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don't forget to say "rabbit, rabbit!" first thing in the morning!!!!!

well, trainboy sent me this early this morning...

brawk brawk brawk brawk brawk... brawk brawk brawk brawk brawk...

by the way - i forgot to "rabbit, rabbit" this morning, so the last thing i have to do tonight is "tibbar, tibbar"

(only 99 comments left til i reach 10,000 on MT. i have surpassed that since i began blogging -- which, my bloggiversary is coming up in 2 weeks.)

[PEOPLE, THE ORIGINAL RABBIT, RABBIT POST WAS A LINK TO THE EXPLANATION. WHEN IN DOUBT, CLICK]

okay - so i was quoted in an article in an that ran in yesterday's Star Ledger...

it's about delays on NJ Transit...

go. read. if you have hardcopies of the story, send 'em over and i will autograph them :)

waiting in long branch for the 7:51am train... just was handed a survey for nj transit as I sat down. bring it on.

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[turns out that it was only a multiple choice survey...]

[*click*]

XL please.
my goodness. it's fantastic.

then again, there's always this one.

interesting. old navy has a t-shirt that says LIFEGUARD BELMAR...

is some Benny Designer from Old Navy paying an homage????

mornin'. made the 7:51am train out of long branch. flipped the bird at some old lady with a handicapped license (come on, if she's allowed to drive, then frigging drive faster than 4 miles an hour)

anyway... 3 days, 2 hours to go. am warming up the batteries for my camera as we speak.

my credit union overnighted me the BIG ASS cashier's check. part of me wishes it only had my name on it instead of the mini dealer's too. heh. I had thought that I would've had to take a day off and go to the bank to sign papers etc, but no. i only need to have a notary public stamp things and then I have to sign and send back within 30 days. cool :)

I have a couple of names I am toying with. will yap later about them.... right now one is in the lead.

jeezuz. I just looked down and holy hell the cleavage is a litte crazy today... didn't look like that in the mirror. crap.

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yeah this is an oldie. but i still kinda chortle at it.

(thanks for the email, shawn)

*whew* thank god craig got the boot. now left is kendra and my girl tana.

either one are fine, but i think tana would be the best candidate...

(yes, i am talking about the apprentice)

been headachy all day --- could be allergies... but for some reason i fear i may need glasses *gasp*

what else is going on?

LESS THAN 48 HOURS TIL I GET MY MINI!!!!!

(by the way, i am at 9980 comments thus far)

erm... or something

because i needed to be my own blog whore.

in looking over my statistics for the site i see where there's someone in the Wall Township School system reading my site... who's coming over from paulkatcher.com (yeah, i am big brother, sort of)

anyway - WELCOME!!! erin bennett, wall high, class of 1988 here... how are ya'?

i am about to get dressed --- getting ready to meet the new boy!!! have to pick him up at 10am...

have to drop gigglemom's car off at blewett's at 8am... then hightail it over to princeton!!!!!

right now, the weather is grey and foggy and it had been raining, think the rain MAY (touch wood) have ended.

in 3 hours i will be driving the boy home :)

yay!!!

phooka (pronounced poo-kah) - mischievous nature spirit in irish...

popped in to upload some photos, have to get ready for a shillelagh shindig (and have to be there in 20 minutes)

am tired, must be all that fresh air i've been getting today!!!

go lookit the photos!!!

been out and about driving in phooka! did the gigglemom's day thing...

had the top down all day yesterday, last night and this afternoon! (watching desperate housewives, more later!)

so saturday night, Jude and I went to the Friendly Sons of the Shillelagh dinner lo and behold, this fella that i fancy was there... he said "hey!" and then as jude and i were walking by, he said "how's everything?" to me...

i got all tongue-tied and i said "everything's glahbl frahm" and then scuttled off in embarrassment.

he really must think i was hit in the head with a sledgehammer... i got all tongue-tied back on parade day as well...

caught the 7:20am out of squan... had to leave phooka in the parking lot :(

had to change trains at newark... had to run up & down stairs then the 8:58 train was sitting there with its doors shut for two minutes... so I had already resigned myself to the fact I would be catching the 9:09... all of a sudden ONE door opened and the conductor said she'd let people on til the train started moving.

guess who was the one stepping on the train as it lurched forward? yep. am sitting comfortably on the 8:58.

it's gorgeous out and I so want to go driving around.

was driving through squan w/ the top down yesterday and saw another mini convertible... they were behind me and waving uncontrollably in my rearview mirror! awwwww phooka made a friend!

