Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Pink Shirt Tuesday...?
I was out walking up Martin Place today at lunch time and I couldn't help but notice the plethora of pink shirted guys walking around! And I couldn't help thinking...is there some kind of rebel group out there advocating a Pink Shirt Tuesday, instead of the established (by our friend Tom) Pink Shirt THURSDAY??? If so, the rebellion must be stopped! And ruthlessly CRUSHED! We can't have TWO pink shirt days...granted, it's a great colour and I have plenty of pink shirts that I could wear. However, the fact remains that as white collar workers, the primary colour our shirts must be is, well, white (and yes, I realize that white is technically NOT a colour)! And the odd blue shirt is allowed as well! Pink can only be a once a week kind of thing surely!
Monday, April 16, 2007
Unconsious mutterings...
Freeze :: Frame
Naturally :: Occurring
Painting :: Mural
Merits :: Consideration
Ironic :: Alanis Morriset
Survival :: -of the fittest
Cow :: Bell
Anchor :: Offshore
Sisters :: Scissor
70 :: -6 trombones at the big parade...
Naturally :: Occurring
Painting :: Mural
Merits :: Consideration
Ironic :: Alanis Morriset
Survival :: -of the fittest
Cow :: Bell
Anchor :: Offshore
Sisters :: Scissor
70 :: -6 trombones at the big parade...
Sunday, April 15, 2007
tut tut tut...
I'm hopeless! I was very proud of myself as I had only organized the one Newbie this week (the Teacher on Friday night) and so I was really really looking forward to this date. Friday night was a pleasant night - the guy is lovely, interesting, pretty damn sexy and a good conversationalist! We had dinner in Surry Hills and then walked to the Hopetoun Hotel as there were some live bands that he wanted to see.
We had shared a bottle of wine at dinner...not a problem. But once we got to the pub, he bought a round, I bought a round, he bought a round...you get my drift! You're standing there for a couple of hours listening to bands with widely differing abilities and slowly getting quite pissed without actually realizing it! NOT a good thing to do on a first date!
I ended up completely hammered, but thankfully he was reasonably tanked as well. But I think I made a complete arse of myself (as you do when inebriated). He put me on the train back home which was very kind of him and went home himself.
I woke up Saturday morning with a HUGE hangover and the vague realization of how huge an arse I had made of myself...rang him and apologised, but thankfully, he was feeling the same way so we've decided we'll forget about Friday night - it's now a clean slate! Phew!
So that was my one newbie for the week...or so I thought! Had a great night on Sat night, had a friend over for dinner (the 3am guy from Mardi Gras) and then we saw "Sunshine" at the movies! Great movie actually...a little bit 2001 - A Space Odessy, mixed with a bit of Alienesque tension and some great FX! We both thoroughly enjoyed it so that was good. A great night all round.
This morning, dragged my sorry arse out of bed and logged on to check messages. Up pops a message on MSN from a guy I've been chatting to on GD for a couple of weeks...we chat and he ends up asking me out for lunch today in Manly! Well, him being a bit of a hottie, me having the day clear and it being such a magnificent day outside, I thought, well, why not! So much for the new dating paradigm! I'm so hopeless sometimes! BUT still, I console myself with the thought that it wasn't something instigated by me! He did the inviting! I had full intentions of sticking with the one newbie per week thing! So it's all his fault really! lol It was a great date actually, perfect day to be lunching in Manly overlooking the harbour, pleasant (and very hot) company and a couple of beers.
So, feel free to tut tut tut me! I've put myself in this position by trumpeting my new dating paradigm and so far, I've been useless at sticking to it! I'm such a hypocrite! lol
We had shared a bottle of wine at dinner...not a problem. But once we got to the pub, he bought a round, I bought a round, he bought a round...you get my drift! You're standing there for a couple of hours listening to bands with widely differing abilities and slowly getting quite pissed without actually realizing it! NOT a good thing to do on a first date!
I ended up completely hammered, but thankfully he was reasonably tanked as well. But I think I made a complete arse of myself (as you do when inebriated). He put me on the train back home which was very kind of him and went home himself.
