now it's time to say goodbye... to all our company...

This is so depressing.

But not really. Just nostalgic.

I'm moving! (Blogs)

I'm heading over to Tumblr because they're nicer to my photos. It's gonna be really hard. I am really going to miss the look and the lay out of this blog. The new one looks less Disney. But I may fix that in the future...

I'm gonna leave this one up, mainly because I'm afraid I'll lose people, or get lost myself, but here's my new one.

www.hollyhdays.tumblr.com

See you on the other side!

the hallmark's are taking over both disneys

Today, I feel just like this child.

My homework for this weekend is all done, and now all I've got to do is go to classes and finish up some last-minute errands and then off to Disneyland tomorrow!

But I'm a little bummed. My Dad, his wife, and my brother and his little family are in Disney World today. WDW was my first Disney home so I'm a little sad that I'm missing out on it. Especially since they keep asking me about tips for places to eat and rides to take the little boys on. It kind of breaks my heart. I want to be there so I can show them my Disney. Its been over a year since I left and I feel kind of remaniassent today.

But on a happier note: I got my holiday season schedule planning form, and it looks like I'm going to be going to Disneyland for all of the holiday seasons. I'll be working Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. I'm happy to know that I'll be going back to work. I've really been missing it. But I'm a little bummed that I won't be able to spend the holidays with my family. Who knows the next time I'll get to see Pippin :(.

It's a good thing I love my job.

i am useless

I am so excited. I literally can't do anything. I am useless.

I feel like a little kid still. I lay in bed planning all the things I'm going to do. I imagine the sights and smells (waffle cones of Mainstreet). Last night I tried on my costume with all of the pieces together. Seriously. It's BOMB!

My suitcase is almost fully packed. For the last three weeks, we have been counting down the days and now there is only two.

Bahhhhh!! I'm freaking out!

3 days!!!

I finally got all of the components of my costume together. And I've already started packing.

But I can't wait!! I'm freaking out daily. The Halloween fireworks, the special World of Color, the decorations, the party, the costumes, and my friends!! I can't wait to go back and see everyone from work. 

I love my job and I miss it every day!

restless night

I'm not going to be doing any sleeping tonight.

I made the mistake of going to a hay maze with my roommates and some friends in the dark. For those who don't know me directly, I'm one of the jumpiest people you will ever meet. It's not my fault. I had brothers who had far too much fun with me when I was little.

Then after that trial, the guys wanted to watch a scary movie. Insidious... NOT recommended.

So now Alyssa and I are laying in our beds with our christmas lights on and Disney music. Mostly to calm our fears... but also because we're going to Disneyland in 6 days!!!!

Thanks to the genius of my older sisters and my mother, I have the coolest Mary Poppins costume. No photos until the joyous occasion though.

So have good dreams about that!

photo thoughts

I love vintage engagement rings. I think this is very classic and stunning

Someone told me I looked just like this photo of Cher. I think she looks just like my mother in high school. I take it as a compliment.

This is absolutely amazing. If I could somehow mold this ring with the previous vintage ring, then this would be my perfect ideal ring.

I'm going to do this. With crayons and an embossing gun

I also really love this cut

I'm obsessed with lace dresses right now

Heh, awwwww

good news

I lost 10 lbs in less than a month!

This is big news for me. I am not a skinny girl. Instead, I am a curvy woman. It's partially my pal, gene's fault. I was born to birth big headed babies, so my hips would put Shakira's to trial.

I haven't been doing anything unnatural either. I hate the idea of diets, after being in dance for a good part of my life and being obsessed with the ballerina lifestyle, I've seen too many horrible outcomes of unhealthy dieting.

Diet. I freaking hate that word. I feel like it has become a nickname for "hating my body, so instead I'm going to destroy it with unhealthy habit-forming techniques".

I love my body. I've got these crazy awesome hips and I'm strangely flexible. I've got amazing dark hair and I like how when I smile my eyes turn into these almost asian half-moon smiles from my Native American Granddad.

But I've decided that if I like my body so much, and I want to keep it for longer, I'd better focus on the long term.

I started this "eating plan" (see what I did there?) with increased protein, vitamins twice a day to compensate for any nutrients that I might be missing out on, cutting out all starches, gluten, and natural sugars. Basically what I'm doing is resetting my hypothalamus (which is the part in your body that decides where to take it's energy) without a drastic cutting-down of calories. I'm teaching my body to take energy from the saved up storage in the body's fat, as opposed to the food I'm taking in.

It can be a little exhausting sometimes because you're body doesn't quite get the memo of where the energy is the first week or so, but afterwards, you gain your energy back and you notice that you're not as starving all the time.

It's completely healthy and I'm not starving my body of anything that it didn't get before. Well, except for maybe guilt and self-conciousness... That's right. I'm feeling pretty hott.

holly's horrible no-good rotten day

Today has been horrible.

I woke up this morning from a very much unwanted text message that put me in an upsetting mood the whole and only increased later on that evening.

I needed to do laundry and be productive, but then I washed all my jeans at the same time, so I had no pants. Therefore my productiveness was delayed until the dryer was done. I hate that. Productivity is a rare mood to be in.

I had to go to the post office to find a package I sent that FedEx lost. Only to find out that they called some stranger and delivered the package to a different address. Now it's going to take me days to find it.

While at the post office, I locked my keys and my wallet inside the car. I don't have an extra set of keys and my AAA card is in my wallet... in the car. After contacting AAA, they sent someone over... 45 minutes later, after freezing out in the freaking early October snow, they arrived and it took 10 minutes to get my car to start because the engine was too cold and I was low on gas.

