I'm Published!!! (ish)

I'm on our writing team at work which basically means when I have free time I pick an article from our list and I have to write it. I've been trying to stick to How-To articles (like Andie from How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days!!) but today's article is the top 5 Chandelier styles! Yesterday our lead came around and was showing everyone that MY article on how to clean down comforters has been posted on our website. It says Staff Writer but we are working on changing those so that we get some credit for it! This is just the first of MANY articles that I will be writing for work so please check it out! :) I'm really proud of it.

http://www.overstock.com/guides/how-to-clean-a-down-comforter

Boise!

So my friend Jaci was going to visit her brother in Boise and asked if I would like to tag along with her. Naturally after checking with Tracy I said heck yeah and we set off on our adventure:

The first pic of the trip. Jaci calling her brother to say we are on our way!

I know how to relax on road trips! Except if you look at my left ankle you can see how jacked up it is... gross.

Random northern utah scenery. These little barns were in the middle of nowhere. It was kind of cool.

Welcome to Idaho!!

Really bad dust storm that we were in. It didnt show up well on camera but it was bad!

We passed this guy and noticed he was reading so we slowed down and i attempted a pic but missed and so we had to speed back up so i could capture his image. Seriously who reads while driving?? Apparently this guy does but we must have embarrassed him because he stopped. We passed him an hour later again after we took a potty break and it resulted in us pointing and laughing at him while he was laughing at us. Good Times.

The Snake River.

Flat topped mountains.

We ate dinner at this drive in. It was featured on Diners, Drive ins and Dives. It was ok.

The host of Diners Drive ins and Dives. They have his picture up in several places.

The Boise Sunrise. yep thats right SUNRISE! We went to the Farmers Market in downtown Boise Saturday morning. I gotta say downtown Boise is cool but I really didnt want to see it at 7 am on a saturday. ok fine it was 8 am but still!

I was so tired and it was freezing, so I laid down in the sun.. and I fell asleep. Whihc is seriously CRAZY for me! I dont sleep with noise and the farmers market was NOT quiet. It just goes to show how exhausted I was. Luckily Jaci and her bro were nice enough to let me sleep while they slaved away selling granola bars (which are AMAZINGLY delicous by the way. Everyone check out www.loadedgranola.com and buy some. The strawberry cracked black pepper rocks my world)

Cool bike taxi that is free! If i would have known i would have cruised Boise instead of sleeping.



Just a shot of downtime Boise


After the market we ate lunch at this dive of a pizza place called the Pie Hole. I thought the decor was totally college town-esque and the pizza was awesome! Dives are the best places to find great food for cheap!

On the way home we stopped at Loves gas station. Because Jaci's a love. haha it was cool

Home again Home again!

Saw this cool barn thing on the side of the road on the way home. I love how this pic turned out. I dont know how i didnt notice it on the way up!
Thanks for the fun weekend Jaci!!!

BBC Book List

BBC Book List

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and make those you have read bold.
2) Star (*) the ones you LOVE.
3) Italicize those you plan on reading

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte *
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling*
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee*
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read about half of these...)
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck I freaking hate this book
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis Well I've only read the first two.. but i want to finish them!
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding*
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir NabokovI only finished half of it.
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding*
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary –
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Stitch

Introducing Stitch! The newest member of the H. Clan!! Today at work someone was like does anyone want a free chinchilla with a cage? and I jokingly started saying memememememe!! Well little did i know that he was serious and I really ended up with a free Chinchilla! Which is fine with me because I've always wanted one!! And it came with a HUGE cage! So BONUS! Today was an awesome surprise! :D

LAVA LAVA LAVA LAVA

Ok the title is totally a flashback from choir tour my senior year. I'll give a dollar to whoever can tell me the name of the play we went to see! :) OK probably not really a dollar but I'll totally give you respect. lol. So we went up to Lava Saturday afternoon and we came back Sunday afternoon so it was a totally quick trip but I had to work Friday night so we couldnt go up Friday afternoon like every one else. Our campground wasn't the coolest campground ever, right off the main road and right next to a busy train track, everyone else seemed really bothered by it but honestly the only thing that bugged me was the stupid rooster that started crowing at 4 am. I can sleep through trains and traffic but not unfamiliar noises. and it was freezing!! Kelcy somehow poured water on me right before bed and i didnt have any extra jammies to change into so i just toughed it out. lucky for me i got snuggled in between the human furnace, Tracy and Madison who ended up in my sleeping bag. I thought it would be better for her to share with me than be freezing herself so we cuddled all night. It was both of the girls first camping trip and they loved it!! Kelcy is already asking when we can go back. One nice thing about our campground is it had a large playground right next to our spots. and it had goats, bunnies and mini ponies for the kids to feed and have fun with. Also flush toilets are a huge plus for me as i have severe issues with portapotties!!
We went swimming almost as soon as we got up there because it was ROASTING hot! I was dying so we all changed and climbed over to the newly revamped pool. ok maybe not newly but I havent been there since our honeymoon 7 years ago so its new to me! The funniest part is when Tracy went down the new curly water slides he created such a huge wave at the end that he scared the crap out of a lady waiting for her kids at the end. She seriously screamed HOLY CRAP and was clutching her chest. I laughed so hard I fell down the stairs. So we decided he should go down again and I would record it so everyone could enjoy. YOu can hear me say on the video the little girl that came down before him should get out of the way but what you cant hear is the little girl and her brother screaming in surprise at the wave when Tracy comes out. Its awesome! Enjoy pics of our mini-vacation and please tell me how funny the video is!












So ready to go home.

Kelcys poor I dont want to go home face!