I woke up Saturday morning with a HUGE hangover and the vague realization of how huge an arse I had made of myself...rang him and apologised, but thankfully, he was feeling the same way so we've decided we'll forget about Friday night - it's now a clean slate! Phew!
So that was my one newbie for the week...or so I thought! Had a great night on Sat night, had a friend over for dinner (the 3am guy from Mardi Gras) and then we saw "Sunshine" at the movies! Great movie actually...a little bit 2001 - A Space Odessy, mixed with a bit of Alienesque tension and some great FX! We both thoroughly enjoyed it so that was good. A great night all round.
This morning, dragged my sorry arse out of bed and logged on to check messages. Up pops a message on MSN from a guy I've been chatting to on GD for a couple of weeks...we chat and he ends up asking me out for lunch today in Manly! Well, him being a bit of a hottie, me having the day clear and it being such a magnificent day outside, I thought, well, why not! So much for the new dating paradigm! I'm so hopeless sometimes! BUT still, I console myself with the thought that it wasn't something instigated by me! He did the inviting! I had full intentions of sticking with the one newbie per week thing! So it's all his fault really! lol It was a great date actually, perfect day to be lunching in Manly overlooking the harbour, pleasant (and very hot) company and a couple of beers.
So, feel free to tut tut tut me! I've put myself in this position by trumpeting my new dating paradigm and so far, I've been useless at sticking to it! I'm such a hypocrite! lol
Friday, April 13, 2007
TGIF...
It's Friday and thank goodness to that! It's been an up and down week so I'm glad that there's only 3 or 4 hrs to go and it's all over! Thankfully, my gums have settled down nicely...though silly me decided to celebrate (and I was also just being plain lazy) by purchasing KFC last night for dinner! OUCH! Note to self: Stick with the softer foods for another couple of days.
Tonight, I have my one-per-week allocated date-with-a-new-guy so I'm excited! I like this new dating paradigm! After my slutty weekend, I'm back on track...he he he!
Yesterday, I decided to wander down to David Jones', my favourite store. You know, DJ's to me is like Tiffany's to Holly Golightly - if I could, I'd grab a takeaway coffee and croissant and window shop there every morning! It's just a lovely place to be! I actually was there last Thursday - extremely stressful day, needed to punch something really hard, so instead hit DJ's - what a way to work off stress! And work up some serious credit card points! LOL. Anyway, I did have a purpose in going to DJ's yesterday...I had in mind tracking down a certain hot young Kiwi that I met on my trashy Saturday night out...he mentioned that he worked there. Another note to self: Next time, ask which department he works in! Trawled up and down the escalators, but there's so many sales assistants there, it's impossible! Hmmmm, will have to attack this another way! Now, just to work out how precisely I'm going to attack this another way! ???
Anyway, a minor glitch. Tonight should be good fun - this one is a teacher so the conversation should be interesting and varied at least! Anything more than that will be just a bonus! ha ha!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Tonight, I have my one-per-week allocated date-with-a-new-guy so I'm excited! I like this new dating paradigm! After my slutty weekend, I'm back on track...he he he!
Yesterday, I decided to wander down to David Jones', my favourite store. You know, DJ's to me is like Tiffany's to Holly Golightly - if I could, I'd grab a takeaway coffee and croissant and window shop there every morning! It's just a lovely place to be! I actually was there last Thursday - extremely stressful day, needed to punch something really hard, so instead hit DJ's - what a way to work off stress! And work up some serious credit card points! LOL. Anyway, I did have a purpose in going to DJ's yesterday...I had in mind tracking down a certain hot young Kiwi that I met on my trashy Saturday night out...he mentioned that he worked there. Another note to self: Next time, ask which department he works in! Trawled up and down the escalators, but there's so many sales assistants there, it's impossible! Hmmmm, will have to attack this another way! Now, just to work out how precisely I'm going to attack this another way! ???
Anyway, a minor glitch. Tonight should be good fun - this one is a teacher so the conversation should be interesting and varied at least! Anything more than that will be just a bonus! ha ha!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Thursday, April 12, 2007
It's Pink Shirt Thursday...
