3:44 PM|have a date with the grass skirt boy tonight *sigh*... sorry 'bout the light postings day.

12:38 AM|

oh joy! emo philips was on letterman! i haven't seen his act in YEARS!!!! used to love him!!! now he doesn't sport that dutch boy haircut anymore... but i still dig his set!!!! yay!!!

11:28 PM|hey there... early friday night. went and saw Serendipity... *sigh* i loves me the john cusack... (his birthday is exactly a week after mine. but i am not stalking)

anyway, saw that. ate a buncha popcorn with sno-caps on them (it really is not disgusting... REALLY!)

today i took Beri to the vet... it's really not a great sign when the doctor takes a step back and says "Sheesh!" -- although he said she's not the worst he's seen this year... she came in #2... so tuesday morning i am taking the little girl back to the vet and she has to have surgery... get her teeth cleaned and have a few teeth pulled...ever see a little dog gum her food before? this is gonna be weird.

so she'll be okay he told me... jeez, between her, archie and my mother with the surgery crap this year... i am ready to have them ALL put down (kidding... heh. sorta.)

10:55 AM|"the wholesome snack that smiles back until you bite their heads off"

let me just tell you that that is one of my favourite commercial jingles ever (for pepperidge farm's goldfish)

10:36 AM|jesus H.... i found this off of P45.net

9:48 PM|crikey. beri (my yorkshire terrier) hit her mouth on archie's leg today... okay, well, she has this foot fetish, see.... she likes to bite and nip at feet... and archie's foot was in front of her, she nipped, he kicked it at her, hit her in her mouth in the upper part of it...
and she freaked, her neck snapped back and she started yelping... when i calmed her down, blood was all over the top of her mouth....

here's the really yucky part (no... no pictures to back me up)... her breath is evil... noticed it's been getting worse over the past 2 weeks... but when i looked into her mouth for the first time today at the top teeth... *gag* her gums are rotten (poor parenting?)

so called the vet. 3:45pm appointment tomorrow. this hasn't stopped her from eating.. and she was JUST at the vet for a complete check up in june... so it must have JUST started... it's really foul... there goes my unemployment $$$. haven't paid my rent yet. trying to scrape that up somehow. (anyone need an illustration done? know anyone that needs any illustrations done?? PLEEEEEEEEAAZZZEEEE!!!!)

am thinking of cashing in the 401k, but dum-dum had everything invested in "Aggressive Growth" funds... so, what? i am gonna get like, $42 dollars back? BEFORE taxes? crap.

do they make dentures for dogs?

4:16 PM|

so i saw dad today... that's him there with me (i am sporting a helluva matted hair big ol neck pose...) we went to lunch and then i had to help carry 2x4's and plywood sheets for him to build a doghouse for my aunt ann's dog "Dog"...

so, dad and i just hung out yapping for a while... and i have to go over there monday morning and we're gonna work on my car...

i love aunt ann's farm... it's really keen... she has sheep n' goats... used to have pigs, rabbits, horses and chickens... but the sheep and goats are enough for a 72 year old to take care of on her own i think!

she has the main house surrounded by grapes, and her studio... and then the 2 barns... the sheep are in the first barn and the rabbits and pigs used to be in this one, but now it mainly holds her tractor...

here's another shed... well, actually i tried to be artsy and took a photo of the shed and flag through a tree... so the shed you can't really see...

speaking of flags...

inside the house you'll find some interesting objects,. she shoots groundhogs (not sure if this is a groundhog skull or not... don't think so, didn't read the label, and it has fangs... i love that it's sitting next to a romance novel... she usually labels when and where she kills things...okay, animal loving gun haters, get over it. she's a farm woman. you never saw what she did with the rabbits. they weren't bred to be easter bunnies, lemme just tell you that. [that was 5 years of therapy for me over that])

she finds dead things on her property. she doesn't kill the birds, they seem to die and so she takes their wings and hangs them up.

there is also a photo of my grandmother - never met her, she died when dad was 10...

her place is pretty cool, always something new to discover.

4:13 PM|ha! my friend kate sent me this url... you've seen that fake pic of the guy supposedly standing on top f the wtc when the plane hit, right? well, apparently he's been elsewhere....

9:48 AM|oh sweet!!! someone searched for "Nipsey Russell Poetry" and i am 2nd in the results!!!

11:49 PM|not for nothing, but it's amazing how similar each and every statue of liberty/attacks editorial cartoon is.

