Thursday, September 15, 2011

In most cases B&B stands for something completely different…


I had to wait a little while before posting this cuz…well…it took a while for me to stop laughing.

I have changed the names locations and catch phrases in order to protect the identities of those included in this posting. Resemblance to any persons alive or dead (yea…like I’m a necrophiliac…LOL) is purely coincidental…

So a while ago I went out on a few dates with a beautiful woman. She was European. Tall, beautiful, reminded me a little of a thicker Famke Janssen….Yummy! She was also highly intelligent and held at least one masters.
We went out and did the typical date things…Movies, Dinners, Sex…

Now…
She was a pleasure to be around. Although she had a penchant for complimenting me. Which if you know me, stirs all sorts of trust issues…
Sooooo that became a bit of an issue with me.
It became a much larger issue with me cuz I feel as though I must reciprocate a compliment with a compliment…Argh! And that wasn’t the end of the compliment dilemma…The way she said thanks after my requited and forced reply also grated on me…It was a cutesy elongated thank-you…It sounded like this:
Tthhaaaaannnk-“Q” (stretch the “thank” unnaturally using a high pitched voice and then come down a few octaves so humans, and not just dogs can hear you with a curt and affirmative “Q” not “you”…)
Ball One…

Then there was the gay thing…
EVERYONE who knows me recognizes that I like to have fun with my gay-straight look and mannerisms… Look; I buy clothes purposely to maintain my “look”. So whenever the subject was broached, she became very defensive and maybe a tad worried or judgemental…(I’m not altogether sure…it was just a weird vibe). She would say things like “you’re very macho” or “I don’t see the gay thing”… OMG… I love to tease the boys and spend thousands in hair products alone to achieve my goal… Don’t tell me you don’t see it…Argh!
Strike One…

Then the sex…
Soooo…it started with her saying I was very sensual… WTF
I didn’t understand that one so I had to ask my “girl-friend” Lisa. Apparently it has something to do with how I take my time…and don’t explode in my pants…LOL
I don’t know what other men are doing…but if they’re rushing and exploding, they’re doing something is wrong.
Then it was the actual act of sex. And I used the word “act” purposefully. Throughout the entire ordeal I felt as though there were cameras pointed at us and that a phantom director was prompting her to hit specific markers, milestones and recite lines…
She was very verbose in bed and dictatorial as well…To all my friends she quickly became Benito in Bed…(BnB…Title Reference…hahahaha). In fact she would repeat a mantra that was similar to: “…oh baby, baby, you’re soooo good, oh baby, baby, you’re soooo big, oh baby, baby, ya…like that…”
Now…If you know me you’ll realize that not commenting while this is going on was killing me. So instead of saying something…I did the only thing I could…
I began to laugh!
Fortunately she was in some porn stance that the director whispered to her, which provided me a leg to bury my face in and obscure my smirk and laughter…I also started to think she had forgotten my name…LOL Thank god for the phantom director and her leg…LOL
Besides the mantra, she was kinda bossy and would say things like: “…put it here…” | “…lick it there…” | “…on the left side…” | “…do you like that…”
The last one…“…do you like that…” when she said it was less of a question and more of a statement…Which wasn’t very engaging. In fact it worried me. What if I told her what I really thought? Argh…
Strike Two…

And finally…her hands would wander and her fingers would get really close to my anus. Now, I know some guys might like that. But…in my case the gay thing is just for show…
Strike Three…


I tried to talk to her about it…But I just couldn’t reconcile my issues…
She is an amazing woman and I’m sure she will make someone an amazing partner.

Benito You Rock!


Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Youth in Asia - or - da Nile is in Egypt


The silly titles will make more sense in a few minutes…
This post is about my stupid relationships again…

