9:09 PM|hahah!!! scotty jay just linked to this site.... ever hear the Delta.wav??? now you don't have to picture it no mo'... well, get yo posterior to dis site lickety split

8:59 PM|

yay!! wallace & gromit on the web!!!

5:57 PM|one of the more pleasant aspects of being unemployed is that you can go to the movies in the middle of the day with your other unemployed friend whose unemployment checks ran out too... and in Jersey, there's matinee prices!! woo!

walked around hoboken for a bit, had a slice of pizza from Benny Tudino's... not for nothing, but this slice of pie was about 11 inches wide at the base of the triangle and about 14 inches long... a monster slice!

then did the movies... saw A Beautiful Mind.... man, what a great movie... good elderly make-up, too... and ye ol' russell crowe...

so that was the keen part...

after the pizza, we get to my car at the parking lot... for an HOUR and 4 minutes worth of parking, it was $18.50 -- EIGHTEEN DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS!!!.... i didn't read the sign on the way in. that'll learn me. then we drive to the Mall... get to the movies...

at the concession stand, i order up popcorn and m&m's...

girl goes to get m&m's and says "M&M Peanut right?"

i say: "no, m&m plain"

she: "they both called M&M"

(i turn to cathy and mutter "well, i want plain, is that too difficult?")

girl: "whatchoo say?"

erin: "excuse me?"

girl: "you said something"

erin: "not to you"

girl: "you saying things about me?"

erin: "not yet."

she throws my change back at me all the while trying to stare me down... yeah well, guess what biotch, i am PMSing, unemployed, disgruntled and am not in the mood for attitude... so i stare right back at her....

girl: (sneering) "enjoy your show"

erin: (staring & and baring teeth) "oh i WILL, i WILL"


i am either so white or so old... or maybe so BOTH. that's my trash talk to the punkass behind the counter... *sigh*

3:41 AM|if only i knew how to speak japanese... i get a ton of bi-lingual japanese stuff in all my job searches... why?!

Bilingual Japanese Copywriter
APA International Placement [Search Firm]
http://www.hotjobs.com/cgi-bin/job-show?J__PINDEX=AGBNRLQUL

god help me, i am an insomniac i think.

11:58 PM|EXCITING NEWS!!!!
for the first time in my entire life, i popped EVERY kernel of jiffy pop popcorn (in the shaky foil thang) WITHOUT burning it!!!!

my life is on the upswing i tells ya'!!! it's a sign!!!

7:35 PM|woooo!!! just got back from my weight watchers meeting...

i LOST 0.8lbs!!!

hey, i am happy with this... have you been reading my blog!??! i ate 10 waffles with syrup on monday (MONDAY alone!) albeit they were fat free Special K Eggos with Lite Aunt Jemima syrup... and on monday i ALSO ate 4 bowls of chicken dumpling soup. last night i devoured a bowl of Kraft Deluxe Four Cheese Macaroni and Cheese (after i did my dishes, that was the main motivation, have a pot to cook the mac in!) throw in a bagel with cream cheese from DD on tuesday... and about 47 other bowls of chicken dumpling soup and i am amazed that i didn't gain 7 pounds this week... that CAN happen, you know!

anyway, i am trying to get back on the ww bandwagon, i HAD been so good at it til i lost the job (see, i used to have a kick ass salad everyday from Pax deli... chicken, almonds, sunflower seeds, feta and low fat balsamic vinagrette) i had, from february 10, 2001 til june 14th, 2001, lost 21.2lbs... must get back on track... feb 10th last year i was 182... i had gotten down to 160.8... two weeks ago i rejoined and was at a starting weight of 172.2 and tonight i am 171.6

yes, i am psycho for posting my weight. i like to think that all the fat is due to 40 pound boobs, but i might be wishing a little too hard.

must get on treadmill again - especially since i am doing the avon walk in october...

