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okay... WATCH CONAN O'BRIEN TONIGHT --- don't miss the beginning...

if you see a chick in the middle of the audience wearing a bright teal sweater... that's me... (long brown hair.)

definitely watch the beginning --- but MAKE SURE you watch the last 7 minutes of the show.... DO NOT MISS IT.

dead dog tired - just posted this... Episode 2: part 1 and part 2

(by the way... i will resume posting my own crap on here soon, just have been busy as sin with work and freelance and stuff... bear with me)

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okay well, it's superbowl sunday - congrats to the steelers, the bus and my ex-boyfriend red-headed Bill on their win...
(i was rooting for them... this time)

anyway... going to run down my list of the commercials (HERE'S A LINK TO THE CLIPS!!!):

FIRST ADS AFTER KICK-OFF

• Bud Light - "Morale Booster" - kinda funny, not a totally strong opening ad, but it got a chuckle out of me

• Burger King "Whopperettes" - i kinda liked it, it was okay... my favourite line in the song was "ask the freaky king" - i liked the costumes and am toying with being a hamburger patty for halloween now.

ADS AFTER THE FIRST DRIVE

• sierra mist "mist-takes" --- oh lookie here... wait, who's that there pulling on the rubber gloves? my goodness, is that the fella whose website i just designed??? why yes! yes it is!

• bud light - "revolving fridge" - silly & i liked it...

• 16 Blocks - bruce willis movie.

• toyota hybrid - guy knows english and spanish for the kid's future... *yawn*

• fed ex - caveman used teradactyl instead of fed ex, then gets fired. goes outside and kicks a small dinosaur. i loved this one. looooved it.

• bud light - "grizzly bud thief" - was okay... not stellar

• v for vendetta - natalie portman. shaved head. movie.

• diet pepsi- jay mohr, p diddy (i know there's no p in the diddy, but i still call him p), making videos - um, "brown & bubbly" is their tag here? are they serious? honey, there's no way i am choking down something brown & bubbly.

• aleve - leonard nimoy all arthritic can't do his signature vulcan hi sign until he pops some aleve

• ameriquest - "hospital shock" - doctors, one has the heart shocking things CLEAR! in his hands and there's a fly buzzing around over a patient. doc zaps the fly. fly's dead on patient. just as wife and daughter of patient enter room, doc is saying "that killed him" --- tag: don't judge too quickly -- i LOVED THIS one

• bud light - "fixing things" - husbands making excuses that they have to fix things on roof. all guys in neighbourhood on rooves roofs and drinking bud light. cute. [shumpy, it was bloody late when i posted this]

• diet pepsi - jay mohr, jackie chan. diet pepsi is in martial arts movie with JC and uses Diet Coke as stunt double

• cars - pixar movie with paul newman voice

• acura TL - why do they show old tired commercials during the superbowl? it's like they aren't even trying.

• budweiser - "the sheep streaker" - clydesdale football game. crowd of animals. zoom in on sheep, breaking through crowd is shorn sheep "streaking" onto the field and shaking his, eh, lamb chops - THIS IS MY FAVOURITE.

• mobile espn - sports activities going on around guy on cell

• careerbuilder.com - monkeys. "come on feel the noise" - have seen the monkeys. whatever.

• cadillac escalade - "fashion show" - effects were nice - was kinda sleek. not buying one.

• mission impossible 3 - tom cruise... bad. philip seymour hoffman, good. i will be rooting for the bad guys in this movie.

• dove self esteem fund - i thought this was an excellent little commercial, i kinda got a little misty

• shaggy dog - movie trailer - with play by play from chris berman. no thanks.

• ford escape hybrid - kermit - it's not easy bein' green playing... cute :}

• michelob ultra - guys and girls playing football, typical lite beer commercial, then one guy tackles the bejeezuz out of one girl - tag "the world of lite beer just got a little darker" - i really liked this one

• desperate housewives - shaq. tear streaked face "i'm so sad gabi lost the baby"

• godaddy.com - just stop making ads with the slut. please.

• poseidon - movie trailer. meh.

• gillette fusion - man, that's one high tech disposable razor

• desperate housewives - the extended version - shaq, tony hawk, a few others and hef pretty much addicted to the DH

• overstock.com - blah

• disney - 50 year anniversary for disney world. man i feel old.

