so in between wrangling MT today, i have placed two bids on ebay...
one for an old version of dreamweaver for the mac, and another for an old version of image ready...
that's all i need. that's what i was using before the Great Crash of 2002 when i lost everything.
on a lighter note... quinn may be heading into town next weekend and if it's a go, we's having din-din.... keen!
well, i woke myself up sneezing again... a split second before the rugrat upstairs began screaming "Daaaaaaad? Daaaaaaaaad?" and stomping around over my head.
i also dreamt that i was trying to piece together all the sniper clues and was heading down to find him.
i do think that this jackass has been parking on backroads and walking/running back to the van through trees,etc and having an easy getaway. i also think that there are more than 1 van...
so for a little while last night and this morning, i got a bug in my head to try and "change this site up" a bit...
it's not there yet, but i have been futzing around.... there are kinks and i want y'all to test it out, see if you throw up from it, tell me if you like the regular site, or if you want me to go a "little bolder"
see, i don't have dreamweaver or image ready anymore, so i have been designing this in simpletext and an old photoshop, so it may be effed up terribly.
trying to fiddle with the links and such, i know they are a bit dark on the one side - yrt not on the other... can't figure out how to make it so they aren't universal throughout the site
actually i don't like the newer "design" that i mentioned in the last post. and i am getting a feeling of weak blah about this regular version as well...
7 hours and 20 minutes til dreamweaver is mine... and another day and a half til image ready is mine as well (then i have to wait for shipping)
was supposed to meet my comedy sister, Monica, in the city tonight to see comedian - the seinfeld documentary - and then we were gonna go to an open mic...
had to cancel... i have been feeling punky since friday night, but it's blossomed into a horrible cold... gonna go rummage around in my fridge for some cherry flavoured nyQuil or cherry alka seltzer cold (the drugs of choice here at gigglechick.com)
eff. i took my alka seltzer cold cherry flavoured beverage (the official drug of gigglechick™), fell asleep at 3pm and i just woke up.
i woke up to find that some !@#*& outbid me by one effing dollar at the last minute.
so i took it into my own hands and shelled out $63 for this beauty
i won my pool at work!!! wooooo! i think that's $130.... yay! that'll help out with the ebay purchase! usually i am in the pool where my mom works... unfortunately, this week she didn't have to work on friday and didn't get my picks in. dang. that would have been another $100 or so.
*sniffle* *cough*
i am sick. very sick.
unfortunately i was out sick 2 days last week, we have another designer starting today and i have a ton of stuff to work on....
the alka seltzer knocks me out. gotta get gas before work, no time to buy cold meds...ahh....just remembered we have a little store in the bowels of my buildng...cool. i never go there.
click below for my theory as to why this fella isn't the sniper.
Ozzy Osbourne Freaked Out Meeting Queen Elizabeth
He confessed to Britain's Radio Times: "I freaked out. I assumed I was the in-house joke. The queen spoke to me but I haven't a clue what she said. Look at photographs -- I'm in shock."
does anyone know why parasites have simple sensory systems?
(girl at work needs to know the answer)
thanks!
so now the sniper (possibly) has struck at about 6am... sheesh... dude, get some rest, you manic little bastard. maybe a little rest and relaxation will help you...
i suggest utilizing the cultural facilities that are near you before heding to mexico....
try this... Deceptions and Illusions:Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil Painting
looks quite interesting and you like deception, right?
i doubt they allow guns, so please leave that at home. oh, what the hell, take the gun with you so they can effing catch you.
so last week a girl i work with had pink eye - a.k.a - conjunctivitis... oh joy.
this weekend, as you know, i wasn't feeling very keen... sneezing, tired, ill. still feeling that way - except yesterday and today my eyes have been burning.
lovely...right?
well i freaked out, went to the doctor (new doctor. cute physician's assistant named mike...)
wasn’t pink eye – just to ease your mind
was bad allergies – how embarrassing, eh? here i thought i had a perfectly good contagious disease…
so he slapped me on Zyrtec-D... hopefully this will kick clarinex's ass.
woo! got the police report back for the accident last thursday! i am IN THE RIGHT! woo!
apparently the driver of the other vehicle was some 29 year old @#%! named, get this, this is her first name - not giving the last...
Panagiota
what the heck?
take that, freak...
#1. for ramming into my poor cavalier...
#2. for saying i ran the stop sign - which i most certainly DID NOT.
#3. for talking the "eyewitness" into saying that i ran the stopsign 5 minutes AFTER he said to me that was in the right and that "Paagiota" was "going way too fast and hit" me....
bring it.
have chapped lips. arrrrgh.
so last night, i went to the weight watchers meeting in paramus... who should the leader be but the leader i used to have in jersey city... yay! she's the one that was really inspiring and i had much success with...
after the meeting i headed to shop-rite and bought a whole slew of good stuff...
made myself a salad at 7:30am and had it for lunch... (baby greens, cucumber, sunflower seeds, reduced fat feta and fat free balsamic vinagrette...)
was good...
i AM going to kick ass with this losing weight thing THIS time... 55pounds by june... i can do it... that's like, 2 pounds a week... can do~!
gotta say tonight was cool.... cathy and i went to see Garbage and No Doubt at the continental airlines arena... garbage was great! gotta admit, i never really was a garbage fan - or so i thought...didn't know that i knew a handful of their songs... i am so bad with remembering names of groups and matching up their songs...
cathy wrote an article about the lighting guy/production dude for garbage who's also a friend of hers... so we sat in the lighting console.... twas cool... THANKS CATH!!! pass to the show...
also went to joanne's to see her new baby!! so cute!!! so teeny!!! :)
Hi Erin,
I guess since you have not heard from me that you probably assumed that we
are not going to get together tomorrow night. The story is that I got back
together with the person I was recently dating and we are going to give it
another try. I'm sorry if you feel like I was playing around here. That
was certainly the case. You were nice and I just wanted to be honest with
you.
Good luck in your search,
Joe
eh....yikes...i'd forgotten all about the blind date....
heh. oh well... no big deal...
lovely...
so here's the skinny - my credit seems to be "not so desirable"... i am in debt about $300... seriously. that's it. (not counting the car payments, but that's not an issue)
i am turned down for credit cards left and right... meanwhile there was a lottery winner a year or so ago who was an immigrant from the philipines, was $600,000 in debt, had declared bankruptcy twice and still had SEVENTY TWO credit cards...
i can't even get a secured Capital One...or even a Sears card for that matter...
so i went on the experian website tonight - they used to be TRW - to see what's what with my history
first off, they spelled my name wrong... WRONG
second... eh... they have my birthday as 06/21/1971
if i am not mistaken, i was born in 1970
they have me working for only 2 companies and according to them, the last time i worked was in 1997... before that was 1993 (i have only had a total of 11 months unemployment between 1993 and 2002... and eight jobs to show for it)
as far as my previous addresses... they have me listed as living in 8 different homes... they have 3 addresses duplicated... with the apartment numbers being the difference... so i look like i move around a LOT... i have been in this apartment alone for 5 and a half years.
eff.
and my student loans are listed as outstanding (outstanding in a bad way)... i paid them all off in FULL last february of 2001. asses.
*sigh*
this WILL get straightened out. as God as my witness [insert Scarlett O'Hara drawl and drama here]
i just set up and did the huge honking gif for this site...
yay... i can almost smell the freelance check right now - hellooooo car payment!
cafeteria has a guy prepare sushi every friday - i have to tell you that i could eat about 756 tuna rolls from this guy if they let me... really good - and no one has died yet
it's evolving... slowly... a very subtle remodeling is taking place on this blog...
so i am supposed to meet quinn today.... i have a ton of stuff to do during the day so i think that we should probably meet this evening... he drove down with his buddy from nova scotia to see his pal's girlfriend in brooklyn...
whoa... hold the phone, just read his post - he'd called me yesterday:
And Erin has the cutest phone voice, with just a touch of the Jersey accent. She says "cahwbs", not "cabs." Hee hee hee..
i don't have that kind of accent! that's not a jersey accent, that's a speech impedement that quinn wrote there, and i certainly didn't say it like that! i MAY have said it like "kêhbs" but so didn't say it like "cahwbs"... i say that when i am saying "corn on the cahwb"
and he's one to talk! quinn has that crazy canadian accent thing going!
(note to self: instead of saying 'cabs' say 'taxis')
think i am really getting a cold... the allergy medicine is not helping with sniffles... i have so much stuff to do today - laundry, dishes, cleaning the apartment - and feel like a slug... then i am meeting quinn at 6pm in the city... i gotta shake this thing.
am baking a potato right now which i am eyeballing through the oven window every 5 seconds... why's it take so long... i should just put it in the microwave, THEN slap the fat free cheddar and salsa on it in the oven... think that's what i am gonna do... (the salsa and f.f. cheddar are ww friendly)
so at approximately 6:10pm, i met quinn at the Harp bar on 32nd street... my usual rendevouz point to meet folks at... it's near the PATH train...
had a good time, walked around and then had turkey burgers at Dewey's Flatiron... where he actually gave me a kickass gift of OS 9 and OSX... yay!
walked around more and then got likkered up on 4 cups of coffee apiece...
then i found him a gypsy cab and headed towards the PATH train...
quinn and i after 8 cups o' joe at midnight
a swell fella... glad to have met him finally... so he and his buddy are trekking back to Nova Scotia (or NoSco as i am officially dubbing it) tomorrow...
