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don't forget to "RABBIT RABBIT" first thing in the morning....

also ---- It's March First (not the now-defunct design shop) --- it's the High Holy Month!

Countdown to the Belmar/Lake Como St. Patrick's Parade --- SUNDAY MARCH 4th. Main Street in Belmar at 12:30pm

okay - i fiddled around with some stuff and spent 5 minutes slapping this stuff together.

go forth. buy it.

and there's more stuff to peruse here.

well, yesterday was fantastic! it was the Belmar-Lake Como Saint Patrick's Parade --- and i was one of the folks lining everyone up.

HERE ARE PHOTOS OF THE DAY ---- I ONLY HAVE ABOUT 16 BECAUSE I WAS LINING FOLKS UP AND THEN DRINKING LATER IN THE DAY...

so, arrived at the breakfast spot at about 9:20 (i was a few minutes late) and they assigned me a fella as my line up partner (good cop, bad cop thing... but we were both good cops and i think that's why everything ran smooth as silk in our section)

then after the parade my line up rookie of the year guy and i rode the golf cart back to the end of the parade and then wound up following some of my piper friends to a party at the auto parts store and had free smithwick's and corned beef... mmmmmmmm --- oh... AND potatoes!!!

then i headed to connelly station to see the bantry boys and ran into everyone in the world and then the rookie and i headed to 507 to see joe finn - who, unfortunately, had finished playing by the time we made it there...

awesome time though --- one of the most fun parade days!

next sunday i have to march with the committee in the Jersey City St. Patrick's Parade and then head to PJ Ryan's after

hmmmmmmmm... i wonder if i quick read or watch "The Secret" I'll win the crazy mega-millions tonight...

what would i do if i win?

nothing. just sit on a beach and be a tan sloth. ohhhhhh yeahhhhhh.

and buy a sammich and some underwear for my new skinny rich party friends. (eh. no.)

MORE CRAIC STUFF!!!

[for those who have no idea what "Craic" is... CLICK HERE.

anyway -- so, I added the CraicBaby merch to the group.

CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE GOODS... there's still time to order and have it shipped before St. Patrick's Day (in fact, i ordered stuff of my own on monday night and it arrived this morning.)

at the risk of this looking like some sort of sellout, spam thing, i'm sending along another "hey, bloody buy this stuff before next week" message!

and have a nice day.

- erin

PS - the erin go braghless (8 out of every 10 Erins have bought t-shirts) and the craichead stuff is the most popular - so thanks to those who've made the purchases! But, there's more stuff that I've added...

okay this makes me sick - i was watching the news this morning and there was a story on a woman who got attacked in the vestibule of her apartment building.

she's 101 years old.

frigging hell. it makes me want to head up to fresh meadows, use my mom's walker and pretend to be an elderly woman then when the guy attacks, go effing insane on him with some sort of sharp object.

watch the video of this.

richard jeni. apparent suicide.

i am saddened by this. he was a sweet guy and every time we spoke he never ever seemed down.

we were talking about my redesigning his website - and nothing seemed out of the ordinary - in fact he sounded like he was looking forward to having a redesign and moving forward and getting more word out there.

this is awful.

something doesn't smell quite right about the situation at all.

i just entered the Fool's Run in Manasquan - it's a 5K race on March 31st.

I just went out walking (first time in a few weeks) and then waiting for me in my inbox was an email about the Fool's Run - so, I figured, what the hell.

Actually, if you count the parades and stuff, with the marching and lining folks up, I have been walking a lot lately. Okay, well, technically, not "a lot" - but, more than normal.

Either way, I'll get beer , pasta and a shirt for entering the Fool's Run.

okay - well, if you could pass this ebay listing around to make it viral, i would appreciate it.

ANNA NICOLE 4 DOMAIN NAMES! (ANNANICOLESMITHSBABYDADDY)

yes... I've sunk to a new low (but hell, the Mini Cooper Fund worked back in 2004 --- okay, i only raised 1% of the cooper that time) but at least I haven't gone down to the Bahamas to dig through her garbage.

i am heading to the borgata in atlantic city to see Jim. Taking mom, my aunt & uncle and my 2 neighbors.

Have fun. Be safe!