• sprint - two guys in locker room talking about cell phone one saying what features, the other lists his features "tv, email, crime deterent" --- crime deterent? then throws his phone at the other guy (i'm not doing it justice. hope to have clip later)

• etrade - no one wants to be an ordinary scientist, ordinary writer, ordinary athlete... why be an ordinary investor?

• disney - players from seattle and pittsburgh practicing how they'll say "i'm going to disney world!" --- i loved this one - it was really cute!

• ameriquest - "don't judge" - woman on airplane,everyone sleeping she tries to get up to go to ladies' room, gets stuck on seat, then turbulence happens, she falls onto guy's lap straddling him, skirt is up to her waist and everyone, of course, wakes up at that moment --- LOVE THE AMERIQUEST ADS

• motoPEBL - quiet little commercial

• sharpie retractable pen - guy in amusement park pirate outfit can't take pen cap off with hooked hand - then the retractable sharpie comes along and saves his day. i want this product.

• budweiser - clydesdale colt tries to pull the budweiser beer wagon by himself and miraculously is pulling it out of stable, we get to see two adult clydesdales pushing it from behind. cut to guy saying to dalamatian "i won't tell if you won't"

• nationwide - fake fabio shampoo commercial, fabio on gondola, goes under bridge, fabio has aged to about 75 years old - "life comes at you fast"

• hummer H3 - "godzilla-type" monster and giant robot wreaking havoc on random city... see each other, fall in love, cut to godzilla pregnant, then cut to having given birth to an H3 --- weird & LOVED it --- even though i drive the anti-hummer

• PS - cleaning solution. eh... radioactive suits

• careerbuilder.com - thought it was a repeat - started out with guy on phone saying he works with a bunch of monkeys - then woman on phone says she understands because she works with a bunch of jackasses. pan out, an office filled with donkeys in business attire - you hear woman saying "no, i don't feel like drinking at work" - LOVED THIS ONE

• taco bell - the song "true" is playing while guy in car and girl at street cafe stare at each other. sheer crap.

• slimfast. goodbye roll, hello control

• tacoma invincible - guy goes surfing, tide comes in tosses pick-up truck around in waves, then sets it back down and guy gets in and drives off (yes, there was a disclaimer on the bottom saying it was not a real demo)

• sprint - russian guy - playing songs on phone - couch catches fire - benny hill music plays and a benny hill homage ensues. funny thing, i used to do open mics 6 years ago at hamburger harry's with the russian guy. nope, i forget his name.

• degree anti-perspirant - "stunt city" --- stuntmen and stuntwomen going about their "typical" daily routines

• emerald nuts - Eagle-eyed Machete Enthusiasts Recognize A Little Druid Networking Under The Stairs... effing weird. i liked last year's with the unicorn and easter bunny

• budweiser - stadium placards in crowd, flip over showing beer bottle, beer glass, crowd flips placards and beer goes around stadium and pours in glass - more flipping and the beer is drink/drank/drunk from glass. i thought this was a really clever ad. liked it!

• pirates of the caribbean 2 -- yay!

• mastercard "priceless macgyver" SWEEEET!!! loved it!

• Beer Institute - herestobeer.com

• honda truck - mudflap chick gets in with yosemite sam "back off" mudflap character

• outback - "boomerang" - weird guy trying to steal boomerang off outback wall then says "both times i was thrown out i came back"

there were others that were really not worth getting carpal tunnel over, but i've listed about 99% of 'em

MY PICKS FOR THE TOP 5:

• BUDWEISER SHEEP STREAKER
• FEDEX CAVEMAN
• AMERIQUEST AIRPLANE "SCANDAL"
• DISNEY - "I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD" PRACTICE
• HUMMER H3 - GODZILLA/GIANT ROBOT BABY

[update @ 12:20pm 02.06.06 - go check out the adfreak blog]

i love what a little editing and music selection can do...

apparently, in my haste to get dressed and hightail it to the train, i forgot to slather on the deodorant.

around 10:30 i was like "something just isn't right in the world" and i realized what it was.

luckily i had a stash of secret in my desk drawer.

