While at work today I received some fairly good news. The place I’m working for want to extend my contract for another month. It’s doing something different to what I was originally there for, and it’s only part time, being half days, which is also reflected in the salary, but the good thing is it’ll at least pay rent on a new place to live and having the afternoons off will mean I can job hunt properly, or look for houses if I’m in temporary accommodation. So that cheered me up somewhat, I’m in work until the end of September at least. Feel slightly pissed at myself because last night BB and I were texting quite a bit and it was good to hear from her and just talk about ordinary stuff. At one point she said she’d been telling her best friend how amazing I was, which made me smile, but then I sent her a text today being cheeky and saying I was in the mood for some fun, any chance of getting any, anytime soon. The response I got back was very non committal, and teasingly I replied back that I could always get some one else to fill her spot. She didn’t respond to this at all and I sort of feel mad for putting myself out there again only to be waved away like some annoying child. God I don’t even know why I’m talking about it… On the up side though I’ve been chatting a lot lately with some one I’ve known for about a year now. We’ve never actually met in person, firstly started talking through blogging, then progressed to the phone. Now she lives about an hour away and there’s definite talk of us meeting up soon. Over time we’ve become really good friends, and on top of that we have amazing phone fun, but we stopped talking for a while because I was going through loads of shit with DL and it was effecting how I felt towards her. But we’ve recently reconnected and are becoming close again which is lovely, and I’m curious to see how we’d get on in person. She’s very hesitant about meeting, probably because she’s older and wiser than myself and is therefore being over cautious. Sometimes I get frustrated by this and she knows that, I’ve never been the most patient of people, but when I get settled in my new place she says she’ll come and visit. At the moment I’m enjoying getting both affectionate and smutty texts from her, phone calls that last for hours when I intend them to be minutes, plus she always makes me giggle, and has a way of boosting my mood if I’m feeling crap. At the moment we’re good friends more than anything, but it’s certainly nice to get some attention and to know some one is thinking of me in kind of a romantic way. God what’s wrong with me at the moment? I think the ice may be starting to melt… Anyway I’m waffling, mainly because I don’t have much to do this evening, and I’m trying to distract myself from having yet another session with my new toy that I bought on Saturday, it’s fab! This weekend my mother is coming to visit, which will be… nice, lol. God knows what I’m going to do with her though. And my God I need to get laid, I have to find myself a regular playmate, this is ridiculous!
Sorry that post was mainly random thoughts, it just works out that way sometimes.
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Thursday, August 09, 2007
Saturday, March 24, 2007
New Orleans part 1
So, from the freezing temperatures of New York to the humid heat of New Orleans…
I arrived yesterday after two flights that lasted five hours in total. They both past by relatively quickly, the first one because they showed the movie Dream Girls, and the second because I was chatting to the woman next to me for the entire flight. Towards the end however I found myself drifting off and not concentrating on what she was saying, thinking instead about meeting Kerry at the airport and how nervous I was. As one of the cabin crew took me off the plane and in to the airport terminal I was surprised to find Kerry right there waiting, she’d managed to wangle her way through security in order to meet me right at the gate. Not expecting to see her I was a little taken a back and just kind of stood there while she hugged me taking it all in and then felt slightly bad for my delayed reaction. We then headed to baggage reclaim and for a while we both thought my suitcase hadn’t made it on to the connecting flight from Dallas, but thankfully we recovered it at the last minute. We drove straight to the hotel which is beautiful, we have a studio apartment with kitchenette and a large bed and air conditioning thank heavens. We checked in and explored the room and after a while went to a lovely restaurant to eat BBQ food for dinner. I was exhausted from the flying and so we headed straight back to the hotel and to bed. My body clock is still screwed and I ended up being wide awake at four in the morning, but we found a way to pass the time until I could sleep again, which I’ll leave to the imagination.
Today we woke fairly late and Kerry went out to get Beignet’s for breakfast while I dozed in bed. After we ate we dressed and headed down to the French Quarter and spent the rest of the morning wondering around. So far I’ve bought some Tobasco sauce, shrimp Creole mix and Jambalaya mix to take back home to the UK, and a history book on the city of New Orleans along with a jazz cd, and Kerry bought me a Café du Monde mug. This afternoon I met two of Kerry’s friends at their workplace and then we headed back to the hotel for a couple of hours… after which we headed out to meet the Café Q group which is a gay group Kerry is organising. The plan was to go to a jazz club tonight to watch a show and eat dinner, but we ran out of time before the show started and so went there for dinner and plan to go back on Sunday night. I had fried shrimp with rice and broccoli which was delicious, and I’m hoping that I don’t end up with an upset stomach because the last couple of times I’ve eaten seafood I’ve ended up with one. So we returned to the hotel fairly early and got lost in each other for a couple of hours, and now I’m writing this while she’s surfing the net before we go to sleep. I’m so pleased I can get wireless in the hotel because it means I can blog in more detail and not have to try and remember everything I’ve done. I’m having a great time so far, the weather is glorious being in the late 70’s today and I’m enjoying Kerry’s company very much.
