It’s Holly

damn i love that song. turn yo’ speakers up!!! it’s on the radio.blog. “let’s call this song exactly what it is…(what it is what it is what it is….) Rock Steady, baby!!” damn i love that song. miss aretha can put anyone in a good mood. listen to Goapele, too. I saw her a few months ago with Musiq. She was off the hook. They only play her at 1 AM on BET, though… she won’t get no love anywhere else.

i’ve been lacking with my blogging, i’m a lazy bastard. so sorry.

i got this new freelance job through a friend of a friend. they sell natural herbaceutical remedies for everyday problems (genital warts, herpes, cirrhosis  of the liver… what have you. lol). the guy that hired me sent me their detox kit. i can’t wait to start it, but i definitely want to wait until after paris, ’cause Lord knows everything that’s going in my body there is gonna be toxic. it’s very interesting to read the herbalist’s writings. It sorta grosses you out. Let’s just say I can’t eat yogurt or drink milk after reading it, and meat is gettin’ kinda shaky. He talks about how we should be putting whole, raw foods in our bodies, and not dead animal carcuses and cow mucus (see what i mean? lol). Very enlightening.

People probably get sick of me when I learn new stuff, because it’s all I can talk about. I’m big on research. If I want to know about something, I’ll google it to death, find out everything I can about it and tell you and ya momma until you get sick of hearing about it, or until I’m bored with the subject and have moved on to bigger and better things. this month’s obsession is the raw foods diet and detoxing. Last month it was all about calories, how many you have to burn to lose 1 lb (3500, btw). Or you can be -500 calories a day and burn 1lb a week. I can give you more info, just hit me up. I’ve done researched that one to hell and back. Just because I know all about it don’t mean I follow it, tho. lol

sigh

20 Days until Paris

man oh man. baguettes and butter, make way. Jonathan said they don’t even give you butter with the free bread on the table – they give you moutarde (mustard, y’all)! mon Dieu! (see jonathan, i’m practicing). then they look at you like a stupid american when you ask for butter. that’s okay.
Je suis une Américaine stupide! Et vous, vous êtes un canard gigantique!

Is everything conjugated correctly, Jonathan? I aint’ gon’ lie… i had to look up the cojugation for “être”, but at least I knew which conjugation to look for, right? right! Four years of french and all I can say is that I’m a stupid american and you, you are a gigantic duck.. sigh… how sad for me. Ah hell, they’re used to tourists by now. Why not add me to the bunch.

on sundays, my mom likes to cook one big ass meal so she won’t have to cook the rest of the week. so all week, we eat the same meal for lunch and dinner…all..week…long. it’s not bad, i mean, the woman can cook. so this past sunday she had just gotten back from the store and i asked her what she was making. she said chicken. i peeked in the bag and the label says “Young Turkey”. I said “Mom, that’s a turkey.” And she says “Well, it was the biggest chicken I could find…” ::sigh:: only mom mom could get away with something like that. it was good turkey though.

my new addiction: RICE CAKES! oh man… these things are good. They have ranch flavored, too? It’s like eating potato chips man!!! Rice cakes and carnitas street tacos (carnitas, baby!) from Rubios. I got a couple tacos for me and moms, and all night she tried to convince me that “carnitas” meant “tongue”. I’m thinking to myself, ohhell, all this time i thought it was just pork!!! she had me going there for a minute. it’s braised pork. i swear, it’s not tongue. right? right!

The new countdown: 28 Days Until I’m up in PARIS …baguettes and butter, baby!

i go through these phases when I’m addicted to a certain food. Last month is was tuna… and we ALL remember the fruit cup phase. but man oh man… i can tear UP a fruit and yogurt parfait from mcdonalds, man. that granola is somethin ‘else. i could prolly eat ‘em all day long, if i wasn’t so lactose intolerant. one serving i’m good, but two? it can get a little gassy up in thurr. so i went on the website to check the nutritional information and I get all excited. Only 160 calories and 2 grams of fat? Hot damn! I could eat this all day for real! But you know those bastards at WacDonalds, always tryin’ to fool a sistah with happy radio jingles (“I’m lovin’ it!”) and big smiles. Turns out that was for the “Snack” size. I only found that out because I went to nutritiondata.com and got the lowdown. There, they tell you there are TWO sizes – snack and regular. You know th WacDonalds site didn’t say whether it was regular or snack size. lying bastids… Regular ain’t no damn 160 calories. Try 380. Which is still okay, for what it is… but dang. I was all excited when i thought they were 160! hmph.

our microwave is broken at home, and for me, you might as well shout out “Armageddon!” ’cause that shit is like the end of the world for me. i’m hungry as all get out last night, tryin’ to heat up some leftovers in the microwave so i can eat it with some hot fresh rice my moms made (mmm, mmm!!!). The only button that was working was “Clear/Stop”. Oh hell. I’m punching in times, hittin the “Popcorn” and “Thaw” buttons…I hit the little Reset/Test buttons on the outlet…just going crazy. How is we gon’ eat without the microwave? What you want me to do? Use the stove? Please…! But that’s what a sista had to do So I asked my mom about the microwave and she was like “Why you think I made fresh rice? I had leftover I wanted to heat up but the microwave wasn’t working.” Man oh man, you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone. You may think I’m crazy, but you unplug your microwave for a day and try to do without. I was like “I’ll be right back, I’m goingn to work to use the microwave…” lol It’s no joke. Appreciate your microwave!… and everything else you take advantage of on the daily basis.

1. What do you do for a living?
I’m a web designer… or so I like to think

2. What do you like most about your job?
It’s really laid back. Not like my last job (full of stress and crazy germans… not that all germans are crazy, just these particular ones). All my co-workers are really cool people to work with and I get a fast ass Mac G5. That’s all I really need

3. What do you like least about your job?
… I can only use the same 3 colors for everything. it can be “confining”, but you learn to get creative with those 3 colors, I tell ya.

4. When you have a bad day at work it’s usually because _____…
I ate some dairy based product and i don’t want the bathroom to explode. Yogurt, café mocha… apples do the same thing to me. Or I’ll eat a big lunch and be in a FOMA (food coma) for the rest of the day.

5. What other career(s) are you interested in?
I know I don’t really want to be in front of a ‘puter for the rest of my life. I want to do something where I can talk to different people (who aren’t complaining… customer service is a no-no!). I would love to be involved in music, but not be famous. Just rich and behind the scenes

call me a fan, call me obsessive, but i’m going to see prince again. this time, this one is tagging along. since she rarely gets out anyway (except to shoot targets and buy books on PHP), I decided that it would be a nice birthday present to take my big sis. She’s not *technically paying for the ticket (she’s just subtracting the amount from my “Bank of Big Sister Who Makes More Than Little Sister” debt), so it *can count as a present, right? right! hopefully i won’t be looking at the back of prince’s head the whole time (which was actually still quite alright with me!), but I know we have floor seats so it’s always that possibility.

i’ve got 40 more days until I’m off to Paris for two weeks to visit jonathan. I am too excited. I’ve got a little Paris Trip countdown on my whiteboard at work n’ everything.

I finally organized a whole bunch of my baby pictures. i’m thinking of using them for a new layout. we’ll see if i feel inspired.

that’s about it.

Yeah… i went ahead and turned off that autoplay feature on the radioblog. i knew if it was annoying me it was annoying the *hell outta you. so ya welcome.