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thanks to shumpy, my dear, who reminded me about ye ol' "rabbit rabbit"!!!!

so I forgot to rabbit rabbit this morning... I made the 7:41train out of long branch though.

unfortunately, on this particular train, they aren't accepting july monthly tickets this morning (usually there's a morning grace period, but since this one originated in long branch, no deal. so i'm shelling out $16 on top of the $320 that I have to fork over today.)

at least I can sleep straight through to ny instead of switching in newark.

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"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."

-- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

so I am happy and relieved about something (sorry, not yapping about that at the moment) - and lately have been kinda in a funk... but all's good right now.

anyway am trapped on a slow moving 7:08pm train with trainboy and he's bloody singing "i've been working on the railroad"

what else? my thumbs hurt from typing will yap more when home

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forgot to tibbar tibbar. dagnabit.

oh well. so last night I was up til 3am working on stuff. set my alarm for 5:45am...

next thing I know, Beri (for those not in the know, my yorkie) was jumping on my head... I looked over, clock said 8:15!!!!!!!! CRAP!

so I nearly broke my ankle trying to get ready (since, by 8:15, i've already missed the 7:50 and have no chance of getting to work before 11u

I go downstairs to feed the dog and check the clock. it says 7:08.

what the??!

apparently when I hit snooze, I also hit "time set" and bumped it up an hour.

granted, I am still late for work. will get in around 10:15... a good deal earlier than 11:30 though.

I drove up to long branch, nearly made the earlier train-it was sitting in the station when I pulled in the parking lot ... but, ol' GC here is sporting cramps (first month of being back on the anti-baby vitamins since last september... and they gave me generics, so I am extra bloated, bitchy, crampy and breaking out - my skin is trying to relive it's puberty years and I feel like the poster child for accutane today... I made damned sure my refill was NOT generic... if there's one Rx that I don't want to get the plain generic label on it's something that protects me from being on SuperNanny crying insanely in 4 years turning my house into a labrynth of "naughty circles".... but, I digress.)

so I didn't make a run for it...

am on the 8:24.

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"All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and
have an idea that is obviously impossible."

- Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961) English Writer

am on 6:26pm train home - I have a windowseat next to a TB patient who smells like smoke and is reading an herbology book.

I have yet to mention my traincar does NOT have air conditioning and we are standing still in the tunnel.

and I have my "friend" who has pulled a norma rae on my body and unionized all the other organs - so now I am crampy, headachy, sweaty, poopy and growly. bitch.

did I mention my office has a busted A/C today on top of things? I am in a cattle car.

someone named jason commented at the Transit Blog that I whine and am self-absorbed. honey I am an only child, tell me something I don't know. jeezuz. I will rant more when I am not about to pass out and when the sweat stops causing my thumbs to slip off the treo.

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the screaming baby 2 rows away? no?

$320/month. no AC.

I AM DYING.

where's the Princess and my knee tonight? lemme at him :)

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someone's looking out for me today.

woke up at 6:45 (dog alarm again. I set her 15 minutes earlier though)

rushed like hell... left the house at 7:23 (ack!) and hightailed it to long branch.. I got to the station at 7:52... my train that gets me into the city at 9:19 leaves at 7:51. dammit.

so I drove around the lot 2x looking for a spot. parked. then saw people milling on the platform... hmmm. odd.

then I heard the whistle of the train!!! the 7:51 was late!!!

I made like a flock of seagulls and ran. I ran so far to the train. seriously, if there was a commuter 5k, and they peppered the course with train timetables and sporadically piped in the train whistle - it's a pavlovian response for me to run.

anyway... I made the train. granted there's a slight delay (apparently 20 min up north because the bridge was up due to marine traffic.)

I have to switch in newark so i'd better get my nap on now.

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but whatever. it's my blog. and my tastebuds really wanted to take a moment to scream out, "WE LOVE THE SALAD THAT WE MADE AT PAX DELI!!!!"

yeah i know. but the poor things never really talk much on here so i figured i'd let them give a shout out to Pax

my salad:

mixed greens
toasted almonds
sunflower seeds
cucumbers (extra cucumbers)
roasted corn
black olives
feta cheese
balsamic vinegrette

oh yes. it's frigging lovely..... mmmmm

that said... i am going back to chowing this concoction.

oh yes, slow readers, i want this.

fine...
spoiler alert.
boo-hoo.

okay. well, i just walked in from the aaron haber thursday night open mic --- which was a lot of fun! i think i spotted a donkey in the crowd!

anyway... gee... what's been going on today? should i even dignify the comments made by jackasses who are too afraid to post their names/real emails/any email address at all?

no - i am not going to waste my energy... except to say - hey, if you don't like my site, or how i run my site, or that i have a fucking "stalkers welcome" wishlist like, oh, 3.2 million other blogs out there in the world - well, feel free to comment and i will feel free to ban your pathetic ass.