Tomorrow we are going to the mall in the morning, back to the French Quarter in the afternoon and then on a dinner cruise in the evening. Sunday we’re heading to the beach at Mississippi and I’m meeting Kerry’s family before heading back to the Jazz club. Ok, I don’t want to be tied up on the net for too long, but I’ll post again soon. And in response to Kristcgs comment about coming to the south west, feel free to invite me and I’ll see what I can do haha, I’ve certainly been bitten by the travel bug and I’m liking the US.
I arrived yesterday after two flights that lasted five hours in total. They both past by relatively quickly, the first one because they showed the movie Dream Girls, and the second because I was chatting to the woman next to me for the entire flight. Towards the end however I found myself drifting off and not concentrating on what she was saying, thinking instead about meeting Kerry at the airport and how nervous I was. As one of the cabin crew took me off the plane and in to the airport terminal I was surprised to find Kerry right there waiting, she’d managed to wangle her way through security in order to meet me right at the gate. Not expecting to see her I was a little taken a back and just kind of stood there while she hugged me taking it all in and then felt slightly bad for my delayed reaction. We then headed to baggage reclaim and for a while we both thought my suitcase hadn’t made it on to the connecting flight from Dallas, but thankfully we recovered it at the last minute. We drove straight to the hotel which is beautiful, we have a studio apartment with kitchenette and a large bed and air conditioning thank heavens. We checked in and explored the room and after a while went to a lovely restaurant to eat BBQ food for dinner. I was exhausted from the flying and so we headed straight back to the hotel and to bed. My body clock is still screwed and I ended up being wide awake at four in the morning, but we found a way to pass the time until I could sleep again, which I’ll leave to the imagination.
Today we woke fairly late and Kerry went out to get Beignet’s for breakfast while I dozed in bed. After we ate we dressed and headed down to the French Quarter and spent the rest of the morning wondering around. So far I’ve bought some Tobasco sauce, shrimp Creole mix and Jambalaya mix to take back home to the UK, and a history book on the city of New Orleans along with a jazz cd, and Kerry bought me a Café du Monde mug. This afternoon I met two of Kerry’s friends at their workplace and then we headed back to the hotel for a couple of hours… after which we headed out to meet the Café Q group which is a gay group Kerry is organising. The plan was to go to a jazz club tonight to watch a show and eat dinner, but we ran out of time before the show started and so went there for dinner and plan to go back on Sunday night. I had fried shrimp with rice and broccoli which was delicious, and I’m hoping that I don’t end up with an upset stomach because the last couple of times I’ve eaten seafood I’ve ended up with one. So we returned to the hotel fairly early and got lost in each other for a couple of hours, and now I’m writing this while she’s surfing the net before we go to sleep. I’m so pleased I can get wireless in the hotel because it means I can blog in more detail and not have to try and remember everything I’ve done. I’m having a great time so far, the weather is glorious being in the late 70’s today and I’m enjoying Kerry’s company very much.
Tomorrow we are going to the mall in the morning, back to the French Quarter in the afternoon and then on a dinner cruise in the evening. Sunday we’re heading to the beach at Mississippi and I’m meeting Kerry’s family before heading back to the Jazz club. Ok, I don’t want to be tied up on the net for too long, but I’ll post again soon. And in response to Kristcgs comment about coming to the south west, feel free to invite me and I’ll see what I can do haha, I’ve certainly been bitten by the travel bug and I’m liking the US.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Romantic friends
Ok, now I’ve gone private and all that, I feel it’s time to give you a true insight in to what the dealio is with regards to my love life…
Yesterday was of course Valentine’s day. It was bound to be a strange one, I was trying to work out the ratio of single V days to ones where I’ve been with some one, and the single ones amount to hardly any and they were when I was younger so they weren’t really as significant. So yesterday I woke up, feeling a little odd, and sent DL a text message saying I hope she was ok and that I was thinking of her. I didn’t get a response, but then later in the day a dozen red roses were delivered from her. I honestly don’t know how I feel about that, it’s lovely to know she still cares, but it was quite surreal getting flowers from an ex. Then I started to feel bad because I hadn’t sent her anything, but then was like, ‘well why should I? We aren’t together anymore’. Then I got a bunch of emails from her with different letters she’d written to me over the course of the relationship, she sent them apparently to make sure I had them to keep. So I spoke to her briefly on skype to thank her, and she started getting emotional and upset so we ended the conversation. All in all she’s doing reasonably well, but yesterday put her back a bit I think. I’m hoping it’s just a temporary blip though and she’ll continue to move forward…
What did make the day better, or should I say who, was my sexy southern lover, SSL. I’m sure it doesn’t take a lot of working out to figure out who I’m talking about, but the truth is we’ve gotten very close recently and we’re, I guess what one might call romantic friends. Anyway I received a card and phone calls from her which was lovely, and it’s only 35 days until we get to spend some time together in person rather than on the phone. The situation at the moment with me is that I’m really not looking for anything serious, but it’s lovely to be able to connect with some one the way SSL and I do, with no promises or ties, and a good solid friendship underneath that we can fall back on if things go askew romantically. Plus she drives me crazy with desire which is lovely to experience again. I guess I just feel disillusioned in terms of relationships right now, I’m still getting over the last one and some fun and friendship is where I’m at right now.