11:42 PM|months and months ago i wrote to Ann Telnaes, this editorial cartoonist, to congratulate her on winning the pulitzer prize...
and then i was on flutterglubmeow tonight and saw a link to her women and the Taliban features... good stuff...

go check it out...

don't forget to visit david horsey

more patriotic editorial cartoons

some bin laden editorial cartoons

i dunno... just go to the site!!!

11:19 PM|elise expressed my sentiments exactly on the topic of one of the suspected terrorist's last wishes...

although i might be able to think of a few other choice things that could happen to the bastards...

and hey, howzabout WHEN we catch all these terrorists, we actually have the best reality television series EVER!?

each week a different terrorist is strung up in front of the ruins of the WTC and the Pentagon... and all the relatives of the victims get to torture them in their own unique way...

the season finale would be Bin Laden strung up there...

i'll get back to you with more on this, it's late and i don't wanna get all riled up before bed....

10:50 PM|i have to go visit dad tomorrow... haven't seen him in a couple of months... plus aunt ann had cataract surgery this morning, so i figure i'll go bring her some flowers or something one of her other senses can comprehend... maybe i will whip up a pot roast. i dunno. she's my horsewoman-farmwoman-artist-extraordinare aunt... the one who has white hair and a weather beaten face that i used to pray to god i would look like... well, apparently God heard the white hair thing... at 31, i am already sprouting a few pigment free strands... sure He hears THAT, but does he hear that i need a job...or better yet, that i need to win the lottery??!?!?!?! :)

10:03 PM|wow...
all i have to say is wow. okay, well, maybe that's not ALL i have to say about the "A Very Special West Wing" episode tonight.

i really thought that it was gonna stand out like a sore thumb, and i kept saying "man, that crack-smoking Aaron Sorkin is an ass for doing this"

but after seeing it, i feel informed and i just love this show even more... good for the crack smoker! he done swell! :)

11:27 AM|Dustin Hoffman will play Benedict Arnold in the DIC-produced animated, daytime "Liberty's Kids'' series for PBS. Walter Cronkite has been set to voice Benjamin Franklin in the series (40 episodes) about a group of young patriots working for Franklin's newspaper during the Revolutionary War.

um... dustin hoffman? DUSTIN HOFFMAN!?!? NOOOO NOOO NOOOO...

ok... why am i sort of opposed to good ol' dustin playing ben arnold? because benedict arnold is my great - great - great granduncle...

hoffman looks NOTHING like arnold, and i am just picturing him being a whiny new york accented traitor now. crap.

hey, i am in no way condoning the actions of Ben, all's i am saying is that he was a brilliant man that made some mistakes... but HOFFMAN? Rainman is playing my relative?!?! *sheesh*

i am also related to ethan allen...

so i can make a damned fine chair, but i will pull it out from under you!

10:45 AM|new topic over at kyouki.com.. favourite holidays...

2:25 AM|so... i am up late fiddling with this calendar (at the bottom right of the page...) i just want it to have comments when you mouseover it... this works in IE... but not in Netscape... oh, web wizard, magic coder person, help me... any idea how to make it work in netscape as well? is this possible? let me know... PLEASE!!!!!!!

so tired. and my dog is still sleeping in my bed...

1:59 AM|

crap. archie has had arthritis all week and has been trying - unsuccessfully- to get up on the bed for a few days...

figures he's sleeping comfortably on it now

it's a single bed... we fit on it together, but he gets freaked out when someone sits on the bed or couch and wakes him up - then he jumps down... i think i have to find another blanket and sleep on the recliner.

(hey, if he didn't have cancer i would be shoving him off the bed... poor kid must have worked hard to get up there tonight)

11:34 PM|ah... no fears over drunken call on sunday *whew*

6:48 PM|and yet another bin laden flash game...

4:46 PM|hey just an idea, and maybe someone has already thought of it... but going back to the problem of drunken cell phone usage, i think i am going to put my industrial design background to use and design a cell phone that also has a breathalizer attached to it, and when you have a blood alcohol count higher than .05 the phone shuts down automatically.

think there would be some consumers for that?!?!? or ex-boyfriends that would buy it for every girl they broke up with????

4:30 PM|um... was checking my stats for yesterday and the countries that view this site... uh... i think osama/usama is going to target me for germ warfare... notice #14 on the list...

