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Time to update your blogroll

Yay for Jason!

Blogrolling is up again & so now you can go in and update your blogroll from www.insignifica.org/jozjozjoz TO jozjozjoz.com

If you haven't been by jozjozjoz.com for a few days, check out the latest!

THANKS!

Waiting for blogrolling to be fixed...

I finally stopped being a blogrolling mooch and paid for a Gold Account. As much as I use my blogroll, it is totally worth the money.

Unfortunately, it got hacked the day I moved and I wasn't able to go over and update my blogroll with my new URL & some people have complained that they weren't able to either...

...so I'm just waiting for blogrolling to get rolling again. :)

In the meantime, keep checking jozjozjoz.com!

Ch-ch-ch CHANGES!

This is intended to be my last official post before the big move to the new & improved jozjozjoz.com.

That's right, if you go directly to jozjozjoz.com, you will find that I've moved and am slowly settling in to my own server. (Yes, I know it's messed up right now!)

In fact, I've already posted the first official post at the new site & if you're in the mood for some eye candy, check it out! (Tease: It's a Genevieve Gallen picture.)

No more mooching off of Mike, no more making his server crash because I've loaded a giant 234087308914 MB Genevieve Gallen photo.

Yup, I get to create all new headaches for myself because I'll mess things up & won't have Mike to magically fix it for me.

The list of folks to thank would be pages and pages long, so I'll be brief. Thanks to Mike Doss for sending me down the slippery slope of blogging and for everyone who has helped me along the way... especially Gingersmack, Mikey2, Mr Don, and Michael.

Thanks also to the other contributors to this blog: yoshi, professoreric, sharky the kid, and tcubed...

We'll see you on the other side!

because i'd never do it...

i can blog about it. i really like this show, i think jozjozjoz wants to cry when she hears the theme music.

clean sweep. they clear all the clutter out of your room and redo it for you, making it more functional and nice.

did i mention that jozjozjoz cries when i try to throw away MY old t-shirts?

product of the 80's?

spent way too much time thinking of these. (thanks to Out Out Blogger for this one!)

my score: 139.5

and i only cheated a little.

OMG, I'm exhausted...

What an incredible day.

There are pictures on the way.

Thanks to Yoshi for letting me be a neglectful girlfriend and run around all over town today.

Thanks to Genevieve and Goomi for all the fun & antics.

I just got back from dinner with my family (an early birthday dinner for me/bon voyage dinner for my dad). It will be weird sleeping in my old room again.

Eggplant Puzzle Progress: Day 2

Here we go, the fruits of our labor after day 2.

Yoshi did a bunch while I was at work & then I invested a few hours into assembling some more eggplants before going to bed.

I think we did 14-1/2 eggplants in one day.

I like how the missing pieces make it look like someone took a bite out of some of the eggplants.

Eggplant Puzzle Progress: Day 1

I admit it. I am an eggplantophile.

Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, the first thing on the menu I check out is the eggplant parmesan. If I go to Panda Express, you can bet that one of my items is the garlic eggplant. The funny thing is that the awesome YoshiDad is the same way. We are always ordering the same eggplant dishes when we go out to eat.

So anyway, it gave me great joy when YoshiMom gave me a poster-sized puzzle of Elizabeth Berry's Eggplant for Christmas last year.

We finally opened it up last night & now that I have some (relative) free time, I have a goal of completing the sucker by Christmas because it barely fits on the coffee table. I hope to have it glued down & mounted & ready to be framed (along with my still unframed Jobe Benjamin prints).

Last night, while catching up with all the Ellen Degeneres Show episodes I'd TiVo'd, this is what I accomplished in one sitting:

I did have a little help from Yoshi, who helped me separate like pieces into ziploc baggies, but I can say that I pulled out all (but one) the border pieces and put them together. And I assembled all the pieces that you see so far.

Not too shabby... border, top & bottom words, and two and a half eggplants completed.

Yoshi hates eggplants and is only putting up with this because eggplants make me happy. (Or maybe it's the vicodin.)

