I’m going to try to sound positive right now.

Dear Weather,

Really?!

Really, weather?

You’re going to give me over a week of sunny skies and 60+ degree weather in mid-March and then revert back into cold and snow that make my cute little intermountain west town resemble the icy bowels of Hell? Really?

Yes, I believe Hell is cold. It’s my blog, and what I say goes.

I will admit:

Perhaps I was a little premature in my spring cleaning and swimsuit inventory taking. Perhaps I blonded too early in the season. Perhaps in washing my car, I was a tad bit presumptuous.

But for the love of lemonade, turn the beat around, dear weather. I’m tired of complaining about the cold. I want to instead complain about how hot it is in my bedroom and how expensive it is to cool my house and how asinine it is for adults to have to work all summer.

Please? I’m not too proud to beg.

Love always,

hollylynn

exciting news.

you. i need to talk to...both of you...about something exciting.

i have exciting news that people are talking about. (name that movie i probably misquoted.)

it's called the sweet tooth fairy bake shop and if you live in utah, you need to go to there immediately if not sooner.

i just went. yes, i enjoy baked goods now and again. if i didn't, this blog would be called, "since i'm really skinny."

now that that's cleared up.

i selected a black and white cookie (chocolate cookie with "signature" cream cheese frosting) and a strawberry shortcake cupcake (some kind of white flavored cake with real strawberry frosting and a slice of chocolate covered strawberry on top).

i'll be honest, i thought i'd prefer the cookie. and ok, it was basically the best cookie i've tasted in years (sorry, mom, grandma and all my aunts). but then i tried the cupcake and i said out loud when i tasted that frosting:

are you kidding me right now?

friends, this is the frosting we will eat on everything in heaven.

like seriously, go there and get that damn cupcake. you won't be sorry.

why you hafta do me like that?

dear 30 rock,

what the heck, people?! i have been talking you up to basically everyone i meet, and you let me down. i just hope none of my "investigators" were watching for the first time tonight. talk about embarrassing.

gosh, it would be like bringing a friend to church and having the weird old lady get up and go on a incoherent racist rant before one of the even more expressive congregation members makes his way to the pulpit to perform a rousing rendition of "pour some sugar on me." with bagpipes.

that's what it would be like. i'm not kidding.

last week was actually funny. i have included a recap of that good episode below my signature for your review. please try to live up to this in the future.

disappointed but still committed,

hollylynn

well, all right.

first of all, did you know that 'all right' is ALWAYS two words and that under no circumstances is it correct to use 'alright' ever ever ever?

you know now.

second of all, i thought i'd tell you all what i think about barack obama. i bet my opinion is the first you've seen all day!!! yep, i have lots of original thoughts.

when brian williams told me that obama had won, and by a landslide at that, it was an emotional moment for me. i couldn't put my finger on what it was. i mean there is the obvious historical significance and the strides our country has made that the election has made evident and the fact that these times are so freakin depressing we'll all pretty much cry at the drop of a hat. but as i've talked to some people and listened to some npr and read some good blogs, these are some impressions:

1. the sheer number of votes obama received makes me satisfied that he is indeed what the country wants. in the past two elections, i never really felt like bush "won" as much as gore and kerry had just lost. if that makes any sense. no real majority ever really backed bush the way they backed obama yesterday.

2. obama's victory shows america's preference of hope over fear. i find that quite inspiring.

3. obama has a huge task to live up to all the hope we've placed in him.

4. let's back this guy up. shark bait referenced this bob lonsberry (who i've never heard of - is that bad?) quote and i agree:

Those who didn't vote for Barack Obama must set a higher standard of civility and citizenship than those who didn't vote for George W. Bush. In defeat, there must still be nobility.The last eight years have taught us what happens when you set out to destroy a presidency for political gain. You help your candidate, but you hurt your country. That pattern must not be followed with this new president. America must treat Barack Obama better than he treated George W. Bush.

did anyone else get the warm fuzzies?

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