*whew*
i am once again with dreamweaver (now in MX!) and have imageready... as well as a buncha other goodies.... and my machine is running smooth as silk since i have now upgraded to os9.2
sweet!
now i can hunker down, do freelance work, redesign my site and have a general feeling of peace and fulfillment with my mac...
happiness
(note to self... borrow font cd from work since i am working with 10 fonts)
by the way, i got up at effing 7am on a sunday... i never get up that early without an alarm... yet the one effing day i CAN get an extra hour's sleep... *sheesh*
what i was working on for a good part of the day at work...
the 'model' is my friend/co-worker Fred... and this is an email that i have to send out to folks in the company
man alive! my landlords haven't turned the heat on... i am effing freezing... i have no control over the heat... dammit
hey all i am trying out a bit of script that i snagged off of scriptygoddess.com click the "more" link below and hopefully all will be swell....
yay!!!! i just got back from my ww meeting and i LOST....
6.6 POUNDS
well... i did it. i have done a "slight" makeover on the blog... i plan to carry the design throughout the rest of the site soon... i am really tired right now, but i would absolutely love to hear what y'all think of the new layout - yes, i kept the ABV (anti-baby vitamins) image... had to!
anyway... i am going to try and get some rest, since i have to code other website stuff for work tomorrow... sort of 24 hours of coding if you will...
have i mentioned how much i am in love with moveable type?!?
well, i have to tell you i am pretty excited about this layout. i have to implement it into the other templates on my site, so maybe i will try to do that tonight... probably not though... have to go out for a cocktail after work with the marketing kids... then i wanna go home and watch west wing... i have to get some sleep so i can get up early and throw on my halloween makeup and costume.... yay! halloween is tomorrow!
happy halloween! okay - for those who wanted to know what i was going to be for this spectacular holiday.... here are a couple of photos already!!!!!! enjoy....
here i am being really serious at my desk
here i am with full frontal view!
(yes. i am a sack of potatoes... i went for the sexy look this year)
today has been the absolute BEST day for me in years!!!
everyone was freaking out about my costume... totally loving it! i got some EXCELLENT news at work (nope. sorry. can't talk about it on here) then prior to the halloween luncheon they nominated employees of the quarter - normally each manager only nominates one person - my boss nominated me and Fred, that was very cool. then the check for some freelance work i'd done came in... then i won the company costume party ($25 starbucks card... COFFEE!!!) a little later our desks we've been waiting for for months arrived and they look so keen!
then i got out of work at 6:30.
got home... took a shower... washed the goop off of my face... feeling fresh and relaxed and calm...
i sit down at my mac and on the keyboard is a folded piece of paper... i didn't have anything on my keyboard when i left for work this morning - and no one else has been in here...
i open it up and it's the piece of paper that i read from at my Poppy's funeral on February 13th, 1999... after i read it that day, i put it in a shoebox... the shoebox is in my closet... i haven't opened that box up since february of '99...
the paper contained the poem by Rudyard Kipling...
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes
are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the
youngest critic has died,
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -
lie down for an aeon or two
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put
us to work anew.
And those that were good shall be happy;
they shall sit in a golden chair;
They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with
brushes of comets' hair.
They shall find real saints to draw from -
Magdaline, Peter, and Paul;
They shall work for an age at a sitting and
never be tired at all!
so that is the poem i read at his funeral... i could barely get through it then - and as i just typed it out again, i am sitting here with happy tears... no i haven't been drinking.
see, when Poppy died, i had to do a reading and i didn't know what to say - he was an artist so they wanted me to read something about his artistic side... kerry read something that showed his love of the ocean...
i couldn't think of anything... McLean's "Starry Starry Night" popped in my head - but that's about VanGogh and he went loopy - Poppy wasn't loopy.
The day before the funeral about 2 hours before the wake, i was going through an old scrapbook of his and a page was bookmarked, i opened to that page and that poem was on a typewritten sheet of paper... and i knew he wanted me to read that.
and i know right now he's pulling a Halloween stunt saying hello and trying to freak me out - much like he did when i was young and he would rig wires to ghosts and witches outside to scare the hell out of us when we would come trick or treating at his house...
poppy, i miss you and i love you.... Happy All Saints Eve
it's a "tibbar tibbar!" day
so my friends/ex bosses, joanne and peter had a baby on october 14th... cathy and i went over there last week to meet the new little rugrat... cute lil' guy...
hmmmmmm.... first time in 6 years i've held one of these critters...
so tonight after work i went to a place called Curves for Women
a few girls from work go there and even more folks at weight watchers go there... so i figured i might give it a shot... i signed up. i will start working out monday...
headache. all day. staying in.... actually went and bought a ton of good stuff at the food store earlier and ran some errands... now am watching "behind enemy lines" - so far, it's pretty good
wooo! and New York is the U.S. nomination for the 2012 olympics! go new york, go new york go!
this keen link i snagged off of this page intentionally left blank
so i received an email yesterday from my former therapist - i haven't seen her in about 10 or 11 years... she was doing a search on her son and i guess using her last name and i apparently wrote good stuff about her back in march... so there was gigglechick.com staring back at her on the search engine... lo and behold, she wrote to say hi! she was my best therapist - not like the freaky woman i went to 3 times last year who kept calling me "Ann"
anyway - wants to meet for coffee soon... i did a search on her and she's doing seminars entitled "the positive power of humor" and "Positive Humor, Productive Perceptions, Powerful Results!" heh. cool.
i feel like i've graduated... i am able to meet her outside the office i spent a good 6 or 7 years in...
so as i am getting ready to head down the shore for the day to help mom out around the house, i am sitting here winding down after a long hot shower in my fluffiest robe, slippers, towel around my hair and sipping from my first cup of homemade joe - brewed fresh from the coffee maker that my blog sugar daddy sent me about a month or so ago.... yum.
(it took me this long to use it because i hadn't bought milk for the fine beverage... although i HAVE been using the mug as my travel cup in the car and getting it filled every morning by the coffee cart at the corner of my street)
heh, i haven't read the comics in a while... i was on the homeless guy's site and found out that doonesbury has been yapping about blogging recently
just one of the strips...
so i almost shelled out $1450 today - actually i DID shell it out, i just had to cancel the order today...
what was i buying?
a PC *gasp* yes, i almost went over to the dark side...
i most likely WILL buy the damned thing after my next paycheck... i just have to figure out finances a little more...
i was so psyched when i ordered it online... we have a discount with DELL through work... then after i got the order confirmation, i began feeling ill...
so i cancelled... i am a woos. yup.
i have insurance and car repairs to pay for and the cash is whittling away quickly
i went to Curves tonight! really had a good time... nice girls there. and i also got an effing workout. had to do the circuit 3 times... know that my body's gonna ache tomorrow...
actually heading to bed so that i wake up early and hop on the treadmill (that's the plan)
as i was walking around the corner to the school behind my house where the voting takes place, i noticed a man walking down the stairs of a newly renovated brownstone that has apartments in it.
this was from 30 feet away... i saw him turn the corner in the direction of the polls...
as i approached the polling area, he was standing there... looking puzzled... he asked me, "is this the right place?" no, he's not a dolt. the place isn't marked well and is a little daunting with children running all over the place.
"it is, here, follow me" said i...
his last name starts with a K... i shan't say what it is...
i don't know the first name, but i know where he lives and his last name. yes... i am planning on stalking.
as i left the school, i had to walk the block and a half to my car.
i heard footsteps behind me... it was K...
as i reached my car, he was still there and slowing down, stepping into the street near me...
i took off my coat before i got into my car and he stopped at a red car that was parked in front of my house... opened the door and got in...
he looks like my ex-eric... but cuter... nice voice... and lives 40 feet from me...
jersey city isn't looking too bad right now~!
strange. i have my fat yappings and open mics housed under blogger... i can see the pages fine on the mac... on the PC, however, i only see the right nav bars and they are squished over on the left of the page...
what the heck? help!
so my old office was like a cave - no light.... the new designer here, MD, and i decided to have a tall guy here, CF, remove some of the fluorescent lights...
after removing 5 of them... the 6th was pretty warm... and CF's hands were pretty sweaty...
*BOOM* *POP*
yup... it exploded... all over the office...
