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".
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.
I sat there stunned with tears running down my face on Saturday evening, with the images of Eight Belles crossing the finish line and flashbacks in my mind to Barbaro's Preakness injury, my aunt (also a horsewoman) called me - we'd spoken 2 hours before the race since we always talk on Derby Day.
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.
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.
I WAS GOING TO VOTE FOR OBAMA... till his supporters spoke to me
May 8, 2008
I WAS GOING TO VOTE FOR OBAMA... till his supporters spoke to me
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.
Well, this is just a little announcement that GigglechickInteractive. com has launched a NEW site for a NEW client.
Please take a moment to go visit http://www.mattiseman. com and peruse the different sections (including the Clips!) This is the newly redesigned site for actor/comedian Matt Iseman (from Clean House, Clean House Comes Clean and more!) Also, I've changed up the layout to his myspace profile so it compliments the new website. Add him as a friend as you take a look.
took the Paranil capsules. somewhat horse-like pills ---- and i am not a great pill taker. I always have to mentally tell myself that I am swallowing a huge piece of cake.
yeah, i know. it's weird. but it helps. seeing as i can't swallow teeny pills but i CAN gulp down a bucket of cake in a second (i had a bit in my stand up set about not being able to swallow pills... lets just say i didn't use the word "cake" in my set though)
so i got the paranil down. i am not taking this shite because i think i have parasites or anything. it's part of the colonix program. but, from the message boards, god only knows what lurks within. **shudder**
and then 15 minutes later i had to get the gumption up to down the fiber concoction.
only had to put a teaspoon of the schlock into the liquid. i had bought some mini bottles of snapple fruit juice. so i dumped 2 oz out and added the fiber stuff.
then i shook the bejeezuz out of it and chugged it (from what i've heard, you do NOT want to let that mixture sit, otherwise, you'll be chewing it down
*GAK*
anyway, i chugged it quickly (thanks to previous experience in the bars.)
ALSO... I just checked my cafepress account and it's amazing how many people from Oregon (women AND men) have been buying my Hillary shirts and buttons over the past few days. EXCELLENT!!!
I'm sure that Obama was thinking of John Kerry, well, maybe John's wife, Teresa Heinz-Kerry, or maybe he was just thinking of the Heinz products with their 57 spices/ingredients. That must be it.
I'd only been there once before (November 2004. last date with some guy who i think was named Mike. honestly i forget. i dated him for 2 months.)
anyway, the place has fantastic food (as I mentioned in the nov. 2004 post)
tonight, i started with (okay, i started with some sort of white wine. it was white, cold and had alcohol... so it was a very good year.)
anyway, i started with the asparagus salad (grilled asparagus over baby greens with sliced romano cheese and pignoli nuts)
followed by the entree of shrimp and scallop risotto (Shrimp & Scallop Risotto, Chopped Tomato, Shallots, Garlic, Lemon, White Wine and Herbs ...) --- i've found that after watching a few seasons of Hell's Kitchen, I have ordered risotto anytime I see it on a menu. man i loves me some rice.
then i ordered a limoncello after dinner drink (how shall i describe it....???? um... it's as if you are sipping on ice cold Lemon Pledge Furniture Polish. good stuff.)
Had coffee to go with the desserts that we shared...
some sort of "New Orleans" sort of thing they called it. It was coffee ice cream, pecans, a meringue , whipped cream and something else...
but, i tucked into the papaya cheesecake moreso (it was SO good. SO light & fluffy. yummmmmm!)
jude had the 5 cheese ravioli with Porcini Mushroom Sauce & Crumbled Gorgonzola (tasted it. awesome and i don't even like mushrooms)
and fran had the Roast Duck in an Orange Grand Marnier Sauce (holy smokes! that was tasty.)
it was just great all around.
and this time, no fighting with a guy I was dating.
so, that was Moonstruck. If you are in the area, I highly recommend going. It can be a tad on the pricey side, but it's WELL worth it (be prepared to wait for a table. they don't accept reservations.)
this has been "The Chat n' Chew with Gigglechick!"
Why? Can't she take it after she dishes stuff out? It's fair game. You get up in front of the crowds and say this stuff, but, no one should oppose your ideas?
What gets me is the "awwwwwwww, poor Michelle" -- meanwhile Hillary was torn apart limb from limb while Bill ran in '92. Then for the next 8 years while he was in office. Not to mention the email jokes, t-shirts, imagery, etc about her when she was "just the wife".
This just bothers the bejeezuz out of me!
I can't wait until "The Tape" comes out. I'm just sayin'.
