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don't forget to say "rabbit rabbit" when you wake up!!

bloody hell - just when i think i like my new design - i want to change it...

right now - i may be a bit too lazy (and a bit too busy working from home today :)

think it's time i really learned how to give y'all choices on skinning this puppy

so, i removed the last two posts (possibly will re-post at a later date - i saved them as draft) just didn't want the wrong eyes reading them at the moment...

all i am going to say is that i will be having a huge mega grande lifestyle change taking place probably in a month (no, i don't mean i am going to date girls now)

well, at least i never have been broken up with by a post-it note...

it's either been face to face, over the phone, or, and this is my personal favourite... no break-up at all, it just fades into the wind... no phone call, nothing, just a lot of "what the hell happened?" and unreturned phone calls...

in fact, i think there's a guy out there who hasn't called since december of 1999... technically, we've been dating for 3 years and 8 months... it's a lovely relationship. i've been looking at nj bride magazine because i think it's time...

(har.)

so, a high school friend of my copywriter is apparently "the fastest-rising debut song by a new artist so far this year - making news in country's top 10 this issue is Dierks Bentley's "What Was I Thinkin'"

now, i am not a huuuuge fan of country, but this is a pretty damned catchy song that i can't get out of my head...

go check out dierks' site...

October 8th and 9th Cowboy Mouth plays Irving Plaza with Cracker New York, NY $25.00

SWEET!!

Two Italian Men (this killed me :)

so my new lease was shoved in my doorway waiting for me to sign it....

about to go meet up with cathy, joanne and john for some grub and beverages at the hard grove cafe... haven't seen joanne since last november right after her baby was born

man - that's a scary hair and chunky photo...blech...

you have to be EFFING KIDDING ME. it's not even the end of the show and i am pissed - Last Comic Standing...

the just eliminated Vos (that's ridiculous - even jay mohr was shocked) - they eliminated cory right before him (that was surprising) and what the hell is left is...

Dat Effing Phan
(AWFUL. TERRIBLE. HACK. ONE-BIT FREAK. LET'S HAVE EVERY BIT BE A PARODY OF HIS MOTHER'S VIETNAMESE ACCENT)

and

Ralphie May
(COME ON... WHILE THE FAT GUY DOING GHETTO-SPEAK IS OH HA-HA FOR A SECOND, KNOCK IT OFF... although i'd rather he won instead of dat)

---- oh, great.... now they are having the two of them perform their sets again... i don't think i can stomach it... oh, they are having ralphie perform first... how much ya' wanna bet they are having dat go last because he won (and they are considering him the headliner...) this is awful. awful.

right now, ralphie is doing a bit about ally mcbeal and how skinny she is... um... when the hell did the show go off the air? last year? the year before?

oh. a fat guy bitching about skinny people, how louis anderson and john pinette of him - actually, i take that back they don't even do fat jokes anymore because it's "phoning it in"

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dat just said "i didn't think i'd make it this far" - neither did i.

oh here we go with the mother voice.... please, someone stick an ice pick in my ears... if he gets this deal with comedy central and an exclusive talent contract with NBC, so help me god.

more mother accent jokes. kill me... no, wait, why kill me? kill him... go.

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1.467 millionth commercial during the show
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we're back...

and the winner is....

fuck.

fuck.

dat.

tomorrow night. going to the movies.

the thing is... what the hell am i gonna wear?

ladies and gentlemen... the main reason i am moving in with her is so i can talk to her offline:

gigglechickha: click there go to my site - click the words Full Frontal that's above the dotted line

GiggleMom: And...

figures that today my allergies are kicking into high-gear... i am likkered up on 3 alaverts and there's no end to the red nose syndrome i am sporting... and there's no time to go to tanning during lunch to make the rest of my face red and draw attention away from the rudolph look - would rather have the heat miser look (well, during lunch there's time - but let's just say, laying in a pool of your own sweat for 30 minutes isn't quite the best smell one can sport... and there's no time for a shower prior to the date. that's not the "perfume" i want to have wafting off me.)

