ALEC BALDWIN

Posted on April 20, 2007 by meleah rebeccah

OH MY GOD! My “husband” is in trouble! Please see MY ARTICLE on Watching Sitcoms and weigh in on the comments section.

Was Alec wrong? Does he deserve to loose visitation over this? hmmm! tell me what you think over on Watching Sitcoms

Aside from that, I want to thank all of my family and friends who have and are supporting my new blog! I could not have done this without all of your love. Keep it up! New posts will be up every Monday – Friday by 10am. There is a permanent link in my sidebar Watching Sitcoms, by ME over ——>

[ I also have a functional AUTHOR PAGE! which can be found HERE ]

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Oh! Oh yeah, and then there is this…

I have a date. Really? A blind date. A date, that is not with my imaginary boyfriend Alec Baldwin. My girlfriend Jennifer has decided to take matters into her own hands as far as my ‘love-life’ is concerned because I don’t date. If I do ‘date’ I always seem to choose the men that are not even somewhere in the vicinity of close to respectable or remotely appropriate. So, fine, without going on for hours and into pages of all of my past bad decisions, I will admit, clearly I can’t make my own decisions. Agreed. Done. She is “in-charge.” Whatever.

Jen does not have a job. She lives a life of leisure. Instead of working for a living, she has made it her job to find me a man, including being responsible for all of the pre-date interviewing. Last weekend, Jen went out to get a bag of ice and came home with a phone number for a guy that lives 5 minutes down the road from me. A phone number for a 33 year old man, who drives a black BMW, owns a 3 bedroom townhouse with a loft, and his own towing company.

Um…I have no idea what I am getting myself into. But, I did have a lengthy telephone conversation with said future date this past Tuesday night which went pretty smoothly. I was able to ‘hide the crazy’ for a whole 45 minuets. I wonder how long I will be able to act right on Friday night when I go out to dinner with him?

Okay MAYA, (my dear sister-in-law) are you happy now? I am going on a DATE. One singular date.

(PS… Jennifer and her man Wilson will be accompanying me on the date as I refused to go it alone.)

[REVISED at 8pm FRIDAY NIGHT]

“The date” was cancelled by mystery “blind date” guy. Maybe? I wasn’t able to “hide the crazy” as well as I thought? Or, Maybe? He took one look at my pictures and decided to “bail.” Maybe? He really did have a “work emergency.” Let’s not play the “maybe-game.” Whatever the case maybe. I am HOME, alone (as usual) on a Friday night.

Thanks to everyone who has “partcipated” in the “comments” on this and any other “blog” I am the author of. Have a great weekend! I have a ton of TV to watch and a ton of “future” posts to write, and I need to stop using “quotation marks” immediatley.

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Television at its best! and worst…

Posted on April 19, 2007 by meleah rebeccah

My first post is up! Go Now….CLICK HERE to read it!
hmm.. I wonder who? will be FIRST to comment? on the new blog!!

Please keep your comments on my Watching Sitcoms blog to the TOPIC at hand, you may write your other comments HERE on Momma Mia!

My first post is scheduled to appear at 10am on Watching Sitcoms

[underneath the Virgina Tech Post]

Speaking of which, in honor of the students whose lives were saved and in memory of the faculty /students whose lives were lost. In moments like these, it makes us realize how grateful we are to have each day to live. It reminds us to enjoy our lives with the family and friends we have made and to never take it for granted. You never know what can happen a minute from now, an hour, a day, or in the next couple weeks.

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Watching Sitcoms

Posted on April 18, 2007 by meleah rebeccah

Okay, like ohmygod, I have it!

Watching Sitcoms

I have my username and log in people! I am ready to write for Watching Sitcoms I am going into the 451 Press forum section tonight, and I will have MY VERY FIRST POST up on my NEW blog tomorrow. Yes! Yes! Yes…you will be linked, and directed to read that sight every single day. Deal with it! Woot!

Watching Sitcoms

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I love NEW words

Posted on April 18, 2007 by meleah rebeccah

Thanks to Defective Yeti, I now have a WORD to properly describe myself.

E-SOCIAL:A subset of asocial, where someone is so distracted by electronic devices that he ignores the people around him.

Click here for the full post

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Where do I sign up? How can I be a case study?

Posted on April 17, 2007 by meleah rebeccah

My mother sent an article to me, (see below) since I have been feeling sooo shitty these past few days. I think karma is paying me back for my child’s damaged eye (or I am just so upset about his eye) because my stomach has been whacked since Sunday morning. Driving in New Jersey under a ‘state of emergency’ meant two things for me on Monday.

Number one, avoid flooded areas.

Number two, planning my driving routes to the eye doctors and pharmacy that had a lot of ‘rest stops’ along the way.

I am sure that being a wreck about missing more work made my stomach all the more sensitive, stress does not help the digestive track at all!

Here is the article:

Antibiotic Could Make IBS Less Irritable

(no, I don’t have IBS, I have Crohn’s, but some of the symptoms are the same)

Those who know the pain of irritable bowel syndrome understand why it’s the second-leading cause of missed work days in the U.S.

