beautiful!

its time to break out the fall music [jazz, big band, frank sinatra, doris day, bon iver, copeland, fleet foxes, coldplay and rooney], the pumpkin spiced latte is here [too bad i cant indulge], and scarfs and hats are back in! i adore the fall season. the colors are amazing [if you live in a place with leaves], the food is amazing [dont for get thanks giving] and the music is amazing. i loooooove it. sigh.

best day ever.

2009-08-27T14:09:00.003-07:00

so far every day this week has been my best day ever. its amazing. i know exactly where i'm supposed to be and what i'm supposed to be doing. i cant imagine what life would be like if i had not chosen to go to ASU.

every day something interesting happens and there are so many people! its so amazing and you know what, i love every single one of those people even if i don't know them i love them for being unique and for being alive.

today i saw a man picking up trash on his way to class even though he didn't have to. it was awesome. the people on the tempe campus are so friendly even when people run into each other on bikes or walking or how ever they do, they say sorry to each other or excuse me. its beautiful. i'm making some new friends and talking to many people. this year is going to be awesome.

and now i leave you with some pictures from the maths building. the first one is in an elevator. and the other is in the hallway on the way to my calc 3 class.

humph.

2009-08-25T22:49:00.001-07:00

i love my friends

&

i miss my friends.

so my next adventure would be to learn how to do the lindy hop. i need a dancing partner. any takers?

my new friend brett dennen

2009-08-22T00:10:00.003-07:00

i love that the driver thinks its a real fight. haha. good one guys.

have a listen.

2009-08-21T11:01:00.002-07:00

"there was nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name" (best line of this entire song)

jack white holds a special place in my heart. i think he's brilliant. interesting video as always but a superb garage band genre song.

2009-08-20T22:54:00.003-07:00

2009-08-19T22:11:00.001-07:00

HP - invent from Tom and Matt on Vimeo.

olympus pen

2009-08-19T22:06:00.001-07:00

thanks old pals at Olympus for making this awesome commercial that doesn't even seem like a commercial. its worth a smile or two!

[personas]

2009-08-19T21:28:00.002-07:00

this is how the internet sees me/a bunch of other kellie taylor's all over the world. mosey on over to Personas Metropath(ologies) and see what it thinks of you.

i love the city.

2009-08-19T11:42:00.000-07:00

Rush Hour London from Chris Searson on Vimeo.

the perfect marriage of city and people.

i want to go for a ride.

2009-08-17T21:43:00.002-07:00

i want to go:

for a bike ride.

have a pick-nick.

fly a kite.

read a book in the shade under a tree.

have a barbie q.

listen to music by a lake.

watch at the stars all night long.

see the sun rise.

watch the sun set.

climb a mountain.

swim just to swim.

I want to enjoy my last days of summer.

who says electric cars cant be beautiful?

2009-08-12T00:33:00.005-07:00

when it comes to electric cars we all start imagining these cars that are uglier than sin itself.

for instance take the nissan leaf. what a piece.

you know Volvo really put nissan to shame when they decided to create the C30.

but when push comes to shove both of the above are knocked out of the ball park by the tesla roadster. i'm more a fan
of the gray model but even in red this car kicks both the leaf and the C30 to the curb.

who said electric cars cant be beautiful. thank you Tesla Motors. thank you.

thank you mutemath.

2009-08-10T18:24:00.003-07:00

i think i may have a new favourite band.

their new cd will blow your mind. its so amazing. the perfect combination of energy and abstract music. i cant wait to see them live.

thats right they recorded part of their cd in a bathroom and the whole new cd was recorded in an old house in new orleans. its no wonder its so captivating. they use macs too! one of my favourite things about this band besides the fact that they have the word "math" in their name is that they dont always use typical instruments which is what makes their sound so unique. they use whatever they have available to them to create music. if that isnt brilliance, i dont know what is.

and to put on a show like this. wow. i cant wait to see them live.

facebook never ceases to amaze me.

2009-08-09T22:22:00.003-07:00

p.s.

mandi, i dont know you but i know i'm smart too. thanks for reminding me.

i want to eat here.

2009-08-07T21:24:00.003-07:00

the name of the place is Yuca Bar [cocina latina]. its really too bad that its in new york. maybe someday i'll get to go. hummm... some day.

which one of these is not like the other?

2009-08-03T18:24:00.001-07:00

i love facebook sometimes...

What the Pirate?!?!?!?

2009-07-28T23:30:00.004-07:00

tonight something very interesting hapend to my facebook. when i logged in i noticed that something was not quite right. as i looked closer and closer at what was in front of me i realized that, "hey, this is all in pirate!" WTF!?!?!?! i know. somehow my facebook language was switched from English (US) to English (Pirate) funny huh! So i guess you can change your facebook language to pirate. i will admit i found it quite amusing and would be a good prank to play on someone... sometime....

Plasticville!

2009-07-09T18:17:00.002-07:00

Justin Timberlake et PlasticVille au Saturday Night Live
by Rock_You_Justin

thank you j.t.

thank you for the blue.

2009-07-02T21:37:00.005-07:00

regina spektor never disappoints.

she's from russia, she speaks russian. and guess what vance is going to too! how awesome is that my best friend in the whole wide world is going to the ukraine and he's going to speak my favourite language. RUSSIAN!!!! amazing.

speaking of missionaries loggin logan is doing quite fine i hear! i got a letter from him a few days ago. and you know what, i cried. i really cried. i miss him so much. i'm so proud of him. when vance leaves that will mean that all of my best friends are gone far far away. i'll be a mess. but you know, i'm really glad they are leaving because they're leaving to do something GREAT. i'm so proud of those men (yes vance and logan, thats you, you're men!) for having such a willingness to share God's word and for being worthy to do so. vance i miss you already. logan i miss you too.

chicka chicka!

2009-06-25T16:27:00.000-07:00

ladies and gents were back in business.

2009-04-23T22:24:00.001-07:00

how indie.

how wonderful.

i love the modern dance spot as well.

feel good.