so i bought a new weight watchers complete food points book... for those not familiar with the program, or if you haven't seen Fergie or rosie o'donnell yammering about it, each food is given a point value, blah blah blah, i am allowed 20-25 points a day... pretty much it's the idiots guide to counting calories...

that said, the new book.

i was reading through it... and yeah there's your standard "2 points for an egg" etc...

but WHOA!!! I swear to you that these foods are in the book. cross my heart.

here's the Weight Watchers Roadkill or Homeless Diet Plan:

Bear - cooked - 1oz. - 2 points
Beaver - cooked - 1oz. - 1 point
Caribou - cooked - 1oz. - 1 point

now at this point you might be saying to yourself, "okay, well, that's a little odd, but i could see someone eating Bear"... read on...

Opossum - cooked - 1oz. - 1 point
Pigeon - cooked - 1oz. - 1 point (...i swear)
Raccoon - cooked - 1oz. - 2 points
Rocky Mountain Oysters - 2 slices (1oz each) 10 points
Raccoon - cooked - 1oz. - 2 points
Squirrel - cooked - 1oz. - 1 point
Whale - cooked - 1oz. - 1 point (not that a homeless guy would access that easily and i don't think it would become roadkill unless it fell off a truck)

"It's as if I am not on a diet! What other Fad Diet would let me eat my special Squirrel Stew?!"

7:35 PM|got this in my email...

NYC D Fans! Meet The D On 1/21! Tenacious D will be doing an in store at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square this Monday January 21 at 3pm.

lookie lookie.... seems as if a certain gigglechick is gonna have to do a little martin luther king day stalking of a Mister Jack Black!!!

11:33 AM|

I am a Breakout Bat.

I am an abstract sort of creature, who dislikes any sort of restraint. If you try to pigeonhole me, I'll break the box, and come back for more. I don't have any particular ambitions, I just drift, but I am adept at keeping life going along.
What Video Game Character Are You?

(If you were not a Breakout Bat you would be an Asteroid.)

one question: What the hell is a Breakout Bat? Never played it...

and isn't it nice to know that i have a backup videogame character?

[this just in... word on the street is that it's a "Bat as in paddle, not as in spooky"... and i just looked at the graphic. hell, i just take these tests, i don't know what the hell things are. great.]

10:41 AM|by the way.... THIS SUNDAY
All in the Family.....live on stage...sunday jan 20, 27 and feb 3rd @ 7 pm..
Space at 24 [A.K.A. the new york comedy club]
241 east 24 st. just off second ave..admission is 8 dollars
{2 beverage min. }

my friend Tom is gonna be Meathead

10:37 AM|well, since i went down to mom's in july i hadn't been back to my regular laundromat with the lady that washes and folds my laundry (all nice and crisp-like) i have been driving back and forth to mom's about once a week, so ihave been bringing my wash down there (what did you think? that i let it pile up higher than my dishes all this time?)

til this morning... when i walked in, three of the ladies that work there, stopped what they were doing ran over and attacked me with hugs... saying "Erin, we thought you were in the trade center!"

now apparently my usual 52 lb loads of laundry had hit a soft spot in their hearts... they said they lost about 35 customers because of the attacks. sad

9:43 AM|for a while now, i have been asking myself WHY?!... WHYYYY?!?! about this ad campaign

if i didn't have an addiction to potatoes, i would boycott them... AND Idaho.

9:19 AM|by the way... the GSB™ Privacy Policy does not concern photos... i am taking creative license with that! (so THERE!)

[and you know what they say about pictures saying a thousand words... heh heh heh]

2:27 AM|say it ain't so! terrorists are trying to ruin my favourite holiday (next to st. pat's day). [link via kate]

be careful Phil

[i wonder if they will step up security around Staten Island Chuck or the rest of the world's groundhog royaltyas well]

i am curious as to why this groundhog was driving... mama always said "Don't drive angry!!" and what's with the "Frackin' Schmackin'"

1:47 AM|dammit. my IQ has gone down since i was tested when i was 13.

went and took the IQ test at iqtest.com and only came up with 131

(in 1983 i was 157... grrrrrrr. this is what happens when you sit here blogging every day and haven't got a job)

[then again, it IS 1:40am right now and i am loopy on nyQuil... believe me... i USED to be smart... now my brain is all shrivelly and full of dry membranes.]