(yeah! hello! I have missed sooo much work! Or I have been late, because I was trapped in a rest stop on the NJTPK, which is oh such a good time. Or, I have been half way to work, only to have to turn around and go back home because I didn’t make it to the rest stop in time. (yeah talk about a bad way to start your day) I wonder just how many days this year alone have I missed work because of my damn Cronh’s disease! Oh yeah, and missed work for tests, xrays, and countless doctors appointments)

According to studies, 20 percent of Americans live with chronic cramps, gas and diarrhea. Now, an antibiotic might help ease the symptoms.

(antibiotics? really? are you sure? where? what? how? can I get this pill?)

Never has a menu looked so good to Carol Epstein. For 20 years, she passed up coffee, salads, dairy and wheat products for fear they would spark a chain of painful reactions.

(Oh boy, do I know that chain reaction of events. First, I start to overheat. My body gets really hot. I know the second I start feeling feverish I have about a 30 minute window before the cramps/pain/gas start kicking in. I must leave wherever ever I am and head home. Second, I writhe in pain for another 30-45 minutes with what can only be compared to labor pains. Gas pain in the lower back is like no other! Then inevitably, my stomach erupts and evacuates all of the contents until there is nothing left but fire water. The evacuation process can last for up to five or even six hours.)

Irritable bowel syndrome did not keep Epstein home, but it followed her on vacations to Egypt, Cambodia and India.

(yeah well, some days I can’t make it to the bathroom, let alone make it to fucking EGYPT! How the hell did she last on the plane?)

Nothing helped Epstein, not even a restrictive diet, until she met Dr. Mark Pimentel.

(I KNOW! The only thing that works is STARVING. If you don’t eat, there is nothing to digest, then there is no pain, then there aren’t missed days of work.)

A breath test found an overgrowth of bacteria in Epstein’s stomach.

(a what test? a breath test? I thought those were for DUI testing?)

Working on the theory that bacteria might cause IBS, Pimentel tested the antibiotic Rifaximin on 87 IBS patients. Nearly 40 percent of the patients saw a major improvement in symptoms.

“If you take the antibiotic for 10 days, patients got better, and they got better for 10 weeks after the antibiotic was stopped,” said Pimentel.

Unlike other antibiotics, Rifaximin is not absorbed into the bloodstream. The drug stays in the intestine, killing bacteria passing through the digestive tract.

(OKAY, fine by me! I don’t care what lives in my intestines, I just want a damn sandwich!)

“Just to have the feeling that I’m going to eat something and not going to have cramps or run to the bathroom or have this trapped gas is a wonderful feeling! said Epstein.

(Dood, I can’t wait to eat again! If I could one day eat WITHOUT the miserable FEAR of FOOD and worrying about what will happen to me if I do eat it)

Epstein has been pain-free for a year and a half.

(damn! a YEAR, I’ll take a week! shit! I would take a single day of full blown gluttony style eating, if it was guaranteed I would not go through the agony!)

Patients take the antibiotic for just 10 days, but the effects last after they stop using the drug, for up to a year, according to Pimentel. After that period, patients will need to take the drug again. Pimentel said a longer study is needed to verify the results and look at long-term effects.

(I want to be in THAT study!! where? how? do I sign up?)

And for the record…WHY? for fucks sake is this woman so happy about having crohn’s? I’m not even THIS happy, on a good day. THIS BITCH IS JUST A LIAR

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this is so fucked up

Posted on April 17, 2007 by meleah rebeccah

photos here

the victims here

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Why I don’t have any other children, and why I don’t even deserve this one.

Posted on April 16, 2007 by meleah rebeccah

(another title of this post could be “It costs $45.00 to remove an eyelash”)

I am the worst mother alive. Saturday JCH’s eye was bothering him. I discovered a giant eyelash embedded within his socket. So, I did what anyone would do. I removed the eyelash. But his eye continued to bother him for the remainder of Saturday night and all damn day on Sunday. Sunday we had to leave the store mid-food-shopping because he was in so much pain. My poor kid’s eye was so sensitive to light, that all he could do was sleep.

I didn’t know if I should take him to the ER and wait 17 hours in the middle of a torrential downpour? Or leave him be? I have been known for over reacting (on more than one occasion) especially when it comes to my son. So, I talked myself off a ledge and let him sleep all day and all night on Sunday.

This morning, his eye was completely fucked up. 6am…He said it didn’t hurt as bad as yesterday, but his eyes had been closed for twenty hours. It was red, inflamed, and half swollen shut. There was no way he could go to school. What if it’s pink eye? What if there is an infection going on in there that will eventually blind my son for life?

I called Patty (my girlfriend who works in an eye doctors office) and was able to wrangle and immediate emergency appointment

Here’s Patty dodging my camera

After a full medical work up, JCH’s right eye is FUCKED! There is a giant scratch on his cornea. It is a perfect slice down the middle of his eyeball. The doctor called me over to show me the inside of his eye, after adding ‘the make your eye glow inside drops’ and a black light shinned perfectly on the damage. (its blurry here, but trust me when I say ITS BAD DOOD!)

