10:10 AM|okay... am still waiting for kerry to pick me up...

realized that a year ago today at this time i was in dublin....

*sigh*

9:14 AM|brilliant....

ok, i am off to be devoured by west nile skeeters and maybe see a bear or deer... yay!!! talk to you monday!!!

2:06 AM|"Heck is where people go who don’t believe in Gosh."

2:01 AM|well... my birthday was great!!! cathy took me to see the Irish Tenors at Radio City Music Hall... i love them. i cried during Green Fields of France... pretty much is up there as one of my favourite songs... absolutely brilliant.
then afterward we ventured up to the Rainbow Room for a drink (65th floor of 30 Rockerfeller Plaza)we had 1 drink each... total for the bill (not including tip) was $33.00 -- holy crap!! felt like a tourist from arkansas when i saw the $$...

cathy is having lasic eye surgery in the morning and i am SURE that all will go swell... i hope so!!!

met up with joe afterwards for a little bit *sigh* met 2 of his friends who seem really nice... swell eggs...

god the flowers he gave me last night for my birthday smell absolutely fantastic!!! so i pulled one of the pink roses out and have it sitting on my imac so i can smell it (and i would be lying if i said i didn't put it there so i could look at it too and think of him.)

OKAY OKAY, yeah yeah i am getting mushy... GOTTA PROBLEM WIDDAT??!?!

i will be away for a few days, probably back on monday -- going to the mountains with mom, aunt judy, and my cousin kerry -- hopefully weather will be nice and ker & i can go kayaking...
talk to y'all later!!!

1:13 PM|shoot. it's pouring and i didn't head down to the little spanish lady who washes and folds my laundry... now i gotta pick it up in the pouring rain....poop... but....in any event...

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!

11:40 AM|oh looky here! the fed ex guy just showed up with a package... on my BIRTHDAY!!!

"how sweet!," i thought,"someone sent me a present!"

no. it was my belongings from digitas being shipped to me. hey THANKS digitas.

10:29 AM|i can't believe i didn't make the list! it's actually michael gross and meredith baxter's birthday too...you KNOW... the "Family Ties" parents

yes i am listing some who share my day with me :) :

Berke Breathed (Bloom County)
Prince William of Windsor ... yep, kids, he's 19
Jean-Paul Sartre
Robert Pastorelli, the painter guy from Murphy Brown
Joe Flaherty... from SCTV fame!!!

10:14 AM|well, my dad called me at 6:08am to wish me a happy birthday and wake me up so i could have a long day... awwwww... and a hearty THANK YOU to those of you who sent your birthday greetings to me!!! yer just downright sweet!!

irish tenors at radio city music hall this evening with cathy... then she wants to go to the rainbow room afterward ... did i mention BOTH of us are unemployed?!?! i think Rudy's on 9th would probably be more apropos!!! haha

3:10 AM|have you ever asked 'someone' a question to try and define a situation... thinking that you will hear the answer you are hoping for, yet, you receive an answer that sort of - not totally - but sort of is the equivalent to a slap in the face - no, strike that, not slap in the face but the answer he gives sort of stings? not going into details. just feel like an ass for asking a heart on the sleeve question. (dumbgirl apparently didn't die at midnight when i turned 31 *sigh*)

other than that, i had a FANTASTIC pre-birthday evening... monty python's holy grail on the big screen, and even had flowers (roses and gerber daisies and a few others... but since i am not a botanist, i can't tell what the one flower is... i do know there's baby's breath, too. really sweet)

just wish i hadn't tripped and fallen so hard so quickly.

5:06 PM|i have to hop in the shower... am meeting up with joe at the stoned crow...then he's taking me out for a night-before-my-birthday dinner of paella (jeez, did i spell that right?)and then we're off to see the rerelease of monty python's holy grail on 12th... i loves me the python boys!!!
my apartment is once again untidy...not a dump...but untidy...still presentable... but...

and i hope i don't run into the poor man's gallagher again!

12:32 PM|so... i dragged my butt over to the bagel place ordered up a coffee and a cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese slathered on it... plunked down at one of the tables outside and sat for an hour reading Plan B... scary, i could get used to relaxing like this so easily... then i treated myself to a manicure and pedicure...

oh, so yesterday, i wandered into the city around 3:30ish to forage for food. i get out of the PATH at christopher street...and i am walking around...beautiful day, needed to get out of sledgehammer noise pollution apartment... i'm walking, i'm walking... all of a sudden this guy walks out of a grocery and *SMACK* into me!!!!! freakish redheaded skinny pasty guy (normally i LIKE this look, but not this day) guy grins says sorry and walks away... i hear another guy say "Hey CarrotTop, how ya' doin' today?" and the redhead answers 'fine"

fricking bumped into CarrotTop. (apparently he's a web designer now, too. cripes)

i don't know if our paths crossing might be similar to a black cat crossing my path or not... i just felt a little depressed... couldn't bump into ray romano, jim gaffigan or kevin james...or seinfeld for that matter...no, i get CarrotTop. story of my life, kids... *sigh*

ok. that was a really catty comment. sorry, CarrotTop. forgive me.