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i present the 50 worst hairstyles of all time...

and --- Inside the Waiter's Studio [waiter's studio link blatantly snagged from paul]

okay - just because i get annoyed with some folks who IM me (back-up, the kid has IM'd me about 5 times throughout the day today....) yeah so i batted the kid around like a mouse - not exactly scathing as i was taking a coffee break.

so i was driving home tonight - top down since it was gorgeous (only a little chilly, but that's what the heat's for) and i was about a mile from my house and had to stop at a traffic light...

what pulls up next to me? hot guy in a yellow mini (hardtop)... he gives me a thumbs up and the light turned green...

i pulled into the wawa and i saw where he was across the street at dunkin donuts...

yeah, i could've begun my Mini Stalking, but i refrained.

man, he was cute!

i am definitely gonna dig hanging with phooka.

yesterday, as i said, i was driving around 'squan and i was about to pull out onto main street when a black truck went driving by and the really cute roundheaded guy driving looks at the mini and then smiles :)

i turn left and was behind him... then i put the blinker on to turn right and the roundheaded truck guy sticks his hand out the window and waved...

hmmmm... wondering if i should call my mini, Phooka or Bait (for the fish in the sea.)

heh. i am looking to the future and seeing a kickass summer :)

baby got office chair back.

ah, one jackass has come back to haunt me... interesting how when one IMs, it may come back to bite them in the ass. (the original. the layout isn't pretty, ignore the disheveled look)

(yeah, what's to follow is my version of May Sweeps, i suppose)

okay, all y'all -- so far i've not been slaughtered by rogue IM'ers - nor have i been kidnapped by NJ transit conductors... do me a favour and go say hey to Debbers (you've seen her comment on my site for a while now...)

she recently started up her own blog, so pop in, say hey, tell her gigglechick sent you and then come back to me :)

of course, you have to crack a grin at a blog called white hiney, right?

so after i jumped of the train tonight and headed to Phooka, said see ya to Trainboy (who drove off when i popped into the mini) i tried to turn my key in the ignition.

nothing.

didn't move.

eh..... pardon?

then i tried it again.

again. nothing.

flicked on the lights. they worked. not the battery.

crap.

i called trainboy - since i knew he was only a few blocks away.... he asked if i could turn the steering wheel... nope. locked. crap.

then i put the emergency brake down...

ahhhhhh *whew* the key turned. the car started. all was well in miniland...

trainboy asked if all was cool and he turned around to go home and we hung up.

anyway... thanks to trainboy for helping me (in a way) and *shaking a finger at Phooka* don't ever scare me like that again.

eh. hello to whoever searched "gigglechick dawgface"

...for my readers who "don't get it...", i had posted back in 2001 about a band called Dawgface - decent local one - and one of the many ex-boyfriends that i have had was in it... so, every so often i see folks googling (or other search engine) that and i noticed it this evening...

so -- welcome! (i'm going to bed now.)

wait. speaking of googling, trainboy told me about yagoohoogle.com. neat.

whilst driving to the 7:21am train out of squan, I had the sunroof open... and then the rains came...

hey at least I had a little semi-open air motoring action going on before having to close the boy up.

every morning this week as I leave him at the station I get this little pang in my heart... damn separation anxiety.

so the rain today will break my streak of consecutive days with the entire top down. and it's supposed to rain throughout the weekend.

am staying over cathy's in the city tomorrow night. mom offered to let me use Mr. T and leave him overnight at the station while she takes Phooka to work...

the jury is still out on that decision.

and now I must sleep for 2 hours.

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okay - trainboy sent me a link to bitty, for a second i thought he was calling me one... anyway. for those "on the go" i've now created easy rss access to my site --- you can find the links over there on the left.... only fiddled with this for a minute - will check into it more later --- will possibly slap my archive list and the blogrolling list in there since i know that those pages don't launch with my code right now over on the mac -- not on my mac anyway.)