(wish me luck. apparently, last week some lady was on the nickel slots AT the borgata and hit for 2.4 million bucks. *sigh*)

so, saint patrick's day was swell. as i said, i headed down to AC to the Borgata to see Jim (i should post the photos from the green room - everyone else's pictures look swell, but i snapped a crappy one of he and i. oh well. no big whoop.)

have to speak with a potential client today. which would be good to get. I am loaded with clients though (noooo, not complaining in the least... I just have to up my caffeine intake and look into cloning. That's all.)

Haven't been to WW in a few weeks since every Sunday for the past month there's been a fundraiser or a parade the day before (meaning: lots of beer and potatoes.) So, I shall return this Monday --- although, I really haven't gained... nor have I lost but, it'll happen.

Anyway... back to work. 3 months from today til I'm 37. (thought I'd give you a heads up.)

Check out Hard N' Phirm (add them as a friend on MySpace)... this is their attempt to capture the passion of Latin music and its frequent use of the word "corazon."

Check out their other clip -- "Pi"

so long, larry "bud"... see ya, calvert

I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.

-- Beverly Sills (1929-) American Opera Singer

good morning! well, i am off to weigh in at good ol' weight watchers. haven't been there in a month (i've been paying for the monthly pass though) i think i've held my own though and not gained (we'll see. my last weigh-in was february 26th and was 202.6 --- last night i had a bucket of prime rib and a trough of garlic mashed potatoes. so, it could go either weigh --- haha get it? i said "weigh" instead of "way" *wiping tear from my eye* oh boy, it's gonna be a sassy day. woo.)

anyway - so, i've gotta revamp the "weight loss tracker" thing i created on the left sidebar on this page. by this point was supposed to be around 190 or something. i've kinda been swamped with work and also with the parade fundraisers being on sundays throughout feb and then the parades for 2 weeks in march on sundays and then last week was atlantic city - where my addiction was gambling, not food - i have been pretty lax about journaling and stuff.

okay, i will give myself a kudos by saying "i was aware of what i was eating and approximated the points intake" but i wasn't journaling and i really haven't been drinking a lot of water (been doing hot tea and diet cherry vanilla dr. pepper a lot)

well, it's 9:30, weigh in is at 10, but i've still gotta find my weigh-in clothes.

oh yes, i have a uniform. if i could step on the scale nekkid, i would. but i don't want to frighten folks (plus ww doesn't really allow it.) but i wear a pair of leggings (very thin. they'll probably fall apart at some point) and a very light t-shirt (i wear a sweatshirt as well, but take that off right before stepping on the scale. see, i don't wear a boobie-catcher when i go there. don't want the extra ounce of the underwire to affect the weight:}

anywho... will come back and jot down the weight in a couple of hours...

(i'm just praying that my double fiber wheat bread kicks in between now and 10am)

well, i weighed in... and after a month of not going to WW, i have lost 2 pounds! sweet!

here's the spreadsheet... - i had to update my goal timeline (instead of originally hitting 140 on september 17th, it's looking - optimistically - to be November 5th)

anyway... if i kick ass this week (and i should because i am training for my 5k this saturday) i will get down into the 100s again - good cripes, i have been in the 200s since october. not a great feeling.

okay - i screwed up on my spreadsheet - i forgot a week in june (i think i was excited that it was my birthmonth)

anyway - instead of losing 70 pounds by November 5th (guy fawlkes day), i'll have lost it and gotten to goal by October 29th (hopefully. i know that 2 pounds a week to lose is ideal... but i know that sometimes it's a little less.)

also, i've posted "events" on the spreadsheet... like this saturday I am ru--- walking in the Fool's Run 5k and then I have a few other 5k races that I am entering.

how gorgeous was it out yesterday!? i tooled around in the phooka for a couple of hours for lunch. drove down to the beach - i have a slight sunburn now. awesome! it's still awesome out today - a touch of clouds, though.

okay - chocolate Jesus is just wrong. Although, I will give FoxNews.com kudos on their headline "Your Own Personal Milk Chocolate Jesus"

(of course, i'm wondering if He's solid or hollow.)

yep. this just about closes the deal on my spot in the Ninth Circle.