At the moment there are four women in my life.
1.    Lisa, whom has very quickly risen to the illustrious plateau of best friend and confidant. There are very few humans that can tolerate me, and even fewer that are witty, urbane and confident enough to let me be me, and do my thing.
I’m going to write another post later about our shopping escapades. But I have to memorialize our leather jacket experience.
The other day Lisa and I (at my behest) went shopping for a jacket. I needed a new trendy(ish) leather jacket. My first thought was vintage biker. So after grabbing some food and getting my hair cut, we went into some consignment shops on the Drive. Nothing!
We then figured that going downtown would provide us with a better result. We first went to Danier Leather. There we found a nice typical leather jacket that fit and would fill my needs. But in truth it was unremarkable. As we were leaving (without purchasing the jacket) Lisa and I spot an orange mass.
Now I have to try and illustrate what I saw next…
Lisa gets this look when we go shopping…
The look and the size of her eyes and the distance between her upper and lower lips is proportionate to how bizarre the fashion is and how excited I become…
I also have to explain the look is most definitely fear. But not because she’s afraid the garment is ugly…its more a case of being fearful she’ll love the item when I wear it.
So Lisa and I are now standing in front of an orange waist cut leather jacket. Lisa began to mouth the words NO, and shake her head…
Too late…I had to try it on…
It fit perfectly…
I stood in front of the mirror and I said out loud to Lisa that it was sooooooo reminiscent of a jacket that my studly bachelor uncle wore in the 70’s. Just that thought moved me, and I began to dance. Just then an older couple (maybe in their 60’s) walked past and he touted: “…don’t make fun of old people…”
Heeeeeeeeeey….I’m allowed to make fun of old people… I’m OLD!
I took the jacket off (not before I embarrassed Lisa a bit by dancing up to her) and we went to Boy’s Co.
In Boy’s Co. we tried on several jackets when the sales guy helping us says; “…I’ve got this jacket, its different…it will take a special kinda guy to carry it off…”
I felt like a samurai squaring off with an opponent, or a dualist pacing away from my opponent with my flintlock pistol in hand.
Lisa had that look of fear… O… MG… its purple!
I was a true Ronin…a master dualist!
I rocked that jacket…
And once again I did my little dance…LOL
Its just too bad it was over a thousand dollars…I had to say no…
BTW…Lisa, I know you’re reading this… I want you to know I love ya!
2.    The next woman in my list is my ex wife. She just stresses the shit outa me…Nuff Said!
3.    Then there is this amazing woman I’ve dated a few times. She’s an English teacher and soooooooo much more…
She’s smarter than me. Which when all is said and done, doesn’t amount to much cuz I’m an idiot…LOL
4.    Finally we have Liz…
Liz and I are friends.
She has this ability to make me feel squishy inside. She doesn’t feel the same way.
Obviously I was living in denial. So, in order to move forward with other more mature and mutually fulfilling relationships I’ve decided to un-friend her. This is my first attempt at friendship euthanasia… (BTW…I hope you caught my clever word play from the title…OK…maybe not so clever…But I thought it was funny.)

I’ll let you all know how it goes…

Monday, August 29, 2011

Gay-Straight or Straight-Gay


OMG…
One of my best friends made me laugh and cry a little yesterday.
We were walking into a local hardware store in order to pick up a small wine rack. 
Hummmmmm... Before I get to the meat of this story…
Maybe I should explain a few things…
1.    I’m pretty…LOL
2.    I get hit on by pretty boys all the time.  In fact I got called a “STUSH” by a guy a few weeks ago. Don’t know what that is…Look it up in http://gaylife.about.com/od/GayWordsS/Gay-Words-And-Terms
3.    I like tight-ish shirts and my “girl-friends” think they look gay.

So back to my fabulous story…LOL
We (my “girl-friend”) and I were going to have breakfast. I slept in…(this never happens), and I got to her place an hour late.
She was a bit perturbed…LOL
So to make it up to her we decided we would have a picnic brunch.
We went to the local deli and got:
·      A great Pâté
·      Some amazing salami
·      Some delicious cheese
·      A bunch of grapes
·      A perfectly baked baguette
·      Mango Tea
·      And two small French patisserie


We then thought about the parks in the area and realized that getting stuck by a used heroine needle wouldn't be fun...so we decided to go up to her buildings 42nd floor common terrace…
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……..Delicious picnic brunch….

We then played pool…She kicked my ass (don’t tell anyone)…
After being humiliated I asked her if she wanted to go shopping…Duh…stupid question…LOL

So we ended up at one of those fashion clearance boutiques. And I picked out a few shirts. My friend quickly commented…Don’t you already have a few of those gay “look” shirts?…ugh…Yea!
Anyway…
I bought one gay “look” casual shirt, one striped tee and a beautiful blue dress shirt.

We then went into the hardware store. (My story has come full circle)…
Soooooo…..
As we walk through the door. My amazing friend asks me…”…So…when I introduce you to others, should I introduce you as my; gay straight friend or my straight gay friend…”
This is my friend that knows I’m very…VeryVERY…Heterosexual.
What if other people are questioning my sexuality?
What if other women think I’m gay…

OMG!!!
WTF!!!
Holy Shit!!!

I’m going to have to start wearing sandwich board advertising my masculinity or at a tool belt or something…

Ah-hem...excuse me sir...
Where do you keep your designer tool belts??? LOL

Disparity in Nomenclature…


So…
Here’s my problem.
A girl can have girl-friends, and boy-friends.
A girl can have pals, buddy’s chum’s friends, and lovers…

As a man in his early forty’s I have an issue with some of the conventional names men use for their close associates.

