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so this weekend when i went to bar a, apparently the guy taking photos of us put them on the club's site....
here's the main group of images....
here's the one of lara, jen, me and kelli - i suppose i was doing my best "sex kitten" look - i pretty much look like i have a back problem and a lot of alcohol in my liver
here's one where it looks like lara and jen are taking their "special friend" erin out on the town
heh. cute.
eh... i would put this in my golf blog (and i will) but i had to tell y'all...
i stopped after work at the bogota golf and sports center and got a bucket of 100 golfballs (i didn't realize how many that is)...
i have a blister on my middle finger on my right hand... that's not the worst of my visit to the driving range...
i tested out the clubs dad gave me (he found them on the side of the road. they are made of wood.)... i am a bit rusty... got a few good drives in, but i pretty much stink...
that's not the worst of my trip to the driving range...
it seems as if there are many japanese men that go to the range... one of which came up behind me as i was addressing the ball put his hand on my hips and my arm and said "how old are you?"
WHAT THE EFF?!?
at this point i had only hit 3 balls (was thinking of hitting 2 more if you know what i mean)
i moved away to listen to his thickly accented broken english... he wanted to show me how to swing - crap. here he was being nice and i thought he was a pervert...
okay - so under the guise of "teaching me a good swing" he then grabs my arm.... followed my his other hand that GRABBED MY RIGHT BREAST...
WHAT THE EFFING HELL!@?!?!?!?!?!??!
i had a club in my hand - is this guy on crack!!??!???
i politely backed the hell away and said "thanks so much, but i'm just here to relax, have a good day sir" and he went back to his tee about 2 things away...
i still had 97 balls that i paid for and had to hit... so i stayed. pictured the ball was the mr. miagi-of-golf and whacked the hell out of them until my finger bled.
yep. golf. where else can you wind up bloody and get felt up by a creepy old asian dude?
that was the worst part of my trip to the driving range
whoa. i totally skipped a day of writing. so last night my comedy sistah monica and i went to the friday night freakathon (at gioia's pizza) and saw a few comics... it's a booked open mic, i think that it'll be good to get up there - there's no stage, just you and 4 tables of folks who are chowing on pizza... the lighting is that of a nyc pizzeria = bright fluorescent... and people get up to get their food in the middle of your set - but it looked like a decent place to test out material
as i've said... i have to get back up there and bringer shows sucked the life out of me.... open mics are the way to go
then we headed over to stand up sushi - but for some reason they weren't having an open mic last night - even though it was in time out ny...
so, we decided to head over to the comedy cellar - to see the 12:30 show... it was about 11:15pm when we got there so we gave our name and sat at the bar at the olive tree cafe upstairs - they used to let you go through the entrance inside to walk downstairs when it was time to be seated.... so around 12:20 we try to do that - no can do... they say "stand in the line outside" - hmmmmm.... okay... the line is 10 feet deep - not a problem... then a guy says, go around the corner to the "end of the line".... crap.... another 20 feet - so we bailed - knowing we'd be shoved way in the back.... there'll be other shows there - so monica headed home and i jumped in a cab back to jersey city... really didn't feel like waiting 45 minutes for the path train at that point...
that was my night - now i am up early because i am heading down the shore in about 20 minutes...
talk to y'all on monday...
quinn rocks! he's moved up considerably on the stalker ladder (the good stalker ladder of gift givers) 128MB of RAM... thank you thank you thank you!!!!
think i may have a cold. damned cough.
ah yes. a moonlit evening, slight drizzle of rain and me, curled up in flannel and drinking robitussin from the bottle as i watch everybody loves raymond...
would have been a perfect evening if only i had cherry flavoured nyQuil instead... oh yeah, and someone here to bring me juice and rub my shoulders.
can you tell i am getting whiny and starting in on the self-pity? okay not a fair question to y'all, seeing as that's what 97% of my site is made up of...
at least the flannel is cozy
so, apparently going to bed at 10pm likkered up on the 'tussin (yes. a chris rock homage) made my body think that it had to sleep for it's usual 6 hours instead of a nice chunk of zzzzzzz's - doesn't it realize the alarm is set for 7am?!?!!?
*sigh* i have been laying awake for an hour now. finally decided that i can't force myself to fall back into slumber - too many thoughts going through my head - one being "hey, maybe i will paint my shelves and dresser that my aunt gave me 2 years ago"
no i am not doing that this morning. but it's a thought. of course, i still have to paint and fix up my bathroom that i stripped a year ago... not to mention still build/put together the entertainment center and shelving unit that i bought in november - i need an electric screwdriver actually...
have you ever felt like you're breathing in, oh, i dunno... the gas form of molten lava mixed with #11 xacto blades?
it's a pleasure to be awake to feel this way, no, really, i mean it. i am so effing thrilled that my body is gving me the opportunity to experience this spring cold full throttle.
and i have to go into work today.
the really sick thing... i have this overwhelming desire to clean and organize my apartment at the moment...