i printed out my notice to the landlord - i will leave it inside my door when i am ready to go out tonight... i feel sorta sick that i am leaving the place.

it's when i am leaving that's up in the air now

so, went out for lunch with the crew here... to bennigans... yep. nothin' like eating at a chain for the rest of my life.

anyway - i am relaxing with my food high (actually trying not to fall asleep) - and i figured i would peruse some sites that i enjoy little tips and such from and post them for y'all - even though you should know about them already:

mandarin design - i love this site because you can find quirky little things to make your fonts go loopy here - also - i'd found that dotted line containment tag for seperating the right nav stuff in my old design... (if i am not making sense it's because my mind is not getting any bloodflow after lunch)

scriptygoddess - excellent... i have been playing with some cool stuff via this site - and will implement things once i am happy with how they've progressed

subterrane.com - i can't live without the lorem ipsum character thing on it - there's a bunch of good stuff here.

ah... there's 3... that's enough for the moment... i have to wake up now - hope i don't fall asleep during the movie....

if you can't spell, i am sure you can't help me lose weight...
idiots.

american wedding killed me! loved it :) although there is one scene in there where i almost lost my chicken scaloppini lean cuisine on the floor - but it was cute... had a great night.

snagged off of mandarin design, i checked out gary turner's blog and consequently found his "Switch" campaign

(apparently, he had this up in january, but i hadn't seen it til now)

"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think." - Dorothy Parker

snagged blatantly from semi compos mentis --- gotta love good ol' dottie

dang. my clowns were sent out.

i don't even wanna watch the last episode now.

i suppose i want kelly & john to win now

i will be "vacating" my apartment by september 15th, 2003.

no more jersey city for me... i must admit i haven't been going into the city all that often over the past 2 years... and the main reason i moved up north was because i worked at nine west - which was at 32nd & 5th... then i worked in jersey city and then back in nyc again, so it made sense to stay here

now i drive to work every day (well, except tuesdays and fridays because i can work from home) all the way to saddle brook...

it's funny, from jersey city, if i leave my house at 8:30am, i am usually at the office by 9:15/9:30... if i leave the house in brick at 8am (that's at the latest) i can be in there by around the same time - that's barring crazy ass traffic.

as long as i have my car, my own schedule (as opposed to the train or bus - i commuted for a couple of years from squan to manhattan via train and bus - and was always on their schedule which stunk) and as long as the radio and cd player works - i am set... and a big thing of iced coffee (hot coffee in winter)

it'll be fine. no, really... it will... seriously.... don't freak out.

*someone get me a paper bag - i'm hyperventilating*

so, i am working from home today - but i deperately need to begin packing... i am so screwed.

and i've been pricing moving companies.... jeezuz.... an arm and a leg!

i'm kinda fluctuating in and out of depression because i am leaving here and giddiness because i am going to be saving money and helping mom with the house - getting all ducks in a row on both counts...

so, no more Jersey City Posse, Donk - but still am gonna be in NJ.... exit 91.

which means i have to drive to exit 159 every other day.

and i am going to have to sell my treadmill - hey, if anyone wants to buy it....

it's a proform cd coach - i paid approx. $1300 (with shipping/handling costs as well as some other ungodly expense & it also has a spare motor) for it in 1998 - but send me an inquiry if you live in the north jersey area (am not shipping it) and we'll see what we can work out... heh, i said "work out"!!!

besides toning your body, keeping your heart in shape and saving your life... it also makes a GREAT clothes rack!

i have a dresser, queen-sized bed (headboard/footboard - it's wood with iron), kitchen table w/ 4 chairs (the table has a tile top on it - it's nice)

brand new bookshelf still in the box... haven't put it together yet.

and MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!

so i am at mom's - had thought that i would get up bright and early around 7:30am... but no

the rain makes me sleepy. very sleepy. and right now... it's verrrrry rainy...

i was pretty much in an out of a coma (knock on wood) and i woke up at 10am

frig.

i am supposed to go to a block party at 6pm - not sure if that's gonna happen - so we'll probably wind up at o'neill's - not sure...