(for those keeping track, I've not done that Colonix stuff since friday. made it 2 days! sweeeeeet! i will probably try it again tomorrow.)
i WAS up till about 5am (as I was every night since wednesday, i think. can't remember.)
but slept till about 12:30 pm ---- been awake and cranking out work ever since.
but i am crashing hard.
couch. feels. nice. nice.
unfortunately i just dialed up some din-din and that's on its way (tortellini with vodka sauce. hey, if i can't lose weight before the HS reunion on June 7th, I may as well try to be the largest one in the room, am I right, Jarrod? *high five*!)
(to help out with this quest, there are also meatballs and tira misu that are hightailing it over to my mouth in about 20 minutes!)
oh i didn't mention that i rented Juno on Saturday. I really liked this movie! "Your eggo is preggo, Fertile Myrtle"
and with that, i'd better get out my food cash so i can greet my supper at the door soon!
so it's 3:35am and i am laying here with a stomach ache (too much food) and Beri is on the couch with me licking my shins she's a good pup... and i am thankful that she isn't jumping on my tummy.
just finished watching 2 hours of Deadliest Catch (i SO love that show)
i had 2 pints of ice cream and more tortellini with vodka sauce for dinner.
i've been paying monthly for Weight Watchers... and also the gym. I'm toying with the idea of going to Overeaters Anonymous. You know, it's a 12 step program like AA.
I could probably get a lot of material from going there (I've already used my WW material and AA material --- i've never been in AA. I know "people" though.)
See in AA, I think it's Step 4 that is where you have to make amends.
Usually that's when you go to someone and apologize for some horrible thing that you did while you were drinking/drugging like "I'm sorry I drove over your cat while I was downing that fifth of Jack" kinda stuff.
What would amends be for OA?
• I'm sorry I ransacked your freezer and ate all of your Chunky Monkey
• I apologize for borrowing your favorite jeans and splitting the arse on them
• I am reeeeeally sorry about your dog. I didn't see him and he was really small.
• I know that you needed to bring all 13 dozen brownies to the bake sale for your child and I am really sorry that you needed t go to the bakery for replacements.
• I'm so sorry. On Thanksgiving. I thought you had bought individual turkeys for everyone - I thought you had more.
okay, as I said, it's almost 4 in the morning and I think I am in a partial diabetic sugar coma, so, forgive the Step 4 jokes if you're offended --- apparently I've been offending folks lately with stuff (not anything to do with food.)
So there's the thought of going to OA, but the meeting is on Friday morning at 10am. The WW meeting that I used to go to is on Mondays at 10am and it's difficult for me to get up at such a crazy early time (yes. i can hear half of you groan - give me a break, i spent 10 years waking up between 4 and 5am to get to work)
The Monday 10am meeting is good because the leader is great. The 7pm one, while the time is decent (except for the high rate of excuses I can think of for not going at that hour.) the leader is, I think, insane. It's not a proven fact, but, I know them when I see 'em.
Oh by the way, I mentioned the stomachache earlier. That has nothing to do with that Colonix stuff I'd bought.
I did 2 days with the fiber and the tea and the parasite pills (again, i never had parasites... not that I know of anyway.) --- so I did 2 days and nothing was wrong or anything, but then I had to go to dinner with the girls on Saturday, so I didn't take it that day --- I was afraid of being at the restaurant and all of a sudden making a mad dash and splash for the ladies' room.
then the next few days I was up late and slept in as well... so didn't do the colonix stuff.
Last Thursday was May 15th and all day I couldn't put my finger on what was the meaning of the day - I just had this feeling that I was forgetting a birthday or something. But nothing was coming to mind.
I found blogger on May 15th of 2001. it's been 7 years doing it that way. (I'd started "ranting" in 1999 on here though, but hear the word "blog" on May 15th)
it was my blogiversary and i forgot.
the kicker is my old posts on blogger are trapped in a time-space continuum because my stupid web host has issues with large batches of files being transferred or whatever and i've got about 2000 entries from 2001 through 2002 (yes. i was yappy.) when I have a chance I really need to overhaul this godforsaken site.
holy smokes! this morning i spent an hour procrastinating about work-work and spent it attempting to prune my blogroll
i made it through the Cs
I will need to spend more time dealing with this.
During this weeding session, I realized a few things:
• I had Five Hundred and Fisty Two (552) Links in my blog roll. I now have Four Hundred Forty Nine (449)
• Three (3) people on my blogroll between A-C are dead. I don't mean their blogs, I mean the actual people. Sad. I know there are a few deceased folks within the rest of it. (Namely, Mandarin Design who I snag design tips/color hex #s from. So I won't be deleting her. When I come across the others I will have to think hard as to whether or not to remove them.)
• Thirty-four (34) blogs were dead or abandoned. Poor things. Some I had on my roll for 6 years. Apparently, I do not read enough blogs to notice this though, because there was one on there who I used to read and it was left to collect dust in August of 2005.