strange, i feel a little better - i scrubbed my bathtub and shower, then i washed the blinds in the bathroom - they were a little on the icky side - i wanted to take them down, but for some reason they seem to be stuck there - no idea how to get them down, no lever, no latch, nothing, so that was interesting spraying clorox clean-up at them and wiping them down for 20 minutes... threw out a lot of empty shampoo and conditioner bottles - don't know why i seem to keep them around...
as i was doing all of this i was listening to wplj on the radio.... heard them talking, thought of a wiseass comment to say to them, called, got on the radio and they laughed for about 30 seconds... ah making others laugh is the best medicine :)
pushing through this stupid cold. wish i had the makings for chicken dumpling soup though - could whip that up and bring it to work.
heh... okay - i have to listen to WPLJ on friday morning and cross my fingers and pray that i hear my name... why? because an hour after i called with my little joke, i heard the "PLJ prize camel" noise that you are supposed to immediately call and be one of the first five callers - i was #5...
what will i win (besides the plj scam cd that i won for being the 5th caller) if i hear my name called during their friday blast off?
hotel and airfare for a 5 day/4 night trip to vienna austria.... to see bruce springsteen!!!!!!
pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease let me win this!!!
left work at around 12:30 today - was feeling punky as heck. am sitting here watching Citizen Kane on TCM (turner classic movies)... i love this movie.
working from home today. still feeling pretty punky - not to mention getting knocked around by all of those bills, it's made me pretty achy. *whine*
anyway... what else is new, folks? anyone have good news of their own to brighten my day? post it in the comments!!!!
wow... watching the news right now and the ClamBroth House in hoboken may collapse...
here's the thing, i performed there in 2000... people eating lobster... then i had a bit of a risque joke and one guy laughed hard and spewed lobster from his gullet...
was a decent night :) hope it doesn't collapse - people are having to evacuate and move their belongings from adjacent apartments
holy crow - we've not had any internet access here at work for about 8 hours now... felt like someone tied my hands behind my back. so good to finally have it again
*whew*
yes. i am an addict - also, i couldn't work on anything because i am "Web Girl" and need to get on the danged thing all day
so, i am heading down the shore for Ye Ol Mother's Day Weekend.... chock full o' fun and fake sun
in the meantime, check out ramsey's site (my neighbor) - of whom i am quite jealous of his illustration skills. when i saw his resume/cd come across my desk at xceed i told them "get him in here" and they did - poor bastard. got him sucked into the xceed vortex back in 2000.
eh... *sigh* as much as i try to "hang up my hat" - i can't. it's like shoving a sock in my mouth and tying my hands behind my back.
so i am going to yoga today... for the first time... a limber erin on the horizon? or an uncomfortably sore erin tomorrow? we'll see.
i'll get into why i thought about packing the towel in (or throwing the bathwater out - or whatever the saying is...) with the site perhaps a little later. for now i am on the quiet side of things...
thanks for all of your emails wishing me luck... and an even bigger thanks for all of the emails (so many! wow! thanks!) that were growling at me for shutting my site down....
ah, thanks to my lack of will power, i am back, folks... am proud of myself, this time i was off for 27 hours.
i cannot believe how unbelievably great i feel!!! *hence the "can't believe" part...
i got back from yoga last night - my first yoga class ever... and i am thinking that it's the first of a lifetime of yoga - hopefully.
i was downward dog tired (hahaha!! my first yoga joke.)
i know that it totally relaxed me because i was on route 3 and two cars cut me off and all i did was smile and kept singing dark side of the moon - then another guy was on my ass on the turnpike flashing his highbeams at me - even though i was doing 85mph... instead of going slower and pissing him off more, i politely moved to the right (*i never do that.)
i think i could become addicted - even though i never sweat so much in my life - wow... never thought yoga was so strenuous...
the place i went to was keen. called yoga bums - nice place
heh... *hic*
spoke with a fella at the nj div. of taxation...
i love him.
my refund should be in my hand within 2 weeks.
so, for my first foray into ebay selling... i have put my skis & poles on the chopping block...
anyone interested in a pair of genuine gigglechick-owned skis and poles? click here (my listing is so vague and amatuer and the price is - well, for ebay it's probably high - but i spent $700 on these puppies to begin with)
have listed my boots as well... click here to step into my shoes!!!
total lunar eclipse tonight - don't think i will be able to see it when i am inside Dip Cafe tonight... (fondue & martinis... yum)
oh yeah - today's my 2 year blogiversary!!!! (which almost didn't happen :)
click here for the memories of gigglechick in larvae stage
as i was driving into work today on the turnpike - some limo driver was hovering on my right side and smiling and then he did the universal sign for "call me" with his thumb and pinky extended.... then he pointed to the number on the side of the limo - while he was semi-good-looking... eh... didn't quite have a pen as i was going 75mph...
but it was a cute way to start the day off, nonetheless
and on my 2 year blogiversary... i leave you with a PSA....
yum! cheese! glorious cheese!!! broccoli, apples, bread and a few other things were dipped into it at Dip Cafe... great place
not totally slurring, but on the cusp, baby.
