December 30, 2006

no de ja vu

1:13pm in the Married One’s car on the way to our lunch destination.

The Married One driving and I’m sitting in the front passenger seat next to him fidgeting.

He laughs and says to me,

“You look nervous!!!”

“Yeah because the last time we were in a car together you had your hands up my dress”

(is the thought that was going through my head)

“Don’t worry - I’m a good driver” he says.

Half of my girlfriends have been trying to convince me that it is HIS responsibility to make sure nothing happens and not mine to worry about - therefore giving their ‘blessing’ for me to do whatever I wish.

That sounds so stupid.

Anyone wish to be the good angel on my right shoulder and tell me otherwise?

I’ve got the bug

I have really appreciated the holiday season this year. The few days break that I got was much needed. The last couple of weeks in the year is meant to be the ‘low season’, but this was anything but the case with my clients and I’ve been churning out the work and it’s been stressful and the hours! Oh the hours! It’s been 12 hour days plus weekend. I’ve moved closer to work - down the road in fact. It takes 3 minutes to get to work every morning compared to the hour long journey it takes me living at home. Living in the CBD is pretty cush, but to be honest, after the long hours and dealing with all the work and clients, getting home late to an empty townhouse is pretty undesirable. I’d rather get home to a home cooked meal and be able to whinge to my parents about how sorry I feel for myself! Haha! Honestly, the way I’ve been feeling lately, I don’t know how I ever managed to live and work overseas in the past and whether I’ll have as much confidence doing it again in the future. But my doubt lately makes me more determined to leave Perth to prove myself wrong.

Ohh! I love my job HEAPS but I am so in the mood for travelling! I had no idea how hard it would be to still travel whilst keeping a full time job. I applied to take some holidays so I could go back to NY and fetch belongings and visit friends and soak up the atmosphere back in the Village and rediscover that independence I gained when I was there but always seem to lose when I’m back in Perth, but work is going to be full on in the new year (lots of national TV commercials) that it would be career suicide to holiday. So I have to keep trucking on and dream of heading back later in the year.

When I’m sitting at my computer at work tired and drained at 9pm, I do think “this is just advertising”. Then I have to remind myself about all the hard work it took to get in and how I can’t just TRAVEL for the rest of my life and that I DO love my career.

Admittedly, despite the terrible hours, there are some great perks that are still novelty factor for me. I do love all the parties and invites and freebies and I LOVE lunching! Our team took our client out to Xmas lunch. With all the courses and copious amounts of alcohol, we would’ve spent around $250 a head (on the company credit card of course) and lunch lasted from 12 till 6pm! Brilliant!

December 25, 2006

tra la la la laaaa

Merry Christmas folks :) Happy holidays and all that jazz!

Be safe. Take care.

x

December 13, 2006

Stella Learning Lessons

I have learnt that…

All the happy feelings and temporary ego gained and short term pleasure of snaring Mr. Popular for one night, really isn’t worth the awkwardness or guilty conscience or paranoia or loss of sleep the next few days (weeks, months?) after.

December 10, 2006

Why my future husband will run off with the secretary

You should know that I am no Angelina Jolie. Nor do I at the slightest bit resemble Scarlett Johansen. I’ve been trying to find some sort of answer as to why this week has been a little crazy, so when Tiff mentioned the full moon, it kinda hit me that the lunar activities in the past week could be the answer.

I mean first there was my encounter with Hot Rocker early in the week. My boy friends who were there that night and saw our departing have convinced me that he is into me and they are hardly one to encourage embellishment and reading into things. But Hot Rocker didn’t ask for my number and I heard from the grapevine that he has just started to date this chick that is his equivalent – tattoos and piercings. And you know what? I just can’t compete with that. When I was 14, maybe I could’ve taken her on, but these days I like my skin in tact and with my fickleness, attempting to choose a permanent marking that I would be happy with for the rest of my life is setting myself up for disaster and an appointment with a laser technician.

Now comes the latest instalment…

You know when it comes to friendship groups or the work office or parties and so on, there’s always that one guy that stands out. He is the perfect one the girls pine over. There’s a general consensus (by both women and men) that he’s the most handsome and the nicest and the most charming and seems to have it all – including a girlfriend. The Drummer is one of those guys. I remember when I first saw him, all I remember thinking was “Whooaaaa”. He’s the boy next door who’s a great conversationalist and oh so creative. He’s hard to get to know, not because he’s an asshole, but it’s usually because one is so taken away with him it’s hard not to stutter and mumble away. It seemed like one giant feat when I did get to know him. And since getting to know him, I’ve always claimed he would be the man of my dreams – the exact type of guy I would want to spend the rest of my life with. But I kept myself detached from him knowing he was married and had a baby. I met his wife a couple of times and loved that she was the girl next door who wasn’t hot nor cute, but she had the most amazing bubbly personality.

Anyway… to cut to the chase… I don’t know how it happened. It wasn’t planned and it was completely spontaneous, but a group of us all ended up getting completely wasted. Since his wife gave birth he usually skips on any drunken activities or any sort of socialising outside of norm hours and goes home and I LOVED this about him. But we were all drinking from the afternoon and the boys convinced him to make a big night out of it since we were already heading in that direction.

It all started innocently. We held hands to demonstrate the ‘friendship hand holding’ compared to the ‘lovers hand holding’ (ie. The intertwining of fingers), but we just never let go.