and once again, the lack of a sammich in some idiot's stomach has caused her to think that my site is "pro-mia" (that's bulimia)

hi .. u dont me but yea i was wondering if u could give me some tips for mia .. ive been mia for like 2months now and on google ur thing said that ud trade tips so yea if ud like we could trade tips .. id realy appreciate ur help .. i have messenger and u can email me
msn = nice_chk@***mail.com
yahoo = one_kraze_chk@**hoo.com
aim= xxKrazEcHkxx
i dont really get on yahoo messenger but i check my mail constantly so yea .. again if u could like send me an email and help me id really appreciate it .. thanks :)
-big hugs-
~adrianne~

seriously. no, really. SERIOUSLY? you're really leaving a comment like that on my site? about tips on becoming Regurgitating Gertie - not to mention not spelling out words (that annoys the bejeezuz out of me)

so since she said that she found me on google - i punched in "mia tips" - sure enough there was my site....

you would THINK that - unless her eyes cannot focus correctly because of the lack of nutrition in her body - one would get the idea that my site is not exactly "pro bulimia" since THIS IS THE POST that google links to. and here's ANOTHER post with my views

before the moveable type fiasco in october there'd been over 120 comments on that post - mainly because some "pro-mia/pro-ana suicide society" waged war on my site...

alas, the comments were all lost...

anyway... i just needed to vent about this bullshit again.

and if you are thinking of commenting and saying "they have a disorder, be nice to them" - no.

i posted the email/AIM for her so, if any of you that are like "awwww... i'll share tips" - go ahead and help the kid kill herself. i won't and i will be damned if any comments like that are left on my site.

is it me, or does it seem like the Apocalypse is near, now that Kelly Clarkson beat Paul McCartney for Best Pop Vocal Album?

okay... so I am now on an even MORE riff-raffier train than the 7:50am one. (i was stuck on the parkway for an hour because some car flipped over. I made it 4 miles in an hour. joy.)

anyway... so in the past I've discussed witnessing people clip their toenails on the RRE, I've told you about the idiot changing a kid's funky diaper on the RRE (of course, I had the wrath of the mommy contingency on my ass with that post - of course, this isn't a mommy blog so I was well within my right to vent), i've discussed the princess and the knees (all are found in the surly schlep category, mind you)

but now, on the 9:06am out of long branch, some loon with baaaadly dyed "red" hair is at the end of the car I'm in - BLOW-DRYING HER HAIR... all 3 feet of it (i kid you not)

I didn't even know there were outlets on the trains.

oh I wish I were close enough to snap a photo.

and now I shall try to sleep to the roar of a Conair 3600.

::: plunked in on my treO:::

okay, i haven't mentioned jim's name in the past few days.... BUT.... his DVD & CD were released on tuesday and so far in 4 days he's fluctuating between #8 and #10 on the amazon top-selling comedy DVDs (right now he's #10 and is above the 40 Year Old Virgin which is #11)

so a hearty congrats to Jim Gaffigan, my friends...

go buy the dvd :}

in other news: nice that i only need 30ish more folks to hit the 400 mark on myspace. *ahem*

in response to SNL's Lazy Sunday.... the East Coast/West Coast Battle rages on...

um... yes. that's Conrad Bloom rapping...

[the East Coast still kicks the West Coast's ass]

if you have trouble viewing this (if youtube is choppy) head to narniarapbattle.com

*yawn* so we have about 6 or 7 inches of snow - and it's still coming down. i just woke up... and am going back to sleep in a min. --- i cooked up a 5 pound meatloaf last night with cheddar mashed potatoes and a side of leseuer baby peas.... lo and behold, sadly enough, i am still full...

this is just a quick purge of crap in my head really quick...

coming off the meatloaf comment - oh, as of yesterday morning, i've lost 9 pounds in 4 weeks. --- ah, weight watchers --- here's the skinny, all week, i ate like a deathrow inmate on his last day... granted i only lost .2 pounds this week, but since i thought that i was gonna be looking at a gain of 6lbs, a .2 loss was a success to me.