in any event, i have to pack up a billion things in the spare - now my - room and drag them to the storage place - oh, what's that? i don't have boxes so i have to schlep to the storage place or home depot and buy some.... ugh.

cranky mood. i need coffee.... and lots of it.

no coffee.

went to Lowe's got 15 large boxes, 15 medium boxes...

spent 20 minutes in the pouring rain trying to fit them in my car (hey! thanks to all the gentlemen who DIDN'T offer to help! eff you!)

went to wendy's got a spicy chicken sammich and a coke - bringing from my car to the house, the kid in the next condo (he's about 3 or 4 or hell, i can't tell how old kids are - there are some people who could probably say "wow, how old is he? 19 months, 4 days, 6 hours and 13 minutes old?" - but, alas, i can't....

getting to the point...

wendy's bag and drink the kid hollers... "that's garbage"

me: "what, hon?"

kid: "that food is garbage"

me: "well, then i like eating garbage" and i walked in the house...

i wanted to yell "it's all i can afford on their 99 cent menu, kid..." but that wouldn't have been true. i wanted to yell "hey, tell your mother to tell you to shut up" but i didn't. i wanted to yell "eff you, you little punk assed brat" but i couldn't.

i don't like living in condos. i hear them vaccuuming next door at 11:30pm...

although it should make for some interesting stories once i move in totally... aren't you excited at the demise of my independence?

living with my mother is going to be like clamping on a condo-shaped chastity belt, isn't it?

eh... um... i forgot gigglemom reads this... oh well... at least she knows i won't be dragging guys home to sleep in my twin bed - that's right... TWIN bed. i am going to die - the twin bed is temporary - i mean i have the queen sized one as i stated, but it's too big for the room... i loved that mattress, too. dagnabit.

so being hungover is not condusive to packing things and moving said items to storage...

today began with me waking up at my cousin danny's house on their couch, being stared at by 2 whining chunky black labs... good puppies...

at that point it was 10am... crap - had expected to be back home by 8am - not happening...

head and stomach were fine - just feeling a bit sluggish - okay, a lot sluggish...

had been at a block party on the river last night... a couple of squan cops were having it... wound up playing dice - was the only girl allowed to play for some reason - i think it was because i cursed or something and they were impressed by my tourrettsiness - danny was like "don't do it, Er... they'll take your money"

so, i wound up winning $40 from them... heh.

numerous beers later we headed over to o'neill's...

at this point i'd been drinking coors light froma krazy straw for 4 hours

there was a point around 1:30am where i may have left a message on the RHB™'s voicemail in a pathetic sounding irish brogue

on the way home this morning i made a stop at the new krispy kreme which opened up in brick - the line i waited in for the drive-thru was 25 minutes long... that's nothing compared to the line on foot out the front door - they had security guards there and everything... yep, new doughnut shop in brick is the biggest thing to hit these here parts since the TGIFriday's opened about 7 years ago... this is the only KK in new jersey and it's a mile away from my house... this may not bode well...

oh, look, i m getting IM'd by an ass.... checkout the J&S section...

wow... gregory hines... no more noise, no more funk.

i don't suggest drinking beer thru a krazy straw... this was towards the end of the evening - now if only i hadn't been allowed to use my cell phone after drinking.

there was a clown making balloon animals... my cousin is wearing something on his head

ah, a brilliant piece of candid photography, eh?

have y'all seen the napster bits?

my goodness, a heck of a day.... started packing - slightly - will do more tomorrow

it's hot as heck in my apartment right now

so there's been two deaths now - gregory hines and now, Herb Brooks

sad. very sad. i liked brooks.

heh.... you kicked my dawg

[snagged lovingly from clayton]

my fantasy football league live draft starts in 45 min... i have 2nd pick.... how i swung THAT i do not know...

should make the season a tad more interesting... haven't been in a league in about 10 years... only pools.

my draft picks - i goofed and picked michael bennett and found out he's on the DL til october at least - so i dropped him and hope to pick up moe williams...

always nice when you have a baby shower at work and someone - who barely knows the mom-to-be - writes:

"word has it you're pregnant? who's the bastard that did this to you? i'll kill 'em. good luck any how."

what an effing ass. (no, i didn't write it)

so... apparently, i have been quite lax in the stalkeriffic stalking department...

jim gaffigan got married last week - according to sources...

