Where there’s a wedding there’s a way

Hoorah, my four months without sex have ended. I think four months is the longest I’ve gone without a bit of bedroom action, apart from a long term relationship I had which involved sex twice a year for a couple of years. Who says a boyfriend equals sex?

Anyway, it’s not that I have a huge libido, I don’t. It’s more a personal challenge thing and I usually set a maximum three month period to go without. Beyond that and I start to get the urge in a major way and although no single girl should be without a vibrator or three, there’s no substitute for getting jiggy with Mr Biggy.

So, after four months without a Mr Biggy in sight, I managed to pull a cute chappy at my mate’s wedding the other week. I had a really good night with him actually, and although the sex was quick and generally not very good because we were both so pissed, I had muchos fun-os. We danced, we talked, we laughed, we chatted with each other’s mate and his arm barely left my waist, which was lovely.

He’s five years younger than me, which usually I’d see as a problem; I’ve always had a thing for older guys and find youngsters a bit less mature. And ,as I’m approaching a certain age, young guys – so my brother tells me – view us as desperate to settle down and trap a guy into a relationship. Kinda true I guess, but not altogether fair. Give us a chance guys!

So, Chappy came across as fun, intelligent and had good manners. Buying me a drink is always good manners in my book. The fact that by the end of the night I’d sunk enough Pinot Grigio to drown an elephant did take the edge of things slightly. I threw up at the end of the night (Chappy doesn’t know this and I did a good job of  getting rid of the evidence – sink stains, bad breath etc) so when he came up to the hotel room we had a fumble and although I don’t consciously remember making a decision to have sex, that’s what we did. It was awkward ‘cos we were in a single bed, we were very drunk and also pretty tired by this point. But hey ho, it’s broken the seal and I’m good for another three or four months.

If it hadn’t been for the booze I don’t think either of us would have slept much. Chappy is quite a big guy and a single bed is no place for two people to enjoy a restful night. We both felt like we’d slept on the bedside table and I’m sure Chappy fell out at one point although I pretended not to notice.

I felt like poo the next morning and made my exit at 8am, doing the walk of shame through the hotel in floaty dress showing a lot of cleavage, and four inch heels. A little over-dressed for breakfast! I kissed Chappy goodbye and left him my number for good measure, not really knowing what to expect or if I was even bothered.

But, Chappy text me later that day and after a week or so of texting we arranged to meet. He was gonna come to my place for a chilled night in last night – and a bit of fumbling if I was lucky. He’d already warned me he was on call and may have to go to work, but that it hardly ever happened, and I had my pre-date afternoon planned – showering, shaving, moisturising and fishing out the candles and matches.

About three hours before he was due at chez moi, he got called to work – two hours away from where I live. Damn it. He was apologetic, bla bla bla, but part of me can’t help wonder if he’s lying and maybe he just chickened out? I don’t know. He has already suggested rearranging for sometime soon but I don’t like to get my hopes up. Guys let girls down all the time and I find it best not to get too excited. It’s a negative viewpoint I know, but the lower the expectation, the less the disappointment.

Anyway, watch this space. I hope me and Chappy hook up again, he was good company. And he looks pretty cute in his Facebook pictures. Thank God I wasn’t wearing me beer goggles that night!

Published in: on June 29, 2008 at 11:34 am Comments (2)
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No holiday romance

Just got back off hols and no holiday romance I’m afraid. Last year I met a guy from Holland called Sasha and had a drunken snog. Stupidly gave him my phone number and when he called I had to pretend I couldn’t understand him. Wasn’t far from the truth to be honest. And the year before that I slept (almost anyway, he couldn’t get it up, so we just rolled around the bed a bit) with a fit English builder who was having a week’s hols with his idiot mates.

This year I couldn’t be bothered. There’s something a bit naff about a holiday romance. In fact, there’s no romance involved; it’s usually a holiday shag or a holiday fumble. Hard earth moving. As me and my three mates strolled through one of the more lively areas of southern Spain we were put off by the number of English yobs pushing to the bar, stumbling around like drunken fools and asking women if they could feel their boobs. Just so they could check if they were real or not, you understand. Class.

The four of us had a relatively chilled holiday which included not one hangover. I got drunk a couple of times, but not madly so (still scarred by this experience I think and don’t EVER want to repeat it) and we generally just chilled in the sun and worked hard on our tans.