As suggested by Tom, our all-running, all-swimming triathlon-competing fellow blogger, I'm wearing my pink shirt today! But it was funny, as I was walking through Nth Sydney to my bus stop, and in the city on my way to the office, I saw a couple of guys wearing pink shirts and it was like...'hmmm, I wonder if...or is it just a random act?'. Who knows! But hey, Tom has started it off, and if we all spread the word, it could catch on!
On a different note, I've bounced back! Feeling pretty good today - thanks in no small way to the messages I received via this blog, and the texts, emails and phone calls I received over the past couple of days! It's lovely to know that you do have friends out there! And a very very very pleasant massage last night - I practically floated home, watched my fave TV shows on ABC while eating dinner with a lovely glass of Shiraz Viognier, and then crashed at 10pm!
So now I'm revitalized, in my pink shirt (and looking rather smashing I must say), and ready to attack the day! :-)
On a different note, I've bounced back! Feeling pretty good today - thanks in no small way to the messages I received via this blog, and the texts, emails and phone calls I received over the past couple of days! It's lovely to know that you do have friends out there! And a very very very pleasant massage last night - I practically floated home, watched my fave TV shows on ABC while eating dinner with a lovely glass of Shiraz Viognier, and then crashed at 10pm!
So now I'm revitalized, in my pink shirt (and looking rather smashing I must say), and ready to attack the day! :-)
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
It's my birthday and I'll cry if I want to...
Well, I'm now officially 36 yrs old. It's one of those in between years, it's not a big one like 30, 35 or 40 - the next major milestone! It's been a rather ordinary day really...work this morning, at lunch had my tooth ripped out, and this afternoon, I've spent it miserable at home watching DVD's.
Birthdays were never big things in our family and so I'm not particularly down because of today's relatively low key nature. Although we didn't really celebrate birthdays in my family, mum and dad would always ring me on my birthday, just to say hello and to let me know they were thinking of me. I always liked receiving those calls but of course, today it didn't happen.
I know they would've been thinking of me, but instead of being proud of me, they would be saddened by my actions. They sincerely believe that the course I've chosen - ie coming out - is religiously and morally wrong and that it can only lead to negative consequences. And that is difficult to deal with, knowing that you've disappointed your parents.
I tend not to think about it generally - does no good living one's life with regret, and I don't regret coming out and being myself, being honest with myself and my family and friends. But on days like this, I can't help but miss talking to my parents and my oldest brother.
So Monty is a bit of a miserable sort this evening - pain in his head, and in his heart! But, before I get too melancholy, I do have to reinforce the fact that I don't regret the stand that I have made. It was a weight lifted off my shoulders, being able to come clean and I did fully understand the consequences of my actions, both the good and the bad. I was prepared to deal with this stuff, and so far, it's been mostly good. It's only on days like today that it's a bit harder to deal with.
So please don't feel sorry for me...I'll bounce back tomorrow! :-) I invariably do! I've been blessed with a quite optomistic outlook on life and that keeps me in good stead.
Birthdays were never big things in our family and so I'm not particularly down because of today's relatively low key nature. Although we didn't really celebrate birthdays in my family, mum and dad would always ring me on my birthday, just to say hello and to let me know they were thinking of me. I always liked receiving those calls but of course, today it didn't happen.
I know they would've been thinking of me, but instead of being proud of me, they would be saddened by my actions. They sincerely believe that the course I've chosen - ie coming out - is religiously and morally wrong and that it can only lead to negative consequences. And that is difficult to deal with, knowing that you've disappointed your parents.
I tend not to think about it generally - does no good living one's life with regret, and I don't regret coming out and being myself, being honest with myself and my family and friends. But on days like this, I can't help but miss talking to my parents and my oldest brother.
So Monty is a bit of a miserable sort this evening - pain in his head, and in his heart! But, before I get too melancholy, I do have to reinforce the fact that I don't regret the stand that I have made. It was a weight lifted off my shoulders, being able to come clean and I did fully understand the consequences of my actions, both the good and the bad. I was prepared to deal with this stuff, and so far, it's been mostly good. It's only on days like today that it's a bit harder to deal with.
So please don't feel sorry for me...I'll bounce back tomorrow! :-) I invariably do! I've been blessed with a quite optomistic outlook on life and that keeps me in good stead.
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