8:38 PM|AFTER: wow, it only took me an hour to clean them! *whew*

7:36 PM|okay, so, have i ever mentioned that whenever i get sick, or depressed, my entire body shuts down? all i can do is eat, yet i cannot clean.

the way my sink is looking, you would think i needed an organ transplant or 1000mgs of Lithium.

this daunting task awaits... maybe i will show you a photo of a sparkling sink by, oh, say... around midnight?

6:43 PM|helloooooo! okay, well the interview went swimmingly! yay! mind you, don't get excited, i TOLD you it's just a staffing agency... much like the one i tested at a couple of weeks ago and ran out of crying...

the woman i met with was awesome! yapped with her for about an hour and a half, then she had me fill out forms and tax papers, etc....

hold on, quit getting ahead of me... i am not hired YET...

they have to send me on interviews and such and place me, etc...

she has a company in mind, salary is mid-range but i would be so so so happy with it...

only thing is... i would be designing logos and packaging for cigarettes...

fine. i will slap on my cowboy hat and chaps roll a pack of cigs in my shirtsleeve (a la Bowzer) and head off to the place.

i have 31 years of secondhand smoking experience, i was a member of the national smoker's alliance (seriously. i was.) and i can design.

oh and she didn't test me on the programs because she trusts me and is going by my work.

i love aquent.

please oh please oh please get me a job!!!

sidenote | for all you GSB fans... there shall be less posting of GSB material here on gigglechick.com... no reason except that i don't want to have this relationship suspended like my global hosting account was.

i really wouldn't want to get an email like this:

"Your account has been suspended for posting email/info from this relationship on your website and misrepresenting our conversation as well as abuse to the GSB™ and violating our AUP. You have 3 working days to move your site to another host."



and i think it would be tougher to find someone to replace the GSB™ than it was to switch to tera-byte

let's just say a privacy policy is going into effect...

2:08 PM|a 45 minute long shower is one of life's great pleasures.

(now to quickly throw myself together and get to this interview)

11:44 AM|um... apparently it is true... if you eat enough of something... you turn into it. But my middle name is Patrice.




Take the Which Breakfast Food Are You? Quiz.


[link via manic]

11:39 AM|okay... so i am a sloth and hit snooze til 11:36 (actually i was going for Noon, but the mailman rang my doorbell with a certified letter that was not for me. i took it as a sign to wake up)

9:22 AM|ok... netscape *effing* 6 keeps crashing my machine... it's not so "purty" now

i am going back to bed til 11, someone wake me up by sending mail to me at 11am... thanks... i can be awakened by the soothing masculine voice of "You've Got Mail"

thanks... or i could set the alarm

8:54 AM|*whew* the GSB has climbed back onto the face of the earth... waking my arse up at the godforasaken hour of 8:30-ish... fine... FINE! i am awake.

2:06 AM|can someone tell me to go the hell to bed, please? i have an interview tomorrow at 3pm

WAIT!!! before you get all excited for me, it's with a creative staffing agency... so it's the first step to possibly getting real interviews. she said she "loves my work"

1:58 AM|

figures, since i am gonna get lung cancer from all the second-hand smoke i have inhaled throughout my life...

Which Internal Organ are you? Find out at willaston's lounge!


[link via cough...hack...ahem... - who happens to be the intestines. i wanna be the heart... verbal diarrhea can be the intestines and cough hack can be the lungs.... *sigh* i suppose i should be happy with the whole "lung" thing... i have a big chest]

1:52 AM|awwww... i am verbal diarrhea's aortal site of the week...
(note: it took gumption to post the word diarrhea on my site...i know some people might be eating... be prepared to view an image of this guy's arse if you click on the link)

1:26 AM|ooooh!! i finally upgraded my netscape from 4.7 to 6...

i like it! it's purty...

i am a little behind the times i suppose, huh?!