MD and i are sitting here feeling like naughty kids who messed something up...
at least the room is pretty dark :)
now my old old archives from blogger are effed.
okay - temporary band-aid on the other sections...
went to weight watchers last night....
going to Curves tonight... still sorta sore from monday...
ir was THREE YEARS ago today that i first walked onstage and did my set at Stand-Up NY...
remind me that i have to get back to an open mic...
i love the west wing. i say that every week. i didn't know how they were gonna get rid of rob lowe... now it's becoming clear.
right now i am watching barbara walters interview the osbournes... eh... barbara just said the word "tits"
i went to curves tonight - man i am beat... i am heading off to bed shortly... that darned place kicks yer arse in 30 minutes. really digging it! anyone else out there a member of it or know gals on it? i would love to hear if ya' are...
i have had approx. 450 visitors (an average) each day for the past few days (actually it's been like that for a year).... why are y'all so damned quiet!!??!
speak up, poppets!
so i had to draw a turkey today... real quick i slapped this together in 10 minutes... and i have made it into a desktop for anyone who wants this silly creature
i've gotten p45.net's five o'clock shadow emailed to me for a good year and a half now, i suggest you go there and sign up for it...
it's good craic!
so 6 of us from work were supposed to go grab a few cocktails tonight and force our boss to get a belly ring... now 3 girls are sick and i am actually hoping to postpone this - i am going out tomorrow night and don't wanna waste valuable ww points on 2 nights of drinking... sad, yes.
of course, if it's postponed til next week, i can't go because friday is when cowboy mouth plays at the bowery ballroom!
woo!
this is what i did the last hour or so of work
holiday party - invite for headquarters....
so i got home last night at around 10... 3 of us from work went to ruby tuesday's for some grub and beer.
(i was good. turkey burger, fries, 2 beers - corona... oh. and some spinach con queso dip)
we had a good chat... started off with work, then it started off with relationships... which, once i lose the weight, get a new wardrobe, clean and reorganize my apartment, grow my hair - which, by the way, i am coming to terms with because i was able to use my old ConAir hot styling brush yesterday... do you KNOW what that means!?!?! DO YOU!?!?
snagged from starjewel...
haven't talked with my dad since october 8th... nope, it's not because of a fight or anything, we just aren't big phone people. although i speak with my mom every day. go figure...
anyway... around the beginning of this year his girlfriend had to have part of her lung removed because of cancer.... they had gotten it all... but then about 2 months ago it had attacked her trachea... so this week she starts chemo and radiation
hey! if you are married or know of anyone who is AND also have a kick ass online wedding album, let me know.... post the link in the comments here!!!!!!
(example: dooce had a great one...)
so i bought a new domain today so i could free up some of the space on gigglechick.com
it'll be called erinsportfolio.com to house my designs and illustrations and whatnot... instead of taking up a ton of space on this site...
my server allows 200MB of space and i am already at 170mb... this should seperate things pretty well...
not as if i am wanting to use the portfolio to find a job since i really dig where i am at, but if anyone is looking for a freelance thing, they can go there without having to see the rest of my site and freaking out.
i just got in... right now pasta is cooking on my stovetop... yep late night eating, blowing the weightloss all to hell in a handbasket... oh well...
first we saw Bloody Sunday which had me in tears.... please. go. see it. now.
then we went to Scratchers pub in the east village...
blech.
nothing a LOT of toothpaste and water can't cure.
am heading down to mom's today. be back later.
woo.... My Favorite Stalker™, lee, has revamped his site! love it! and he did all this when he's in vacation jaunting around europe!
can't wait til he gets back so he can jaunt over to jersey and i can meet him face to face (yep. you have better get over here to NJ, mister)
i missed the sopranos last night... caught the repeat tonight...
i have to tell you - and this is sad - i felt a huge weight lift off my shoulders when tony whacked ralph! yay! happiness.
and i am glad that Pie Oh My's murder caused this wonderful thing to happen to effing ralph.
oh shepard smith... heh. he's gonna have a long day ahead of him today.
Talk about blowing it on national TV.
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith had something fairly egglike on his face last week when he launched into what should have been a straightforward item about tension between Jennifer Lopez and her old Bronx neighbors.
dang. i had 10 wins and lost the oakland/denver game last night... HAD been in the running to win another week. poop
so i am slowly - but surely - making the site uniform...
i just fiddled with the ireland section... go ahead... take a peek!!
well, i really haven't had much to say lately... a few links hither and tither...
i gave you the turkey thanksgiving desktop....
now, i give you the White Castle Stuffing Recipe
merry thanksgiving!
this play is being performed across the street from me in the barrow mansion, put on by the Attic Ensemble.
it's causing a ruckus on the news (t.v. AND papers!) because the lead actors are nekkid onstage.... and mainly because it's a community theater.
i wanna go see it now.
well, here's a couple of 20 second videos, it's pretty shaky, as if someone with the DT's was holding the camera...
the 1st is of fred playing drums.... i make a cameo appearance (3mb)
the second is during "everybody loves jill" and is mainly of flailing arms and one red spoon (3mb)
sweaty fred walking through the crowd before he climbs up the balcony
as i said, i caught the last drumstick of the evening that fred flung out there.... here's proof, baby... (that's fred again. can you tell that, eh, i MAY dig fred leblanc?)
--- so that was friday...
saturday i was onstage for 3 hours...working the chinese auction circuit down the shore --- okay it was a fundraiser for this girl named patty that has leukemia...
i was asked to read the winning numbers for the auction, but it was still "stage time" in a firehouse in front of 500 people i grew up with... hopefully i will move on to calling bingo and possibly the lottery numbers.
but before that, i got dolled up and got my hair cut and highlighted... will show you the results later.... right now - at the risk of having this posted all over the internet, here is the "before" image of me....
my comedy coach, lisa lampanelli, is on Stern this morning starting at 8:30am
she is the nicest broad you'd ever wanna meet...
(i never usually listen to stern, but this is a special occasion)
so here's the aftermath of the highlighting that occured on saturday... whatcha think?
am going to see the Harry Potter flick tonight.... can't wait!
wheeeee! cathy and i just saw harry potter & the chamber of secrets tonight.... LOVED IT LOVED IT LOVED IT!!!
Mike needs to be famous... and fast.
and while you're at it... don't forget
erin needs to be more famous... and faster than mike.
just post the following link to your blog... please!!???
| <a href="http://www.gigglechick.com/erin/blog/000110.html" target="_blank">erin <i>needs</i> to be <i>more</i> famous... and <i>faster</i> than mike.</a> |
well, mike is #1 on blogdex today... congrats... hmmmmmmmm... to think that i was there in the beginning...
*sniffle*
they grow up so fast...
and if you'd like to help me get back on blogdex... i would really appreciate the link!!!!!
please!?
i know that i am copying this link whore thing, but, hey.... show this old gal some generosity!!!
well... i went out with the girls from work tonight.
the goal of the evening:
goal completed.
wait.
what's that? a really cool, cute, funky hand-blown glass piece of jewelry for the belly?
hmmmmmm... i've had my navel pierced twice, the last being back in '97 - that one lasted 9 months.... the first one lasted 4 days and then i couldn't stand the infection and pain that followed - needless to say, the 2nd time i had it done, things didn't go awry... then i got sick of it after it healed and i said "enough, that's it.... i've been there, i did that, i got that out of my system"
eh... until tonight.
there will be photos posted on monday - still trying to get this software to work here at home...
in the meantime, i drew a quick sketch as to what it looks like... this is my incentive to stick with weight watchers...
okay... so as i was sleeping last night, it seemed as if my bed kicked and bit me in the stomach about 6 times...
i am used to sleeping on my tummy and last night i had to do so very gingerly...
VERY gingerly.
(note to self: keep repeating the mantra "it'll be okay, erin, it'll be okay, your belly won't become an infected mass of goo, it'll be okay")
i don't think i did the track back set up right.... help! anyone? please? it worked off of 1 site. that's it, and i know there've been more links...
don't you just love waking up and finding that someone has gone insane at 2:04am and posted a delightful comment on your site?
i sure do. my oh my.... it's just grand.
of course when the ip address is 66.120.162.233 and they've used what is most likely a fake name and fake email address... it makes you wonder how disgustingly unhappy they are with their own lives that they are lashing out calling someone a "fat strumpet" (which, in and of itself, "strumpet" is up there in my top twenty favourite words...so that's fine by me with the strumpet usage)
fat, on the other hand, well, i could care less what this "person" thinks about my weight. i am nowhere near stomach stapling size and i just went down a dress size over the past week... so if you think i am fat, i suppose you should meet me in person, eh? right.
as for the birth control, i use that in my stand-up act... i also use it to regulate my menstrual flow... on top of that, i don't want children at this point in my life, so i choose to take OvCon35 - the official anti-baby vitamin of gigglechick.com™.
i also use my birth control as a calender/day planner.
as for dating someone with vision impairment... actually no, usually the guys i date have 20/20 vision, so that nips that theory in the bud.
and for those of you, especially "kristin gallegos", who are interested in my birth control pills... i have just started my sugar pills...
do you know what that means?
it means "effing bring it."
as a former cheesesteak slinger on south street in philly (the now defunct "Inky's"), i must raise my large paper cup of birch beer to david patrone and his
The Philadelphia Cheesesteak Part Three:
Proper Ordering Protocol for The Philadelphia Cheesesteak
[link via .paradox1x.org]
today is my dad's 65th birthday... he doesn't have a computer but i wanted to say it on here anyway.
he's spending it by taking his girlfriend to her radiation treatment.
i was supposed to meet him at 11am today, but since the radiation treatment was moved to today because of thanksgiving, i will see him next sunday...
so i got my bellybutton pierced for the third time on friday... very cool funky blown glass piece of jewelry... here is the close up... click the image... yes, those are red panties i am wearing
and then, this morning at about 4:30am when i woke up down the shore... faced with the prospect of driving in pain for 2 hours with a throbbing navel... i unscrewed the one end and removed it... slapped on the peroxide and have been pain free ever since...
my boss/friend, pam, on the otherhand has her bellyring in still... here's a 3MB video i took of when she got it done on friday... the "piercer" is named Adam
i mean snow.
it's on the way. i can smell it. i can feel it in my neck.