Launch Bitty Browser

Join my broadcast network

hey so eh, am on the 7:08pm train. sitting along with a thousand others on the train. apparently the station has no power... let me clarify... there IS power, but there "may be" a line down... and they aren't letting trains proceed.

so I am stuck sitting here.

have to take path

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fantastic ... sitting in effing bloody newark penn station... on a train that is on track A where the announcement was just broadcast that this "is normally an eastbound track and are awaiting written instructions" to leave.

so what's the problem? a bridge is on fire between new york and newark.

the bridge has burned down wires for the trains.

there are no trains out of nyc tonight (we took the path)

when I say "we" I am talking about my commuter partner in crime, trainboy...

so they are making ALL local stops between newark and long branch.

the connection that SHOULD be in long branch waiting to take us to manasquan? the conductor said "i can't honestly say that it will be there"

two rows behind me right now? 2 kids (or 16) screaming.

and it's 9pm... the 7:08pm train is supposed to get into manasquan AT 9:02pm... and here i am sitting in effing newark

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i JUST walked through my front door. i left work at frigging 6:12pm

and now i have a sore throat.

yeah. it's reeeeeally blurry. as we were on the PATH train we saw the smoke... and a little bit of flames... not realizing that was one of the causes for the FOUR AND A HALF HOUR COMMUTE that awaited us.

*snarl*

okay so, that blurry image up there (from the moving PATH and taken on my Treo.) that was of this:

here're more images.

more photos that gleny took

[thanks gleny, dear]

happy bloggiversary to meeeeeee!

technically a little longer (what with my rants.) but the day i started "blogging" was may 15, 2001.

just got back from visiting my aunt ann in the hospital (heartattack yesterday. she's doing fine though.)

also got back from the driving range with my friend carol... i am supposed to go golfing next weekend.

think I hit every frigging light and every 95 year old monday morning driver this morning on the way to the 7:21 train. thank god it switched from the 7:20am.

anyway. I saw the train from across the highway... I saw tons of cars coming from my left and right.....

I floored it. my goodness phooka hauls some mini ass!!

I pealed into the station. honked once. they held the train as I ran (as much as I could in skirt and sandals)

of course, now I am sitting behind the crazy change rattling woman - every time I am on this train I am near her.

she shakes coins in her hands back & forth for 15 seconds... then reads the heads or tails outcome (i assume) and writes them down... then resumes coin rattling...

for 2 hours.

.... okay I just got up and moved to another car (mainly because my batteries are dying in my walkman)

I am so sunburned... and my hair is getting blonder... keen. it's like Phooka is my one-stop tanning and hair salon.

that said... I think phooka may be parked semi-crooked....

did anyone tape the last 3 weeks of the family guy? I forgot the last 2 and then last night (even though trainboy called to remind me) I couldn't because both vcrs were working overtime taping survivor, contender, desperate housewives and gray's anatomy.

okay... am going to nap. beri woke me up at 5am...

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so, this idiot "Brenda Martin" has been commenting on my website. nasty little crappy comments...

i asked her to stop contacting me.

i also noticed that she's using a company email address...

http://www.picare.net

so, i called the (866) 220-5083 # listed on the site and asked for brenda martin and when she answered, i then proceeded to say "cease and desist with your emails & comments on my site"...

below is the "conversation" via email (perhaps start at the bottom.)

ah spring. it's in the air. i'm wearing a blue and white striped skirt... light blue polo shirt...

the weather is warm. I have a tan.

i'm walking to the 5:58pm train and there's a somewhat cute guy walking towards me. he smiles.

gosh I love spring.. the sun's shining, birds chirping, boys smiling.

I smile back.

he gets closer, smiles again and says:

"Nice titties"

and keeps walking (thankfully)

friggin' spring.

too bad he didn't hear me when I called out "eh, nice testicles!" to him.

okay, I didn't say that at all. but I would've loved to.

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you parked phooka in belmar. don't miss your stop tonight.