I wonder if they have poster-sized puzzles of Roger Phillips' Eggplant or Weissman's Eggplant?

four little holes...

that's all there are to prove that my gall bladder is gone. oh, and my dad has the stones. ugly little fuckers. should have taken pictures.

i have one incision at my solar plexus, two on my right side about half way down my abdomen, and one inside my belly button. that's the strangest one, i think. and my belly button is taped shut with the stuff they used to keep the stitches in place. so it's neither an innie nor an outie, it's just plugged up. kind of like when they patch a pot hole in the street, they just fill it in with a little asphalt and it overflows the top....

oooh. excuse me, i'm on vicodin. in case you hadn't already noticed. i think it's time to go sleep some of this off...

by the way, my dad is the greatest. he made a 5 hour drive monday night so that he could take me to the hospital at 6 am tuesday morning, stayed with me through most of my hospital stay, drove me around after i was released yesterday, and even helped me put my socks on cuz i can't bend over to reach my feet. he left about 1/2 an hour ago so that he could get back to work up north. yep, he's the greatest.

nap time.

i love jozjozjoz, too. she's wunnerful.........................................

It happens more often than I'd like to admit.

On an almost-weekly basis, I lose my wallet.

Not LOSE-lose (knock on wood), but it's not in my purse (where it's supposed to be).

Yoshi can attest to the frequency upon which I dump out the contents of my purse, then my messenger bag, mutter beneath my breath about how I need to clean my desk, start digging in the pile of shit in my desk, and generally freak out about how I can't find my wallet. And then Yoshi says, "Did you check your car?" And 99.9% of the time, I find it in my car.

The sad thing is, once I get over the immediate panic of losing the damn thing, I forget that it happened and don't do a better job of putting my wallet away where it's supposed to be.

Reading Christine's story about losing her keys at WalMart (ok, she didn't lose them... someone stole her cart) made me remember that it happened again last night.

Now, I don't know why I have to panic before going out to my car. I don't know why I don't just look in the car before I panic, but I swear, the moment my wallet is "missing" I freak out and start thinking about everything replaceable and irreplaceable in the wallet & how I'm going to have to call a million different places to get all my credit cards and stuff back.

I also don't know why Yoshi puts up with this all-too-often routine. I'm surprised I haven't been whacked upside the head by now for it.

And my KEYS! Yoshi bought/mounted an Ikea keyholder right by the door so that I'd never lose them in the house. But a few weeks ago, I had to borrow the YoshiMobile to work because I was late and still couldn't find my keys by the time I had to leave for work. And sometime later that day, Yoshi found my keys behind the couch.

What is the lesson I've learned from the constant disappearances of my wallet and keys?

Evidently nothing.

Ominous

Ominous was the only word that popped to mind when I saw this at approx 5:00pm.

There was also lightning and rolling thunder. Weird. And a little scary.

It Never Rains in Southern California...

... unless it's the day I want to rush home to be with my Hunny, that is.

GAH!

Yoshi's out of the hospital!

I got the call a few hours ago.

Evidently, the Yoshi and the YoshiDad are going to go watch Radio.

I, again, am stuck at work. Blah.

The lamest idea for a parody...

Seriously. How stupid is this?

'Straight Plan' Show To Parody 'Queer Eye'
Comedy Central Producing Parody Of Bravo Hit

POSTED: 10:07 a.m. EST November 12, 2003

Cable channel Comedy Central is about to flip the Bravo channel's hit "Queer Eye For the Straight Guy" on its ear.

According to the Hollywood Reporter online, Comedy Central is producing "Straight Plan for the Gay Man," a three-episode parody of "Queer Eye."

"Queer Eye" features five gay men who take a straight male and school him on grooming, food, fashion, culture and interior design.

On the flip side, according to the Reporter, "Straight Plan" will show a team of four straight men as they help gay men fulfill heterosexual fantasies -- such as becoming a ladies' man.

The shows will air in February.

Copyright 2003 by NBC4.tv. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Just got back from the hospital...

By "back" I mean I'm at Office #2.

I spent a few hours with Yoshi in the hospital. (Thanks to Don for looking up directions to the hospital for me! I was so rushed to leave work and see Yoshi that I forgot to look up the hospital address/directions before I left.) My Hunny seems to be doing fine, but has to spend the night there. Yoshi was in a lot of pain when I got there and even though they'd administered morphine, it didn't seem to make the pain go away any.

