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helloooooooooo!!! let's recap the day...

i woke up and the first words out of my mouth were "Beri you're crazy!" as she jumped on my head!

so it's a "Tibbar, Tibbar" evening tonight...

spent the day ogling a photo... erm... i mean photos from yesterday... oh and i worked on stuff too...

nothing really spectacular - applied for another loan and got it in 1 hour - so that was good...

then i walked in the door this evening and what was waiting for me? what what?

seabiscuit that glorious horse! well, okay, not the actual horse... and not the fantabu book.... but the dvd!!

THANK YOU, MICHAEL!!! (not my usual sugar-daddy michael from IL... but this is Michael from VA)

thank you!!!

[now this will be added to my horse racing movie collection - i see a theme here ]

my uncle emailed me this today... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz - i got 147...

*whew*

what a feeling of relief that's swept over me...

as of this afternoon, i have paid off every bill that has crossed the threshold of my mailbox...

now all i have to contend with is the loan that i took out - which is fine... no big deal, have the payment plans broken up into delectible bite-size chunks...

it's not like i owed $87,923 or anything crazy like that - more like $1,400... no big whoop...

the slate is nice and shiny now... am clapping the erasers as we speak!

just finished posting the photos from this past sunday's fundraiser ... man alive! i am tired!

good christ. i think my one lung has collapsed.

we just had a "fire emergency" here... of course, every idiot in front of me was moving all sluggish... at this point i would have been burned to an effing crisp.

made it only 3 floors down - in 5 min. - seriously, come on. at that point it wasn't a drill... big blaring "whoop whoop" and flashing lights in the office said that it was not a drill...

and i was behind a 450 pound woman taking up the entire staircase - i don't wanna come across as insensitive, but MOVE IT THE HELL ALONG!!! i was not cramming into her though - even though this guy i work with was whining that he's gonna push someone and slide down the railing (nice. um. that tells you a lot about a person's demeanor) anyway....

started at the 9th floor. made it to the 6th when a "eh.... sorry.... that was a false alarm" is broadcast over the speakers...

while that's great and all - the elevators were now at the C level and probably packed with folks... so we walked back up.

here's the sad thing.

i am incredibly winded. seriously. i think it's from second-hand smoking 4 packs of menthols a day. eh... not to mention my shoes weren't exactly condusive to walking in... eh... oh... and while i am not 450 lbs., i am still outta shape.

anyone have any oxygen?

oh joy! oh rapture! oh family guy!!!

so... tonight after work, i get to meet up with mr. seabiscuit-dvd-giver, mike... heading into hoboken - haven't been in that town in many many many months - pre-move.

looking forward to it!

so the cafeteria had a "pasta station" today - where they whip up whatever you want right then and there...

so i got these weird shell sorta pasta things, they look like the old Quisp cereal... anyway - got that with chicken, broccoli, peas and alfredo sauce...

now i feel sick... ate way too much. still have 1/4 of the pasta left.... keep eyeballing it as if one more bite won't kill me... of course, each time i give in and take a bite (because it's good) i feel ill.

someone take my dish away... i'm like a dog when i eat... eat til i feel morbidly obese and as if i want to buy a stomach pump.

mmmmmm.... morbidly obese... just the look i was going for when i meet this bloke tonight

good lord - carbo-loading has made me sluggish - i am ready to pass out at my desk right now - the weather is not exactly helping either.... rainy/mucky...

SNAP OUT OF IT, ERIN!!!

okay - feeling only slightly obese at the moment - although we had cake for paula here at work who's moving on...

in the meantime... i present you with:

the movie alphabet game

[snagged ever-so blatantly from michele]

weird search on google that someone did and it led to my site:

i met mike last night at the lovely texas-arizona.... or shall i say, outside... then it was off to mcswiggan's for a couple of pints... yap yap yap...

food at East LA... my chicken fajitas didn't come on the crazy sizzle plate. bastards. of course, after reading the reviews, i don't know why we went there... see, a few pubs i do know of in hoboken, yes... eating establishments... not so much. i usually just went into nyc for decent food.

but seeing as i was the only one who'd ever stepped foot in the mile square town, i suggested both.

yadda yadda yadda...

as i was driving home on the turnpike i slapped my forehead and said "Crap! you had your camera there and forgot to take a bloody picture!"

dang.

hmmmm... so here at the office, one girl lost 14 lbs on atkins, another lost 35 pounds in 3 months, my boss has lost about 22lbs and my other boss has lost about 30...

okay. i give. i will do this atkins you speak of...

just, i will start on march 18.

come on... there's no way guinness won't be imbibed by me between now and then...

or potatoes.

or crazy hangover comfort food.

march 18th-ish... carb free in month oh-three

Dear sprintpcs,

i would like to thank you for charging me out the ass for service which sucks. when i am inside a building - even if it's a makeshift manifesto-writing type of shack, i rarely get service. thank you for freaking the hell out of me by sending your bill and adding on the next two months service fees that i don't have to pay, but you thought you could slide it in under the radar and i wouldn't notice. i also would love to say a hearty thanks for your crapola text messaging feature... on the rare occasion when i text someone, the service always seems to go on the fritz for about 7 hours and said person i was texting thinks i haven't responded because i was being rude and now all hell's breaking loose.

for this, dearest Sprint-effing-p-effing-c-effing-s, i thank you.