When I have a female friend what should I call her? There are times when I want to relate to another person the gender of my friend because it is relevant to the situation. Do I call her a “Girl-Friend”.
Do I have to make those ridiculous quotation marks up in the air with my fingers for the intent to be understood?
Try using the term girl-friend when talking to a woman you’re interested in…It isn’t going to help the cause…

So what other term can I use?

Sometimes I want a woman to talk to and get her perspective and advice. Do I call her my confidant?
Sometimes I want a female version of myself just to hang out with. Do I call her a crony?
Some times I just like having a beautiful woman on my arm. Do I call her an accessory?

I have the same sort of issue with my male friends…
I don’t like the term bud, or pal or bro…I absolutely refuse to use the word dude.
And you can imagine the looks I get when I use “Boy-Friend”…

So what’s left…???

ARGH!

Thursday, August 18, 2011

No one cares that I have a headache, but I'm totally going to tell you about it anyway.


So here I am at my office. For those of you that don’t know… I’m an Architect, but I specialize in construction management. So my office in most cases is one of my many construction sites.
Unless you’ve been living in the vacuum of space you should be able to appreciate my situation.  Beyond the physical laws of time, space and the speed of light I know of only one true universal constant in the universe…Construction sites are noisy.
I'm walking around reviewing the site progress; all the while:
My Head Hurts…
My Eyes Hurt…
My Neck & Shoulders Hurt…
I take some extra strength Excedrin… (Repeat as often as the instructions will allow…)

30 minutes later…

My Head Hurts…
My Eyes Hurt…
My Neck & Shoulders Hurt…
I take some extra strength Excedrin… (Repeat as often as the instructions will allow…)

60 minutes later…

I vomit cuz I haven’t eaten anything except the stupid Excedrin.
Have you ever thrown up in a portable toilet? 
OMG…I never... ever want to do that again!

My headache is worse and I’m scarred for life after my experience in the toilet.

I’m going home!

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Date Postmortem


Last night I went out on a date…

WooHoo

It was the first date I had been on since having been dumped. You know who you are… (I love ya!)

Anyway…

I have always been proud of the fact that I really don’t have a “type” of woman that I find attractive. However there are several women I think are beautiful and I think if stitched together they could approach my ideal physical woman.

 

Those women are (in no particular order):

Famke Janssen

Monica Bellucci

Hilary Swank

Salma Hayek

Michelle Yeoh

 

Now…I may not have a “Type” But there are some overwhelming traits I find important.  But if I were to distill all of the traits into a single word, that word would be…Elegant.

What that means to me is that a woman would dress appropriately for the occasion; speak at a level appropriate to the audience, walk and moves in a fashion that exudes strength, femininity and some culture. That isn’t too much to ask is it ??

 

So back to my date…

The initial meeting and interview occurred online. You know one of those grocery store type of dating sites where you get to scroll through thousands of profiles. All the while realizing that “Average” body type is very subjective, and words like “Honest” should have asterisks beside them with exclusions and caveats…

 

My first impression (on-line) was that she was pretty…

Thick dark Hair, good complexion, average body, full lips…etc…

After reading her profile I introduced myself and we began an online conversation.

She disclosed that she was Irish, and had a conventional Irish catholic upbringing…

·      Irish-Catholic schools… nuns whom beat the piss outa you.

·      A father who drank and beat the piss outa you.

·      Siblings that were idiots and beat the piss outa you.

 

We quickly moved to talking on the telephone…We spoke twice, and on both occasions she seemed articulate. I have to admit that whilst talking on the phone my spidey sense began to tingle a little bit. She was Irish…and hadn’t been in Canada all that long…and she had no trace of an accent…hummmmmm….

 

I decided to put aside foolish thoughts of accents and decided I would ask her out for coffee. Which is code for: I’m interested, but an in person evaluation and interview is required.

 

On the day of our meeting slash interview…due to circumstances which I still don’t fully understand she changed a 1530hrs coffee meeting to a 1930hrs drink. Tingle went my spidey sense…

 

She then texted me to say she was getting dressed…hummmm… spidey sense…

 

I got to our mutually agreed meeting locale a few minutes early, and began to wait…I got a text from her ten minutes after our agreed time to say that she would be 10 minutes longer…argh… Tingle… Tingle…

 

Anyway…thirty minutes later an overweight over dressed overdone…person whom barely resembled the profile pictures arrived. 

First thought…

Run for the hills…

Second thought…

If she hasn’t seen you… Run for the hills…

Third thought…

Next time listen to my fucking spidey sense…

Fourth thought…

Is that the new BMW X6 M-Class coming down the street behind Godzilla….

Nice…

Too bad she’s blocking my view of that nice car…

Forget the shiny new car…It’s not hers…RUN

 

The split second of indecision and admiring that nice new shiny car were my downfall…She saw me…

OK…Breath…

I figured I would try to make the best of it…

 

She came over and gave me a huge hug and kiss on the cheek…

And then proceeded to ask where I was going to take her out for dinner. WTF!!!

