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to "Rabbit Rabbit" first thing in the morning.

ever sit on the toilet having the skitters so bad that you wind up trying to work through the pain and pushing by doing Lamaze???

Except you don't know how to really DO Lamaze because you've never actually experienced childbirth, so the only reference is from a few movies, teevee shows and the stand up bit from Bill Cosby's HBO special "Himself".

Yeah. it's been a lovely night.

I need an epidural to go to the bathroom.

i think i've broken my back.

sitting here trying to type while rubbing Beri's tummy (the little girl is on the back-killer couch with me right now and keeps flipping over being all cute with her passive-aggressive ploy to get me to tickle her puppy stomach.)

first. i forgot to rabbit rabbit on thursday morning.

second, i forgot to tibbar tibbar when i hit the hay thursday night.

oh well.

as far as the back is concerned, it's still there. i've pretty much had the heating pad on it 24 hours (and when i was in the car, i had the heated seat going.)

i haven't had to take the excedrin back pills. okay... maybe i should've, but, i didn't feel like exerting myself by getting up and getting water and then choking down the pills.

not done with this fella's website. just getting the videos section up ---- getting them formatted and all that good stuff. once those are all up, the site will be good to go.

but, i had to hunker down on about 5 of my other clients' sites today and take care of some stuff.

i tell ya', the cruise can't come soon enough!!!! i need it.

that said... beri is now scratching at my right arm because it's not tickling her tummy.

Rest in Peace, Eight Belles.

She said "I was going to watch and about 45 minutes before, I turned it off because I felt something was going to happen" --- she then said "She was a good looking filly, but had no chest and her legs were toothpicks"

I love horse racing - mainly for the athleticism and beauty of the animals (I used to compete in 3 day events which is not a dainty sport either)

I do want to commend NBC for not airing the moment she went down - especially like the footage of Barbaro that was shown over and over. But there have been photos today that just made my stomach lurch. It made me sick.

I do not think that the sport of horse racing should be banned like some folks are asking for. The surface materials should be changed and there should be more preventative measures taken.

Coincidentally, Ruffian's trainer, Frank Whiteley Jr, passed away on Friday. Maybe he's up there welcoming Eight Belles ---- hopefully not for a Ruffian/Eight Belles match race though.

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wow. my days and nights are getting jumbled together again.

i stayed awake WAY too late last night... well, actually, i fell asleep at 8:30... monday MORNING.

pretty soon, my dreams dissipated and i rolled over to the other side of my 2 foot wide couch and looked at the clock on the DVR.

6:53PM.

are you frigging kidding me!? again, i say WOW!

now, the kicker is gigglemom was sitting in her chair making bows (she's on a kick. they look really nice and hopefully I can photograph them and she can sell them - but that's beside the point)

she turns to me and says "oh, you're awake"

um. yeah.

now, i know that i shouldn't think of her as an alarm clock, but, wouldn't you think that she might have attempted to wake her coma-esque daughter at some point between morning and, oh, i dunno, SUNDOWN!?

that said. I am wide awake right now.

oh and about 10 minutes after i woke up i received an important phone call on my cell. I'm being tapped to redesign a kick ass comedian's website. (will reveal the name**** soon)

of course, between his cell and my cell the connection was all kinds of crackly (that's why i like email. hell, i've been working for maria bamford as her webmaster for nearly a year and we've not once spoken on the phone.... personally with my hearing problem/auditory processing dysfunction, i find it much better because i have things in writing and can't panic about what i might have missed in a conversation on a phone --- plus i read lips, and with the phone, i can't.)

but it's going to be good. working out details and then i will begin designing.

as for the comedian/actor i've been working on for a while, i'm ALMOST done. granted, if i didn't sleep the day away i might've had more done... because before i cracked down on his site, i had to do my daily "chores" for the rest of my clients.

anyway, i'm thinking 2 days till launch.... keep your fingers crossed about that.

oh, why didn't i work on his site after the "daily chores"? well, i had dinner. now, I'm not quite sure if one can get food poisoning from tortellini alfredo, but there was a good possibility.