I’ve also moved on in the physical sense, this being with the woman I met at the club a few weeks ago. We’ve seen each other maybe five or six times in total, and we have a casual, no strings arrangement going on which is wonderful. She comes over a couple of times a week, we chat and spend time and have great sex, and we both know where we stand and neither of us want anything more. Like me, she too has recently come out of a serious relationship and so it suits us both just fine. I don’t know much about her, her family, childhood etc, in fact I don’t even know her last name. I do know her age and what she does for a living, and I actually like the air of mystery and the slight anonymity that goes with it all. Right now I’m just living for the present, and enjoying the dirty text messages and booty calls and general spontaneity that goes with being single…
I’m still manically busy, very tired, trying to squeeze lots in to everyday, being late for everything, and you know, I am loving every minute of it. I really do feel genuinely happy at the moment, something which I’ve not been for along time. People keep commenting on my hyperactivity and general zest for life, which is lovely and makes me wonder what I must have been like when I was with DL, especially towards the end of the relationship. So my current motto? Take life by the balls and twist! And if you want something, go out there and get it! And oh my god, it’s only 30 days until I fly to the US!
Yesterday was of course Valentine’s day. It was bound to be a strange one, I was trying to work out the ratio of single V days to ones where I’ve been with some one, and the single ones amount to hardly any and they were when I was younger so they weren’t really as significant. So yesterday I woke up, feeling a little odd, and sent DL a text message saying I hope she was ok and that I was thinking of her. I didn’t get a response, but then later in the day a dozen red roses were delivered from her. I honestly don’t know how I feel about that, it’s lovely to know she still cares, but it was quite surreal getting flowers from an ex. Then I started to feel bad because I hadn’t sent her anything, but then was like, ‘well why should I? We aren’t together anymore’. Then I got a bunch of emails from her with different letters she’d written to me over the course of the relationship, she sent them apparently to make sure I had them to keep. So I spoke to her briefly on skype to thank her, and she started getting emotional and upset so we ended the conversation. All in all she’s doing reasonably well, but yesterday put her back a bit I think. I’m hoping it’s just a temporary blip though and she’ll continue to move forward…
What did make the day better, or should I say who, was my sexy southern lover, SSL. I’m sure it doesn’t take a lot of working out to figure out who I’m talking about, but the truth is we’ve gotten very close recently and we’re, I guess what one might call romantic friends. Anyway I received a card and phone calls from her which was lovely, and it’s only 35 days until we get to spend some time together in person rather than on the phone. The situation at the moment with me is that I’m really not looking for anything serious, but it’s lovely to be able to connect with some one the way SSL and I do, with no promises or ties, and a good solid friendship underneath that we can fall back on if things go askew romantically. Plus she drives me crazy with desire which is lovely to experience again. I guess I just feel disillusioned in terms of relationships right now, I’m still getting over the last one and some fun and friendship is where I’m at right now.
I’ve also moved on in the physical sense, this being with the woman I met at the club a few weeks ago. We’ve seen each other maybe five or six times in total, and we have a casual, no strings arrangement going on which is wonderful. She comes over a couple of times a week, we chat and spend time and have great sex, and we both know where we stand and neither of us want anything more. Like me, she too has recently come out of a serious relationship and so it suits us both just fine. I don’t know much about her, her family, childhood etc, in fact I don’t even know her last name. I do know her age and what she does for a living, and I actually like the air of mystery and the slight anonymity that goes with it all. Right now I’m just living for the present, and enjoying the dirty text messages and booty calls and general spontaneity that goes with being single…
I’m still manically busy, very tired, trying to squeeze lots in to everyday, being late for everything, and you know, I am loving every minute of it. I really do feel genuinely happy at the moment, something which I’ve not been for along time. People keep commenting on my hyperactivity and general zest for life, which is lovely and makes me wonder what I must have been like when I was with DL, especially towards the end of the relationship. So my current motto? Take life by the balls and twist! And if you want something, go out there and get it! And oh my god, it’s only 30 days until I fly to the US!
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