1:01 AM|salted wound has created a laid off weblogger section...

guess who's on it!

12:07 AM|ah....
"With the economy in recession, and 97,600 jobs lost in New York City in October and November alone, a peculiar kind of café society has emerged."

9:07 PM|for some reason when i call people it's showing up as "Number Block" or something on the caller ID.... how did this happen?

8:01 PM| hmmm. odd... seems as if the GSB has fallen off the face of the earth. that's the only excuse i can think of for not hearing from him since saturday.

*hmmmph* boys.

i am cranky. so there.

2:40 PM|i know what type of shoes i want!!!
(i scream, you scream, we all scream for pork loin!)

hey all!!! well, i feel drained from all that has transpired over the past 24 hours.

my site, as you can see, is back up and running with the regular gigglechick.com address instead of that temporary IP address i doled out to some...

i was CHARGED by global hosting $32.95 for being suspended then reinstated yesterday. today i wrote a delightful note to them and they are reimbursing me AND "having a chat with Bill"

okay, so i will probably have karma bite me on the ass if the boy gets fired (which i doubt he will) because of me. but how can karma bite my arse any more than it already has in the employment arena?!

speaking of employment, i have an interview with aquent tomorrow - it was supposed to happen today, but they canceled. which is fine with me since i am still feeling punky.

feeling punky didn't matter much to my mom who called me at 8am asking me for a check for her mortgage... i will explain that at a later date... anyway, i found myself throwing a sweatshirt, a wool hat and ripped jeans on and hauling my arse to eatontown to hand her a check (otherwise HER check for the mortgage would bounce... um... NOTE: not my money. i have some of her money in an account that i have control of. unfortunately i can't dip into it for my own rent that i am avoiding payment on til my $ from cowboy mouth comes in...(cross fingers that happens soon... ah, THAT might be where the karmic ass-biting figures into the picture)

hmmmm. what else? well, with the switch to tera-byte.com i will only be paying $9.25/month compared to the $22.95/month at global*effing*hosting

and i get more storage space...

what else? ate more waffles (someone please take them away... even though they ARE "fat-free" - but 12 in a 24 hour period? that can't be good.)

i think that's all for now... enjoy the same site/new host!!!

12:55 AM|loudon wainwright III is on craig kilborn tonight... i have dug him (his music) for about 6 years now...

12:54 AM|my blogger code:

B5 d++ t k++ s+ u- f++ i o++ x- e+ l++ c--

get yours today!!

[link via susan]

11:03 PM|i just ate 8 eggo's special K waffles (with lite aunt jemima syrup) oh dear god they were good. and oh dear god i am full. maybe i should have only had 2 waffles???

9:50 PM|hey all (who can see this blog) i know it looks like crap right now... think of it as my site is in storage boxes and i have yet to unpack everything. i have switched my site over to tera-byte.com from the devil spawn that is global hosting

a hearty thank you to scottyjay for pointing me towards this host. hopefully all will be well and resolved shortly...

and a really HEARTY thank you i am sending out to my very own techie advisor mike!!!

5:00 PM|the bastards at global hosting have lost half my site again. that's it. that is IT! and i sent an email notifying them...

"question: could you people let me know when you are about to mess with the servers or something!?! you have switched something and alll my files have been screwed up so that they only date back to november.

luckily, i have been having SO SO SO many problems with you over the past month or so that i have a backup - but this is totally UNACCEPTABLE"

and i get THIS response:

Hi,
When it is scheduled changes we are more than happy to and do notify customers. Please do not send email to this address unless your website is down or no email accounts are working.

