gigglechick.com

...and I have to remember to check my $350,000,000 winning Mega Millions lottery ticket... will keep you updated on that situation

i forgot to rabbit rabbit.... AND... forgot to tibbar tibbar

it's still hanging out with me.

but, I got an invite to my 20th reunion for High School... it's on June 7th, 2008

I have 40 weeks to drop 60 pounds (i'm hovering at 198ish.... which for someone who hasn't dieted or walked or done any strength training crap since July 11th - the day before i went to Boston) I would say that i've, eh, "maintained"

lovely.

so if i lose between 1 and 1.5 pounds a week i will be happy.

did i mention that i had a double quarter pounder with cheese, large fries, a lake michigan sized coca cola and then a double scoop of mint chocolate chip ice cream for dinner?

the "diet" (or lifestyle change) starts tomorrow... yes, i'm still doing the Alli... which is probably the only thing keeping me on the better side of 200lbs.

gotta run tot he rehab during lunch tomorrow to see dad... he's doing very well... they've had him going up and down steps in physical therapy. he will probably get out this friday - i'm guessing.... medicare has a limit of 13 or 14 days...

i am still watching Big Brother. yet, i am wishing death and dismemberment to 3 of the remaining houseguests. one weasel in particular.

gong to wrap this up... i am sitting on the couch with the laptop and feeling like i am in a Jaba the Hut pose.... or a Marjorie the Trash Heap type of feel.

blarrrgh.

(thanks to peewee for sending to me)

FEEL FREE TO POST YOUR ANSWERS IN MY COMMENTS!!!!

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)

Buck Cooper

(Buck Mini doesn't sound right)

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)

Choc'lat Chip Mint Choc'lat Chip! yo.

3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)

E. Ben

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)

Green Horse

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)

Patrice Neptune

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)

BenEr

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)

The Periwinkle Stout

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)

Charles Franklin

9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)

Green Tea Sourpatch

(um.... ew.)

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names )

Terese Wayne

11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)

Hooker Honolulu

(yes. Mr. Hooker was my teach.)

12. SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)

Summer Tulip

13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + "ie" or "y")

Honeymelon Shortsie

14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)

Bacon Sassafras

15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”)

The Doodling Hurricane Tour

• click here for more rugrat photos i snapped

okay - i've been addicted to the Big Brother feeds etc.

i've also been capping on JU (jokersupdates)

i've had my ass ridden by one of the mods on there ---- today being the latest... so... here's my last post...

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in that case...

i will be getting banned momentarily (feel free to visit gigglechick.com)

i would just like those of you on here to know i've had fun capping for the past couple of months.

apparently Sarah has felt like riding my fucking ass for the past few weeks

the last straw apparently was last night when i posted:

Dick (cracking open a Guinness can): "Guinness. Best beer in the world. Irish made."
(ed. and yet another reason i love Dick :}

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of course, i had a message stating that this was moved to discussions this afternoon. when i asked why, i received the message from SARAH:

From: Sarah (Moderator)
"(ed. and yet another reason i love Dick :} " is not an update

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So i responded:

Quote from gigglechick at 09/15/07 07:28 PM:
ah. yeah one would've thought that you would've just deleted the editorial like you've done on other posts rather than move it altogether. of course, i guess you tend to overlook the others that have their comments as well, sarah. whatever. the frigging season's over. so much for me attempting to contribute to your site.

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to which she responded:

From: Sarah (Moderator)
you can be snippy or you can actually wait for an answer, in this case, I wont bother giving one.
S

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So, since she thought THAT answer was snippy... believe me, Sarah, you have no fucking IDEA what "snippy" is.

I've appreciated all that the mods have done and had fun HELPING to update on JU...

but... that said --- GET THE BUG OUT OF YOUR ASS. i frigging posted one god damned thing in parentheses that said that i liked Dick - because of his Guinness comment

everyone who wrote me throughout the past couple of months saying they liked my caps - thank you...

GO DICK & DANI

UPDATE.... I'VE OFFICIALLY BEEN BANNED:

From: Sarah (Moderator)
You have been banned from making any new posts or sending any private messages. The reason for this ban was: as if

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"as if"??? ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.... whatever. fucking bite me loser skank.

that's right. the big brother finale is tonight at 9pm (eastern, folks) and at 10pm i will be free of this monkey on my back.

of course, Kid Nation starts tomorrow and Survivor starts this Thursday :}

but those aren't 24/7 live feeds. thank GOD.

right now i am sick as a dog. i'm not sure, but i think maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe lack of sleep might have something to do with it. not sure.

of course, it might just be allergies, but, i'm feeling pretty punky with chills (yes. they're multiplying), etc - not the normal allergy sore throat & sneezing to the point of wanting to rip my nose off and douse it in ammonia for 2 hours.

