It’s Holly

so i haven’t quite made the switch yet. I think since82 will just be my portfolio site. I’ll be moving the blog to itsholly.com, as soon as I sit down and make a new design. There’s nothing on there (itsholly.com) now, but I promise it’ll be holly-licious.
anywho, not much going on in the land of holly. just working, and (planning on) going back to school. i’m a lazy bastard when it comes to school. ugh.
the whole atkins thing just isn’t working for a sista. i don’t know why. i try and i try… but damn you complex carbohydrates, i’m addicted. so i’ve decided i just need to take my lazy ass to the gym. and i plan on doing that on all the nights reality TV sucks. So Monday nights is all I’ve got scheduled so far (I’m not really feelin’ Average Joe). Tuesday and Wednesday is American Idol.
Speaking of the greatest reality TV show known to mankind… I want to propose a new version of American Idol. You know how there’s spinoffs, like American Idol Juniors and whatnot (which I didn’t watch)… I want Celebrity American Idol. All you’ll hear is the voices of the celebrities, no images. And they’ll compete, voice to voice. I want Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, J.Lo, Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, Nick Carter, Aaron Carter, Madonna – every celebrity that has no right to be a celebrity due to their singing “abilities”. Don’t get me wrong, Janet’s dope, but she can’t sing a lick. I think it could work. Simon would yell at all of them.

so i’m switching hosts. (sorry, liquidweb!!) it’s nothing personal. dreamhost is just cheaper =) thanks. so if I disappear on ya, it’s because i’m switching. my comments weren’t working yesterday, but all is well now. There was some weird security php thing that required me to upgrade greymatter. until i upgraded liquidweb suspended my account. so that’s that. anywho. if i’m gone, you’re not forgotten. i’m just having technical difficulties.

every morning i get two hard boiled eggs and a side of bacon from the cafe downstairs. Now, when I walk in, the cook looks at me and says “side of bacon”. At first I was like “did he jsut call me a side of bacon?” Then i realized i just get the same damn thing every morning. I could just as easily make it at home and bring it to work, but it’s not the same. it’s my atkins friendly breakfast, to go with my atkins friendly snack, which turns into a not so atkins friendly lunch (usually involving some sort of bleached white flour…). Something about lunch time just makes my ass wanna cheat. so allison’s on lookout duty during working hours. when i say bread, she says no. when i say chocolate, she hands me a piece of atkins friendly nasty ass diarreah causing “endulge” bar from my low carb goody drawer. Tina, you got lookout duty at night. This is food lockdown, y’all. My pants are getting too tight for this.

on a lighter note (no pun intended)…

the best voice i’ve heard this year: joss stone. she’s like a big black chaka khan in a 16 year old white girl’s body. listen to her, she’s pretty good. I just like listening to her voice… so much so that I don’t even sing along! well, not until I learn the words, anyway. the end… and go.

Coldstone. I love Coldstone. For those of you who don’t know Coldstone, it’s the best ice cream shop ever. So I went in to get the parental units some ice cream and I see a new flavor… “Sinless Sweet Cream – made with Splenda”. Holy Jesus, Batman. I almost had a seizure, I was so happy. I could do Atkins AND eat Coldstone? Perfect! So I bought some. Just in case, though, I went home and checked the carb count on the coldstone website (coldstonecreamery.com). The Sinless Sweet Cream has more carbs than the REGULAR sweet cream. oooh, i’m mad. somebody’s teeth gettin’ kicked in for this one. Get my hopes all up, just to shoot me down. bastards.
so, i don’t get to eat my sinless sweet cream. sad, I know. I’ll just drink a quart of cream and be done with it.

I was listening to the Steve Harvey morning show, as usual, and they were talking about how whitney houston’s christmas album flopped. first of all, i didn’t even know she had a christmas album out. in light of her drug habit, i’ve written a little ditty that should have been included on that album. it might have boosted sales. here’s an excerpt. it goes a little something like this:

(sung to the tune of The Christmas Song – Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire):

Crack rocks roasting on a metal spoon
Cocaine dripping from your nose
Crack hos, with their eyes all aglow
Stole my VCR, left the remote controls
Everybody knows, some crack rock and some mary jane
Help to keep the season high
Though it’s been smoked many times, many ways
Pass the crack pipe, to me

We’re still working on the second verse.

i sorta slept through it. i figured that since i was awake for austrailia and japan’s new year, i didn’t really have to stay up for california’s. little brother chris just got back from visiting jonathan in paris, so i went to see him yesterday. what started as a trip to pick up the presents jonathan sent back for me ended up being dinner and a visit to little sister at Tillys. i wanted eggplant parmesan, but our favorite italian restaurant was closed. so we ended up at vigiluccis in encinitas. 3 appitizers, 2 entrees, 1 dessert and $105 later, we were done. we’re food snobs, we can’t help it (you would have been proud, jonathan). the chocolate mousse was crazy. the description was “chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, with a touch of chocolate”. And that it was.

big ups to little brother chris – my fellow food snob. one of the few people i know that can appreciate a good bruschetta.

big ups to jonathan – the only person that would send me french food as a christmas present. hot sauce, banana-kiwi jam, strawberry jam, “summer fruit” jam, a bottle of bordeaux, two types of dijon mustard and chocolate. Man, you should have warned me about that mustard. that shit is like wasabe. my eyes almost popped out. it’s good tho thanks, you’re my favorite.

hope you all have a great year. don’t forget to write 2004 on all your checks.