We went to the Brisbane and in front of everyone he came up around me and made me sit in front of him in between his legs and started giving me a massage. It felt sooo good. Every time I closed my eyes and drifted off, I had to remind myself I was in public. Everyone was giving massages to each other so I didn’t think it was inappropriate. Plus in my mind, he was THE UNATTAINABLE, so I never thought it would lead anywhere.

But…

I started to feel ‘him’ if you know what I mean, and drunkenly thought the best solution was to swap positions so he was sitting in front of me between my legs and I gave him a head massage. During our moment, one of the girls commented that he looked like he was going to explode and I freaked out and stopped.

Then he kissed me.

I was so head fucked and it took me by surprise that I didn’t get to enjoy it. He kissed me a couple of times but I stopped reciprocating and said I wanted to talk instead.

But…

Conversation led to sex and he suggested we disappear for awhile. OH MY GOD! I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. The Drummer wanted to sleep with ME?

Eye gazing and leg rubbing and whispered suggestions lasted too long before someone interrupted. I left him and urgently rang Miss. 23 who I knew I could count on for some moral rationing and convincing that sleeping with The Drummer would be a BAD thing. She did a pretty good job of making me think about how his wife would feel or his little baby if she grew up without a dad. Miss 23 said she would ring every 20 minutes to make sure I hadn’t succumbed. It’s kinda funny that I never thought how awkward it would be the next day having to face him if we had sex, but when you’re drunk and everyone is horny, rational is never on the agenda.

Miss. 23 did end up ringing every 20-30 minutes, but after one call, The Drummer and I landed in a taxi together to go to another bar to meet the others. I could’ve gone in another taxi with some of the girls, but to be honest I wanted to see what would happen. I was pretty convinced nothing would happen (yet I know all I needed to say to Drummer was – let’s get a room), but I was playing with fire. So there we were in the taxi and it started with his hand on my knee and he was whispering dirty talk in my ear. And I was SO turned on. He started feeling me up and he kept asking “is this ok?” but I didn’t know how to say stop. Partly because I didn’t want him to, but when his second hand started making its way up my thigh, I remembered that since Racer has left Perth, I’ve gone back to shaving my legs from the knees down when I’m in a rush (ie. Any weekday) and was paranoid he could feel my hairy legs. Admittedly when I got home, I ran my hand up my leg and realised that had I let him gone on, he wouldn’t have felt a hair in sight.

I’d like to say I stood on my moral pedestal and demanded he stop straight away, but only combined with my pangs of guilt about his wife and child and paranoia about the state of my legs and the fact that I really wasn’t able to enjoy of it, I grabbed his hand and shook my head. He was crushed and apologetic.

He didn’t make any more moves on me the rest of the night which kinda blew seeing as everyone else was still crazy horny and touchy feely with each other and I really didn’t want to be like that with anyone else except for him.

I really wanted him, but knew it was wrong. There were times that I just wanted to go up to him and whisper “Let’s talk a walk”. The more I thought about it, the more stressed out I got. I ended up leaving solo and one of my girl friends rang whilst I was in the taxi on the way home and told me that the Drummer left straight after I did which was a relief that if I wasn’t getting any, he wasn’t either and would be going home to his wife.

I do remember looking out the taxi window and seeing the full moon and felt disappointed that the man of my dreams, was really very far from it.

December 6, 2006

The Boy That Took A Second Look

I was initially going to let you in on the goss about the whole Jack and Racer ordeal, but without wanting to sound insensitive, something far more interesting happened tonight!

I finally met a certain someone tonight! (The perfect distraction from Jack and Racer).

At the awards a month or two ago I spotted this hot creative from a rival agency. I noticed him straight away because he looked more like he was about to head to a rock concert or band practice rather then pick up more than a handful of awards. Plus I am a sucker for a hot muso so I perved on him the entire night, not really having any intentions of speaking to him.

Anyway I went to this industry do tonight with the creatives, and Hot Rocker was there with another guy from his agency, Chris who I had previously met last week (at another industry do) and ended up drowning a few drinks with in a getting-to-know-you sesh. Anyway to cut a long story short, Chris introduces me to Hot Rocker, and after a shakey start (Hot Rocker was a little stand offish), half way through the night Hot Rocker and I are left on our own devices and flirt away.

Fast forward to the end of the night when Hot Rocker is leaving. Despite our one on one chat, I was pretty confident he wasn’t into me and was going to leave without acknowledging our brief bond, let alone say goodbye. But instead, (I wish I got this on camera) he did a universal goodbye (ie. “Goodnight everyone”) and leaves ME till last. I had my back turned to him trying to play the ice queen, but he rubs my back and I automatically lose my ice queen act and turn around. And we had the most AWKWARD goodbye EVER. He reached around and put his arm around my waist and went for the side hug and kiss. The first time was so awkward we did it a second time. I mean, it was so awkward and out of place (because we had only just met for the first time ever a couple hours earlier) that my boy friends jaws were on the floor wondering how I scored him so quickly.

I left at the same time as Hot Rocker and as I left him and walked to my car in the opposite direction, I turned around for one last look at him and it just so happens he was turning around and looking at me at the same time! But I was so embarassed I giggled and kept walking (and now I regret not giving a sexy wink back). I honestly don’t think I’ve ever had a guy look back! It was a romantic movie moment!

If I was one of those silly girls that analysed things too much, imagine all the possibilities I could come up with!

I haven’t felt like this since highschool!