01 Apr 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

You ask.."Do we have any kids?" My Answer..

One (what seems to be short) year ago, Jeff got a letter in the mail. To be straight to the point — it said “You have a child and you now have to start paying child support.” Hold up. What do you mean a child?

Yes, boys and girls, after a blood test, Jeff has a five (six in July) year old son. His name is Taylor.

He and his mother live in Kentucky, where Jeff is from, and Jeff’s parents and sister get to see him quite often.

So what’s a girl to do? Your boyfriend/might as well be husband of 5 years gets this letter. My only option was to completely freak out about how crazy this whole situation was. This letter comes on April Fool’s Day. Seriously, what are the odds?!

Most of this should have been handled better. How our address was given out for the letter to arrive to our house, the time it took for Jeff to find out (3 years), the fact that he was not the first from his family to meet Taylor and what had to happen in the child’s life for Jeff to get this letter.

I will be the first to say, I am WAY stubborn at times and this was no exception. All of this has bothered me for quite a while, but I do believe I am making strides towards wanting to communicate with everyone again. It’s got to be baby steps for me (no pun intended). I try not to be an all or nothing type of person, but then again, I’m not the type that likes to tip-toe around others that I am not pleased with.

Jeff and I have talked to Taylor a couple of times on the phone. He is super polite and he likes to draw. (Wonder where he gets that from!) We bought him an art kit from Disney last month and sent it to him via Jeff’s parents. He said that he liked it which makes me happy.

There are times when it hits me, “Wow, Jeff has a child. And it’s older than our friend’s children — friends that are SEVEN years older than us.” I know no one expects this kind of stuff to happen. Had Jeff had been the “I sleep around” type then it might not have been so shocking, but he’s not nor was he ever like that. This was his first time. (I guess that must count for something right..first time and 9 months later there is a child. That’s pretty serious!)

My best friends yell at me because me, being me, I make little sly remarks toward Jeff when we go out. It’s not meant to hurt anyone, but I guess it’s just my way of dealing with things.

Jeff messed up once and he was blessed to have this sweet little boy. He is human.

I am human. I mess up too. I am mean. And when I get angry/hurt, I get WAY mean. I say things. I do things. And I don’t think about what I’m saying. I apologize, but I AM human. I will get mad again. This will effect Jeff and myself for the rest of our lives. Will I think about it daily? Of course. Will it bother me deep inside? Of course. Have I forgiven him? Of course. Did he do something wrong? Well, besides sleep with someone that he shouldn’t have ever even touched, no.

From this day forward, when people ask us, “Do you have any kids?” My answer will be, “Yes.”

27 Mar 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

Home and Garden Show 2009

Thanks to Melanie (aka @modernmami) and no one else signing up, I won two tickets to the Central Florida Home and Garden Show!

Jeff and I went on the last day of the show, Sunday, March 17th. We walked around for a bit looking at everything that there to be looked at. The best part was — since Jeff and I look “so young”, I guess none of the vendors thought that it was possible for us to be homeowners..so none of them bothered us with, “Would you like to see our wonderful, smart, excellent, awesome product that you can only buy at THIS home show for half price!”

About half way through, Jeff spotted Tom Sorrells at the WKMG area, so he stopped to talk him to about Twitter.

I remembered seeing that Louis Petrozza from Hell’s Kitchen was going to be there! Sure enough, we walked around the corner and there he was! I cut through all kinds of companies’ set ups and headed straight to where Petrozza was doing a cooking demo. We walked in when he was almost done with the cooking, but then he passed out the dish that he cooked. So I figured it was my opportunity to get some pictures of him — AND get one with him..which I DID!

Here are some other pictures from the day!

See the rest of the pictures on flickr.

25 Mar 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

1970. What?!

Tuesday morning when I woke up, I was completely scared out of my mind. What do you mean I have to go sit in the dentist chair for THREE hours? Ugh. It was time for my first crown. I arrived a bit early. I sat and waited…and waited…and waited. Finally a bit after 10:00 they called me back.

I had given the receptionist my new “discount” card — to which she came back to me and said “Our insurance department has to call your insurance company to make sure that you can use both.” To which I blankly stared at her and then said, “But..I don’t have insurance.” About 5 minutes later, a different lady came back and informed me that my insurance was still active and that I was better off using it. After trying to tell her that I didn’t work at Disney full time anymore and my insurance was canceled almost a full year ago, she abruptly stopped me and said, “You have insurance and Melanie and Ashley still have insurance as well. I just got off the phone with your insurance company.”