*of course 98% of this seems to be NOT about "dating a blogger" but just the comments that bloggers have that may be read by non-bloggers and taken personally...
** poor dooce is already getting hate-mail
so friday after about a year and a half, i finally got to meet my good stalker, Lee, in person.... that was the highlight of my weekend... (for a while i felt he'd forgotten all about me and i thought i'd have to read this)
the other highlight was the 9th avenue international food festival.... 20... TWENTY blocks of food... glorious food!
getting my tootsies ready for the memorial day weekend... (also, i noticed last week during yoga that they horrified me) ... so to prepare - i just took a long hot bubble bath and now have ziplock baggies on my feet - in the ziplocks, besides my clodhoppers, i have baby oil and ultra moisturizer... then the baggied peds have been inserted into cozy socks
let me tell you, if i don't break my neck from walking like this tonight, it will be a miracle...
yoga tomorrow night! happiness~!
i forget where the heck i found this last night...
can't wait... was so relaxed last week... love it.
so i signed up for 5 sessions of yoga... of course, once i handed over the check i think that's when the yogi (is that the proper term?) decided tonight would be the session to start making erin into a pretzel now that i have been sucked in...
seriously, the headstand, i could do, sorta...
but, and follow me here.... the part where i had to put my hands on the floor in line with the inside of my feet, then scoot my feet towards the inside and then HOOK MY ANKLES TOGETHER and - get this - LIFT MY BODY UP AND BALANCE...
what the mother of christmas heck is THAT all about?
so, the outcome of THAT move... i fell... KER-BLAM!! foward onto my face and knees...
so once again, my knees are scraped up.
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i am relaxed though - i think it's from exhaustion... very difficult to concentrate on breathing when beads of sweat at dripping down one's nose.
a glowing word of praise from the "yogi" - she said "you are really quite flexible" - i wanted to ask her if i could get that in writing and get that notorized for when i am out on a date.
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oh... and by the way... there's a happy ending to one saga....
I GOT MY TAX REFUND CHECK TODAY - promptly ran down to the bank and deposited it (i am still waiting for nj's refund... this one was federal... the main one that was scarfed up by the nj snafu)
so all is well in the world and emilio estevez in all his repo=glory will not be trekking around my street in the dead of night.
so, my boss just invited me to the Lymphoma Research Foundation Benefit at ROXY (catered by NoBu) tomorrow night
*sigh*
why can't i have the "spur-of-the-moment-and-looking-fabulous" type of wardrobe that the sex and the city chicks have?!
yeah, this looks about right for the "What-the-hell-is-she-making-us-do" position i nearly died from last night
so i had to go to a chick doctor's appointment today (nothing crazy, just the 6 month check-up... all's perfect 110/70 bp... not bad.) and then i jaunted off to the garden state plaza to snag some sort of outfit for tomorrow's event. after trapsing around a billion (or 6) stores, i was in macy's... a heavenly glow appeared, surrounding this silk dress, black with cream coloured stripes... and best of all... MY SIZE (shush. don't ask)
i need to go out tonight and get some nice strappy heels and also go to tanning (because when going to the Lymphoma Research Benefit, one has to have a fake tan - so maybe the only attention paid to me will be some pasty doctor with a sheepish grin who berates me for going to the electric beach... a girl can dream, can't she?)
hell yeah! go annika
once again - another annika post!!! woo! she's even after 16~! this is "hole by hole" coverage
more pics in the am,... tired. = benefit was great!!!!!! (that's pam with me)
and yes. my feet are KILLING ME
this sets the tone of the benefit... i have video of the fashion show by David Dalrymple for House of Field - i will post a bit later... and NoBu... holy mother of gawd! i have never had sushi so effing BEAUTIFUL... salmon and avocado that melted in my mouth... gorgeous!!
by the way - the undie guidos, so NOT my type
photos >>
well, in about 15 minutes i am scampering off to my car and heading down ye ol' garden state parkway to the shore. so what usually takes about an hour and 20 minutes will take about 3 hours today (estimate)
what i am saying right now is all y'all have a great and SAFE holiday weekend - go buy a poppy from a vet and have fun!!!!
so this was quite the interesting weekend - well, saturday, anyway...
went to a much needed yoga session.
driving range at lunchtime - with fred and chris - good stuff... no elderly japanese fellas attempting to grope me this afternoon... think mainly it's because i had my bodyguards with me.
eh... do you see the look of hate and disgust in this cat's eyes?
*sigh*
you had better get your kitty declawed if you plan on sleeping after shelling out yen for any of the items found on cat prin
shouldn't someone call PETA...
or the ASPCA???
ah, the "other" bob is celebrating this day as well...
go wish a fine happy birthday to the corgi named bob