Thanks,
Bill
GlobalHosting, inc

my response to THIS steaming pile of...

you DELETED half of my site. YOU don't consider this an emergency!?!?!?!? well, guess what, Bill, i DO. and no, i am not "dropping the sarcasm" this time.

(i wrote the bit about the sarcasm, because the other day he to me that exact phrase... son of a *filth flarn flarn and filth*


then my dear friend writes:

Hi

"question: could you people let me know when you are about to mess with the servers or something!?! you have switched something and all my files have been screwed up so that they only date back to november.""

You did not say anything here about deleting half the site.
"question: could you people let me know when you are about to mess with theservers or something!?! "

If that is true then yes I do consider than an emergency. Sarcasm will not serve your needs.

regards,
Bill

oh BRING IT ON!!!

Your account has been suspended for posting email from this company on your website and miss representing our conversion as well as abuse to GlobalHosting, inc and violating our AUP. You have 3 working days to move your site to another host.

Regards,
Bill Coker
IT Manager
GlobalHosting, Inc

to which i responded:

FUCK YOU VERY MUCH BILL. and that's from the heart. no sarcasm involved.

and then mike found this...

"GlobalHosting supports free speech on the Internet, and will not suspend or cancel a customer’s account simply because it disagrees with the views expressed by the customer"

6:26 AM|i can't sleep. (no. i haven't slept since i woke up at 4:30pm yesterday. and i have to drag my dry cleaning into the cleaners in about half an hour, and move my car.... so i will stay up for a little while longer.)

*7:34am* just walked in from heading to the cleaners and moving my car.... either it's the beginning of a good day or a good ending to a long day... my landlords were moving their truck and i got the spot right in front of my apartment (it's the little things that make me happy)

just got a large coffee from dunkin donuts... hmmmm...maybe not the BEST choice of beverage if i wanted to go to sleep... ah... what the heck i have to design this site for my friend still (did a little... i will finish. really. i will)

1:25 AM|is THIS where my life/career is headed?

thanks to toetag for the link to the adult webmaster school. mother of pearl.

12:55 AM|so... my chicken dumpling soup is finished.... yummmmm...

10:54 PM|

damn. another one i have to scratch off the list of "Celebs I Would Stalk If I Weren't So Lazy"

good luck you goofy gangly red-headed fella *sigh*

8:03 PM|hey all... well i finally scraped myself out of bed around 4pm after climbing back into it around noon... went to shop rite around 5pm - dealt with the hoards of "Shop Rite Can-Can Special" consumers (AAAAAAGGGHHHH!!!) and the chicken dumpling soup is simmering nicely on my stove top this very moment...

feeling a little better since i went out and moved around. plus i think the nap helped.

hey i realized last night that Vicks VapoRub can go bad. Apparently, i had a jar of it that expired in dec 99. opened it up to slather it on my chest.... NO WAY! smelled like tar. or something. as much as i could smell with my stuffy nose...

anyway, will try not to whine much anymore... you know i am pathetic when i call up the GSB and leave a message on his voice mail with a voice that sounds vaguely like Harvey Fierstein and saying i am dying. yeah. nice attempt at getting some attention... he was probably being smart and screening the call whilst watching football or something...

and i have to start on a design for a website that is due tomorrow (um... can i say that my best work is done after procrastinating AND while i am hopped up on an eight ball of nyQuil, Tylenol Flu and Alka Seltzer Cold Cherry Flavoured meds?!?!)

11:42 AM|well... it's official... i have a fully blossomed cold.
i thought it was dormant on friday... and i wasn't TOO bad yesterday. today, well... today i am wondering if using an iron lung wouldn't be a bad thing.

and i don't have my cauldron to make my own chicken dumpling soup... only a puny old half cauldron...

NOTE: anyone who has been near me in the past couple of days... and you KNOW who you are... guzzle 3 liters of orange juice (with pulp) and take a bucket of vitamin C and echinaecea...

*sigh* i have to drive to the food store and get my chicken soup ingredients...

will whine more later...