Why? Does my son looks like Hannible Lector in this shot…

I think? I must have ripped his eye when taking out the lash, or the lash stabbed his eye and I made it worse? Either way, I broke my son! I broke his freeking eyeball! I injured my own child to the point of needing medical attention, plus two prescriptions. Antibiotic drops, and a thick gooey bactrician like glue-gel for the night time.

the bottles / medication are so small…

YUP! Not only did I damage my own son, it cost me a $15.00 co pay for the doctor. A $10.00 co pay for script one, a $20.00 co pay for script number two…. For a total of $45.00, To remove an eyelash.

Not to mention missing a day of work / school.

And I have to bring him back to the eye doctors tomorrow to make sure he is healing properly.

This is what an injured child looks like after being prodded by the eye doctor.

This is what a really bad mother looks like while waiting to fill the prescriptions, if you see this woman, do not approach her, and for the love of all things holy, do not procreate with her!!!

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Fridays are always for fun / Saturdays are for sle…

Posted on April 16, 2007 by meleah rebeccah

Fridays are always for fun / Saturdays are for sleeping / Sundays are for cleaning & laundry.

Friday night two of my girlfriends came over for mad card games and dishing about celebrity gossip. I didn’t go to bed till entirely too late. And as a result I slept until 4pm! 4pm Saturday. Good thing I have that “rule” Saturdays are for sleep or I would be feeling pretty shitty right now! I did manage to write me a few articles / posts for watchingsitcoms.com, but I still don’t have any of my log in information. If I do not receive anything by the days end on, I will be sending yet another follow up email, from my real computer and my real email program (thus avoiding any of the drama I had least week.)

As per my doctors appointment the other day, I am seriously malnourished / underweight because I am toooo scared to eat. When I do eat, I still get really sick, with a Crohn’s episode. Since I hate feeling that feeling, and being that sick, I just…don’t eat. Period. If I do eat, its plain grilled chicken. Leaving my body with close to zero nutrients. I am pale, tired, moody, and starving 24/7. My doctor told me I needed to get my ass to a nutritionist and to start eating like now, because I weight the same as his kids (who are 10 & 11 years old). He raised the milligrams of one of my medications so that I would be willing to be more aggressive in attempting to eat.

Being that I a carnivore supreme, there is nothing more enjoyable to me, than a porterhouse steak. So I destroyed, I mean full-fledged destruction, and total annihilation, of some serious red meat, eaten with a passion. Yum! Damn worth all of the trips to the loo.

Sunday I cleaned, laundered, and basked in a SCRUBS marathon. That show is off the hook with crazy good lines. (lines I plan on quoting in my own office and daily life.)

My son has something very funky going on with his eye. I don’t know what it is. I pulled out an eyelash that was stuck in there on Saturday, but his eye was bothering him all day Sunday too. This morning, when it was time to get ready for school / work, JCH can’t even see out of his right eye. Its red, inflamed, puffy, and painful. Scratched cornea? Pink eye? Who knows!

Thank g-d my girlfriend Patty works at an eye doctor’s office and will be scheduling an emergency visit for me as soon as she gets into the office. Until I hear from her, I am home with a blind in one eye child, and a serious case of the runs (thank you steak.) Once I do hear from her, I have to battle the flooded roads as New Jersey is in a ‘state of emergency’ after 7-10 inches of rain was dumped on us. Nice.

Of course I am freaking out that I am not at work today, and home with my injured and blind child. But I will just have to deal with that tomorrow.

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POOP FOR PEACE

Posted on April 13, 2007 by meleah rebeccah

Because I have Crohn’s disease a girlfriend of mine sent me a link to THE POOP REPORT in an effort to help me laugh at my own situation and my multiple embarrassing moments. Thanks to the THE POOP REPORT It’s officially national POOP FOR PEACE day. To give thanks to the writers on that site for making my situation easier to laugh at, I must support the day and wave the banner!

Thanks POOP FOR PEACE

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Okay people, it’s official. I finished all my pap…

Posted on April 12, 2007 by meleah rebeccah

Okay people, it’s official. I finished all my paper work required to begin writing for 451 Press last night. I actually read, and printed out copies of all the agreements, and I submitted everything. Now I just have to wait for my log in information. Hopefully, by Monday, I will be up and running as paid blogger WRITING about watching sitcoms!

Could it be any better than that? Umm… NO! My first writing job and it’s a combination of my two favorite things to do! Watch TV, and write about it. It’s about time I had a second job, that didn’t require taking a drink order! Plus, I get to keep all my clothes on while making a few bucks! Sa-Wheeet!

I’m still not even freaking out or having any sort of panic attack about not being able to do it. I’m surprised by the non stop stream of consciousness zillions of ideas racing through my head. I think also knowing that Leslie is behind me 100% has stopped the fear factor I would normally being going through right now! Mad love and mad thanks to Leslie for emailing me, advising me, and pushing me into applying for the job. I will be forever grateful.

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