or, better yet, create your own blog and dedicate it to whining about me. go ahead. do you really think i care?

and the fact that i ban people, it's not that i am "giving up" because i've "lost" an arguement, it's the fact that why the hell bother allowing people into my "living room" who are coming here to repeatedly poop on my couch?

does it really seem as if your nasty comments are going to cause me to shut my site down or do anything differently? i've been running this site since 2000... there've been worse characters out there over the past 5 years... don't hold your breath waiting for me to quake in my flip-flops.

that said... i have to finish my freelance gig tonight.

i've already explained on here that i have my effing period this week (it always seems like the jackarses come out every 28 damned days)

anyway... there've been 5 people banned over the course of 24 hours. yes. i am "playing God" on my site.

i choose to ban people because i don't need comments from the same people (*cough* deirdre *cough*) over and over and becoming redundant.

i am not here to woo people. either you like the site, think it's mediocre, or hate it. and if you hate it, well, that's like being around people in "real" life...

why bother being around people who hate you, and why allow them to keep needling you with their chatising remarks?

perhaps next week i shall allow them to return. until then, me, my hormones and my tampons are choosing to boot them from my site.

have to head to a bridal shower in about 3 minutes. i sincerely doubt bridal bingo will be played here --- i hope to god not, anyway.

well, my friends... i have just launched the website that i have been working on for a few weeks....

this may be my favourite site that i've ever designed. seriously - i've had a lot of fun cranking it out and working with the fellas involved with it...

go visit the NYimprov.com (that's MY design.)

new redesign

go, take a look... go buy some tickets...

hell, you can even buy tickets to the show i will be in on August 20th at 7pm...

by the way this is the old website they had before I took over.

old site

boy-o! all the excitement of launching the site last night and i slept til abotu 20 minutes ago!

i was re-living the days of milk and honey in 1999 when we used to launch websites and have big festive launch parties and stay up all night and stuff....

okay, technically i went out and got a #4 extra value meal at mcdonald's at 1:30AM... double quarter pounder with cheese, baby! large coke!
woo! par-tayyy!

and i wound up going to bed at 5am... technically i've been working on a flier/advert for the club that i have to finish today...

but i JUST woke up at 1:20PM. jeez.

on a really kickass note, the owner of the club emailed me and said i did a "wonderful job" on the site - so that meant a ton to me... i shall be smiling all day!

so, i've added it to my portfolio...

well, eh... funny thing happened today --- if anyone wants, i suggest you come to the 9pm show at the NYImprov this wednesday the 10th...

tickets are $10/2 drink minimum (you can buy tickets online.)

let's see, who's in the line-up? eh, there's Jim Florentine, Jessica Kirson, Carmen Lynch and, oh, eh... i'm doing a 7 minute set (*very short - which is good! - and i am sure to be the first up there so as not to bother the talent)

this is NOT the new talent night i did last month and it's not what i am doing on the 20th. this is with the PROS.

okay. i am officially going to throw up now - but not in a bad bulimicky way, only in a good holy crap way.

okay... i feel like the sky is falling - actually it's the ceiling tile in the office. a chunk fell right on my noggin. arrrrgh. stemming from the fish tank incident a few weeks ago.

drove up to long branch, somehow made the 7:51.. all the way up I was listening to my jim gaffigan cd... have been a huge fan of his since 1999 (yeah yeah, am "stalkeriffic", etc)

anyway, I am pretty pumped up for tomorrow night... think I will do well... am visualizing. am going over my set but trying to keep a conversational feel to it rather than a 'hey I'm reciting my lines verbatim' schtick.

last thursday at aaron's mic I spaced a bit on my set, but I was using brand new material in some places.... so I don't feel totally bad that the donk saw me blather like a jackass for a bit :)

that said. I need sleep. have a sore throat from A/C

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my dear Shumpy sent me this little clip - which is silliness but made me giggle tremendously this morning time to get a new mouse

so, i have that calm yet sick feeling going on in my body... it's not all that unpleasant, really.

i am visualizing my set - and that i will be kickass with it.

for the 9pm show i am slated to go up at 9:50 (i will be vomitting at 9:49pm)...

apparently it is a good spot --- the crowd has 50 minutes to get likkered up...

just gonna go up there and have fun... was told in a bit of wisdom -- "have fun"

and i shall...

so if anyone wants to show up tonight, go buy your ticket at NYImprov.com
(it's tonight's 9pm "Best of the Improv" show)

florentine wasn't in line-up (they change on a whim apparently) i felt i had a good set - i have to watch tape - there's a chance i may have either rushed my set - or there's a chance they didn't shoot the light at me at 6 min.

i want to thank my friend "the other erin", peewee, kim and sean for all coming out to see me... hopefully i wasn't painful :)

i am passing out now since i JUST walked in the door... more tomorrow... i had a blast - i was nervous as hell but the comics were are really really kick ass nice...

in the meantime, go google the other names in the line-up

on the 7:41am out of long branch... there's a conductor (427180) who really ought to do voiceover work...

he starts off his mic work with a couple of "shave and a haircut" taps and then brings on the dulcet tones of a young (alive) barry white as he announces what station is next or which one we are presently at.