• There were fifteen (15) blogs that I don't even remember reading - and I, being the packrat that I am, must've clicked Blogroll It! at one point or another. I tried reading them again and was like "yeah, i'm getting nothing from this" and decided to toss them.
• I need to attempt to categorize them (humor/politics/weird/non-blog)
• There are still a few in A-C that might be purged.
• I have way too many stinking blogs on my blogroll.
• I should just purge all and have like twenty (20)... then that packrat thing comes into play with my head.
• DO YOU KNOW OF A COOL/FUNNY/INTERESTING BLOG THAT I SHOULD ADD TO MY BLOGROLL? (LEAVE IT IN MY COMMENTS... I do think that I might just delete my blogroll and start from semi-scratch.... maybe.)
i'm not PMSing or anything, but, I am sitting here wiping away sad/happy tears because of a movie --- it might be considered a little bit of a sappy one... actually I don't even remember it being in the theatres.
All of a sudden, I'd had a hankerin' to go buy some stuff for the house (new sheets, towels, cleaning crap.)
I was headed to wal-mart.
instead, i decided to go to K-mart around the corner. I never go there. I'd figured I would go snag some martha stewart towels.
cut to the parking lot.
I was driving in there and looking for a spot.
as I was doing so, a guy was walking to his truck... smiled at me. i smiled back. he had a good face.
okay, so i park, get out of my car and notice that the guy is in his truck sorta behind my car.
he says "Cute car!"
I said "thanks!"
then he said "the driver's cute too!"
i said "thank you very much..."
then I, going out on a limb, said "I like your ensemble as well" (doing a circular motion with my hand to him and his truck) yes. i am a dork.
so i walk to the sidewalk with my cart and he says "wanna do dinner?"
I just smiled.
He parked his truck and came over to me and started talking.
Nice guy! We wound up yapping for about 15 minutes or so. (He has a painting company so we were joking about his sunburn... he said he was a lobster.)
okay, so I gave him my card (what the hell, right?) and he said he'd call and we'd do dinner or something.
cool. so i headed into k-mart. was in there for about 45 minutes.
i come out and start unloading the cart into Phooka (my mini... for those still not in the know)
his top was down --- of course, since it's sunny as bejeezuz out and if it's dry and over 50 degrees, the top is always down.
so i'm unloading bags into the car and i then look onto my front seat and there's a dozen roses!
awwwww!
and a note:
Hi Smiley :)
What a Happy Day!
It was nice to have met you!
Call you soon!
Your Lobster Friend,
Russ
hahaha!!! awesome!
major points - (his handwriting reminds me of my Poppy's actually)
OH! and please note: I was slumming today. wearing the same shirt of gigglemom's that I'd worn yesterday afternoon and also had bed head and no makeup.
so, just thought I would post this bit of news --- now i'm off to attempt to clean the house.
so, my 20th reunion (for high school) is on June 7th.
i tried on a dress that I'd worn a couple of years ago to my comedy sister, Monica's wedding and it still fit, but, it didn't have sleeves... thus, the matronly arm fat was out in full force.
i don't know how dressy this thing is gonna be, but, i bought a dress online (i bought 2 sizes, just in case)
now, it's a little crazy with the beading, and I'm not blonde, but I kinda like it. it's supposed to get here on June 2 (monday) --- in the meantime, I will keep an eye out for other dresses.
Even if it's not right for the reunion, I can probably still wear it on one of those fancypants nights on the cruise.
I'm wondering if i can squeeze into a BODYSUIT for the reunion... without having to borrow my mom's oxygen
FIRST OFF... make sure you say "Rabbit Rabbit" first thing when you wake up tomorrow morning (since it's the first of the month. If you don't understand... google "rabbit, rabbit")
SECOND... I went to my neighbor's baby shower today - really nice time. I got her a rocking horse --- her theme is barnyard animals, so it fits perfectly.
TOMORROW, i've got to head to a dance recital for my godsister's daughter who rocks! So gigglemom and I will be heading over there midday.
LAST NIGHT... watched the movie 27 Dresses. I really liked it a lot! WOW, last week with PS I Love You and Juno.... and now last night with this movie... I haven't been let down by flicks lately. It's a nice little change of pace.
WHAT ELSE? Watched CSPAN most of the day (when I was home) and saw the hijacking take place.
Also saw one of MY BUTTONS on a batch of protesters!!!! SWEEEEEET! That was fun to see!
Arthenia Joyner and Harold Ickes are tops in my book right now!
Favorite quotes of the day:
"Anything worth having is worth fighting for"(Joyner saying a classic)
"Flawed? You bet your ass it's flawed." (Ickes)
"Last night... Don Fowler, the more wine that was consumed, the more eloquent he became" (Ickes)