of course, after eating the bucket of food last night, i might be looking at a 7 pound gain this week :}

last week's food excuse was a baby shower with a ton of food last saturday, then the superbowl... on sunday (for those not really sure as to what day it fell on.) and the rest of the week i wasn't as horrid as sat. & sun., but i still chowed and didn't write anything down... this week's excuse could be the friend is visting for a few days starting tomorrow or tuesday... or the snow is the big excuse (you know... the bear instinct in me telling me to bulk up for the hibernation period)

so, starting to write stuff down again today... and have to drink my water --- of course, that damned meatloaf is screaming it's head off in the fridge saying "I MAKE A NIIIICE SAMMICH... A NICE SAMMICH!!"

one won't kill me... although, most likely i will opt for a fiber-filled trough of kashi cereal.

but first... gotta make some coffee before i go back to bed. (yes. it's almost 11am. you wanna make somethin' of it?)

[on another note: i finally took a second to hook up the dvd player i got gigglemom for christmas.. i went on a crazy dvd spree at blockbuster yesterday --- rented wedding crashers (loved it), finding neverland (HWY = haven't watched yet), 40 year old virgin (HWY), In Her Shoes (HWY), Elizabethtown (HWY)... but also signed up for their netflixian-ish dvd in the mail gig. we'll see how that goes.]

UPDATE 3:51pm: just finished watching Finding Neverland... hot damn, that was a good flick... mmmrrreowww depp.

you're supposed to use an arrow rather than a gun, Veep

although... let's recap... is cheney a menace with a gun or a hero?

I mean, he DID shoot a lawyer.

yeah. okay. still a menace.

was his hunting partner wearing a hat with a couple of feathers on the top and posing as a quail?

yep... i can hear the writers on letterman and the daily show grinning (yes. i know when i hear teeth being bared... i'm doing it myself right now... listen.)

man alive... so i took the bus into the city this morning... i will be taking the train back... well, more like taking the train to point pleasant and then hightailing it home in a cab. why? because i nearly threw up 3 times on the bus today.
i've mentioned previously that i have felt a bit carsick (or would it be bus sick) when taking that mode of transportation. this morning, i was running late and rather than taking a later train, i drove 30 seconds from my house and caught the bus.

5 minutes into the commute i was about to die. no, i didn't get sick... but i did have my eyes clenched and was trying to think happy design thoughts --- for the next hour or so.

there is no lavatory on the bus, otherwise, yeah, i would've scuttled in and made use of it. i don't know what it is about the damned thing. i mean, i wasn't reading or anything on there.

so now, now i am not even going near it. i am gonna head to penn station and hop on my trusty train and either jump off at 'squan (i know there's cabs there) or hit point and there should be a taxi there as well --- it'll be cheaper from point (not much but slightly) and then i can pick up my car.

*sigh*

oh... and with all the talk about vomitting and feeling like my head is spinning, happy valentine's day.

.... and when you're part of a couple, all you see are hookers.

wow! i took a tour of your website im not sure but wat is gigglechick really? it seems like a website for a person hyped up on themself maybe you should try to focus on important things instead yourself because that seems really selfish. Since you asked for honesty thats what your goin to get in life because people arent always nice and can sometimes be brutally honest but thats just in my opinion.

ladypinkie07@yahoo.com

anyone else want to take this? no? okay then.... it's a fucking blog. and it's my blog. have you ever heard of something the kids these days are calling "a blog"? if you want to focus on important things, go read another site - or better yet, read the stories about the muslims who are rioting and burning things because of a cartoon... or maybe the articles about the VP who shot a cronie in the face while hunting without a proper stamp on his license... or perhaps start with concentrating on a frickin' dictionary.

on that note... you really ought to try harder to be brutally honest. i've had better.

now, jeezuz crispin glover, let me get back to the important stuff...

so, last night, because i took the train home and not the bus (as seen in the previous post - you know, the one that apparently caused "ladypinkie07" to think i am some sort of self-absorbed-hyped-up-on-themselves-person all because i wrote that i was feeling ill on the bus) i had to get a cab from the station to the parking lot where my Phooka was parked.

anyway - after standing outside for 5 minutes waiting for the taxi to arrive, i finally am able to climb into the thing. of course, cab kid was cute - kid, he was in his early 40s. whatever. - so, as i am about to sit in the backseat i close the door...... ON MY HEAD.