4-6 inches possible well north and west across extreme northwest New Jersey
yep. i work "north and west" of the city.
people around here can't drive in the effing RAIN, much less, SNOW!
i haven't had to commute in the snow in 5.5 years... i am a little nervous. not because of my driving capabilities, but because my tires (except the one i had replaced after the slashing) are pretty much bald. no grip. turnpike. route 80. benny drivers. thanksgiving traffic.
that's my future.
had to create another "make someone's day" email for work...
freaked people out in the grocery store.
today is my ex-boyfirend ej's 33rd birthday.
we started dating the summer between high school and college. i was working at carlson's corner and he would come in there every night and ask me out. i said no. no. no. then finally his persistance started to seem cute.
our first date consisted of dinner and then watching the "three amigos" on his boss' boat "the dorado" in brielle.
we had been dating only a couple of weeks and he had to go away for a week, then he came back on july 9th, arrived at my mom's house where i proceeded to open the door... with a shaved head and sprouts (braids that "sprouted" out of my head - out of a triangle shape, a square, and a circle shape - i named them "russell - he was the small one- fred & kook)
he said "hey, new haircut?"
mr. republican going off to scranton. clean cut. reminded me of my dad. fell for him.
we saw each other on and off, holidays and such, but we wound up experiencing college and dating other people... but we always stayed in touch and talked.
my favourite chat with him was one night sitting on the lagoon in his adirondack chairs smoking cigars and yapping about life while curled up on an august night at 2am under woven blankets.
then in the fall of 1998 i got a phone call from him... informing me not to make plans on january 15th, 2000
i was going to his wedding.
i went and i drank. and i drank. i was the only ex-girlfriend there. i sat with his friends from scranton who i remembered from the time i went up there.
then the moment during the reception that single girls either love or hate...
the bouquet toss.
i was forced out on the floor with 25 others.
i never raised my hands except to shield my face.... that's when his bride's flowers smacked me in the head.
and my jaw dropped.
and i tried to hold in tears (i succeeded at that)
my boyfriend cringed.
ej looked shocked.
his wife looked pissed - she was aiming for her friend.
and i carried it back to my seat.
and drank jameson's and ginger ale.
then i danced. and ran into ej's parents - whom i love - and i slurred something to the effect of "it's ironic that i of all people caught the bouquet, isn't it? ISN'T IT?"
they were tipsy too so i don't feel bad.
ej has 2 little girls now.
and he just turned 33.
saving a traffic advisory link for myself
http://www.traffic.com/nyfiveboroughs/index.html
they have traffic all over the country.
i've deleted the contents of this post...
holy crap! the closing credits.... Jeff Stilson is the executive producer.... i absolutely LOVE him... have dug his stand-up set for nearly a decade now...
he also wrote for letterman, the chris rock show and the daily show...
one of my favourite bits of his:
"Winning players always give credit to God, while the losing players blame themselves. Just once I'd like to hear a player say, 'Yeah, we were in the game -- until Jesus made me fumble! He hates our team'"
an ex of mine, about 6 years before we dated, had to open for jeff in delaware... so tom (the ex) actually got him to autograph a headshot - this is in 1994 - and stilson said "what is she? insane? who the heck would want my picture?"
another bit of his is:
"I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use
language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be.
But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We
aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners."
snagged blatently off of quinn's site:
(yes. with will ferrell... *sigh* i lurrrrve him)
well... i am heading down to my mom's this afternoon... maybe i will be able to pop onto the computer at my aunt's house, but not sure...
i want you all to have a WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING!!! go eat a turducken
and for the second year in a row, i will leave you with this:
gobble gobble goo and a gobble gobble giggle!!!!
(yep. it's now officially a tradition here.)
cheers! see ya' monday!!
how was everyone's thanksgiving? mine was fine... so were the 72 hours of leftovers to follow...
saw my dad for his birthday (a week later) - was good to see him. it's been a few months.
picture of dad and i spending quality time at the beach in 'squan
went and saw the ring on saturday. pretty creepy. i liked it. wasn't all that keen on the ending, but it was good.
pretty low-key weekend. eating, sleeping, cleaning, etc...
now am back at work. but i have put in for PTO days (personal time off) on the 23rd, 26th, 27th & 30th of december - apparently i have 120 hours of PTO days coming to me. who knew?
would love to take more, but i am swamped.
billy rocks... he IM'd me the link to this video short... good stuff! especially if you are in advertising/design/film
go. view it. sound up, folks...
sitting here illustrating some stuff and watching jeopardy - yep, we have a tv and cable in the office. about 7 feet away from me. gotta love it.
i have to head home soon. i have so much stuff in my car.
my dad gave me a set of golf clubs with extra irons and woods... so that is a total of about 27 clubs that i have to lug into the apartment.
hoping to get a parking spot close to the apartment.
so a guy from match.com wrote to me... i wrote him back... seems like a nice guy so far... eh... unfortunately i didn't realize when i wrote him back that my email automatically added the footer that says gigglechick.com, the perfect combo of estrogen and a sense of humor.
so much for me keeping my darned site a secret from potential dates.
ah... apparently, i, too, can be a "retro girl"
[link via cocokat in slumberland]
eh... what does one do when one's "so-called-stalker" is off galavanting with another blogger who flew off to see him?
yes.
that's right.
one gets jealous.
when i got home from work tonight at about 8:30, i found out i had no running water. so i called my landlord upstairs.
"we're working on it", she said. "it'll be working shortly"
that was almost 2 hours ago...
one minute ago, i got a phone call saying:
"we won't have water til maybe tomorrow afternoon. the pipes burst or something underground, so the water company and plumbers will be here in the morning and will have to tear up the street and sidewalk in front of the apartment."
lovely.
so i will be working from home tomorrow. i just realized that i am screwed car-wise... my parking permit expired on november 30th. so that means i have to actually go outside and move my car every 2 hours. and my yankees cap is in the car... okay, i will wrap my head up in a scarf so as not to frighten people from my unwashed face and hair as i go do that.... OR i could drive to the parking authority and get a new sticker. no. that's way on the west side... and folks will see me, even though 98% of them haven't bathed in 4 years.
i can mail my permit request in.
i will also be calling myself Showerless Joe McCool until i get H2O and soap slathered all over me.
well, sandee had her breast reconstructive surgery... go... now... wish her well... (and have the extra added bonus of seeing her cute boobie specialist!!)
still no water.
my mom called me and informed me that i forgot to give her her atm card back, so i had to go outside when i moved my car, and i had to mail the atm card back.
my watch stopped ticking.
my microsoft word is on the fritz.
i am trying do 25 illustrations today and i think that may be impossible since the script for the flash file is at work and no one has emailed it to my home account yet. arrrrrgh.
at least i got 2 buckets of coffee when i went out. (and a bagel) i'd forgotten to eat dinner last night
still no agua, aqua, wet stuff, wa-wa, h2o
so after toiling with re-vamping the links on the right-- actually the random blog links -- i still have to revise the dropdown list and add and subtract blogs from it --
i have 5 random blogs on the right nav....
got the script off of scriptygoddess...
then i had a few problems...
first, quinn came to the rescue...
and jennifer, one of the goddesses, of theworkingmom.net helped me out tremendously!!!
thank you!!!
now everyone, go click on some random blogs!!!!
here's the skinny...
since i have to use php now, if any of you have my site listed as http://www.gigglechick.com/erin/blog/index.html, change it so that it's now
i am so happy!!!! the water has been turned back on!!!!!
cannot wait to shower...
god, i feel gross... my creative director said if i needed to, that i could use his place to shower at... but driving 20 miles to shower is ridiculous. nice offer though.
yay!!! breaking out the ivory soap....
fluffing up the terrycloth robe...
sick of sitting here stewing in my own gravy today... (nice visual, huh? no photos, kids)
sweet baby jeezuz!
it's freezing... not in my apartment, in fact for the past 24 hours my apartment has been toasty warm... that NEVER happens.
but outside it's effing freezing....
21ºF outside.... with a wind chill factor of 9ºF
mother of gawd. i don't think i have rnough clothes to bundle up in.
by the way.... i've been meaning to get this link up for you fr a week or two now...
hey.... is anyone having trouble commenting on my site? let me know... try commenting and let me know type of browser or shoot me an email only if you can't post...
thanks!