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so the peeling process on the forehead, nose and cheeks has begun.

am on the 7:28am out of belmar... going to bet that no one sits near me.

while I am not as vile as toenail clipping guy, the bright red raw flesh nose/forehead look that I am sporting (along with random bits of dangling skin) is not the most inviting look. fantastic.

going to nap so I don't see the few hot single train fellas on here looking at my elephant man "i am not an animal" deformity.

have cocoa butter, bag balm and neosporin on me... yep... i'm going to meet my future husband today. that's the magic pheromone/slimy face attraction thang.

remind me to buy SPF 8 (not 15 yet. can't bring myself to stay pasty) it's gonna be a long summer.

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was stuck behind some idiot in a white corolla with handicapped tags this morning. she went 7 mph (SEVEN) and then she apparently found the only invisible stop sign in manasquan.

what does this mean? it means that she wasted 3 minutes of my time, thus causing me to view the tail end of the 7:20am train pulling out of the station (even after I totally pulled an illegal Irish Job move and cut in front of her and the Emporer's New Stop Sign.)

so, I am on the RRE. and will be getting into the office at 10:15 if I am lucky... yesterday's 7:20am actually got into penn station at 9:16... three minutes ahead of schedule... keep your fingers crossed the RRE has that bit of luck.

last night's 5:58pm got me into belmar around 8:30... 25 min late. and I had to go to the hospital to visit aunt ann.

it's her 76th birthday today.

how is she celebrating? she's getting two angioplastic stints put into her heart. I mentioned she had a heartattack on saturday, right?

she seemed in good spirits last night when I got there. they're transporting her over to Jersey Shore Med Center this morning. in fact she should be in the OR right now.

hoping she's alright. she's a cool cat. has the farm in farmingdale... bred and raised goldens & labs, raised sheep, rabbits, chickens, goats, pigs and had horses (think that's where I was bitten by the horse bug)

she was telling me last night that she wants to get both hips replaced because she's been having trouble "sitting on the tractor and mowing the fields"... yes. 76 today.

she's the one I used to pray to God about... saying "please let me be like aunt ann with her white hair, wrinkles and horses"... i've had 7 horses, started going gray at 25, and am waiting for the craggy face to hit soon.

yeah. He hears that prayer.

anyway... she's been telling me what she's leaving me and while that's all well and nice, I don't want any of that stuff for a while... don't want to even think of her will having to be read for another 15-20 years...

usually I head over to the farm with my dad... I dunno... I think she intimidates me... but after visiting her by myself in the hospital I think I can cut the shop apron strings and head over there by myself more.

she knows a lot of the history of my family... dad sorta defers to her on that stuff.

apparently, my great-grandmother, annie height bennett, was a Huguenot... so I have to check in with that society. she was also one of 17 children. this was just discovered. she was also born on the property that was my family's old golf course (in a house)... and was President of the NJ chapter of the DAR (daughters of the american revolution)

so that's cool. I already knew on my grandmom's side that I am related to benedict arnold (i've mentioned this before)

anyway. switching trains now.

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had a photo/fansign sent to me today from neil ... which has spurred on a silly idea/request...

got a digital camera? start writing gigglechick.com on things, yourself, stickers, etc and take a photo and send them to me at gigglechick@gmail.com !!!

and i'll slap 'em up here....

get creative!!!!!!

well... trainboy & I are sitting here stuck in newark... on track 4.

there's a fire on track 4.

last week, Fire Wednesday was moved back to Thursday

arrrrrgh

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remind me not to sit in the first car of the 7:21am out of squan ever again...

6 rows up on the right side is crazy change rattling woman.

she has her train seat pattern. i've cracked that code.

yes. i've moved to another car.

by the way... aunt ann is most likely going home from the hospital today. she did well. had 2 stints while doing her stint in the OR.

that said, I am gonna nap, barring any more change rattlers, toe clippers, schitzophrenics & their imaginary pals (oh. didn't I mention THAT one on the train on tuesday night. have poor photo. no audio. audio would've been key here but I was afraid she'd slice my throat.)

a little Fat Off news... i've maintained somehow. but haven't updated the list in forever. the forum is still running though.

i'd about given up... then whilst in the shower this morning I realized we have an entire month (and 2 days) to shed more pounds. I have to stop getting kickass cheesesteaks from vinnie's

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well, i made it onto Overheard in New York...

woo.

about last week's train fire.