welcome to my house!

The "Morton". Probably my favorite ride.

LOVE New Orleans Square during the Christmas season

It's too much! I just love it here

And here's why...

He's just leaning on a trash can talking with guests!

That's his grandson Walter Elias Disney Miller

Why is he so cute?! I love this man!

yum

I have no idea what these are called. Because I can't read it. But they are my favorite Japanese candies.

My Dad would buy them for me with chocolate and strawberry pocky sticks.

I just ate that whole box... ok, Kelsi helped

photo thoughts

Clever.

I love Wes Anderson movies. Royal Tenenbaums is a really good one. But Fantastic Mr. Fox is my favorite.

Someday I will own chickens. Not because I really like chickens, or I really like eggs... mostly because I just really love the idea of having chickens...

I can't even express myself here

I just love this whole poster. The red is fabulous.

Fantastic shoot. I love it when you look at photos like this and it just clicks... in case it doesn't click for you: it's the woman from The Birds.

This is my favorite quote from Help! (the beatles movie and my favorite movie ever), expect they wrote John's wrong. He says "Well, you're very polite, aren't you?"

diagnosis

uuuuuuuuggggggggghhhhhhhhh

I'm dying.

I can literally see spots

I hurt from my head down to the tops of my shoulders and randomly the lower part of my back

I feel nauseous

The right hand side of my brain feels too large for my skull and it's throbbing

It hurts to move my head

I can't stand light or noises

What is happening to me?!

I probably have a brain tumor...

thought

I can't stand strollers.

As a Disney cast member with a rough and experienced history of working with all kinds of strollers....

Singles

Doubles

Triple seaters

European design

Cheap Walmart brand

Bicycle attachments

Pieced together

Prams

Buggies

Falling apart

Worth more than my car...

I have learned that I hate them all. They just aren't worth the trouble in Disneyland. Did you know that you can get diapers and changing supplies for free at the baby care centers in the Disneyland Resort? Problem solved. Do they really need all those toys with them? They're in DISNEYLAND!! The whole place is one giant toy! You're child shouldn't need his PSP and Personal DVD player.

And for the record. I was a leash-child. In fact, I had different ones with matching outfits. And matching hats. I say that with pride. And I like to think that I came out pretty well. That's right. I was a leash-child and my children will be leash children.

But until my children are leash-aged appropriate, I will just strap them to my body until they are seasoned.

i need

I don't really get what the tabs are on the bottom except they are commonly said phrases from a lot of their songs. Oh well. I still need it.

photo thoughts

I'm a little homesick for Disney's Hollywood Studios in Disney World

For the record: I don't like this photo. When I first saw this, the one thing that popped up into my head was: "Shut up, Winona. We all know."

WE HAD THIS!!! I need to find out who has it! Mom? Shelly?

The other day I met a girl in the elevator of my apartment building. It was a fairly mundane conversation. But when she left the elevator at her floor, she turned and said "Stay awesome!" I was kind of dumbfounded at that random saying.... Yeah... Thanks... I will... crazy hipster

Mind. blown.

This is from the infamous photoshoot where John got horribly sick and ended up throwing up all over every one. Poor man, I feel like this is the climactic moment captured here...

Oh... Pippin.......

her morning elegance

This is so beautiful. I have always loved stop-motion but this is just awesome

quote

"Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway." -- Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

disneyland update

Ok... so Paul.

I had a meeting with him on Monday. It was the head of the education series for the Disney College program. But anyways, I got there super early because the office building behind ToonTown can be majorly confusing. But luckily this really sweet tiny lady helped me find his cubicle.

When I got there, we just kind of got to know eachother. We talked a lot about school. He was really interested to hear that I was from a BYU school and he said all kinds of great things about the kids he's had the opportunity to work with from BYU. I was pretty proud of my fellow classmates. But we also talked about my schooling and what I'm studying. I told him that I had about a year (roughly) left of school. We discussed plans and options.

My original plan was to become a seasonal cast member, go back to school, graduate as soon as possible, and then move back down to California to be a full-time regular cast member. (I was thinking today... I love California. I will be moving back.) But it was interesting. Paul brought a lot of new and different options to mind that I hadn't thought about. Some were kind of scary and risky and others were smart, but it would mean a lot of change.

It means I'm going to have to do a lot more serious thinking about my future.

And then he gave me all kinds of contact information for tons of different people. Even people I had never really thought about before: a head of Guest Relations and the Ambassador program, a graphic designer, a Disney Weddings planner, a special events planner, and a head of the parks development program (that means he's the props guy for all the windows and decorations. He also decorates for holidays inside the parks!)

I'm really excited for the opportunity, but I've got to work on getting a portfolio together and work on two different resumes: one professional and one creative one. Paul's gonna help me out here, but this is huge! I can really feel something good is going to come from this!

guilty

I've been getting a lot more hours at work now that school's over. So that means more money! Which means... I'm guilty... But I like to say that I made a few new investments:

Records:

And some cosmetic necesities:

-Clinique eye make-up remover (MUCH better than Mary Kay)

-Oscar Blandi instant dry shampoo (I'm trying not to shower every day to keep my hair healthier, but I can't stand ANY tiny bit of grease. This stuff is amazing and gives volume. Plus it's clear so it doesn't whiten out the roots of my very black hair, like most colored ones do)

-Smashbox eye brow crayon. (HUGE necesity for my caterpillars. It fills them in easy and then there's a gel on the end to hold it into place)

-Rosebud Salve. (I hate lip gloss because it's too sticky, but this salve really moisturizes and glistens without the awkward stickiness)

-Sephora eye lash curler. (Did you know you're supposed to curl your lashes BEFORE mascara?! I had no idea! But it works so much better!!)