I bring this guy up because I can nap comfortably during the trip - usually on the train, the speaker will squawk and squeal and then a conductor will scream the bloody stations out and scare the frig out of me to the point where my heart starts palpitating fast. bad.

so, nj transit, if you have any radio spots ever, I suggest using this guy in them.

on another note, I am not sleeping now because some woman sitting next to me is flicking her one way ticket (almost on my leg. if she touches me I swear i'll, i'll, well, i'll probably make an annoyed *ahem*)... and shes on the cell phone talking loudly about her friend's cat that "has a too-mah"

god bless the kitty but I don't need to hear the details.

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very very interesting... thebeadle.com sent me an email tonight alerting me to the fact that an image i created for fark.com last year was the #1 viral email image being passed around this past week according to the sun uk. (it's the one called "rude fountain")

interestingly enough - some guy named "fred" sent it in... and there's no credit to me (gigglechick.com) whatsoever... in the past on fark, i had added a "gigglechick.com" on my images just in case something like this happened - then i was banned because apparently in the farkworld it's looked down upon to put your url on an image.

what i am now asking of my loyal friends/readers/folks, is that you email The Sun and ask that they give credit to gigglechick.com for the "rude fountain" image by emailing fun@the-sun.co.uk

• Here is the original fountain image before i retouched it

okay - so i just got asked to do a 7 min spot at the Improv tomorrow night (technically tonight - saturday) at 7pm

i need to get as much stage time in as possible before next saturday when the hbo aspen comedy festival chick comes to watch me...

bennett needs to get up early and do laundry --- so i'll pop in there and then pop out and be home at a decent time tomorrow - maybe even ask my cousin kerry to come with (i think she's in nj this weekend - up from florida) but even if she can't come i am fine with going by myself...

so if anyone wants, come on down to the NY Improv at 7pm and say you're there to see me - it's $15 at the door/ 2 drink min.

so i did okay last night - horrible set, but actually i didn't feel nervous at all... weird, eh?

in talking with some of the comics in the back, i have put two and two together....

comics need websites.
they spend all this money on frigging headshots, etc... but then either:

A) they don't have a site to have industry possibly take a gander at them
B) they have a site and Industry Eyes start to melt or bleed because of the bad design...

I am putting it out there that i will design comics' websites (no. not for free, but then again, not for a billion dollars either -- of course, if jerry wants to have his site done, i can negotiate a decent price, i guess)

so, on my open mic section i have added this epileptic seizure inducing advert:

so I sat down and added a little to the silliness section of my portfolio... just to show a few photoshop skillzzz. yo. peace out... erm... dawgz.

(need coffee am on train... will add more silly images tonight)

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so i have to get my stuff together for tomorrow --- am heading to memphis for work tomorrow evening and will be back wednesday night around 1am (technically thursday)

just finished watching the pam anderson roast on comedy central... with lisa lampanelli being the last one up to roast (she was my comedy coach for a little while back in 2000/2001

not having keen feelings about flying tomorrow - never've been afraid to fly, just for some reason my tummy's not feeling swell about it.

will be getting in late tomorrow night - staying in hotel - going to meetings all of wednesday - then hopping on a flight home at 5pmish weds afternoon...

so, no, no "walkin' in memphis" and no graceland for me... just plain ol' web design issues/meetings

not even a trek to corky's to pick up some bbq.

am on train... I asked my conductor how he was doing he said:

"well, i'm on the right side of the grass... so that's a good start."

then he walked away... then came back and did an arm motion with his elbows and said:

"if you wake up in the morning and can move your arms without touching a pine box, it's a good thing"

both sayings were pretty funny, but when you're - for the first time ever in 35 years - kinda sketchy about flying, it kinda makes your stomach flip and do a double take.

am sure all will be fine. and i'd like to sleep on the bloody plane, but I will have to go over work stuff with my colleague...

dang.

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so LL Cool J was on the elevator with me this morning.... guess he's got some clothing/fashion line or something going on in here.

am sitting on flight 573... was supposed to leave at 6:10pm. we're still waiting for the 4:40pm flight to take off. grand. apparently there's a "band of weather" between us and charlotte NC... (we keep going to memphis from charlotte)

anyway. oh good they just turned the air on.

