does this ever happen to you?

you know how some weeks, you have enough clothes to get you through the week but you KNOW that you will need to do your laundry on saturday?

and you think about it all week long?

and then saturday comes and you would rather do ANYTHING but your laundry?

and then it's two in the afternoon and you still haven't done your chores because you've been busy doing a lot of other really important stuff like drinking diet coke out of a luminarc tumbler with heart-shaped ice cubes, doing yoga and then pilates just for kicks, watching your roommate hang up some art in the kitchen, watching split ends while really hoping that millionaire matchmaker or any of the housewives shows will be on next?

just me?

ok.

p.s. congratulations to one of my favorite people ever, kathleen, on getting engaged! i wish you all the best, even if it is true that i probably will not be marrying steve's brother. ;)

here's one for you...

do you ever sit there eating chips, watching ace of cakes at 11pm on a thursday and realize:

1. you need to post, stat, or your followers will start dropping like flies
2. chips aren't a part of your 2009 diet and any caloric intake at 11pm is just plain masochism
3. you missed all your shows this week and now you have to watch them online on top of all the other stuff you've got going on during your very busy stay-cation?

i'm telling you right now, it's a heavy feeling. i don't really recommend it.

so here i am. posting. slowing down with the chips a bit. getting giddy about my impending gossip girl/one tree hill/kath and kim/30 rock extravaganza.

but, i actually do have a point (there's a first time for everything). it came to me as i sat watching the new year's day special on pbs with my grandparents. they have been watching this special, hosted this year by the lovely julie andrews, for the past 25 years.

amid the strauss polkas and ballet dances of this year's vienna festivities, ms. andrews wished the viewers a happy new year and encouraged us to take heart and be of good cheer.

i like that attitude, and it reminded me of a quote from gordon b. hinckley that i hope to keep more front-of-mind in 2009:

go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart. love life and look for its opportunities.

i think that about sums it up.

happy new year!

and thanks, erin, for reminding me of the quote every time i read your blog.

can i just say...

thank you!

thanks to all who follow my little blog and double thanks to you commenters. today i've been combing through you lovely peeps who follow me, checking out your blogs and the other blogs you follow. and i have you say...you're splendid!

my blogging bestie and real life gal pal emily once told me, "there's no stroke to the ego like someone saying they read your blog." and i wholeheartedly agree.

my goal this month is comment more often. so many times i'll read one of your posts and have an excellent dialog with myself about it and then not post a comment. sad, i know.

being that november is my birth month (yes, the actual day is the 28th but i kind of like to celebrate all month long because let's be honest...who'd that ever hurt?), i thought i'd give a little more love and be a more active commenter.

so, get ready!

30 rock.

can you wait? i couldn't wait. if your patience level is anything like mine, you should click here.

a big thanks to becky for pointing this out to me!

tagged!

okie dokie little smokies, i've been tagged by cassy diane to name six random facts about myself and then pass it on...so here goes!

1. my family has a gift for chocolate chip cookies. everyone has talents, but we got the best one. (haha. in your face, other people. good luck with all your sports and stuff!)

2. i love the feeling of stepping out of an air conditioned building and into the hot summer sun. even better getting in my hot car and thawing out from the arctic chill of my office.

3. i think diet coke goes with everything.

4. my favorite neutral is gray, and i especially dig it with yellow.

5. when jack johnson was cool, i got a guitar. i really like it and i hope i get really good someday, but i don't think i've played it in oh...four years.

6. i color my own hair and hope to own a posh salon in an old (but restored), quirky cottage somewhere.

i tag nathan, because he's a new blogger. and...anyone else who's dying to talk about themselves. and we're bloggers so let's be honest...who isn't dying to talk about him/herself?

let's get down to the issues.

amber at webbworldwide had this to say about the debate last night, and i thought i'd repost it because, classy dame that she is, amber believes in equitable jabbing.

I don't like to get into politics, but here's what I wish the
presidential candidates were REALLY debating about.

Me: Senator McCain, if elected president how will you help my teething twins to sleep through the night?

McCain: Let me tell you about Joe the Plummer (Grinch Grimmace). He wanted his own set of teeth, but the government was taxing him too heavily (blink blink), making them completely unaffordable. As president, I will not raise taxes so your teething twins and Joe the Plummer can acheive the American Dream of growing their own set of teeth.

Me: The American Dream? Uh, ok. Senator Obama, how would you help my teething twins sleep through the night?

Obama: (Craning neck) There are plenty of people with teeth to go around. With all these people chomping on more teeth than they can ever grow cavities in, why do babies need to grow their own? As president, I will make sure those who have any more than 250,000 teeth will pony up all the excess (flashes pearly whites). They don't mind. They already have too many teeth. Then your teething twins can skip the teething process and start out life with a complete set of adult teeth. Plus I will send them off to college.

Me: They're eleven months old. Weird.

thanks, amber! i think that about sums it up.

happy birthday, melissa!

yay...i know i've already posted twice today, but how could i forget about my dear melissa anne (aka hark or pretty pretty provo)?!

don'tcha like this photo i pirated off her facebook?

three things you should know about melissa:

1. she has really good abs and she doesn't have to try like, at all.

2. when we were roommates the first time, we had another melissa who we named "tex," because she was from texas. we called birthday melissa "pretty pretty provo," because she's really pretty and she's from provo. so. you know.

3. she is a sister after my own heart in several ways...one example: she taught me my fav diet mantra: "i don't drink calories."

happy birthday, melissa!

a love letter.

dear chuck bass,

what is your deal, anyway? i want so badly to know who messed you up. because i love you.

you're a dirty rotten scoundrel, and i want to help you.

if you ever looked at me with that little glare thing you do, i would probably want to laugh, but i would hold it in because i love your preppy arrogance.

i love it.

and so does blair. blair is the only woman i would surrender you to.

so give a sister a break. she will come around.

xoxo,

hollylynn

happy birthday, amber!

i already suck at this "shout out to my people on their birthday" thing. i'm a day behind for amber dear.

three things you should know about amber:

1. she's a sweetie! the first friend i made when my parents moved me to IDAHO on my 14th birthday (of course, when you're 14, everything your parents do ruins your life).

2. she has the best taste in music. if it weren't for amber, i would have never heard of guster.

3. she has twin one-year-old boys and they're adorable. collin in particular is my bff. grant is lovely also but we don't know each other as well.

happy birthday, amber!