I couldn't help it:

This is a double decker bus charm and necklace from Fossil. I got it because it reminds me of my mother. Some day we're going to ride on one of those.

thought

How do you know when it's appropriate to call someone your best friend?

I've got the two best friends from home. We've been friends since youth (or some level of it) but when you're older and meeting new friends, how do you know when they qualify?

I also never know how to introduce them. What if you come out to say it and you're like "[Blank], this is my best friend [Blank]" and then you're like "WAIT! What if we're really not best friends?!" It's not like dating, you don't or shouldn't have to clarify that kind of thing.

So how do you know?

disneyland update

So tomorrow I have a very important meeting with the head of the education department of the Disneyland College Program and Internship office.

I've talked to him a couple times about being interested in networking with different areas in the Disneyland resort. He seemed genuinely interested in helping me so we set up a meeting to get to know each other. He wants to learn more about me and what I'm interested so he can help me find different areas that I might be interested in.

We're going to walk around the offices behind Toontown and take a walk around the park. I'm actually really excited about this opportunity. I think this could be my big step up!

Wish me luck!

photo thoughts

Yeah, that's me. Doesn't really look like me though, the angle my friend took the photo makes my eyes look HUGE!

Even hott Marilyn had a cheesy smile. We all have one

I wasn't allowed to watch Pokemon (because it is believed by some members of my family to be animal abuse...) but I think I need this child

No wait... I need THIS child. I'm totally going to try this on my children

I like the mis-matchedness

I kind of miss wearing my red lipstick

They sell these in Disneyland. I've never gotten one but they look delicious...

You are one bad boy Ringo

Oh my business... I cannot convey how much I seriously love bread. Too bad bread really doesn't love me

I wish I could pull off those bangs

thought

AHHHHHGGGGGG!

I was so tired after work. And I kind of couldn't wait to go to bed.

But after a really great hug and a couple of text messages, I can't go to sleep!

I can't wait for saturday.

i miss pippin

He's going to go live in Texas in August.

Poor guy. I have to transfer custody for a little bit longer until I can find our home in Idaho.

I've never been to Texas. Houston seems pretty lovely. Lots of fantastic people there. I'd love to meet them.

But for now Pip is in NYC and I'm in California. So sad. I miss him.

guilty

I just bought this

I've lost a lot of weight over the last year. And I have always wanted to get to that point where I felt comfortable wearing a bikini, but I still want to stay modest. And then on top of it, I found this vintage swim suit. So I think I deserve it.

i need

thought

-Sometimes my nails grow so fast, they hurt

-I hate being the last one to text in a conversation

-I can't fall asleep on my back, I need to curl up

-I have six Beatle ringtones

-Go-gurt makes me gag

-The idea of Capri Suns drinks are wrong: liquid shouldn't be drank from a bag

-I crave pets!

black caterpillars

I used to hate my eyebrows.

I thought they were just HUGE! And on top of that, I happen to have one of the most over-expressionate faces ever. Slut. I can't help it. I don't wear my emotions on my sleeve because they move to my face too quickly.

But I've kind of learned to love them. I'm not a shaver. I pluck my eyebrows. I just recently this year started getting them waxed but that's very rare. It started like this:

I was visiting my Dad and step-mother when Sue asked if I wanted to have a spa day. It was great. We always have a ton of fun on our spa days. We get our nails done and she gets a facial. Well I had just finished my pedicure and the little Vietnamese girl was about to get started on my nails when she kept looking at my face with a strange stern expression.

Finally she waves her nail file around her face and says, "You want eye-brow wax?"

"Uh, no thanks." I would rather NOT have hot wax dripped onto my face and have folicles ripped out so close to my eyes.

Two minutes later. "You not want eyebrow wax? I do really quick."

"Thanks but I'm fine." ok... um still no...

Two minutes after that. "Wax is really good. Cleans it up. No hurt."

"Uh..." Oh MY GOSH! Is there something wrong with my face?! Am I that hideous?!

"... o k ..."

Well, the wax really wasn't that bad. It was relatively great and it really did turn out really good. And then I just tried to maintain it with plucking the odd hairs. And I went back to her to get it waxed again. I'm a fan.

But the point is, I kind of love eyebrows. They really do frame your eyes. And I love mine because they're big and black. They draw more attention on my pale face so I hardly ever wear eye makeup.

And I love the expressions you can do with them! I love to scrunch my eyebrows or raise them really high. Do it. It feels good. And see if you can raise one eyebrow at a time. My brother and I are really good at doing the one eyebrow raise. And my sister is really good at wiggling her eyebrows really fast. I think it runs in the family.

I would love Marilyn's

photo thoughts

I am going to do this in my home

meet my parents

I swear my parents were Sonny and Cher look-a-likes in high school. My mother was a tall, skinny, babe with long straight black hair. And my dad just had a lot of hair haha.

Don't you just want to chase them?!

I miss my long monogomous drives to and from Utah

I NEED this swim suit! I've been searching every where for a high-wasted vintage bikini

Truth.

Also still craving my solo roadtrips

And the black room on campus. Good times spent there. Glenn...

I would suffer through camping if I could camp in this. Looks like a giant tea-cozy