(quinn i know the comments work for you.)
i just designed this site for a fella that does work with our company....
so if anyone is seriously interested in renting a great place in vermont for weekends or daily during the winter or summer, check out vtvacationretreat.com
everyone...please send good thoughts, wishes and get well vibes...
okay... so maybe that bucket o' joe i had for supper wasn't the smartest idea that i've had.
i just wasn't hungry today... at all.
and now i am wide awake... watching the weather channel and gearing up for what could be 6 inches of snow (as opposed to last week's 6 inches of snow forecast)
not really looking forward to the jackasses on the roads.
this morning there was an 11 mile backup on the turnpike... and that was without any precipitation!
*sigh*
might as well find my snowboots and thick socks.... just in case the weatherdudes are right.
at least, at this time of night i get to hear the rummaging and rustling of the homeless as they rip apart the trashbags that i set out a couple of hours ago...
i enjoy opening my front door (inside the gate, of course), turning on my outside light, then slamming the door and hearing them scuttle off into the darkness.
i was sent the photo of me below last night...
i need to grow my hair back... and quick.
sad that i miss it... although my hair IS growing, i swear that it's grown 2 inches since i got it cut 3 weeks or so ago.... it's going insane.
these sites are my right arm(s) today:
snow.
this isn't a decent photo of it - am trying to download others of in front of my house
i left work at 1:45pm and made it home by 3:45pm.... hoorah! 2 hours door-to-door!
there's about 5 - 7 inches on the ground now and it's still coming down
the commute in was okay - the turnpike had changed the speed limit from 65mph to 45mph... i was driving 55mph.... some !@#*&$ in an SUV comes up behind me flashing his high beams and tailgating me...
there was nowhere to go, so i did what any normal jersey girl would do...
i flipped him the finger. effing effer.
here are a few 3MB video cips of my commute into work...
nothing great. in fact in these, there's barely any snow....
i didn't dare use the camera tonight when i was driving.... horrendous.
• can't see it, but the sign says "snow ahead" -- eh... okay
• here i am fed up with the traffic and this was about 2 miles after that *!&@$ was a @!*$&#
• okay... here's my office... the big black glass building... and snow
so i wore my hat at work all day because of hat head and my COO was calling me Six... as in Six, the sidekick of Blossom (remember a "very special blossom" when six's car went skidding off into a snowbank?)
so tonight i hunkered down on my couch under my flannel throw and answered the phone at around 6pm-ish...
the first phone call.
my apartment...
well, another bite of my bagel should erradicate this hangover i am sporting. not so much headache, but the 7 (various) shots i did last night on top of the 2 coors lights and the 4 apple martinis have reaked havoc on my stomach...
the office christmas party.
i saw drunk people.
i was drunk people.
didn't do anything foolish. no afghani kissing. no kissing of co-workers. co crying. no hamburger throwing. just a little trying-to-be-funny-dancing. that's about it.
and i walked the 50 yards to the Radisson nearby, plunked down my credit card (fleet bank card... since you know my credit history) and slurred something that sounded like "i need a room"
then i flicked the t.v. on and fell asleep...
woke up with my tongue stuck to the pillow and made a cup of tea... which i promptly, eh, got rid of.
felt like i was on vacation. sadly, i was in a hotel overlooking the paramus park mall and it is 25 degrees out.
am home.... trying to get my bady back into fighting shape so i can clean my apartment like i had planned.
how much do you wanna bet i will most likely be a slug on my couch all day?
wow.... it's almost like being there....
the panoramas on this site are breathtaking. very keen.
also, check out this advent calendar... great stuff!
{both blatantly snagged from dollar short}
this just in.... another advent calendar....
forget the segway.
save a little cash and time walking, by getting yourself a "Megway"
[winona'd from a bridge to nowhere]
awwwww...kitties!!!
i miss Phil and Chris... the twin kitties i had back in 98 for a week until my landlord said no cats.... do you know who i named them after????
jeezuz! my right wrist is killing me, no idea why... possibly from trying to breakdance last night like an epileptic white girl at my holiday party... that's the only thing i can think of.
i used to have a therapeutic wrist brace from my car accident years ago.
can't find it.
so i am wearing a rollerblading wrist guard... not too comfy... nope. not gonna wear it during tomorrow's date...
.... big happy birthday shout out to zannie...... go visit and say hey!!!
mother of eff. i get out to my car to go to get something snazzy to wear tonight and my right rear tire is semi-low... thinking "well, i have to get back to jiffy lube by next saturday anyway" i went there to get the tire checked and an oil change.
after shopping and waiting another 30 minutes (even though they said it'd be 40 minutes it was an hour and a half) they hand me off my car.
the tire is still low - so i ask them if they put air in it "oh, yes yes yes"
i ask them to put more in it since it's as low as it had been prior to going there
okay. so that's done
they DID clean the windshield and semi-vacuum the floor... but i noticed the "jiffy lube next service due" sticker hasn't been changed.
eff.
whatever - probably got hosed by those ass*!@&#'s for $55...
gonna try to go to sears in the morning before work to have a look at the tire sale - not that i can afford it, but i know that the tires DO need to be replaced.
i was in sears after jiffy lube, but it was a 2 hour wait for the tires to be changed. eff that , i have to get ready for the blind date... plus it was like a third world country in there and i was already annoyed by the JL folks, and the billions of kids running into my legs... who the hell let's their kids run around jiffy lube and sears auto repair places like lunatics!?!?! effing jersey city derelicts. that's who!
grumble. gotta get outta this ranty mood before the date.
did i mention i have a date!?
heh.
met the fella at the cedar tavern... nice guy. had a lovely time...
watched the sopranos... didn't quite care for it, although carmella and tony's schtick was really good.
had a few pints of guinness at the pub with B (yep. just going by one initial at the moment) and a half of a turkey burger... i was yapping a lot and didn't finish it (eh... plus there may have been a little kissing going on at the table... heh.)
just spoke to him - he called me at work - possibly getting together at the end of the week (though not friday - i am getting together with cathy on friday... cathy what the heck do you want for xmas!?!?!?!?!) although saturday i am supposed to go to a "porn party" - dressed as a porn star with a porn name and bring a wrapped adult gift... it's a girl at work who's having it. don't really know if i am up to dressing like a ho. although i DID plan on carrying a jar of fluff and being a "Fluffer"
know what a fluffer is?
photos from my holiday party on friday...
eff. i only lost ONE game this weekend... and i STILL didn't win the football pool. dagnabit. *grumble*
yapped with the new boy quite a number of times via email and IM today. sounds like he had as good a time as i did. good good. we'll see. we'll see.
i have to admit, and some of you will yell at me for being unwise and naive, but it was getting close to 9pm (about 8:30) and we were still at the bar...
the sopranos come on at NINE! ack... what to do?!
eh... well... i hopped in a cab with him and we hightailed it to brooklyn heights.
(keep in mind: i was not murdered, maimed or violated - well, no more violated than i wanted to be)
nice area. nice apartment. better yet, nice guy. after the show ended he had a car service take me home safely sans irritating pakistani songs or incense wafting into the back of the car. just a little mellow billy joel "piano man" and new car smell... twas lovely.
and it took all of 17 minutes from brooklyn heights to jersey city... not bad. not bad at all. (one has to take these things into consideration, you know)
did i mention that he seems to be a swell egg? the kissing isn't shabby either -- yes. kissing and telling about the kisses... heh.
so uncouth of me.
i shall refrain from getting giddy...
i am trying to clean and organize my apartment... using him as incentive to get this place out of Shamblesville status
am so happy... colin has a new show! i am hoping that this one takes off!!
i just called to try and get tickets for next week.
have dug him ever since i first saw him on the now defunct Remote Control (saw that live with him and adam sandler...)
a few years ago, i went to see his one man show, Colin Quinn -- An Irish Wake... loved it.
i have to admit, when i've seen him perform at the cellar it's not stellar, but hell, he's trying bits out... gotta give it to him for always working on fresh stuff... something i still have to make time for and get to an open mic...
just want to wish the best to his show and tell you all to watch it on comedy central... at 11:30pm... right after the daily show.
slainté
the new boy and i are heading to a comedy club on thursday - i have to see who's performing where... thinking of gotham or the comic strip live.
um. what?
i am still at work and they've been testing the fire alarm for the past 25 minutes. non-stop
WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WINGAH WINGAH WINGAH WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WINGAH WINGAH WINGAH WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WINGAH WINGAH WINGAH WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WINGAH WINGAH WINGAH WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WINGAH WINGAH WINGAH WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WINGAH WINGAH WINGAH WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WINGAH WINGAH WINGAH WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WINGAH WINGAH WINGAH WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WINGAH WINGAH WINGAH WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WINGAH WINGAH WINGAH
mother of GOD SHUT IT OFF SHUT IT OFF SHUT IT OFF!
i have now officially lost it.
i still have hours of work to do here with no end to this racket in site.
what's that? oh. blood trickling from my right eardrum... okay.
what?
make it stop!!!!!!
just as i put my coat on... the effing fire alarm stops piercing my ears...
no. no. wait. it's back...
fuck it. i am leaving.
for over a year now, i have visited this site... and each time i am in awe - yet wracked with jealousy - over the illustrations....