i DID venture out of the house this past saturday night with my friends, jude & fran. went to a place in Belmar called Brandl. (too lazy to post the link... bsically google BRANDL in belmar nj)

it was like i stepped into an episode of Top Chef (yes. one of my OTHER favorite reality shows!!! wednesdays, 10pm on Bravo)

i had an Heirloom Tomato Corn Soup with Lump Crabmeat... followed by the Lazy Lobster over Asparagus Risotto drizzled in Vanilla Bean Butter.

sweet heavens to mergatroid... if i didn't have to put my left kidney up for collateral to buy this dish, i would eat it every day.

but our waiter... nice guy, excellent service, round head, going slightly bald, jovial type o' fella. very attentive etc.

after dinner and doing the check thing i went to the ladies' room and when i came back, Jude handed me a form to fill out - i think it was for a mailing list or preferred customer thing, no idea, i just filled the thing out (didn't ask for a social security # so i was okay)

it asked to list the server's name. I asked jude & fran if they knew... and they said "Nick"

it was then that something popped in my head...and i said "Oh crap, I think i dated him"

(this happens a lot. note in 2003 i forgot i dated a guy that i wound up meeting at the parade... first sunday in march, let your fingers do the walking through the archives)

yep. sure enough, we were walking out and the manager asked if the meal was dandy and of course, yes... so i asked "is Nick's last name **********?" and he was like "Yes, how do you know him?"

Luckily Nick came by at that time, and i said "Nick **********?" (it's easy to pronounce the asterisks.) and he said "Yeah?" and I said "Erin Bennett"

to which he said "Oh my God it was driving me crazy you looked so familiar but i didn't know if it was from the restaurant, etc"

blah blah blah. he's been married for 3 years. no kids. bought a house in the town my dad lives in...

hell, it's been 19 years since we dated... (not sure if i mentioned my senior prom story, but he was a main character in it... i'll try to scrape it up in the archives, if not, i'll retell it when i am not hopped up on nyQuil)

(the Big Brother live feeds have trivia on them right now, so i can't see anything that's going on... thus, the reason for the bit of yammering...)

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OH!!!! Fran and I split a Chocolate Souffle for 2 at Brandl --- it was a good portion, but, who are we kidding? I could've just scarfed that puppy down by myself... but nooooooooo, i had to "be a laaaaady" and share. Cripes that was fantastic, too.

feel free to snag the code and post to your blog!!!

JIM WILL BE ON CONAN ON SEPTEMBER 24th

ALSO, MY OTHER GUY, STEVEN WRIGHT, WILL BE ON CONAN THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st.

(yes. it's a gigglechick client weekend sammich.)

IRONIC THAT THE GOVERNOR'S NAME IS GOVERNOR BLANCO IN THE JENA 6 CASE??

*click for more info on the Jena 6*

(i miss my cousins.)

okay so i am just going to start blathering a bit right now since it's about 1:30am... and i am only a few days into my big brother withdrawal. i've been depressed. yes. me. go figure. i don't think i am going to chop this up into bite-sized paragraphs at the moment either because it's just too exhausting to hit the enter key. blah blah blah... anyway... still chunky... and when i say "chunky" i mean "70 pounds overweight" -- after the trip to boston i stopped walking or working out - i don't know why. just "'cause". okay maybe the teevee addiction had something to do with it. of course, i've been just "not into" anything lately. exercise, cleaning (well, when have i ever been into that? but still, it's bad right now) going out - really it was a struggle to force myself to go out last weekend... it's been a pain in the ass to get motivated with work too... which is NOT good at all because i love this crap... and i've had a client waiting for a site for a couple of months and i've been blocked artistically. i mean she likes what i've shown her, but i haven't and i am not feeling inspired with the site. she's a great comic and everything... i don't know if i just think she's really cool and that's what's causing this fear with my design or what. i have a deadline of october 15th now... and it's creeping up on me. this is a horrible block of a paragraph. i hate when people don't chop the frigging post up into easy to digest entries... yet, here i am doing so. frig. in any event... i think i need to exercise to try and get the adrenaline and endorphins back into gear. one thing about kinda feeling like this is, well, i'm pretty sure that's one reason why i haven't been posting that much on here. actually i talk on here more than i've chatted with my oldest friends. jenn out in colorado has called me so many times and i always get her voicemail, but, then i know that it's going to be an hour conversation on the phone and for some reason i am just really not feeling that yappy... original RHB i want to talk to you but i've been so blah lately and not up for phone or even email... seriously, shumpy also probably has noticed that i haven't been bantering in my positive quote of the day emails he and i toss back and forth... and cathy, well, after not going up to maine this june and then i had plans to go to a minor league baseball game with her in august but that turned out to be 3 days before my dad's surgery.... and i had an obligation to help my dad with errands and chores before he went under the knife. --- WHICH, i was yapping with him earlier (funnily enough, the one person i've been yapping with on the phone a lot has been my dad... well, and my step mother... so that's been nice) --- i've been trying to focus on work but also trying not to feel burnt out which i'd been feeling, so rather than working pretty much all hours of the night, i'm trying to wean clients down to me having somewhat normal hours... it's not working... where was i? oh, right... DAD.. he went to the doctor today and had a good check up. the titanium hip is swell. i barely went out the entire summer... i think like 3 times out with friends (not counting boston). i think in my head i keep thinking "well, think of yourself in a cocoon and you're trying to lose weight and you're re-emerge when you've lost weight"... the thing is, i've been eating crap for meals... so, at this rate, the only way i am re-emerging is for Biggest Loser tryouts... anyway... if anyone out there has been wondering why i've kinda been holed up in here, well, you're right, i have been. it's horrible. hey isn't this a happy go lucky post? cripes? besides the effing huge block of words, i am now sounding insane.... okay okay i'll give you that, i mean MORE insane than usual.