All the best -

Erin Bennett

sprint PatheticCrappySucks
sprint PCASS

so, my parade pal, gleny.com, has a few delightful and ethereal photos on his site...go... enjoy the splendor of gleny.com....

say hey to him and leave a comment or two...

kinda was rooting for her ... not totally, but kinda.

in any event, anytime i can break out this image, i am happy :)

i should be asleep right now. but i've had a bee in my bonnet put there by gleny that i should use fotki...

behold... the florida trip photos... feel free to comment on that site :)

there's a bathing suit shot of me in there somewhere...

(you've been warned.)

was up way late captioning all 185 florida trip photos - meanwhile, i have the investiture mass for the parade at 10am...

heading over to jude's - she got us corsages... no idea if joe's getting us sashes saying "parade committee" or not...

it'd be nice...

i'd like mine to say "parade webmistress"

*whew* dog-tired and the parade is tomorrow!

had the investiture mass which was absolutely lovely - had to walk up with the committee - got a medal and a corsage... very nice... had a heart attack because the pipes and drums started up right behind me and scared the hell out of me.

the luncheon was really swell... note i am not getting into details at the moment - because i am way too tired to even type.

line-up meeting - eh.... trying to figure out what the heck is going on...

drinks at the friendly sons... i love those folks.

shopped for one more green shirt.
bought a new lipstick
yapped with my stalker via IM
went food shopping. now i am off to eat my french bread pizza...

thank god, it's BEAUTIFUL out!!!

what a great day!!!!! here are some photos (be sure to check out the last one)

as i said - had a great time - by the time i was done with working the parade, half my friends left the bars - and went home - although a few came back out and went to the fsos... ran into my ex-bill (redhead) - as seen in the photos ...

working from home today - and it figures, having trouble getting into the company's network. arrrrgh

i would like to congratulate myself for being the 3500th commentor on this site.

okay... for the first time in 4 years i called dominos...

half pineapple/half plain

the damned pizza was barely cooked. i like the cheese to have a little brown going on... but no.

ate a couple of slices. now tummy's all kindza crazy on me...

had one slice of pineapple. got my craving taken care of for the next 8 years.

gleny.com has kick ass photos of the parade - helluvalot more than i do (since i was WORKING the thing and had a clipboard, radio, pen, cellphone, water in hand and was checking off the line of march)

i can be found in the tailgating series 1... they are, eh, lovely photos :)

so i made an appointment for this saturday to get highlights... and for the first time ever, lowlights...

just as long as i never have to hear an ex-boyfriend say to me on parade day:

"you know i love you so much, there's always been something between us, erin, i've never loved anyone as much as you even though we broke up ten years ago and... hey, what the hell? you've got a lot of gray hairs on the top of your head!"

and he wonders why we aren't together...

*sigh*

idiot.

• Robert Pastorelli (overdose / suicide?) - who happened to share my birthday.

• Paul Winfield - (heart attack)

• Spalding Gray - (suicide)

have a women of irish heritage meeting/st. pat's shindig this evening... have to leave work at 5pm to get down there on time...arrrrgh...

today is blog it forward day - let's see, having never officially "Blogged it Forward" because i had to (more because i've either snagged a link or saw something funny on a site) - here goes:

• german for beginners - not only is his name the same as mr. moonguy, but he promised to write "For a good time: gigglechick.com" in the men's room of a local irish pub in germany that he frequents :)

• missgleny.com - the other half of gleny.com... check mesha out, she seems to be a cool chick...

hmmm... i will throw the love around once more today... where oh where should it land?

• royal rodent - yep, i'm in the mood to throw the cheese to the rat today...

tell 'em gigglechick made ya' schlep over there!

so i had to send oout an announcement to the exec team here - they're having a meeting next week in nyc -- and taking the day off on st. pat's day to celebrate...

here's the image i used in the email...

i am meeting them and a few others over at PJ Clarke's that morning - will be there all day... so whoever's around town, stop in and say hello!!!!

the parade was a success... (so says the coast star :)

holy hell. okay - here's the skinny, i was looking at the front page reader ads on the coast star and this boob here placed an ad for his web business.

eh... so... now i have to seriously get cracking on a redesign of my portfolio site because this kid is now horning in on my territory.

i thought it'd only be fair of me to write him an email saying:

"Hi there. Not for nothing, but you really ought to spell check your website."