(memo to self: start writing material and get the heck back up on stage SOON! i mean, come ON! you have the time now, er)

9:04 AM|by the way... drinking and cell phone use should be illegal. that's all i am going to say

8:20 AM|okay how sad is it that i am really hungover -- well, sort of hungover.... yet, i am now able to wake up at 7FRICKING30 without an alarm, now that i am unemployed?!?!?!

1:29 AM|i am drunk. drinking the 'dole away like the sterotypical irish girl i am...

1:18 PM|the upside to being laid off on june 19th...

1. now i can catch up with my "stories"...
2. it's summer, i lost 21 pounds, and i bought a new bathing suit... i don't have to hide my pasty white skin no mo'... tanning accelerator, baby!!
3. on thursdaythe 21st i will have achieved my ultimate goal of being a unemployed, unmarried with no-offspring 31 year old woman with semi bad credit that has to take care of her sick mother... i am hoping to get crow's feet and halitosis for my birthday - so keep your fingers crossed.
4. i get to hear the construction guys wielding, scraping and banging their sledgehammers against the metal balcony outside my apartment for 8 hours a day.
5. i can catch up on my nail filing
6. i get to revamp my resumé for the umpteenth time in my life.
7. i never tire of hearing the "awwwwww, you poor thing, you lost your job?" phrase and especially the 'pity look'
8. when i am hungry and can no longer afford food, i can go back to my old habit of watching Emeril on the Food Network and feel full and satisfied... and also POSSIBLY lose weight.
9. i can pretend i am a teacher and tell people i get the summers off
10. i get to nap ANYTIME i want.

10:11 AM|i am psychic. i am also unemployed. :)

12:15 AM|okay... well, maybe i am jumping the gun a bit...but IN CASE i get the axe from digitas tomorrow (er, today, i mean...) i suppose i am going to have to check out Planet Pink Slip more seriously... oh yeah... they have pink slip sympathy cards, too... *hint hint* oh... and you CAN kill two birds with one stone by getting me a Happy Birthday/Happy Layoff Present

5:18 PM|trying to revamp my illustration section of my website...
http://www.gigglechick.com/erin/resume/illus.html

3:29 PM|anyone out there ever sell clip art? thinking of that as a semi-last resort.

anyone out there ever sell their bodies? thinking of that as a last resort.

2:45 PM|um... i just ate a dirty water dog. i was a bit skeptical of it at first (as i should be) but decided to eat it anyway - even though it was a weird shade of greenish-pink. getting to the last bite, there was some unrecognizable 'chunk' and i had to throw it away. i think i have been put off food for a bit. drinking an iced coffee now to wash the phantom hot dog bits away...oh gawd.

12:25 PM|ok... now i am starting to get a bit anxious. what the hell will i do if i am laid off? will i get severence? will i ever find a decent job again? will i have to resort to waitressing (a little rusty at that since i haven't done it since '94) maybe i could do caricatures in the pubs down the shore again (haven't done THAT since 95... but WAS making $200 a night in tips) crap. looking on web for freelance illustration jobs... not a lot out there. dad invested in digitas stock, so i can't hit him up for $$ crap. ok ok ok i am POSSIBLY counting my chickens before they hatch...who knows MAYBE i will remain unscathed... but i am doubting that.

i need freelance illustration work! anyone?

kicking myself for taking on mom's mortgage. scared to death about the whole mom/hospital thing. great, will be 31 and unemployed on thursday... well, at least i MIGHT have the entire day off. ha. gonna look into the teacher/class thing... perhaps that might be the way to go.

do i sound manic as heck? yes. you lie if you say no.

hmmm...wonder how ireland is fairing with the internet job thing??? hmmmm... arrgh. i do not like how i am feeling about this... yeah yeah, i always land on my feet, but, come on God, stop testing me (okay okay...maybe this is Your way of telling me to do something on my own like i have been wanting to since birth... so many ideas for children's books and greeting cards... time to get off my tookus, eh? Erin the Procrastinator is on her Death Bed, huh? time for the rebirth of Erin the Do-er???)

ok. fine.

11:15 AM|well...word on the street is that the 'pending layoffs' will be happening here tomorrow... yikes... a strange calm has swept over me though

10:49 PM|

well... the birthday week has begun.
i just got home from the shore, where tonight my aunt judy had a father's day/birthday party (with a grrrreat dinner!!!) i had a couple of glasses of white wine, then had to get on the train to come back home... now i have a headache - but just popped 2 tylenol pm pills... so i should be comatose soon.
weekend was sorta hellish. pretty much had to wake up early both days and yesterday took my dogs to the vet (poor archie had to have a shot right in his nose because he burrows and has some sort of yucky nose thang going on...) he lost some weight (yay) he is 90 pounds (still overweight) and Beri --my yorkie-- is 9 pounds... 1:10 ratio... kooky.
just watched sex and the city and also six feet under... darn fine shows... good stuff...
think i am gonna hit the hay and talk tomorrow...

oh yes... Mike...thank you for your generous donation to the Give-to-Gigglechick Fund... this is cracking me up :)