HOLD UP! Did she just say Melanie and Ashley?! Huh? So I asked who they were and she proceed to tell me that they were my kids. …………. Interesting. She then said, “Your birthday is November 18th, 1970 right?” No offense to ANYONE, but I ALWAYS get ID’d and I don’t believe I could EVER pass for 38. I’m 23. Yeah yeah, “you’re just a baby.” I hear it all the time. I get it.

“Kelly Walker” is a very common name. I went to school with a girl named that, she used to always get in trouble and they would call ME to the office and I would have to tell them “You’ve got the wrong Kelly Walker”, which just seems like a lie in itself! Being a Kelly Walker is hard work.

So that’s how my visit started — I was sure it was going to go down hill from there. Thankfully it did not. MY dentist is wonderful. I started asking a couple of questions (ie. “Why are you putting a string in my mouth right now?”) and he explained pretty much everything to me after that. Super nice guy and along with him, the hygienist was great!

Besides being shot in the mouth three times and being numb for about 7 hours and continuing to have pain – my temp crown is in and it’s as wonderful as ever. Thank you Dr. Nordman!

My mouth does not look like this anymore! No more pointy edges on my tooth!

18 Mar 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

#paddytweet @izeainc

For those not “in the know” — that’s reads “There was a St. Patrick’s Day tweet-up at Izea”.

Lots of green beer, Rockband and pizza. What more could one ask for at a tweet-up? Alright, I guess there were some nice people there as well.

Izea had “Show Me Your Shamrocks” t-shirts made for St. Patrick’s Day and the first 20 people that showed up got them. And yes! Jeff and I both got one! Woohoo!

I met some new tweet-ers: Rae Hanson, Mitra Sorrells, Tom Sorrells, and Philippa Channer. And then there were the “regulars” that I’ve met before, but it’s always a pleasure to see: Carri Bright, Ashley Edwards, Ted Murphy, Anthony Richardson, Melanie Edwards, Susan Payton, Shawn Roberts, Ross McCoy and David Bain. (sorry if I left you off — I tried SUPER hard to think of everyone!)

Oh and sorry about “yelling” at you, Andrew Beard, when you guys were trying to get TedTube up and running in the lounge-y area. (MAC TO THE RESCUE!)

Our paper tweets from the @elross kiddos.

Thanks to everyone at Izea for a wonderful time! And hopefully next time Jeff or I will have learned how to be XSHOT MASTERS! (Thanks to Ted for the help!)

The rest of the pictures can be found on flickr.com

28 Feb 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

ESPN The Weekend 5k — I survived!

Saturday, February 28, 2009

I completed my 3rd 5k in a year..and my 2nd this year! Here are some pictures and a short little video from the run.

This may have been my proudest moment of any 5k..I didn’t need to use my asthma inhaler nor did I even think about it during or after the run! You have no idea how happy that makes me. That is HUGE for me!

My friend Angela finished in 31:52
My mom finished in 49:18
And I finished in 52:57

P.S. — In the video, it’s my mother that is smoking a cig. Just her..

25 Feb 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

American Idol..Is it really THE Experience?

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Jeff and I went to see the newest attraction at Walt Disney World — The American Idol Experience. It was mainly to go see Jeff’s latest work! Which was just exciting in itself!!

This is a picture of a T.V. screen which includes Jeff’s work on the small screen.

After seeing his work in the pre show, we decided to check out the actual show and see if it lived up to all the hype.

I’m going to admit this..and it does not, I repeat does NOT leave this page: I watch American Idol and I sometimes enjoy it.

Maybe had we had seen at least the finale I would have enjoyed AIE more, but it seems like to fully get the whole “experience”, I would have to see all the daily shows and then the finale. I can’t say that there will ever be a day that I feel like sitting in that room for 7 hours off and on. But hey, maybe one day. Plus, it truly depends on the “singers” for the show that you are watching. Yes, they have gone up against others that day for that spot, but maybe you don’t always agree with the judges and you would have liked to have seen someone else. I mean I didn’t agree with who won our show. But then again, that’s life.

Either way, here are the pictures (that was my favorite part — taking pictures). Enjoy!

22 Feb 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

Tweetup at an Irish Bar

Saturday, February 21, 2009

How many non-Irish folk can you fit into an Irish bar? I wish this was a set up to a joke, but it’s not. The answer is about 100 completely different people from twitter! 100 people shoved into Scruffy Murphy’s in College Park makes for an interesting night.

