8:34 AM|it's raining. i stayed up way too late watching the Tales of the City marathon on showtime... have to go subject myself to weighing in at weight watchers this morning at 9:30... stayed home last night and cleaned my apartment like heck... still have a bit more to do, but at least the first layer of messiness is up... actually can see my floor, since all my clothes are not just piled on the floor and dresser... what else? my buddy michael called i might meet him in the city for lunch...haven't seen him since october or november... i am hungry and dreamt about eating poached eggs

4:22 PM|went to college (and pre-college college...i will explain later) with this guy: seth grossman... nice photos that kick ass ...

2:29 PM|apparently according to this website... i "must consult a trained physician immediately. Avoid elevators, escalators, automobiles, trains, boats, airplanes and all other forms of transportation." based on my answers

2:01 PM|ok... my friend kate just sent me this website... ha! what a bimbette! not kate... she ain't no ho! :) thanks!!!

12:55 PM|JEEZUZ! just had the wits scared out of me here at my desk... for some reason a 3 year old is roaming the halls and came up behind me and giggled in a high pitched screech... i jumped a foot in my chair and then smashed my funny bone onto my desk.... and then she ran off.... *grumble*
need less coffee.

11:43 AM|a girl can dream, can't she???
i've been unbillable here at work for 3.5 weeks... frightening

11:22 AM|jenna & tonic....

9:42 AM|so this guy i used to 'date' about 4 or 5 years ago - well, we've kept in contact over the past # of years fine... and he has always called me saying 'Rinnie, when are we going to get back together" and crap like that... well, he got married last september...good for him... but still called me late at night and emails and such bellyaching to me..."oh why didn't we work out?" etc.etc... well, last weekend he was in manasquan hanging out drinking with his buddies, and called my cell phone telling me to go meet him at the parker house - i was screening my calls... i felt queasy about meeting up with him, especially since he was married and such... he is not the kind to just call and want to hang out for the hell of it and say hi, let's just say... i haven't seen him in 3 years. he called me EIGHT times from 7pm until 2am last friday night...progressively getting drunker and with each phone call his "Darling" turned into "Sweetheart" which by apparently last call -- which should have been at 8pm for him - he was yammering "My Love, why aren't you here?"

ok... well... i get an email from him this morning asking why i didn't show up and "oh yeah, my wife had a baby boy on sunday night"

WHAT!?!??! mother of god i feel sick to my stomach that there are men out there that behave this way. it's disheartening. it's frightening. it's ridiculous. the guy is 40 years old, with wife &, now, child... i didn't know she was pregnant. and i aready felt squiffy about how he was acting when he was just 'married'.

sorry. i just needed to vent. it's not that i had/have feelings for the guy, it's the fact that he thinks that it is perfectly fine for a husband to go out carousing while the wife is pregnant 9 months...

so i wrote back and said 'congratulations. never ever write me or call me again. you have a child and your behavior is the lowest of the low. goodbye."

what's worse he - every year for the past 5 years - runs for town office in princeton (republican ticket) --every year he loses... but then he bitches about the morality of the democrats?? come on!!!

i feel sick.

11:31 PM|
so, i finally wrote a new rant... this one is fresh from the PATH train this evening.

also, met up with joanne, cathy, dawn, john, oswaldo and glenda (i think that's her name) and went to marco y pepe's in JC... decent enough food, mmmm hazel nut gelato...and good belgian beer

4:22 PM|yipes!!! this guy's nuts!!!!

3:07 PM|ok. salad. feta, sunflower seeds, almonds, cucumbers and low-fat balsamic vinagrette... and a bucket of coffee...yum. full and caffeinated.

1:36 PM|so i am hungry. don't know what i want to eat. freezing here at work. have a hole in my sock and it's annoying my right index toe... too much info... i need a bucket of coffee... have to go hang out with joanne, cathy, dawn and a few others tonight in beautiful JC... i want pierogies for dinner... but i think we are going for cuban food, no chance of pierogies there. *sigh* keep thinking it's tuesday, my internal clock is all out of whack... paying bills and buying crap online today... in desperate need of a new coffee table... hoping dad will make one for me, or a kitchen table with chairs. anyone have a coffee table they want to part with? tell me!!! haven't seen joanne or dawn in about a year. should be fun, think we are possibly heading to the iron monkey at some point tonight... good cosmos, not really in the mood to drink right now...

12:35 PM|ok... so here's a blog for y'all... because i KNOW y'all are frothing at the mouth for me to write!...