i think i might need to go to bed.

okay. on an UP note, i DID go out last weekend and i bought new walking sneakers (or athletic shoes as some folks call 'em)

and shorts - but i think i need to go and get sweatpants because the glow from my pasty thighs is ridiculous.

i'm hitting the enter key. thank God.

i know i need to work out. i have to make time for myself to do that. the 70 year old woman, Pat, who walks around the complex every morning has been looking for me. I think i need to head to the boardwalk to wakl for a bit (not at the moment, are you crazy? it's almost 2am)

There's some junk food special on CNN this weekend... seeing as my diet consists of McD's, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Outback and the local country store's bacon & egg sammiches, i'll probably record that special... my brain is probably loaded with 98% grease and that's why i'm feeling like a slug.

oh... and i'm still sleeping on the couch downstairs... albeit the new couch from when my aunt & uncle moved... THAT makes me sad too... that half my family's moved to florida.

okay, granted, easier to visit since there're relatives there, but still.

ah hell... maybe i'll set my alarm for 7am to get up and walk.

well... i woke up at 11am. been working ever since.

thanks for the comments, yeah, it's "classic depression" (i also like Coca-Cola Classic and ESPN Classic. apparently, i'm classic)

Maybe I just need a new frigging alarm clock that i can't just look at cross-eyed to hit the snooze button. Seriously, I'd set the effing thing for 7:30am... granted, I didn't fall asleep till 4:30am... but still.

meh, feeling better, just needed to vent. it happens. don't worry, i'm not "depressed depressed" - just in a bit of a funk...

think i just need to get out in the fresh air and blow the stink off me.

okay... maybe not the smartest photo to take today after my ramblefest late last night. all's well, just needed to clear my head. i was going to grab the camera and trek down to the beach, but for some reason, my grandparents were calling me and i turned into the cemetery.

click through the photo for more of an explanation and if you could leave a comment on there, that'd be awesome. thanks!!!

click here for the rest.

(of course, for those freaked out by cemeteries, i uploaded a couple of snaps i took at the beach the other day as it was gearing up to storm. click...)

Here is your single's love horoscope for Sunday, September 23:

You're definitely all fired up upstairs now, and your (admittedly sometimes brief) attention span is long and strong. You can curl up with a book, but how about a lecture or arts event -- with new people to boot?

yes, i plan on curling up with Creative Suite 3 For Dummies this afternoon. unless i pack around gigglemom and her walker and extra tanks of oxygen to a craft show... yeeeeeeeeeah... that's where i'll meet my soulmate. suuuuuuuuure. stupid horoscope email that's sent to me daily.

so i was out earlier... wait, before you get all excited with thoughts of "GC was out and about on a saturday night!!!" here's what i did...

4:30pm - went to iHop with gigglemom (ate contry fried steak & eggs and a carafe of OJ --- that would be the freshly squeezed stuff... well, technically, it was tropicana, but i digress....)

5:30pm - gigglemom and i trekked over to wal-mart... see? told ya' not to get excited....one of the things i bought was a tripod, so we'll see what transpires with one of those.

7:30pm - drove around in the convertible / top down, GC & GM headed down to the manasquan inlet (point pleasant side) - watched the scallop boats come in and the party boats head out.

8:30pm - went to wawa. picked up some sliced apples with peanut butter.

8:44pm - sat on the couch... that's the last thing i remember

12:38am - woke up.

