MEN VS WOMEN

I know this may seem like whining, but I need to vent! For those of you that are men I'd like to take this opportunity to extend my deepest sympathy. How you manage to have relationships with women, and still keep your sanity is something I just can't figure out! I've always been what you might call a girly-girl tomboy. I mean I love being a woman with dresses and heels, but I just prefer to hang out with men than women.

Women may make the world a more beautiful place, but they can make life a living hell. Oh I know you men can be pretty stupid at times, and I can't for the life of me understand how you can memorize sport stats, but you forget your wife's birthday, but for the most part you men are strait forward. You don't play mind games, and you don't back stab.

I get sick this weekend with a stroke, and I have a girlfriend of mine email the people who mean something to me to let them know, and my dearest friend in the whole world takes something in that email the wrong way, and instead of trying to get a hold of me to find out what's going on, she writes me an email saying she's hurt and that she is walking away from our friendship. That's the drama I never have to go through with my male friends. Sure there's misunderstandings sometimes, and of course those of my male friends who are married or are in a relationship I have to keep my respectful distance. But I notice I never have to WATCH WHAT I SAY, or pretend to be happy when I'm not.

Right now I'm not in a good place. I feel abandoned and so misunderstood. For those of you who are my friends please know that I love and need all of you. I can't do this alone, I can't hold my head up and say to hell with the world, I'm just not that strong. And if I ever say or do anything that hurts or upsets you, please tell me, because right now I'm trying to figure out what true friends are for.

Pete Wiggins on the Ellen DeGeneres Show

OMG.....My son Lives!

HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY!

Erin go bragh to all my fellow Irishmen and women, and in case you didn't know it means Ireland the beautiful, not Ireland forever. My dad said I spoke quite a bit of Gaelic as a child, and even was developing an accent! But my favorite saying is pug mo erin owan which means kiss my Irish ass!

Yes my colorful ways even extend to other languages. But it can get you in trouble sometimes. For example, If I look at my caller ID and know the person calling, and I'm in a smart ass mood, I'll answer with something like "Christy's Chicken Shack, we make chicken salad out of chicken shit". So the other day I saw that a good friend was calling so I answered "Chickin Lickin, we deliver lickin chickin, how my I lick you today?" And without a breath he answered, "I'll take the all over special!" and since I have to have the last word in a wit challenge, I answered "with or with out the erogenous zone sir?" Now you'd think I would have gotten a good laugh from that, but instead he really wants his order filled! He's tall, blonde, handsome, beefy, you know your typical dream, so I just might have to fill this one. Oh well, the luck of the Irish!

FROM OUT OF THE BLUE....

Great story....Slept in this morning, and I go online in a pretty good mood, (life is always good when your not in pain, and you have a cold bottle of water and a Hershey's with almonds chocolate bar!) and then out of the blue I get a fan letter! Can you imagine that! I haven't been on stage since 1989, and I get this wonderful email from this man that used to catch the Comedy Divas first in Denver, then in Los Angeles, with his wife and sister.

For those of you that don't go that far back with me, the Comedy Divas were a group of six female stand up comedians that started out in the late 70's. The main writer for the group Molly Kelly sort of took me under her wing when I was eighteen, and I started writing for the group. They go on stage as a group and do a few skits (sort of like the Carol Burnett show) and then two or three of them would do a stand up routine. So it was Molly and I that would write the skits, and it was hard because I wasn't old enough to go into the clubs to watch it unfold on stage.

Then by the time I turned 21 in 1987, the group broke into two groups and toured the small clubs. The first group were the four members of the group that were gay, and they called themselves the Lesbian Comedy Divas, and let me tell you these women were FUNNY AS HELL!!! Then there was Molly, Karen Hardy, and I, and we had a blast touring small clubs and meeting new people.

So this guy wrote to me and he says that I was his favorite, and that he remembers how little I was, (I'm only 4'11) and that he loved how we'd come out at the end and cracked up the audience as a group.

I know many of you guys tell me over, and over again how I don't realize how many people I've touched in my life, and I guess we all don't realize that, but when someone that you don't know tells you how much joy you brought them, there's no better feeling in the world!