So they said to try vicodin & that seemed to help a little. I got kicked out because someone wanted sleep. Oh well, that means I get to do a little work at the office before I go home and clean up for Yoshi's return home.

Aside from my 10+ hours of The Ellen Show the other day, I've watched more TV in the last couple weeks than I have in months. And the sad part is that all that other TV watching was done in the hospital while hanging with Yoshi. I think I'm done watching TV in hospitals. I think we're done with hospitals for a while now.

Yoshi'd better come home tomorrow. (sigh)

Yoshi's surgery is today...

... I'm hoping that the procedure can be done by laparoscopy (did I spell that right?) and that my Hunny will be home tonight.

I'm so glad YoshiDad drove all night from up north to come and take Yoshi to the hospital this morning. Thank goodness he'll be there all day today, too.

As usual, I am stuck at work. Blah.

What a difference a day makes...

...this was taken tonight at the Beverly Hills Hotel for the Museum of Television & Radio Gala.

Here was the last picture of the night... a totally worth it at the end of a long day.

Thanks to Sharky, who is not only the person who generously hooked us up with the photo op with Matt Le Blanc... but is also the person who took the photo. You rock.

(I hope we don't get banned from this next year!)

What I submitted to the Ellen Show...

So I dig the Ellen Degeneres Show and I hog TiVo space by recording it everyday. Since I've been working so hard, I haven't had time to watch it. Until Sunday, that is. This is what I submitted for her "What are you doing while you are watching me?" segment.

I work 3 jobs and have been working 18-20 hours a day for about a month straight. I finally got sick on the day of a major event and spent the next day on the couch in front of TV catching up on 3 weeks worth of Ellen shows I had saved on the TiVo. I am on cold medication and recuperating while watching your show. I think I've watched more than 10 hours of your show today and feel much better now. Whoever said "Laughter is the Best Medicine" was on to something.

P.S.-I put a picture of myself watching Ellen on my website at jozjozjoz.com

I'm fine.

Thank you for asking.

*cough cough*

I'm not sick.

I'm just not.

Really. I'm not.

(whimper)

I still love you all

I have not forgotten my public, but i have been needed elsewhere. do not think i have forgotten you. No, on the contrary, i remember you. in fact i am peeking through your curtains right now. miss you my tiny baby brussel sprout. and remember who's here for you. it is late, and i felt i had to gush and send some love out to y'all since i have disappeared for quite some time. -professoreric

Just when you thought it was safe...

... I open my email box and see this.

Thanks to Shelli for the new jawsjawsjaws graphic. Thanks also to Michael for his version from a while back.

It makes me laugh when people think of me and think of sharks. :)

Wheeeee! (and I love Yoshi!)

It's only 2:45am and I'm just working on the last bit of stuff for tomorrow at home.

I would have been there all night (literally) had Yoshi not come over & helped from 10pm to 2:30am.

I AM SO LUCKY!!!

Going. Crazy.

Arrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhh!

And how's your day going?!

just when joz thought it was safe

those people over at ea games are developing a new one...

click here to go to the sims2 webpage.

jozjozjoz is SO not happy about this. just because i tend to spend 14 hours a day playing the sims. go figure.

I got for four hours of sleep

Yup, yup!

It occurred to me as I was walking through the door at 3am that I had promised my mom take I'd take her out for a spa day for her birthday and it still hasn't happened yet.

Did I mention that my mom's birthday is at the beginning of September?

I am a horrible daughter.

Wheeeeeeeeeee!

How many nights can I go without nearly enough sleep?!

We shall soon find out!!!

GenghisJoz

Ok, I have been accused for torturing Yoshi and I have to set the record straight.

Though I might possibly accused of neglecting my Hunny, I certainly did not tell anyone to go clean toilet water at 2am at my Office #2. Anyone who claims that simply does not know the facts.

These are the facts:
-I went directly to Office #2 after leaving Office #1. Arriving around 7pm. I called Yoshi and said that I'd be home late. Late late.

-At around 9pm, I called Yoshi... I was in a very grumpy mood. I was overwhelmed and on the verge of tears. SO MUCH WORK! I took a little walk around, went to the restroom, noticed that there was a group downstairs using the large room for a meeting.