11:45 AM|ok. i am pissed. officially. someone i work with needed to use email last week and i was out, so he hopped on my machine, used my netscape, fiddled with preferences and now...now...all of my sent mail and important folders are deleted. fuck. excuse me.

11:12 AM|and i think i shall be trying to come up with a new rant later about something other than my toes or my mom's heart... hmmm... any topics y'all want covered???? anything you think i should whine, bitch & moan about that i haven't already (ha ha)

10:49 AM|well, good morning, chickens!! all is swell and delightful today... even though i had a lack of sleep (up til 3am)... saw pearl harbor last night with joe... the movie was pretty good...not the best thing in the world, but i think that the company i was in helped make the movie a tad more enjoyable :) i really have to clean my apartment... stupid construction guys have not been in to fix the hall in a month and i am pretty pissed off about it, also they were supposed to fix the tiles that had fallen in my bathroom (back in 1998!!!) so it's a shambles. and i need to clean this dump to make it presentable to 'guests'... *sigh* what a nice date last night...

5:37 PM|spinal tap heads to carnegie hall yes!!!

5:35 PM|well, it has stopped with the raining (for now) thank gawd... went out snagged some toothpaste..ahhhhh, clean teeth, not that they weren't but i like to have a little freshen up thang going on before a date... also bought a cheesy umbrella, shook it out and got this huge whiff of plastic stank wafting towards my nostrils... hoping it doesn't rain... so looking forward to going out tonight... i dunno... i enjoy emailing and talking to this guy... makes me laugh and grin... good stuff all around..sure it's the 2nd date... i know i know, i always love the exhilaration and heart palpitations that go along with liking someone... and yes, i am probably nuts for even posting this nonsense on my site (told my mom i posted the groundhog stuff and she freaked...whatever, guess i am an exhibitionist at heart...) i mean i don't yap about "detail" details... that'd just be horrible... but i kinda am treating y'all like friends who i want to share my goofy ass life stories with... yes. i am odd.

4:08 PM|

i am an ass. once again. this time because i didn't watch the weather channel... i DID listen to the radio and they said it'd be nice out... so i slapped on a nice sundress, little sweater, no coat or umbrella...and just take a guess as to what it's doing here in nyc? fricking torrential downpours with thunder & lightening... i am going to look like a drowned rat on this date tonight..sheesh. i can't believe this... maybe i can leave and run over to the store next door and get a crappy raincoat and umbrella... but the 20 feet i have to walk will surely get me soaked... oh yeah, and i would have liked to have gone to duane reade to pick up a secondary toothbrush and toothpaste to keep here at work.... looking like i am sticking with the dentyne in my purse...dammit.

12:12 PM|well, this is JUST what he needs... he should be able to last a while...

10:29 AM|

i was kidding around with my aunt & mom and cousin this weekend saying i wanna get married (ha-ha, like that's happening anytime soon, it'd be nice to first have a steady boyfriend first) on 02.02.2002 at 2 pm - a Groundhog's Day Wedding... i have about 7 or 8 months to train the groundhogs to run the rings and flowers up the aisle in their tuxes... the dress, at first i was thinking would be embroidered with groundhogs and shadows, but then my mom thinks it should have a train that is made from sod, so the groundhog attendants can scamper about... the reception would have a groundhog centerpiece (not sure if it's a floral, ice, or living centerpiece that i want...) and at the end of the evening they would shine the lights really bright in the room, and whoever has the groundhog's shadow pointing at him/her gets to take home the centerpiece... the cake i am still up in the air about... not sure if i want it to be white, or actually be covered in the carvel chocolate crunchies to simulate the 'ground' with the groundhog bride and groom perched atop... still thinking... i think i have time :)

mind you, groundhogs should not be confused with squirrels

12:44 AM|erm... did i mention last week that i met this latest guy off of match.com?? i MEANT to say it was a "mutual friend" who introduced us...yep... muuuu-tuuu-al frieeeend.... please note that clarification...thank you. that is all...
;)

9:37 PM|hey there!!! well, what's to say? quick recap of the 6 days i was home:
• mom couldn't take the stress test, they found out she also has emphysema (sp?) & is rescheduled for next wednesday for a less invasive test - so we are looking at july probably for the operation...arrrgh
• went to monmouth park and pissed away $$$ on the horses... won $20... lost more...
• ate like a freak this past week, probably as a result of my OWN stress test being at my mom's

watching the movie 1941 right now... love this movie...wish they had it paired up with pearl harbor as a double feature in the theaters now!

and also on thursday i picked up this book "Never Mind Nirvana" by Mark Lindquist... so far it's really pretty great!

ok... 1941 is finishing up and i have a bubble bath and a book to read with my name on it!!!