I abandoned my other errands I had planned to do and just went home. I couldn't feel the lower half of my body, both hands, or my upper lip. So I just got in to bed and laid there pitifully. My roommate and her overly amorous boyfriend were in the living room, and I kid you not, I could hear suction cups. So that was not awesome, further reminding me of the text I awoke to.

I hardly ate anything. It's funny how self-loathing can really take away your appetite. But now it's 12:08 am and I'm starving.

I give up. I'm going to bed. If tomorrow isn't better? Then I'm staying in bed.

photo thoughts

Ha! Pop culture... you're the best

Disney is real life

Precious

Awwww

Heh, he's smiling

look-a-likes

I have a fabulous friend down in California, and he gave me the greatest compliment I have ever heard. He said that I look like the love-child of Ava Gardner and Myrna Loy. It's weird, but Myrna Loy totally has my nose and Ava is just fabulous.

I can see the resemblance. I'm totally kidding.

Ava Gardner

Myrna Loy

la famille de mon pere

This is a little family photo I found of my Dad when he was growing up... he's the goon in the red tie, in the front row.

I love this photo because they are perfectly in center. My grandpa probably took it and he was always very meticulous. I love the harsh light of day and how it totally drabs everyone out in this photo. 

You can just tell that it's one of those photos that no one wanted to be in, but my adorable Aunt Tracy (the young girl in the front) smiles on in the front row next to the goober that is my Uncle Alan and my Aunt Penny (the stunning one in the red dress) looks totally glamourous as usual.

But I kind of like them all. I guess I'll keep them around.

photo thoughts

These have been piling up on my desktop, so I needed to clean house...

Waldorf and Statler

Ok, I think I could love this kitten

I liked trying to figure out who these people were. I got most of them

I knew I loved him

I plan on doing this, although I don't own any orange books

My future child

Ohmygosh... those ears

"Quick! Hide the books!"

I don't know which is more attractive, him or the camera?

Well, he is, that's for sure

Love the bikini

ambitions

I don't know why but the word ambition always makes me think of the word 'amphibians', which means frogs, and this post is nothing about frogs.

I used to be a big list writer. I make lists almost every day. Things I needed to remember, things to do, things I'd like to do, things that I like, things that I love, just random stuff.

Today I've been making a list of things in my head that I'd like to improve on, so I just wanted to write them down before I forgot:

• improve my manual skills with photography
• practice my french more (read books and watch films in french)
• go to the library more often
• run three miles in 15 mins
• learn more songs on my ukulele
• learn more chords on my guitar
• go through my Facebook and cleanse my friends list (not to be a jerk, but sometimes you realize that there are people that you really don't need to keep in contact with)
• make a new 5 year plan
• figure a plan to graduate within the next on coming year
• create a formal resume and portfolio

These are all short-term ambitions obviously, just stuff I aspire to get done soon. I think they're all reasonable, if not easy.

sick day

I'm sick today.

So instead of going to bed at a reasonable time like my mother had insisted, I watched YouTube videos. But they're amazing!!

First: this guy's proposal, aside from being in my backyard of Downtown Disney, is freaking adorable!! Just look at how nervous this sweet guy is! It happened just a few days ago, on the 24th. I wish them the best... even though I have no idea who they are.

Second: These are my future children. I already know I'm doomed to have twins, so I think I have a chance. I happen to love the game Just Dance 2, so when I saw them playing it, I knew I need to recreate these kids for myself. I love it.

ahhhhhhhh!

I'm going to Disneyland in THREE WEEKS!!!

greatest photo of all time

This is a photo I randomly stumbled upon. It's a photo of the world's smallest man dancing with his cat in his doorway. I have no idea who it's buy or what it's called, but it's fantastic.

texas

These are just some shots I got from my first visit to Texas. My Dad just moved to San Antonio, so I got to take little adventures on my own. Meaning: my step-mother dropped me off at the Alamo for a few hours while she and my Dad had to work. Needless to say, I felt independent

Antique store. Closed. Lame.

The Alamo... I kind of love this old man who took almost 30 mins for him to read a 5-sentanced dedication 

The River Walk

One of the first Walgreens

Fralo's is an amazing out-doors brick-oven pizza place

fact

The perfect cure for a headache, stomach ache, body pains, and/or extreme crankiness is a warm shower in the dark.

Today I was a beast. It was one of those days where I was having an ok day, got kind of tired, so I decided to take a 50 min nap. Well instead of waking up refreshed, I woke up feeling like a steroid-overdosed viking. Needless to say, I was a beast. Which was proven by the instance where I physically and violently shoved my roommate's boyfriend out of the apartment and slammed the door in his face for jumping out at me and scaring me half to death... it was a reflex?

I haven't gotten any homework done and I feel just as nasty. So I throw my flag in the air. I give up. I'm going to bed, I'll try again in the morning.

But really, the shower helped.

thought

Day 9 of 1 year without soda.

While doing the dishes, I could smell the citrus lemon of the dish soap and I instantly wanted a Sprite.

I thought about licking the newly clean bowl, but I determined it would give me a lesser if not disgusted satisfaction.

Needless to say, I resisted and I need to get a different dish soap.

photo thoughts

I don't think it would be possible to get in this shower without having to sing, "I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair"

I would love to do this

I don't know whether I should laugh, or be afraid that my kids would do the same thing

I need a poster of this

To the left is a full body scan of a 250lb woman and to the right is a scan of a woman 120lbs. It's just some inspiration I needed. I lost 4lbs this week. 

I saw a collection of this artist's work. He draws different celebrities on match boxes and uses the sticks as hands