why i don't know - should have let people see his site and have the slack-jawed look of horror and disbelief (like i did) at the spelling errors that were in 16pt type on his homepage - not to mention in the dropdown menus - and the "sites" that were designed by him...

and in doing a little more investigative work, it seems that only one of the sites is legit (or actually isn't his other business or a friend of his.) i have to let it go and focus on my own site.

bloody hell. i've been putting the "free" in freelance for far too long.

so i received a reply from Spellman Perrellin (otherwise known as the idiot with the website in the previous post)

he states:

this time i didn't reply. dude, it's STRATEGIC. oh and on your "Logo's" page... what exactly are your logos possessing?

at least he got rid of the navigation saying "Letterhesd" and "Advertizing"

good gravy.

if i were a client of his, there's no way in hell i would pay this amount for weekly updates... unless there was a spellcheck involved.

*growl*

ass.

random IM... wrong time to contact me buddy.

oh, other than the spelling error crap, i had a great day - busy but great... and i also realized that i still can hyperventilate (only slightly though) when i am on the phone with a fella i like

god, i needed this tonight. go ahead, take it. and y'all better be fuhrers.

You are the grammar Fuhrer. All bow to your
authority. You will crush all the inferior people under the soles of your jackboots, and any who question your motives will be eliminated. Your punishment is being the bane of every other person's existence, because you're constantly contradicting stupidity. Everyone will be gunning for you. Your dreams of a master race of spellers and grammarians frighten the masses. You must always watch your back. If only your power could be used for good instead of evil.

What is your grammar aptitude?
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*** update: 12:51am ***
oh yeah, and thanks to kate, i am now up way too late playing weboggle

so, am working from the office today... even though it's quite windy out and around 48 degrees, i can smell a hint of spring in the air...

t-minus 22 hours til my hair's all lit up with the high and low lights

sunday - jersey city parade - i will be hanging out at PJ Ryan's (172 First Street
Jersey City) getting there somewhere around 3 or 3:30ish... possibly staying til 6... it's in the hands of the committee

supposed to possibly meet-up with ex-rhb and also this fella brendan who i met at mcsorley's about 7 years ago - we'll see... either way, it's gonna be a great time because the parade committee is walking in the parade and then we've been invited for "beverages" at the Loew's Theater in journal square... then we're to head over to PJ Ryan's... we've got a van all lined up to take us to and fro - gotta meet them in belmar on sun. morning at 10am...

7 years i lived in jersey city, not once did i go to the parade... now that i moved, i am marching in it.

silliness.

okay - so i've done dishes and some laundry today - and am bloody well addicted to weboggle now...dammit.

have the hair thing at 1pm - so should be leaving around 12:30... even though i wanted to go for a quick zap at the tanning salon at noon...

a lot more cleaning to do in the meantime...

arrrrrrrrrgh.

have i ever mentioned that i hate cleaning?

got the hair done! loving it! got the highlights, but also got the lowlights and the lows are thin pieces of auburn that you can see really well in the light...

anyway - i took photos... here are a few from the salon and then me doing the "sassoon swish"

and the auburn... well, i figure if i can't date a redhead, i'll join them.

heh.

hmmmm... interesting late night phone call.

we drove up (8 of us) in the suburban and marched the mile and a half in the jersey city parade... i got to carry the banner (as you can see)

afterwards we went to the Loew's theater for about 20 min. and then drifted down to PJ Ryan's... where i took a few photos...

ran into old family friends tommy and robby (now they want me to call them tom and rob. whatever. i won't)

then the rhb™ showed up (as planned at 3am... heh) and it was good to see him... been a little while...

i was planning on working from home today but i think i am gonna do that on thursday since wednesday may be a rough go of it. so i am heading into the office this morning - gonna hop in the shower and get all gussied up...

interesting... saw an ad on the teevee for smallstep.gov

the page where they have a ton of "steps" to getting healthy is pretty good

although, #1. Walk to work. - eh, don't know if i can walk 70 miles to and 70 miles fro without being late to work...

my buddy johnnystorm is in the process of redesigning his website/portfolio...

is it wrong of me to want to steal his idea? :P

* it's a work in progress, but for now, double click on the menu items to launch the stuff

the big day is almost here!

and what better way to celebrate than with some guinness...advertisements!!

• St. Patrick's Day Morning!

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and... it's snowing at the moment. just in time for the commute. joy.

where i work is supposed to get 6 - 12 inches.

where i live is supposed to get 1 - 3 inches.

that should tell you the distance i have to travel, huh?

having a taco bell grilled chicken stufft burrito and a bean & cheese burrito for lunch may prove to be one of my more unfortunate decisions that i've made in my life.

items i have to pack to go into the city tomorrow (will be at pj clarke's by 11:30am):

• green, black & orange sharpie markers. (see last year)
• flask filled with jamesons or tullemore dew.
• camera
• extra camera batteries
• cell phone
• lipstick
• identification & money
• spare underwear