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okay am in the air... about 5 minutes so far. it's 7:40pm... already my fingers have swelled up (claddagh ring is stuck) and some woman is eating homemade indian food out of a tupperware container... not the most pleasant smell... and some guy behind me is blasting his dvd player (shoulda brought mine)

but so far so good. only 4.5 more hours to go.

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there wasn't any wireless service at 7:40 when I was trying to post that. we JUST landed in charlotte... 1st leg of trip is over... now we have to head to memphis. have had 2 itty bitty bags o' pretzels. am bloody starving.

posting now while I can

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memphis. touchdown!
alive.
*whew*

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sweet lord in heaven. I am in the most comfortable king bed ever.

ever.

and I have to wake up at 5:15bloodyAM

didn't have dinner.

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oh my goodness. am on tarmac in memphis on the way home.... (wearing all black) weird guy across the aisle. thing is the plane is one of those tiny ones (we're headed to charlotte) and there's only 3 seats across the width of the plane. barring the plane I jumped out of during webdive 2000, this is the smallest aircraft i've been in... ever.

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think garçon here has been hitting the beaujolais. le weaving et le crazeee.

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on the 7:08pm train and if you hear of some woman kicking the ass of some japanese (or korean or chinese - not being racist, just haven't looked at his frigging face in order to tell)

he's got his legs spread open and his foot is on MY side of the 2seater area. oh great his elbow is jabbing into my side... works for goldman sachs...

but he won't budge his damned clodhopper. tickets. looks like he's going to dunellen - gonna guess he's switching at newark....

yes. japanese. that's what I thought.

and he's got the nerve to look down at MY foot??? bring it, black belt... I am not in the mood.

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gigglemom is being admitted to not so giggly hospital. details later. I left work early.

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thank you all who commented with good thoughts...

okay, she's admitted and comfortable at the moment - of course, if she's reads my site and sees that i wrote about her being put into the hospital she'll kill me.

let's just say this:

DO NOT START OR KEEP SMOKING.

that's a word to the frigging wise.

oh, and at this juncture, i am still going to perform tomorrow night... barring anything awful happening --- nice that the stress of this entire frickin' week has caused me to break out... fantastic.

that said... i need sleep.

more info as i get it.

they're moving her out of her regular room to icu now. crap.

still planning on performing... but that may change

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right now I will need to drive into city if I am performing. I don't want to be stuck with a train schedule to deal with. I know I probably sound like a jerk for even thinking of performing still... but the nurses said it should be fine. hell, visiting hours are 12-2 and 4-6... so I wouldn't be able to hang with her tonight anyway...

did I mention the blood oxygen level? when she came in yesterday she was at 66% then they put her on oxygen and she went up to 96% which was much better. but this morning she was in the 70s... not good.

I think I will go to the hair place and have them wash and dry it - I am just tired (yeah I showered but it's yankees cap/pigtails for me right now - certainly am not going onstage like that.)

so going back to GM, they gave me the technical medical term "she's got too much gunk in her lungs"

and I am sitting in the ICU lounge.. everyone else has families with them and are talking about what's up with their icu people.

one guy overdosed on a bottle of milk of magnesia - ew... drank an entire bottle in 10 seconds... and dehydrated quickly...

not sure what the other person is in for. something bad I guess.

some 90 year old woman is talking about her niece with a huge shamrock tattoo on her leg.

I really ought to try to focus on my set...

will give more GM updates when I can

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okay - so i called the booker for tonight and he said don't be ridiculous and that i don't have to perform tonight - so that's a weight off my shoulders - i really really wanted to though -- but come on, it's a frigging comedy club - no one is gonna wanna see some chick with "my mom's in icu" energy, right?

so... tonight: CANCELLED.

not for nothing - let me preface this by telling you that i just visited gigglemom in the ICU. she was pissed off that i cancelled performing tonight. said that i couldn't do anything anyway so i should've gone into the city...

that said... Theresa in ga.

(who over the past couple of weeks has surfaced on my site by having lovely, yet, multiple multiple multiple comments.)

so she commented earlier - which was lovely (for the sake of time, i am only posting the original comment rather than all 4 of the same)................... but:

pardon the glitch that was up for about 10 minutes --- i mistakenly swapped my portfolio index.php for my gigglechick one. all better. now am off to the hospital.

in the meantime... enjoy the 199er...

wow.
just. simply. wow.
i am really pleased with the finale.
still wiping the silly tears off my face.
gonna rewind and watch it again.

loved the last song... think it was "Breathe Me" by Sia

it's august 23rd... my cousin danny's 39th birthday. crikey.
feeling run down, like i have a sore throat, but that might be the A/C...
gigglemom is still in hospital. will be til the end of the week they say.
thanks to all who've had nice comments and get well wishes to her (i passed them along :)

tired.

i took monday off and am planning on doing the same tuesday.