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.

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.

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.

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.

• sad trombone

Rest in Peace, Eight Belles.

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.

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.

to "Rabbit Rabbit" first thing in the morning.

and by that i mean i am laying on the couch with a heating pad on my back and about 4 Excedrin Back & Body pills in me.

watching American Idol. glad that David Cook is safe (yeah. i watch.)

Top Chef is in 9 minutes.

I should be finishing this one dude's website but maybe i will get cracking on it later tonight if i sit up again.

other than that...

oh, and about the weight loss, that's probably the main cause for the backache. i haven't been dieting or working out, so once i finish this website up, i will force myself to get back to the gym (even if i am crippled still)

been upset about one client over the past couple of days so i've been eating like a fucking freak.

you know the saying, right?

"Feed Emotions, Starve a cold."

i really have to stop sleeping on the couch.

i HAD gone upstairs and slept on my bed for a couple of days and the backache (while it didn't completely go away) subsided...

but i went back to sleeping on the couch downstairs over the weekend through today... and i am pretty much crippled and about 97 years old.

as my dad calls it, i am "stove up"

** for those not in the know, i don't have health insurance... or the cashflow for a chiropractor (not that I enjoy going to chiropractors.) so a doctor is out of the question.

last week when I went to the CVS to get the Excedrin Back & Body pills I was in the "holy crap, I'm in pain" aisle... looking for back meds...

these dolts put ALL of the back pain medication on the BOTTOM shelf.

bottom shelf.

you should've seen me trying to bend with my knees and not fall over ---- i didn't fall, but, it wasn't pretty.

anyway that was over a week ago.

for a girl who doesn't take pain medication usually (i hate taking the tylenol/advil/etc) i finished off that bottle of 24 pills about 2 days ago.

now i'm about to die.

i feel like the lower half of my body is not listening to to the rest of me.... well, only because it's got a shooting pain of horrible lightning-death-knife thing stabbing me about 2 vertebrae above my tailbone.

whine whine whine whine.

all i want to do is lie down again... yet... i can't really walk up the stairs to my good bed. all i've got in my future is the crippling couch ready to suck me in and apparently while i sleep, it acts like a medieval torture device and twists my body until it's mangled.

man. i need to get more of those excedrin (which, by the way i DID say to the cashier kid that day "um... any reason why the back pain medicine is on the bottom shelf? is the store just trying to ensure that i'll have to come back for another bottle?"

the thought of walking out to my car to drive to the pharmacy is killing me.

car = 50 feet of hobbling pain away

pharmacy = 1.5 miles of pain-filled shifting/clutch/gas/brake pedals

bottle of rum = 10 feet of crawling to kitchen.

hey, it's a thought.

oh, and i'm not done with that one guy's website. i wound up being derailed yesterday by another client's stuff and had to focus on that. so i'll be working on the other site today and hope that i finish it by late late tonight or tomorrow.

I just watched the entire thing on CNN.

here's the speech... ::ENJOY:: [part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ]

oh sure... good points.

gee.... i just LOVED how Wright said -- and I quote:

"Some people thought that the Irish had a disease... Did you hear that O'Malley, O'Shaunessey, O'Reilly! They thought you were----- well, they might have been right about it (laughter break)"***

Yeah. really bringing folks together. (I wonder how Teddy Kennedy is feeling about him mocking him and his brother Jack... oh, and the Irish.)

[*** i know that the Irish WERE discriminated against. Real nice of him to basically say "yeah maybe they were right about the Irish being diseased."]

also, it kinda sounded like a really bad Def Comedy Jam with a hack comic doing the "White People clap all out of rhythm, and Black People clap like this... so show your white neighbor. White People talk like this and Black People talk like this" bit.

just a clip from Thursday's benefit. Yes. PeeWee and I were front row. I was trying to use my camera on the sly.

but not posting a lot. will hunker down on the blog when i'm finished with this one client's website. (hopefully monday)

I went to the mailbox about 20 minutes ago. Basically, I was hoping to receive some checks in there. Nada.

But, there was an envelope addressed to The Bennett Family.

Okay, so since I am a Bennett, I opened it.

4.18.08 With Sympathy - To The Bennett Family - May it help in some small way to know that our thoughts are with you.

With Deepest Sympathy -
[Gigglemom's Doctor's Name and Practice]

Hmmmmm... so, I was in the car reading this, parked at the mailbox. So I rang home to GM to doublecheck that she was still alive.

Hell, I didn't want the doc to be a Psychic Surgeon.

Gigglemom IS overdue to get her blood levels tested, so, that might've just been a nudge sent to her in the mail to get into the office.

Anyway, I came home (I was out paying the water bill) - handed her the card. Told her to call to just make sure that they didn't delete her files, etc.

So she called up (used my "blood level" joke on them which got a laugh) --- there is another woman in town with the same name. GM's known about her for the past 12 years. Apparently, GM and the now deceased version of GM shared 2 doctors, the same pharmacy, the same bank, the same oxygen delivery place.

Of course, the now deceased version of GM lived on the other side of town in a swanky home near the river.

I'm hoping that she has a daughter named Erin that's named in the will.

anyway... happy ending to the story is that THIS gigglemom is okay and is sitting here eating a pint of Edy's Drumstick Ice Cream and breathing fine and dandy (with oxygen)

so, i've been quiet over the past week. mainly because i've been busy working and secondly because my back has been out of whack and i've been in pain for a few days.

feeling better(ish) today... it might be the Excedrin Back & Body meds.

So.... this thursday I am heading up to NYC to Gotham Comedy Club (meeting up with my pal PeeWee) --- funny thing, April 24th, more oft than not, something cool always happens in my life.

One of my clients is running a fundraiser for City Green. Here, I'll post the email from Tom Papa.

Seinfeld and Jeff Garlin join Gotham Show This Thursday!

Hey everybody!

So here is the list of do-gooders that you can see at Gotham Comedy this Thursday (April 24).

Tom Papa, Jerry Seinfeld, Colin Quinn, Jeff Garlin, Kevin Brennan and Keith Robinson!

How's that for a show?! How can you not go?!

The show is at 8pm. Reserve now. They're going fast.

A little background on the show... I've got a sister and she runs a charity called

"City Green" that builds gardens in wasted urban spaces. Brings the community together, makes people happy, real do-gooder stuff! But I'm a do-gooder too and I'm putting on a fund raising show for her at the Gotham Comedy Club next Thursday, April 24th at 8pm. All proceeds go her charity. Click here for info on tickets.

Tell your friends, buy some tickets and be a do-gooder too!

Tom

So, if you're in the area this Thursday, come to the benefit (it's $40 a ticket plus 2 item minimum) --- but reserve your tickets now!!!!