(i still have half of the dinner in the fridge... i might have the rest as a 3am snack and see if it was the tortellini that made me have to.... um... do Lamaze this evening.)

what else? my University of the Arts Alumni Directory came in the mail today (or as I like to call the thing, The UARTs Stalker's Guide) - paid i think $80 for this thing and half the people weren't found to be listed in it and my listing, while it was technically correct, listed my company like:

Giggle Chick Interactive.com

luckily the email address had it all as one word, but, come on. gigglechick is one word (it's always annoyed me when people separate the words) and as a URL it should be connected.

oh well.

other than that, nada.

i should probably attempt to hit the hay before dawn (i won't eat the rest of the pasta... i'm still feeling icky from earlier) --- maybe i have a bug now that i think of it... tired/sleepy and in the bathroom (furiousball: i will try to maintain the illusion you have that girls don't poop)

although maybe i was tired because i was UP till 8:30am (watching Morning Joe on MSNBC. I absolutely love that show (i've got a crush on Joe Scarborough. it's unhealthy.)

that said.

going to grab my heating pad, a handful (or only 2 pills) of Excedrin Back meds and crawl onto my couch and see if i can't pass out.

maybe it's the PMS mixed with the idea that Hillary might not make it - that mixed with reading the Huffington Compost and all of the Obamanites being sore winners (I went on there and posted a congrats on the NC win the other night and there were a few thanks, but many gloating comments. it's ridiculous and sickening to think that these are the sort of people who are electing a nominee)

but anyway, i created a t-shirt after sort of coming to terms with the whole idea of obama getting the nomination.

i am not sure if i had mentioned weeks ago that i, too, was thinking of voting for mccain if hillary wasn't the nominee.

in any event, i've been trying to calm down and come to terms with it as i've said, and think of "The Party" - so what did i do? I created a t-shirt to reflect how I feel. I posted it on cafepress.com

okay that said.... on this one board that different comedians/writers/regular folk go on called ASpecialThing.com there's a thread about the democratic election that's been ongoing.

i've mentioned on there that I am a Hillary supporter... we are few and far between on that site apparently and I've been jumped on quite a few times.

okay... THAT said, i posted the t-shirt on there to show that I will vote for Obama. Got jumped on again and then some chick on there started saying that I was playing the race card regarding another design i posted 2 months ago - the "dream ticket" shirt i created with the ice cream swirl ---

it's just fucking ridiculous.

with THAT shirt i was hoping for a Clinton-Obama ticket at the time and thought that a cute way to symbolize them coming together - it's a fucking ice cream cone

so i've flown off the handle on there defending myself and i feel fucking sick to my stomach.

I really am ready to fucking vote McCain because I really am starting to despise the people who are halfway up Obama's lower intestine.

There I was sort of meeting people halfway, trying to maybe have a light-hearted way of saying "yeah, i will vote for Obama." --- but the thing is, I AM NOT GOING TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT VOTING FOR OBAMA.

and the nastier the obama folks are even when you are sort of reaching out to them, the more I am pulling away from the party.

Okay, so I've deleted 99% of my posts on AST only because that thread was bothering the bejeezuz out of me and I also have to think about my gigglechick name on comedian boards since I do have to run a business with it.

In any event, some of the folks on there are tools. Some aren't. As with people commenting on my site. (90% of you are in the non-tool category)

I've gotta get my passport updated so I can flee the country in January... just in case.

I also need to get it updated prior to my cruise in June --- it's not necessary, but, it will make life easier getting it done.

So I am heading down to florida on June 20th. I told my NEW CLIENT that I would redesign his site by June 19th.

It's doable... and it's going to be a huge site... (my guy is going to be hosting the new gong show on comedy central..)

so i am excited - very very excited about this site.

i will be trapped in my house working on this until then.

i'm still awake because I am working on my current guy's site - trying to get the videos all set up on it.

kinda tired, yet, not.

dear god. make it stop.