(my portfolio is down as i change my domain for it)
i saw i had a voicemail on my cell today... from saturday night.
it was eric. and i got it 4 days later... effing sprint pcs
for those of you just joining me - eric is my ex (this will take you to days way before my blog ever was born)... one of them... but an important one to me. we dated back in 1996 - 1997 - most of which he was stuck working in japan, while i was working in nyc.
anyway, saturday, he called me on the cell from las vegas at 10:45pm when he was supposed to be at his friend's bachelor party... i hadn't heard from him in almost 2 months-ish. i really would have loved to chat with him.
he's one of "those" types of ex's... even though we've seen each other 2x in 5 years, we still yap on the phone and i still get a pang in my chest... he reads this site and will probably freak when he sees this. but he knows.
then today i was at work and my pc has yahoo messenger on start up... i rarely use it... all of a sudden, a guy that used to consult with pwc and was at methodfive IM's me...
he was a few years younger than me. i met him on halloween 1999 when i was dressed as potatoes... he was pretty shy, then again, so was i when it came to him. i mean we worked 10 feet from each other. he was cute. i felt odd trying to flirt... there was something there though... from october til april we would catch looks and throw looks... and then one day his project ended...
and he came up to me and said that he had to ask me to have a drink with him before he left or he would regret it.
that night was cool and slightly misty out in new york.
we walked around the city, finally talking after so many months of hiding behind blocked personalities...
he had the name of a joplin song that my mother used to sing me to sleep with when i was younger.
he took me up to the top of the empire state building at 10:30 that night... very few people were up there and i'd not been there for 20 years... it was foggy and cooler than it was below... and he wrapped his jacket around me because i was shaking, more likely from the idea of finally standing so near to him than the weather.
he had a room at the marriott in times square, but took me to "the view" - the bar/restaurant atop the marriott - and we drank champagne...
after looking at each other, talking, smiling til my cheeks were going to burst we took the bottle of leftover champagne and went to his room where we stayed cuddled up for hours... til daybreak... til i had to go home and he had to catch a flight to texas.
he's now in vancouver, bc on another consutant gig.
and i am glad i heard from him today, it brought back a great, yet bittersweet, memory.
on "tough crowd"...
janeane garafalo, nick depaulo, colin quinn and the ever delightful jim norton...
so i have to go visit the "girly doctor" this morning... this one sort of creeps me out because he's close to 80 years old - at least he looks like it. gotta love my health plan and the list of doctors i can choose from - although, good news, they are switching plans on january 1st.
my first "girly doc" that i went to back when i was 18 - well, my mom asked me to ask him if there's anything to aleviate PMS... back in 1988, i received this as an answer...
"Tell you're mother to quit reading those women's magazines. there's no such thing as PMS"
eh... i think if he saw me over the past 14 years, he would change his tune
the office was cold and the gown was paper...
as i sat there in the room waiting for the doctor for 15 minutes i had my choice of pregnancy magazines...eh... sorry, not my cup of tea at the moment.
then his assistant pops her head in saying he'll be here shortly, he had to go deliver a baby...
so i waited an hour and he got in there.
okay so he's not 80 he's in his sixties. really nice guy. put me on the ovcon35 still - apparently since june i gained 10 pounds since my last appointment... i then told him in all actuality, i had gained 20 and then lost 10...
i asked about the new anti-baby vitamin that's out there that's also helpful in weight loss... it's called yazmeen (no idea of the spelling) and he didn't recommend it since i am on the ovcon for my complexion and the other one would most likely screw that up.
anyway... gotta go back in 6 months.
well. apparently after meeting a girl twice in his life and knowing her for all of 3.5 months, mike is engaged.
i find this odd.
sorry, mike, i know i was a bitch on the IM, but i really find it utterly and freakishly impulsive. and not in a good way.
** and because i expressed my opinion to him, he has taken my link down and said:
njmike1969: at this moment you mean nothing to me.
well... alrighty then. just was concerned that he was taking a big effing leap into marriage with a girl 2000 miles away and only meeting her twice. whatever. good luck to you, jackass
ah. the infamous list. not the xmas list, but my crap i have to do before i got to bed list:
• put away all my laundry
• put clean sheets on my bed
• vacuum
• dust
• put together entertainment center (they didn't drill a hole so that's scratched)
• dishes (they are actually under control again)
• put garbage on the curb
• stop sleeping on couch - going on 3 weeks - * see sheets on bed/laundy items
• throw out empty pots & potions containers in bathroom
• vacuum and mop kitchen floor
• scrub toilet
• scrub bathtub
• vacuum and mop bathroom floor
or
• hire cleaning lady (this is not an option. one must clean the first layer before hiring cleaning service)
why am i saying i need to do this tonight? eh... well... i have a date tomorrow with B and there is a possibility that i may let him come by here...
for now, the apartment is acting as my $825/month chastity belt.
so i am working on stuff for work from home today - i need to focus on this and for some reason it's a tad difficult sitting in the middle of an open space with 7 other people plus the other 4 that are in their offices...
deadline on monday.
*sigh*
hmmmm.... some jackass did a number on the union square subway station yesterday
lovely.
my theory is that it's some crazy-ass "artist" who thought it would be funny to do this and make some statement as well. what's the statement? "Fear" terrorists? "Fear" the looming transit strike?
cathy rocks! she sent me this card via oddtodd.com
heh. thanks cath.
woo! "tough crowd" just called... i will be at the 7pm show next week... gotta be there by 5:30.. which means either i have to work from home that day or i have to leave at 4pm... and gawd only knows WHAT will happen if there's a transit strike.
yay! hope there's decent guests. hoping for norton. tonight norton will be on with jerry seinfeld... i won't be home to see it. going to the comedy cellar - darryl hammond and a few others are performing.
so, the rugrat upstairs is having a tough morning - i know this since she's been screaming & crying for two EFFING HOURS!!! it seems as if she's getting a little exercise by running around on the hardwoods above my head as well.
mark o'meara kills me... go listen to his "dolly (don't be a sheep)" now...
the jerk from the other night called me and said my MOTHER called him this morning!
he called me and said "erin, i just got a call from a maureen... do you know her?"
eh... not knowing any of what justhappened i say "no" and i hang up.
i call my mom (because her name IS maureen)
she says "yes. i called that bastard after you told me what happened on thursday - i looked it up with 411 and decided to call"
a sickening feeling is sweeping my bowels at this moment.
while i am flattered by her protecting me and trying to fight my battles, i am so very angry. sort of.
***
kerry was supposed to come up tonight, but she's feeling sick. actually so am i - sore throat, sniffles, etc - so i am heading down to mom's to help her with decorations and such... and to make sure she doesn't use the phone at all today
well, after that little dating stumble, i am dusting the lint off me and moving on.
i really feel that match.com should have "user ratings" or "reviews" sort of like amazon or ebay have after someone has gone on a date with the person they should be allowed to rate them and comment - sort of forewarning the next victim.
the closest thing i could find that combines these elements with match.com is greatboyfriends.com
where women can write-up recommendations of these wonderful fellows, show their pictures and vouch for them.
they might have something here...
(of course, nothing compares to the dick list - but that's not a dating service)
hmmmm... just walked in the door from mom's place... looks like they are still in negotiations with the nyc transit strike
had to put the tree and lights up and help mom around the house as well as get a @#*!-load of groceries for xmas...
i bought mom a cell phone that i plan to share minutes with... i also broke down and bought a new cell for myself - the current one i have is almost 3 years old.
so i bought the same one for both my mom and me. the samsung sph-n400
i hate when i can't get a hold of her, scares the hell out of me, her car isn't the most reliable thing and she's up there in the age bracket, so it was time i gave her total trackdownability :) although now she can call guys i date at any point during her day. crap
i am smitten with my new phone and i haven't even switched it to vibrate! seriously, this thing kicks ass.
how's everyone's day going? haven't stepped outside except to head to work. and here i still sit. illustrating and redesigning a site.
very tired. i wanna go home and pass out on my couch - the one i rearranged the other day - am really enjoying the layout - photos at another time... the place still isn't spotless, but it's better than it had been. still have to put my entertainment center together - hoping that i get a power screwdriver for the holidays. silly, ain't i?
anyway, just taking a moment here to breathe at work, hoping that it doesn't start to snow till after i get home.
staying a little late here so that i can take off early on wednesday when i have to go to see Tough Crowd
(big shout out to neil, you rock, my friend!!)
cathy sent me this link about fixing one's credit report... cool!
for those who are just joining us, my credit is not so desirable for some darned reason...
here's the good news... as i walked in the door today, i picked up my mail (my mailbox is actually the ground between my gate and my door.... i digress)
capital one is giving me a card with a $500 credit limit!!!!