[did she just write that she closed the door on her head? she must've meant hand, silly gigglechick, typing head when she meant hand]

no. listen to me, i meant what i typed. it was on my effing head. i have a huge bruise and lump behind my left ear

even the cab dude was like "oh wow? you okay?"

my reply: "yep. just a jackass who slammed her head in the door."

it still smarts.

okay, now going back to the comments in the previous post - not the one blasting me for writing about myself on my own personal web journal... but the ones that are asking if i am pregnant because i was feeling queasy on the bus.

first off... an angel did not appear to me in the middle of the night and knock me up (hence, the reason there were no valentine's cards ---- by the way, um, wtf stalkers? slacking a little this year. i'll assume my love notes were delayed by the snow... *ahem* i'll give you another chance with the high-holy day of st. patrick coming up next month.)

second... just because one gets a bit nauseous whilst they are travelling on a bus that's crammed with people who really haven't seen a shower - much less used one - in about 4 days and there's a funk mixed with bus fumes/exhaust while being jostled around on the parkway for over an hour, stopping and going and stopping and going, then swerving in and out of the lanes... that does not in any way, shape or form mean that i am pregnant.

third. i am not married. thus, not about to have a kid. do the math.

fourth. stop commenting with the pregnant crap whenever i mention that i feel a little icky.

fifth... i've watched supernanny and nanny 911 and i sure as hell will not be attempting to go out and have my uterus loaded up for the next 9 months or so...

anyway... chalk this up to being hyped up on myself and also having a concussion.

i'm getting coffee now. a big caffeine-riddled bucket of coffee --- with perhaps a shot of jaeger thrown in and some crack if that'll get the pregnancy rumors off this site.

oh and i am really pissed off that effing CBS cancelled Love Monkey after 3 frigging episodes. cancelled. pulled. bastards. and the stinking state of the union was thrown in on it one week. effing give shows more than 3 damned episodes to catch on. jeezuz. they were going to preempt it anyway when the amazing race comes back on in about 2 weeks. i really liked that show, too. take one of the CSI: BS shows off (CBS is getting like NBC --- with NBC being the Law & Order network. -- did you see that nbc is adding another show - not called law and order, but called "conviction".... BY THE CREATORS of L&O... seriously. ridiculous. way to get stuck in a fucking rut, jackasses. but CBS. come on. you'll keep two and a half men on, but won't give love monkey a chance? bite me.)

if you haven't noticed folks, i definitely am NOT pregnant at the moment... if you need to, check the archives about 28ish days back. and then 28ish days before then and so on.

and how are all of you?

the midwest response to the East Coast / West Coast Narnia rivalry

this - to me - kicks the west coast's ass. (east coast still is on top.)

crap - i haven't even checked the cowboy mouth site in forever and just saw that they are playing in nyc on march 9th.

think i may have to drive into the city that day so i can stay for the show.

anyone else want to go check them out? (i'm going to have to buy tix - hope they haven't sold out yet)

bloody swamped with work and freelance this past week - i get back from memphis around 1am friday morning. ugh.

just giving y'all an update

no, i don't have time to go out or visit graceland. meetings meetings meetings. blah.

this was my favourite thing when i was growing up (well, next to my horses, that is.)

[thanks shumpy]

is it wrong for me to turn to the parents of the child who's been screaming for the past 2 hours and 45 minutes and say "wouldnt he be more comfortable in the cargo hold? I know I would if he were."

okay - technically I didn't say it outloud. but good gravy. actually they have 2 kids screaming their heads off. you would think they wouldve brought games or whatever to keep them calm... I know gigglemom and giggledad used to AND GET THIS they used to pay attention to me unlike these boobs who have a cone of silence around their heads.

and maybe they should've done what gigglemom used to do... get me doped up on dramamine PRE-FLIGHT.

I hated the taste of it, but I don't remember hearing an entire group of passengers grumbling "shut that kid the hell up"

aaaaaaarrgh.

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UPDATE: again, this is bringing out the comments... not so crazy as the "diaper post".