-I went back upstairs and continued working furiously so I was surprised when around midnight the phone rang & it was Yoshi asking me to open the door downstairs. I got a surprise visit from Hunny to keep me company while I finished my work!

-As I headed to open the door, I walked through a giant puddle of water. When I came back to see what was wet, I found that the entire downstairs bathroom as well as the adjoining 3 rooms had been flooded by a leaking/overflowing tank. I turned the water off the the busted toilet (it was NOT the one I had used!!! I did NOT break the toilet!!!) and tried to open the custodian's closet to get at the mops but it was locked.

-With another 2-3 hours worth of work left to do, I ran upstairs and emailed/left messages for the building supervisors letting them know what was going on.

-I don't know what happened to Yoshi at that point. Yoshi asked to borrow my keys and disappeared downstairs for a couple hours. I just kept working. I realized that my Hunny had been gone for a while and I went looking.

-At 2am, I found Yoshi downstairs, sweeping/mopping all the water out the doors. I did not make this request, nor would I imagine ever asking anyone who just came home from the hospital a day earlier to bring me food at midnight and play plumber/janitor and to keep me company while I do my boring office work.

-I did, however, put a band-aid and ointment on the boo-boo Yoshi got after all that. And I did end up asking for a little help with my work before we went home and crashed.

So while I sounded grumpy and sad when I called Yoshi at 9pm, I realize that I am so lucky to have a wonderful Hunny who will clean toilet water at 2am so I didn't have to be there all night doing so. And, I got food & hugs & the presence of my Hunny, too!

I am so lucky & hope that the misconception that I am GenghisJoz, the Yoshi Torturer goes away soon!

Yawn.

I think I start my posts with "Yawn" way too often.

More EXCLUSIVE Genevieve Gallen photos!

Genevieve was nice enough to provide more exclusive photos for this site!

These are photos she took recently (within the last couple of months) with South Beach photographer extraordinaire Brian B. Hayes.

Feel free to link back to this link at jozjozjoz.com, but remember:
No use, re-use, copying or reproduction is allowed without our specific agreement and permission, not even for amateur use on the internet. Please respect the legal usage of these images. If you use Genevieve Gallen's images we will prosecute you to the full extent of the law.

i'm baaaaack...

and only mildly high on vicodin at the moment.

just wanted to say thanks to everyone who kept us in their thoughts and sent good wishes our way while i had my mini vacation in room 7133. it was an odd and not-to-be-repeated experience.

all i have to say is that everyone should eat right and exercise, and i wish that none of you ever have a gallstone attack. even people i don't like should not have to go through that.

more to come on the experience, although i daresay you all must be bored of the whole thing by now. but there were crazy people on my floor...

update: i forgot to mention how much jozjozjoz kicks ass! my girlfriend, along with being beautiful, smart, and the best dancer in the world, also happens to be the best patient advocate i've ever seen! i don't think those people at the hospital knew what hit them when jozjozjoz went on the rampage. it was a sight to see -- or hear, rather, as i was zonked out on demerol most of the time. another one of the 1,000,001 reasons i love her.

GOOD NEWS!

Yoshi is indeed getting out of the hospital today!

In other good news, our friend Genevieve Gallen has some exciting news! STAY TUNED!

Yoshi update: Morning of 11/1

There is good news to report!

Yoshi sounds MUCH better today. Actually, Yosh started to sound better yesterday... so much so that they didn't have to completely dope my Hunny out on demerol. It was nice to hear Yosh lucid for the first time in days (if not weeks... from the vicodin before that).

Early yesterday evening they did the ERCP procedure. They may even let Yoshi go home tomorrow, but not do the gallbladder surgery until a later date... after the pancreatitis has had more time to go away.

So it's not over yet, but at least we have a better sense of what's happening.

And Yoshi is well enough to be bored. So I am going to bring music and some magazines. And if you're so inclined, you can call and say that some crazy chick wrote this number on the bathroom wall. 310-xxx-xxxx (direct line to the room).

Oh yes, and I actually slept last night, so I'm not as panicky as I was a
couple of days ago. Anyway, thanks for all your support!

UPDATE: The above was written this morning around 11am. As of the posting time, I had visited & Yoshi is in much better spirits. I'm hoping that Hunny comes home tomorrow!