We had gone from afternoon coffee to dinner…Wow…I’m a sucker!

 

In order to simplify things, I decided to take her to a restaurant that I have frequented often. We sat on the patio and it was then that I noticed all the inquisitive stares…

Now…

I’m used to having people stare at me when I’m with a woman. But it’s usually because people are suspicious and/or wondering why is SHE with HIM. The apologetic, pity filled eyes were a validation that this time the tables were most definitely turned. Argh…where is my cloak of invisibility…

 

I ordered a coffee and an off menu tasting platter to share…

She ordered a pitcher of sangria…

I explained to her that I don’t drink and wouldn’t be able to help her with the pitcher. She countered with…Oh…did you want some? OMG…I’m an idiot!

 

Our drinks arrived quickly which was appreciated, the silence between us was quickly becoming overwhelming… I found that I was distracting myself by focusing my thoughts and trying to make my companions head explode. For a second there I thought that I had been successful, her eyes widened and her overly painted lips curled into a grimace that only Dr. Seuss could have imagined…but regrettably she was just excited to see a dog walking down the street.

 

When the food arrived she let out a high pitch squeak of excitement…The waitress was quite specific about clearing a space between us in order to facilitate the sharing of the enticing amuse-bouche. My cohort wasn’t as convinced that sharing was the best plan of action. She pulled the platter decisively towards her and proceeded to coral all the items she wanted towards the corner of the plate furthest from me…WTF…did that just happen

 

So, after consuming a single prawn, a fried oyster and listening to the sounds of her eating, which were akin to a wood-chipper. I decided I would feign a missed call on my phone…and quickly excuse myself.

Please god…if this works I’ll go to mass, or at very least consider walking into a church…

 

Fortunately she was occupied with trying to get the last strawberry at the bottom of her glass after having drunk ALL the sangria. I quickly made my excuses, paid the bill and skipped away into the evening…

 

Soooo…

What did I learn from this…

1.    When a woman says she’s average size…She’s not comparing herself to other woman. She is saying she’s HER average size.

2.    Words like honesty and integrity are not fixed or static constants of the universe. They are like the limbs of a tree. Seemingly rigid, but in reality they shift and sway at the whim of the slightest breeze.

3.    Listen to my spidey sense.

4.    Plan a better escape strategy…Cuz not everyone will get drunk on the first date…


Monday, August 15, 2011

The Plight of Dressing a "Full Size" human...


OK…so here’s my problem.

I’m a full size human. I have a 48” chest, 17” arms, a size 34/35 waist and I’m not that tall 5’-10” (1778 mm). A true Mesomorph except for being short and stocky.

So how does a guy my size dress…

For the longest time (most of my adult life 20+ years) I’ve hidden my size away with baggy clothes. On occasion I would get brave enough to dawn tight-ish tee’s and slender-ish pants…

But here’s the kicker…I’m not a kid. And I have a hard time with some of the youth driven fashion trends.

So what’s a guy supposed to do?

I’ll tell you what…

Ask a woman to go shopping with you.

It will be inspiring…

But here are some pointers:

·      Be patient. Women are all about developing a look. It’s morphic and will grow and evolve as you try things on.

·      Give yourself time. Women will go back and fourth to the same stores because…well because they insist on DRFT (Doing It Right The First Time). I ‘ll get back to this cuz there is an escape clause in here for woman which I think is humorous.

·      Give yourself more time. Don’t forget to give yourself time for food. But don’t eat too much cuz it will just slow you down.

·      Have lots of change. Parking Meters (do I need to say more)

·      Keep an open mind. If this is someone you trust. And I’m sure it is…Go with it. Have fun with it… The last thing she is going to want to do is dress you like a clown and then hang out with you.

·      Listen…She will inadvertently dole out information. Things “women” are looking for. This is VERY important… It’s like finding the Rosetta stone.

·      Make sure your hygiene is up to par… If you’re lucky your friend will get in the change room with you or at least stand there whilst your dressing yourself…mmmmmmm sexy…LOL


Now back to the DRFT escape clause…

Women will always keep their receipts and never take off the tags until they are 100% satisfied. That means trying things on at different times of the day to account for lighting and body mass changes, and in front of as many mirrors or reflective surfaces as possible…The escape clause goes something like this... "...I had to return it cuz it didn't look right at twilight..." 

Here is the lesson...Keep your receipt and return it if you're not happy. It's ok to return stuff. That's a hard pill to swallow if you're a guy...I know...

But believe me...It's OK...

 

So if nothing else…

Take away this message…

Twice a year, find a female friend and take her shopping.

You’ll love it and look better for it...and she’ll brag to all her friends how she dresses you…

It’s a win/win…