Again, my site is NOT a "mommy blog" - so if people want sympathy go find one of those blogs that talk about their sniffly kid staying home from school every other day or being allergic to air. I don't have kids at this moment in my life because i really don't want them right now and if my comment about some jackhole set of parents who are rude and not dealing with their kids on a plane causes one to think that i feel like i could be a "better parent" - no, i feel it's about being a better frigging PERSON. the parent thing is not an excuse or license to just crap all over other people and then say defensively "if you think you can do it better, come down to babysit" (which i just had said to me in an email from that JS person) - here's the thing. NO. i don't want to go near a kid with a ten foot pole. i am not a babysitter. i don't WANT to be your frigging kid's babysitter. nor do i feel like 200 people on a plane should be your kid's babysitter. i don't care if your kid is autistic or has a fucking hangnail. take care of YOUR kid. don't force your kid's problems down our throats and have them caterwauling and then say "oh well, too bad deal with it or be my babysitter." i am sick of parents who act like this - i have respect for most parents, don't get me wrong. but i take my Anti-Baby Vitamin every day faithfully - and after a plane ride like that one (and the comments from "Angry Mommies") i wish i could double up on the damned Pill just to make sure.

fairfield inn in memphis.
holy hell.
no internet service.
no food.
no comforter on bed
room smells like mildew mixed with lysol (can't stop sneezing)
light in the bathroom barely illuminates the place.

normally I am in the marriott (which is nice. room service. I feel safe in - which I don't here). my office manager couldn't get us all into the marriott so she moved us all to the fairfield inn.

a nice touch of irony/mocking is, well, the view out of my window (besides of the dumpsters) is of the marriott.

seriously the stink of the room is a bit much... let's just say I am not heading to the lobby because I don't like the clientele.

I thought there'd be room service. so I didn't eat at the airport - and I took a cab so I can't get around.

dinner for me?

big size milky way bar and a small bag of ritz crackers with cheese.

yep. there's my kickass memphis dinner.

hope I don't die.

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oh thank god. the others just made it into memphis and we're going to grab something to eat (their flight was delayed and they were the ones with the rental car)

::: plunked in on my treO:::

[did that headline wake you up?]

yeah, gigglemom took ill last night as i was in the air. when i got home she was still feeling like hell but refused to go to the hospital - even though i was telling her to.

this morning she was worse, dehydrated, couldn't walk because both of her legs were effed from the dehydration.

right now she's in the hospital after being admitted (and after sitting there in the ER with a saline drip for 6 and a half hours) and she's cracked out on morphine for the pain in her legs

they're running tests and cultures to see what's wrong.

all i know is... it's not been the best day ever.

cute cop was the first to show up at the door though. no ring.

(yes, my mom might've been dying, but a girl's gotta keep her eyes open, no?)

where are my peeps (oh, i'm so urban) in the KANSAS CITY, MO area?

where are my homies (yeah i said it) in the ANN ARBOR, MI area?

are you on myspace? shoot me a comment with your myspace url!!!!!!!

thanks!!!!

so gigglemom has to have an MRI tomorrow - there's a chance she has cardiovascular disease (lovely on top of the COPD, emphysema, congestive heart failure, eh?)

or there's a chance that she might have to have another abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery (she had one in 2001.)

crap.

thanks to all of you who left such nice comments and sent lovely emails.

here's the skinny on the gigglemom.

this morning - the neurologist (yes. neurologist, because she has a slight fracture in her spine and the vascular surgeon called him in) told her that she had a slight stroke and that's why she can't walk further than 3 steps and her legs are numb and she's in a lot of pain.

so, there i was thinking, "man, i have to start working out so that i can throw her over my shoulder if she needs to go upstairs"

and there was talk of a rehabilitation center and all that

cut to this afternoon - the vascular surgeon told her that she didn't have a stroke and he didn't know why the neurologist would tell her this.

and that the reason for the numbness & pain in her legs is that she has a clot in her aorta.

yes. the very same aorta that she had the operation on in July of 2001

the thing is, this time, they aren't sure they can operate on her because of her pulmonary situation. she was cleared for surgery by the cardiologist though.

her vascular surgeon is the same HOT doctor that I found for her in '01

now.... saying that.... there was a comment or two by some idiot on my site that i responded to - and i will say this for hopefully (but doubtful) the last time...

IF you have an issue with me or my site - i suggest you leave your own URL to YOUR website so i can get a glimpse on how your "compassion" and "tact" measure up