1am - ate the apple slices

1:30am - cooked creamette elbow macaroni with butter and parmasan (sp?) cheese

it's 3:18 am at the moment... i'm awake, but have a hankering to organize the laundry room. i would show photos of it, but, eh, gigglemom may slice my throat if i do. speaking of GM she's asleep, so i can't go banging around in the laundry room

so, i have it in writing that i have all good intentions about organizing the laundry room. granted, EVERY room in this house needs to just have a bulldozer plow through here and clean.

maybe i'll see if i can't fall back to sleep after my "exciting" saturday evening.

well, i just ate 4 slices of pepperoni and 2 slices of sausage pizza... hey, it was thin crust - which is, what? the equivalent of 3 slices right?? ;}

anyway, as i digest, i am turning on The Biggest Loser that I recorded earlier tonight.

STUFF IN MY RECORDED QUEUE SO FAR:

How I Met Your Mother - recorded, haven't watched

Big Bang Theory - eh, i kinda didn't like it and the guy was trigger happy with the laugh track - will give it another week or so, then see if i want to waste recorded space

Rules of Engagement - I love this show. watch it.

Cane - it's recording right now. will watch later

Heroes - recorded - haven't watched it yet... i know, i know... i have to.

Brothers & Sisters - meh, recorded it, watched the first 30 seconds and saw that it was basically a recap show (those annoy me)

LOOKING FORWARD TO:

Dirty Sexy Money - ABC wednesday 10pm (peter krause!!)

Gray's Anatomy - ABC Thurs 9pm

Back to You - FOX Weds 8pm - Frasier and Mrs. Ray Barone

Private Practice - ABC weds 9pm - Ex Mrs. McDreamy treks to LA and meets Tim Daly

ER - NBC thurs 10pm

The Office - NBC - Thurs - moved to 9pm!! sweeeeeet

Kitchen Nightmares - FOX - 9pm

FINISHING UP:

Top Chef - finale weds night 10pm Bravo

STARTED ALREADY:

Survivor (China) - CBS - Thurs 8pm

Kid Nation - CBS - Weds - 8pm (hanging my head in shame for watching)

Curb Your Enthusiasm - HBO Sun 10pm

UPDATE 09.27.07 From CNN: A relative says a body found near a Chicago-area forest preserve is that of missing Chicago woman Nailah Franklin.

My condolences and prayers go out to the Franklin family at this time.

for more updates: http://crimeblog.us/?p=569

THIS IS IMPORTANT ***** GIGGLECHICK AMBER ALERT ***** POSTED 9/25/2007

NOT A JOKE...

VISIT THE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO: bringnailahfranklinhome.com

FOR AN INDEPTH STORY: http://crimeblog.us/?p=560

AMERICA'S MOST WANTED SITE: http://www.amw.com/missing_persons/brief.cfm?id=49185

**** THERE'S BEEN A $10,000 REWARD POSTED ****

do me a favor though - this is Marina Franklin's sister (Marina's a very good comic... not that i wouldn't post something like this for a bad comic, but being a good comic helps..) In any event, Marina's sister's been missing for a few days and we're hoping that if we get enough people
to forward it, someone may know something and they can find this girl.

SO PLEASE FORWARD --- and keep your eyes peeled.

well, i've broken down and bought one of these things... a Neti Pot

i know my friend jenn out in colorado (miss nature veggie girl who is pretty much my oldest friend and i haven't talked to on the phone in forever because i've been a slug) has mentioned the thing for years now and i poo-pooed the idea.

my allergies are attacking me and i'm ready to try it now.

so... anyone else use a Neti Pot?? how do you like it?

I will let y'all know how it works (it's en route via amazon at the moment, so God only knows when I'll get it.)

thanks to Carol for commenting with a video - CLICK HERE...

that's right. i nearly drowned.

how?

well, i - being impatient - couldn't wait for the neti pot that i ordered on amazon to get here (seriously, the delivery date is october 8th. please.)

sooooooooo... i went out - with my allergy-riddled swollen sinus head and found a natural food store... bought me a neti pot, neti salt and also (i haven't tried THIS yet) some sort of neti salt with zinc solution.

so i get home and i mix the salt concoction into my warm water in the neti...

i tilt my head like the pictures describe...

i shove the neti spout up my right nostril...

water rushes out of my OTHER nostril and also starts flushing nose ICK down my throat...

*cough* *sputter* *choke*

okay. stop.

shoved the spout up my other nostril... tilted the head... raised the neti pot slightly...

dribble out my other nostril... okay... not bad... eh... *choke* *cough* *sputter* *gag*

the water (and other crap) is coming out of my mouth now.... yes i am trying to breathe out of my mouth

okay. stop.

refill the neti pot. try again.

this time, it's not as crazy... it's still going down my throat - not as much. gotta work on my head tilt.

the nose feels fantastic right now. no headache. i'll probably go through my neti ritual later tonight as well....

my shirt that i was wearing is basically drenched from the drowning incident though.