okay, so i have to secure it with a $99 deposit, but STILL!!!! i will have an actual CHANCE to regain some credibility to my credit!!!
a second (or 3rd or 4th) chance!!!
all hail Capital One... they are much better than Providian - who offered me a card for $200 and took my money without ever giving me a card (class action lawsuit ensued, blah blah blah, i received $15.00)
so far today wasn't half bad. the elevator arrived this morning without delay, it also closed on the first try and only one other person was in it instead of 16... work was fun, still redesigning an outside site, so it's a change of pace, had brainstorming meetings - my forté, then lunch was kielbasa and noodles...i love kielbasa - don't get gutter-minded... i am polish. blah blah blah, got my phone changed over, hooked mom's up and i have been entering in the numbers and all good stuff. picked up my freshly fluffed and folded laundry,AND got a parking spot in front of my house... then the credit card approval. next came relaxing with some baked ziti on my erin-feng-shui couch while watching "Legally Blonde" (eh, LB2 is in the works) followed by a hot bubble bath and reading a little james patterson's violets are blue
pinch me!
i forgot to mention that i also received a free cheesecake!
and then as i stepped out of the door to go to work this morning, there was a package... from my stalker-with-the-mostest, lee *sigh* i love snowglobes... thank you, pumpkin!
and - there's no sound - but a girl at work brought this in (3MB) - it sings the heat mizer song
am still here at work, it seems as if they've shut the heat off because my nose is an icicle. gonna get outta here soon since it's a little creepy in the parking garage.
it is nice and quiet here right now and i am debating whether or not to stay. getting a lot done - and i have to skidaddle early tomorrow for Tough Crowd. judy gold was on last night - yes. the same comic who i saw on thursday with that fiasco (or "fiascal" as my friend fred's mom calls it)
yeah, i am gonna go home. i seem to have lost feeling from frostbite in my lower extremities.
i had a GREAT time at the taping of tough crowd... it was the last show unless it gets picked up again - so tomorrow night is the show that i was at... i am not sure, in fact, i doubt, if i am in any crowd shots, but if you see a girl in the front row in a pink top on the end near the aisle....
that's me.
jim norton was part of the group tonight - and afterwards i went up to him and introduced myself (here's the entire transcript):
me: hi jim, i used to stalk you online... gigglechickha(insert hearty handshake and gaze into eyes)
norton: you're lovely
me: more like stalkeriffic, but thank you
and then i shrunk back into the departing crowd
yep. i am smooth. very smooth. apparently i have forgotten to introduce myself by my god-given name anymore.
colin was great, norton was great, depaulo was funny, giraldo was okay and keith robinson who i've seen a number of times was pretty good, too
(neil a million thank you's!!!!)
watch tough crowd tonight at 11:30pm on comedy central...
and definitely watch tough crowd THURSDAY DECEMBER 19th @ 11:30pm - right after the Daily Show!
nope - didn't get any pictures for fear of being tossed out
dang. i wasn't in any audience shots (all one of them) on tough crowd... oh well... will have to get my own comedy central special to actually be on camera i suppose.
ah, memories...
well... i am heading off to mom's for the next week or so - i am taking off
of work until january 2nd... i may or may not be online between now and
then... so i have compiled a few posts that i feel were significant to me
this year....
january:
• global hosting loses most of my sitecausing me to switch
to tera-byte
• january 11th - the last time i took the stage (i
swear i will be back up in 2003)
february:
• after 8.5 months of unemployment, i officially became employed again... at astoria graphics
march:
• i walked out on the job at astoria graphics
• i figured i had to explain why i walked out
• i then decided to go back to the job and suck it up
• a week later i was offered a job here
• started my first day of work here on march 18th
• i yapped about my old bouts with depression
april:
• my ford escort's axle sheared in half and i bought a new car
may:
• my ford escort's axle sheared in half and i bought a new car
• i stripped the wallpaper off my bathroom walls - i have yet to paint
crap... i have to leave work now - we're all going drinking and then i am heading down the shore to mom's...
happy holidays!!!!! merry christmas!!! happy new year!!!!!
hey all... i am hijacking my aunt judy's computer right now - i have been down the shore and going through computer withdrawal since the 21st... ack! i hope all has been great - holidays safe and happy...
i am over my aunt's house because i am waiting for new tires to be put on my car (YAY!)
got a sewing machine for christmas - don't laugh - i am going to get all kinds of domesticated this year!
this will be a quick post - but i wanted y'all to know i didn't drop off the face of the earth - this has been the longest that i have left my site hanging without a post since i started it!
crikey -
i will be back at work on thursday - and home in jersey city on wednesday evening (barring snow)
saw "catch me if you can" - dug it. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the opening credits...LOVE.
got a parka to go snowboarding in - going at the end of january.
a number of other good stuff i got for xmas - saw a lot of family... and all is swell..
gotta figure out my resolutions now - what are yours? i will post mine when i get back to JC...
have a safe and happy new year~~!
hugs and kisses to y'all
hey everyone it's 01.02.03 !!! cool - it's always nice to wake up and have one's mother say to them "you should have gotten married today"
that stumped me. here i am - it's 5:30am - and i was still down the shore waiting to drive up here... mom springs that on me.
eh... well, if i had an opportunity to wed someone, sure... 01.02.03 would have been a neat day... looking more like 08.09.10 nowadays.
anyway, i digress... how was everyone's new year's eve/day?
mine was really keen. went to a party at my aunt's and had a good time... then around 4am i get a phone call on my cell phone - i was still awake...
it was eric. ex-eric. the one i yap about a lot. he was up in maine for the holidays... and called me. i hadn't chatted with him in a couple of months. i missed a call from him on december 4th... he'd called me from las vegas at 10pm - he was going to a bachelor party and called me before he went out (the next day i had the first date with the brooklyn lawyer)
apparently, later that week, eric was introduced to a step-daughter of a friend of his from where he used to work. i found this out on new year's early morning. so they've been dating for about 3 or 4 weeks. said he spoke with her on new year's eve early evening... but who did he call and talk to for about 45 minutes on the first day of the new year???
yep.
me.
damn my heart fluttering around in my rib cage. it got bruised when it heard that he was dating someone new... the ol' ticker slammed itself into one of my ribs and has sort of been limping around a tiny bit since hearing this.
i joked around and said "when's the wedding?" and he got all flustered and said "oh no way it's nothing like that"
a layer of krazy glue wrapped around my heart and i felt better... sure we broke up 5 years ago... and he lives in michigan, but still..... ya' know?
what else?
oh the night that i left you on the 20th... folks from work and i went to a pub in ridgewood... my boss has been telling me since september that he wants to set me up with this guy "robbie mcmurphy" -- over and over, saying "mcmurphy, when are you going to meet robbie mcmurphy... he's got red hair... blah blah blah"
so finally, our paths cross at this pub. cute guy, red hair... and i say, "well, hello, robbie mcmurphy..." and he looks at me and says "my last name's not mcmurphy... it's [insert completely different name... not even close...]"
and i look at my boss - who is at this point saying he'll pay for a wedding if we get married that night - and he says "well, i had forgotten his last name and by the time i remembered it, i didn't want to lose my credibility..."
god love him.
so he called me on christmas day - i was down at mom's i just got the message today... so i have to call him back... wouldn't be opposed to meeting up with him.
what else?
ah, was at leggett's on monday night celebrating my cousin's new teaching job... and i ran into a guy that i knew many moons ago... used to call me molly ringwald, back in the day... he lives up north. nice guy.
was yapping with a guy later that night who turned out to be a cousin of a guy that is best friends with an ex of mine, jeff
saw another ex earlier in the evening... didn't recognize him at first - kerry and i were eyeing him up and all of a sudden he walks over to me and says "hey erin, how've you been?" turned out it was this guy rich that i was with back in 86 or 87...
leggett's - you can't swing a dead cat without running into an ex of mine.
the worst was about 6 years ago i was there and in one fell swoop, i counted 13 guys i had dated at one point or another.
what else?
eh... that's all for now.
***wait - neat... a collection of blogger's wishlists -- although i sort of wish they had spelled "GiggleChic" with a K... ***
by the way - i walked into work today and they handed me $140 because i won the pool here during xmas week... wheee!!! life is grand i tells ya'!
i nearly forgot to post some resolutions...
1] lose weight (that's a given and always on the list. shouldn't even have to say)
2] date more (actually it should read "date less... freaks")
3] start walking UP and DOWN the 9 flights to my office (we'll see if this is the rule that really is broken... just made it up now, so i haven't started it yet)
4] go back to Curves
5] curse less... use more "effings" and "mother scratchers" rather than the real terms.
6] hang out online a little less *gasp* yes. i really want to try my hand at that sewing thing. once again... we'll see
7] clean up credit
8] file my insurance papers from my october accident - no. still haven't done so.
9] dust off my treadmill at home
10] organize organize organize my apartment!
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(throw me a bone, friends...)
time for the friday five (yes. i know i do them once every blue moon)
1. Do you wear any jewelry? What kind?
claddagh ring - silver - heart facing out... on my right ring finger. sometimes i wear a celtic cross necklace.