*sigh* gotta admit, i hadn't been paying much attention to him over the past year or so (prior to that i was quite smitten - and the one time we were in a line-up together at stand up ny i introduced myself... said i was the one that had been IMing back and forth with him and he gave me the thumbs up and said "stalkeriffic!" - yep... that was a lovely night)

check out this reel of outakes from his saturn ads in high-res or low-res

um... this needs a law?

the power shut off at the office in saddle brook around ten after 4.... i announced "screw it! i'm going home to work"

as i headed out on route 80, i saw a billowing cloud of black smoke next to the empire state building in the distance... what the?

turned on AM radio - power outages - as i am sure you've all heard by now - in NY, detroit, toronto, ottawa, CT and other places... well, it hit north jersey as well

power's not supposed to be back for another few hours at least...

HOW am i writing? i called an audible as i got onto the turnpike and headed in my t-shirt and skirt (the only clothes i have right now) down to my mom's house

i hit a little traffic - mainly rubberneckers gawking at the refineries whose stacks were spewing fire and thick black smoke more than normal....

i called everyone i knew that lived in the city or who worked in the city - was only abe to reach cathy (she's fine...) and the voicemail of someone else... otherwise - cell phones are shot, my cell barely worked

calling hoboken, it was nothing but busy signals...

my landlord had written in his latest note last week that i owed $600 by august 14th or i would have to leave by sept. 6th - i had planned on handing him a check tonight - not so now... will have to wait til tomorrow - hopefully, this won't affect my staying til sept 15 - seeing as there was a state of emergency called

so i am down the shore tonight - have to drive back to JC in the morning to work from home and grab stuff for storage, ABV's and drive back home - to the shore - tomorrow night

just letting y'all know what's the what.

stay safe and cool.

so i drove up north this morning to work from home - i get in... clocks blinking, good sign - power's on...

turn on the computer... eh.... why no flashy flashy on the modem? nooooooo!

comcast internet is shot.

guess what i am doing today, folks?

working off of bloody dial-up aol.... this is grand.

i'm not talking about traffic on the parkway, turnpike or the gw bridge, etc...

i am talking traffic from al.com!!! wow!

WELCOME one and all to my site! [said in a ricardo montalban accent]

hope you read more than the small blurb with me whining about the blackout 2 posts down and how i am struggling on dial-up & working from home without the random noise of some pathetic show on cable in the background - it's killing me!!

come for the blackout - stay for the blog...

al.com is the redirect for those that attempted to view the sites listed below (ironically enough when i worked for fusion design - the kick ass design firm in jersey city - i worked on nj, silive, masslive, nola, syracuse, penn and a few other advance internet sites)

NJ.com
AL.com
MLive.com
Cleveland.com
OregonLive.com
Nola.com - to those visiting from nolalive - i LOVE cowboy mouth!
Syracuse.com
PennLive.com
MassLive.com
SILive.com

wow- i think that's the most amount of visitors i've had in one day in about 2 years... so far the visitors tally is totalling 3911 - compared to the usual 275 on average that i get by noon per day (usually per full day it's 366)

so, have a seat, welcome, can i get you a cup of coffee.... make that ICED coffee.... stay - visit a while!!!!

in the meantime - since the US and canada is going back and forth with the finger pointing as to who started this lovely "fiascal" - i will leave you with an apropos ditty you can hum to yourself sll day and make up other stanzas to:

Blame Canada

Times have changed,
Our kids are getting worse
They won't obey their parents,
They just want to fart and curse

The smut we must stop
The trash we must smash
Laughter and fun
must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before someone thinks of blaming us!

eh.... now, all my little canadian friends, don't get in an uproar... i still love ya' :)

i think the girl on 104.3 radio just said "there can't be a blackout baby boom in 9 months because it was just too f*cking hot last night"

i may have imagined the eff word in there - but i could have sworn...

unique visitor tally thus far: 4610

oh yeah - since i drove up from mom's in brick - to the re-powered up apartment in jersey city - i left at 8:30am... got 2 tolls free - YAY! woo! saved a whopping $0.70...then i hit the turnpike at 9:04am... 4 minutes past the "hey we're giving you free tolls" deadline.