3:50 PM|thinking of getting a scanner with my non-existant money...

either this one
or
this one

because i am jealous of this girl

i suppose depositing my unemployment checks sorta burns a hole in my pocket

2:50 PM|mcdonald's for the first time in months... yet did i go for the #3 extra value meal SUPERSIZED?

no.

supersized fries and a supersized coke... first soda i had in a while, as well...

well... i am sort of happy with my "will power"... i could have very well gone for the triple quarter pounder they were advertising...
i would have gotten really ill, though...

so i opted to wolf down the fries (about a thousand of them in the container) by the time i drove home... one hand on steering wheel, the other greezy hand glomming salty potatoes into my yap... approx. 45 mph (the car, not the rate of fry to mouth contact)... 1 mile from A to B. about 3 minutes and i had nary a fry to bring into the house... only a cup that could hold Lake Michigan.

am i bored. yes. maybe i should go work on digging that coy pond.

1:24 PM|oh my goodness... a flash animation about your dog's anal sac

i was on squished frog when i happened upon this gem... at least i know that archie is not alone...

NOTE: bloggers, it seems as though anal sac disease is becoming an epidemic throughout the weblogging community... besides spaying and/or neutering your dog, for the love of sweet pearl, check their anal sacs.

10:09 AM|okay... so WHY didn't i agree to do this show with neil (he produces the tuesday shows at  Stand Up NY ... and asked me to do a few shows when i had my gig in august) -- so if you are in NYC and wanna see some kickass comics - neil rocks by the way, but usually there are really good ones in the line-up... then call stand up NY and reserve a seat for tonight...say you are there to see neil... (seinfeld's charity comedy thing is next monday, so i am betting that he's tweaking some bits tonight...)

anyway, i get this email from him this morning...


THE MANAGERS FOR BOTH JERRY SEINFELD AND CHRIS ROCK CALLED  Stand Up NY COMEDY CLUB LAST NIGHT, & ASKED IF THEY COULD DROP BY FOR A SET FOR MY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 @ 9 PM SHOW.

THERE IS AN EXCELLENT CHANCE THAT EITHER OR BOTH WILL STOP BY.

DO NOT KICK YOURSELF AFTERWARD, AND SAY THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE GONE.

OF COURSE, IF THE IDEA OF SEEING CHRIS ROCK & JERRY SEINFELD FOR $5 DOES NOT APPEAL TO YOU. KINDLY DISREGARD & ALL FUTURE E-MAILS FROM ME.

Once again, RSVP 411:

WHEN:        Tuesday, October 2, 2001
                 9 pm
WHERE:     Stand Up NY
                  (SE corner of W78th & Broadway)
RSVP:         (212) 595-0850 & mention "Neil $5 guestlist"
otherwise $10

For more info:
www.fatlaughs.com/grono

Neil

11:43 PM|remind me (or yourself):
10 October | All Day at www.eamesoffice.com
All day Web cast of the film made in 1977 by Charles & Ray Eames. This film gives an amazing perspective on scale. will take you on a journey out to the edge of the universe and back inside the human body down to the level of a quark - a mind-expanding experience that allows us to see things from inside out and outside in.

11:42 PM|okay... so now i feel like total slime... why? well, gee... mom reading over my website and saying "No one wants to hear how drunk you got."

hey... I DON'T even want to hear how drunk i got. doesn't happen very often... and i feel like crap mentally and god knows i felt like hell physically this morning... i am not proud of the fact that i got schnockered on sunday. yes. i should have had bottled water after the 7th inning... or hey, maybe after the 2nd inning.

but i didn't. it happens. and it was Budweiser. blech.

and i behaved like a 16 year old, yes.

and i slurred.
on the phone.
to answering machines.
my voice, an altered recording for all eternity (or at least 30 days)

and now mom's berating me.

i am 16 again. having her say that i probably chased someone away because "boys don't want to hear a girl drunk on the phone"

and now the worry consumes me. see, i am not all that worried persay... or i hadn't been... it's that voice that gets between my ears and always has... and causes me to second guess myself or start thinking that "i done wrong"

yes. my ID is out of control sometimes. and yet my Super-Ego is about 10x more powerful than "normal" folk's... because it seems to have the voice of my mother growling in my ear every 5 seconds "You've ruined your life...apologize... don't do that... you messed that up.... blah blah blah... you idiot"

grrrrrr...

hey, can you tell that at the moment i am thrilled to be back down at mom's still? she still says that she needs help around here... yeah, she made a list:

1) hang paintings upstairs (ok... not too bad... can be done)

2) shower - tile scrubbed (fine)

3) shower - regrouted (what!??!)

4) living room - rearrange furniture (come on.)

5) backyard -
(a) ivy trimmed and pulled from bushes.
(b) weed
(c) cut down bushes

SHE LIVES IN A !@*# CONDOMINIUM!!!!!!!!

waiting for her to add "install Japanese Coy Pond"

*grumble*

so picture me outside weeding in 50 degree weather (misty/rainy weather at that) with her standing there in the doorway smoking her 45th cigarette of the hour growling "You called a guy after you'd been drinking at a baseball game... how could you be such an idiot?!"

yeah. fun.