2. How often do you wear it?
the claddagh is every day (the necklace used to be daily til the stone fell out of it)
3. Do you have any piercings? If so, where?
ears. and the attempted belly ring (in the dormant stage)
4. Do you have any tattoos? If so, where?
nope.
5. What are your plans for the weekend?
relax after being at mom's for 2 weeks... and then saturday i have to trek back down there again... another family function on sunday. christmas with the 2nd cousins... the other twin got engaged to the effed up freako jackass she's been dating for a while. can you tell i don't care for him? whatever. as long as i am not marrying a schmuck, i am fine.
ah... there was a 50 car pile-up last night on the road i take to and from work. luckily, i decided to get the hell out of work at 5:45pm
see... i take the turnpike extension - 14c to the turnpike... get on what's called the eastern spur... which turns into 95.... and then get off on route 80 - all of which had mayhem and devastation on them last night and that was before any snow... that was only light icy drizzle.... wish me luck this morning when i have to deal with schmucks in the SUV's that think they are invincible and go about 90 mph in the snow....
as i look out the extra-wide window of my darkened office overlooking route 80... seeing cars skid below me and brake lights flicker in the distance, cutting into the gray and charcoal coloring the scene, i am daydreaming of my couch... thinking wistfully of my old fireplace in the house where i grew up... a monster of a hearth with a black walnut mantle made from a tree on my family's former golfcourse.
now i live in jersey city. 26.2 miles from where i am now. route 80 to 95 to the turnpike to downtown jersey city where people walk out in front of you without looking... and when you step on your brakes they just stop in the middle of the street...look at you with a cold stare as if they own the world.
i digress.
it's gray out. terribly gray and it's only 2:30pm...the monochromatic tones are causing my body to ache for my afghan and a hot cocoa in an oversized mug which makes me feel like i am five again sans marshmallows.
slop. freezing rain. slush.
what's a girl to do while it's like this outside?
well... leave work at 4:30 with her boss and co-worker to go across the street to the saddle club lounge in the marriott and have a couple of beers and appys...
4 hours (and only 2 beers i swear! a lot of seltzers) later i was headed home.... there were hardly any cars on the road and the "wintery mix" had calmed down
was good yapping and doing the girl talk thing.
so i am home and as i stepped out of my car it began sleeting again. lovely. perfect timing! the couch is beckoning me.
i want to go to the salon tomorrow and get a tune-up... but that probably won't happen. debating on staying up here until sunday morning and then going down to the shore (party with 2nd cousins) or head down tomorrow and shop for their gifts there.
have i mentioned that i really don't want to go? i can't stand the one cousin's husband... and it's all about the "baby baby baby" (the kid is 4 or something. they send me photos of him all the time... the envelopes, besides having the photo in it, are usually filled with confetti that flies all around my apartment and i wind up cursing them instead of laughing at the poor attempt at "cutesy")
the other cousin (they are twins) just got engaged... to a schmuck who's been out of work about 3 of the 4 years they've been together...
flashback: they just started dating and he'd moved in with her after 3 weeks... my poppy just died and my mom asked me to call her to tell her the funeral arrangements...
the schmuck answers the phone. it's my first time dealing with him
i ask to speak to her.
he says: "who is this and whaddya want?"
me: "this is her cousin erin, i am calling to talk to her about my grandfather's funeral arrangements."
schmuck: "she ain't here"
me: "could you take a message please?"
ass-schmuck: "no. i'm watching t.v."
[click]
well, i am off, heading down the shore once more for the last of the holiday parties with the family.
well, i thought after last year's shindig with the loopy twin cousins, things might be different.
no.
asses.
i didn't want to get them gifts. they forgot me last year - even though i bought them and their boyfriend & husband gifts...
but - once again - i got them stuff because i didn't want to "embarrass" my mother...
$20 kick ass really unique candles. yeah. candles. it's not the most unique gift in the world, but it's something and they were really neat looking and the different scents i picked out for them i chose wisely and different for the both of them.
okay. that said...
they hand my mother 2 gifts.
they are made out to "aunt maureen and erin"
one... from the married twin and her husband - is a door knocker engraved with Bennett.
the other from the newly engaged (and sweet jeezuz, if she shoves that ring into one more face without them asking to see it...) and her skeezball fiance was a small photo album for dogs...
so apparently - even though they send me effing xmas cards at my apartment in jersey city - i have to SHARE a door knocker and a doggy photo album with my mother even though i haven't lived AT HOME FOR SIX YEARS.
god, they make me sick.
the only one that i was happy to see was my cousin chrissy and her husband rich - and their 2 kids who rock! they are normal - all four of them.
back to the asses... they make me cringe.
it's not the fact that i didn't get a gift really - it's the fact that apparently, since i don't LIVE with a guy or am not MARRIED to one, i don't warrant an individual gift...
i - over the past 3 years - have gotten the one cousin an engagement gift, a bridal shower gift, a wedding gift - 3 months after the wedding gift, i had to splurge on the baby shower gift (oh, did you do the math? yes.)
oh... and then... THEN one of them actually said "well, it must be nice to still be out in the dating scene, although i am sure since you are that old, that you need to start looking for guys on the clearance rack."
OH NO SHE DIDN'T JUST SAY THAT... did she?!?!?!?
(click more for the ideas for thank you notes)
okay... i already love this show... fricking gold diggers...
i think it's a good premise - even if it is crappy to lie to them (oh well)...
the thing is, i wish they had made the guy sort of "normal" looking - instead of this guy who i am ready to say:
"hell! $19,000 a year is fine, i'll be your sugarmama as long as you show me your dimples and open up stuck jars of peanut butter!"
there are a couple of girls that i am glad he picked (yep. already getting wrapped up in this thing - see, i didn't watch "the bachelor", so this is giving me the 'fix' for the crazy dating reality show thing)... but the one girl, Heidi, has got to go...
remind me to clean my bed off. i have been sleeping on my couch since before xmas.
last night i had a headache for 4 hours - no matter what i took for it - excedrin...alka selzter cold meds.... nothing. and i NEVER get headaches. very rarely.
this morning it's blossomed into sniffles and feels like i have a sleestak living in the back of my throat
have a meeting at 9:30 in the city today - of course i am running a tad late (and should be in the shower instead of on here)
and tonight i am re-registering at ww with a friend from work. she's getting married in a month, so, i will hop on her "extra-incentive to lose weight" bandwagon - even though she so doesn't need to lose a pound ( i swear - but i am not dissing her - am saying that as a compliment)
okay - time for me to slather on the lather...
signed up for weight watchers (again) tonight with a girl from work...
on the way home i picked up my "last supper" of chicken mcnuggets and a small fry from the big M
oh. dear. i really didn't need to see ozzy walking downstairs in his underwear (black jockey shorts)
well, for the past few days i have been fending off the light symptoms of a cold... a guy at work has been sick, my mom is ill, and one of the effing cousins was sick - or actually the fiance was - on sunday....
• i have sneezed constantly for the past 5 hours.
• i have a sore throat.
• my cough has moved from being slightly annoying in the back of my throat to being a shock of pain in my chest/lungs and very "hacky" loud.
• have i mentioned the constant headache that i've had for 3 days now? i NEVER get headaches....
*whine*
what's a girl to do when she doesn't have the makings for chicken dumpling soup on hand????
enn-why-BIG EFFING Q -uil (cherry flavoured, my dears)
i should be passed out in about 4 minutes - although the expiration date was september 2002... so it may kill me altogether.
may you all stay well and healthy...
take your vitamin C!!!
i am a slug.
stayed home....
of course i set my alarm for 9:55am because i have to move my car to the other side of the street at 10am for the street cleaner...
so i struggled to remove myself from between the sheets... and slapped on some jeans, no bra, a big ol' hat to disguise my bedhead... and pulled on my warmest coat to meander out into the living world...
it snowed last night so once i made it to my car - a block away - i had to scrape it off...
then i did a spectacular job of moving it across the street... i was curious to see that there were still a number of unmoved cars on the side that i had been on... didn't these people care about getting a ticket?
and the fact that there were spots open on the opposite side of the street was strange, too.
i get out of the car, go to the coffee stand on the corner... noticing they were giving me funny looks...
was it my hat? my coat? my lack of make-up? good god! could they tell that my "girls" were footloose and fancy free through my coat!?
no.
one of them reminded me it's wednesday and that i didn't need to move my car.... dammit! wednesday is a free day! i thought it was tuesday
*@&#!*%#
so i bought my coffee and trudged back home in the snow.
by the fan-damn-tastic Loudon Wainwright III
Happy birthday, Elvis;
You're not really dead.
It's a lie, it's just a crock,
Something some people said.
I heard a cassette of you speaking
On a telephone;
From a bunker beneath Graceland,
The king sits on his throne.
i really am feeling sick... and i am outta nyQuil....
*whine*
okay... i flicked back and forth between the west wing and the bachelorette...
i am ready to hand my rose to.....