I did get one snog, kinda, if you can call it that. Us girlies were about to pile into a taxi when a drunken guy asked us for directions to somewhere we’d never heard of. His accent suggested he was from Birmingham or Wolverhampton and I commented as such. “Miles away,” he said. He was clearly lying. Then he leaned in, asked me what I was doing tomorrow and told me to come find him on the beach. He leaned in for a kiss, our lips touched and I pulled away. This guy was actually very cute but he was plastered. There was no way he would remember me if I strolled up and tapped him on the shoulder the next morning and pulled a sun lounger next to his. Random.

So, no holiday romance for any of us. Best Mate (BM) is seeing a guy at home anyway and has been for three or so months, although she’s not calling him her boyfriend yet. She’s too scared to have the boyfriend/girlfriend talk in case he runs a mile but is fed up with being the one organising dates and texting first. We rehearsed a few lines and suggested they both got drunk before she broached the subject.

Mate number 2, LJ, is also seeing someone back home. She lives in England, he lives in Wales, which is a bit of a problem and they’ve only seen each other twice. But he seems normal and she seems interested. They met at a work event and I think they’re hooking up next week. Am impressed they’re making the effort but the negative (or realstic?) in me thinks it may not be a sustainable relationship with so many miles between them.

Mate number 3 is actually one of LJ’s mates but I’ve met her a few times. She’s cool and she’s single; even cooler, we’re a dying breed.

As for me, the only flicker of romance in my life is a guy I met at a buddy’s wedding a couple of weeks ago. Read more in my next blog post…

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The ultimate sin

I committed the ultimate sin on Friday night. I’d arranged to hook up with an old flame (a guy who dumped me to concentrate on his career, yeah right!) for a friendly drink as we’d been texting a bit over recent weeks.

I don’t know what it is about this guy ‘cos he isn’t that good looking but there was something about him that attracted me. However, rather than come across as a sexy and confident woman who he’d been a fool to ditch, I got way too pissed and clearly left my dignity and my brain at home.

I pulled my mate from bar to bar trying to find this guy (lots of confusion as to where we were meeting) and basically made a fool of myself. My memory of the night is very blurred but to cut a long story short I ranted at him quite a lot, got agressive, abandomed my mate who had no choice but to chat to my ex’s chubby but cheerful pal, and clearly offended him so much that he stomped off and refused to talk to me. That’s the end of that then.

Although a tad embarrassed about what I may or may not have said to him that night, I’m not too worried about losing him. I never had him in the first place, his job will always come first and he’d lost a lot of weight since I saw him which made him considerably less attractive. I have been referred to as a chubby-chaser before now – I prefer my men with a bit of meat!

What I am embarrassed about is that I became the type of woman I hate. The type of woman who aggressivly won’t let go, who argues for the sake of arguing and bascially comes across as a bit of a nutter. And the ultimate sin is swapping what could have been a good night on the dancefloor with my best pal, for a night spent chasing a loser guy, all for nothing. This is so out of character for me and I feel utterly ashamed.

I’d be the first to shout at my mates for abandoning their friends to chase a guy and I did just that. My poor old mate had no choice but to follow me as I pulled her around in pursuit of….in pursuit of what? I don’t even know! I honestly didn’t want to get back with this guy, and don’t think it was even an option, but just wanted a bit of friendly male company I guess? But I, more than anyone, know that it’s impossible to stay friends with an ex, no matter how hard you try.

There are always issues when relationships end and mine clearly surfaced after a few too many glasses of wine, shots of God knows what and a glass or two of Southern Comfort and coke. No wonder I leapt out of the taxi 100 metres ahead of my front door and hurled all over the pavement. Disaster all round.

My mate has been great, bless her, but nonetheless doesn’t feel guilty about sloping off half a day earlier than expected to go and meet a guy of her own, and I don’t blame her. Usually I would frown on friend abandonment, but I owed her one. She said she had a good night anyway, but I don’t know how. It was pants and a complete waste of a Friday night.

And I still feell terrible. I crossed a line on Friday and although losing the guy isn’t the issue, the way I acted is. Not attractive. Note to self: do not act like that ever, ever, ever again – or I face a lifetime of singledom.

With no male prospects on the horizon and a distinct lack of boys’ phone numbers in my address book, I’m feeling unloved, unattractive and pretty depressed. What does a girl have to do to get a boyfriend? My mates can manage it, and those who are single still have dates.

Three months without bedroom action is the longest I’m prepared to leave it, and this is now month four. Serious dry spell! Anyway, I’m gonna work on a few things in order to make myself more attractive – need to stop eating shit so a detox will start tomorrow, and I’m not going to drink so much when I go out. If it turns me into the monster I was on Friday night then it’s really not worth it. I pride myself on being a regular girl and that’s not who I was on Friday. I was Idiot Girl!

Published in: on June 1, 2008 at 4:10 pm Comments (1)
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