*sigh*

so i am out, whatever crazy amount they charge from exit 11 - 14c... although i wouldn't be surprised if i get a bill from ez-pass stating that i owe them $34K for taking the turnpike this morning - with their lovely computer system

figures... wouldn't it be nice if they stopped the EZ-pass and tolls during the return rush hour? seeing as i have to drive back down to the shore tonight... maybe most of the bennys will be too tired to travel down there this weekend!!!!!

visitor watch update [play energetic breaking news theme]: 5223

so my friend cathy is in midtown - no exact location, folks, sorry - she just called me asking me to call her friend's husband on long island because they haven't been able to get thru to him for 24 hours...

they've tried calling him - to no avail... something about the NYC phones that're screwy...

cathy's phone won't ring - she's gotten numerous voicemails from the friend's hubby though

so, what happens? i had to call up a complete stranger - fine no prob... thinking i could do it via my landline while cath is on the cell i call - nope.

won't go thru

i try again... nope. nada - recording says it won't go thru

cath and i hang up...

i give one last ditch effort...

HE ANSWERS!! oh joy!

"eh, hello there! this is erin, a friend of cathy blahbittyblah's - *wife's name* is holed up at her apartment - all is fine - she is fine - they just can't call you because of the phones being weird - they were able to call me because i live in jersey city - but they want you to try emailing them - they have electricity - but there's no way home to long island since the LIRR is out still"

he proceeds to tell me that he has the police there because he hadn't heard from her at all...

(awwwwww... that's so sweet!)

so contact has been made... emails will be sent... and a family has been brought back together....

my work here is done... i have to go hop in my invisible plane and head to the shore now...

*whoosh!*

visitor count update brew-ha-ha: 6018

got down to mom's about an hour ago - got some baby back ribs (not chili's, but you know you wanna sing the jingle)...

was watching the news (what else?)

they just had a montage of all the images over the past 28 hours... and all i could think was this is a much better montage than the one they ran over and over and over and over almost 2 years ago at least i wasn't viewing it thru blurry & teary eyes...

although i was scared as hell yesterday when i saw the empire state building with the smoke near it... not frightened for myself... but... you know... okay - a little frightened for myself, but not all that much since i wasn't in the city - but as i said, i called a few numbers yesterday and couldn't get thru - all i was thinking was "crap, they've done something to us & people i care about"

meanwhile the only ones who've done something to us are either canada :) or cleveland (sorry Browns fans... sorry drew carey... just spewing blame... )

rib-induced tally of visitors so far: 7439

hey - go now and check out lorna's long walk home during the blackout... grl, you have to be gellin' like a felon now!!

also, hear about paulkatcher.com's experience with the dark side

enough about others... this evening was spent planning the attack on the packing and storing of the crap that's in the room where i will be moving down here at mom's house...

i am tired. the dog's been barking like mad. i've a headache. i am cranky... and looky here... i am whining! go figure

oh... and i have a million fricking mosquito bites.

7774 bites from new visitors to the site!! welcome once again!!

i am likkered up on 5, count 'em, FIVE aalaverts - usually they work... today, my body has apparently adjusted to the allergy med...

i have been sneezing non-stop for 5 hours now... my nose is looking like a local drunk at the pub... i can't tell if it's from mom smoking, from the august allergy season springing forth or from both...

all i know is that i am ready to cry from the damned nose - i haven't had allergies this bad in a while - remind me that i have to go back to the allergist - at least to a new allergist rather than the third world country one i went to in jersey city 4 years ago - seriously, i sat in the middle of the waiting room for 2 hours at a clip - followed by sitting in the cattle area where no less than 12 patients sat getting shots...

this was almost as bad as the time i went to the podiatrist....