(okay, erin... breeeeeathe.... inhale..... breeeeeathe....exhale.... ahhhhhhh... that's it....calming pleasant thoughts.... pretty birds.... inhale.....exhale..... )

11:18 PM|the interview with god on the onion... i thought i would point out

6:20 PM|um... i guess i wasn't THAT scared on sept. 11th
i think i would be more frightened 9 months later, though
*****
i think i might just go for the temporary kind first.
*****
observe grey day
(unfortunately i am weak and addicted to posting on here...)
*****
mother of pearl... fricking bin ladin dance... i don't even... what the?... cripes.
*****
apparently good ol' gigglechick.com has been "twinned" with bitchquick on the blog twinning project...never had seen her site before... good good... a delicious blog

12:50 PM|

so this weekend was great... had a swellegant date on saturday... *grin* then sunday cathy and i headed up to da bronx... to see the boys play against cal ripken and the orioles... we were there til the 15th inning.. yes... the FIFTEENTH inning... um... my allergies were really in full force... so i was hopped up on sudafed (6 of them...) benedryl (2 of them) and claritYn - with a Y because it was a clarityn that i had bought over the counter in ireland last year... (hey didn't river phoenix die of a combination like that?) -- oh... and budweiser... i do not like budweiser... that was all there was - except for warm plastic bottles of coors light... and some army guy and his brother sitting next to us... a few guys in front of us that were cracking up to jokes about hot jumbo nuts (no idea who was telling those... :)

then there was a rain delay, so cathy and i decided to go bowling next door... more beer. the bartender (Sonny) gave me a shot of Jameson's... yeah, because i really needed THAT.

and then i began the obligatory drunken cell phone calls. good god. forget making a law banning cell phones while driving... howabout cell phone usage whilst drunk ??? THAT is more dangerous. for everyone. and hey, howzabout a little "Friends don't let friends call drunk"

*sigh*

[a sidenote: apparently i had been fixing something on my car with a small philips head screwdriver - normal size, just a stubby handle - um... i had forgotten that i had it in my purse... hey... get this: they checked my purse. glanced at the contents... and let me through... i realized as i was searching my handbag for more sudafed that i smuggled a "weapon" in there... cripes. felt REAL secure.]

11:58 AM|

11:46 AM|god i am so pms-ing (too much info, i know)... this poor punk-ass IM's me outta the blue and perhaps i am a tad cranky and hungover but...

Terminalnfection: ok wait.....let me see here.....your a girl...into computers, and your single
Terminalnfection: ???
GigglechickHA: um...ok
Terminalnfection: well its just that your part of a rare breed
GigglechickHA: didn't you IM me the other day?
Terminalnfection: hmm i dont think i did
GigglechickHA: um... yeah... ya' did
Terminalnfection: hmm no i dont think i did
Terminalnfection: ok.....lets humor the senario that i did.....did we talk long?
GigglechickHA: i suppose it was SOME OTHER terminalinfection
GigglechickHA: no we did not talk long...
Terminalnfection: was there any sort of intelligent conversation?
GigglechickHA: not really i really didn't want to talk.
Terminalnfection: hah
Terminalnfection: sucks for him
Terminalnfection: do you not want to talk now either?
GigglechickHA: bingo. see ya
Terminalnfection: later.....
Terminalnfection: cold
GigglechickHA: why is that cold? it's 11:30 am and i am busy working on things and having a "conversation" witha complete stranger is not something i am into at the moment. if you think that's cold, go chat up a 21 year old college chick that has no job
Terminalnfection: its not about talking to some 21 year old college chick without a job
GigglechickHA: well they might have time for the IMing. i don't
GigglechickHA: sorry
Terminalnfection: its more of like....maybe you could try something like....hey im busy right now
Terminalnfection: maybe you could im me some other time
Terminalnfection: now that might work....
Terminalnfection: better than bingo see yah
GigglechickHA: well... gee... sorry. perhaps you should write "hi... is now an okay time to IM?" LATER.
Terminalnfection: maybe if i was GIVEN THE CHANCE!!!! it would have been asked.....
Terminalnfection: goodbye

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ok... so perhaps i lied and said i was "working"...hey i COULD have been. perhaps learning to spell would help, too... and while we're at it, i think that i just had an entire relationship with this kid... from interest to hate in 2 minutes flat...excellent.