Jeff and I met up with our friend Tommy and we had a little walk over to the bar. We were early, but all was well and Mickey, from SomaCow, was there already so we grabbed our first drink of the night. Thanks to Mickey for our drinks! All of the SomaCow guys are great…well I can’t say that for J though..seeing as though he apparently doesn’t ever want to come meet others, so I haven’t met him yet..

Shortly after, others started flowing in and by the end of the night I had walked around (yep..I continued standing the entire night, even after…oh…6? beers. Oops!) and met quite a few wonderful people (I also did some catching up with others that I got to meet at the Ichiban tweeup). Including, but not limited to: Carri, Sir Kyle (because that is what I will always call him), Ashley, Anthony “I don’t have a butterfly on my keychain” Richardson, Garth, Katy, Marc Middleton, Geoff, Jen, Mickey, Ross, Shawn, Etan, Daphne, Melanie,  and Susan (who is a great alarm system–she kept Jeff from stealing things from my bag! Which I greatly appreciate!)

Thanks again to Etan and Daphne for putting together a wonderful tweetup. I can honestly say that I never expected that many people to show up. Who would have thought?

Below are some of my favorite tweets the day of the tweetup! And then pictures from the tweetup!

Video from Marc Middleton and Katy Widrick from GrowingBolder.com
What is a tweetup?

18 Feb 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

Serious website meltdown

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

I am sitting here working on my photography website..which I haven’t updated since November of 2008. I’m not sure how exactly I want the “gallery-to-store” links to work, but I want to make it the easiest for YOU! So please, click through the gallery and tell me how YOU would like to see or have seen an easy “click here to buy” function. I don’t really like how it is now..if you find a picture that you’d like to buy in the gallery, you then have to go to the store and find the same picture. Not that it’s that difficult because they are in the same categories and named the same, but I just want to make it the easiest thing possible for YOU.

This is where you come in. The incentive: I will be going through reading the comments/emails and whichever way I think will work best for peglegpug.com, that person will receive ANY print from the website of their choice! Try your hardest to explain to me the way your ideal gallery/store functions would work.

peglegpug.com

Comment below or e-mail me at kelly@peglegpug.com

12 Feb 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

Is Magic Kingdom's New Parade Really New?

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Technically “Share A Dream Come True” parade is no more. Although from what I saw on Tuesday 2/10, I would kinda of have to argue that.

For those seeing a Magic Kingdom parade for the time will not know any different, but those that have seen the parade literally hundreds of times probably will not like the “Celebrate a Dream Come True” parade. It started back on January 23rd and I hadn’t really heard anything good about it. So a friend and myself decided to go check it out and see what we thought..only way of knowing right?

Although a float or two are “different”, there isn’t much change to those. Throw some ribbons and balloons on it and call it a day. A few of the characters have been removed — Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet, Robin Hood, Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum, Baloo and Stitch, 6 of the 7 Dwarfs to name a few. As my friend said, “Don’t they know Pooh doesn’t go out without his friends?”. Apparently someone missed that memo. The villains is mainly the same, if NOT the exact same. And Snow White’s Prince Charming has been added with her. Oh and Bert is with Mary Poppins now!

This new parade does a couple of “show stops” (if you’ve seen the Hollywood Block Party Bash, you’ll know what I mean). The only problem with that is, unlike Hollywood Studios where there is bouncing and fun things happening down the whole street, “Celebrate a Dream Come True” parade contains dancers….dancing. And well, I can see them dance when they are walking down the street. The characters don’t seem to be the main part of this parade and that’s probably my main problem with this parade.

And to top it all off..I can not STAND the song. It was horrible when Corbin Bleu sang it on the WDW Christmas Day Parade and this isn’t any better.

Have you seen this parade yet? If so, did you ever see “Share a Dream Come True”? If you haven’t seen one or the other, what have you heard about it? I’m very curious to know!

But oh well, those are just my opinions on the parade..now for the good stuff..the pictures!!

10 Feb 2009, Posted by Kelly in Blog, Featured, 0 Comments

Mini Golf — Fun for Everyone

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

I’ve been trying to plan a little miniature golf outing the past couple of weeks due to the fact that as a Disney cast member, we get a free round of golf through Thursday, February 12. Sunday, 2/8 was that day! Angela, Scott (aka Scangela) Jeff and myself (aka Jelly) went to see what was going on with the Disney golf courses. We’ve done them before, but hey, why not! It’s free! Plus I’m always up for some mini golf. You will see the details of what happened when we arrived.

Highlight of the night: Scott AND Jeff both got a hole in one!

Are there any places around the Orlando area that have awesome mini golf courses?! I’m always looking for some golf places.