Road Tripin'... Sunday driver

I actually really enjoy driving. It's relaxing and just an automatic thing. You can empty your mind and just drive. You get to watch the scenery change. It's funny to watch all the drivers go by you singing to their music. You think it's funny until you realize that you're singing to your own. I love singing in the car. There's no one around to hear you and its just freeing.

I drive down to Provo when I can. My friend Tabitha lives there. It's great. It's a six hour drive from flat desert-like lands to being surrounded in a bowl by mountains. I love it. But it's nothing like the trees of Washington. I miss them terribly.

I also really miss Washington drivers. Idaho (and sometimes Utah drivers) are HORRIBLE!! There's reckless and just plain dumb. They tail gate you all the time and they always speed. I guess what bothers me the most is the tail gating though. It's just rude, not to mention extremely dangerous. Ugh! It gives me the worst road rage! Seriously, I'm getting more angry just thinking about it! *Sigh* ok... I gotta let it go. I'm only going to school in Idaho, I'm not living in Idaho and I never will!

But I've got my ticket to ride...

Because I LOVE GRAPE JELLY!!!!!

So I was hanging out with Gabe the other day when I found her awesome Ukulele. It was out of tune but I know a couple of guys who are musically handy with tuning guitars. So I took it back with me in hope of finding out how to do it myself. I looked online and found an online tuner. I would push a button and it repeatedly played the tune so I was able to match it by ear. And I DID IT!! That's right, without ever learning how to play any kind of stringed instrument, I was able to tune a Ukulele! I even went online and found the cords. I learned 5 cords!! I'm totally excited! And I totally want a Ukulele now.

I know, I know... you're probably thinking, this is another one of Holly's bizarre hobbies. There was the long boarding, the tie-dying, the scuba diving, etc. Well, I would long board if there wasn't about three inches of ice on the ground. I would tie-dye if it wasn't expensive, and it's kind of hard to go scuba diving in REXBURG! But it's ok. I'm not about to spend money on an instrument that I have no time to play with. But it was a fun achievement for this week.

Holly Hallmark Photography

So I love photography. I'm really working towards becoming a wedding photographer. I've got a long ways to go but I'm working on it. But to give myself practice, I take pictures for free or just of things around me.

I know I do tend to take a lot of pictures of my brother's family and of Disney but I can't help it, they're all just so beautiful!

Check it out at www.hollyhallmarkphotography.blogspot.com

Please comment!

This is how I want it!!!!

A guy who worked at Disney proposed to his girl friend on Main Street. I TOTALLY need to be proposed to in Disneyland! Except I don't need it to be QUITE so dramatic...

Watch her face!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpojZ0COU3Y

Note to Self

1- Always wear socks from now on (wore slip-ons to school today and it HURT!!)

2- Always keep a hat on me (my ears are going to fall off)

3- Keep tissues with me at all times (icicles formed in my nose, ouch!!)

4- iPhones were NOT made for Idaho. Must use fingerless gloves

I HATE Rexburg, yes it's December so it's obviously getting cold. But Rexburg has redefined the meaning of "cold" "freezing" and "OUCH!" And the worst part of it is that it's not even gotten to the worst part. It's only 15 degrees with wind. Pretty soon it will get down to -20 degrees... with wind. I'm dying! I am literally freezing to death! And another horrible thing is that I feel like such a wuss! There are people who are from Rexburg and Idaho Falls who are used to this kind of weather, this is just the balminess of fall to them. They walk around in just sweatshirts and jeans, on occasion they'll wear their hood up but nothing more! Then in my french class, the guy that sits next to me walks in in his normal attire of a button up shirt, a zip-up hoodie and jeans. Now granted he is from Canada, but I wanted to grab him by his thin cotton collar and shout "Why are you crazy?!"

At least I've come to the realization that I am a Pacific Northwestern. I shall never live in Idaho or Utah after school. I'm sorry those of you that are fellow Idahoans or Utahns, but you're all crazy and your driving sucks...

Christmas Wish List

So my lovely friends and family keep asking me what it is I need for Christmas, but I don't really NEED anything. I think I've gotten to the age where, yeah, getting presents is nice but I'm not really DYING to get anything. So here's a list of things I would like to have. I'm not asking for these things directly, they're either things that would be fun to have in the future, that would make my life easier or that just sounded cool to me at the time. But no matter what I end up getting, I know I'll be thrilled with it.

"D23"Disney Membership

Snow White Special Edition DVD

Star Wars Origional Trilogy

Classic Beatles Poster

iTunes Cards

Little Miss Sunshine Soundtrack

About a Boy Soundtrack

Magic Bullet Blender*

Ace of Cakes Book

Holga Camera (there's one at the antique shop accross from Ivars on the pier)

Full day at the spa

French Cook by Julia Child

Julie and Julia movie

Old Bound Books (classics or in french)

Camelbak (Water backpack for snowboarding)*

Star Trek Movie

Wolverine movie

1st Class Plane Tickets to somewhere

Yoga Mat*

Slipper boots*

Dark Colored and thick soled UGS*

The Seduction of the Crimson Rose (book)

The Reader (Book)

Mirror Mirror (book)

Petunia Picklebottom "Diaperbag" (but NOT for a baby, its good for a camera bag)-- Scout Rubicon Rucksack

*If I don't get these, I'll just buy them myself, they are needed for school*

Not Thankful for the week before Thanksgiving

This week is CRAZY! I can't seem to keep my head in my books. I am SO antsy to just get home for Thanksgiving. I've got a Book of Mormon test that closes tomorrow; I'm debating on just taking it now and getting it over with. But the thing is that my teacher never gave us a study guide, he's letting us use our BoMs but other than that he didn't even tell us what's on the test! Then I've got a French test tomorrow as well, and I'm so beyond lost in that class right now. I blame the inappropriate Canadian next to me and the girl with really cute shoes everyday (their names are withheld for their own safety...). Not to forget, the three papers that are due tomorrow for my film class, the movie I have to watch and the two quizes I have to take on it. Then there's the online Book of Mormon blog I have to do. Now I'm not complaining about the fact that I have to do these homework assignments because they really are quite simple. It's just the fact that I have to do all of them before I leave for thanksgiving!!

I haven't even told you about the French presentation I have to write DURING the holiday weekend...

I'm thinking I should just get the Swine Flu again and tell all my professors that I'm in quarantine... again...

Getting Back in the Game

This blog has been seriously unused. I thought that the only people who ever looked at it was my sister and the occasional visit from my friend back home. But after my first college roommate scolded me for no updates, then I felt seriously guilty. So I'm going to try again. With a new make-over; because you always start anew with a fresh face, I'm going to attempt this again. But who knows, maybe blogging is just not my thing...

House Renovations!

Jeff is currently putting up the closet doors. So when he's finished with that and the mantel downstairs, then I'll post the remaining photos...

Thanksgiving means thankful for guns...

For Thanksgiving, most of my family came down to Wendell Idaho where my sister-in-law's family live. I didn't know this until coming to school in Idaho, but on thanksgiving, the typical thing to do is to shoot shot guns. I had never even TOUCHED a gun before so I was terrified out of my mind to shoot one, but it was freaking AWESOME!! I even hit 5 clay pigeons!

Me with my childhood family's Mayflower set

That's right, men WATCH OUT!